Buxton, June 2nd 1975 (Clive Lloyd surveys the pitch before a Derbyshire v Lancashire 3 day match)

We know which one we're voting for.

In-game screens for the CCS 1989 Softography #zxspectrum #retrogaming

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

Why did medieval people dig thousands of narrow, dead end tunnels approximately 1000 years ago? And why were they kept so secret?? more on this mystery in my new blog post!!! weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/the-secret...

'A Cup Tie At Crystal Palace, Corinthians V Manchester City' (1926) by Charles Cundall (Private collection)

Burst water main flows. Passing car accelerates. Drenched. Fucking shithead. #haiku #rage #fuckingshithead

House Sparrow. From the Portraits of Birds tea card album by Tunnicliffe

'Thanks for calling. Did you know, on our website...' YES I HAVE TRIED YOUR WEBSITE BECAUSE IT IS THE 21ST CENTURY, BUT YOU SEE, YOUR WEBSITE IS A LOAD OF OLD SHIT, SO I AM CALLING IN THE - I ADMIT, FAINT - HOPE OF INTERACTING WITH A FUCKING HUMAN BEING

The old market at Rouen #camillepissarro #danishart

I've posted this before, diamond way to waste any amount of time you like. But fuck it makes me so, so sad about the way things turned out. Might be nostalgia for my younger days and some of the amazing online communities I've been part of too, mind, but fucking hell. Life is shit. wiby.me

This is a lovely archaeological discovery! An ancient Iron Age war trumpet dating to the time of Boudica’s rebellion against Rome www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

WE ARE RECORDING TOMORROW!

The ARMAGEDDON Man

pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

Beano #2163, December 31, 1983

Dec. 30, 1925: Jimmy Forrest, a soccer star of the 1880s and '90s who became the first professional to play on England's national team, dies at 61 in Blackburn. The brainy but tough halfback helped the Blackburn Rovers win five Football Association Cups.

Anyone looking for the full map or wondering who made it, it’s the work of Matt Brown and it’s here. open.substack.com/pub/londonis...

A present I had 60 years ago for Christmas 1965. Still have it. This felt state of the art at the time. Comic strips on acetate that you fed by hand into a projector. We didn't have a plain wall (floral wallpaper in the '60s) so my parents hung up a bedsheet as a makeshift screen. It felt magical.

As a special Xmas treat for you, here are some 2000AD annuals that I just dug out my folk's attic. What the flip was going on with Dredd's helmet in 1980? Stop sniggering at the back there.

This is a 13,000-year-old mammoth tusk carving of two reindeer swimming, on display at the British Museum. It was produced in what is now France by people of the Upper Neolithic Magdalenian culture. It serves no known practical purpose & is the oldest artwork in any British museum collection.

I'm sure there is a good reason it was called that but "Rodney" is an unimpressive name for a battleship.

The Woodhenge centenary has been getting some attention this week, but exactly what is it the centenary of? Well - on 16 December 1925, Sqdn Ldr GIlbert Insall VC took this photo from his Sopwith Snipe. It shows the soilmarks of a site known (for a long time) to archaeologists as 'Dough Cover'. 1/5

Richie Rich, Robot Fighter:

Helen Mirren, from the Xmas 1976 issue of The Listener, bemoaning the absence of late night TV in the UK. It can be hard to recall when TV barely succeeded in crawling past midnight, & even then with mostly dull shows. Even Radio 1 shut down at 00.00. Crikey, nostalgia lies about how boring it was.

Devizes Assize Court saved and new home for Wiltshire Museum secured. Delighted to announce that The National Lottery Heritage Fund has awarded us funding to transform the derelict Assize Court building into a spectacular new home for the Museum. www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/assizes/

Everyday Ladybird things, (1954) The unheated bathroom Artist: H Woolley

@impq.bsky.social how many times have you had this sent to you now? hellorayo.co.uk/planet-rock/...

Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.

need something fun to watch? how about this: THREE MEN IN A BOAT (1975), dramatized by Tom fuckin' Stoppard and starring Tim Curry and Michael Palin www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgwk...

Watch: Incredibly rare -- once thought to be lost -- footage of Black Sabbath surfaces! www.realgonerocks.com/2025/11/watc... #MusicSky #MetalSky

“It can be nice and cosy at home during the cold weather” (1979) Artist: David Palmer

This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened

real Lunar spacesuit designed by the British interplanetary society. I think it would be perfect for a comic, (it even has a cape!!!!)

Cave life's not all bad for olms. They live *exceptionally* long lives for an amphibian (100 yrs!), possibly arising from the fact that they have no natural predators & have been known not to move for up to 7 years. Just tiny pink dragons guarding their tiny water-filled caves for a century. 🐉💧

No great fan of Reeves', but tax is the cost of a functioning, civilised society, and if it needs to be increased, it needs to be increased.

Hey Labour!

22. Favorite Musical Performance in a Film Noir Everything about this is GOLD, from the set-up, to the direction, to the energy that you can feel resonate from the celluloid, to Elisha Cook Jr.'s expression which is frankly, unsettling. #NoirvemberChallenge #Noirvember #FilmNoir Phantom Lady (1944)

I implore someone, anyone, in the media… Do your job And the next time you have Farage on, please ask him directly: …what were the motivations behind this?

Six-and-a-half years ago, while researching something else at Caversham, I happened across a little fact and thought, "Oh, that's interesting, I must do something with that some day..." Today is that day! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Network DVD and Blu-rays are available again via Future Network/Quoit Media futurenetwork.wales?v=7885444af42e Liquidated stock apparently. Now I can finally buy Bottoms Up! on blu-ray and never watch it.

Episode 1 of Kevin Eldon’s Speakers is available now from all good podcast shops. No-longer-living Beatles Producer George Martin, United States Citizen Leon, and DIY expert Steve Cobham are all here to speak to you, and you alone. feeds.acast.com/public/shows...

Walking away from the dentist unharmed, eagerly agreeing yes yes I’ll come back every six months!! like someone promising to go to church every week because God spared their life in a flood.

And still available!

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

Yesterday we welcomed a team from NHK (Japan's biggest broadcaster) interviewing @public-history.bsky.social about the amazing story of the Wiltshire Thatcher and the cover of Led Zeppelin IV (with Stairway to Heaven!). Broadcast in the New Year. More at www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...

Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.