With it being #Railway200 this weekend, here is a potted look at what @nfmofficial.bsky.social has in its collections related to football and the railways (plus the odd bit from my own research) All aboard! 🧵🚆

For anyone who needs a break from the misery, this is a great listen. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Hi #GenHour - a railway-themed one for tonight! This Saturday, 27 September, is a high-point in #Railway200: the 200th anniversary of the 1st steam-hauled passenger railway journey, on the Stockton & Darlington Railway. So: what railway ancestors do you have? #FamilyHistory

Today is the start of our new exhibit, Tracks Through Time: The Story of Hull’s Railways. Come on down and find out how the railways helped shape Hull as we know it. #RailwayHistory #Hull @railway200.bsky.social @railwaymuseum.bsky.social

If you’re able to get to London on Monday 29 Sept, come to the launch of the new edition of one of the foundational texts of the history of sport in Britain (and I’m very chuffed to be invited as a panellist) - details below:

“A demonstration of the toxic melding of the inchoateness of popular discontent, the inability of the left to speak to working-class grievances and the venomous malevolence of the far right that shapes so much of politics.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Stefan Dennis is my #Strictly winner. Paul Robinson was a Melbourne Storm fan. 😂 #RugbyLeague

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

Really needs to stop presenting it as grassroots working class movement. Defend struggling working class people but recognise "...the platform was graced by a procession of leading international far-right figures." Funded by billionaires not a cry from below!! searchlightmagazine.com/2025/09/hist...

To the person who has sent me a DM: I can't access it I'm afraid. 😐

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of modern rail we will be hosting a special exhibition. Tracks Through Time: The Story of Hull’s Railways will explore how rail played a key role in the city’s development from 1840 to the present. @railway200.bsky.social #hull #locomotive #RailwayHistory

Ahead of today’s Hull rugby league derby, find out about the sliding doors moment that could have turned this afternoon’s match inside out! curiosityhull.co.uk/why-is-merse...

Bluesky needs this Twitter classic from @ellearmageddon.bsky.social.

5 years ago, the Govt consulted on how dangerous pavement parking could be tackled in England. The Got has yet to respond. If pavement parking is a problem in your area – fill out our form and add to our map of UK danger hotpots ‪@livingstreets.bsky.social‬ act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/176767/...

Massive thanks to Gavin Willacy for this review of ‘Roy Francis: Rugby’s Forgotten Black Leader’ in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/sport/no-hel...

Ok people you know what to do:

Can’t get enough of this. @raskin.house.gov rubbing Nigel Farage’s nose in his self-confessed love of Putin as he’s forced to sit & watch is delicious beyond words

Sadly this is not the worst history take I have seen today.

"It never does any good to suck up to an autocrat. He will screw you over anyway. You should preserve your integrity and your dignity if he's going to try to steal everything else." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CaI...

Disable ChatGPT this fucking instant. Destroy it. JFC.

Tonight's #TheArchers has put the "no veneer in 'ere" line in my head from the Oak Furniture Land advert. It's quite annoying.

One for the #RugbyLeague family. Here's hoping Tony's magnificent biography makes the William Hill Sports book of the Year shortlist AS IT DESERVES TO!

Author Tony Collins spoke with Sports Book Club host Adrian Durham and Neil Foggin about his most recent book, 𝐑𝐨𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐬: 𝐑𝐮𝐠𝐛𝐲’𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫. 📖 Former rugby league star Martin Offiah, who penned the book's foreword, also participated in the panel. Full episode: bit.ly/BookClub_Ton...

The new 'Rugby Reloaded' looks at the life of Tonga's first-ever professional rugby player, Nan Halafihi, who played for Hull FC in the 1960 Rugby League Challenge Cup at Wembley. His son Nick talks about his incredible trailblazing father: on.soundcloud.com/wUT5LV2Nro3Y...

It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure. It's capital. The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.

You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption. “We” is more important here.

Like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" in its initial release, I am lowkey banned everywhere.! If you like this article, please share it. If you *really* like it and would also like my children to stay housed and fed, please subscribe! Thank you

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

I don't like the new American use of 'unhoused' for homeless people. It's not less stigmatising! In fact, it reduces people to needing a building to live in and risks justifying providing only that: a roof. People need *homes*, communities, access to resources, safety. Homeless is what it is!

"Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putin's team to buy in on this." -- email from Felix Sater to Michael Cohen about Donald Trump in 2015 -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) hidinginplainsightbook.com

#OtD 14 Aug 1889 the great London dock strike began. In two weeks 130,000 were out and after four weeks the employers caved and agreed to nearly all the workers' demands. The dispute marked a turning point in British working-class history stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8541...

"Tom Cave, 20, a politics student at LSE, says “Sitting in a room where my peers, whose parents are professors or senior managers or lawyers, are discussing whether the schemes which allowed my family to survive should exist is really demoralising.” Times story. Archive link: archive.ph/FfQhO

I have a reseach account where I watch all the different subreddits where people talk about LLMs, and in particular the various parasocial relationships they form with LLMs, and there is absolutely a mass mental health issue brewing among LLM-users

Tonight at 6.30! ‘Roy Francis: Wales’ Black Leader in a White World’ - the story of the pioneer of rugby coaching - available on BBC Radio Wales and BBC Sounds #RugbyLeague #BlackHistory #Wales t.co/7GzPOw94Kl

Lend me your ears! The documentary 'Roy Francis: Wales' Black Leader in a White World' is on BBC Radio Wales tomorrow (Monday) at 6.30pm. t.co/7GzPOw94Kl

“It is a portrait of two Britains, one of which barely comprehends the challenges facing the other.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Radio alert! If you missed it the first time around, 'Roy Francis: Wales' Black Leader in a White World' - my BBC radio documentary - will be broadcast again on BBC Radio Wales next Monday at 6.30pm. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I'll be talking about 'Made in Manchester and Wigan' at Wigan Museum, Sat Sept 20th, 12 noon, 41 Library Street. £3.50, book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/made-in-ma...

Obviously a lie, since the definition of PhD-level expertise, standard across universities worldwide, is that you can produce original knowledge.

Well this is bad. Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations exposing sensitive user data I tried a few quick searches. I found someone's chat where I can see their api key I found some building their resume. Their name, email and phone numbers are exposed. www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo...

We're stepping back 60 years to celebrate #YorkshireDay in true gala day style 1960s National Coal Board images of the Yorkshire Miners' Annual Demonstration, featuring true Yorkshire Queens, brass bands, absolute knock outs & lads 'just like mi dad' From mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/YMA

I wrote THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP to get a break from covering Epstein, but Epstein interrupted my break. Posting this excerpt because I can't believe people are now pretending his crimes weren't so ubiquitous in the news in 2019 that even children knew the truth. www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com

Entering this website is like being on some deranged form of "Jeopardy" where my books on Trump, Epstein, and criminal governments are phrased in the form of a question. The answers have been out there the whole time. I found them in the public domain, before they deleted the public domain.

The great tram smash in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, October 12 1915.... the writer of this postcard was obviously a passenger! Message reads: "Think ourselves lucky we are alive, I think it was a miracle, don't you". Quite a few old postcards of tram crashes just come in! www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12725925...

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly stored, affected cancer rates over the decades.

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT also has the legal documents from the Trump Epstein rape case as well as other primary source materials that are in the process of being erased. I wrote it in 2019, when this kind of investigative book was allowed. I'd buy it while you can. www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

This quote is making the rounds again, even though FOX deleted the interview. It's in my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. I'll never forget: 1) the death threats I got in 2016 for posting the clip 2) the amount of effort put into removing HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, a bestseller, from circulation.

While there’s a drone attack, I want to show you a room in Zbarazh Castle (built in 1626–1631), which I visited last weekend. In my letter next week, I’ll show you more rooms and write about my visit to this gorgeous place. Ukraine is more than a war.