London Irish 43 Club Kate Meyrick en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Me...

London Irish playing at Herne Hill 1900

Happy New Year

From Geebeebies, no less. If 90% of Deform UK's online support is Russian Bots, how about extrapolating that to online polling numbers?

JUST IN: AG Pam Bondi deletes a post touting a chart as proof of the Trump administration's success in reducing drug overdoses—after being informed the data actually reflected the *Biden* administration’s record.

Plan your 1st weekend of 2026 properly as we host Whitehawk at Champion Hill. Find out more and get your tickets ⬇️

One of the greatest Irish politicians and leaders of last 100 years

Irish Nurses colourised photo 1916

DEMS WIN BIG IN IOWA: Democrat Renee Hardman wins IA State Senate SD-16 with 71.5%, a 27-point Dem overperformance from 2024. Harris won the district by 16. Hardman's victory blocks a GOP supermajority and makes history as the first Black woman elected to the Iowa Senate.

#HistNursing #HistMed

The Kennedy Center has been hit with a string of abrupt cancelations in the wake of its board of trustees' adding President Donald Trump's name to the landmark performing arts institution. https://cnn.it/3LpbsWC

Canon William Murnane (Camberwell) Born Dublin - Attended the Irish nationalist Roger Casement in the weeks before Casement's execution, during which Casement converted to Roman Catholicism. Brother also a priest Edward Murnane - Bermondsey

Stalingrad "There is no land beyond the Volga"

Protect our environment - donate to the Sierra Club! Our public lands, endangered wildlife, and clean air and water are under threat. Protect them when you give to the Sierra Club today. All we need now is your help. Please make your gift today. giving.sierraclub.org/page/89706/d...

Pavlov's House an apartment building that became a legendary symbol of Soviet resistance during the Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943) in WW2 25–30 Soviet soldiers held the four-story building for approximately 60 days (September 27 – November 25, 1942) against relentless attacks. Anti Fascist

A stained glass reproduction of a missing section of a lancet window. Etched, painted and leaded with a new inscription from the client. #stainedglass #glasgow #scotland

Trump posted a clip to his Truth Social account Wednesday that suggested the Kennedy name be removed entirely from the Kennedy Center. The clip complained that Kennedy had been “elevated to obscene levels.”

Israel accused Doctors Without Borders, one of the largest health organizations operating in Gaza, of failing to clarify the roles of some staff that Israel accused of cooperation with militants. n.pr/4sisQNv

Medieval church graffiti reproduction The legend of the "tailed Englishmen" was a common medieval insult or piece of folklore, with no evidence that it was a subject of widespread medieval graffiti.

UNISON Student Nurses Demo 1994

Uxbridge Chartists John Beford Leno Gerald Massey

1938 - Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels to mockingly call the Quakers the “Three Wise Men.” When the group arrived at Gestapo headquarters, they presented a statement reminding the Nazi officers of Quaker relief efforts after WW1, when Friends had fed over a million German children a day.

It's #MapMonday! Here's a #map of #workhouses, #asylums, hospitals and dispensaries in #London, 1900. Take a closer look on @layersoflondon.bsky.social at www.layersoflondon.org/map/... #VictorianHistory #BritishHistory #GIS #HGIS #MappyMonday

Hello! We are over here now. Come and explore our more than 400 historic maps of London available to view on our website. Which is your favourite? layersoflondon.org/map?layers=t... #Maps #GIS #HGIS #SpatialHumanities #DigitalHumanities #GeoHumanities #StoryMaps #MapMonday

Marisa Italian Partizan WW2 Anti-Fascist Claudia Ruggerini (also known as Marisa) Born 1 February 1922, Milan - 4 July 2016, Rome Italian partisan, activist, doctor, and neuropsychiatrist. 107th Garibaldi Brigade Committee for National Liberation (CLN) @anpiscuola.bsky.social

Chartist Uniform Chartist rosette, white blouses, black belts,green caps with red stripes

John Rymill Northampton Chartist Born Banbury 6th November 1824 Died Northampton 10th June 1913 Cork Cutter (Bridge Street, Northampton) - Later Cork cutting business at 15 Newland Friend of Ernest Jones & Gerald Massey Bradlaugh Riot (made his escape from the Lord Palmerston)

Always Anti-Fascist

Starting 2026 with a trip to Chesham United 🫡

London Clarion Scouts founded 1906 @londonclarioncc.bsky.social

Another excellent thread from Ian which gives us a fireman’s view of the Blitz. ⬇️

Another excellent thread ⬇️

one of the most famous photographs of the war, taken by Herbert Mason of the Daily Mail, which gave rise to the myth that St Paul's had survived the raid intact. I'll be doing a short thread later looking at the raid and it's impact on the Square Mile.

Today marks the 85th anniversary of the Luftwaffe's fire raid on the City of London, which became known as the "Second Great Fire of London". Here we see a group of London firefighters in Cheapside on the morning of 30 December after no doubt an exhausting night at work. This raid also gave rise to

South Transept of St Paul's is topped by the statue of a phoenix, with the simple inscription "RESURGAM" (I shall rise again) beneath. This was originally in recognition of the Great Fire of 1666 but seems equally apt following the events of 1940./END

college. There is another City garden in the shadow of St Paul's in the footprint of the former church of Christ Church Greyfriars - these now peaceful urban gardens are a reminder of the violent destruction of 85 years ago and the hope that can arise from the ruins of war. The window over the...

THREAD/As mentioned earlier, today marks the 85th anniversary of the "Second Great Fire of London", an incendiary raid that started fires to spread over an area larger than the original Great Fire of 1666. It was raid that led to a change in the wartime legislation that enforced businesses...

Trump tells supporters in a new fundraising email that if they don’t donate to him within the next hour, Democrats will steal their "tariff rebate checks" and give them to "illegals," that the country is "boiling over," and that only an immediate cash transfer to him can stop total disaster.

ILP Independent Labour Party meeting ILP Scouts Clarion

Birmingham Clarion Cycling Club 1894 Tom Groom @londonclarioncc.bsky.social

Glasgow Clarion Scouts James O'Connor Kessak Born 19 October 1879 Founder member of the Advocates of Industrial Unionism. National organiser of the National Union of Dock Labourers, replacing James Larkin. 1914 joined Scottish Horse Reg. Promoted to Captain Killed Battle of the Ancre 1916 WW1

Our first online #LocalHistory talk is 'Sexual Reformers in Dulwich 1870-1925' - bet you didn't know there were enough sexual reformers in Dulwich to fill a whole talk! It's on Tuesday 6 January, 8pm-9pm. Proceeds go to Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers. www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2026/...