Quick question for historians of / in Australia... I'm looking for a photograph of 396 Flinders Lane, Melbourne (any time from the 1910s to 1950s) but am struggling to find anything in the obvious places. Any advice / suggestions would be very much appreciated!

'China contributed the most cities which had seen GDP growth and lowered emissions — 719, including Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu. This might reflect the country’s strong air-quality management policies'. 1/2

I am absolutely here for @oliver.ie 's motion at tonight's Cork City Council meeting (referred to a relevant committee).

Several days of anti-German riots around London began today in 1915 following the sinking of the Lusitania. Read here about London's vibrant German community of the 19th and early 20th century www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/the-german-c...

Steel industry: £1.1bn in GDP and 20,000 employees University sector: £265bn in GDP and 400,000 employees What the fuck am I missing here.

Hansard’s complete record of parliamentary proceedings is now available online 📚 Browse the official report ➡️ hansard.parliament.uk/commons

BREAKING: (For anyone that didn’t already know) @politicsuk.com is not an independent news source, but another Reform UK outlet

To be clear since the headline isn't: a study that claimed GenAI was good for learning, actually, turns out to have been bullshit.

He's like a human Chat GPT

Farage was asked for a Cameo clip to “talk about how the world is going to shit and how secret societies are controlling everything”. He appears to have volunteered several Jewish conspiracy references himself to that request. Wouldn't all hell break out if Corbyn/Polanski did this on camera too?

Wes Streeting wants new laws to force your GP to share your medical records. The bill was not in Labour's Manifesto and Palantir has explicitly said, under a new Government, it would be happy to use medical data for other purposes. Be afraid.

Here's where Louis Mosley, the black-shirt wearing grandson of the black-shirt wearing fascist Oswald Mosley, who runs Palantir in the UK, says how and when they might use your medical data for "immigration enforcement" and, by logical extension, whatever other purposes became convenient.

9 MAY 1776, NEW YORK: A letter to Charles Lee sees a rare instance of George Washington putting open sarcasm to paper: founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...

The US military has killed at least 192 people in strikes that have destroyed 59 vessels as part of a campaign that Washington says — WITHOUT EVIDENCE — is aimed at curtailing the flow of drugs into the United States

Every progressive politician in UK needs to be doing two things: 1) continuously saying “Farage’s Brexit has been a disaster and left the country in a mess” 2) focusing on positive things that will gradually make the country better Just these two. Not one moment on any Farage talking point.

Justice Gorsuch claimed during Trump v Barbara oral arguments that there was no immigration enforcement before the Civil War. He's wrong. There were also unauthorized migrants from the slave ships sailing into the US after the 1808 ban on the international slavery trade. Read John's excellent book 👇

Yes totally. I am driven to absolute rage (as someone who isn’t a Green) by the stereotype of Greens that too many national press commentators slosh around and don’t seem to be challenged on

congratulations to the people of Newcastle on being moved from the category of 'salt of the earth working class hero voters' to 'middle class woke elitists'. and they say social mobility is dead

Joe Swift is awesome #TheArchers

When it's a choice between Question Time or #GardenersWorld I'm staying firmly in the garden

Story of enslaved boy featured in 1748 Joshua Reynolds portrait emerges in new study: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Today marks the 295th anniversary of the birth of Beilby Porteus (1731-1809). Featured in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive: https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00244.shtml #c18th #poetry #DH #OTD

It never ceases to amaze me how many election pundits don’t understand the dynamics of First Past the Post, and how vote-splitting works under the UK’s electoral system. John Curtice does. Listen to John Curtice.

I have family members who are very reliant on the state. And I use the NHS a lot for endometriosis. Sometimes I think the eye-rolling I see on here in response to voters' belief that everything is broken is because the eye rollers are middle class and don't interact with the welfare state much.

The quality of high street clothing is noticeably so much worse. I bought shoes from a brand known for quality a couple of years ago and have had to get them fixed three times. Turns out they closed their Europe factory. Life at the moment for most people is Temu quality at Chanel prices.

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

#GardenersWorld viewers, don't forget: programma is at 𝟏𝟗:𝟑𝟎 tonight! BBC2 except Wales. As I'm travelling home from England today, I may not be 'present' 🤷‍♀️ #UKgardening 🌱

106 years ago today, on May 7th, an undergraduate at Christchurch College, Oxford, drank a glass of port then left through the main gates for a walk. I've been thinking about him, & his walk, for years now. It's taken a long time for me to figure out why - why I've kept returning, near obsessed.

🤩 ARCHIVAL TRUNKS!!! #YayArchives!

people who haven't lived in a corrupt state or mafia society think it means that everyone breaks the rules means the rules don't exist, when the reality is that everyone breaks the rules and it gives the corrupt authorities total discretion about who to punish and when.

Corgi in Kyrgystan! @oldenoughtosay.com on #RaceAcrossTheWorld about 20.37 minutes in

My latest #Croydon chronicle

I love my Fighting Tremeraire rose so much #GardenersWorld 🌿🌱🌼

Unbelievable for Premier Christian News to send out a daily email with the lead story being this on an election day (or frankly any day at all given the chasm between the gospel and the politics of that party). Article itself was published on Tuesday and offers no scrutiny or anything newsworthy.

Thinking back to one of the greatest hater editorials of all time, along with its sheepish correction (49 years later): 🧪https://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/arts/1920editorial-full.pdf

For once I agree with George, Ruairi would benefit from counselling #TheArchers

Nothing says "happy families" like this clause Sir John Blunt, of South Sea Bubble fame put into his will in 1733. Evidently his children did not get on with their stepmother 🗃 @lsangha.bsky.social #C18th #Skystorians

Voted but sadly no #DogsAtPollingStations

'It was a glittering event and an impressive achievement – but unfortunately, detectives claim, the award itself was entirely fake and part of a complex international hoax worthy of a film script.' 1/3

Everyone understands that the internet, rightly, belongs to cats, but on Election Day they graciously cede the limelight--for one day only--to the #dogsatpollingstations, who adorn our democracy.

Mayor Perry's secret plan to privatise Croydon's public parks insidecroydon.com/2026/05/06/m... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #Tarzan @cprelondon.bsky.social

just to emphasize again, closing Malacca means 'taking a couple of extra days on a trip.' the economist had a great recent graph on various straits and their relative levels of direness.

What could be more British? Real patriotism there from the people of Gibraltar.

May 6, 1776: A grand jury reviewing public affaIrs in Charleston, S.C., finds the colony has adopted a “Constitution of Government the most equitable and desirable that human imagination could invent.” Under the charter “virtue is sovereign” and “every system of oppression is held as detestable.”

I enjoyed speaking w/the fab @lizcovart.bsky.social about THE CROWN’S SILENCE—& TJ’s shrewd but ultimately misleading attack on George III in the draft of the Declaration of Independence—on the @bfworld.bsky.social podcast. Check it out & follow the show! 🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/episode-440-...

Antislavery petition of the "Natives of Africa now forcibly detained in Slavery" in New Hampshire, Nov. 12, 1779: "the God of Nature gave them Life and freedom upon the Terms of the most perfect Equality with other men" #slaveryarchive www.nps.gov/articles/000...

#C18th #naturalhistory #earlymodern #georgeforster New Book | The Traveler enfilade18thc.com/2026/05/02/n...

Co-investigator @lsangha.bsky.social is speaking about the project at the @ihrscb.bsky.social seminar tomorrow! In person at the @ihr.bsky.social and online on Zoom 🌐 Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @leverhulme.ac.uk @transkribus.bsky.social @zooniverse.bsky.social #History

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