Amazon are partnering with Comic Relief to sell their red noses. Last year Comic Relief raised £34 million which is how much Jeff Bezos makes in six hours. Dig deep everyone.

This looks fun

It is lovely that the Art Gallery of Ontario can now name the Black woman in the gorgeous #18thc portrait they acquired 6 yrs ago & also date the painting. It's from 1775. She is Eleonora Susette, enslaved by the Dutch governor of Guyana, accompanying his widow on her return to the Netherlands.

On the value organizing using your own brain: 🧵 For my PhD, I read a mountain of books and over 2,000 European printed and manuscript maps & atlases c.1450-1650 (and some older ones). I identified 200-ish maps/atlases with distinctive imagery of peoples of the Americas (not just stick figures). 1/

One of Labour's big problems right there: a whole bunch of MPs who are convinced that the only reason they won in 2024 and might hold on to their seats in 2028/9 is because they persuaded Reform-curious voters to back them. The research doesn't really support their belief. But hey, 'the doorstep'. 🙄

Current four leading stories on BBC news tech section. It is almost like this technology needs to be regulated urgently.

March 18, 1776: Without fanfare, George Washington makes an entry into Boston a day after the British evacuated it. “The town, although it has suffered greatly, is not in so bad a state as I expected to find it,” he says of a community that had been under siege for nearly a year. 1/4

Rook! So big and black and fierce looking, right on my window sill! Look at that beak! The #tinyjoys hashtag doesn't seem quite right for something of this size. There are another 2 nearby, watching. They keep flying in and scuffling in an attempt to take possession of the bird table.

Writing tip #14: Go on reading your sources until you hear voices, then write a deeply human story about your historical subjects. Readers want to learn about real people, making real choices, in real circumstances. Make your actors complex and multi-dimensional.

This! 👇

Academic freedom doesn't mean you HAVE to hire race scientists, especially not one who says "In a meritocracy… Black people would disappear from virtually all high-ranking positions, with the exception of sports and entertainment"

The Times on Saturday 31st July 1976, printed that year's Oxford Modern History class list on p. 14. Is it the man himself or someone else w. the same surname? Well, the other details--initials, school, college, & degree subject--match up with what's reported on his Wiki page, so I think it's him.

Do you know a state school student in Yr 9 or 10 who'd like to study art history? Tell them about the free FPQ/HPQ courses run by the excellent charity Art History Link-up: www.arthistorylinkup.org/programmes/h...

Join us for Routes in the Records II on Saturday 11th April for a chance to connect with and reflect on the Church of England's Black History at the Archives.

If I needed a primer on the economic situation vis-a-vis chattel slavery (preferably based in Great Britain, but I'll take what I can get), where would I find it? #Skystorians #History #18thCentury #19thCentury

This is excellent, treating an important subject in the detail that it deserves.

Resizing Microsoft Word a joke I have about an image

Some people on here who deride the importance of “Westminster gossip”: the reality is that the “trivial” changes in Downing Street are why this statement was made and that is a good thing.

Here’s the free pattern if anyone wants to make one drive.google.com/file/d/11w5k...

Thank you so much to @adamkeiper.com and @thebulwark.com for sharing my work on Evacuation Day, and critically, why it matters today.

We didn't just find his videos - we also found Farage's outtakes, which show when his money-making sideline is interrupted by a text message or phone call, requiring him to re-record the video, he appears quick to anger.

If everyone in #TheArchers gave up cinnamon buns for Lent, it could torpedo the Borsetshire economy like a Liz Truss mini-budget.

Happy Evacuation Day to William Vassall, who left Boston during the Revolution and spent the rest of his life complaining about it. "Losers have a right to complain."

Rev Henry Caner of King's Chapel Boston describes fleeing Boston #Rev250

These are the things that have historically led to revolutions. Not sustainable.

Happy Evacuation Day! 250 years ago, the Siege of Boston was broken as General Washington and others held the high ground over both Boston and the waterways forcing the British (who were just about done being stuck in Boston without food/alcohol) out. Learn more here: www.nps.gov/bost/learn/h... 🗃️

From the Point of View of a Cat ~ Karel Capek (translated by Dora Round - originally published in Intimate Things, 1935)

The 5 objects I contributed were: Desi Pubs (cultural meeting places) Tipu's Tiger (wooden Indian tiger mauls European soldier) The Bronte sisters (female talent) Benjamin Zephaniah (humour & moral muscle) Tolpuddle Martyrs (courage; concern for all) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

March 17: One of my favorite holidays, Evacuation Day, marking the end of the eight-year British occupation of Boston. This year marks the 250th anniversary of their departure. #heyheygoodbye #nokings

Right now, the UK is running mostly on wind and sunshine. When the Tories and Reform argue we should scrap Net Zero, fossil fuel companies and countries are speaking.

Happy St Patrick’s Day ☘️ We polled how many pints of Guinness people think they’d be able to drink in one sitting, for most it’s 0-2. Liberal Democrat voters stand out (unusually!) as being the most likely to say they could drink more than 8 pints of Guinness in one sitting.

1/3 Belle Bilton’s life story has it all – scandal, young love, parental opposition, disinheritance – but love finally prevailed. B1866 in Beresford Street, Walworth (now John Ruskin Street), Belle and her sister Flo were a popular music hall act.

probably should not have read this from Ilan Goldenberg, former ME adviser in Obama & Biden administrations, on what happened when they wargamed conflict with Iran leading to the straits closing for >a month: oil hitting $175-200 a barrel, years to recover production, zero amusing memes

16 MARCH 1776, BOSTON: The redcoat leadership concludes that the weather is finally about to permit their departure—or, as the Continentals continue to build artillery emplacement, perhaps simply that Washington’s patience is wearing thin. Orders are given to depart tomorrow.

Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

I happen to be reading @rutgerbregman.com’s Humankind at the moment and this is just the affirmatory story we need right now. Those who use the plight of refugees as bait for racism & hatred are always countered by the kind. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The National Theatre's recent production of The Importance of Being Earnest is on YouTube for the next few days, and well worth catching. One of the great things about theatre is a new cast bringing something new to the script, and this definitely hits it.

Oh, sh*t!!!

Archives are neither dusty nor old stuff neither dead nor boring. Archives are what we make of them. Each generation, each of us sees diferent things in an item. Each of us adds something new every time we engage. Each item in the archives is the sum of all these interactions.

I completely forgot I made this... a big list of English judicial records, 1500 to 1800, published and often online!

Exactly this. I support assisted dying, and we can have it when legislation also guarantees assisted living, without placing the patient or their family in financial or personal distress, for as long as the person wants to continue living. Sufficient and free social & medical care, palliative &c.

Hey guys something happened to the paper towel

“As followers of Jesus, we must refuse to let the architecture of our faith be used to endorse the dehumanisation of our neighbours. The Church must be a sanctuary for the displaced, not a platform for their expulsion.” #CofE

If this war shows *anything* it’s how badly needed the transition to renewables is That that conversation has been largely absent from UK media while nonsense like this is published shows just how much the media ownership tail is now waging the dog

Honestly? Fuck the Home Office. After tonight's service I spent my evening hearing stories of how the Home Office treats Iranian Christian Converts, Nigerian Lesbians, and Indian Doctors, and the fear and pain and anxiety they're all experiencing is absolutely abhorrent and unnecessary.

94% of Britain's MPs are on X - I've made a website so you can explore who they follow on there. 🔍Search for any username and see which MPs follow them. 🏅There's also a leaderboard so you can see who has the ear of Westminster Link here: site.mpfollowers.workers.dev

Music Hall performer whose potato song helped the war effort insidecroydon.com/2026/03/15/m... #Croydon #History #SecondWorldWar #Music @balhnews.bsky.social

(think there's a fine line between needing to understand what's happening online and essentially just advertising the existence of bad guys on the internet and I do slightly worry that the relentless focus on the manosphere has become the latter)