Just discovered a various artists compilation of Blind Willie Johnson songs. Contributors include Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Cowboy Junkies and Sinead O’Connor. B still my beating heart 💗

#NavalHistory #ShipDesign

#NowPlaying Rev. Gary Davis at the Manchester Free Trade Hall, 1964. 😎

Quaternary people, I need to source a high-resolution graphics file of an up-to-date Marine Isotope curve? One I can use at two different resolution, one 1,000,000 to present, the other 100,000 to present. Any idea where to look? Has anything definitively replaced Railsback? 🦣

The Economic and Social Research Council core budget for 24/25 was £134m, not £8 billion.

On Friday 28 November (3pm) I'll be speaking in the seminar series from the Centre for Regional and Local History and the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester. It's free and open to the public - all welcome! Info in AltText. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems #book #history #event

🪧Job vacancy in Islamic Archaeology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social. Deadlines for applications 27 November 2025.

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An excellent summary of work and introduction to the most important study of Domesday book in a generation - or more. /1

Had a lovely day with Years 3 and 4 of Little Eaton Primary School on #StoneAge to #IronAge. It's always a pleasure to visit and this year was no different. Thank you everyone ☺️. Here are some of the pots they made. #KS2 #HistoryTeacher

Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company. Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet. Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced. Let customers vote on exec pay. archive.ph/9rYlp

Police have named the couple they’re looking for in connection to a racist incident on the tube and they’re wealthy Trump supporters and founders of an “anti-woke” PR firm.

I agree that the BBC should apologise to Trump for being misleading. Right after Trump apologises for the 30,573 false or misleading claims he made during his first presidency, or for each of his current daily average of 21 new lies per. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_o...

Another methodology for assigning Levelling up / towns fund / neighborhood fund / pride in place funding. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Anyone with experience of teaching Sunil Amrith's Burning Earth for undergraduates? I'm considering it for a course in environmental history... #envhis #envhum #skystorians #history

Very productive meeting this morning putting together the timetable for the OSL fieldwork between Dec 1-3. All systems go! #CommunityHeritage #Archaeology #Science #Staffordshire #PeakDistrict #Medieval

Just spent over 15 minutes trying to pay a bill online. #Broadband from @utilitywarehouse.bsky.social buffering and and dropping out. Gave up. Tried to raise issue with support and guess what, another 5 minutes of buffering and dropping out 3 times. Unhappy, as this occurs on almost a daily basis.

Tonight's gig: surprise surprise, doesn't involve my son but it does involve Martin Stephenson and the Daintees @bandonthewall.bsky.social. 😁

🎙️ New podcast episode! This week we’re joined by @hmaloigne.bsky.social to talk archaeology on screen. From Indiana Jones to The Dig, archaeologists are often portrayed as heroic adventurers. But what do these depictions really tell us about archaeology? And what do they leave out?

GOP seeks to revoke NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani’s citizenship; experts say they must prove false claims in his application.

For this week’s offering for #StandingStoneSunday here’s one of Hayman Rooke’s sketches of 9 Stone Close on Harthill Moor in the Peak District. #Derbyshire

Tonight's gig: The Developers at Buxton Trackside, opening #MindTheTracks25 charity show in aid of men's mental health. Another proud dad moment 🤗 #Buxton #MentalHealth

This poster appeared at a bus stop near Tesla's flagship London store overnight 👏

A guest blog, which adds more detail to the narrative of detecting in England & Wales. Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊 #Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...

If any journalists would like a copy of Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain to review, please get in touch w me /MUP. It's a rigorous history of wind energy written for a wide audience, with plenty to say about today's energy challenges. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

If only someone had written a blog and a book chapter to clear all this nonsense up... triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/2022/09/26/m...

“Linear algebraic sociopathy”

As the homes of Gaza’s families lie in ruins, its farmlands and water supply now pose lethal risks.

cornell sealed its fate with how it treated Momodou. may it be dismantled under the weight of its fascist capitulation.

Here’s the Nature paper: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My company food allowance is £50 per day. Realised I can buy a couple of homeless people a sizeable meal whenever I travel and consume fewer calories at the same time. Makes me feel great and have had some great chats with real people. Do it if you can.

Does anyone on here work with race and medicine in the southern US in the early 20th century? Niche, I know, but I came across something very weird in my late father's stuff that might be of interest. Feel free to share.

How is the digital creative? Check out Jamie Wood’s article ‘Creativity&Historical Inquiry in Digital Spaces’. It’s the penultimate early view article for @cathfeely.bsky.social &my special issue on creative history for @hisjournalha.bsky.social! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Tonight's gig: The Developers. My son plays bass. #prouddad 🤗

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

Dr Grace Brown of Glasgow University explains where 25% of your ticket and millions of pounds of the country’s goes to: [spoiler alert, it’s into wealthy executives and shareholders pockets] bsky.app/profile/weow...

An unusual and very intriguing plaque set into a column in the wonderful Church of St. Mary, Shelton, Bedfordshire 🤩 I can make out the year 1576, but no idea about the rest…any ideas?

New research reveals that Long COVID-related brain fog may be linked to overactive AMPA receptors, which are key molecular messengers for memory and learning. #COVID #Health #Science #Medicine

For this week’s offering for #AdoorableThursday here’s the main door of St Andrew’s Church, Oakington.

In a tent in central Gaza, a women’s film festival is born Held over six days last week, the inaugural International Festival for Women's Cinema was ‘an affirmation that Gaza loves life despite the genocide.’ Ibtisam Mahdi reports. www.972mag.com/gaza-interna...

"Dick Cheney Has Died. The War Criminal in His Own Words" 10 quotes from a former vice president who pushed for a murderous invasion of Iraq, lied about the WMD threat, and defended torture – by @mehdirhasan.bsky.social. READ: zeteo.com/p/dick-chene...

Something a little different for this week’s offering for #TombTuesday. Here’s a set of 3 chest tombs known collectively as the ‘Martyrs Graves’. Found next to the churchyard of St Andrew’s Church in Oakington. More details here: www.oakingtonhistory.co.uk/our-parish/c...

It has just been announced that there will be an increase in fees for Principal Probate wills from 17 November 2025. The fee for a copy of the will rises from £1.50 to £16 per document. Over a 1000% rise. Any wills you have been thinking of getting copies of now is the time!

🔴 Follow the Money: How the Right Weaponises the Costs of Supporting Learning Disabled People "Society should become more transparent about where the money is being spent. What we certainly should not do is blame learning disabled people and their families" @stephenunwin.bsky.social

The 9th annual CCA and UAS Discovery 2025! Conference is *this* weekend, Friday 7th and Saturday 8th November at Elmwood Bldg QUB and online. Go to www.qub.ac.uk/sites/uas/Co... to purchase your ticket now! -£20/regular -£10 student -£5 online We hope to see you there!

These unconscionable cuts to a vital lifeline fund for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child & even worse - these changes were introduced by the government without consultation, warning and no evidence base

Sometimes a road sign says so much.

Fancy spending the summer at the University of Oxford learning about the Stuarts? Look no further! My summer course is now open for applications ⬇️ The Stuarts: The Fall, Rise and Revolution of a Dynasty, 1603-1714 lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/the-...

Visited Ely Cathedral for the first time today.