Merry Christmas with this old favourite! Who’s off to the Erith Borough Council Christmas staff dinner & dance? The Borough Treasurer is prepared to receive conscience money, but don’t be wasting the Borough Surveyor’s time on building licence chat at the bar...

In honour of the late Chris Rea here's me performing "Driving Home For Christmas" for the last time at The Andy Kim Christmas show in 2023 RS youtu.be/io38roENXr8?...

If you are a Londoner or are interested in it this is a lovely updated @londonist.com map of Anglo Saxon London to browse londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...

I just had to 'Google' what "POV" means. Can't say I'm any the wiser.

I'm sorry to have discovered Raul Malo only now that he's died. But what a voice! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDiW...

Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free. Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.

It's the 29th today and I've yet to receive a single Christmas card. My popularity is definitely on the wane.

Bob Dylan sings Roud 87, live in Dublin. youtu.be/yztrxfWDXvo?...

Bob Dylan - The Banks of Pontchartrain (Roud 1836), live 1988 youtu.be/4qGCASpFsJY?...

Still makes me laugh

On this day in 1120, the White Ship sank en route from Barfleur to Southampton. William Ætheling, King Henry I’s only legitimate son and heir to the throne, drowned whilst trying to save his half-sister, Matilda of Perche, who also perished. 1/4

Deservedly so.

RIP Jimmy Cliff

Was a great night

I painted my wagon, abandoned all hope, And I crossed the River Cray.

Shifting sands at Maroubra Beach have revealed the wreck of the HEREWARD once again — a 19th-century iron clipper driven ashore during a fierce storm in May 1898. Though the crew survived, the ship never sailed again, slowly pulled apart by waves and weather. Object number 00002278

I'm off to Lewes tonight, to play the excellent Lewes Saturday Folk Club with Mat Green: Elephant and Castle, White Hill, Lewes BN7 2DJ. 8:00 to 11:00 www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org

Heading south...

Very excited about the current podcast episode. The legendary Peggy Seeger!!! Such a pleasure to chat ballads with her, and to hear her thoughts on this particular less known ballad too.

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

Thank God it's Tuesday

Looking to host a music or comedy event? We are offering FREE ROOM* HIRE at the Common Room throughout January & February 2026. Email us at [email protected] to see availability. *Wood Hall and Lecture Theatre (music and comedy shows).

THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOLS 1-18 : YOUR DYLAN BOOKS HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT As a fan, you’re likely to have a valuable Dylan book(let) collection - The Bootleg Series book(let)s of liner notes. Typically about 60 pages long, the booklets of the standard CD releases are a rich source of Dylaniana.

Our next Bristol Section talk is "Bristol and Lloyd George’s Land Valuation of 1909" by Richard Graydon 24 November www.bgas.org.uk/events/event...

A landmark moment. Supervisor Connie Chan led a unanimous San Francisco Board of Supervisors resolution honoring the #InternetArchive & establishing Internet Archive Day. archive.org/embed/establ... 🧵 More ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/03/s... #Wayback1T

Great news! The lovely Emily has shared this with me. To those of you who, like me, used the Bodleian Broadside Ballads Archive previously, it's gradually making its way back! @jenniferballads.bsky.social, I remember you were wanting to know about the return too. Thank you @bodleian.ox.ac.uk 😊

One of the best clips I’ve seen recently on this issue - a lesson for all interviewers

SUBLIME Bob Dylan "Can't Wait" Milan 22 June 2011 youtu.be/KC9dnYVgFVE?...

I enjoyed myself wandering randomly round the National Gallery. This caught my eye particularly.

One of the nuttiest bits of Bob Dylan stage banter I've seen in a bit. He gets this Detroit crowd all excited for Motown anecdotes, only to reveal it's just a needlessly involved setup for the dumbest joke you've ever heard. Genius.

Season 5 begins tomorrow!! Get ready for 10 more weeks of folk song history goodness.

I ❤️ Viz

It's nearly time for our next Trad Night, with singer Arthur Knevett showing off his eclectic repertoire of English, Irish and Scottish traditional songs and ballads. Wed 29 Oct bit.ly/4lYYxr6

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

Happy Hearts of Fire day to those who celebrate! I talked to Beau Hill, Music Director of the movie and producer of the soundtrack, about months of chaos working on Bob Dylan's infamous flop And I got an answer to the question we've all been asking: How much did Bob really know about Ratt?

HBD to the Johns - Entwistle and Lennon

Are you interested in local history? @vch-home.bsky.social @hackney-society.bsky.social @history.dulwichsociety.com In this free workshop, you will be taught how to produce a short video from the material you have collected to share the stories you are uncovering. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Tickets are still available for our Historic Buildings Conference taking place this Saturday, 11th October 2025 at Lenham Community Centre. Tickets available here:

I have two tickets for #BobDylan in Glasgow on 16 November which I am now unable to use. DM if interested.

#OtD 3 Oct 1937 almost a year after their defeat at Cable St, Mosley's Blackshirts attempted to march through Bermondsey, South London. Met with strong local opposition and barricades in the streets, the march never arrived at its intended destination workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...

Join us on Tues for our next online talk: Fee Greening in conversation about her work, influences, and her illustrated edition of Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies, published last month. Tues 7 Oct, 19:00 BST on Zoom. Tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fee-greeni...

#OnThisDay 1850: Hackney Central station was opened by the East & West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway. ➡️ flickr.com/photos/tags/e81lltn

R.I.P. the great Danny Thompson youtu.be/3dwcGf9y5Fc?...

Archivist Oliver Wooller will give a talk here at #BexleyArchives on 18 October 2.30pm 'Caesars, Senators and Centurions', looking at the Roman period in Bexley, as roads, engineering and laws were brought to the Cantiaci of Kent. Tickets: £5.

Still time to see this great exhibition at Lambeth Archives, open until 8pm this evening too

Chuffed that Dylan is a last minute addition to the stacked af Farm Aid lineup in the Twin Cities on Sunday. You can stream the whole day's worth of music for free too. www.youtube.com/live/CJbXWbd...

Despite widespread claims, there are not many mediaeval pubs still serving. The ones that survive are all inns. The best preserved is the New Inn at Gloucester. We know from tree-ring dating that construction began in 1432 and it was first mentioned in the records in 1455 🧵

We still have a few seats left for this fascinating talk on 25 September about local people during WWII. Either email Susan Hoskin at [email protected] to book, or download and print our Booking Form: friendsofhoneywood.co.uk/uploads/1/1/...