#MementoMoriMonday ☠️ 📍St Lawrence's Church • Eyam ⛪ #History

Dear @peterwalker99.bsky.social why frame this in terms of anger, conflict 'hostile takeover'? Everytime people with passion for social justice become involved in politics it's treated as a joke or a threat. While a handful of bigots have 'legitimate concerns' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Llai o bererinion traddodiadol, mwy o ‘dwririnion’ sy’n cerdded rhannau llai Llwybr Santiago ac yn aros mewn gwestai yn lle llochesi. @heritagepilgrim.bsky.social

A good article on illegal detecting in Wales to start the day... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Derek, and I started photographing gravestones about 4 years ago, with a focus on the carvers who made the stones. Over this time, I have learned so much, and it has been great to connect with so many other people with similar interests!

Have you met Dora yet? Believe me you need to. mainlymuseums.com/post/1077/a-... #museums #museumfromhome #gardens #lambeth

With a 15th-century rood loft hovering over rows of 18th-century box pews, the interior of St David’s, Llangeview in Monmouthshire offers a glimpse into the forms of worship from two bygone ages. 1/8

New from me: How China's clean energy manufacturing boom is helping reduce CO2 emissions overseas. In 2024, China’s exports of solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles are shaved 1% off global emissions outside of China.

Gaza is 'hell on earth' with doctors fainting from hunger, UN warns, as 1,000 estimated to have been killed seeking food www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

We've had words aplenty, it's time to back them up with morally and legally consistent action. Stop providing military support. Stop importing goods of questionable provenance. Investigate those who have traveled abroad to help an organization that routinely commits atrocities. Impose visa bans.

The UK did have one standout product that was considered globally valuable- universities- and unilaterally decided to stop providing the product because it was more important to be xenophobic than successful

Cynhadledd yn Galisia ar lwybrau pererindod, a'u rhan yn denu ymwelwyr. @heritagepilgrim.bsky.social

Reporters in Gaza from AFP are now unable to work due to them literally being starved to death by the Israeli government, but apparently these people opposing the genocide are the real terrorists 👇

🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London. We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.

As someone actually trained in behavioural psychology—unlike most MPs—I can tell you: financial precarity doesn’t “incentivise” sick people to work. It breaks them. Stress worsens health. Fear doesn’t create productivity. It creates collapse. #TakingThePIP

Come on Laura - stop letting Farage get away with grotesque lies on #climate - the green economy is growing 3 times faster than rest of the economy. The green transition is in our *economic interests* & it’s Farage who’ll de-industrialise the UK, not green policy #bbclaurak

Never knew Britain was besieged by so many octogenarian terrorists who demand children not be starved and slaughtered. What is the world coming to?

The right-wing press is going mad over votes at 16 ("a naked attempt to twist democracy in Labour’s favour", an "election-rigging move"...) Oddly, they said the same 100 years ago when the voting age for women fell from 30 to 21. Let's revisit the Mail's campaign to"Stop the Flapper Vote Folly"...

This summer, @caerheritage.bsky.social is hosting an exciting week-by-week programme packed with fun, hands-on activities for all ages. From arts & crafts to archaeology & heritage. Come along and be part of the fun! Starts Mon 21st July 🙂 @learncardiff.bsky.social @webstermedieval.bsky.social

I’m always hesitant to use terms like two-tier policing but the double standards I witnessed today from the Met Police at the protest against the proscription of Palestine Action were staggering. You won’t believe the photos when I post them later today.

BREAKING: At least 29 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks while waiting to receive food aid in southern Gaza's Rafah. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/img1q1

#TfW also need to sort their chatbot out - it gave me COMPLETELY wrong information about a complicated DelayReplay claim

Designed and painted by John Coates Carter, the reredos at St Eloi's, Llandeloy in Pembrokeshire is an Arts and Crafts triumph. 1/7

WelshGov releases July 25 report on the first 18 months of the "award winning" default 20mph limit for urban and village roads. Speeds down, 26% fewer casualties and little change in journey times. Lives saved, liveability increased bit.ly/40rfUZl

This is something we can all agree on 🤝🏻📚🔍 📷 strange_aeons_ #History

So happy to catch the new Mudlarking exhibition at the London Museum Docklands today, which is packed full of fascinating “found” objects

"Chris Philp claimed that ‘new analysis’ had found that migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats are 24 times more likely to end up in prison than the average British citizen... Full Fact, tried to find evidence, they found no reliable data to support the claim"

14 left! thank you!

A court in Australia had just passed a landmark ruling legally defining criticism of Israel and/or zionism as not antisemitic. Obvious - but a key reference point for free speech and hilarious that the ruling came from a case brought by the peak Australian pro-Israel lobby! 😆 Link in comment.

This phrase should be nailed up in big letters in every commuter control room, on the relevant CEOs’ office door, etc. And, arguably, in both the DfT and the Treasury.

Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Welsh climate impact story: my mum's local Co-op store in Cardiff has been unable to stock perishable food and dairy for over a week because its chill cabinets are powered by a gas generator. The gas tanks that power the generator are overheating thanks to a heatwave affecting the UK.

13th century church St. Nicholas Trellech cool 13th century inlaid grave and a 17th century sundial with harold stones on

American libraries are under attack. I have written a long piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social on the MAGA assault on libraries (and archives), and the strong librarians fighting back. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

In the excellent online exhibit, "1933: The Beginning of the End of German Jewry", sponsored by the Jewish Museum, Berlin and the Leo Baeck Institute, you can see what the annulment of #citizenship looks like, and where it leads. www.jmberlin.de/1933/en/10_2...

Apparently Transport for Wales are no longer responding on here - surprise! We have now been sat in the train at Hereford for FOUR HOURS while they try to deal with a broken-down train at Cwmbran. No reliable information, just 'at least another half hour ' on repeat.

"We want to see the end to a situation where innocent people are being starved." Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan aligns with Baroness Helena Kennedy's view that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. @lewisgoodall.com

St Giles's, Tadlow in Cambridgeshire is the latest church to come into our care! It is a handsome medieval structure that showcases the work of some superb Victorian craftsmen. 1/9

Remembering former schoolmaster, Benjamin Booth, died 2nd July 1888, aged 37. Headmaster of Holy Trinity Boys School & Superintendent of the Sunday School attached to Holy Trinity Church. The inscription reads: "This stone was erected by the Managers, Teachers and Scholars of the above schools."

The Holy Trinity parish WWI war memorial in the Lady Chapel passageway, Ely Cathedral. Among the names, my great-grandfather Arthur Page, his brother Herbert Page, and his brother-in-law Herbert Cross.

Petition for analyses of climate impacts to include the line: 'The cost of meeting net zero targets is set to reach - but before you quote this line out of context we have included this parenthesis explaining these costs are still far outweighed by the costs associated with the status quo - £xxbn.'

📣NEW POST📣 My latest post discusses the art of ghost laying! I've expanded on my previous research to share with you a comprehensive look at the ways in which Shropshire folk dealt with their unquiet spirits. nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2024/09/unqu... #Folklore #Shropshire #ghosts

It follows that if you live in Wales, you should speak Welsh

There are some TRULY idiotic "I hate net-zero" takes on yday's OBR report, which set out long-term risks to govt finances It's right there in the report, but to repeat, OBR makes it crystal clear that climate action will be far less costly than inaction www.carbonbrief.org/...

Size of stick not specified (though this is a wide open space which must have afforded quite a decent view for a lot of people - which all sounds rather suspicious, of you ask me).

Anyway, down with exploitative systems of economic oppression that keep us scrabbling for pennies while billionaires live lives of unchecked and unimaginable wealth. Down with capitalism. Up the workers! I'r gad!

"We'd lack without his labour, Christ's sacrifice, food of faith, Neither Pope nor emperor, Possess life without him, Nor merry king, Who freely pours out wine, Nor living man" - a snippet from The Ploughman, a poem by the 14th century Welsh poet Iolo Goch, extolling the virtues of the labourer

That's because there is only one solution, and it's anathema to the political establishment: tax wealth more than you tax work.

But you get arrested on sight for saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". Saying those words is terrorism. Whereas this burning of effigies of refugees, that's just culture