Michael George

She has such iron clad self-confidence. Which is great, when merited.

🗣️ ️The Speaker of the House of Commons, the Right Hon. Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, will be on campus this month reflecting on the challenges of his role, at the 2025 JH Whitley Memorial Lecture.

🏢 Oastler Building, University of Huddersfield.
📅 Thursday 30 October, 6.15pm.
💵 Free - https://hud.ac/ux6

Aren't you a Gen Xer? The most unmentioned generation.

Briefed to the gunnels, he just vomits out his lists incoherently. He nearly missed out on his chance to make this point, which is presumably his main argument right now. Is it nerves, or has he always been such a sub par communicator?

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

Shaw, Lancashire, 1957, photo by Bert Hardy.

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Ladies in Regency period costume walk through Bath to commemorate the 250th anniversary Jane Austen's birth.

A large-breasted blonde lady wearing Union Flag trousers and a Union Flag bikini top (doing a heroic amount of support work) holds up a sign reading "GET THEM OUT" at the Unite The Kingdom rally on Westminster Bridge.

(l) what foreigners think England is going to be like

(r) what England actually is like

Pierre Mark Roget, physician and lexicographer, died on this day 1869 aged 90. Founding secretary of Manchester's Portico library. Best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a classified collection of related words.

oooh yes gurl! you work that tarmac

What subjects did Britons enjoy at school?

English: 70% enjoyed
History: 66%
Geography: 61%
Biology: 58%
Food tech: 54%
Art: 51%
D+T: 50%
Maths: 49%
PE: 47%
Chemistry: 45%
Music: 44%
Languages: 43%
Physics: 39%
IT: 37%
RE: 32%
Drama: 29%

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Basically underestimated the importance of snobbery to our politics, and that ziptying a cheap flag to a lamppost outside a Co-Op looks *rough* rather than patriotic.

I hope everyone will listen to this extraordinary interview with the legendary Bernie Clifton (this is just part one!) Amazing and lovely man shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episo...

YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg Russia's economic problems & the view of Trump: today's Russian papers.

In today’s Russian papers no sign that Moscow’s position on Ukraine has changed. But plenty of indications of economic problems: “business stagnation”, “one in two Russians looking for a second job", petrol prices “hit new record high.” #ReadingRussia

Putin Makes No Concessions But Trump Normalizes Relations People Seem To Be Missing The Big Story

Just sent out this free piece. I hear some saying yesterday's summit changed little--nothing could be further from the truth. The summit helped Russia and hurt Ukraine. It had 3 main components.
First, US-Russian relations are being normalized in front of our eyes. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

History of the Samaritans - University of Huddersfield Page Description

blogs.hud.ac.uk/historians-a... Background of my research.

Tens of millions of Britons were upset when they changed Marathon bars to Snickers. I am sceptical about how much revolutionary change they really want.

6. Immersing yourself in the archive for a significant period of time is great but often the archival experience is taking a lot of photos and getting out because researchers cannot afford to do otherwise

Ok, for each retweet I’ll provide one insight, fact, or opinion on unconventional naval warfare, like submarines, explosive boats, special forces or crazy ideas

0/n 🧵

Ten years 😯. Thoroughly enjoyed them all!

Ouch.

Alright then, before this totally runs out of steam/becomes too tedious even for me:

1 like = one opinion about the Second World War

Brilliant thread. Really fascinating, thank you.

#ellisrosen #thenewyorker

Worker carrying a tube of rolled glass at Pilkington Glass of St Helens, Lancashire, 1918. Photo by George P. Lewis.

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Welcome to the archives.

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Since rail nationalisation is back in the news, here's an anti-nationalisation cartoon from the Sunday Pictorial in 1918.

A variety of hand held games on display at WHSmith

Now if you don't mind me, I'm heading back in my shopping time machine all the way to May 1983 to see what I can play with at WH Smith.

#80s