Hannah Piekarz

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to... Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Enjoyed the first ep of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social where @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social focus on a week in vintage television, putting it into cultural context

Cheers John and Mike - it was a fab walk around a part of town new to me. Also, so well researched, I didn't realise that we were privileged to attend a 'for one walk only' event!

A tiny golden pumpkin

Baby uchiki kuri!

1. The only viable government is one based on cutting the still-beating hearts out of sacrificial victims.
2. Do not let the Spanish take over your country.
3. Quetzalcoatl is the one true God.

Literally no-one called it Indie Sleaze.

NO-ONE.

A poster advertising a talk at Port Eliot Festival from 2015. An archway from the house is pictured, surrounded by sea.

Happy Port Eliot weekend for all those who celebrate!
Remembering good times.

A Xmas gift tag from the 1970’s with an elf on

And to you too!

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use development is illegal to build these days.

Caption: Our team is working on these unsolved mathematical problems, but also pitching them as a trilogy of action movies starring Matt Damon Images: Posters for the three movies The Riemann Hypothesis starring Matt Damon (image of Matt running heroically surrounded by elements of a formula) The Yang-Mills problem starring Matt Damon (image of Matt fearlessly jumping a motorbike surrounded by eparts of a quantum equation) The Goldbach Conjecture starring Matt Damon (image of Matt falling bravely from a building surrounded by numbers and symbols.

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com #science #mattdamon

Wojciech Jerzy Has Acclaimed for his surreal vision, explore a selection of works from the great Polish filmmaker.

PSA: The Wojchiech Jerzy Has collection falls off the BFI player tonight!

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Would love to see these on a release ...@secondrun.bsky.social ?

WHY? Why not?! The world can feel like it’s on fire with political unrest & decimation of funding for independent voices. But we need storytellers - can this small gesture of community/solidarity make our small corner of the film industry a better place

PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD -TELL YOUR PEOPLE

Oh my word...

Barrett (Dirk Bogarde) observes the sleeping Tony

A moment of high tension as Susan tries putting Barrett in his place, ordering him to light her cigarette

Superb mirror shot of Bogarde and Fox

A key moment in the film, as the shadow of a naked post-coital Barrett looms on the landing while Tony and Susan try to take in what’s happening

Blimey, Douglas Slocombe shot the absolute hell out of The Servant (Losey, 1963)

Terrific, quintessentially English motion picture

From my local library too!

A thatched ridge with cats, Badger, hares and a fox

When your thatcher just won't stop...😮🫣

Spotted today in beautiful Walberswick on the Suffolk coast

📷 My own

#thatch #suffolk

A purple flowering clematis upon a blue trellis up a brick wall

Mrs Cholmondley in bloom this morning.
Happy end of week everyone!

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

A row of brightly coloured posters against a white tiled wall. The posters say ‘Design and Disability’ on each left hand bottom corner. On the left lime green poster, a photo of Davina Starr, a member of drag syndrome in a white wig and bright make up under a spotlight. The central light blue poster has a black and white photo of Marvel Harris wrapped in a towel emerging from the sea. The right pink poster is an image of Sky Cubacub in a pink binder and dragon scale headdress.

Design and Disability opens today at the V&A! We’re so happy to share it with you all. Disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent people and their companions go free. www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

Marine Ices and The Enterprise pub, Haverstock Hill, Camden, circa 1975.

Photo by Blackthorne57 on Flickr
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This week I have seen Rialto and Patrick Wolf and this has made me very happy indeed.

One of my biggest personal takeaways from it is that building worlds and building community go hand-in-hand. Another is unarmouring and just being your own, strange, gentle self in what you share is kinder way of navigating, not only for others, but yourself. In a territory of bruises, it’s needed.

Dolly Parton in the 1970s with a full wavy blonde wig, a red flower in her hair, a red plaid shirt tied at the waist and dark denim jeans. She’s leaning against her tour bus which has a yellow and blue butterfly emblazoned on the back.

Hi, can I ask a favour please. Do you have a Youtube account? Can I ask you to subscribe to my channel (m.youtube.com/@Jeanie_Finlay? ). It would be very helpful to get over 1000 subscribers for very boring reasons. THANK YOU ❤️

A picture of Dolly in my favourite wig era, for the algorithm

Lining out my sanitarium dreams today at Porchester Hall
#Marienbad #Empusium #MagicMountain

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

It's your first Survey Sunday! TAKE THE SURVEY: musicfansvoice.uk

The Music Fans' Voice survey launched earlier this week and a huge number of live music fans have already taken part... but thousands more are needed. And that includes you.

This was the one in our house:

Here's a thing I've just learned, though I don't recall from whomst I learned it:

If you're googling something and you add -AI at the end of your query, you'll be spared the AI results.

Finishing off the last of the Christmas films with Eyes Wide Shut

Still learning about the production:

1) It was adapted from the novel Traumnovelle by Arthur Schnitzler

2) Mostly filmed in the UK - they recreated Greenwich Village in Pinewood!

www.reelstreets.com/films/eyes-w...

A stack of books and films; Patrick Hamilton’s Mr Simpson and Mr Gorse, Down to Earth (Powell and Pressburger), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Mildred Pierce (Curtiz) and In a Lonely Place

Happy new year everyone.
This is how I’m looking forward to spending the first day of 2025 doing.