Lizzy Baker

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

“The professional standard is clean, dry hands, and has been for all of this century.”

Evening all! A nice restful day after a busy week. Sewing, a podcast and some hot water for me. Cheers #ConfinedCocktails

rules for watching Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
- try to guess the age of everyone in screen
- shout “78!” or similar
- look cast up on IMDb
- discover they are all younger than you are now

I did my PhD at Sheffield working fairly closely with the Special Collections staff (who are brilliant). An excellent funded opportunity here...

That's a lovely colour - what's the make? I mainly buy Lamy and Kawecos but keen to branch out!

Tea in a wonderful mug along with an ongoing stitching experiment with variagated thread. Cheers! #ConfinedCocktails

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The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up.

Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

I am particularly fond of all his East Yorkshire work. But we also went to Saltaire last summer and loved discovering some new to me paintings

I love the Hockney poster!

Evening all. A pretty sleepy day recovering from chemo this week - so warm lime cordial while sewing and listening to a podcast for me. Cheers! #ConfinedCocktails

Archives to Action: Historical Evidence for Policy Reform This one-day workshop showcases the results of a groundbreaking two-year interdisciplinary project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council: 'A New Methodological Approach to the History of ...

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Discworld QOTD, from Mort

Queer history types! Can anyone recommend scholarship that looks at asylum / psychiatric hospital records through a queer or trans lens?

Thanks for the reminder of this series - I've listened to the first one and must go back to the second!

I'm enjoying BlueSky the most - feels like lots of heritage organisations and people are here too!

Hull-built anti-seasickness ship was plagued with misfortune The Hull-built SS Bessemer was designed by a Victorian inventor to counteract seasickness.

Read about one of the strangest ships ever built was launched at a Hull shipyard in 1874- a ship had a rotating cabin that aimed to prevent seasickness!

Did it work? 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Indeed. And I have a new bird and blend tea order to explore too!

True! This would be worse if it was summer

That's wonderful news - congratulations. And love the new glasses (and nails)

I am rather missing being able to eat or drink anything cold!

Evening all. Warm lime cordial for me whilst continuing an old experiment with variagated embroidery thread. Cheers! #ConfinedCocktails

A reminder for hard pressed UK researchers the "Great British Rail Sale" runs till Monday 12 January and you can get 50% off on some train journeys, and you can book ahead till end of March 2026. www.nationalrail.co.uk/great-britis... Perhaps it will make that library or archive trip a bit easier. 📢

Whilst you're all here, we're hoping to do a bunch of new videos this year showing off some of our collection and answering your weird archive questions.

So, what would you like us to do videos on?

@melindahaunton.bsky.social I think you said you were looking for some interesting 'learning' things to do? Not sure if these would fit the bill

Not even the prompts. If you are a Twitter user in the UK and Twitter sticks a Grok CSAM image in your feed for WHATEVER reason, well congrats your device just downloaded child porn. And you are legally responsible for that.

It's lovely isn't it - I know I'm biased but Northumberland is beautiful too. Plus bonus Revd Richard Coles today.

We went to see Burton Agnes hall dressed up for Xmas and it was stunning. Plus I always love their modern art collection.

And Beverley is just lovely - always grateful I got to live in such a special place

Definitely Howden is lovely. And you absolutely have to go to Beverley. And if you are up at Rudston do go to Burton Agnes Hall too - it's beautiful

Oh it's absolutely amazing - definitely go if you get the chance. And Winifred Holtby's grave is in the church yard there too.

I lived in the East Riding for over 10 years - it's a wonderful place with a really interesting history!