Niall Devitt

This week on the pod - ‘The Shelters of the #LondonUnderground in Two World Wars’ with @historyniall.bsky.social

Who knew more people sheltered in the Underground in the #FWW than the #SWW?

Out Wednesday wherever you get your pods

#WW1
#WW2

“THE WICKER MAN” (1973) dir. Robin Hardy

Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, Christopher Lee

🎬 British Lion Films 🇬🇧

YouTube video by Peter Ellwood Carnforth 1966-67

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YouTube video by vulcancreedler Dai the Train (Woodhams Scrapyard) - HTV Wales -1990s

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Watch for John Humphrey BBC at the beginning.

YouTube video by Linesider - Railway Films by David Ainsworth Steam Engines Working Very Hard at Shap Summit

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A mournful personification of Winter, tightly wrapped in a cloak, depicted on a Roman mosaic floor

The powerful face of Winter on a mosaic discovered by George Tupper in 1811 @bignorvilla.bsky.social in West #Sussex

Wrapped in a hooded cloak, this mid 4th century portrait is the only one of the 4 Seasons on the summer dining room floor to survive

📷 Nov 2023

#MosaicMonday #Roman #WinterIsComing

YouTube video by Kinetic Rail Barry Scrapyard Locomotives Then and Now

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YouTube video by British Pathé Deltic Diesel Powered Train (1962) | British Pathé

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YouTube video by Editions Audioviseul BEULAH King's Cross 1956

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Rutilio Manetti A Life Study: a Monk Sleeping against a Pile of Books 1616 (The Morgan)

I think this is much more likely a friar than a monk. But it's still a wonderful image.

Football Travel: AFC Wimbledon Firmly back where they belong in London’s SW19 postcode and a division above the franchise club that led to their creation, AFC Wimbledon is a modern fairytale of fan-owned football.

NEW POST 🗞️

I went along to AFC Wimbledon for the first time last week.

It’s one of the great stories of fan-owned football.

Why? Read on… 👇🏼 #groundhopping #AFCWimbledon

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@gerrytastic.bsky.social 👀

Carole Lombard socks Fredric March in the jaw

BTD - Carole Lombard - NOTHING SACRED - 1937 - Swedish release poster

Bristol City have now conceded headed goals to Ilias Chair, Karamoko Dembele and Paul Smyth. 💪 #shortkings

YouTube video by Taitset Adelaide's Eccentric Suburban Trains!

If you've got half an hour to spare and want to know about Adelaide suburban trains, watch this video from Taitset. This Informative and entertaining video goes into exactly the right amount of detail on Adelaide trains from the Redhens to EMUs via the Superchooks.

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"To those who worked with her she was the best scout in the company."
Ernst Lubitsch about Carole Lombard after making her final film, To Be Or Not To Be (1942) together.

An illustration of a species from the genus Murex, a group of carnivorous sea snails in the family Muricidae. Its body is extended below its highly sculptured shell with spines. The illustration is colored in mostly brown shades. #SciArt 🦑 🌊 🐡 #invert

A hand colored plate from Spécies Général et Iconographie des Coquilles Vivantes by French malacologist Louis Charles Kiener. It was published in parts from 1834-1880.
Coin for scale.
#MolluscMonday

Mole Cowrie (Talparia talpa) Mole Cowrie from Maeda, Onna, Kunigami District, Okinawa 904-0417, Japan on September 20, 2014 at 09:09 PM by Shawn Miller. Talparia talpa Mole cowrie ( Talparia talpa ) Found: Maeda, Okinawa Depth...

Always happy to share more Talparia from okinawa by Shawn Miller! #lovealivingcowrie #molluscmonday www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Detail of an ichthyosaur skeleton with the impression of two strongly ribbed ammonite shells.

#MolluscMonday: impressions of two Lias ammonites, probably Arnioceras semicostatum, associated with a skeleton of a large ichthyosaur, Temnodontosaurus platyodon, discovered by #MaryAnning in 1832 on Church Cliffs, Lyme Regis. Part of the Thomas Hawkins collection, it's now @nhm-london.bsky.social.

4:55pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

From 1960, Ep 34 (of 39) short #Crime film🎥 “SCOTLAND YARD” “Evidence in Concrete” directed by Gordon Hales & written by James Eastwood

🌟Russell Napier, Howard Pays, Peter Welch, Jill Hyem, Patrick Mynhardt, John Dearth

Narrated by Edgar Lustgarten

- An advertisement for a range of food products, offering solutions for quick and easy meals. The ad highlights the convenience and success these products bring to the table, focusing on both broth-based and dry soups. «What to cook today? Today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow? There's no need to think about it anymore! Broth soup? Dry soup? Two exquisite solutions for the whole week! Star always means great success at the table in a flash and without effort!» - A rewards scheme linked to the purchase of several food products. Collect 'points' which can be exchanged for beautiful prizes. «Gifts! You will find these points for beautiful gifts! in Fruit Juices, Fruit salad GO» - This object is an advert for a selection of food products: spreadable cheese, sliced cheese and mayyonaise. «You will also find points from Star in Kraft products» - Advert for Frizzina flavoured water powder and Te star instant tea.

From Italy, Oct 1963: STAR and Kraft ads
«What to cook today?»
«Gifts!»

[ENGinALT]

The Jewish Clubs of Europe

Essential commuter listening 🎧

For your trip to work, check out this week's fascinating podcast with @brunssen.bsky.social from the Uni of Heidelberg

He's looked at four European clubs with a perceived Jewish identity and the stories behind them

#skystorians

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Show offs😂🤣🥰

Final cut: Davy (1958) SIMON MATTHEWS watches Harry Secombe in an Ealing Comedy about the dying days of variety.

"Much of the film is shot in the Collins Music Hall in Islington, where packed houses rock with laughter at the antics provided by acrobats, performing animals and a drag act."
The last Ealing comedy saw Harry Secombe star in Davy (1958).
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Resigned, sacked, survived: Barcelona's coaching carousel 1969-70 Boardroom chaos at the Camp Nou was in danger of eclipsing the football during the 1969-70 season as the Catalans worked their way through three separate coaches. Mathew Burt tells the story.

Our latest offering on Substack: Resigned, sacked, survived: Barcelona's coaching carousel 1969-70 Take a look and subscribe for more content... #Barcelona #FCB #Barca #LaLiga open.substack.com/pub/44boots4...

Doctor Chamberlen’s Forceps

The Chamberlen family of surgeons sought to reform #earlymodern childbirth with a revolutionary new tool: the forceps.

🔒 This feature from the October issue is waiting for you in the archive

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This Month’s Magazine

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Which diamond services do you remember?

A diamond service could have designated a weekday-only express service, special service, or rush-hour only service. Today's diamond routes include 6, 7, and, most recently, the F in 2019 for express service on the Culver Line, skipping all local stations between Church Av and Jay St-MetroTech.