Tough choice this one. Roman road made of oreos or the little animals peering out atop the summit of Mount Ararat?
07.08.2025 16:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Vase of flowers, red bottle bag, variety of small gifts on a table
Bag of scones, plate of brownies, jam, clotted cream and butter on a table
Today is my last day working in the Parliamentary Archives after nearly 25 years! I am v grateful to colleagues for many cards and gifts. I have a shiny new website to support next phase of life www.maritakayanagi.com
13.06.2025 07:49 — 👍 51 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0
Very pleased to encounter this very handsome fellow enjoying summer Cambridge.
16.06.2025 19:37 — 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Image of Ethel Smyth smiling
Image of Ethel Smyth's Mass in D manuscript
Major news from our Special Collections and Archives! 📢
Our Head of Music, Prof Lisa Colton @lisacolton.bsky.social, identified that we hold the manuscript of Dame Ethel Smyth's Mass in D, which scholars thought was lost. It is now fully available on the Digital Heritage Lab: tinyurl.com/47ce8hkd
09.05.2025 15:26 — 👍 23 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 2
And another one @dustshoveller.bsky.social , in the display associated with their excellent London in the Second World War exhibition @thelondonarchives.bsky.social
10.05.2025 07:00 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
National Treasures by @dustshoveller.bsky.social featured in my local library’s VE display!
30.04.2025 14:11 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Just in case you’re at a loose end, my book National Treasures explains how #London protected its national art, museums and archives in WWII, mostly returned to the capital from their hiding places by 1945 #VEDay80 #VEDay2025
05.05.2025 18:41 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The Devil Casts his Net: The Winter Hill Air Disaster. Steve Morrin, 2005
National Treasures: Saving The Nation’s Art in World War II. Caroline Shenton, John Murray 2021.
Ok #photofriday #histbookchat. @dustshoveller.bsky.social is the fascinating account of how we protected our art treasures from destruction. Morrin’s book is an account of the crash of a Silver City Wayfarer in 1958. Good books.
11.04.2025 13:25 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
JMW Turner’s 1835 painting of the burning of the Houses of Parliament in 1835, in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. On the left, the old House of Commons goes up in flames, as a crowd gathers to watch on Westminster Bridge on the right.
Happy 250th birthday to J M W Turner. Such a titan of British art, I had to give him his own chapter to end my book (focussing on his paintings of the burning of Parliament in 1834). One critic called him ‘the Fire King’, as an insult - but Turner had the last laugh!
23.04.2025 08:45 — 👍 213 🔁 31 💬 7 📌 1
Yay! #VEday80
05.05.2025 18:34 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
23.02.2025 19:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Devoured this, by the great @dustshoveller.bsky.social over two sittings in the last week. I would highly recommend 🤓
#History #Heritage #Books
29.12.2024 11:45 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
How kind! ; )
07.02.2025 20:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Starts at 23:00 mins in
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Today in Parliament - 10/01/2025 - BBC Sounds
Sean Curran with the news and interviews from Westminster.
ICYMI, here I am on @bbcradio4.bsky.social talking about the St Stephen’s Chapel Westminster project and the new book which came out of it a month or two back www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
12.01.2025 20:26 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Fascinating - part of the archive of the great medieval historian Eileen Power (1889-1940). This box is material relating to her ground-breaking book Medieval People (1924). Was delighted to attend the once-a-decade Power Feast @girtoncollege.bsky.social with @dustshoveller.bsky.social a while ago.
10.01.2025 17:58 — 👍 49 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
So glad you enjoyed, Will!
08.01.2025 19:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Caroline is a very bossy little girl”. I was 5. Plus ça change…
21.11.2024 21:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Maybe more a bit disappointed than grumpy but a lovely piece
21.11.2024 21:03 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A pan with the heated smoking bishop—deep red like mulled wine and slices of bergamot
Two glasses of the Bishop.
The cold snap justifies opening a bottle of Smoking Bishop. Amazing what a year can do to the flavour—needed to add a decent amount of extra sugar. I heated it with bergamot for that lovely perfumed aroma, although I did have to pull them quite quickly to stop it overpowering everything!
19.11.2024 17:58 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 1
Imogen Holst’s bookplate showing her dancing with a man with Thaxted church in the background
Gladly speaking at Gustav Holst: an archival legacy 20 Nov 1400-16.30 @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Experts from BL, Britten-Pears and Gustav’s birthplace talking about their archives, and performances of his Terzetto + Imogen’s suite for solo viola. Free tickets by emailing music-events@bl.uk
18.11.2024 08:45 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Nice pic too…the evacuated public records from Chancery Lane in storage at The Oxford Diocesan teacher training college, Culham in WW2!
18.11.2024 18:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A good place to enter my 60th year…
17.11.2024 21:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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17.11.2024 19:17 — 👍 564 🔁 49 💬 6 📌 1
Yup, it’s taken a year but here I am…ready to roll.
17.11.2024 21:32 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Hello World!
02.11.2023 20:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Professor of Government, University of Hull. Devoted to the study of the Constitution, Parliament, and the Conservative Party.
Author of Believable Lies, a story of wartime propaganda and fake news, out in June from WH Allen. Discussing politics and more on Times Radio and Monocle Radio. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/452994/believable-lies-by-stiastny-terry/
The History of Parliament's House of Commons 1832-1945 project, currently researching MPs, elections and parliamentary history between 1832 and 1868. Find more details on our website: https://victoriancommons.wordpress.com/
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Professor of British History & Culture @NTNU, Trondheim. Researching history of British Conservatism & centre-right internationalism; writing politics in modern Britain; & women in British politics
Archivist. Works on modern political papers. (Views are mine and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.)
Retired Clerk in House of Commons, continuing as a parliamentary nerd; Victorian by nature; books and buildings biggest passions. Lives in and cares about Wales.
Lib Dem President and Life Peer. Author, "Polling UnPacked" / http://www.theweekinpolls.co.uk / https://libdemnewswire.substack.com / imprint + privacy http://markpack.org.uk/legal-privacy / he/him
Archives, records, and data protection. Derbyshire lass in exile, Squirrel (Scout) leader, Friend, and proud Mummy.
Senior Archaeological Investigator @ Historic England. Landscape Archaeologist. Pub Lover. Cricket Tragic. Guitar Hero. BHAFC fan. Husband. Dad. Views my own.
We give grants for manuscript conservation projects and are the the only UK charity focusing solely on supporting manuscript conservation in non-national GLAMs
London-based journalist covering U.K. politics, culture and more for The Associated Press. Author of Wild East: Travels in the New Mongolia.
Sector Development Manager East and Arts at TNA. Fan of tea, cake, gin and eye-wateringly loud music.
Dane. Archivist. Opinions are my own! Likes books/singing/old stuff. Dislikes mushrooms & celery. Mum to 3 boys, one of them is an angel.
My profile on LinkedIn https://uk.linkedin.com/in/anne-grethe-jensen-85171a4
Keeper of Archives and Research Collections @uoyborthwick; also Deputy Director of Library, Archives, and Learning Services @uniofyork.
'Makes archives sexy.'
'International Man of History'
'A weird bird, in a good way'
All views my own.
Dean of School of Communication & Creativity @CityUniLondon ; prof of history of modern monarchy; broadcaster. Distinguishing features: curly hair, red shoes.
