Thomas Maidment

Norway defeated England in a World Cup qualifier in Oslo on September 9, 1981. Which led to this—the greatest call in sports broadcasting history.

Kick rocks, Maggie Thatcher.

Engraving of Pan playing his pipes.

‘Pan is also said to be the god of the country-clowns; because men of this condition lead lives more agreeable unto nature than those that live in cities and courts of princes, where nature, by too much art, is corrupted’
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YouTube video by Mark Felton Productions From Bormann's Secretary to British Housewife - Hitler Bunker Escaper Else Krüger

“The British Housewife in Hitler’s Bunker.” How Martin Bormann’s secretary came to live in Cambridge…

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Dominic Sandbrook has recently done The Fall of the Aztecs for kids/teens. Very good at balancing out the Conquistador perspective with that of Montezuma + he’s a great narrative historian.

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annual GDP growth is forecast to be 0.9-1.3% for the next five years

Although I do notice that the graph states its ’victim-based’ crime. So possibility that this has decreased in proportion to population, but other crimes, particularly when the perceived victim is a faceless corporation or franchise has increased?

The only reason I ask is that with the perceived (at least) increase in cases like shoplifting, the frequency and understanding that nothing would be done prevented the crimes even being reported. I wonder whether this-and similar unreported cases-potentially skews the reported changes.

One question: how are larger businesses reflected in the survey, shoplifting etc. When I used to work in a Superdry, we had groups of shoplifters pinching items several times a week. Still, I can only say that I’ve been a victim of crime once. Is the survey therefore not underestimating some crime?

Every 19th century German academic: after Abitur at the age of 16 they defended their thesis (17 pages, 3 footnotes) on Hegel at 23 in Tübingen, followed by a habilitation on Roman History at 25 in Marburg. Then held the chair of medicine at the Karl-Justus-Heinrich-Wilhelm-Universität for 55 years.

The most chilling short story I’ve ever read.

Just add it onto the end of the glorious Phil Spector Christmas album. Problem solved.

Cambridge University urged to apologise over jailing of thousands of ‘evil’ women without evidence or trial A 1561 charter granted powers to imprison young working-class women found walking with undergraduates after dark

For 350 years, Cambridge had a private prison (abolished in 1894) with the power to arrest & imprison any woman "suspected of evil."

"None of the women ever got a fair trial, and none of them had actually even broken the law, according to the law of the land – there was no ­evidence of wrongdoing"

Ah! This is very helpful, thank you!

You can only imagine how depressing it would have been to hear this from your commanding officer: ‘Sorry lads, it’s the long way round for us…’

Stunned by this tale of the Czech Legion having to circumnavigate the globe in order to return to Western Europe after Russia’s ports were blockaded in 1918. There’s surely a terrific film in this.

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We're pleased to announce the Call for Papers for our Lent Term programme. The deadline is 10th January 2025. Please share widely with anyone who might be interested.

We look forward to reading your abstracts!