Matt Shaw

Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park Following the revelation in 2011 that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office was sitting on the migrated archives of dozens of colonial governments, almost 20,000 files were transferred from s...

British colonial officials destroyed countless files before decolonisation. But one colony has been neglected by the literature: Hong Kong. My latest paper in @jich.bsky.social examines the past, present and future of Hong Kong colonial government migrated archives: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

Count Slain...but does not know which count

1915 found it tricky, too.

Where Americans Lose Caste

and on living in an aristocratic country

THE VANDERBILT WEDDING. - GIFTS WORTH £250.000 - The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) - 18 Mar 1908 Miss Glady s Vanderbilt, possessor in her own right of £2,400,000 on January 28 became the wife of Count Laszlo Jeno Maria Henrick Simon Szechencyi, fourth son ...

the disadvantages of living in a democratic country trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ar...

very pleased to have been led down this blind alley www.victorianvoices.net/ARTICLES/STR...

new band name: John Leason and the Compositors

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IG newberlinlibrary

for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

(I picked up private white civvy in the sales and have been impressed)

Not sure I’d like to be chucked in the North Sea in it, mind.

It’s pretty good in its current Stotz etaProof form! Double ventile and you are sorted for the hills. Single for the city, as long as seems are taped, and you’re fine in my experience.

Ventile joins the chat

Why is this funny? And why AI doesn’t know — yet The longtime New Yorker cartoon ed who turned to writing papers about AI humour

Humour studies
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Sharing common interests Farewell to Terry Farrell and Jonathan Main, and introducing three fascinating new books

New Substack post on the deaths of Jonathan Main and Terry Farrell, and the notion of creating places that bring people together johngrindrod.substack.com/p/sharing-co...

Years ago a jewish ma who loves me invited me to break fast with her family after Yom Kippur. It was a revealing experience and profound honour. In a small act of solidarity to jewish friends, we will eat tonight at 7:24. I have made lemon chicken soup, potato salad, and honey cake. 1/

EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

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A printed poem which reads: I hav for breakfast Weetabix I hav for lunch some meat I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat Peter Hazel, 5

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

Bruce Lee explains why missing a writing deadline. A useful template? onlineonly.christies.com/s/fine-print...

this is basically portland's version of a haka

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Sad news from Kentish Town. But good to see an Owl Bookshop bag this evening

Royal Holloway celebrates as professor’s novel makes 2025 Booker Prize Shortlist Acclaimed novelist and English professor Ben Markovits earns a place on the 2025 Booker Prize shortlist for his moving new novel, The Rest of Our Lives.

Delighted for Ben's Booker shortlisting: REST OF OUR LIVES is a great novel.
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Why the BBC went undercover in the Met Police to investigate claims of racism and misogyny A BBC reporter describes secretly filming misogynistic and racist attitudes among serving Metropolitan Police officers.

#BBCNews - Why the BBC went undercover in the Met Police to investigate claims of racism and misogyny
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Disturbing sight on Queen St this morning: the Duke is hatless. Repeat: the Duke is hatless. This is not a drill.

The Cooncil need to get a Brand Protection squad over there with a fresh cone and a tube of superglue before the tourists notice.

'A Corner of the Kitchen at Dennis Severs’ House' by Eleanor Crow
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Florida Hands Over Prime Miami Property for Trump Library

This area where the Trump Library is expected to be built is projected to be flooded in about 100 years due to sea level rise, and I'm sad I won’t be around to see it.

No more beards says hesgwtg

Big razor seems to be behind it all.

Sums up this most dismal moment.

Now looking in old photos for eggcups and the knight