Mark Williams

We are looking at a large room with a timber framed roof. There are four Georgian sash windows with light brightly shining though them casting rays of sunshine into the dark room.

Good morning on this glorious August Sunday. ☀️

Print in black and white featuring a view looking slightly down on two cups and saucers with teaspoons on a surfsce

'Morning conversation', linocut by Olesya Dzhurayeva, contemporary Ukrainian printmaker #WomensArt

‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’ Footballer Suleiman al-Obeid, was killed in an Israeli attack in southern Gaza last week, according to the Palestine Football Association Mohamed Salah has criticised Uefa for failing to state how a footballer known as the “Palestinian Pelé” died in a tribute it posted. Suleiman al-Obeid, 41, was killed on Wednesday in southern Gaza when Israeli forces attacked civilians waiting for humanitarian aid, the Palestine Football Association (PFA) said. Continue reading...

‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’

Quakers arrested for holding signs in peaceful protest, as the figure of Mahatma Gandhi looks on. Symbolic.

BBC seems to accept a v implausible account by local Reform politician Orla in Epping with v little scrutiny.

They refer to an impassioned speech, but fail to quote it directly. "If I have to wear a far right label, then so be it"

Not credible that she didn't know what Callum Barker stands for

A post on X by the Met Police in London, accompanied by a photo of protestors on Parliament Sq. The post says: Arrest update: We’ve now arrested 150 people in Parliament Square. While many of those remaining in the Square are media and onlookers, there are still people holding placards supporting Palestine Action. Officers are steadily working through the crowd making further arrests.

JFC. 150 arrested now.

In future, when people read how a genocide was allowed to happen in #Gaza, the history books will note that some did take a stand. They included college students, the elderly and the disabled.

Their government labelled them terrorist supporters & arrested them.

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

A grey sign with white writing stands in front of an old tree. The sign reads: I am very old and need to rest. Please don't sit on me

Just another relatable National Trust sign

A hand holding a book in a sunny garden. The book has a blue cover with striking grey shards, and the title Cripping the Archive: Disability, history and power

A suitably sunny day to receive my author copy of Cripping the Archive: Disability, History, and Power from @illinoispress.bsky.social
Looking forward to exploring the other chapters!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

Yeah I think you could do something like Intro + Chapter.

Only one contained source, or a body of self-contained sources? Wondering about Steve Hindle's new book.

Truly wish all these "left" parties would put this much energy into attacking actual fucking Nazis instead of attacking one of our most vulnerable minorities who are just trying to live.

Stop desperately trying to be right wing lite and try being decent human beings, maybe?

I hear those data centres are awfully loud.

Is there a chance the world could end?

Nearly £1 billion of funding allocations for the tertiary sector confirmed by Medr - Medr

Welsh tertiary sector allocations for 2025/26. HE core research funding down from £97.295 M to £97.121 M from 24/25; strategic R&I up from £1.722 M to £2M. HE core teaching funding up from £69.434 M to 69.745 M. Degree apprenticeships stet. Access/well being/inclusion up from £23.962 M to £28.649 M.

Oh, this is great, yes! Been thinking of built environment and ritual/ceremony aspects as well so this will help on a number of levels. Thank you!

Any recommendations from #skystorians for reading (especially #earlymodern -ish) where the notion of the everyday has been applied to colonial/imperial contexts?

Independent MP Rupert Lowe has admitted mistaking a charity rowing crew for “illegal migrants”

Cambridge is them.hang.vibe and honestly that's both historically and culturally accurate.

Me: The rack? You're going to torture me with boobs?? Maybe after that i can suffer the Thighs lmao

Medieval torturer: See it's this kind of thing that got you here in the first place

I mean ...

Cardiff Uni is pumps.calculating.fines ... so ...

sure new the Warwick slogan is going to go down great with the Chinese government, linking as it does to Taiwan

It was presented to the NPG by a descendant in 1956.

May as well ask them to provide their list of books to be burned.

OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.

Obviously a lie, since the definition of PhD-level expertise, standard across universities worldwide, is that you can produce original knowledge.

Archival research has found 171 confirmed deaths at Kuper Island residential school, 50 more than previously thought Archival research conducted on behalf of the Penelakut Tribe has found 50 more deaths at the former residential school than previous estimates

Breaking: the team investigating the Kuper Island Residential School in BC has confirmed 171 children deaths at the institution, 50 more than previously known. As a residential school historian and someone fighting residential school denialism, here's a 🧵 www.timescolonist.com/local-news/a...

Painting of warm summer evening with patchwork of yellow fields and small houses under a deep blue sky and waxing moon

Contemporary painter Mary Pym, who was born in the Netherlands but who now lives in the UK #WomensArt

Universities boasting about their staff wellbeing investments while making sweeping cuts to staff. Honestly.