Robert Fleming

Horrifying.

By why were they left in the van in an unsecured location?

Looking for a perfect stocking filler for the map lover in your life?
(Even if that is you)

Well, the Second Edition of TNA's popular 'Maps: Their Untold Stories' is out now just in time to navigate it's way under your Christmas tree! 🎄📖 🎁

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/maps-thei...

Am I the only one who thinks the cover art/poster for MI: The Final Reckoning looks like a stunt pilot DLC for Microsoft Flight Simulator?

Suffragettes in London's Hyde Park, 1908, photo by Scottish photographer Christina Broom (1862-1939), the UK's first female press photographer, who documented the women's suffrage movement.

Tempus fugit.

I have just cancelled my Microsoft 365 or copilot whatever they call it now, subscription as it has become too annoying to use. After a bit of a trial with Libre Office I am switching to that.

Also probably going to go full Linux. It has never been easier to use.

oh god, of course every academic in this country has to use a VPN for their work because every university department in this country somehow runs itself off a shared drive folder called admin/ADMIN/humanities/CURRENT_humanities/history/HISTORY_ALL/admin

Why are landslides shutting down parts of the UK? The UK is experiencing major landslides but are they caused by extreme weather or something else?

📰 Why are landslides grinding travel routes to a halt?

BGS engineering geohazard geologist, Dr Claire Dashwood, is featured on the BBC discussing what makes certain parts of the UK more susceptible and why climate change is predicted to increase their frequency.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Influential list of highly cited researchers now shuts out more scientists: here’s why Rule change weeds out many who co-author papers with others linked to suspicious practices.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Just because of feed proximity, I am now imagining a younger version of him with velvet hood.

Tony Abbott’s history of Australia wants us to be proud of men like him Tony Abbott begins his book Australia: A History, by telling off professional historians – and laments the “cultural confusion” of our present moment.

A disappointingly old-fashioned, and long past it's prime, conservative history of Australia that is surprisingly still trope-ish (more good than bad) in its dismissiveness of indigenous history & unsurprisingly forgiving of empire from a pro-monarchy former PM.

theconversation.com/tony-abbotts...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Very excited to hear today's speakers @rgsibg.bsky.social's Challenging Maps and Exploration symposium.

List of animals held in the ‘Bear Garden’ in Elizabethan Southwark This deed reveals some of the animals kept to perform on the Tudor stage or in arenas, and how they were valued. It includes an ‘old she bear called Nan’, several bulls, a horse and an ape.

What was a bear worth in Elizabethan England? Well, thanks to a deed held at The National Archives [TNA C 146/8581], we at least know a few specifics, like Nan, the old she bear, valued at 30s in 1590. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

2,900-Year-Old Scythian Burial Mound Sheds Light on Early Nomadic Animal-Style Art - GreekReporter.com Archaeologists uncovered 2,900-year-old Scythian animal-style art in Siberia, revealing the origins of early steppe nomadic culture.

greekreporter.com/2025/10/25/s...

The Boroughs of London - The London Society

Lovely review of The Boroughs of London by the London Society: "At less than a £1.00 a Borough this is surely the best value book on London around at the moment." Can't argue with that! 😉
➡️ londonsociety.org.uk/the-boroughs...

Secret Maps | British Library Step into the shadows at Secret Maps, a major new exhibition revealing the stories hidden in some of history’s most mysterious maps.

@britishlibrary.bsky.social has launched their exciting "Secret Maps" exhibition - I hope you can find your way there.

events.bl.uk/exhibitions/...

Why All Museums Should Be Free: A Case for Cultural Democracy Visual Arts Why All Museums Should Be Free: A Case for Cultural Democracy Visual Arts Visual Arts

Memories are often short - since Labour introduced free entry in 2001, attendance, and the cultural enrichment that goes with it, has risen massively.

Please read below: "Art as a catlyst for a just society".

alexwesterman.com/visual-arts/...

One observation on the Louvre robbery, having been there a couple of time recently.

There is immense 'security theatre' for visitors waiting to get in.

And what has happened affirms the general rule: the greater the 'security theatre' the weaker the actual security.

Mural pained on a building beside a field which depicts footballers in old uniforms

In 1882, Andrew Watson captained the Scottish team to victory over England at a stadium in Glasgow which was thought to be lost ⚽

But with the help of volunteers, @archscot.bsky.social unearthed evidence of the pavilion and playing surface in 2021: www.digitscotland.com/uncovering-b...

#BHM25

Map Projections

xkcd.com/977/

Great acknowledgement of the historical diversity of the British (and Empire) armed forces, and a fabulous portrait as well.

I was disappointed to miss tickets, but I have been enjoying their tourist jolly photos at places like Stonehenge.

Secret diplomatic message deciphered after 350 years Ruth Selman shares an exciting update to her previous blog post about a 17th-century letter written in cipher.

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

Others can be seen here:
sashamaps.net/docs/maps/ro...

In 2019 Sasha Trubetskoy created a fabulous series of tube map style maps of Roman roads. They include major arteries of the whole empire, and ones which focus on the modern nations of Britain, Spain/Portugal, France and Italy.

Here is the British one:
sashamaps.net/images/roman...

This is INCREDIBLE. The Bearded Vulture has multigenerational nests that last for hundreds of years, built in very secluded places — and they’re FULL OF ANTHROPOGENIC ARTIFACTS.

Feel the heat: New app maps heat stress anywhere on Earth, 1940 to now Wondering how this summer’s blistering heat or last winter’s bone-chilling cold snap compared with previous years? Or want to know how much heat stress climate change is bringing to your area — or in ...

Quite impressive mapping tool that lets you easily trace heat or cold stress on any given date from 1945 to the present.

news.mongabay.com/2025/10/feel...

Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91 Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.