Brad Scott

Working with criminal justice records
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🎤 Charlotte Smith, The National Archives
🎤 Dr Jessamy Carlson, The National Archives
🎤 Miles Wright, The Law Commission of England and Wales

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This #MapMonday we have even #MoreMaps for you! 🗺️✨

We've georeferenced the 1,329 first edition Six-inch maps of England and Wales we added in November. Now you can use a special toggle button in our viewers to compare these maps side-by-side.

Explore the new tool > maps.nls.uk/additions/#194

This underscores how parochial my knowledge of UK bryophytes is...

More from this incredible manuscript.

Production of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Victoria Rooms, Bristol, 1985. Directed by Ruth Martin, MD Philip Joslin, Jimmy - Rob Burt, Jenny - Kate Smith

A group in the bar of Mahagonny

Near the end when God comes to Mahagonny

Curtain call, 1985

Went to see Kurt Weill's Mahagonny at ENO last night. I knew what we were in for, as I was in a production by Bristol University Operatic Society when I was an undergraduate in 1985.

It is a remarkable work. And I am in 3 of these pictures...

Excellent. Can we talk moss?

Yes!

Try Yr, the Norwegian weather app. The Estonians got me on to it

Great film, though I didn't see the echoes of Night of the Hunter...

We're trialling something new this year at the BSBI - an activity designed to support absolute beginner botanists with identifying *and* recording their first ever 100 plants in 2026 🌿

If you know anyone that might like to take part then please spread the word:

bsbi.org/take-part/ac...

Knowing Plants in Places One of the questions David Streeter often asks when out in the field is “Why is that plant growing there?” Typically, answers to such a question may include discussion of the relative l…

I have documented a few historical themed walks in recent years: sussexbryophytes.wordpress.com/2021/07/11/k...

Yes, I grew up in Plymouth and spent lots of time walking on Dartmoor and the southern part of the coast path

Ooh, I am interested too. I am from Devon, though don't live there now, and I know Giorgia!

Interesting to imagine the 15 minute walk there from the museum

A page from the commercial listings of Robson's directory of London from 1830, running from Kerr & Turnbull, warehousemen, through to Thomas Kilpack's cigar divan in Covent Garden

There's a Charles Kilpack, bookbinder at Southampton Street in Robson's 1830 directory

Call for Submissions: "Botanical Imaginations" - Edge Effects Edge Effects invites submissions for that explore our complex relationship to plants and proliferate botanical imaginations.

Call for submissions from @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social - plants!

edgeeffects.net/botanical-im...

Black Studies in Europe: A Politics of Knowledge Friday, 13th February 2026, ONLINE Speakers: Sara Fila Bakabadio, Nicole Grégoire and Jacinthe Mazzochetti Jacinthe Mazzocchetti is professor at UCLouvain (Belgium) currently working on migrations, gender and performing arts. She is affiliated to the research center for prospective anthropology (LAAP/IACCHOS), co-director of the collections “EthnopoetiK” and “Anthropologie prospective” (Academia). Nicole Grégoire is research affiliate at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporaines, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She the author of articles and chapters on race and Africa diasporas’ activism in Belgium. Sarah Fila-Bakabadio is historian of the Black Atlantic, Associate Professor in American and African American studies at CY Cergy Paris Université (France), editor-chief of African Diaspora (Brill) and member of the publishing house, Ròt-bò-Krik. Her work focuses on the intellectual, cultural, and political circulations of African-Americans and European Afro-descendants in the Black Atlantic in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair invites you to an online session on Black Studies in Europe.
The three editors discuss their recently published anthology.
Friday, 13th February 5.30 pm (Paris time). Online. Registration link👇🏽
undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com/next-event/

Spread the word.

Brede church with a group of wet bryologists looking at the walls and trying to avoid the very slippery path

View of the river Brede from Brede churchyard. The river is very high and nearby fields flooded

Moss hunting in the rain at Brede in Sussex. The first thing Graeme said to me was "I've come bryologising by mistake"

#bryology #bryophytes

@bbsbryology.bsky.social

That is great news! I can't wait to read it

TOMORROW!
Please join us for More-than-Human Curation, 2nd in our More-than-Human/ities seminar series w/ York University, Toronto
Come explore how art & wildlife interact in museum settings & curatorship🦣🌾
Wed 4 Feb
17:45–19:15
Register here yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1ON4d36KQQWSXZUwX10Nuw

I am here for the testate amoebae

Photograph of an American bison standing beside a fence at the London Zoo in 1906.

The research guide on Environmental History that I wrote for The National Archives, UK is now live! Includes research advice and resources on colonial environments, pollution, agriculture, and animal histories.

Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo...

#envhist #envhum

Historian focusing on early modern book culture here. I am not sure that feeding a private company with all our past handwritings from archives is a solution or a way forward. Google‘s AI studio is a data trap. #skystorians

I'm joining Dr Brooke Newman at Waterstones Gower Street on Friday evening for the UK launch of her new book, 'The Crown’s Silence'.

The Monarchy’s leading role in the enslavement and colonisation of African people is really important history that needs to be much more widely understood.

Join us 👇🏾

@sim-elliott.bsky.social

The group on the Downs looking at anthills

Juniper Shieldbug

Goldeneye lichen

With all the expertise present, we ended up looking at other things too, such as Juniper Shieldbug and Goldeneye Lichen

Sullington church

Orthotrichum anomalum

Neckera smithii

Seligeria calycina

A few pictures from yesterday's bryology field meeting to Sullington, on the South Downs in Sussex. A Saxon church, with Orthotrichum anomalum and Neckera smithii on the gravestones, and Seligeria calycina on chalk

@bbsbryology.bsky.social
#bryology #bryophytes

Happy 50th birthday, HWJ! Being a member of the History Workshop collective has shaped the kind of historian I am (& want to be). I'm so proud to have helped edit this 100th issue of History Workshop Journal, which includes reflections on History Workshop for these turbulent times; on HW's past;...

What a cracker! Orthotrichum anomalum, Anomalous Bristle-Moss on a tomb stone in the graveyard of St Mary's Sullington West Sussex. Identified by @trichocolea.bsky.social on another excellent British Bryology Society South East Group field meeting. I learn such a lot from these meetings.

Abstract submissions for our 2026 meeting in Montpellier are now OPEN! ethnobotany.org/home/meeting...