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EVERYDAY RACISN Everydayracism_ @everydayracism_ Sir Jim Ratcliffe is the second wealthiest person in the country who left to avoid paying taxes and whose company received £120M in UK aid last year. The "biggest drain on our system" isn't immigrants, it's wealth hoarding billionaires.

Possibly 7th richest person in the UK but I think the point still stands

While a student Andrew served in the Home Guard and fire-watched at St Mary's and at Boosey and Hawkes, the music publishers on Regent Street - which enabled him to expand his already formidable knowledge of classical music. After one night bombing raid, Andrew entered a ward to be greeted by the sister. One of the patients thought there was a bomb under her bed and the nurse wanted Pollen to reassure her. He duly went to see the patient, looked under the bed and retrieved a partially hidden incendiary bomb. It had entered the ward through an open window. He rapidly disposed of it. The patient was relieved, the sister speechless.

Amazing story about a doctor on fire-watch duty during WW2.

Found by @ermerlindaj.bsky.social on RCS's Plarr's Lives of the Fellows.

There isn't a person who knows me who hasn't heard me bang on at least once about Plimsoll lines and Plimsoll shoes. Such an amazing lad!

English, East Midlands, fire engine 🚒

A meme of 'Is this a document?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be documents based on their content and structure, graded between purist and radical. Each box has a matching image of the contents, including the USS Enterprise, a WAV waveform, the Boarstall Cartulary, and Scrabble.

Another useful guide from your friends at Buckinghamshire Archives

I had no idea this was a thing!

The blotchiest archivist you know is making her TV debut

The blotchiest archivist you know is about to make her TV debut

Bloody hell, it's like something they'd make you read during brain surgery to make sure everything is still working

She's so annoying! "Yeah you want to talk about plants but I want to talk about the lover I took when I was on holiday in German" - NOT NOW LIN!

It's based on his EXCELLENT book of the same name which I would definitely recommend.

And also the festive follow up 'Twas the Nightshift before Christmas'.

Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed…

…perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.

Ripperologists are some of the worst people out there. The Ripper Experience is just so scummy. Ew

This is who runs this account

All research guides should be illustrated with a vampire maggie

From Daffodils and Little Folks to Sunny | Blogs from the Archives The Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children and the development of children's hospital services

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"From Daffodils and Little Folks to Sunny: the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children" - read about the collections and history of a former East London landmark, and the work we're doing to improve access to its amazing archives
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I think the second word is '[pre]savycyn' so maybe 'preservation'? So maybe 'Em[pre]cyens' (Impressions) is the first?

My palaeography is terrible btw

Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after

Have any other archivist been contacted by AlphaSights to consult on digital preservation systems? They've somehow got my personal details and I want to know how

Biographies of J.R.R. Tolkien and Angela Lansbury

Mordor she wrote

#LibraryShelfieDay

Ooh okay! If they like spooky/gross/history - Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark, Treacle Walker by Alan Garner, The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore.

Also Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Loki by Melvin Burgess.

Dirk Gentley by Douglas Adams, and the Diary of Adrian Mole were favs at that age!

Finally got round to watching Sinners, it's just absolutely brilliant. Would recommend anybody who enjoyed it to try reading The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez 🦇🩸

steve richards ® @steverichards14 X.com Powerful and much needed framing from Andy Burnham in the Guardian..should be repeated every day by ministers or they will find they are blamed for 'broken Britain': "If the question at the centre of British politics is "who broke Britain?", let's be clear and unequivocal. The four horsemen of Britain's apocalypse are deindustrialisation, privatisation, austerity and Brexit. In my time in politics, there has been a tendency for too many in Labour to accept too much of the framing of the right, but we must firmly reject its narrative and call it out in no uncertain terms. Figures on the British right talk of taking back control, but people can see that they are the ones who gave it away."

Obviously, but anyone notable telling the public this stuff is going to be destroyed in short order. If the left/lib bloc can’t deliver Thatcherism enforced by crackdowns, then they will be replaced by the reactionary/fascist one, whatever it takes to get it done.

I fear this is going to become way more common

If labels were accurate:

"A Gaza peace process without Palestinians, for a Gaza without Palestinians"

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I will never not talk about catgut

Being a tubby gal at the gym in January is horrendous. Personal trainers circling like sharks

We need to pick up this Overton Window and throw it as far as we can. Stop waiting for shit to “be popular” and start advocating for what is transparently right.

I am definitely a Sturdy