Sheila

Today on the (award winning) #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the fabulous Elizabeth Lublin about her work on the history of selling sex in Tokugawa Japan.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

“If Rose and Jack reunited in the afterlife, then what happened to Rose’s husband, the man she married and raised a family with? Did he have to spend eternity watching his wife getting it on with the big boat fling bloke?”

“I meant questions about the job”

“Oh. What time is our lunch break?”

Marie Antoinette was executed more than 200 years ago. This year alone has seen a major museum exhibition, a new animated film, an ongoing TV series and a new biography about her. Why can't we stop talking about Marie Antoinette? My latest podcast investigates: pod.link/1489560920/e...

Morning all.

Photographer John Bulmer, Halifax 1965.

Two small children help their dad weed and tidy a flower bed on a chilly early autumn day

Gardening
(Helping at Home, 1961)
Artist: Harry Wingfield

All the people who have brought fun and laughter into our lives - gone. It’s not right

Autumn leaves in a puddle. #SundayPixLeaves

#SundayPixLeaves

Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.

All the worlds a book and all the men and women merely readers- Shakespeare

I have made the difficult decision to get out of bed and open the shop. Hopefully you will support me in this tough time.

We’ll be here to 5:30 today, tho I can’t guarantee we’ll be awake.

Outstanding photography here!
From the Swiss Alps to a solar eclipse: the 2025 Bird Photographer of the Year – in pictures
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Eighty nine years ago today. We need always to stay vigilant about Fascism. #BattleOfCableStreet

Fellow creatures: the new GCSE in natural history The new GCSE in natural history is a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world

🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.

Good morning, SundayPixies. For those of you considering getting out and about to look for shots, tomorrow's #SundayPix theme will be "Leaves". We'll use the hashtag #SundayPixLeaves

Of course a manfplanation of the perceiv’d weaknefs of the female sex 🙄

Later today, I'm going to tell you how a railroad accident in the early 19th century led to a brain tumor being removed decades later! What more could you hope for on a Saturday afternoon?

A photo of Lindsey dressed in a blue jacket with a medieval urine wheel, holding a sign that reads: "taste the urine!"

Are you exhausted by the world? Come take refuge in my weird and wonderful corner of #Bluesky - where I post medical history content that will make you happy to live in 2025!

Medieval urine wheels! Opium toothpaste! Cemetery guns! I got it all. I love sharing my passion for this niche subject.

Still here though I’m definitely staying put

It’s certainly hoolying out there #StormAmy

Sign the Petition Strip Michelle Mone of her peerage

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How England misplaced its first king In his lifetime, the first king of England was renowned throughout Europe. But over the centuries, he has been sidelined by history.

www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Energy Secretary Ed Milliband brands Nigel Farage and his allies as: 'Investment-crushing, job-destroying, bill-raising, poverty-driving, science-denying, Putin-appeasing, young people betraying, bunch of ideological extremists’

We are saddened to hear of Dr. Jane Goodall's passing, and so honored to be among the organizations she worked closely with during her long and incredible career.

Revenge 😈

Hurrah 🙌

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

Looks like Michelle Mone is going to have to sell that yacht

(from Feb 23)

👗 Fabric samples from Marie Antoinette’s court gowns (grand habits), 1784, preserved by her dame d’atour Geneviève d’Ossun

Mme d’Ossun was charged with bringing the budget for the queen’s wardrobe into line following some seriously extravagant spending by her predecessor in the 1770s 👗

🤭🤭🤭🤭

“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏

PM Keir Starmer

Graphic which reads "Mayor of London / It was predicted to take 193 years to meet legal limits for air pollution in London/ We did it in 9"

I remember being told that it would take 193 years to reach legal limits for nitrogen dioxide.

I decided this was unacceptable.

Thanks to the bold policies we put in place, we've managed to do it in nine years - 184 years earlier than expected.