Dr David Jarratt.

YouTube video by Dr Anne E Bailey Holy Island Pilgrimage, August 2025

My latest short 'Pilgrimage' video captures my recent visit to Holy Island (Lindisfarne), including my walk across the sands following the ancient Pilgrim Path. 👣
Please enjoy, share, & consider subscribing to my YouTube channel (it's free!) for more pilgrimages!
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Image © Howard Kingsnorth - Crystal Palace National Sports Centre (1964)

EVENT: Announcing our 2025 Autumn Lecture Series: Buildings for Sport and Leisure. From lidos to skateparks, lesiure centres to stadia, the Olympics and more!

Season tickets and individual lecture tickets are available to book now: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

See full calendar below 👇🏼

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Scots leading on land use issues once again

From my recent trip the Brecon Beacons: St Ishow's Well (Ffynnon Ishow), at Partrishow.
A contender for my favourite holy well of the trip and the only one with evidence of contemporary ritual activity!
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Badenoch enjoys her first, and probably last, Tory conference leader’s speech | John Crace The audience cheered and clapped to convince themselves the whole thing hadn’t been a waste of time

#HE. #University. #Badenoch.

'Next up, a promise to cut university places by 100,000. Though not for any young people in the hall. This was for the little people.'

@mrjohncrace.bsky.social | The Guardian
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Yep, just chasing Daily Mail headlines is no way to proceed.

Badenoch: I'll double apprenticeships budget by slashing uni degrees Leader of the opposition would reintroduce student number controls for 'poor quality' uni courses to fund apprenticeship boost

search.app/ZuaTj '#Badenoch: I'll cut degrees to double apprenticeships budget.' #Apprenticeships are great. However, it should not be either or. Also, degree apprenticeships (at Unis) are expanding already. #HE

Painting by Kevin Hughes ‘Lane to the Sea.’
Watercolour on paper. Dimensions: not publicly listed

The priest at my Dad's funeral (a friend) offered me some advice that turned out to be more true than most. Losing a loved one is awful, but, with time, you do get used it. I still miss him and its painful but I am used to it. Also, I increasingly remember the good times, which is great. Hold on.

What is 'authenticity' in travel & tourism? - The "Good Tourism" Blog ‘Authenticity’ is the ideal for many travellers, influencers, and commentators. But what is it? Can destination marketers and tourism professionals package it and sell it … authentically? Thanks to Pr...

‘Authenticity’ is the ideal for many travellers, influencers, and commentators. But what is it? Can destination marketers and tourism professionals package it and sell it … authentically?

" #GoodTourism " #travel #tourism #authenticity

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Well, that's good of them to host the event! It's a great building from the outside.

Public ‘backs immigration for foreign researchers to boost UK’ - Research Professional News “Pro-researcher immigration” messaging most effective when positioned as fix for “broken Britain”, says Case research

Public ‘backs immigration for foreign researchers to boost UK’.

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What positive impact did the Paris Olympics have on France, and how can future global events learn from them?

Our 🆕 report shows how #Paris24 set a new benchmark, pioneering a more sustainable and inclusive model for major events worldwide: brnw.ch/21wWfso

Perfect night in...

Garry Fabian Miller: Sea Horizons – in pictures Sections of England: The Sea Horizon is a series of photographs made in 1976 and 1977 by Garry Fabian Miller, capturing the dark and strange serenity of the sea and sky. They are being shown alongside...

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Queuing: Is waiting in line for hours the new cool thing to do? Whether it's waiting in line to try a new bakery, or to grab a bargain at a sample sale, queuing is becoming an activity in itself.

'Is waiting in a 12-hour queue the new cool thing to do? These people think so.'

Confirmation, if needed, that I am definitely not cool.

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A highlight of my visit to The Harris today was the #WallaceAndGromit exhibition. Great to see the creativity and attention to detail in the original models.

Some of the art on display in #TheHarris, Preston, today...

Visted the revamped #Harris Museum/gallery/library today. I really liked it, a good community space for #Preston, #Lancashire. It is worth travelling for, if you're tempted to visit. @blogpreston.co.uk @marketinglancs.bsky.social Will post a few pics...

Whitehaven, photos by Rick Wylie. @groomb.bsky.social

I am hoping that #typography, #graphicdesign and #architecture 'types' will be interested in this... partly because we invested so much time to it tbh. The article is open access and includes nice photos!

Well, that's lunch sorted...

That's what I thought. Davey is billing the lib dems as the anti-reform party. I think it will serve them well.

Morning all.

Photograph from Lee Shulman’s Anonymous Project.
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Coastal Community and Creative Health is a 3 year, £2.4 million national partnership funded by AHRC to tackle health inequalities in 3 coastal communities, Blackpool, Hastings and Weston-super-Mare
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Towards Arenig Fawr #442mountains

Robin Hood's Bay in Wartime, 1940, painting by Richard Eurich, 1903-1992 (National Maritime Museum). #NorthernArt

North Sea moon, 8.34pm.

Cornwall's tourist board enters liquidation Visit Cornwall says it is facing "insurmountable pressures" and government funding is set to end.

#Cornwall's tourist board goes into liquidation
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