Hannah O’Regan

Cutting down the manuscript word-count to fit the journal requirements🤦🏽

BROOKE GLADSTONE: The Inquiry brought up the case of Denholm Elliott's daughter - PAUL McMULLAN: Oh, yeah - BROOKE GLADSTONE: - which is one case that you truly do regret. PAUL McMULLAN: I do, yeah. After Denholm died, she hit rock bottom, was allegedly doing methadone. And although she had, you know, the half-million-pound flat that Denholm had bought her, she didn't have any money to get her ten-pound bag in the morning. So she'd get up and go begging at the tube station. Here was a young girl crying out to be helped, and she met a police officer who didn't help her but rang up the News of the World and asked for money because he couldn't believe that this is the same girl who'd walked down the red carpet behind Eddie Murphy with Denholm Elliott, you know.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: And you offered her 50 pounds - PAUL MCMULLAN: Yeah. BROOKE GLADSTONE: - if she would come to your place and have sex. So you led her into prostitution, which she wasn't in that space for. PAUL McMULLAN: No, indeed. But she was in such a bad place that someone offering her 50 pounds for sex. I mean, that's five bags.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: So how do you justify that? Yes, she was a drug addict, yes, she was begging. Why push her that extra step? Why take pictures of her topless? PAUL McMULLAN: I was keen. It was in my first year. I wanted to impress Piers Morgan, who was my boss at the time, and just wanted to say, not only have I caught this girl begging, but l've got pictures of her topless and I've got her offering me sex for 50 quid. How great am I? BROOKE GLADSTONE: This is a pretty dehumanizing enterprise, not just for Jennifer Elliott, but for you, yourself. PAUL McMULLAN: Yeah, that's why I feel terrible about it, not just 'cause she killed herself afterwards, but I, I actually liked her as a person.

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

Lithographs of Hawkins's sketches of Ichthyosaur anatomy, with handwritten attotations.

A very special #FossilFriday. Thanks to @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social, one of the c19th's greatest works of palaeontological literature is now properly digitised: Thomas Hawkins's beautiful, epic, semi-unhinged Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri (nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44...)

Osias Beert, Still Life with Cherries and Strawberries in Porcelain Bowls, c. 1608 Look at the relative sizes of the fruits - the strawberries are closer to the dimensions of what we now call wild strawberries. ((Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt)

Jack was known as 'The Most Popular Man in New Cross' and described by wrestling writer The Crossbuttocker (yep) as a 'Famous Exponent of the Sister Sciences' - boxing and wrestling. He was also a carpenter. Lad on the left, Tom Thompson, most memorably wrestled a donkey called Steve in Jack's gym 💪🏻

a chair covered in slobbery bites from a box of tissues and a roll of toilet paper. no cats are visible so we don’t need to make accusations

So, early reports show someone dragged a roll of toilet paper AND a box of tissues onto the chair and took one million bites. We need more facts before we jump to conclusions

I must have walked past this fern dozens of times on the morning dog walk, but for some reason today was the day I noticed it. Does it look OK for Cyrtomium fortunei, @bsbibotany.bsky.social? Growing wild on a shaded flint wall in Royston, Cambs VC29.

Sunoikisis Digital Classics: Working with Indigenous Heritage Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Sunoikisis Digital Classics Seminars continue Thurs 26 Feb. Paula Granados García (British Museum) and Nicole Iu (UoL) discuss Working with Indigenous Heritage.

Considering responsibilities & sensibilities of working with cultural heritage from outside our own historical settings: shorturl.at/OACMW

Here's another one that hasn't seen the light of day recently. This is "Essex Farmhouse" by Harold Steggles from 1933. Interestingly, it was incorrectly catalogued in the exhibition at Lefevre in that year as "Sussex Farmhouse": presumably, just a simple typo. #HaroldSteggles #EastLondonGroup

1/ A thread on my new article, which I hope makes a few interesting points. First, there’s a need to understand the complexity of how archaeological knowledge travelled and was made at a time of huge change in the world (post-WW2). Are we really so confident in confining that knowledge to…

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Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil Good Law Project has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK

Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil goodlawproject.org/putins-megap...

Great news for STEM colleagues. Now let's see it equivalently "invest at scale" in research fields studying the *uses, effects and consequences* of AI, as well as all the non-technical factors and practices "underpinning AI" that the humanities, arts and social sciences can illuminate, too.

A cat who once had a big suburban house and a hugely stressful prestigious job and now lives on a cliff instead, free of the trappings of modern life, to the admiration of its friends, who, as they idealise its life, never imagine the terrible loneliness it feels during cold winters, six miles from the nearest shop, cinema and pub.

THREAD.

A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks.

You will find the all-important captions to the photos in the alt text.

Have other countries assets been as effectively stripped by private equity firms as the UKs have?

Lichen Tortrix Acleris literana on some lichen at Roydon Common today. I do enjoy finding moths in their natural resting places.

The Bog Beacons are here! 🧡 Mitrula paludosa #FungiFriends

Storms reveal 2,000-year-old footprints on Scottish beach - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources Storms which recently ravaged Britain’s coastline have revealed 2,000-year-old footprints on an Angus beach – one of only a handful of locations in the UK where markings of this kind have ever been di...

Awesome news from Scotland.
Footprints From 2,000 Years Ago — Revealed by Storms, and vanished in Days

For just a few days, storms revealed something extraordinary on a beach in Scotland — human and animal footprints pressed into clay nearly 2,000 years ago.

www.bajr.org/storms-revea...

Closing Symposium: Late Neolithic Houses Project – 13 March, Leiden, Netherlands — EXARC EXARC invites members and friends to join the closing symposium of the Late Neolithic Houses Project on 13 March at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.

Interested in the Neolithic, wetlands and archaeology?

on the roof

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Lots of chat about the *last* English royal to be arrested, but who was the first? The Anglo-Saxons typically bumped off their rivals, so I'll start the bidding with Odo, bishop of Bayeux, arrested and imprisoned by his half-brother, William the Conqueror, in 1082.

This photograph of the section from a slot through the archaeology of a Middle Bronze Age enclosure from Needingworth Quarry shows the fascinating sequence that has built up over its lifetime. A sharp 6H pencil was required for its drawing!

Two shed roof foxes , simultaneously , brilliant ! Thank you to Christine Barker ( @kissipants ) for today's double #FoxOfTheDay !

6 bad doodles with text under each one. horseshoe crab is literally the animal horseshoe crab. shoehorse crab is a crab riding a shoe, cowboy style. crabshoe horse is a horse wearing literal crabs as shoes. shoecrab horse is a horse telling a crab to go away. crabhorse shoe is a pair of shoes, left one crab shaped, right one horse shaped. horsecrab shoe is literally the same pair of shoes, flipped.

#InvertebrateShitposting as per @joabaldwin.com's request

The acolytes of this firm came to leaflet at QMUL as well. They were fairly open about why they had chosen UCL as the first case: moneyed parents, many with law background. Implied dismissiveness of my students.

I feel genuinely sorry for students, but these firms are not in it for the greater good

#WallsOnWednesday Gaddesby, Leicestershire.

Just got my hot-off-the-press copy of the new edition of Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved, written by @tetzoo.bsky.social and yours truly, with gorgeous new cover art from @bobnichollsart.bsky.social: finally, a sauropodomorph on the cover 🦕🦕🦕 On sale soon!

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.