Malcolm Barr-Hamilton

Season 5 begins tomorrow!!

Get ready for 10 more weeks of folk song history goodness.

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

I ❤️ Viz

It's nearly time for our next Trad Night, with singer Arthur Knevett showing off his eclectic repertoire of English, Irish and Scottish traditional songs and ballads.

Wed 29 Oct bit.ly/4lYYxr6

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick We deserve a better class of villain. Or at least a more memorable one.

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

Producer Beau Hill on Chaos and Confusion Making Bob Dylan's 'Hearts of Fire' "Let's see if Bob can remember his instructions from fifteen seconds ago"

Happy Hearts of Fire day to those who celebrate! I talked to Beau Hill, Music Director of the movie and producer of the soundtrack, about months of chaos working on Bob Dylan's infamous flop

And I got an answer to the question we've all been asking: How much did Bob really know about Ratt?

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HBD to the Johns - Entwistle and Lennon

Are you interested in local history? @vch-home.bsky.social @hackney-society.bsky.social @history.dulwichsociety.com

In this free workshop, you will be taught how to produce a short video from the material you have collected to share the stories you are uncovering. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

KAS Historic Buildings Conference 2025 — Kent Archaeological Society Save the date! We expect the annual KAS Historic Buildings Conference to take place at Lenham Community Centre on Saturday 11th October 2025.

Tickets are still available for our Historic Buildings Conference taking place this Saturday, 11th October 2025 at Lenham Community Centre.

Tickets available here:

I have two tickets for #BobDylan in Glasgow on 16 November which I am now unable to use. DM if interested.

#OtD 3 Oct 1937 almost a year after their defeat at Cable St, Mosley's Blackshirts attempted to march through Bermondsey, South London. Met with strong local opposition and barricades in the streets, the march never arrived at its intended destination workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...

Fee Greening in conversation: Katharine Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies Artist Fee Greening, inspired by Gothic fairytale and medieval illumination, illustrates a new edition of Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies.

Join us on Tues for our next online talk: Fee Greening in conversation about her work, influences, and her illustrated edition of Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies, published last month. Tues 7 Oct, 19:00 BST on Zoom. Tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fee-greeni...

#OnThisDay 1850: Hackney Central station was opened by the East & West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway.
➡️ flickr.com/photos/tags/e81lltn

YouTube video by Danny Thompson Danny Thompson - Idle Monday (Daytime Live, 28th Jan 1988)

R.I.P. the great Danny Thompson
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Archivist Oliver Wooller will give a talk here at #BexleyArchives on 18 October 2.30pm 'Caesars, Senators and Centurions', looking at the Roman period in Bexley, as roads, engineering and laws were brought to the Cantiaci of Kent. Tickets: £5.

Still time to see this great exhibition at Lambeth Archives, open until 8pm this evening too

Farm Aid 40 Live Stream Webcast – September 20 at 11:30am CDT YouTube video by Farm Aid

Chuffed that Dylan is a last minute addition to the stacked af Farm Aid lineup in the Twin Cities on Sunday. You can stream the whole day's worth of music for free too.
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Splendid.

Despite widespread claims, there are not many mediaeval pubs still serving. The ones that survive are all inns. The best preserved is the New Inn at Gloucester. We know from tree-ring dating that construction began in 1432 and it was first mentioned in the records in 1455 🧵

We still have a few seats left for this fascinating talk on 25 September about local people during WWII.

Either email Susan Hoskin at susan.hoskin@gmail.com to book, or download and print our Booking Form:

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Two guides. On the left is a Borough of Preston official guide featuring a colour photo of the Guild Hall by RMJM which opened in 1973. On the right is a Borough of Slough official guide - on the cover is a black and white sketch of the Fulcrum Centre.

Municipal guide cover(s) of the day: brutalist public buildings special edition. Featuring Preston Guild Hall and Slough’s Fulcrum Centre.

Any Conference Questions?
#edchat #HigherEd #academia

Just watched The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), a harrowing look into the darkness @ the heart of American lynch-mob injustice. 82 yrs later we saw this almost play out on our phones by a buncha remorseless podcasters & crooked politicos who instead of reflecting on their hate are movin on to new targets.

Building ‘Homes for Tomorrow’: Lambeth’s Council Housing, 1965 to 1980 The exhibition uses original architect’s models, archival documents and images and oral history to explain the planning context and to explore and celebrate Hollamby’s architectural legacy for Lambeth...

1/ I was pleased to attend the launch in Lambeth Archives of this interesting exhibition on "Building ‘Homes for Tomorrow’: Lambeth’s Council Housing of 1965 to 1980". It will be described fully in a guest post by its curator Christiane Felber on Tuesday.
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four bays in a shelving unit holding numerous bound volumes and archival boxes.

🚨With the Archives Revealed funding, an exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team as Assistant Archivist on the project. This will be a great opportunity to make our archive more accessible to new audiences. #KewLA

Closing: 21 Sept

Find out more here: careers.kew.org/vacancy/assi...

Violet Alford’s Pyrenean Festivals and Antonin Artaud’s Peyote Dance In the 1930s, an English folklorist and a French theatre director, made individual journeys in search of authentic performance

It's September and our programme of online talks is resuming next week! First up, 'Violet Alford’s Pyrenean Festivals and Antonin Artaud’s Peyote Dance' by Prof. Peter Harrop. Tuesday 9 September at 19:00 BST, tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/violet-alf...

Before #Amazon's couriers - the carter.

Jo Sealy's 'The Black Artisans' exhibition opens at Cecil Sharp House 'The Black Artisans' photography exhibition at Cecil Sharp House as part of Black History Month In the run up to our Black British Folk Takeover on Saturday 4 October, we are hosting the exhibition 'T...

Now open! 'The Black Artisans' photography exhibition as part of #BlackHistoryMonth
In the run up to our Black British Folk Takeover on Sat 4 Oct, we have an exhibition by photographer Jo Sealy celebrating UK-based Black craftspeople.
Exhibition runs until 11 October, Free entry.
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Dartford Branch September Talk: Suicide and its Records with Kathy Chater
Saturday 6 September Meeting starts 10.30am
Many of us have a suicide in our family but for some the subject is taboo. However, it may explain the disappearance of an ancestor.
#NWKFHS

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How does a book indexing project work? What should I expect as a client? How do I find the right indexer for my project? Our blog series on index commissioning takes you through the process in helpful detail buff.ly/mu1id42