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Two porters, dressed in black trousers and black jackets, hold the Pembroke flag, based on the College crest, stretched between them. They are standing in Old Court; the Hall, Library clocktower and Chapel are in the background.

Pembroke is flying the College flag today to mark the admission of Professor Polly Blakesley as its new Master.

Professor Blakesley will be Pembroke’s 55th Master, and the first woman to hold the role.

A short admission ceremony will take place this evening.

Oh no, I'll have to keep digging for more obscure ORR spreadsheets. The horrors. /dramatic swoon

The answer to this specific question is apparently yes, Blackfriars are run by Govia.

You want sheet 3, column M (Station facility owner). And it does list the big London hubs.

There is, but it's a spreadsheet you'll have to download from the Office of Rail and Road. dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/i...

I read this back in 2017 and am still thinking about it all these years later. It was a great read. Congrats on the sales figures!

It is a Mara shawl, which is a MadelineTosh design!

Photo of a piece of knitting in progress. It is wadded up in a bundle and there is a circular needle dangling from it.

Knitting gang checking in!

There's quite a few really excellent Proms this year, if you feel like some classical stuff? Would recommend the Shipping Forecast Prom especially.

this is why we don't read the Golden Age anymore. There are so many histories of the future. Spinning through timespace, studying this apocalypse, a key part of my undercover mission is studying stories about the future. When and where and how were ...

I'm scared I will draw the Wrath of the Fanboys, but... this week on my newsletter I wrote about why I think the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" writers have so little appeal to a huge swathe of today's SF/F writers & readers.

undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-why-...

I hope you recover swiftly and uneventfully!

Strong work, gang.

We have a box in the office called the plagiarism box. It's where we keep all the leaflets and other promotional materials from other institutions that have great formatting etc that we want to crib.

I remember the pit where the foyer floor hadn't been finished and the plywood bridge to get in!

I have relieved you of one t-shirt and am looking forward to getting it!

I watched it on the 24th of July and have been earwormed ever since. Still not mad about it. Thinking about rewatching tonight.

I was not expecting like Heads of State. I was wrong. It was great.

That seems entirely reasonable. There's a reason big institutions have whole teams of people whose job is nothing but exhibitions coordination!

I am planning to visit you on Sunday. It will be my first visit and I'm super excited.

If it's the documentation I'm reading at the moment, it looks great. 😀

Black and white photographic postcard of 16 women all wearing black dresses with white collars, standing and sitting in a group, surrounded by wooden pillars with trees and buildings in the background.

The back of a postcard. The righthand side is covered in writing that appears to be some sort of shorthand, probably German in origin.

Who do I know who might be able to decipher some German shorthand[?]? Front and back of a postcard found in the Spanbroekmolen Crater in 1918, a colleague of a colleague is trying to find out more.

Archive Grief, Archive Time ‘The body emerges from this history of doing, which is also a history of not doing, of paths not taken, which also involves the loss, impossible to know or...

For Pride Month, I wrote about queer history, intergenerational kinship, and what I'm calling "archival grief" (with a side tangent about '90s evangelical alt-rock acts).

Thanks are due to Alice Langley for encouraging me to write about this, & to Sam Tegtmeyer for the Sara Ahmed quotation.

Congratulations!

This is the BEST news. Oh my goodness.

One (work) pencil, but I have several of them because of an irrational anxiety of that exact pencil type being discontinued by the manufacturer. I only use one at a time, though.

I am more disappointed than I can express that this image does not read "Always tryst a lady with an armload of eels".

ESTC is still down as well. The rare books gang are very sad about it.

Doing transcription work on this project remains one of the most fun information history things I've ever done. I'm so excited to hear how close it is to completion!

Just casually getting out a book with a curse inscription to go on display with the silver cup with a curse inscription. As you do. #CambridgeLife #LibrarianLife