Andrew Popp

To be a little more precise, the church was consecrated in September 893.

Two buildings I loved today. Apartment building, Bakio, Basque Country (C20th). San Salvador de Valdediós, Asturias (C9th).

Massive, monumental facade of Iglesia Santa Maria in the town of Gernik, Basque Country, Spain

Henry Moore sculpture “Large Figure in a Shell” in a park above the town of Gernika.

Charred book burned in the bombing of Gernika in April 1937. The book is on display in the town’s peace museum.

Palestinian, Ukrainian and LGBTQI flags, among others, flying at city hall, Gernika-Lumo.

“Accidentally” visited Gernika yesterday. It seemed to me the town carries its terrible burden with great grace. One message: peace now, end the bombing, the terror from the air. End it today.

There are small (much used) play spaces everywhere. Our housing density is very high.

Same where we live in inner Nørrebro, Copenhagen.

I feel like I've already migrated through several (sub-)disciplines.

Oops, question mark a typo.

I loved it?

Yes, in my view.

Perhaps everyone else already knows, but a colleague just alerted me to the brilliant looking "Dig Where You Stand" project, unearthing "the untold stories of people of colour living, working and putting down roots in South Yorkshire over hundreds of years." #historyfrombelow
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This is a very thought provoking idea that I'd love to see unpacked more.

Thanks!

Where is that pier and why is it so incredibly long?

This is wonderful Rachel, thank you so much for posting it.

Next time!

There's a history to be written: "The Salmon and the Worms."

No! I was there for a few hours yesterday afternoon but couldn't stay longer (going on holiday tomorrow). Would have loved a chance to meet - and Alka too! (btw, LOLZ at the alt text).

Graffiti on a large door to an apartment block in Copenhagen. It reads “Israel sulter Gaza” (Israel is starving Gaza).

Oh no!

A "prizes for all" gold standard, if you will.

The value and values of a "true investment culture" (to quote a Washington Post article I posted last week) are never questioned and always assumed to be positive.

A gold standard all too easily achieved.

I have something under review (so academic) that goes full bore into a long free indirect section in which I rarely identify exactly who is speaking/thinking, and it hasn't been flat out rejected ... not yet anyway. But I'm very aware I'm testing the "how good do you think you are" question.

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The timid "very unwilling" get the blame, fair and square, for the failed emergence of an ever promised "true investment culture." But perhaps reluctance might sometimes be better thought of as refusal or even resistance.

Rachel Reeves’ ‘save less to invest’ policy could be brilliant for ordinary Britons – or a disaster | Hilary Osborne People know about savings. But investing in stocks and shares? Not so much. Ministers have a duty to be clear about the benefits and risks, says Hilary Osborne, the Guardian’s money and consumer edito...

There's a growing historiography on the financialisation of everyday life but ongoing evidence that it is an incomplete & ill-defined revolution. Perhaps historians should ask not "When was financialization" but "why wasn't financialization?" @ayates.bsky.social
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I've always had a lot of respect for him (and my late wife fancied him like crazy).

Among many other "adventures." I lived through much of the peak of the madness.

Robert Maxwell's story is genuinely dizzying and bewildering.

Being an entrepreneur has become an end in itself.