Simon Briercliffe

Interested in old maps? My new @ihr.bsky.social 'Discovery' Short Course will introduce the history of cartography, how to find and work with old maps online, and even how to georeference historical maps! We'll also get hands-on with map collections, plus lecture from @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social

True, average house seems about £4-4.5k so six bedrooms is a good deal. But North Ken is not like South Ken I guess - it's gentrified since then rather than old money. NK is where the Notting Hill riots were after all.

Or she could sell up and move to Stoke like those people from the council house waiting list in Newham.

Eimear Murphy has voted for Labour all her life. But today, sitting in the front room of her six-bedroom North Kensington home, she is unequivocal: I would not vote for them again. The 88-year-old is caught up in the chancellor's mansion tax raid, an annual levy that will be applied to homes worth over £2 million from April 2028.

I wonder if five lodgers would cover the mansion tax?

Thank you, sounds lovely. The pictures are great.

This has been on my list for ages - is the best place to start the car park at Criggion?

Three chickens posing on a lawn

Three of our girls working on their album cover

Ooh I shall, thank you!

Thank you!

YouTube video by You Tuber Jimmy Cliff Many Rivers To Cross Later with Jools Holland Duet Live HD

Listen to the clarity here. My singing range has contracted to about half an octave but here was a man well into his sixties singing better than he ever had.
youtu.be/EsuW3dg7Q90?...

Must track down some neon for the museum...

A colour illustration from a 1957 book of Tangye's works, showing a factory with a powered transport riding in front of it. The word "Tangye's" is picked out in red neon.

This reminds of the wonderful illustrations in Tangye's centenary publication in 1957. www.tangye.org/tangye_hist7...

John Daly was childhood friends with Egan in Limerick. UL have been very helpful - sadly I couldn't make the trip for my PhD research!

If we were in a normal timeline, Ed Davey would be about to burst out of this.

Cluedo inventor's daughter hands over archives to Birmingham museum Anthony Pratt's daughter explains how evenings performing at country hotels inspired the murder-mystery game.

Cluedo inventor's daughter hands over archives to Birmingham museum - BBC News share.google/7Qv94t3X2q9K...

Also a contender! Egan knew Maud Gonne well so was bound to know MacBride. The photo is from the Daly papers at UL and the families will obvs have known each other. Dare I say he looks a little... scruffy for MacBride?

That's a great shout actually, they definitely knew one another.

Yep! Hopefully got an article on him coming soon...

I think it's James Francis Egan - I'm interested in him as a Home Ruler in Wolverhampton in the 1870s, but this is probably from his period in Dublin in the 1900s. He was friends with Clarke from a spell in prison together.

Thank you! I also saw #spéirghorm the other day, I wonder if there are ongoing debates about the séimhiú and fada in hashtags over at Téarma 🤔

An old black and white photo showing five men in Edwardian clothes, all wearing hates, standing in front of woods.

I wonder if any Irish historians on here can help me identify any of the people in this picture? Early 1900s probably in Dublin, it's Tom Clarke in the middle and I think I know who it is on the left of the image. Any of the others though?

An old black and white photo showing five men in Edwardian clothes, all wearing hates, standing in front of woods.

I wonder if any Irish historians on here can help me identify any of the people in this picture? Early 1900s probably in Dublin, it's Tom Clarke in the middle and I think I know who it is on the left of the image. Any of the others though?

YouTube video by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Papa Won't Leave You, Henry (Official Audio)

I'm editing today, my soundtrack of choice is always Nick Cave's Henry's Dream - nothing better than to kill your darlings and see the walls run red around me with a warm arterial spray www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3-M...

Clearly a cultural hub - I didn't know that.

A young man sits at a table with a laptop and dozens of toned paper documents in front of him. He holds up one particular document and points to it while another archivist stands over him to offer advice.

📣Calling archivists, researchers & heritage professionals!

Join us online on Monday 26 January (1PM) to learn key concepts of trauma-informed and person-centred practices and practical frameworks for embedding these into your work.

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Heath Town's finest Goldie! If you haven't spotted it already I recommend Keiran Connell' ls Multicultural Britain, the final chapter is on Brum in the 90s, esp Bally Sagoo.

Portrait of Goldie

Gotta be honest, did not have the Menswear Guy quoting a Doctor of the Church on my expectations for the day

In the early 1990s, Stuart Hall, a Jamaican-born British cultural theorist, wrote about the challenges thrown up by conflicting definitions of culture, community, and nation. As Hall notes, “common culture” and “common society” are two different things, and this is something we should embrace, not run away from. “It should not be necessary to look, walk, feel, think, speak exactly like a paid-up member of the buttoned-up, stiff-upper-lipped, fully corseted and free-born Englishman, culturally to be accorded either the informal courtesy and respect of civil social intercourse or the rights of entitlement and citizenship,” he wrote. “Since cultural diversity is, increasingly, the fate of the modern world, and ethnic absolutism a regressive feature of late-modernity, the greatest danger now arises from forms of national and cultural identity — new or old — which attempt to secure their identity by adopting closed versions of culture or community and by the refusal to engage — in the name of an ‘oppressed white minority’ (sic) — with the difficult problems that arise from trying to live with difference. The capacity to live with difference is, in my view, the coming question of the twenty-first century.” For those of us obsessed with clothes, the question is what an ideal workplace would look like, both in social order and dress culture.

In my article, I quoted something from Stuart Hall's "Culture, Community, Nation," an essay first published in a 1993 issue of Cultural Studies. He writes:

"It should not be necessary to look, walk, feel, think, speak exactly like a paid-up member of the buttoned-up, stiff-upper-lipped, ...

So many Jimmy Cliff songs are up there as some of the absolute greatest in reggae, RIP. Many Rivers To Cross on repeat today.