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A large, decorated house with a garden and path in front. A small black dog is playing in the puddles.

Maude playing in the puddles at Gregynog.

Black and white photo of young people in a protest crowd in West Bromwich, 1979 Young black man in the centre with a short afro with bleach streaks is holding a large sign on a long stick which reads "NO TO NAZIS IN WEST BROMWICH 28 APRIL 4PM HARDWARE ST MASS PICKET OF NF" (National Front) Young white man with close cropped hair has his arm protectively around the sign holder and a defiant grimace on his face Anti-Nazi Demo, West Bromwich, 1979. Photo © Virginia Turbett, all rights reserved https://britishculturearchive.co.uk/virginia-turbett-uk-protests-1970s/

British Culture: Anti-Nazi Demo, West Bromwich, 1979.

Photo © Virginia Turbett

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Not to mention you could subtract all the Workers Party votes from 2024 and the Greens would still have won, and Labour still have come third.

This feels like implied racism to me. He knows that Galloway has polled high with Muslim voters in the past, so he's insinuating it's their fault. Grossly entitled too, but talk about dividing and encouraging sectarianism...

I suppose you Could consider the Greens “divisive“ in that they’re the only major party not buying in to the establishment’s normalisation of right wing bigotry and hypercapitalism

a lonely Matt Goodwin texting on his phone

‘hi, grandma? can u come pick me up from my rap battle? it's over. no, i lost. he saw u drop me off & did a pretty devastating rhyme about it’

We had it donated along with umpteen variations of retrospectives of George V, mostly in gold.

A book cover, 'These Tremendous Years'

A photo of a book page, showing Princess Margaret Rose and The Cecil Demolished

Photo of a book page showing The Year Of The Flapper Vote

A photo of a book page showing the Zinoviev Letter

Think I've found the most @tricksterprince.bsky.social -coded book ever.

These will keep on coming to me, but my instinctive reaction is "Over to Arnie Pie with Arnie In The Sky"

"An introduction to Dudley Canal and Caverns". A talk focusing on the canal network within Dudley, its heritage and its industry. Presented by Rhi Edwards, Programme and Events Manager at DCTT.
Dudley Canal and Caverns, Wednesday 25th February at 7.30pm.

oh yeah, how much did that cost you?

We called our garage a carhold.

We probably overlapped! El Rincon was a regular when I worked at the university.

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Here. Look. Right to the end.

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If you can believe it, we watched Alive during a wet games lesson in about year 10. I think because it was about rugby players?

"An introduction to Dudley Canal and Caverns". A talk focusing on the canal network within Dudley, its heritage and its industry. Presented by Rhi Edwards, Programme and Events Manager at DCTT.
Dudley Canal and Caverns, Wednesday 25th February at 7.30pm.

The strike at Bliss’s Tweed Mill. Miss Varley and the pickets frying pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. https://mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/WOU/2/1/9

Julia Varley, expert flipper of pancakes, was also a suffragette and trade unionist.

She was active in the National Federation of Women Workers and the Workers' Union, serving as chief women's officer of the TGWU from 1929 to 1936. #ShroveTuesday #PancakeDay

And I need you more than want you,
And I want you for all time.

Remember proper elections?

Just back from seeing Mogwai, who were great, but I looked it up and it's exactly 30 years since their first single. Three decades. It's like if I had gone to see the Monkees in 1997.

Kind of glad I hadn't been paying sufficient attention to him, I think.

Mr Therm making an apperance, ad infinitum, on the cover of a c.1960 publicity recipe book. This copy was issued by the North Thames Gas Board whose area covered North London and the surrounding areas. Mr. Therm had been conceived by artist and designer Eric Fraser for the old London based Gas Light & Coke Company in the early 1930s; the use of this jolly little mascot had flourished after his adoption by the wider gas industry, pre- and post-Nationalisation, until he was retired around the time of North Sea Gas. The cover is dominated by blue and yellow with Mr. Therm, wearing a chef's hat and with a copy of this cookery book in his hands, in red. The title panel, in yellow is upper left, and the rest of the cover shows a kitchen table with utensils and ingredients. inc. a mixing bowl, a flour sifter, a bottl eof wine, tomatoes, mushrooms and lemons.

A cheery Mr. Therm on the cover, ad infinitum, on the cover of a c.1960 publicity recipe book from the North Thames Gas Board, who served N. London & surrounding areas - Mr. Therm's Cookery Book. #publicity #advertising #vintage #cookery #1950s

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An open book - History On The Ground by Maurice Beresford

A book on a shelf - Chartist Studies by Asa Briggs

Our current project at @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social is a rather beautiful library, to be set in 1963. We've had thousands of books donated by the local community. I've been shelving history this morning and there's some classics.

An open book - History On The Ground by Maurice Beresford

A book on a shelf - Chartist Studies by Asa Briggs

Our current project at @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social is a rather beautiful library, to be set in 1963. We've had thousands of books donated by the local community. I've been shelving history this morning and there's some classics.

For some reason if it's train then from home, but if it's mileage i have to subtract my usual commute from the claim.

And the only reason he's being platformed on the topic at all is that he's so rich people think it matters when he makes ridiculous nasty noises with one of the holes in his face.

Thalidomide is still used as a cancer treatment...

Could it be Wedneshough that's in Hollingworth today? If so that's exactly where my great-great-grandparents lived in the early/mid 1800s.

I hadn't really made the link before that Mandelson had been in charge of the Millennium Dome - just like his grandad Herbert Morrison had been in charge of the Festival of Britain with its own dome. History is weird.