Matthew Kilburn

Thank you.

That's the best way. And I did manage some personal documentation which I'd completely misunderstood in the morning, having tried to fill in the wrong form, so that's something.

Thanks, Andrew. The main thing at the moment is all the bereavement admin still to do.

Thanks, Jay.

Down today and not managing much. Tomorrow might be better.

BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood announces that immigrants will have to know all the Doctor Whos in order before being allowed entry to the UK

The prospect is just deadening.

The best part of Harlan Ellison's Doctor Who essay is that Pinnacle Books censored one line and one line only of Harlan's submitted draft dated Nov. 1, 1978. A dig at Anita Bryant at the height of her pernicious political influence in the States.

The paperback of Exterminate/Regenerate is out next April - but if you pre-order it from Waterstones you'll get 25% off if you use the code OCTOBER25. But only until the end of the week! See here www.waterstones.com/book/extermi... #DoctorWho

Indeed. Trump as 'mad king' misrepresents George III by parallel, but that runs deep in American political culture - better and rhetorically more powerful to let a king be blamed than a parliament, perhaps, in 1776.

Corn Flakes, Stuck Culture, & the wrong type of undead It started off, as these things tend to do, as a light-hearted thread on BlueSky initiated by writer Ray Newman about Sainsbury’s slightly otherworldly Corn Flakes packaging design from the 1970s, whi...

I just received an email from the designer's brother-in-law so I've updated my blog post to credit them by name:
www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...

Opinion: What Britain’s first Asian prime minister meant to my family | CNN The defeat of the Conservative Party in the UK election ends Rishi Sunak’s two-year premiership. Does it also sour the story of Britain’s first Asian prime minister, asks Sunder Katwala.

Dad was thrilled when Sunak became PM having come in 1968

He nearly cast a sympathy vote for him in defeat in July 2024 - he felt somebody should - but decided it wasn't the right reason to vote for the first Indian PM when country needed a change of governing party
edition.cnn.com/2024/07/05/o...

I'd no idea about that relationship!

I write academic and popular works of television criticism. The Written Archive has been an invaluable source for my research on Doctor Who and Blake's 7. I had plans for a work on the groundbreaking multiethnic 1970s series Gangsters, which it will be much harder to do without the Archives.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to... Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

And unlike ChatGPT, BBIH will not hallucinate bibliographical references for you or for your students. (Ah, the wonders of using humans in peer review).

The October updates include, for example, 162 titles about the history of Wales, 229 records re histories of African nations, 359 publications re Scottish history, 448 records discuss the histories of the Americas and Atlantic Ocean, 468 publications focusing on Irish history, and much more.

photograph of a room filled with packing boxes

It's all change for @histparl.bsky.social, @victoriancommons.bsky.social, @georgianlords.bsky.social and the rest of us at Bloomsbury Square.
Old Street, here we come.

Thank you for recording this. I hope you achieve all your objectives.

3 key members and trustees of the Film is Fabulous! team joined Tim of the 'Missing Episodes Podcast'

Film collector John Franklin, De Montfort University’s Prof Justin Smith & Sue Malden, renowned former Head of Broadcast Archives at BBC
YouTube Link
youtu.be/CK02j_Mi6iE?...

I'm very sorry to see this. Well attempted.

Sed contra: Advent is traditionally a time for contemplating death, judgement, heaven, and hell, and thus a Kendal Mint Cake Advent Calendar is far more seemly than most of the “little treat” type of Advent Calendars.

Yes, having just undergone another time shift.

That would be fascinating and valuable.

Only the oil vessels remain, plying their grimy trade, indifferent to the uncommercial traveller and to presentability.

This is very cool as a visual and also yes I agree that a whole lot of people have not/do not want to realise this. It will reduce traffic to the busiest area, thereby reducing traffic in the ‘thru’ zones, without reducing access TO the ‘thru’ zones

Good luck - my sister's partner has just completed a difficult journey from King's Cross to Newcastle.

Thank you - yes, it is appalling. My father is a huge loss.

I wonder if any scripts of Scott On survive and confirm this? The OED would be interested.

A friend recommended this website, of the UK Sepsis Trust, in the aftermath of my dad's death last month - there are many useful resources. sepsistrust.org