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An Edwardian Meme Goes Viral Newcastle Corporation Tramways Band 1910 (from the galleries of the International Bandsmans Enquire Within) For reasons which may or may not become clear, I have recently become interested in the N…

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Powerpoint and IWBs – It’s time to reclaim analogue teaching When was the last time you taught an individual lesson without using an interactive whiteboard, without PowerPoint, without pre prepared digital resources? When was the last time you did this for a…

Powerpoint and IWBs - time to reclaim analogue teaching. My latest blog.
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Dear NEH Grantee,This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. HB30233525) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement.Your grant no longer effectuates the agency’s needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340.For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President’s agenda.

And there it is. NEH Faculty Award canceled, along with $30,000 of my salary this year. Guess I'll have to ask for my teaching load back for the fall.

Charts showing cost of increasing Jobseeker to 90% of age pension base - $3.5bn; raising it to 90% of total age pension - $5.2bn. Cost of super concessions for the richest 10% - $9.9bn + $10.4bn, cost of capital gains discount for the richest 10% - $18.6bn, cost of fuel tax credit for mining companies - $4.8bn

Always remember - budgets are about choices
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A terrific night watching MODERN TIMES with a live orchestral score (my first time seeing it this way) with @norloll.bsky.social at Cadogan Hall as part of the London Soundtrack Festival. Chaplin’s weirdest feature? 🌽

Loved it!

Same. Thank god for Wikipedia. I wouldn’t have managed before. But with constant wiki back up it’s a great read.

BFI Special Collections have two vacancies for a Curator and Assistant Curator. Come join our lovely team!

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Thank you babes! Hope you are both having a groovy day x

This looks fabulous! Alerting @norloll.bsky.social. Fellow ex-booksellers may enjoy.

Thanks. I have bought it on the basis of this review

In future generations, historians will marvel over how quickly twitterestablished itself as central to so many aspects of our society, only to become defunct just as quickly. Lots of technologies go through this process. But rarely so quickly or as a result of a single man and his policies.

Watch this surprisingly effective quickie version of "A Christmas Carol" today at 9:30am. @norloll.bsky.social & I discussed it in our Kino Quickies Xmas special 2 years ago with @minghowriter.bsky.social followed by some carousing led by the great #GaryYershon. kinoquickies.com/episode/12-s...

Academic life on the big screen | LSE Higher Education We asked nine film studies academics for their top picks of movies that feature academic life. From The Birds to Wicked, here are their recommendations.

“Elphaba comes to realise the horrendible truth: the explanations being offered up by those she previously trusted for the changes taking place at the university are a crock of Dear Old Shiz. HE in Oz is shrinking. We loathe it all.” 💚🩷

#HigherEdIsShrinking

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Now that we've hit the 100 followers mark, perhaps it would be a good time to flag this up. Recently, @norloll.bsky.social and I were guest boffins on the new @BFI release of early Michael Powell films. I still haven’t been able to watch it though because I don’t own a Blue-ray player.

Worth noting that during the '84 miners strike there was no support and zero donations from the local farming community. They treated us with complete disdain

More exciting #20s30s developments - @norloll.bsky.social and @clairelanghamer.bsky.social are here as well.

A gatepost stump with moss growing on it

British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2024 This popular annual event returns to KCL on 17th May 2024. This one day event features a range of papers of original research in all areas of film culture in Britain and areas affected by British colo...

Book now for the British Silent Film Festival Symposium atthepictures.photo.blog/2024/04/17/b...

https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/celebrating-ealing-comedies-3/This Autumn, The Garden Cinema is celebrating Ealing Comedies! Every Wednesday, from O... Celebrating Ealing Comedies Season Introduction

Join us for some Ealing Comedies at the Garden Cinema! youtu.be/1Lhp40Bwm10?...