@adamchapman.bsky.social
Medieval historian interested in Wales, Somerset exile, inept cricketer, General Editor of the longest-running and largest local history project yet devised, the Victoria County History of England. Probably drinking tea.
Cycling side-by-side isn’t bad behaviour—it’s human behaviour. It’s how parents talk to their kids. How friends catch up. How communities form.
If bicycle infrastructure is too narrow for people to ride and talk together, the problem isn’t the people. It’s the infrastructure.
Nørrebro, Copenhagen.
We cannot face the fact that a Defense Secretary who ordered the shooting of shipwreck survivors now means what he says about committing war crimes, and so we instead giggle and pretend he is too stupid to understand what he is saying.
Saying openly and explicitly.
We have reached out to a representative of Tom Leher’s estate for comment.
Again.
Impressive to dress up as a profession even less trusted than politicians
You join me at Swansea Crown Court / Llys y Goron Abertawe for an indecent images case where police had to wait 20 months to get a forensic examination report for the defendant’s phone. But sure, curtail the right to a jury trial as a way of reducing the backlog in the system.
Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied.
But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.
Many are the repositories whose digitized collections are held together by paper clips & twine paid for with an uncertain budget that may not get renewed in the next fiscal year because there’s long been a zeal to “just” digitize things but not to invest in their careful documentation & maintenance.
That massive murder spree in the ‘80s and ‘90s had significant consequences then.
My home village of Comberton formerly gave herrings to the poor before Easter, provided by the income from the herring field. The Herringfield charity survives. The village sign illustrates the giving of herrings
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It's the 30th anniversary of the Dunblane massacre today. This article has a good account of how a tragic school shooting pushed the UK towards tighter gun control. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I meant 'insurance OR navigation', but the sentence works, just about, either way.
I'm not sure that Lloyds of London (or any mariner in a ship anywhere close to the Strait), will wear that for insurance of navigation purposes, Mr Hegseth.
Newyddion cyffrous... bydd Archifau Gogledd Ddwyrain Cymru a Cefyn Burgess yn ymuno â ni yn Rhuthun!
Exciting news... North East Wales Archives and Cefyn Burgess will be joining us in Ruthin!
#CapeliCymru #WelshChapels #Rhuthun #Ruthin #Capeli #Chapels
The mammoth thread by @garius.bsky.social on John Hodgson's overturning of 1500 years of received knowledge to show that Hadrian, not Severus, built the Roman Wall across Northumberland and Cumberland, has been quoted again in my feed, so I'm quoting it on. Always worth revisiting.
Today we celebrate the fruits of one of the finest headlines ever to follow Betteridge’s Law, because it’s the 56th anniversary of “London’s most extended satanism flap”, when about 100 people broke into Highgate Cemetery to stake a vampire 🧵
Black Tower: section of Norwich's medieval city wall running parallel with Carrow Hill #norwich #medieval #medievalcitywall #citywall #flint #tower #medieval #history #heritage #architecture #14thcentury
... oh, and the nature of maritime insurance, etc.
Look, the Strait of Hormuz being about 45km across has apparently come as a surprise, so...
I keep meaning to supply a new text for a couple of people, but finding other things to do...
How modern is that entry?
... who used his position for personal gain (as steward, in his case - the specific instance was summonsing old men for military service and forcing them to by themselves out of it).
I must look into the administration of Cydweli in the early 15th century properly at some point: I get the impression that it was a collection of protection rackets.
John Scudamore (i.e. the chap who was married to Glyndwr's daughter and tried to claim Glyndyfrdwy c.1430), was another...
This is the same Don/Dwn family whose progenitor, Henry Dwn, supported Glyndwr until the end, made his peace and then - rogue that he was - extorted money from his neighbours for not joining the rebellion.
You have to admire the chutzpah...
That's a very certain-sort-of-Manchester vibe all round and the * completes it.
And if you want to understand why this is so, in many, many cases, watch the Channel 4 series about Sandi Toksvig restoring a woodland. Fly tipping, vandalism, ground torn up by motorbike and 4WD 'offroaders'.
Not in the UK, or - in my experience, anyway - in Europe in general.
I was thinking more of dole for the poor measured in lbs of bacon, but yes.
That hardy perennial: valuing the economy you have and its strengths rather than some nebulous idea of an economy that is - for a range of reasons - more to the taste of whichever group happens to be in power.
Several ages of Ireland on display in Whitegate, Co. Cork, this morning.
The stonking great font at St. Andrew's, #Wroxeter - made from an upturned Roman column base. One of many pieces of re-used stone in a remarkable church. (A look around it adds a lot to a visit to the nearby 'Roman City' site.)
#FontsOnFriday #Shropshire #ChurchCrawling #RomanBritain
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