My article about the Thomas Hart rope making co and RE Hart's donations to Blackburn Museum and Cambridge University Library:
www.cottontown.org/Other%20Indu...
RIP Sly Dunbar. Here's a lovely edition of the South Bank Show all about the wonderful Sly and Robbie. A few people were asking to see it, so I've uploaded it to YouTube and I'll leave it there until Monday. Hopefully it'll get a proper repeat soon.
youtu.be/M-cuOdr6DpQ
![The battle between Crib [Cribb] and Molineaux. Hand coloured engraving, taken from Wiki. It shows two shirtless muscular boxers in knee length tights, a black man to the left, white to the right. The Black man is Molineaux, backed by Richmond in red waistcoat. A large crowd looks on at the scene.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4fudnp253ahtqgdf3cilj4x4/bafkreidnttypvljsbp6hcfbkbdkfu4epwvu7jtubqziwdl2mo64p5cvh5i)
Join us for a night of discussion about Black American boxer Tom Molineaux (1784-1818) - a man who came close to being English Champ - and boxer turned business owner Bill Richmond. Plus, true histories behind Bridgerton and #AThousandBlows! 15 April. UCL. Free:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/champion-b...
UK govt public consultation on #BBC's #future 👇. Pls consider reading+click on #HaveYourSay link to complete the survey+give govt your views on #BBC's funding, purposes, independence, programming, accountability, complaints, news+current affairs, #BBCWorldService, #AI etc. Vital for supporters.
Not for the first time, it looks like Channel 4 just handed the keys to their socials to an evil genius:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dedicated his life fighting for equity and justice. He taught us that even in the face of intimidation and discrimination, we must never stop working towards a better future – a lesson that feels especially relevant today.
Hot off the press: EFL Championship Round Up - 27
Matchday 27 Summarised
https://www.brfcs.com/articles/efl-championship-round-up-27
The latest from BRFCS: 101 GREAT GOALS: TONY FIELD AND THE MARK OF GENIUS
A tribute to a special moment after Tony’s passing this week
https://www.brfcs.com/articles/101-great-goals-tony-field
Many Blackburn Rovers fans have become fed up with the way that the club is being run but supporters are far from united about the proposed boycott or any other form of protest.
⚽️ 'Dysfuctional' Chelsea
⚽️ #brfc supporter boycott
⚽️ #LCFC ownership problem.
The pod that takes you inside the football boardroom with me & Charlie Methven.
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One of my favourite albums
www.cottontown.org/howweusedtol... my research using the C18 ledgers of a Blackburn cotton merchants has gone up online
Just published: EFL Championship Round Up - 15
Matchday 15 Summarised
https://www.brfcs.com/articles/efl-championship-round-up-15
Hooray, have been looking for an image of this Hawkwind piece for a while, from short-lived monthly inky Album Tracking. Chas de Whalley was your typical 70s hack, but Calvert is more than a match for him. Don't think I've seen this version of the Atomhenge promo pics before...
Good morning and doesn't this look grand.
We have a new website.
Many thanks to designer Graham Shackleton.
Marvelous.
bluemoosebooks.com
If this isn’t fascism I don’t know what is.
Few originals available
Anyone interested in them can DM me.
Clare Youngs, contemporary graphic and collage artist #womensart
"The Regulator has the power to do something which the Premier League and Football League did not have - to remove a licence from somebody who's already there."
Could the new Football Regulator come for #chansiri #swfc
With me & Charlie Methven
podfollow.com/wheres-the-m...
Leunig, a former gov adviser, said scrapping it — while it would boost growth and productivity — would be “a very, very big tax cut for rich people”. One effect would be to boost house prices, making the main beneficiaries the existing owners of expensive properties in the south-east of England.
It's tonight folks....
Come on down and join the conversation about my new book, 'Where's The Money Gone? The Battle For The Soul Of English Football.'
6.30pm, Armfield Club with Blackpool Supporters Trust.
"It's quite clear that the regulator has the power to remove the licence to operate of an owner..."
Will the Independent Football Regulator try to kick out #Chansiri from #swfc ???
With me and Charlie Methven
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The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech
It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers
Don’t tax us we’re too rich and too important, part 94 bit.ly/4o3C7pD gambling firm joins the list of the untaxables
This year is beginning to seem endless.
I'll be talking about my new book, 'Where's The Money Gone? The Battle For The Soul Of English Football' on Thursday 16 Oct at 2pm @bewdleyfestival.bsky.social
All welcome #khfc #wba #wolves #AVFC #bcfc
Interviewed by radio legend Malcolm Boyden
events.bewdleyfestival.org.uk/index.php?cP...
