Dr John Davies

Susan Rice is right. Now Netflix must choose. The institutions and individuals who betrayed democratic principles will bear that mark of shame well into the future.

Susan Rice saw this moment coming. She described it plainly, and she was right.

Now, Netflix must decide which side of history it wants to be on.

The right choice is obvious. The only question is whether Netflix has the courage to make it. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/susa...

Reform mayor courted US oil and gas executive about fracking in UK Exclusive: Documents show Andrea Jenkyns asked how she could help firm after major gas find in Lincolnshire

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That cult of Elizabeth I was really something else.

The frontispiece to the 1593 edition of John Case's Sphaera Civitatis.

(Royal Collection Trust, HM CIII)

PHOTO OF THE DAY. A gas lamplighter in London (1935).
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Thick oak woodland in winter with a leafy path through the trees.

Oak wood #thicktrunktuesday #trees #woodland #treeclub

All Saints Church, Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire. #monumentMonday #memorialsMonday

Hebden Bridge, 1975, photo by Martin Parr.

The Nine Worthies: Who, What, When, Where & Why? - Society of Antiquaries of London The identification of wall paintings of two of the Nine Worthies at Eastgate House, Rochester in 2018 led to a deeper investigation of their use in a variety of media in the interiors of 16th and 17th...

On 3 March, join our free lunchtime lecture to hear about the identification of wall paintings of two of the Nine Worthies at Eastgate House and learn about their use in a variety of media in the interiors of 16th and 17th century houses.

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The fantastic boarded ceiling in the chancel of St. Andrew’s Church, Orwell, Cambridgeshire, dates to the 14th century. It was reconstructed in the 18th century, with the bosses repainted in the 19th century 🤩

Help Save Leicestershire’s Bronze Age Torc The Leicestershire Torc is a stunning 3,200-year-old gold object dating to the Middle Bronze Age period and is the only torc ever discovered in the county. It was a piece of very high-status jewellery...

Help save the Leicestershire Torc!

“A stunning 3,200-year-old gold object dating to the Middle Bronze Age period and the only torc ever discovered in the county”.

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#ManorialMonday is a hashtag we hadn't come across before. And since manors are very much *our thing* - all our parish histories describe the descent of each manor in those parishes - we approve.

The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Deborah Prentice, welcomed the Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Micheál Martin, to Cambridge to celebrate the appointment of the University’s first Childers Professor of Irish History. Photo of Prof Alvin Jackson, Taoiseach Micheál Martin, and Vice-Chancellor Prof Deborah Prentice standing in the Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge. Photo credit: University of Cambridge The text of the Taoiseach's speech is available here: https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-the-taoiseach/speeches/address-of-taoiseach-miche%C3%A1l-martin-announcement-of-the-first-childers-professor-of-modern-irish-history-at-cambridge-university-trinity-college-cambridge-friday-20th-february-2026/

https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/CamTrinity-MS-1388 Flyleaves from MS 1388, Gesta Romanorum, Trinity College, Cambridge. The three flyleaves at the beginning are fragments of an account roll of cent. xiv, xv. On one side, well written, are portions of an Irish rental. Among the names that occur are 1. Ballythormoth · Ballybrodyn · Mologhrath· Balyrothe ...Henr. Adameson.Christopher de Holywode.Manerium de Trym. 2. Nouum castrum de Lyones Tasshagard.... Joh. Humbleton... Laurencius Neweton....fratres Carmelitarum leghlyn... Galfr. de Vale miles.Cromlyn.Bally Margg.Capella Isold et saltus salmonum... Walt. de la Hyde... Edw.Perrers... Will. Wellesley... Th. Monyn... Will. Kylmyngton.Walt. Eure... Prior S. Joh. Jerusalem hibern. 3. Balyskeagh.Manerium de demore.Castelricard.Maneria de Rathtoirith(?) Ardumlghan · Moylagli · Kyldalk Each paragraph ends with a statement of what is due to the King: "itaque domino Refi," "et sic Regi" etc On the other side in a rougher hand are some more accounts, viz Rentale Johannis Shordich and copenhanger doune. See more Cambridge MSs in VRTI: https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/collecting-history-exhibition

The Statue of Kilkenny's ban on mixed marriages being enforced. 1396/7. Translation of entry on Page 32 of MS 3104: J.W. is indicted because he took Finowle Ó hAnluain, an Irish woman, in cayff and held her for two years feloniously, contrary to the form of the Statute of Kilkenny. And he pleaded for pardon. 20 Richard II, roll 7. (Trans. P. Crooks) See more Cambridge MSs in VRTI: https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/collecting-history-exhibition

See Irish historical records shared by Cambridge and other British and Irish research libraries at our online exhibition: https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/collecting-history-exhibition

Welcome remarks by @micheal-martin.bsky.social at @trincolllibcam.bsky.social
Irish + British histories are bound together:
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A sculpture of a man’s face expressing ‘much agony’ alongside a ‘figure of a monster with four legs’ above the door, image cop8ied taken from https://www.mythslegendsodditiesnorth-east-wales.co.uk/honest-man?fbclid=IwY2xjawQI_YJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeaq-vL6wbJz39-D29LhXEWKhaxinUknux5ztJPPICcA89OLE0YfNO76CJRdM_aem_PjskfAvpjiOLEa46cZpcvA

#dyddllunymap #mapmonday
Map showing Mostyn Hall in relation to the Honest Man Inn on the Greenfield Road, and the line of (possibly) a new road between the two points

Mostyn/7254 19th gan/cent

Mwy am y dafarn / More about the tavern:
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#OnThisDay in 1579/80 the Abergavenny draper Arthur Williams made his will - bequests included a featherbed, a mill and rack, a black horse and a bay horse. More at www.southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/12.htm.
But what were the 'mill and rack' - something to do with cloth production?

Happy Shropshire Day! I am so proud to share the history and folklore of this county. There's a lot more in store for nearlyknowledgeable this year as we celebrate 6 years (and all will be Shropshire related) 💚

Nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com

#history #Shropshire #Shropshireday #folklore

Reform would create ICE-style agency and end leave to remain, Zia Yusuf to say Nigel Farage’s party plans to deport up to 288,000 people a year on five flights a day and expand stop and search

If you want concentration camps in the UK, people being grabbed off the streets, or murdered on them, five year olds being separated from their parents and locked up #VoteReform

The CLAPBACK! 😂😅🤣🤪

Aberfan: Last surviving teacher remembers faces of the children who died Mair Morgan says the disaster that killed 144 people remains etched into her memory.

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Lobster (Homarus gammarus),
Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610 (Rijksmuseum)

Sound advice from an early 16thC French Speculum Principis: "Speak Not Against the Sun" and "Do Not Make Water Facing the Sun" [fol. 39 recto], c. 1512/1515. (National Gallery of Art, Washington)

Young Rubens Peale (my namesake!) with his famous geranium. So common now, so rare in 1801. Painted by his brother Rembrandt, who was born on this day in 1778.

A vintage sepia-toned portrait photograph of Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann taken in 1932, at around age 44. She is posed formally against a softly draped curtain backdrop, gazing directly at the camera with a calm, intelligent, and composed expression. She has short, neatly waved dark hair and wears a simple, elegant dark blouse or dress with a light-colored V-neck insert or scarf tied loosely. The photographer's signature, "Nachtwey 1932," appears in the lower right corner in a flowing script. The image captures her poised and thoughtful demeanor during the early years of her groundbreaking career in seismology, before her landmark discovery of Earth's solid inner core in 1936. #seismology

Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann fundamentally changed our understanding of the Earth's interior by discovering its solid inner core in 1936. Often referred to as 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘳𝘵 due to her incredible ability to interpret complex seismic records by hand.

She died #OTD in 1993 #WomenInSTEM

In Greenland's Scoresby Sund, a beautiful iceberg floats in front of distant mountains painted in warm light. A glorious morning, as we sailed on calm waters surrounded by crackling ice & towering mountains!

#photography #nature #landscape #bluesky #art #landscapephotography #naturephotography

Ruby folding field camera, 1890s. On display in Swansea Museum

A painting of the Ouse Bridge in York (1800), by Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) Watercolour with pen and brown ink over graphite, with scratching out on medium, beige, rough wove paper. Courtesy of Yale Center for British Art.

🧵Ouse Bridge York (1800), Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) Watercolour with pen and brown ink over graphite, with scratching out on medium, beige, rough wove paper. Courtesy of Yale Center for British Art. Sadly Girtin's already acclaimed career was cut tragically short when he

Peter at the fire, denying that he knows Christ. Three times. By Dirck van Baburen who, alas, died OTD in 1624.

News - 2,000-Year-Old Trackway Revealed in Scotland - Archaeology Magazine ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND—Erosion caused by storms at eastern Scotland’s Angus Beach revealed an ancient clay surface […]

2,000-Year-Old Trackway Revealed in #Scotland. #Archaeology
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Don't go to the USA.

A translucent, finely crafted arrowhead made of rock crystal, standing upright on a sandy surface.

A stunning #Neolithic rock crystal arrowhead found in the pile-dwelling settlement of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, dating from around 3500 BC. The raw material was not available in the immediate area, but came from the Alps. Rock crystal has been mined in the Swiss Alps since the early Mesolithic.🧵1/3
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