Plaque inscription: "Four feet below this spot is the stone step, formerly the entrance to the cottage in which lived Andrew Marvell, poet, wit, and satirist; colleague with John Milton in the foreign or Latin secretaryship during the Commonwealth; and for about twenty years M.P. for Hull. Born at Winestead, Yorkshire, 31st March, 1621, died in London, 18th August, 1678, and buried in the church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields.
This memorial is placed here by the London County Council, December, 1898."
The text of An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland can be read here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44683/an-horatian-ode-upon-cromwells-return-from-ireland
On Highgate Hill, London N6 - a plaque memorialising 17th century poet Andrew Marvell. Author of "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" (1650)
"And now the Irish are asham’d
To see themselves in one year tam’d;
So much one man can do
That does both act and know"
#IrishLondonHistory ☘️
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'Highgate Wood' by Rebecca Denton
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BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (Neasden Temple), Brent – Chandrakant Sompura
Image credit: BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir
📍 BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (Neasden Temple), Brent, London - Chandrakant Sompura
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Just £5000 to go! We're getting very close to our target of raising £19000 by midday Tues 9th December to support our work to protect London's #GreenSpaces.
Please share + donate today through the BigGive Christmas challenge:
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Illustration of eighties businessmen by an urban park in Central Milton Keynes
It's #sketchpadvent – celebrating amazing modernist concept drawings and models. December 1: Milton Keynes from 1981
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🦇 hibernation survey with London Bat Group in Highgate tunnels. A Natterer’s bat is visible in the pool of torchlight. @batconservation.bsky.social
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🌟 1 DAY TO GO! It's nearly time for our #ChristmasChallenge with the @biggive.bsky.social!
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🤸♀️ Help power Zero Hour's work in Parliament pushing for bolder climate action, and to deliver the #CANBill.
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Our Christmas countdown for nature lovers is back! 😍🎄
A little bit of wildlife magic every morning...
Who's ready to open door 1 with us?
#RSPBAdvent
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🦇 An Adopt a Bat subscription is a lovely Christmas gift and you will be making a real difference to bats in the wild. Subscribe by 9am, 8 Dec to make sure it arrives on time: www.bats.org.uk/support-bats...
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And this Sunday is the last day of this year’s Isokon season. Hope to see you there.
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Urban bats avoid street lights when commuting between their roosts and foraging grounds idw-online.de/de/news862413 #ALAN #Wildlife
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Nature protections do not block growth confirms cross-party committee - News - Bat Conservation Trust
New evidence reinforces concerns about anti-nature rhetoric and the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
At BCT, we believe — and the evidence shows — that bats and people can thrive together. Thriving communities, new homes, modern infrastructure and strong wildlife protections are not opposites and framing them as such is both irresponsible and harmful. www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/11...
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Time for some oak tree planting ASMR! 🌳
Today we are celebrating Oak Day with our friends at Action Oak! It is estimated that there are 170 million oak trees in woodlands and 2-3 million oaks aoutside of woodlands in Britain & Ireland.
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🚨 Experts at today’s @nebriefing.bsky.social are sounding the alarm on the accelerating climate and nature crisis.
🌍 One thing is clear: current laws aren’t enough. We need a science-led plan to tackle this joint emergency. We need the Climate and Nature Bill.
👉 action.zerohour.uk #CANBill
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📢 Orchards for Schools is now open for applications!
Orchards for Schools is our popular grant programme for UK schools that provides a free pack of fruit-bearing, wildlife-enhancing, carbon-storing orchard or fruiting hedgerow for your school!
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A lone Cormorant perches on a ledge at dusk, silhouetted against a golden sky. In the background, a blurred view of Westminster’s clock tower and nearby bridge structure rises behind it: politics and power in soft focus, nature sharp in the foreground.
In today's Budget, the Chancellor spoke about building the economy “brick by brick” but left out the very foundation that underpins it all: nature.
The same Government that promised to restore our natural world appears instead to have wiped it from their agenda.
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Award-winning buildings archaeologist. FSA. Mediaeval mythbuster. Castles. Old pubs. Theatre. Alan Garner. Cats. Live music. Ex-roadie.
Triskele Heritage
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Chris Holmes. Head of History & Politics at Highgate Wood School, North London. History is for life not just exams! For students, staff, alumni & parents. All views expressed here are strictly my own.
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Highgate Society is a civic organisation that aims to make Highgate Society a better place to live and work. With our 1400 members and 170 active volunteers, we run a large number of activities and groups to achieve our aim. See https://highgatesociety.com
Lib Dem PPC for Hampstead and Highgate. Councillor for St Margaret’s and North Twickenham.
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A fair, beautiful society for people and planet, please. Also, let’s dance! Oh, and do not obey in advance.
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A home in the City of London for unloved and rescued plants. It lies in the shadow of the ancient Church of All Hallows by the Tower.
Potted History: Ancient maker of replica ancient pottery, shaper of clay, builder of kilns, maker of tools, Experimental archaeology: Ceramic Technology. Prehistory Neolithic, Bronze-Age, Iron-Age, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Mediaeval.
Journalist and mature student (Conservation MSc at UCL). In the distant past reported from Kyiv and Baku.
Senior Bat Advisor, Project Coordinator for the Volunteer Bat Care Helpline and VBRV Lead at Bat Conservation Trust 🦇♥️ Social Media Officer for London Bat Group. Bangor graduate. BSc (Hons) Zoology with Conservation🦏🌻 All views my own.
London qualified guide for City of London and Westminster; museum professional. Loves history, art and archaeology. Hidden London guide and expert on Hampstead and its locality. Enjoys walking and finding sandwich spots in London's public open spaces...
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