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And he’s not welcome here either!

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

'The District Line' (from 'London, The Passing Scene', 1975) by Rupert Shephard

Congratulations Alayo Akinkugbe, otherwise known as Insta's @ablackhistoryofart, who's disgustingly youthful 😉 to have such a significant new art history book out! Heard all about Reframing Blackness at Tate Britain this morning 😃
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Why is the beach a car park??

#BookSky

'Kensington High Street' (1930) by Tirzah Garwood

A fallen oak turned into a bench with elaborate carvings resembling oak leaves

The Blenheim Estate lost an oak, and as they like their fallen trees to remain in place to encourage wildlife, they asked artist Matthew Crabb to do his magic

Photo: Pete Seaward

Two badgers in wood, painting.

Badgers, Tunnicliffe.

An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England | George Monbiot This scandalous story gives lie to the claim that the biggest threat to country life comes from city dwellers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Stormzy awarded honorary Cambridge doctorate in law Rapper recognised for his ‘transformative’ scholarship programme helping black students into higher education The rapper Stormzy has been awarded an honorary degree from Cambridge University for his work helping black students get into higher education. The 31-year-old received a Doctorate in Law for his “transformative” scholarship programme, which funds black UK students to study at the institution. Continue reading...

Stormzy awarded honorary Cambridge doctorate in law

From Tate Modern to Grimsby docks: the team saving Britain’s cherished buildings from the wrecking ball Can you imagine Liverpool without its Welsh Streets or London without Battersea Power Station? For 50 years, one small band of activists have been finding creative alternative uses for great buildings...

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Just launched!
2025
Action Scorecards

Climate Emergency UK assessed all UK councils on the actions they’ve taken towards net zero. councilclimatescorecards.uk/scoring/dist...

I think it would be good to get some women in charge of the countries that have nuclear weapons. Women talk to each other. Women can be reasonable. Enough with the macho men and swinging dicks.

Ask your MP to put reproductive rights into law The right to make decisions about our families and bodies is not protected by law. The 1967 Abortion Act allows people to seek abortion under certain circumstances but abortion otherwise remains a cri...

Farage and the US Religious Right are celebrating policy wins here - and there's been a huge rise in prosecutions for abortion.

Please email your MP and ask them to support Stella Creasy's amendment to decriminalise abortion; we've made it so easy for you. action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...

brown suffolk punch horse looks at the camera

Welcome Joan, a four year old Suffolk Punch and the latest addition to Wimpole Estate’s Home Farm in Cambridgeshire. Suffolk horses, also known as Suffolk Punch, are Britain’s oldest native heavy horse breed and are critically endangered, with fewer than 500 remaining in the UK. buff.ly/K0HvkJT

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

"Vivian Taylor, a climate policy expert who co-authored the analysis, said the fossil fuel industry has a real interest in funding panic over transgender people: It distracts the public from 'the very real and ongoing risks that climate change creates.'" heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Decoding Hidden Heritages Explore the shared linguistic and cultural heritage of Ireland and Scotland

Newly launched- the Decoding Hidden Heritages project brings together over 5,500 Gaelic folktales from Ireland & Scotland, transcribed & made searchable using advanced AI. Congrats to Will Lamb, Bea Alex and wider team!

'Gloomy Old London' by Harriet Lawless
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'The Albert Bridge' (1966) by Edward Bawden

Welsh folklore tells us that June is a month of midsummer magic marked by fire and festivity.
The cuckoo changes her call in June, a shift said to foretell the year ahead. Warm and welcome? A good omen. Strange or harsh? Trouble may follow.
Listen closely...
#folkloresunday #Wales

London tunnels that inspired James Bond creator will become spy museum Complex built during second world war is to include military equipment, interactive exhibitions and a bar During his time in military intelligence, Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond novels, regularly worked with Winston Churchill’s spy organisation based 30 metres below ground in a labyrinth of tunnels in central London. The Kingsway Exchange tunnels complex, stretching out across 8,000 sq metres beneath High Holborn, near Chancery Lane underground station, hosted the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and is said to have inspired Q Branch in Fleming’s novels. Continue reading...

London tunnels that inspired James Bond creator will become spy museum

Reading the Room: Books in Heritage Spaces This panel talk explores what it means to engage with books in a heritage setting, and how we might better enable contemporary engagement with our histories of books and reading

Join us in person or online on 16 June, 1-2.30 pm (BST) as we mark the culmination of this stage of Reading the Room. I can promise plenty of book pictures & stories from heritage libraries.

Free event but booking required. We'd love to see you there!

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jun25/...

The Girl With The Cat Earring

Bridget Hangs Out With The Hunters In The Snow

Bridget Meets The Beatles On Abbey Road

Bridget Does Edward Hopper

THREAD. When my parents' cat Bridget went missing, my dad, to try to ease his worry, painted her on a variety of historical ventures. Soon, these numbered in the dozens.

After much nagging, my dad has had some postcards printed of this brilliant series: michaelcoxmoredaysthansausages.bigcartel.com

Lost mansion revealed as spring sunshine bakes Clumber Park Clumber House near Worksop was taken down in 1938 but its outlines are showing in the parched grass.

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Read what our Director General, Hilary McGrady, has to say about putting history and heritage at the heart of policymaking here: bit.ly/4dxie6s

The Palladian Bridge at Prior Park at golden hour, its grand stone columns lit in the evening sun over dark water beneath, with the foliage of green trees framing it in the sunshine.

It’s more important than ever to protect historic buildings and landmarks.

Research shows the deep cultural and emotional connection people across the UK have with their historic landmarks, which are central to their sense of place.

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In a remote corner of Arctic Alaska, archaeologists have unearthed blue glass beads at sites like Punyik Point.
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A SHARED SHAME: THE NAKBA AND BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY Attempting to tie itelf to a biblical kingdom in the region, Israel ignores or erases Palestine’s more recent history. But Israel is not alone in its ideological end-goals. The West share equally in this colonial project.

Zionists want to connect the modern state of Israel with the ancient biblical kingdoms of Israel and Judah. They didn’t pluck this idea out of the air though. Biblical archaeologists have long been exploiting Palestine in order to prove the historicity of both the Old and New Testaments. Before looking at Israel’s weaponisation past and present, here we will look at the part that Western archaeology has played in the continued disenfranchisement of Palestinians.

“Biblical archaeologists tend to treat the four hundred years of Old Testament History as though they were the only important period in the history of the country. The six thousand years of settled life prior to the establishment of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah tend to be treated as a preparatory era for the final triumph of the state of Israel, without emphasizing the far higher level of civilization reached before the arrival of the Israelites.” Dimitri Baramki, 1969, in critique of the obvious bias in Biblical archaeology in Palestine

Biblical archaeology is about as old as modern archaeology itself. In the late 19th century, British and US archaeologists started to focus on the so-called Holy Land, opening up excavations in search of evidence of the Bible’s stories in the local geography and archaeology. But archaeologists were not the only group involved. Religious orders and clergymen also played a central role, as they strove to prove the Bible’s veracity. The endeavour was not only scholarly, but ideological. The Restorationist movement among Christians believed that Jewish people must be restored to the Holy Land before the Second Coming of Christ. Of course, the desire to help these events along a little, was also driven by Britain’s Imperial ambitions and military strategy for the region. Here we see the same intersection between political, military, and religious power as can be seen enshrined in Israeli policy today. Archaeology was exploited as a tool in Britain’s endeavours as much as it is today in Israel’s.

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