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'It's hard not to be blown away': The 70s rock band putting 'Zamrock' back on the map, 50 years on Blending the style of The Rolling Stones with African beats and instruments, Zambian group Witch were revolutionary – then disappeared. No one could have predicted their return.

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A Zamrock band played at Glastonbury last year!!

Zamrock is supposed to having a revival...

'Consulting historian' is a growth industry.

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

More than 200 killed in mine collapse in eastern DR Congo The mine has been under the control of the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group since 2024.

More than 200 people were victims of this landslide, including miners, children and market women," were killed at the Rubuya coltan mine.

Franck Bolingo, an artisanal miner interviewed at Rubaya by AFP, said people were believed to be still trapped inside the mine.

The Man Who Photographed the Miners: J. C. Burrow in Cornwall and Wales Who was the man who photographed the miners? How did he do it? What risks did he take? Didn’t he always operate in Cornwall? Read the story behind the stunning photographs of Cornish mining i…

People of Cornwall, #3: what was the story behind pioneering underground photographer J C Burrow’s amazing images of Cornish miners? Read on…
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Mineral Commodity Summaries Published on an annual basis, this report is the earliest Government publication to furnish estimates covering nonfuel mineral industry data. Data sheets contain information on the domestic industry s...

The 2026 edition of the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries is out!
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There would have been a handful of people alive when the film was released who could remember the book being published.

It seems somehow impossible that the release of the first Wuthering Heights film (1920) is far closer in time to the publication of the novel Wuthering Heights (1847) than it is to us today.

Define the „postcolonial state”:

A view of a warehouse and dumpsters behind a chain link fence. A sign on the fence says "CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE DELIVERIES & PICKUPS".

Found the local office of my prestigious publisher the other day

Lesotho soldiers arrested for selling firearms to zama zamas The two accused were arrested with guns they could not prove were in their possession lawfully

The case against two Lesotho Defence Force soldiers was postponed at the Maseru Magistrates’ Court. They are accused of stealing firearms and selling them to informal miners.

Read groundup.org.za/article/leso... by Sechaba Mokhethi

I'm finding that searches on Google Books now don't even pick up metadata, including for books that I'd expect to be out of copyright. Searches return lots of periodical literature and little else.

Quite important if you are relying on Google Books for teaching or research. Short-term snag or is it a hack? Just searched for 10 titles to no effect. #Skystorians

The first time I went to the NUM offices in Barnsley for research I was specifically told by the person who introduced me not to mention Scargill.

You should ask current officials at the NUM (which still exists) what they think of Scargill. His position on the strike was vindicated but what has happened since then soured relations with many who were close to him.

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He's certainly had time to go through it...

EXPOSED: The sordid tale of a dubious mine tailings operation that threatens critical wetlands in Gauteng This is the dark underbelly of South African mining – the dubious re-mining of tailings dams in an ecologically destructive way that feeds the laundromat of illicit gold. Daily Maverick’s queries on t...

Proud of the impact that reporting for this story had even before we published it this evening. Our queries sparked South Africa's Department of Water and Sanitation to take action: www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Chinese-owned Zimbabwe mine dismisses women after forced HIV tests The management of a Chinese-owned gold mine in Zimbabwe is facing legal action from the union after subjecting female workers to mandatory HIV testing before summarily dismissing them. The union descr...

Chinese-owned Zimbabwe mine dismisses women after forced HIV tests. The management of a Chinese-owned gold mine in Zimbabwe is facing legal action from the union after subjecting female workers to mandatory HIV testing before summarily dismissing them.

He's agreed to open this up while he's still alive?? Has he forgotten what's in there?

FindAPhD : PhD Studentships to support doctoral research in the Arthur Scargill Archive at the University of Sheffield at University of Sheffield Apply for a PhD: PhD Studentships to support doctoral research in the Arthur Scargill Archive at the University of Sheffield at University of Sheffield

Three scholarships for PhD in Arthur Scargill Archive - quite the opportunity. Believe me when I say that I am sure that some of the stuff in here will be quite the eye-opener! (if the good stuff hasn't been already shredded or slapped with an embargo)

Rendez-vous demain 20h à la Librairie Jonas pour discuter grèves de mineurs, humour au travail et enquêtes du Mass-Observation ! Un apéro-livre de @afhmt.bsky.social animé par Romain Castellesi !

They've had enough of being a walled Tuscan town?

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Writing a three page article with seven co-authors gave me a taster of what publishing in the natural sciences is like.

This includes our short article on the use of Trove by Africanist historians:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Feels like there's some fundamental disconnect when you have to verify you're human to access the websites of academic publishers advertising their 'AI assisted' search functions.

It's almost impossible to describe the ethnic mosaic that was pre-colonial Africa

On this small island, barely 40 miles long, there were at least six different ethnic groups!

and this number only includes those we know from the written sources

One of my favourite ever news stories.