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Precisely three minutes of rain here this evening ☹️

Oh no!! Is there a waiting list? It might be worth emailing to ask.

Royal Historical Society open meeting (online) for historians working in universities, 4 Aug 2026 - ‘The crisis in UK higher education: the future for history’ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-crisis.... It’s a definite sign of the times that places are almost gone.

New - Toolkit for Legacy (Weird) Media Assets. It offers practical guidance on preserving fragile and outdated media formats, from floppy disks and audio cassettes to MiniDiscs and microfilm. Congratulations @amsichani.bsky.social, @beatricecannelli.bsky.social and Leontien Talboom!

Oh my word, I feel old!

That’s brilliant news - congratulations!

I just can’t with the stuttery nonsense for penalties.

Ours is end of January!

I had the same thing with the primary school at the end of my road. Missed it on the first try but got there in the end.

I know this ship sailed a long time ago, but good lord, there really is no need for people to have a forthright opinion on something they know absolutely nothing about.

📢 Applications are open for the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association's Advocacy & Engagement Fellowship. Theme: Openness & Transparency 💰 £4,000 stipend + £1,000 project fund 📅 Deadline: 17 August 2026 Link: digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/07/06/2... #DigitalHumanities #OpenResearch #DH

That’s so disappointing, but sadly not surprising.

‘This direction of travel risks irreversible damage to UK higher education and research, to scholarship, and to our capacity to shape the future…diminishing opportunities for students, widening regional inequalities, and the erosion of knowledge, evidence and expertise on which the UK depends.’

The BBC commentators have no clue who Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem are. I guess we all live in our bubbles!

I live in the affected constituency so I wrote to my MP when this was first announced. I did get a response eventually but there haven’t been any public statements that I’m aware of ☹️

For UK-based folk, the government is matching donations to the Disasters Emergency Committee’s Venezuela Earthquake Appeal pound for pound (up to £2m).

There’s a permanent modern British history post going at Manchester 🎉Come and join a great department and please share with anyone who might be interested. (Don’t let the short deadline put you off). #skystorians 🗃️

She was marvellous!

And kaftans and head scarves to die for!

I have such strong memories of Jack Charlton throwing water bottles to Ireland players when they were playing in Florida during USA 94, but the hydration breaks regardless of the temperature are nonsense.