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Lecturer at the University of Bath. Researcher of historic buildings, uses, design solutions. HENI presenter, Arts Society speaker. Immersed in the arts of the late Middle Ages.

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Photo of a book of the constitution of the United States but they misspelled “united” as “unided” on the cover.

Photo of a book of the constitution of the United States but they misspelled “united” as “unided” on the cover.

Guys I can’t even

05.03.2026 19:25 👍 218 🔁 32 💬 57 📌 17

Bravo. The Cojones Cup.

06.03.2026 06:31 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The vulnerable Gulf energy assets putting the world on edge Infrastructure in the region plays a critical role in global power supply

Energy, a visual www.ft.com/content/e05d...

06.03.2026 06:10 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.

All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

05.03.2026 18:05 👍 897 🔁 388 💬 23 📌 28
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Good afternoon.

05.03.2026 15:53 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

FASCINATING

05.03.2026 13:51 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Half of British television always starts like this - British Comedy Guide Michael Spicer has recreated pretty much every show on television: A White Middle-Aged Man Travels Around Again.

www.comedy.co.uk/online/video...

05.03.2026 13:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The reality, via Reuters

05.03.2026 13:34 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 2

Turn out the proponents of nationalism and sovereignty are keenest to deny others their nationhood and sovereignty.

05.03.2026 09:13 👍 24 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

What’s your costume for World Book Day this year? I’m going as a Generative AI Subsidiary Content Aggregation Addendum to an already one-sided academic publishing contract

05.03.2026 09:08 👍 99 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 0

Renaissance ruffs- what we could have won if the Reformation hadn’t happened

04.03.2026 18:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For those who have missed it and are interested, my talk is now available online.

04.03.2026 13:48 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Oil prices jump nearly 5%, settle at highest since January 2025 on Middle East conflict Oil prices settled up 4.7% on Tuesday, ​the highest since January 2025, as U.S.-Israel battles with Iran intensified, disrupting energy shipments from the Middle East and stoking fears of ‌a longer co...

Go figure how 100%+ happened www.reuters.com/business/ene...

04.03.2026 13:35 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Domestic oil price, January 56p/ litre. Post- Iran, £1.24/ litre.

04.03.2026 09:10 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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A little bit of extra light for a Wednesday morning: St. Mary's Abbey in York.

04.03.2026 07:00 👍 185 🔁 29 💬 4 📌 2
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Al Jazeera has released satellite footage showing damage inflicted by Iran on US military bases across the region. #Iran

03.03.2026 22:54 👍 258 🔁 72 💬 12 📌 4
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Pugin's contempt for cheap fallacious church buildings.

03.03.2026 22:25 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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The British Royal Air Force has shot down a Shahed drone en route to Qatar. #MiddleEast

03.03.2026 18:47 👍 234 🔁 28 💬 13 📌 8
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❗️According to Iran International, the Iranian Assembly of Experts has elected Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Ali Khamenei, as Iran's next Supreme Leader. Yet to be confirmed. #Iran

03.03.2026 20:49 👍 190 🔁 29 💬 24 📌 11
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Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, Isfahan, Iran. Western early C17. Restored in the 1920s with the help of an American scholar, Arthur Upham Pope.

03.03.2026 20:36 👍 30 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

Spanish Gothic is 👌

03.03.2026 20:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Lichfield Cathedral's twin spires. But they're not, quite.

03.03.2026 19:49 👍 30 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

The trade was to go there to avoid paying tax, then claim entitlement to the expense of being evacuated

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Telegraphery

02.03.2026 12:20 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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Londesborough Hall demolished by the 6th Duke of Devonshire in 1818. His commitments to improving Chatsworth made it unaffordable and they had seldom visited it since 1753 when was inherited from the 3rd Earl of Burlington. Its footprint exposed by drought. The Duke donated several vases to Buxton

01.03.2026 22:20 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Swan sí

01.03.2026 15:59 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good tower; poor E in G has suffered from crumbling stone, rain penetration and ground movement with a cracked chancel. Hard for a diminished congregation to support a C19 church with that scorecard.

28.02.2026 21:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Something other than the news

28.02.2026 19:47 👍 51 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

That tower arch is crazy. Is it Gordano?

28.02.2026 17:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0