Lisa Godson

everywhere everywhere - even a delicious ice-pop called JR - orange shot through with blackcurrant

That’s funny

Two crackers…

This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)

And grows so so fast

Not sure I’ve a definite field - but for architecture, design and religious history Duffy and Nolan were a godsend. Black Athena has to be in there for the excitement of studying classics at BA and having a whole new paradigm…

That’s so cool

Elegant…

What’s your favourite Irish phrase? Heard ‘he went through him for a short cut’ for the first time in ages last night, think it’s my current #1

Very very excited to see my pal and collaborator Paul Rowley’s film Gays against Guns at the Dublin International Film festival this evening about American gun violence & queer activism in the wake of the Pulse massacre…Interview w Paul here - www.irishtimes.com/gaeilge/scea...

thanks! I'm looking forward to finishing the transcription and spreadsheet stage and seeing what emerges

Hand-written list of 'repairs and particulars necessary at present for the use and service of the House' from 1729

list of repairs to be made to a building complex in Dublin, 1688. Organised by trades - plasterer, joyner and carpenter and smith

I love @shannonmattern.bsky.social 's work on repair and care placesjournal.org/article/main... ...particularly inspiring for my current enterprise of trying to compile a list of all the (recorded) repairs to one building complex over 230 years (pics are from 1729 and 1688)

Lovely photo…hope you’re braced for the continuous murk here!

c.1949 photograph of a man with spectacles and pipe (Horace Wilkinson) holding what was believed to be the head of Oliver Cromwell (d. 1658, exhumed and executed post-mortem in 1661), head then displayed on a spike above Westminster Hall. The head was buried in Sidney Sussex College, Oxford, in 1960

oh yikes...maybe a middle ground?

Srsly where are the British republicans?

It would be interesting to know what particular universities did or did not do to mitigate the effects of the pandemic. Certainly in Ireland, some were far far better than others in terms of looking after students, but I'd welcome a study as to how different universities supported staff.

yes, and within living memory - my mother was b. in the 1940s and three kids in her class died of TB, another from a rusty nail, her younger brother died of measles...etc

I feel weird feeling like I’d really hate to disappoint him

Particularly as that’s often all non-subscribers see. Sub- editors have always wielded huge power, and with paywalls maybe even more so now

See coding

📢Another new piece out in the One British Archive Series!

📗"A Monumental Task: The Archival Potential of Graveyards" by James Johnson

Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Agnes Yewande Savage (1906 – 1964) Influential Scottish-Nigerian doctor, and the first woman of West African heritage to train and qualify in orthodox medicine. Image Agnes Yewande Savage Agnes Yewande Savage was born in Edinburgh in 1906, the daughter of Richard Akinwande Savage Sr - a Nigerian medical doctor, newspaper publisher and a 1900 Edinburgh graduate - and Maggie S. Bowie, a native Scotswoman. Her brother was Richard Gabriel Akinwande Savage, also a doctor and Edinburgh alumnus, who became the first person of West African heritage to receive a British Army commission.

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, remembering Agnes Yewande Savage (1906 – 1964).

The first woman of West African heritage to qualify in orthodox medicine (a distant relative).

She obtained 1st class honours in all subjects from University of Edinburgh (where I received an MSc).

Safe house linked to Underground Railroad discovered in Manhattan The Merchant's House is the first landmarked building in Manhattan.

“Historians call this passageway a masterwork of deliberate concealment, designed to be absolutely invisible to slave catchers or city marshals during the 19th-century”

Still can't get over how magnificent this 15th century medieval hammer-beam roof is at St Colleen's in Llangollen. It's glorious!!! #Wales #Church #medieval #History

always thought that bit was go to mass before you get your sweets

beyond depraved, obnoxious scum

‎Al Kamandjati - الكمنجاتي‎ on Instagram‎: "⁨ قامت قوات الاحتلال ليلة أمس باقتحام مركز الكمنجاتي الكائن في مخيم قلنديا لللاجئين والذي يعود ملكيته لجمعية مركز البرامج النسوية في المخيم. حيث قامت قوات ا... 427 likes, 15 comments - alkamandjati on January 27, 2026‎: "⁨ قامت قوات الاحتلال ليلة أمس باقتحام مركز الكمنجاتي الكائن في مخيم قلنديا لللاجئين والذي يعود ملكيته لجمعية مركز البرامج النسوية في المخيم...

Last night, israeli occupation forces raided Al Kamandjati Center located in Qalandiya Refugee Camp, destroying all musical instruments inside the center.

This will be met, yet again, with silence from our classical music industry

www.instagram.com/p/DUBUWwSiCxl/

Also hard recommend elave for sensitive skin - or any faces esp moisture boost. Tried to buy just Irish this Christmas and more or less succeeded including a guitar and boxing gloves - always w bonus chats and stories!

Such beautiful writing about writing (about writing). Wahoo and well done, see you up the road.