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Composite image of the BBC HQ building in London, a selection of Chris Mason articles listed on the BBC website, and photo of Chris Mason as an insert.

No factual errors. No obvious bias. But when coverage focuses overwhelmingly on one political actor – and mostly in negative terms – the narrative effect can still skew perception.
That matters especially for the BBC. Stephen McNair reports

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Photo from the early 1970s of a man on horseback negotiating the Birmingham inner ring road at Holloway Head

I’m searching for the original and/or rights owner of this fabulous picture of Birmingham in the early 1970s. It popped up on my Instagram feed, but I’ve been unable to track it down.

Any leads? I’m really hoping to use it in a book.

(And would much appreciate a RT please)

My article on Queen Anne’s wardrobe has just been published OA.

I provide a qualitative & quantitative overview of her extensive wardrobe accounts (incl makers & suppliers) & show how fashion influenced her representation!

#18thc #17thc #earlymodern

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The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Birkbeck, University of London, is looking for a talented researcher to join a project focused on expanding our understanding of non elite writers and writing in seventeenth century England. As Postdoctoral Research Associate you will join 'Written Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England', an exciting Leverhulme Trust–funded project. The role is offered on a 13 month, part time (17.5 hours a week) contract with a salary of £22,124 rising to £25,189 per annum (pro-rated £44,247 to £50,379 per annum). In this role, you will carry out dedicated research on non elite textual production, working closely with the Principal Investigator, Professor Sue Wiseman, and the Co Investigator, Dr Brodie Waddell. You will have the opportunity to work extensively with manuscripts and printed sources, visit archives, investigate datasets, develop the project database, and contribute to shaping the project’s scholarly outputs - and you may also be involved in textual editing. As Research Associate, you will focus on one of two thematic strands: 1. Non elite writing produced in the provinces, or 2. Writing produced by non elite women. Further details via link

We are hiring postdoc researchers to join our #WrittenWorlds project at Birkbeck, with Sue Wiseman, @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social, @richardjansell.bsky.social and I.

0.5FTE, 13 months, focus on women's or provincial non-elite writing #EarlyModern 🗃️
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Drones armed with lasers to tackle illegal rubbish dumps Chief executive of River Action, James Wallace, welcomed the new measures from the Environment Agency, but argues they do not go far enough and said "ministers have known for years about large-scale i...

After lagging so far behind the times, and being utterly useless for years on end, the Environment Agency says it wakes up to drones surveillance as a regulatory tool. news.sky.com/story/drones...

Should anyone want to donate to the RNLI ~and also- fancy a nice recipe, possibly for a belated valentine’s, all they have to do is post a screenshot.

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70% OFF Perfection: 400 Years of Women's Quest for Beauty A colorful account of women's health, beauty, and cosmetic aids, from stays and corsets to today's viral trends Victorian women ate arsenic to achieve an ideal, pale complexion, while in...

Anniversary offer!
Perfect Valentine's Day present ...

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Maybe check out the CNN website? It's up there

Women and the Sea Workshop — SWAAN SWAAN will host the Woman and the Sea Workship on 29 April to 1 May 2026 at Memorial University's Maritime History Archive in St. John's NL. To imagine a future for women in maritime industries, we mu...

Hey! Guess what?

The CFP for the SWAAN Workshop about women's involvement in maritime life, hosted by the bangarang Maritime History Archive in lovely St. John's, Newfoundland is open until January 31st!

You've got time! Submit! And Please Circulate this post!🙏

www.swaan.org/workshop

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier says that the United States is destroying the world order:

"But there is also the fact that our most important partner, the US has broken with the values that it helped to establish and, above all, has played a decisive role in shaping over decades"

Image of Will from "Stranger Things" crying. Text reads; "POV: when you don't like your Christmas presents."

Was your gift from Santa not quite right this year?🎅🎁
Donate it to Oxfam and we're sure to find someone who will love it! You could even pick up a new gift for yourself while you're visiting our shops 👀
#PrelovedChristmas #DonateYourGifts #Recycle #StrangerThingsMeme

L’écrivain le plus lu au monde revendique un style qui ne cherche ni à briller ni à se faire remarquer, mais à disparaître entièrement derrière le récit.⁠
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/O9S

Update on this shenanigans.

For a one-off cost of £10 you can pick up what Microsoft call an "on-premises" version of Office Pro 2021.

It doesn't have any 365 cloud connectivity, you don't get new feature updates — it's just fully-licenced desktop versions of Word, Excel, etc. for Windows PCs.

50% OFF London and the 17th Century: The Making of the World’s Greatest City The first comprehensive history of seventeenth-century London, told through the lives of those who experienced it The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I's execution, the Plague, the Gre...

'Tis the season for last-minute gifts! 50% off. Ends 1 January.
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Also, many have Welsh as their first language, or Irish. So what?

Honestly, I did NOT have "punching the air and going HELL YES to Chris Patten" on my bingo card today. But what he says is SO rarely said and needed saying SO badly!

"How shall we treat Mr Farage's concerns? Shall we hail Brexit a tremendous success? Something that has cost the country billions?"

Perfection - Yale University Press London A colourful account of women’s health, beauty, and cosmetic aids, from stays and corsets to today’s viral trends   Victorian women ate arsen...

It's also a tale of women's entrepreneurship and resilience!
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If you are a member of the National Trust and also despise the Reform tendency, please vote in the AGM to keep the astroturf candidates of Restore Trust out of power.

You can find the names to avoid here, at this deliberately broken link: https:// www. restoretrust. org. uk / agm-2025

Laurie Magnus: Rayner acted "in good faith", had "the intention to pay all appropriate taxes", "was twice informed in writing" that the lower rate was due, "sought quickly to correct the mistake", "acted with integrity", but didn't seek expert advice.

That was a mistake. But I find this much worse⬇️

And they don't always use the water meter readings if there's a local leak somewhere ...

stumbled upon the Osterley Bookshop earlier today and 1) it's so charming oh my word 2) it's closing down in December, so get down there before then if you want to experience it for yourself, it's so nice

One of many things I took away from the World Economic History Congress last week is how much ECRs appreciate having opportunities to review books (and, in turn, having their books reviewed). Just a reminder that @journalmaritime.bsky.social welcomes ECRs as reviewers – see the details below! 👇 🗃️

Mrs Adair sold this kind of shapeware for the face in 1912. Not a new concept!

Does anyone know - when latin was lingua franca, did speakers put the verb at the end of the sentence or follow the word order that was usual in their own language?

They're swedes

#R4Today - diets make you fat. Is this news? When writing 'Perfection' I found lots of material about this. People have been saying it for years.

No, me too!

Grab the discount while it's there!

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I am one of the authors whom Meta stole (sorry, ‘scraped’) from, by using their books to train Libgen. So I’m biased. But this from @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social is👌