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Nick Higham

1 year

Welcome to all my new followers. A quick reminder that this little beauty is now out in paperback! Andrew Marr calls it “original and gripping”, the Telegraph gave it 5 stars, the Mail called it “fascinating”. Y’all might enjoy it too…

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Nick Higham

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7 months

Someone has put crocheted Christmas puddings on all 75 railing posts along St Helen’s Wharf… 2/2

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Anton and Alina from Kyiv arrived to stay today. First stop: the delights of Stoke Newington’s Clissold Park…

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1989: water companies privatised with zero debt. 2019: total borrowings £53bn; total dividends £56bn…

Richard Coles

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£50bn required to update water infrastructure. That’s roughly the same sum the water companies raised through debt since privatisation - which we’re paying for - not to invest in infrastructure but to pay dividends to shareholders. Now they want us to pay again. What a load of…

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Best yet. Some strokes of genius in this...

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St Peter-on-the-Wall on the Dengie Peninsula in Essex, built c 660AD. One of the oldest churches in Britain still in use, and looking battered but unbowed in the sunshine...

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Good Lord. BBC online is running an obit — and it’s one I wrote. The only time I have managed to get the words “Cary Grant”, “dwarf” and “blizzard” into the same sentence. What a woman…! Obituary: Ann Leslie - BBC News

Ann Leslie obituary: One of Britain's most formidable journalists

Respected foreign correspondent who became a forthright commentator and pundit.

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How’s this for a lockdown project? Thorington Theatre in Suffolk, between Saxmundham and Southwold: the landowners are nut farmers and were wondering what to do with great piles of coppiced chestnut wood… 1/2

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Medieval wool workers’ cottages in Buckfastleigh, Devon: the top floor was for drying cloth, and the wooden shutters could be opened or closed to let the air in/keep the rain out… 1/2

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3 years

Functional. And beautiful...

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@dont4getthesun

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Snake bridge over the Macclesfield canal. Allowing the towpath to cross the canal without the horse being unhitched from the narrowboat it was pulling. Photographer unknown

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11 months

Not fake at all!! Two weeks ago I posted this photo of a house in Regents Park by the canal, and accused the owners of installing plastic grass. I am now reliably informed the grass is real. It looks so perfect *because they lay fresh turf every year*. Which is almost as bad…

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2 years

Great work here from @MailOnline . So many questions — like how does a company that makes a £167m loss still pay a dividend of £91.7m? And why was Pennon allowed to pay a “special dividend” of £1.5bn after an asset sale, three times more than it earmarked for capital investment…?

Feargal Sharkey

@Feargal_Sharkey

2 years

GUILTY AS CHARGED? Thames Water DEBT: £12.9billion CEO: Sarah Bentley PAY: £2million CHARGE: Fined £4million ‘waterfall of raw sewage’ Southern Water DEBT: £6billion CEO: Lawrence Gosden OWNERSHIP: Macquarie CHARGE: ‘Very serious widespread criminality’

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The problem of “false balance” in journalism...

Dr David Robert Grimes

@drg1985

5 years

Asked by regional BBC station to discuss falling vaccination rates - grand, except they wanted me on against someone claiming vaccines are dangerous. Explained this was textbook false balance, unethical, & against BBC trust guidelines. They wouldn't budge, so I'm not doing it😑

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Nick Higham

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7 years

Why have I never noticed this before?

Robert Macfarlane

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7 years

Word(s) of the day: “crown shyness” - phenomenon whereby individual tree crowns avoid overlap or touch, forming striking canopy patterns.

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Let us salute @bertsbooks in Swindon…

Bert’s Books

@bertsbooks

2 years

Anyway, we do have some spare copies of Spare if you want one

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The very model of a modern campaigner: @Feargal_Sharkey is energetic, informed, personable — and of course, absolutely right…

Feargal Sharkey

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Thanks again to everyone at @gmb for the opportunity, hugely appreciated, you’re all rock stars.

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Revealed: warning to ministers over privatised water kept secret since 2002

Author calls for disclosure of his report that ‘shows why private equity dominance in England has proved so disastrous’

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1 year

Spedan Close (formerly the Branch Hill estate) hidden in the trees of Hampstead’s West Heath. Three terraces of uncompromising modernism and “the most expensive council housing in the country” when completed in 1978… 1/3

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Nick Higham

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5 years

Could be paintings...

Journal of Art in Society

@artinsociety

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Examples of the Lumière Bros' 1903 Autochrome process, which automatically produced atmospheric ‘natural’ colour images without need for artificial colourising. It was the main colour photography process used before advent of Kodachrome in 1930s

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6 years

I always wear my spectacles whilst swimming after an unfortunate incident with a woman who turned out not to be my wife in the local pool...

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Bloke is met by his wife at Peterborough Station; he puts his glasses on before he kisses her.

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There is a legend associated with the English Civil War battle of Culham Bridge near Abingdon which serves as a handy warning to historians not to believe everything they read… 1/4

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7 months

What happened to the water that once flowed down London’s “lost rivers” after they were turned into sewers? A thread, prompted by @LonStreetwalker asking if anyone knew “where the Tyburn enters the sewage system”. I realised I didn’t know the answer… 1/8

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7 years

Yes!

Neil Crombie

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7 years

Like a really bleak Jack Vettriano.

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One for @skrifyas

Jonathan Healey

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7 years

Happy Birthday to Anders Celsius, born #otd 1701. He died in 1744 aged 42, although his great rival Fahrenheit thought he was 108.

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@RevRichardColes Isn’t the point of this that France may have had other prime ministers who were gay, but that they weren’t able to acknowledge the fact publicly? Whereas he can…

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"I'm the girl who makes the thing that holds the oil that oils the ring that works the thingummybob that's going to win the war" G. Fields

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Southwold. The cottages bear the date 1870. But the heads…?

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1 year

Yes. The water scandal is a shocking failure of regulation. Also a failure to learn from history: the Victorians discovered the hard way that privately-owned water companies need tight regulation…

Feargal Sharkey

@Feargal_Sharkey

1 year

"Row erupts as water company bosses are handed 'excessive' pay packages as Thames Water faces collapse." And here's the thing. None of this, and I mean NONE of this, would be happening if the regulators had done their jobs the last 30 years.

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But is it art? Farm gate, Gloucestershire...

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Man with beard and guidebook. Woman disdainful. And that look in the artist’s direction. Complicit? Hostile? Or simply bored? Marvellous...

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London Visitors by James Tissot c. 1874 ( @ToledoMuseum ). St Martin-in-the-Fields in the background.

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6 years

“The map we’ve all dreamed of seeing...” I never have, actually, but now you suggest it I’m intrigued...

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@simongerman600

7 years

#Map : What if ocean and land mass were switched? Article explores where you'd want to live in this strange world:

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Does this tells us anything abt (benevolent) #ASMR ? Misophonia: Why eating sounds can make people angry

Misophonia: Scientists crack why eating sounds can make people angry

The brains of misophonia patients like Olana are hardwired to produce excessive responses, scans show.

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Nick Higham

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4 years

I have discovered Thomas Shotter Boys's 1842 images of London: fine examples of English topographical art and early colour lithography. Also packed with incident and interesting historical detail. Will tweet some over next few days. Here's Westminster Abbey as a taster...

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An almost perfectly preserved early 19thC street: no bomb damage or modern intrusions, beautiful wrought iron balconies, arched windows, fanlights, pilasters — the works. Cheltenham, perhaps? Nope… 1/2

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Trinity Court, Grays Inn Rd, WC1: a 1934 concrete deco block, gleaming and elegant, by an otherwise rather obscure architectural practice, Taperell and Haase… 1/2

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11 months

Rather shocking…

The Somerset Eel Recovery Project

@The_peoples_eel

11 months

Full of eels we thought - but when we did our eDNA sample, the sample showed no presence of eel. Somerset Levels - a culturally important place for the Eel. SERP is committed to the recovery of Eel in Somerset through various initiatives - join us!

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4 years

Sadler's Wells Theatre from The Microcosm of London 1808-10 by Pugin and Rowlandson. It was at the time London's only "water theatre", able to stage mock naval battles on the tank under the stage... until it failed to pay its New River Co water bill and was cut off...

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The Charterhouse, Coventry. Complete with the lower part of a medieval mural of the crucifixion in what was originally the monks’ refectory. The top half disappeared when they put an extra floor in…

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6 years

How the BBC had staff vetted by MI5 for 50 yrs while denying it did so. Might have added @MichaelRosenYes to those whose careers were blighted...

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Memorial to the Kindertransport on the quayside at Harwich. Modern figurative sculpture can misfire badly but this, by @wolter_ian , is just right: life-size, touching without being sentimental… 1/3

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4 years

Love this: why English has two sets of “two”-related words, both derived from Latin, one set beginning “du”, the other beginning “bi”...

Dr Danny Bate

@DannyBate4

4 years

One interesting sound change in Old Latin was the change of /dw/ into /b/. For example, bellum 'war' (from which English gets 'bellicose' and 'belligerent') was once duellom. However, duellom did survive as an archaism, most often in poetry, and is the origin of English 'duel'.

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4 years

No pavement cafes. Few pedestrians. Cars double (and in one case triple) parked. Smog. I like it better now...

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5 years

These are far too good to demolish. And much-needed C London social housing too, it seems...

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4 years

If you forget to eat a globe artichoke it turns into this, the most gloriously vibrant colour...

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2 years

There’s an eclectic mix of shows — music, theatre, kids, comedy — all season. The acoustic is amazing… 2/2

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1 year

Guaranteed to leave you speechless with disbelief and anger: the story of an outrageous miscarriage of justice told ⁦ @oxfordlitfest ⁩ by journalist ⁦ @nickwallis ⁩, who has done more than anyone to expose it. In conversation with me next Friday…

The Great Post Office Scandal | Oxford Literary Festival

Nick Wallis Interviewed by Nick Higham - Journalist and broadcaster Nick Wallis talks about his work to expose the Post Office Horizon scandal that led to a ten-part series for...

oxfordliteraryfestival.org

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Nick Higham

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Good to have you back on the BBC, prof. @Robert_E_Kelly talking about Korea. From his home. No kids this time...

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Orwell unveiled at the BBC. He worked there 2 yrs, thought it a cross between a lunatic asylum and a girls’ school

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Preparations under way to erect Maggi Hambling’s memorial to Mary Wollstonecraft, pioneering feminist (and mother of Mary Shelley) at Newington Green, where Wollstonecraft briefly ran a school in the 1780s...

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Hard to contain my pleasure at seeing this — in ⁦ @WaterstonesPicc ⁩ flagship store, no less…

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6 years

Sombre stuff. Unsurprisingly...

Journal of Art in Society

@artinsociety

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Les Misérables author Victor Hugo, based in Guernsey, was also a prolific artist ~ here’s a sampling of his works (1850s) Les Misérables author Victor Hugo, based in Guernsey, was also a prolific artist ~ here’s a sampling of his works (1850s)

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Rubens' Duke of Buckingham 'found' after 400 years - BBC News

'Lost' Rubens discovered after 400 years - BBC News

The painting of the Duke of Buckingham, found in Glasgow, was previously thought to be a later copy.

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7 years

The famed working class painters who found the extraordinary in the everyday, only to be forgotten @EastLondonGroup

The famed painters who vanished into obscurity - BBC News

Two exhibitions hope to make household names once more of the London artists who all but disappeared in the late 1930s.

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11 years

BBC TV #idents from the 70s and 80s. Electro-mechanical models, they lived in a cupboard with a camera http://t.co/X9p0R1wSjU

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Watt and Stephenson get much of the glory, but Trevithick was one of the great pioneers of steam power — including steam-driven locomotion…

Camborne Town Council

@CamborneTC

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Where it all began … Richard Trevithick’s ‘Puffing Devil’ on @trevithick_day 2023 🚂 #Camborne

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It’s Frederick St just off Gray’s Inn Rd, WC1. One end built 1823-7 by the developer Thomas Cubitt, the other (slightly grander) end by his brother William 1827-39. Their builder’s yard was immediately to the south… 2/2

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9 months

An alternative candidate to St Martin’s for oldest building (or church, at any rate) in England is the wonderfully isolated St Peter’s on the Wall at Bradwell, Essex, dated to c 660…

Historic England

@HistoricEngland

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Several buildings can claim to be England’s oldest. These are the best contenders.

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2 years

Lombard Street photographed by William Whiffin in the early 20thC, via ⁦ @thegentleauthor ⁩. What architectural gems there were in the City before time, the Luftwaffe and the greed of developers took their toll…

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So they massaged the facts to put him on the “right” side in the battle, and gave him an especially gory death too. The real story has been painstakingly unearthed by @SWaldenHistory , to whom I am indebted for so much, including this story and the chain shot pic… 4/4

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Pretty place, Buckfastleigh… 2/2

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2 years

This is a great piece. Don’t forget that when @Feargal_Sharkey excoriates regulators for failing to do their job he knows whereof he speaks: he was a regulator himself once as a member of the Radio Authority (which oversaw commercial radio pre-Ofcom) for five years…

Sean O'Neill

@TimesONeill

2 years

a long lunch with @Feargal_Sharkey - rivers, flyfishing, politics, punk, Derry Boys and inspiring parents

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Magnificent images of the Thames and the London docks in the 1960s by John Claridge, at once ethereal and industrial: you can almost smell it... Via @thegentleauthor

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3 years

Journalists please take note...

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5 years

Thread. Profoundly sobering...

Tom Holland

@holland_tom

5 years

This is a Yazidi I met in a roasting refugee camp, with his 2 surviving children. He lost 2 daughters (both under the age of 12) to the beds of ISIS rapists, & his 2 elder sons to brainwashers who turned them into killers for the Caliphate.

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As an acquaintance pointed out, for those of us of a certain age this is a tweet of pure genius...

Gerald Ratner

@geraldratner

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It should have been obvious — I thought it would be obvious — but I would like to clarify, just in case it wasn’t. In a key sentence in my remarks, I said the word crap when I meant quality. Thanks Donald.

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Excellent book by @nickwallis : deeply researched, frequently jaw-dropping, passionate and highly readable. The best kind of investigative journalism…

Christopher Head

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#PostOfficeScandal Have you been outraged by the drama #MrBatesvsPostOffice #MrBatesVsThePostOffice then if you can handle more heartbreak consider buying a copy of @nickwallis book ‘The Great Post Office Scandal’. Nick has helped keep this story in the light for years #MrBates 👇

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Few surviving medieval sites are more atmospheric than Stokesay. Do go (when they let us out again...)

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Water pollution: Why do we still face a clean water crisis? Adam Vaughan explains why ⁦⁦ @thetimes ⁩ has launched its Clean Water campaign… (£)

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To Abney Park cemetery to see its latest memorial to the pioneering aeronaut Margaret Graham, originally buried in a common grave. Her first solo flight was made from White Conduit Fields in Islington when she was 22, two years after her first ascent with her husband…

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You can’t hide a lost river for ever: the Hackney Brook bubbling up in Clissold Park, Stoke Newington. (Actually, I think it’s just rainwater and a blocked grating, but it *is* right on the route of the Brook…)

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The historic water house opposite the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton (via Britain in Detail on FB). Built early 1300s. Water brought in from springs, wells around the town. One of earliest known examples of a municipal water supply on this scale, according to Historic England…

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I wondered if this, by @Dannythefink , would live up to the hype. It does. There are plenty of holocaust survival stories: this one stands out. That’s partly because it’s so well-written and researched, partly because the families involved were remarkable… 1/6

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Mouth of the River Effra, Vauxhall, now engulfed by works to divert it into the Thames Tideway super-sewer. Right in front of the MI6 building. Wonder what the spooks think of all this mole-like burrowing so close to their HQ…

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In beautiful St David's for @BBCBreakfast . Could this tiny place (pop'n 1,800) be UK City of Culture in 2021?

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Lovers of London and Lost Rivers should read this, by ⁦ @thisisyogic ⁩, which I’ve just finished: history, geology, psycho geography, covid chronicle, memoir — all in one handy and beautifully-written package…

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Yes! If the idea of digitisation is to improve access then I’m all for it. But if it’s a preliminary to freeing up storage space by destroying the paper originals, then no, no, no…

Caroline Shenton 🇺🇦

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Where to start with this. How tone deaf, at a time when the online services at @britishlibrary are largely down due to a cyber attack. Digitisation and then destruction of originals leaves you with no safety net if your digital copies are compromised for whatever reason.

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Great things come in small packages: only 140 pages from ⁦ @DrSueOosthuizen ⁩ but a thoroughly devastating piece of historical revisionism... 1/3

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Italian approach to easing lockdown: not exactly a model for UK since their lockdown much stricter than ours and their first stage basically brings them into line with us...

Mark Lowen

@marklowen

4 years

THREAD: #Italy PM Conte lays out how lockdown will be eased. From 4 May: - People can move within region but not beyond - Visiting family members allowed but not social gatherings. With masks - Private sport allowed (eg running) - Parks reopening - Funerals - max 15 ppl... [1/4]

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These fine beards are El Pony Pisador @elponypisador (“The Prancing Pony”). They were undisputed stars of @HarwichShanty : streets ahead of any other act, musically and in stagecraft. The world needs more shanties sung in thick Catalan accents and ridiculously tight arrangements…

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A solitary reminder that London’s South Bank, dominated today by tower blocks, arts complexes and the vast sprawl of Waterloo Station, was once mainly terrace after terrace of housing… 5 Whichcote Street | The Lonely House in Waterloo

5 Whichcote Street | The Lonely House in Waterloo

If you’ve used Waterloo Station, you might’ve admired the lonely No. 5 Whichcote Street, sole survivor of a demolished terrace.

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Big day for me: those nice people @headlinepg are releasing the cover design of my First Book, and it's a cracker. The Mercenary River, the colourful story of how London’s water supply developed over hundreds of years, is out April 2022... @pew_literary

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11 years

Sixty years of BBC TV idents: more on Monday

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The restored Battersea Power Station. The brickwork really is awesome, if ornamental rather than structural. But the best bit… 1/3

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The creeping privatisation of public space is a growing problem. But Carnaby St is a public road: only the police should have the right to move on an artist there, and then only if he were causing an obstruction. Which, by the look of it, is vanishingly unlikely...

Dave Crocker

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“Sorry mate you can’t paint here” “Can I ask why?” “It’s private and it’s not part of our corporate image” Guess that’s that then

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Quite the crowd on Newington Green today for the unveiling by @thehuwedwards of an @EnglishHeritage blue plaque to Richard Price, the greatest Welsh thinker of the 18thC… 1/2

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That Turner the great proto-Impressionist experimenter in oils and Turner the precisely-observed topographical watercolourist should be one and the same never ceases to astonish...

John Constable

@JohnConstableRA

5 years

High Street, Edinburgh by JMW Turner 1818 Watercolour ( @YaleBritishArt )

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Publication day today! @andrewmarr9 calls it “thoroughly original and gripping”, ⁦ @DailyMailUK ⁩ calls it “consistently fascinating”, ⁦ @Telegraph ⁩ calls it “gruesome and fascinating”, ⁦ @ahmpreston ⁩ calls it “beautifully written”. Go on, you know you want to…

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1 year

Spotted while walking the Hillingdon Trail today at a kids’ football tournament. You could hear the noise hundreds of yards away…

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2 years

It’s been a good week. First grandchild arrived this morning. Copies of first book arrived from the publishers yesterday. Hard to say which gave me greater pleasure…!

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Perhaps a little late this year, our cherry tree has declared the arrival of spring in all her pomp…

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A third batch today of London’s magnificent/elegant/eccentric pumping stations. Here’s the 1911 pumping station at Walton-on-Thames… 3/3 #Londonwater

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Prince Philip’s birthplace: Mon Repos, Corfu. When last I was here (1970) it was shuttered and abandoned. I climbed up the cliffs from the beach below then couldn’t find a way out. Ended up scrambling over the wall…

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“Cuddlesome” deserves wider currency…

Haggard Hawks 🦅📚 Words | Language | Etymology

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The ‘some’ in AWESOME is an Old English ending ‘–sum’ used to form adjectives from nouns. Less well used words in this group include LUSTSOME (desirous), FRIENDSOME (kindly), WIELDSOME (easily handled), VENOMSOME (spiteful), HARBOURSOME (hospitable), and CUDDLESOME (embraceable).

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Sound up: waterwheel at Buckfast Abbey, Devon. You can see why old London Bridge was famously noisy: it had half a dozen of these under its arches, belonging to the London Bridge Waterworks… 1/2

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A shaft of late afternoon sun reveals the stones of an old ford on a tributary of the River zeal on the North York Moors...

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Covehithe, Suffolk, where the villagers got permission in the 17thC to demolish their enormous medieval church (always far too big for the population) and build a modest replacement nestling inside. They kept the old tower as a seamark… 1/2

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Except John Bradbury didn’t exist. The real Bradbury (called Francis) was killed fighting for Parliament, not the king, and there is no mention of chain shot. This inconvenient truth embarrassed his staunchly royalist descendants… 3/4

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This is an extraordinary piece of writing by Robert McLiam Wilson, at once devastating, heart rending and brilliant… In a deserted courtroom, the grim details of the Nice atrocity go mostly unnoticed | Robert McLiam Wilson | The Guardian

In a deserted courtroom, the grim details of the Nice atrocity go mostly unnoticed | Robert McLiam...

Eighty-six people died in the 2016 tragedy, yet compassion and empathy have become exhausted

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The stunning Nelson Stair (also known as the Navy Stair) at Somerset House, designed by William Chambers, rebuilt in the 1950s after wartime bombing…

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Highlights of @EastLondonGroup excellent Brothers in Art show @BeecroftGallery in Southend (a short thread). Walter Steggles’ Brymay Wharf, The Red Bridge and Bow Bridge hanging alongside one another… 1/5

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