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Which is really England’s oldest pub? Tree-ring dating helps settle debate www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Go see it for yourself, it’s breathtaking: holburne.org/whats-on/exh...

It’s come to something when a photographer has to get legal advice, before displaying this photo in an exhibition, due to the risk of being prosecuted as a terrorist, but that’s exactly what I had to do yesterday. What a state this country is in.

Alfa Romeo Giulia 1300GT Low-drag Race Car www.carandclassic.com/auctions/196...

Liberal England... Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band: Autumn's Child I hope it's not a myth that the Captain and Frank Zappa were in the same class at school – "Van Vliet and Zappa. I might have known."

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

We are delighted to announce that the winners of the AR Emerging awards 2026. The overall winner is Atelier Julien Boidot. The judges highlighted that Atelier Julien Boidot was ‘a savvy model for practice’, with a team including a quantity surveyor, engineer and interior designer in house.

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The hero dinner lady who died saving five children in the Aberfan disaster. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Soviet-Era Illustrations of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1976)

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This is really interesting! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Roman fort found in Wales could prove myth of emperor’s camp is real | Roman Britain | The Guardian share.google/W6lpQD1ch9F6...

We all need a timeline cleanse, so here is the most adorable #chess piece ever! A knight, made of antler. Dating 11/12th century. Found at the Burgstein, Lichtenstein-Holzelfingen. 📷️ me

(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Trump Unilaterally Ends American Sanctions on Russian Energy Products and Announces That America Will Now Help Finance the Genocide Against Europeans in Ukraine; Russia and America Now Co-Rogue States, with America Funding Two Genocides and Russia One

Ditch Chrome; use Vivaldi

ray and phil bar sign, stockton, california, 1987

Robert Stephenson's Rocket demonstrated winning performance at Rainhill Trials #OTD 1829; its multi-tubular boiler design provided template for future steam locomotives. Portrait by John Lucas c. 1846, National Portrait Gallery | @sciencemuseum.org.uk | ‬⁩ ⁦‪Railway Museum

Early 20th century travelers reported seeing a Burmese pagoda that appeared to rock in the wind. The Sampan Pagoda stood atop a huge boulder in eastern Myanmar, but it seemingly no longer survives, leaving a few photographs as the last evidence of its existence. 🧵 🗃️ 📜 #Myanmar

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'The Arrival of a Leave Train,' was completed a year after the ending of WW1 and in it Bernard Meninsky depicts group of British soldiers (a Scottish regiment by the look of their khaki Balmoral bonnets) standing at the canteen on a platform of a railway station in 1918

✨ It wasn’t until I first saw the Saxon crypt at St Wystan’s, Repton, that I understood John Betjeman’s words: ‘Holy air encased in stone.’ I’ve never felt the past so close, or found such comfort in feeling rooted in a longer story. A real hidden gem, a must see.

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Historic Spitfire fuselage could fetch £30,000 at auction | Bucks Free Press share.google/RoGYytrE9hLI...

10/5/1932 — b. June Almeida, Scottish virologist. Discoverer of the first #coronavirus; a pioneer in virus imaging, identification, and diagnosis. Her skills in electron microscopy earned her an international reputation #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #SciSky #HIstSci #BioSky #virology #covid #viruses

#OtD 2 Oct 1984, railworkers from the NUR and ASLEF unions were sent home after refusing to move coal during the British miners' strike

I HAVE A COVER! And a pub date - July 6, 2027! If you want six true stories of antiquities fraud, from a California college convinced that Hong Kong tourist trinkets were worth millions, to an entire fake museum, to the titular mummy carved from styrofoam, preorder at www.amazon.com/Styrofoam-Mu...

Beckford’s Folly: Fonthill Abbey ‘desert of magnificence’ built for William Beckford, ‘England’s richest commoner’ (1760-1844), whose art collection included Bellini's Doge Loredan 1501, Raphael's St Catherine c 1507. National Gallery London | JMW Turner, Watercolour of Fonthill 1799, Bolton Museum

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Artists heavily criticise AI-generated mural share.google/QH5HeTbdvtfH...

On the enshitification of product design & its effects on our daily lives - a topic that gets way too little attention. Good industrial design of the real world so often neglected, making fussy, brittle products rather than easy-to-use elements made to last, rather than throw away

A spectacular and elegant country house, which enjoys an idyllic location set in 1.4 acres of gar-dens and wood near a Mid Wales village, is seeking a buyer who will restore it to its previous grandeur wp.me/p8Mk4U-1tIy

"Expectations were low for Donald Trump’s address to the UN on Tuesday, and yet somehow it was even worse than expected." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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