The Tanfield Steam Railway is partly in my council ward in Gateshead and over the weekend they held a heritage event. I went along to enjoy some history and lend a hand at the Sunniside History Society stall.
It's not just that Oxford and Cambridge are the dominant English universities: until surprisingly recently they were the only English universities. The third English university, Durham, was not established until 1832 and even at the the end of the 19th century there were only three more: Kings' College and University College in London and Victoria University, which became the University of Manchester. As an article in History Today by William Whyte says: This was in sharp contrast to the European experience. Just as Oxford and Cambridge were establishing and policing their unique right to produce graduates, ever growing numbers of ...
AE Housman, A Shropshire Lad XXXI: On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble; His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves; The gale, it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves. 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger When Uricon the city stood: 'Tis the old wind in the old anger, But then it threshed another wood. Then, 'twas before my time, the Roman At yonder heaving hill would stare: The blood that warms an English yeoman, The thoughts that hurt him, they were there. There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale ...
#OTD 21 Aug 1940 the 1st air raid in #Leicester fell on the Cavendish Road area killing 6 & injuring 24. The first bomb fell on 4 Saffron Hill Road, killing Mum of two 20-year-old Ada-Marjorie Machin. Ada was the first civilian killed in #Leicestershire during #WW2 pic.twitter.com/CP3SN1kxbV— Jo Vigor-Mungovin (@Berliozjo) August 21, 2018The first German bombs of World War II to land on Leicester fell 78 years ago today. Jo Vigor-Mungovin sent this tweet earlier today with photographs of the damage and one of the victims. I blogged about this raid recently after looking for the birthplace of C.P. ...
Violet Bonham Carter was an active frontline Liberal politician, including serving as the party's first ever female President and joining the House of Lords in 1964.
Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has long been a supporter of switching over to using some form of land value tax. He's been pushing this idea again, as covered by the Financial Times: Vince Cable, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, has called for the UK's "broken" £30bn business rates system to be replaced by a land value tax... In a joint report due to be published this month, Lib Dem advisers and economist Adam Corlett claim that businesses in 92 per cent of local authorities would pay lower business taxes as a result of a commercial landowner levy instead ...
Bigots are not welcome in the Liberal Democrats I love this unashamed promotion of Liberal values. I wish we had more stuff like this coming out of the party and less like the godawful immigration paper that's before conference. weekly_food_challenge | Challenge #48: hot weather comfort food - Lime and Basil Sorbet Think that whatever happens with brexit, we'll be OK? ... read this. All of it. And then curl up under a duvet and drink yourself to death, because that's the only rational reaction. The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews Most Of Us Are Trying To Date 'Out Of ...
Part of the process by which the party's Federal Policy Committee seeks approval for its General Election manifestos includes a series of papers to the Federal Conference which show the thinking in progress. This conference the paper is titled "Demand Better..." (available here), and I must say I demand a lot better than this. As is the way, a motion to conference (F35) summarises the paper. It starts innocuously enough with some challenges the country faces: Conference deplores the fact that: a) Britain is a place where people too often struggle to achieve a decent quality of life for themselves and ...
Mon, 12:18: In answer to a question: in 46 years of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the only winner before... https://t.co/ugyJFEtlW5 Mon, 12:56: RT @jonlis1: Man walks into his favourite local, puts a gun to his own head, demands the pub give him a year's supply of free beer or he'll... Mon, 14:10: BBC News - Stormont: No Guinness record for political ineptitude https://t.co/bB3J9nYVmq BBC interviews me on the i... https://t.co/T3Bz8cTpZ6 Mon, 14:52: RT @Dublin2019: WSFS YA award, designed by Dublin 2019 team member and ASFA President Sara Felix. https://t.co/3GYd9ZNtpx Mon, 14:52: RT @hugorifkind: The man/woman ...
Liberal Democrats abhor the persecution of people on the grounds of their race, colour, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and look forward to a world in which all people share the same basic rights, live together in peace, and in which their different cultures will be able to develop freely. Some nations don't offer those basic human rights and in such places you may be particularly vulnerable to family-based hate-related domestic abuse or honour-based violence. When people flee persecution on these grounds, we are duty bound to challenge inequality in other nations and to offer sanctuary ...
She may have married him but it is not fair to judge the First Lady of the United States by the standards set by her husband. She is clearly her own person and is starting to assert that individuality in the role she has been shoe-horned into. Nevertheless, one does have to wonder if sometimes her words and actions are meant to hint at her disapproval of some of the Presidents more extreme habits. She is aware that an army of experts have analysed her every move since last year's inauguration. They have interpreted her body language, pored over her ...
"I feel certain that the fort of selfishness and monopoly cannot be held for ever, and that the walls of privilege cannot through all time resist the multitude that are gathering to the assault. In all the nations of the world of this day, I believe the powers of good are gaining steadily on the [...] The post John Bright and my reason for being less cheerless appeared first on Radix.
Dundee Writing Group, the Nethergate Writers, has published a new volume of flash fiction. 50 Shades of Tay comprises fifty 50-word pieces of prose and poetry that celebrate people and places along the Tay. There's something for everyone in this pocket-sized book. From memories of the Fifie, to sledging on the Law; reflections on the river to the wonders of karaoke at Dundee's Club Bar. Nethergate Writers collaborated with local design studio, Pulse North, to create images to accompany some of the pieces and a striking cover design that takes its visual cues from the river. The book will be ...
