After a pretty successful morning I'm now sat here waiting for my phone to charge up enough so I can finish photographing, not massively helpful but my own fault

Petition: Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills Apply energy intensive industry relief (Supercharger scheme) to the ceramics industry to help cut soaring industrial energy costs & support ceramics businesses, which are at the risk of imminent colla...

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Saw this and thought of you @lydiajane13.bsky.social

A picture of a page from the catalogue. It reads "The improved medical field panniers. For the use of Her Majesty's army. Design and supplied by Savory and Moore. There are diagrams of the field kits set up in 3 different ways. as well as what it would look like set up on a mule..

Another page from the catalogue. The text at the top reads army regulation medical and surgical field equipments. There are a series of diagrams on this page which show: Panniers open for use, panniers closed, panniers converted into an operating table, panniers on ground ready for use, cacolet on mule, regulation medicine chest.

Another series of diagrams from the Savory and Moore catalogue. There are 6 images on this page: which show: contents of surgical haversack (displayed), contents of medical field companion (displayed), medical field companion and water bottle, regulation field stretcher, cavalry bag and field fracture box

This catalogue of army regulation medical and surgical field equipment by Savory and Moore dates from the late 19th century.

Heading to London for some more archive time, train delayed but hopefully the rest of the trip will be straightforward

I'll do that, have some long-ish train journeys coming up

I have but I'm very behind, not enough hours in the day!

Such a good podcast, and could happily listen to @sturdyalex.bsky.social voice all day

Brrr, sounds like interesting material tho

Wow, good work!

Sending one back today, pass it on

@ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social thanks for the recommendation on DJ Ahmet, what a lovely way to spend an hour and a half

I think if their response to this wasn't along the lines of 'Thats cool, look forward to chatting later' then you're probably better off that they've disappeared. We all have stuff that has to take priority at times.

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Just said the same thing about the women bit

Ukrainian Azov military delivers blood to frontline position via drone to save wounded soldier - Euromaidan Press The 12th Special Forces Brigade Azov used a drone to deliver blood supplies directly to a critically wounded soldier on the frontline.

About a year old now, but with my interest in WW2 blood transfusion I found this story and the video thought-provoking
euromaidanpress.com/2025/03/05/i...

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results.
(One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

That's a shame about ww2talk, I've found some useful info there and there were people there who posted info from what looked like real passion projects.

Last time I came to the IWM I saw it in person for the first time, never realized how huge it is.

That's epic!

Another brilliant instalment in the series 'where the f*ck is that quote I can remember almost word for word but can't remember what file its in'.

I was surprised when I was asked to do it for my PhD, all archival research. Did feel a waste of time for all concerned

One book I read for my lit review said something along the lines of 'I haven't provided a list of references because that would be tedious' 😵‍💫

Send this to a dog owner!

They need their pooch portrait!

It’s been a remarkable few weeks and this morning we’ve just hit 300 pledges 👏🏼

We wanted to share some of the messages we’ve received along the way. They’ve meant a huge amount.

Leeds is betting big on new bike lanes. Will people use them? “I think it’s a lovely thing, I just wish it was a bit more cared for”

New bike lanes. Big investment. Serious questions 🚴

Our latest newsletter explores Leeds’ new cycling infrastructure - who it’s for, what it costs, and whether it will work.

We cycled from Bradford to Leeds to work out what’s going on.

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Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Just signed up for this, hopefully it gets off the ground

Yup, I'm researching British Army medical care in the pre-pencillin years and its incredible that in quite a short time we might end up in a similar situation

All this stuff about Mandelson is not what I thought would come out of the Epstein files, makes you wonder what else might be in there.