An episode of Changing Rooms where each of their dozen neighbours separately does a different room of the house

Hope all's well with you and the family, saw the pics of your quilt and it's a tremendous effort. Mr Liddle might be paying us a visit somepoint soon.

Well, my original comment was in response to your original post to say there is a way to do this which is simple, effective, and doesn't require racial profiling. The specific reforms are a suggestion for future work in the Hodge Report, not a recommendation, so they are a long way from policy atm.

A hotel tax might get earmarked for arts, but a future government can easily divert that money elsewhere. Museums raising revenue on the desk is much harder to channel away from the sector.

The Home Office is very different to DCMS in personnel and outlook! If DCMS can't consult with the heritage sector and propose simple reforms to charging without getting accused of racism then we're in a bit of a pickle, as how otherwise can they implement charging which will directly fund the arts?

Of course everyone on here has their own well-established issues and concerns over how it could be slippery-sloped, but it needs to happen and I hope it will happen. The government is capable of consulting with and the heritage sector and implementing simple reforms without having an ulterior motive

The entire heritage sector is groaning, museums in London have for years desparately needed to charge to manage visitor numbers and raise revenue. There is a very simple and already-existing principle in place to make sure UK residents don't pay. That's not charitable, it is the proposed policy.

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I'm a little surprised everyone on here is getting so worked up about a sensible and much-needed change in charging priorities based on a very maximalist and rather cynical reading of what this change entails. Only a little surprised though.

This is not a back door to ID cards per se, because it is possible to have a system where almost any proof of residency is acceptable. The system might be gamed a bit at the edges, but the aim is not individuals but mainly ensuring that groups of 'tourist' visitors are charged

This has been broadly successful and popular. The cathedral has to charge 'tourists' otherwise they would be completely over-run and the space would cease to become sacred, there's very little they can do about that (see also Canterbury), but they are very keen to allow 'locals' to enter freely.

York Minster offers free entry to local residents with proof of residency, which is the obvious scheme that would be adopted here. The things allowed for this are pretty broad - driving licence, utility bill, student card, a free 'York card' (so there could easily be a Museums Card which did this)

Is the biggest march in English history a myth? My research shows King Harold sailed down to the battle of Hastings Once I had spotted a 200-year-old error, I was able to join the dots.

He lays it out a bit in a longer piece, but it looks to me like putting 2 and 2 together to make about 15 theconversation.com/is-the-bigge...

Son of the Rector of Old Ayr Church, so definitely very Scottish

Having had a flick through the school magazine archives I'm pretty confident the author is William Wills, who left the school in 1929 and travelled Europe, and was on the magazine's editorial board in the mid-30s. He was a Major in the Royal Scots Fusiliers in the War and died in action July 1944.

Having had a flick through the school magazine archives I'm pretty confident the author is William Wills, who left the school in 1929 and travelled Europe, and was on the magazine's editorial board in the mid-30s. He was a Major in the Royal Scots Fusiliers in the War and died in action July 1944.

It's a rough approximation of a moulding profile in the transoms - just an architectural style but done quite rustically

Ancient documents discovered in the archives reveal a new history for York's Guildhall Ancient charters in the archives have shared a new history for the city of York as they shine a light on the building of its famous Guildhall.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and...

How to Make a City: The Jews, the Minster and the Guildhall in Thirteenth-Century York Three major events in York dating to the period around September 1231 show the close co-operation of the city’s Christian and Jewish residents at the time, and point to the recognition of a tripart...

The article itself: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ancient documents discovered in the archives reveal a new history for York's Guildhall Ancient charters in the archives have shared a new history for the city of York as they shine a light on the building of its famous Guildhall.

My article with Louise Hampson published today, 'How to Make a City: The Jews, the Minster, and the Guildhall in Thirteenth-Century York' gets a good writeup in the Yorkshire Post www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and...

There's no reason he couldn't be appointed a Stranger Knight of the Garter that I can see

Kershaw has range

"Had a call with that guy"
"Which one?"
"You know"
"The guy with all three volumes of Ian Kershaw's definitive work on medieval Bolton Priory on display in his background?"
"Wait...that Ian Kershaw?"
"Yes"

What survives above looks perhaps like '...ngr', from the preceding line 'With ling'ring pain Heaven saw me sore opprest', but they've given up after the r

Epitaphia : a collection of 1300 British epitaphs, grave and gay, historical and curious, annotated with biographical notes, anecdotes, etc., with an introduction upon modes of burial and a general su... 26

Part of a fairly common epitaph poem on headstones associated with death from consumption archive.org/details/epit...

Can I interest you in a book you could easily slip in your pocket (it has a surprising amount of information about medieval trade routes in it).

Hi Katie! Unrelated to this post, but I have been thinking about the excellent paper you gave on de Montfort and Becket in 2020, and wanted to ask you a few things but don't have a current email for you. Could you possibly email me?

It looks as though his collections were almost entirely out on loan and when he died just stayed where they were - the NMS got most of the stuff that wasn't in Kelvingrove at the time. But then a few breviary pages and a 'fish-book' would be outliers among all the prehistoric stuff so who knows!

Oooh, an otherwise-unknown Use of York fragment! Most of Ludovic McLellan Mann's collections went to Kelvingrove but the Glasgow Museums online catalogue isn't very full. I believe the Mann collections were separately catalogued at the Museum though?

It's an excellent refresher course in manorial law, and following on from my last thing being an introduction to medieval pilgrimage in Western Europe 300-1500 it's a joyous change to have my feet firmly rooted in red Devon clay again!