Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
Australians now have better mobility into the EU than Brits
“Under the new scheme, Australians can live and work in Europe for up to four years without needing a job offer before arrival.”
Second class citizens in our own continent
www.skynews.com.au/lifestyle/tr...
I can guess who this is! The same interviewer asked me what I would do if a butterfly was in the library at closing time. I said that if all the manuscripts were in boxes I couldn’t see a conservation issue but was told it might set off the intruder alarm. Didn’t get the job!
A plush toy in the shape of a curling stone. She has a smiley face, white ear muffs and fluffy white feet.
If you need a mascot for Milano Cortina, Jellycat have introduced an “amuseable curling stone” called Cariss
I’m not sure what he’s expecting from jet skiing in the UK. It’s not the Bahamas..
Hard to see how more wrong the geopolitical case for Brexit could have turned out
my library weeded a Marie Kondo book today. i think it’s what she would want. 📚
I went to Ronald’s funeral in November. I’m glad he got to see this work published as it was a long held ambition of his.
I realise your question may be rhetorical 😀 but just in case anyone else was wondering..
To avoid paying for a PRS music license. From the PRS website: ‘All other items with a duration of less than 90 seconds are deemed non-disc plays and so are not generally payable…’
Don’t use ChatGPT, make friends with an academic librarian that can count your chat messages as “reference questions answered” on their daily statistics sheet
Thank you Will!
A new start for me on Monday as I become the Librarian at Clare College - with its 700th anniversary next year it'll be an exciting new challenge!
Security - Durham’s stolen copy of Shakespeare’s first folio was able to be recovered in part due to the copy-specific info they had in their catalogue
Actor vs Academic #thetraitors
BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.
Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
“Both discoveries show the crucial role of county council archives and their staff in preserving this musical heritage.”
Note how we’ve moved from concerns about people arriving irregularly in small boats to wrecking the lives of people who are by definition here entirely lawfully
The replies to this..
Maybe they could all retrain as ballet dancers
Two men climbing the clock tower at Magdalene College in 1915.
"‘A Disastrous Expedition’: I.A. Richards Caught Climbing the Roofs of Magdalene College". Check out our new article about the fabled practice of night climbing in Cambridge. Image ©Master and Fellows of Magdalene College Cambridge. @magdalenecollege.bsky.social
Now we get to the real reason the tapestry being loaned: ‘The Bayeux Museum is scheduled to close at the end of August for a €38m (£33m) renovation which would have necessitated the moving of the tapestry regardless of any deal with Britain’. But still, I’ll look forward to seeing it!
Great to meet Sir Grayson Perry today! His talk at Magdalene College Cambridge this evening, to accompany the private view of the College’s latest exhibition in the Cripps art gallery, was fantastic. Thanks to my friend Sarah for taking the photo!
I saw this very object two weeks ago!
If that’s the case he would remember the frequent bomb scares on the tube due to the IRA. I’m a few years younger than him but it’s obvious to me that London has vastly improved since the 80s.
I was there a couple of months ago. Fantastic place!
