There is a viral video going around on X and Facebook which has been seized on by the far-right.
It claims to show a young British Asian destroying a dry stone wall.
But as so often with such ragebait, the video isn't what it seems.
Here is my, probably forlorn, attempt to correct the record.
Want to learn about the history of land rights, but through folk song and gentle comedy? Go to a performance by @threeacresacow.bsky.social, plenty coming up this spring:
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I've made my peace with people making videos to convey information now. It used to annoy me. But now I realise it is freeing - it is simply information I will never know and they do not want me to know.
Enjoying seeing this develop!
Here are 2 films by Camilla Adams from my 'Life of Job' medieval play project that might interest academics/ theatre & heritage people. 1) straight recording youtu.be/wYo4JwsOuP4 and 2) a 'making of': how we staged it at a feast at Winterbourne Barn. youtu.be/IK3My_DqvE8. Please share! #medievalsky
Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Benjamin Blyth’s article, “Shakespeare’s “Dramatic Style” at the Curtain: A Collaborative Model for Site-Responsive Practice-as-Research”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article!
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Are you looking for affordable rehearsal space in York? Do you love a discounted cafe and bar? Would you like access to theatre courses and masterclasses at a lower price? If yes, then become a MAKE member at Riding Lights Theatre Company today - only £5 per month! MAKE link in bio to sign up.
Time was you had to make your homunculus with fermented horse urine, but plus ça change...
This is one of my favorite paintings, from any painter, ever.
Not only is she crushing Mein Kampf, but the arc of her rivet gun's cable also evokes a serpent being crushed under her heel - even while the rivet gun herself is laid on her apron like Christ on the lap of the Virgin Mary.
To add to that, the only English play that *does* have the Cherry Tree sequence (N-Town) also emphatically has Joseph realise the situation long before (in the Joseph's Trouble section, and then the scene where Joseph and Mary are put on trial by their neighbours).
Attention creative medievalists! Eleanor Barraclough & I are co-editing a special issue of Public Humanities entitled CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW! See the cfp for details: essays of 2,000-3,000 words due 1 May 2026. (Amazing artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social). 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Please do chip into the National Trust’s crowdfunder to help manage the land around the Cerne Giant for chalk wildflowers and butterfly species like Duke of Burgundy here: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/a...
Good news!
Earlier this year I shared reports that the land around the Cerne Abbas Giant was up for sale
I’m delighted that, after lots of conversations, the land has now been bought by the National Trust (who already own the Giant): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
This orangutan can't be beaten at climbing up a tree. Imagine its skill and poise as our next secretary of education.
The front covers of ‘Do It Yourself: Making Political Theatre’ written by my good friends Common/Wealth and my edited volume ‘Being Black and British: Before, During and After Drama School’.
These two make great friends.
Released a day apart, they’re almost twins.
Maybe putting both on reading lists and in libraries might be a good thing to do.
Maybe.
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
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R.I.P. Harrison's translation of the Mysteries remains potent, a reminder of the deep poetic voice of Northern England even now.
Humanities Who needs history? Literature? Languages? Art? Philosophy? These can only help you to better understand our humanity. Best to let machines read your books. And write your books. Do your art for you. You will never need to think. Never need to learn. You’ll learn to like it. And when the end comes you’ll have never burdened down your soul with any growth. Someone selling this sees profit in destroying your humanity. -- John Wyatt Greenlee
A poem from this morning.
A very good interview on the reading crisis in the UK. Heartily endorse bringing back sure start or some version of it.
golf is a very strange game because basically you're taking a huge amount of land and making it a weirdass obstacle course for a tiny ball. imagine holding a golf ball up to see the ~200 acres you have reshaped and whispering to it "this is for you. this is all for you"
Eve admires ladybird headpiece
Lucifer tries on a crown, admired by other rebel angels
Lucifer in green scarf watches Adam having a dance
God and Noah present a finished paper boat
The Mystery Plays are well underway in Toronto! Some beautiful moments and expressions... #yorkplays2025
Wander by to check out what’s going on. Stay for one short play or stay for all 18 hours! Come and go as you please.
Check out the listing for full details on the. #free #familyfriendly event!
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We roll at dawn! The day has finally come. It’s been 27 years since we mounted the full York Corpus Christi plays in 1998. We lost our original wagons to fire but we have shiny new ones built using new research. #yorkplays2025 #torontoevents #medieval #medievaldrama
Painted green dragon on red pageant wagon
White York rose on yellow pageant wagon
Yellow pageant waggon with blue sheets and furniture on top
Excitement building in Toronto... #yorkplays2025
🚨 The wait is almost over! 🚨
🎭 June 7 (June 8 if it rains): the full York Cycle is back for the 1st time in 27 years!
🌅 From sunrise "Creation" to midnight "Last Judgment"
🎟️FREE & open to all!
👟 Come for an hour or the whole epic!
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#YorkPlays2025 #FreeEventsTO #MustSeeTO
Is it the Offspring's Americana?