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Open House Curious about what’s inside? The Schwarzman Centre doors are wide open and you are invited. This free-entry Saturday festival brings the building to life, celebrating the launch of our cultural progra...

The Schwarzman Centre is opening its doors this Saturday (25 April) for a free festival celebrating the humanities.

Explore Oxford’s newest cultural space with music, dance, film, family activities & short talks from academics.

ALL WELCOME! No need to book; just drop in!

He got sentenced for that, and soldiers who take actual child life ....

You haven't met my husband...

I'm so sorry. They have cash-registers for brains and account books for souls. If a hug will help, then hugs all round.

... where £$£$, the sacred river, ran / Through channels featureless, to scan / All data to a t...

A-men!!!!!

*blushes*

Apart from an empty mind?

That too - which may be all to the good ....

Also, writing trash is at least one way to get the writing muscle exercised again. Write trash until the real thing bites you again, then switch from the trash to the real.

"Is that is what is meant by 'Le sprout d'escalier,' Freddy?" #GirlsOwnCC

Let me know what date, and I will see what I can do in the way of contemporary books. Alternatively, contact Anne Sebba (I think) in the Natural History Museum library.

Phwoar.

Anyone going to National Archives (TNA) Kew in the near future? I need a replacement photo of one page in a ship muster list .... #NavalHistory

Something on the top shelves of the newsagent's, for example, but do make sure to cover it in brown paper before taking it home.

Nothing in Wellcome Images?

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

View of fields & distant mountains & cloudy sky & branches seen through 16-paned sash window

Putting in a loud shout for Yr Ysgwrn, Trawsfynydd, home of Hedd Wyn, which I toured Friday (wheelchair & all)

"[L]ove thy neighbour as thyself. Neither is love content with barely working no evil to our neighbour. It continually incites us to do good: as we have time, and opportunity, to do good in every possible kind, and in every possible degree to all." John Wesley, 1799 (English Methodist here 🙂)

What's that on the hilltop? Beacon? Telegraph?

How frustrating!

The women's dress silhouettes look maybe just post-regency? Can you match the buildings in maps.nls.uk/os/?

I so love that! Thank you!

When Grandmama fell from the boat,
And couldn't swim, and *wouldn't* float,
Matilda simply stood and smiled—
I almost could have spanked the child.
(Harry Graham, 'Ruthless Rhymes.')

I seem to remember (from philology, 1982) there was a big swathe of the Finno-Ugric language from Finland to Hungary and then some Slavs settled in between them and the two ends went off on their own sweet paths.

'Burning the Books' on a bookshelf, front cover upwards.

@richove.bsky.social #BurningTheBooks spotted in the wild (Ty Newydd to be precise)

🤣

They've been in or crossing Somerset last week