Not big, clever or funny.

‘It’s a big loss’: what happens when a beautiful village loses its bus route? Mousehole in Cornwall once had a butcher, post office and general store. Now it doesn’t even have an ATM – and one of its crucial bus services has been cut. Can residents save this vital resource?

"Buses aren’t a statutory entitlement" - oof, as a non-driver, living in a rural area, this hit hard. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Yep. Bastards. A former colleague had something like that and - with admirable chutzpah in the circumstances - raised this publicly in a Q and A with management. Probably not an option here...

A Curlew walks on grassy ground, showing a yellow leg flag and orange ring on its leg. Wording below reads: Please report sightings of Curlew with yellow leg flags. Image credit reads: Rob Robinson.

1/ Spotted a yellow leg flag on a Curlew? Please share the sighting with us, as this could be one of our headstarted birds. 😀 Report via bit.ly/ReportACurlew #Ornithology #WorldCurlewDay

That's less than reassuring, isn't it? This really is basic.

Oh dear, my commiserations - geographical/linguistic accuracy v. general usage. Could be worse, I remember a rail company serving Cambridge used to be known as 'West Anglia Great Northern' which was ugly AND confusing.

Text Reads: 510 Costessey Park & Ride - Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital. Buses run up to every 15 minutes at peak times, and up to every 30 mins off peak First bus from Costessey P&R 06:30 - last bus from NNUH 20:45 Journey time - 10 mins Buses also call at Norwich Research Park (Colney Lane) A flat fare ticket is available for all journeys - Adults £1 | Young Person (5-19) 70p

Costessey Park and Ride operates Monday to Friday throughout the year, providing public transportation to and from our Trust.

The Park & Ride is situated on Long Lane, just off the A47/A1074 junction, adjacent to the Royal Norfolk Showground.

Find out more about the service: https://orlo.uk/0TqSX

Erm, no. Well, linguistically, technically, it is in the east of Anglia/England, but... Nope. Who on earth is saying this?!

Now, we can't be there, and this is not VCH work, but this is the essence of the sort of thing we try to do: sharing records of places with the people interested in that place. #Skystorians

I have spent EIGHT YEARS working at Peterborough library, because that's where the inquests are.

Tomorrow, at 2:30pm, I am going to TELL EVERYONE all about what I found.

Plz come, John Clare Theatre inside the library, £5 on the door.

📢 This Friday! 🗃️

Just gathering my thoughts for my roundtable - I'll be talking about the transformative potential of new digital tech but also why we can't just leave Social History to the machine.

Come along - Emily, Harry & I will also have a stall & look forward to chatting to all!

A photo of a parish register with the following text over the top: 'An Introduction to Parish Registers 10:30am, Saturday 2nd of May, Buckinghamshire Archives'

We've got plenty of parish registers in our collection, but how can you use them in your research?

Come along to this free talk and learn how to get started in using this fantastic resource!

Spaces are limited, so make sure you email us to secure your spot at archives@buckinghamshire.gov.uk

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OH MY WORD, WHAT A GAME OF CRICKET!!! 🔥

Somerset WIN by 2⃣ wickets. And breathe....

#HAMvSOM #YouAreSomerset

An English Bluebell with multiple ‘bells’

Ladies and Gentlemen, without further ado, we present to you the Queen of English Bluebells

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Our Partners at the Thames Festival Trust are advertising for a Heritage Project Manager. Could this be you? thamesfestivaltrust.org/about-us/joi...

Hahahahahahahahahaha. No indeed.

As ever @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social is spot on.

Can you imagine expecting a defect preventing people in cars from using a road having a standard 28 day wait to fix it?

If we are serious about inclusion, then our streets must work for children, older and disabled people all the time.

You'll have to find him first.

It's almost as though - hear me out - they have no idea of the powers they're asking the electorate to vote on. At least in Kent, they have the glimmering of a point about informal migration, because elements of it are in the budget.

Not in the way they're talking about it, of course...

It makes the 2010s look like paradise

Master's Scholarships programme 2026-27: supporting groups underrepresented in academic history - RHS Each year the Society awards Scholarships to support students who will study for a Master's degree in history at a UK university. Master's Scholarships, each of £5000, seek to support students from gr...

Today we also open the call for applications to our 2026-27 Master's Scholarships programme: bit.ly/4dTHmXe

Scholarships of £5000 are for students from groups currently underrepresented in academic history to study for an MA in history or a related subject. Closing date: Friday 5 June #Skystorians

"This means that before reaching Tripoli, the book had already been seized by Crusader forces, likely during the 1099 conquest of Jerusalem."

Even by the standards of 'Reform UK' this is a very silly manifesto pledge (seriously, government really ought to have better things to do...).

Day with a 'y' in it.

No problem - I see @marcmorris.bsky.social made much the same point. Ironically, the whole point of the numbering stressed the continuity of the state either side of the conquest which isn’t generally how it’s perceived!

So in the original form, it’s very obvious that everyone knew there were earlier Edwards.

The later numbering is, as much as anything else, a result of the very small number of names used.

It’s an administrative shorthan that stuck, that’s all. 2/2

The numbering (in contemporary materials), comes about in the reign of Edward III. Fairly obviously, since the standard form of administrative date was the regnal year (i.e. the year of the reign), then a third Edward in a row needed to be differentiated.

‘Edward the third after the conquest’. 1/2

If London South Bank is doing this from financial distress then it should have notified OfS that there’s a serious danger of bankruptcy so students can be protected.

If it’s not, then this is simple asset-sweating cartoon capitalist evil and their leaders need to be sacked. Like mine.