There’s a full flying replica of the Caproni in Italy right now. You can find it on YouTube

Shoreditch

Merci!

On my shelf: Histoire Générale des Voyages by L’Abbé Prévost (author of Manon Lescaut) 1741 (I only have tome 2 of 17) Can anyone decipher the signature of the Monsieur Gibert (possibly « Cordelier » or shoemaker?) who bought it in 1772?

Ou se trouve le wordle français s’il vous plaît?

Global*

Esquire’s Big Black Book Fall Digital edition is up now on Esquire.com

1958!

@johnevigar.bsky.social when I was a kid Becket was always named Thomas A Becket. I now read the A was a later addition. I feel I’ve been living a lie.

It’s a bit hotel front desk

Genius idea

Perhaps he should go for a spin in it…

Hey historians out there, has there been a good study of defenestration worth reading? Asking for a Russian friend.

Big potential market in building bungalows in Russia

Damn gif not working. Can you guess it @jhawn.bsky.social ?

Honestly the app should require people’s actual names to appear as part of the profile to dissuade the haters.

Fascinating. Wonder how it came to be in the sewer. Any info on where in the sewer? Something to do with 1666?

The ikea ball pit

Current read

@elizabethscrase.bsky.social are you from Sussex? My mother was born a Scrase in 1939. Seems almost all Scrases are originally from around Lewes/Haywards Heath. If you’ve published any family history she’d be very interested! As would I.

Hurrah

Currently switching between here and the other place and it’s like next door there’s a massive pub brawl going on. But if you close the door you can’t hear it on this side.

Pleased to see the great @almurray is already on here

So far I like what I see.

Hello I just arrived, what’s going on?