#England

LRB Bookshop

LRBbookshop

would anyone like to hear my poet laureate conspiracy theory it's about former poet laureate sir andrew motion, and his claims about how the laureateship affected his own writing. motion

Band_of_Brothers_101st

EasyCompany506t

The American Red Cross Clubmobile Service was created during WW2 to provide servicemen with food, entertainment, and "a connection home"The original Clubmobiles operated from 1942 - 46, travelling throughout Britain

Mcjulian2.0

McJulianAgain

While watching heat, it's got me thinking, if I were to form a crew from Twitter people, who'd be the best to rob a bank with? Did think @Orrible_Ives but

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

A few thoughts about #competition.1. Competition could be seen as the defining value of our times. It is the touchstone of conservative/radical right politics. Even formerly left parties now treat

Giles Wilkes

Gilesyb

OK, so Tera my former BIS colleague put me onto this paper about Feedback loops. Because, believe it or not, the way a slow-to-respond shower behaves DOES tell us a

carl

calciocarl

A mini thread on the owners that got away & where we dodged a bullet.....literally!The ownership troubles at Charlton got me thinking, for the last 20+ years we have been

Liana Ascolese

LianaPatricia_

Maintaining the character of the neighborhoodhttps://twitter.com/modernmultifam/status/1285314216254029824 I’m actually so mad because these buildings are way cooler and it is such a New England thing to want to freeze time in

Petra Boynton

DrPetra

Many relationships have ended this year and your first Christmas alone can be really tough. It is okay to avoid celebrating if that's easier, or to find new ways to

Retson Tedheke

retsonbiz

THE LIES OF FREE TRADE & Why Nigeria Must Keep Protecting Her Own at Whatever Cost Particularly in Agriculture.In His Book Kicking Away The Ladder by Prof Hajoon Chang, He

sai priya

priya_27_

At the risk of talking about syphilis as little too much: Why did Englishmen and Royalty wear powdered wigs? According to William Clowes, an “infinite multitude” of syphilis patients clogged

Dr. Thrasher, jouRNAlist

thrasherxy

1/x Something I find fascinating in the slow-moving transition of POTUS power & COVID lockdown is a reaffirmation of how existence is RELATIONAL. No one, office, no nation, no honorific

Grogan

TrampusRex

I don't do threads, but this was interesting to me: Just finished Paul Watson’s "Ice Ghosts" and was surprised to learn that the desk in this photo of John Kenny

Eleanor Parker

ClerkofOxford

The last week of Advent is the season of the O Antiphons. Sung at Vespers, in the early dusk of a midwinter evening, they are ancient songs of longing and

Hetan Shah

HetanShah

1/10 The current exams fiasco is a rare moment where the public is focused on how policy affects children and young people. We @BritishAcademy_ have been asking how should we

Raghu Chivukula, MD PhD

chivukula_raghu

Trying again without typos:(1/n) While COVID-19 is indeed a humbling disease, this image almost certainly represents a measurement artifact rather than "happy" or "silent" anything.https://twitter.com/srrezaie/status/129

Akshat | Sarafina stan account

star_stufff

On this day, in 1642 a boy named Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. Who by the age of 26 would transform the civilization as we know it

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