Awful! Started in a vape shop and the 1850s buildings are gone. I can only hope that starts to allow firefighters to get it under control.
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Awful! Started in a vape shop and the 1850s buildings are gone. I can only hope that starts to allow firefighters to get it under control.
Here's one we made earlier for #IWD - 8 women in Scotland who shaped #histSTM
www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...
A catalogue of stars from the Madras Observatory - with a picture of the observatory on the title page
In the 19th century the Cambridge Observatory was sent the publications of many other observatories from around the world: this is from the East India Company's Observatory at Madras.
John Lewis Roget's pencil sketch of a two-wheel hand truck, flowers and adult and child passengers in period hats, suits and dresses at Deal and Canterbury railway stations.
Welcome aboard today's #commute with John Lewis Roget (1828–1908), calling at #Deal, #Dover, #Kearsney, #Canterbury and #Faversham.
Roget took every opportunity to illustrate the places he visited, including the railway station.
1) Deal Station – Canterbury Station. 6th August 1891
#trainstation
These are highly delightful!
New podcast from the awesome Daina Bouquin on the strange history of computing. A must listen.
Starting TOMORROW!! #BiteSizedBookHistory returns with a 5-episode season! BSBH is a series of 7-10 minute long videos about various book historical topics, aimed at a general audience. Catch up with previous episodes here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
For £35k, which is zippity nada in the scheme of even impoverished council funding, just going to show that it's not actually about the money in any case. Vandals.
Over 100 works of art being put up for auction by (cash strapped) Reform-run Kent County Council.
Kent Greens: "While the total financial value of the art is only around £35k, the historic and social value of the art, most of which depicts Kent, is far higher."
As @vrubinobs.bsky.social gets going with its survey of the sky, nice to be reminded of a Fred Hoyle quote: ‘a large telescope is a good example of the things which our civilisation does well’.
Last chance to visit Moon Palace! 🌔 🚌
The school bus-turned mobile observatory is here for one more day at the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social – don't miss the chance to explore everything on board.
Come and see us from 10am-4pm today!
Save the date! T&F's Mark James FLS and Dr Anke Timmermann FLS (i.e.yours truly) will discuss Sir Joseph Banks' botanical discoveries at the Grantham Museum in September.
More information and tickets available here: granthammuseum.org.uk/product/sir-...
Job opening at the Royal Observatory Greenwich (3 year fixed term): Heritage Operations Officer, responsible for coordinating public engagement and events for the Heritage Fund programme associated with the First Light redevelopment of the site #scicomm 📜
Jobs!
Senate House Library is embarking on an ambitious project to transform access to one of the UK’s largest and richest collections of queer literature —the remarkable Haud Nominandum Collection, donated by activist, bookseller and co-founder of Gay’s the Word bookshop, Jonathan Cutbill.
My photo shows the ruin of an eight-sided Roman brick lighthouse with four stepped levels. There is a central arched opening (doorway) at ground level. On the upper three levels, in line with the doorway, there are narrow rectangular window openings. The lighthouse stands 15.8 metres high and is 12.2 metres wide at the base. Roman fabric survives to a height of 12.5 m. The brickwork of the uppermost level was reconstructed for use as a church bell tower for the adjacent Anglo-Saxon church of St Mary in Castro, which can be glimpsed on the right-hand side of my photo. The lighthouse is dated circa 1st century to early- 2nd century AD. It was one of a pair originally built on each side of the Roman port of Dubris (Dover). The other does not survive. This lighthouse stands within the grounds of Dover Castle.
The Roman Pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! 🤩
It is the tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain, and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire! Dated 1st-2nd century AD.
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#Archaeology
A small stylised horse figure with featuring a prominent mane and, a circled dot for the eye and a completely looped tail. The brooch has an overall greenish colour from oxidation to the aged copper
As we as we gallop into #LunarNewYear, we thought we’d showcase this copper Roman horse brooch for Year of the Horse on display at Dover Museum
#HorseYear #YearOfTheHorse #Dover #Museum
Photo of interior of the National Lending Library for Science and Technology
Join online or in person on Tues 3 March 5.30pm @warburginstitute.bsky.social. Emmeline Ledgerwood's topic is The National Lending Library for Science & Technology & its collection of Russian scientific literature in Cold War Britain: bit.ly/NationalLend.... Image: British Library Corporate Archive
This would be fabulous! I had a chance to see some scientific instruments there, but there's so much more to explore 📜
A display of a series of artist collages by Roelof Bakker and Sarah Bodman.
A display of a series of artist collages by Roelof Bakker and Sarah Bodman.
A display of a series of artist collages by Roelof Bakker and Sarah Bodman.
A display of a series of artist collages by Roelof Bakker and Sarah Bodman.
‘everything is so very much connected’ is an exhibition at Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK by myself & Roelof Bakker on show until 31/03/26. Creating art as a space to think and write about nature, the environment and climate collapse through physical making.
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/everythingis/
Call for Contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather & Weathering teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/c...
Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜
We've got not one but TWO exciting announcements for you this afternoon 🤫
Check back here shortly to find out what they are. Here's some clues to get those Friday brains whirring away...
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Creative Commons Licenses are ill-equipped for the AI era and the rapid ingestion/scraping of open content by bots. - training for AI doesn't fit traditional copyright definitions because text is converted into statistical patterns that are tokenised processed and used for probability-based outputs.
Fun astronomy/archives story - Kate Bond @royalastrosoc.bsky.social has tracked down the only photograph of 19th century astronomer Richard Carrington, who spotted the first recorded solar flare. academic.oup.com/astrogeo/art...
NASA Closes Goddard Campus Library
www.libraryjournal.com/story/nasa-c...
The British Library’s PhD placement scheme for 26/27 is now open. My team are offering an exciting placement aiming to raise the profile of our illustrated newspaper collection: www.bl.uk/services/res...
Explore the cosmos at the RWA 🪐🚀
We've partnered with the Royal West of England Academy to today launch a new exhibition 'Cosmos: the art of observing Space', which explores the documentation of celestial mechanics by artists deeply inspired by observations of space.
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More aurora from Orkney!
👀 Our eyes on the Sun’s inner corona, that’s Proba-3! In a 5-hour window, the formation-flying mission captured not 1… not 2… but 3 solar prominence eruptions – structures made of relatively cold plasma extending outwards from the Sun ☀️👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
Exhibition graphic showing colourful pages from the books in the background and the following text: A body of knowledge Discover 500 years of book collecting at the RCP 10 September 2025 - 23 July 2026 Exhibition | Free entry
Visit the exhibition to discover more about the wide range of topics in our library, the disasters its survived (including plague, theft, fire & bombs!) & much more. You can visit free during our opening hours & at special Late openings 👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/visit-us
#BodyOfKnowledge #histmed
