Open House, Sunday 15th September thersa.org/events/2024/09…

I'm happy to speak up for this weekend event at Royal Gunpowder Mills near Waltham Cross. eventbrite.co.uk/e/sunday-at-th…

It's easy to overlook the recent covers & end plates in our rarebooks for the beauty that lies within the pages - but today is their day! Today we celebrate these delectable decorative #ArchivesPatterns from some of our rare books that date between 1506-1794 #ArchivesHashtagParty

I have eaten bugs, but not fresh. They were not 'dew picked and flown from Iraq.' Those I had, which included crickets, were like very, very stale cheesy wotsits with added nail clippings. Not horrible, but certainly nothing to look forward to. Leo Kearse - on YouTube & Saturday Night Showdown bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Rail replacement service

If you are tempted to donate to wikipedia it may not go to what you think it does. Consider donating here instead. gracesguide.co.uk

Theoretical physicist Davide De Biasio | DDB at Royal Institution taking the audience into quantum swampland. A good storyteller, as I think you you can see.

If you are within reach of Royal Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Cross it would seem like a good place to watch fireworks. eventbrite.co.uk/e/fireworks-at…

Something else for the natural history museum. When a strandbeest mates with a coffee table... Bjinse

"Sorry I was late for dinner, I got stuck in a local minimum"

Ex-Caledonian Railway 0-4-4T No.55217 waits to leave Killin with the 11.05am branch working to Killin Junction on 3rd April 1961. Photo-credit: Roy Patterson

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Keep Britain tidy

Hydraulic computer. Modelled the UK economy in 1949; first demo was at the LSE. Tim Harford in tremendous form on.ft.com/3MC086s

Sir Basil Mott was born #onthisday 1859. Engineer for the Mersey (Queensway) tunnel, #Tyne Bridge, Newport lift bridge #Middlebrough, and Southwark Bridge, . Partner in consulting firm Mott Hay and Anderson, ICE president 1924-5. bit.ly/2OsDFcw

“It is so thin that maybe it does not exist at all…” —Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman Another curious AI conversation: truesciphi.ai/p/vanishing-po…

A modified version of Nooth's apparatus by George Field (1827). The RSA archive.

I like a signature with a flourish. Cornelius Varley (1781-1873) was a London artist, draughtsman and inventor.

Kensington Gravel Pits (1812) by John Linnell en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensingto…

My latest book review. londonhistorians.wordpress.com/2024/09/19/cha…