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We're the Old Royal Naval College branch of the @pcs_union, part of @pcsCultureGroup. Tweeting about culture, heritage & solidarity (not on behalf of the ORNC)

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Affective states inhabiting labour

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Black History River Cruise
3 hour cruise along the Thames from Temple to Greenwich and back showing the thousands of years of African/Caribbean history on display. With @blackhistwalker

https://t.co/wbCa7lJfdV

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It's #Pisces season. Empathy is your superpower, and you are an asset to any team you join or cause you support.

📸Pisces in the Painted Hall at @orncgreenwich

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@CuttySark @orncgreenwich @Boeing

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It's #Aquarius season. You are a visionary and always ready for change, known for your intellectual abilities and for shaking up the world.

📸Aquarius in the Painted Hall at @orncgreenwich

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A tailor riding on the back of a goose; representing an exploited worker. 1780. Etching after W.H.Bunbury.

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You deserve a rest

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It's #Capricorn season. You are relentless and persistent, you will tell it like it is, but you are also honest, loyal, sensitive.

📸Capricorn in the Painted Hall at @orncgreenwich

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Billinghurst was a disabled wheelchair user who lived at 7 Oakcroft Road, and was responsible for a number of letter box ‘outrages'.

Direct action between 1912 and 1914 saw post boxes burned and blown up in Deptford, Greenwich, Brockley and elsewhere.

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In Dec 1912 May Billinghurst, a founder of the Greenwich branch of the The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was jailed for 8 months for an action against a letter box in Blackheath.

Source: https://t.co/Nc9ysugMWc

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Traders & service providers must remove barriers you face because of your disability so you can access & use their goods & services in the same way, as far as this possible, as someone who's not disabled. The Equality Act 2010 calls this the duty to make reasonable adjustments

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#OTD 2001. Free entry to permanent galleries at all @DCMS-sponsored national museums began.

This was proposed by @UKLabour while in opposition but the party stopped short of including the promise in its 1997 manifesto because of fears about the cost.

https://t.co/3LLnvoZFkU

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Every year workers carry out over 10,000 hours of #conservation at @orncgreenwich

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It's #Saggitarius season. You are lucky, bold and a generous idealist. You're unreserved, and when you aim straight, you always hit your target.

📸Saggitarius in the Painted Hall at @orncgreenwich

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"The most savage and determined attack upon the police was, however, made by contingents from the Surrey side, composed of choice spirits from all the slums between Battersea and Greenwich."

13 persons were killed, 75 were badly injured, and 400 were arrested.

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#OTD 1887: Bloody Sunday. Working class protest against soaring unemployment in London as well as the ruling Tory government’s coercive treatment of Ireland (many workers in the contemporary East End were Irish).

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Resting place (no longer there) outside the Chapel @orncgreenwich

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Apparitions above

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#OTD 1688 Dutch ruler William of Orange landed at Brixham with an invasion force, in response to an invitation of seven peers to invade England in order to preserve Protestantism, to investigate the true parentage of James II's child, and to call a 'free' Parliament.

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Past winter