Roland Jackson

Author of The Ascent of John Tyndall. History & politics of sci & tech. Chair @VCH_Cumbria, trustee @lowthercastle, & with @JohnTyndallCP and @stsucl

[Roland Jackson @Roland_Jackson]

Just a reminder, after the kind review from @rmathematicus, that these two books are now available:
https://t.co/69I4vYxqGs
https://t.co/R1qvoaZyJg

[Roland Jackson @Roland_Jackson]

We'll be on Radio Cumbria today around 1215/1220. Here's the BBC Sounds link, available for a month after around 2pm today. You'll find it around 2hr 15mins in:
https://t.co/4czg8HeevI

[VCH_Cumbria @VCH_Cumbria]

Our new red book with Dr Sarah Rose📕and News release📰following the launch celebration🎉
“This is a major milestone in our project(…)We welcome volunteers who wish to contribute to the documentation of their local history” - Sir Roland Jackson, chairman of the CCHT📜

[VCH_Cumbria @VCH_Cumbria]

Our new red book with Dr Sarah Rose📕and News release📰following the launch celebration🎉
“This is a major milestone in our project(…)We welcome volunteers who wish to contribute to the documentation of their local history” - Sir Roland Jackson, chairman of the CCHT📜

[Roland Jackson @Roland_Jackson]

Huge congratulations to @billshannon19!

[Lakeland Book Awards @LakesBookAwards]

Our overall winner for the Hunter Davies Lakeland Book of the Year Award 2025 goes to
‘Cumbria 1000 Years of Maps by William D Shannon.’ A lifetime of love for the Lakeland landscape is expressed in this work, published by @ByLakeland

[SophieThérèse Ambler @RG1253]

We're in the final week of #LowtherMedievalCastle phase 3 & much progress! In the ringwork castle trench we have (we think) a post hole & post pad to evidence interior structures, & Norman-era local gritty ware pottery from the bank for dating (+ the Victorian summer house!) 1/4

[Roland Jackson @Roland_Jackson]

@gkoutsika It's fascinating. We hiked up to Kastri this morning.

[Roland Jackson @Roland_Jackson]

@gkoutsika I thought you might like (or probably know!) this El Greco icon on Syros. Beautiful church with very friendly priest.

[VCH_Cumbria @VCH_Cumbria]

🎇🙂We could not be more delighted that our very own Dr Sarah Rose was honoured with a @VCH_London Outstanding Contribution Award last week.🙂🎇

https://t.co/oSgUV7yCoD

[Roland Jackson @Roland_Jackson]

@DrPennyBradshaw Snap! From this afternoon

[Michael D. Barton @darwinsbulldog]

Transcription help: letter from Stanley to Tyndall (1880): "I suppose that the Telegraphic m[ee]t[in]g will take up the ev[en]ing—otherwise the Professor c[ou]ld be spared for an hour. [Please] do not take [pains] to answer, [as I shall] [???] that the [???] is [???]."

#histsci

[Roland Jackson @Roland_Jackson]

@wallersaur @Countrystride1 Very sensible!

[Roland Jackson @Roland_Jackson]

@wallersaur @Countrystride1 Were you up here as well?!

[Roland Jackson @Roland_Jackson]

Not posting much on here now but couldn't resist views from Striding and Swirral edges today. Wonderful winter conditions, except for unconsolidated deep snow drifts #Cumbria

[Roland Jackson @Roland_Jackson]

@LakesWeather Yes it does if the snow consolidates! Hard going today in places!

[Roland Jackson @Roland_Jackson]

@uksciencechief Interesting, thanks. Is this available as a pdf?

[Roland Jackson @Roland_Jackson]

@ProfTomCrick Some things have changed and many haven't!
Intrigued to know if other CSAs are aware...I sent a copy to Angela.

[Roland Jackson @Roland_Jackson]

@ProfTomCrick Yes indeed thanks. Just read Ian Boyd's book! (Might encourage me to write the sequel to this: https://t.co/69I4vYxYw0)

[Thony Christie (he/his/him) @rmathematicus]

An overlong review essay of Metropolitan Science: London Sites and Cultures of Knowledge and Practice, c. 1600–1800 by Rebekah Higgitt & Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin with Noah Moxham
https://t.co/3uJhCWI5Tu

[Roland Jackson @Roland_Jackson]

...and there's an interesting history of Netherby Hall just here https://t.co/FcykveqO7F

[VCH_Cumbria @VCH_Cumbria]

This week’s Place of the Week is Arthuret in north #Cumbria
Arthuret encompasses a number of villages including Longtown, which featured in this week’s Fact of the Week

Find out more at… https://t.co/A47FPujtqJ

[Roland Jackson @Roland_Jackson]

@EtheHerring Thanks...though I don't necessarily want exactly the same mix! Twitter/X still has its uses if managed actively.

[Roland Jackson @Roland_Jackson]

I'm finding Bluesky intriguing and interesting, because it is so customisable and controllable as a user, but I can't quite make out all the followers who have recently piled in.

[Emily @EtheHerring]

https://t.co/mTX55e5Glo