Prof David Whitehead MRIA 🇪🇺 🇮🇪 🇫🇷 💙 💚

Retired historian (Ancient Greece) & oboist. Deracinated Nottinghamian. Widower. Grandfather. European. Loves dogs, humour, movies, orchestras, wine.

[Eric Trommater @etrommater]

Ealing Studios' wartime tension culminated in Dead of Night (1945), a landmark of British horror.
Structuring a haunting anthology around a terrifying closed-loop nightmare. Ealing could weaponize existential dread just as brilliantly as they captured working-class solidarity.

[Der Postillon 📯 @Der_Postillon]

Nvidia-Chef tritt zurück, um mehr Zeit mit seinen Affären verbringen zu können https://t.co/qgOXd5RJtW

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Today’s Daily Cartoon by Polly Adams.

[Kurwenal @dagodubnos]

In November 1865, King Ludwig II of Bavaria invited Richard Wagner to Hohenschwangau Castle. On 12 November, at 7:00 in the morning, Wagner positioned ten wind players from the 1st Infantry Regiment on the towers to surprise the king with the 'Morgengruß' from "Lohengrin".

[Medieval Military Medicine @MedMilMedicine]

Realising you’ve reached the edge of the margins and have no way back - 14th century, British Library, Add. 42130, f. 13v

[Tim Newburn @TimNewburn]

Knowing my general delight in all things signage, my daughter in law sent me this cracker

[. @LouiseRawAuthor]

Ross was right there guffawing when Brand rang poor Andrew Sachs to ‘slut shame’ (as she has called it) his granddaughter Georgina.

This caused tears of pain- she & her grandad didn’t speak again for years, reuniting only just before his death.

Ross knew what Brand was

[Prof David Whitehead MRIA 🇪🇺 🇮🇪 🇫🇷 💙 💚 @profdwh]

@BrokenBarnet 😱

[C20 Society @C20Society]

NEWS: The Society is extremely pleased to learn that the threatened Bury Market Hall in Greater Manchester has been saved from a potential demolition, after the Chancellor John Healey announced an additional £10 million of funding during his first Budget to remediate the 'iconic' 1970s building.

The Market Hall closed suddenly in October 2023 following the discovery of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) in the external loading bay and market roof – specifically the roof planks which span the in-situ concrete downstand beams.

Since then, new outdoor market canopies have been erected and a new food, drink and events venue has been constructed adjacent to the Market Hall, to accommodate some of 49 stall holders displaced by the closure.

The council had been considering 5 options for the Market Hall, only one of which proposed refurbishment, leading to concerns that demolition may be viewed as the only viable option. This prompted C20 Society to submit a listing application in May 2024, which was disappointingly turned down by DCMS in November 2024. The Market Hall was one of the top 10 cases highlighted in our 2025 Risk List campaign.

Designed by architects Fairhurst & Son and built 1969-71, the extraordinary ‘gullwing’ roof of Bury Market Hall has drawn comparisons with Eero Saarinen’s airport terminals at Washington Dulles, and is one of a small number of virtuoso post-war market buildings that combined technical innovation with civic placemaking in new towns, city centres, and urban areas destroyed by the Blitz. But while Coventry Market, Queensgate Market in Huddersfield, Smithfield Poultry Market in London, and Pannier Market in Plymouth are all Grade II listed and still in public use, Bury Market Hall appeared to be condemned until the recent funding announcement.

➡️ Read more: https://t.co/8Ah16XyoIb

[Institut für Textkritik @textkritik]

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[Nicholas Shakespeare @dolphinsands]

The “genuinely unaware”
Jonathan Ross… I suspect many people pine for a return to a prelapserian state of genuine unawareness of talents like Ross, Brand, Williams, Epstein, Savile, Cyril Smith etc

https://t.co/cB213LOIzk

[Henry James Derek Flack @barracuda147ho]

The Lecale Way is a long-distance walk of 49 miles starting in Downpatrick and ending in Newcastle. My favouite stretch is the area between Ballyhornan and Ardtole Church as depicted in the photies. I'd avoid the road from Ardtole to Ardglass (busy, narrow) #CountyDown @VisitMGS

[John Fielding Aerial Images @johnfielding001]

Marble intended for Westminster Cathedral ended up in a Norwich insurance office! Built in 1905 for Norwich Union, George Skipper's magnificent Surrey House is now dwarfed by pug ugly post-war architecture. A Victorian gem lost in a concrete jungle #Norwich #Architecture #Aerial

[Prof David Whitehead MRIA 🇪🇺 🇮🇪 🇫🇷 💙 💚 @profdwh]

@lauren_tho4607 Bad Day at Black Rock

[Medieval Military Medicine @MedMilMedicine]

The Unwanted High Five - 16th century, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod. Don. A III 54, f. 93v

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

We have to spell the word W-A-L-K around our border collie otherwise she goes ballistic. The problem is that she has now, somehow, also learned how to spell the word.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Cressida Dick working for Palantir raises the same concerns I’ve expressed about Tom Watson.

What does a company gain when it recruits a former Labour deputy leader or a former Metropolitan Police commissioner? Their experience, yes. But also their contacts, influence and the authority associated with the offices they held.

This ‘revolving door’ corrodes confidence in politics, public service generally and in institutions such as the police.

Read more here: https://t.co/36D0k5QD0R

@TBIJ

[Mike Berridge, 💙#FBPVT , #FBNHS 🌈 @MikeBerridge]

Please be careful, was looking at my spam folder and there were several e mails from TV Licensing here in the UK, each one appearing to be genuine and telling me the last payment had failed, thankfully I'm a suspicious sort and actually logged into TV Licensing web site and checked what it said, guess what, I'm licensed till the middle of 2027 but the spam e mails were very good and many will be fooled and may well pay. Yes they were in my spam folder but a lot of people will get them going into their normal e mail folder.

[Clarissa Aykroyd @stoneandthestar]

Sometimes the internet is still delightful. The Embassy of Finland in Canberra posted about being closed on 10 November, somehow this went viral & now 1000s of people are posting about their disappointment as reportedly they'd specifically planned to visit the embassy on that day

[Geoff Engelstein @gengelstein]

Steve Selvin, the creator of the Monty Hall paradox, has passed away at age 85.

If there aren’t three coffins at his funeral, he’s missed a huge opportunity.