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

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

[Napoleon @moanaparte]

There's a wonderfully vibrant almost completely empty indoor market in the Victoria Centre in Nottingham. Need a new watch battery? How's about a watch battery? Or what about a watch battery? Come to the Victoria Centre indoor market for all your watch battery needs!

[Opera with Opera News @operamagazine]

Buon 60° compleanno, @BartoliOfficial
⁩Cecilia Bartoli!

[Jack Califano @jackcalifano]

I love AI. I love having to re-read every single sentence on the internet twice to discern if I am getting the advice and experience of a living, breathing human being, or the sludge of a demonic greed machine engineered by 300 losers in San Francisco to steal my money. Fun !

[France Safety Travel @francesafetytra]

Cheese in the USA 🇺🇸 vs Cheese in France 🇫🇷

[Nubia E. Rojas G. @NubiaERojas]

Que no se acabe el día sin recordar el cumpleaños del gran Albrecht Mayer 🎂❤️, oboísta principal de la benemérita y muy querida @BerlinPhil ❤️🇩🇪

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

@DoubleODispatch 🤓

[Wizard_Barry @barry_wizard]

Things to do in Cambridge:
Sunny: punting
Raining: punting but with umbrellas
#WaterWednesday

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

@BuyEnglishMade Hammond's Sauce Works

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

@oberonsghost The FW stories (which I recently revisited in toto) don't always, of course, focus on a murder. But they are certainly all excellent, in casting and other respects.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

The British in 1814 did less damage than Trump

[Wine Blind Tasting @BlindTasters]

Think Etna wine is a new thing? In the Odyssey (c. 800 BCE), Homer describes the home of the Cyclops—identified since antiquity with Mount Etna—as a land of plenty that brings forth large clusters of grapes and rich wine.

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

@golferlouie An insult to dogs! 🐶

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

@ithacarising And Roman control of Cornwall was, at best, light-touch.

[🎶𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨ @Old_But_Gold50s]

The sublime performance by world-class pianist Yuja Wang of the piece Variations on the Turkish March. Combining masterful technique with a highly distinctive performance style, she has breathed entirely new life into Mozart's familiar melody, making it breathtakingly dynamic and groundbreaking.

[𝘾𝙀𝙀𝙁𝘼𝙐𝙓 @ceefaux]

Comedy/thriller/horror, take your pick.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

I think they blackballed me because of this.

[Old England in Colour @englandincolour]

A policeman stops the traffic for a man carrying an inflatable rubber giraffe to cross the road on his way to the British Industries Fair at Olympia, in February 1935.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Here it is: my 2026 manifesto for the #Makerfield By-Election. Makerfield Great Again! #VoteBinface #MakeYourVoteCount

[No1tingham @No1tingham]

The old and the new Trent Bridge side by side in 1871, before the old bridge was demolished. Credit: #Nottingham Local Studies Library.

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

@paul1964Jam @AnnMile71721158 🤓