Susan Skedd 💙

Historian of 18th and 19th century girls' education; lover of endangered historic buildings; organiser of @BarnetMedieval. My own views.

[Susan Skedd 💙 @susanskedd]

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[Barnet Medieval Festival @BarnetMedieval]

We are thrilled to share the poster for this year's Festival and very https://t.co/N4PGswL28z Graham Turner for allowing us to use the central detail from his splendid painting of the Battle of Barnet.
TICKETS go on sale on Saturday 13th April.

[Susan Skedd 💙 @susanskedd]

@SimonPulleyn Couldn't agree with you more. My bluebird lasted a few hours longer but now is now more. I'm out of here, sadly, as I've gained so much from Twitter.

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Cost of Grenfell soars to £1.2 billion enough to build 10,000 social housing homes and it was all caused by shaving a few hundred thousand off the costs. No-one had been held to account for the 72 deaths

[Susan Skedd 💙 @susanskedd]

@BrokenBarnet @barnetsociety Super to see this revealed! I remember seeing it some years ago and I'm sure you're right about it belonging to Greenhill.

[Adam Tranter @adamtranter]

He:
- KILLED a woman and her three dogs
- Was drunk + high on drugs
- Was doing 3x speed limit
- Was racing another car driver at the time

He will:
- Serve 40 months in prison
- Get a 5 yr driving ban

Just what would you need to do to get a lifetime ban?
https://t.co/LN6wzB3LaG

[Love Barnet @love_barnet]

In a month's time, Hadley Residents Association are hosting a touring production of "Twelfth Night" on Hadley Green. Tickets are £17.50 each. Book by emailing [email protected]
It's an outdoor production so please bring your own low back chair/rugs & picnic.

[UKSwifts @swifts_uk]

People are currently outside Shrewsbury ambulance site, as they are about to remove nesting swallows from a active nest, after a licence has been granted, just weeks before they will fledge.. #StopNatureCrime #SaveOurSwallows @swallowspotting @ChrisGPackham @IoloWilliams2

[UKSwifts @swifts_uk]

URGENT 🚨 At 10 am tomorrow, Pest Control contractors will be at Shrewsbury Ambulance Station to remove nesting Swallows. WMAS have taken no professional advice. Somehow (???) this barbaric act is being done under a license from Natural England 1/2

[Their Finest Hour @ww2finesthour]

Echoing @DrHelenFry's call for family stories, Their Finest Hour would like to invite anyone with a family story from #WW2 which they would like to share with the world, to consider contributing this to our archive.

Visit https://t.co/BTHSIlgSgr and click SHARE YOUR STORY!!

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

So much smearing & belittling of consultants in the press, but this, from today’s @thetimes letters page, could not have put it more beautifully.

Pls RT if you agree.

#NHS 💙

[Robert van der Noordaa @g900ap]

Liszt played on this piano in Odessa in 1847, he gave a recital there. Picture after a Russian missile attack:

[The Victorian Society @thevicsoc]

And remove permitted development rights for demolition!

[SAVE Britain's Heritage @SAVEtoReuse]

📢<<Henrietta Billings, director of SAVE Britain’s Heritage, called it “a major test of our disposable, knock-it-down and rebuild attitude, with potentially far-reaching consequences for construction & development”. >> ♻️

#SAVEMandSOxfordSt
#SAVEcampaigns
https://t.co/GAVTGFC9s0

[Susan Skedd 💙 @susanskedd]

@C20Society @SAVEBrit @ArchitectsJrnal @BDonline @BBCBreaking @SkyNews @guardian @FT @itn @ArchitectsCAN Fabulous news!

[The Victorian Society @thevicsoc]

This is how we must treat buildings to be sustainable - demolition must be the exception not the rule

[The Victorian Society @thevicsoc]

We are urging the @cityoflondon to reject plans to cantilever a tower over a listed Victorian Turkish bath house – the exterior of which is covered in show stopping tiles. Worryingly most of the proposed site is outside the tall building cluster. https://t.co/p6DDpdy0aZ

[Roshana 🦴 @RoshanaMN]

The Consultants of Dorset hospital have written a letter to @SteveBarclay

They strike tomorrow

This letter is incredible

I challenge anyone to refute a single point in it

Worth a read for you too @wesstreeting

[New Barnet @NewBarnet]

The latest SNB Campaign Newsletter further reports on Fairview's public consultation over their latest plans for Victoria Quarter (New Barnet Gasworks site) that closes on 31 July 23
https://t.co/IUbApsMkPf

[Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online (EMCO) @Montagu_Letters]

Our corpus of transcribed letters are growing daily, so be sure to keep your eyes peeled for incredibly interesting new edited letters from various correspondents.

For now, our 500 transcribed letters can all be viewed and searched on our website: https://t.co/KpjdXOr8PL

[Tamsin Rosewell @autumnrosewell]

KATE GREENAWAY MEDAL
Lecturer, historian & librarian, Dr Rose Roberto, and I have created a petition to request the restoration of Kate Greenaway's name to the illustration award. Read our piece & sign the petition here: https://t.co/APd8hSmkbe

🎨Please share #KateGreenawayMedal