A Map of British Dialects
https://starkeycomics.com/2023/11/07/map-of-british-english-dialects/
Ian Visits: British Army puts 80-years of SOLDIER magazine online in free archive. “Good news for researchers as an 80 year archive of the British Army’s in-house magazine, SOLDIER, has been digitised and is now available online for free. The magazine, SOLDIER (yes, in capitals) was authorised by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery as a morale-boosting magazine for British Army troops fighting […]
A great piece from @DazedMagazine on the quiet radicalisation of young women. A timely article, after Netflix's "Adolescence" kick-started a country-wide conversation on how young men are being exposed to misogynistic and harmful content online.
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“The principle that access to knowledge, and to the greatest things created by humankind, should be equally available to all has been largely upheld by all British public collections since parliament created the British Museum...”
Entry fee would ‘undermine foundational principle’ of national museums - Museums Association
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I mentioned Richard Neville in a recent post about Australians in Britain. This obituary and the additional note by fellow Australian in Britain Geoffrey Robertson give a sense of Neville's significance.
Richard Neville obituary | Magazines | The Guardian
#RichardNeville #Australia #UKCulture #AustraliansInBritain
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/04/richard-neville-obituary
Google Blog: Unveiling royal style: A digital journey through five centuries of fashion. “Among [Historic Royal Palaces’] most remarkable collections is the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection (RCDC), an extraordinary archive of fashion, history and craftsmanship. Now, in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, we are bringing this collection to a global audience, offering an unprecedented […]
Wired Gov: Archives Revealed awards new cataloguing grants and first-ever consortium grant. “Archives Revealed is a partnership programme between The National Archives, the Pilgrim Trust, the Wolfson Foundation and The National Lottery Heritage Fund which helps unlock collections across the UK and build the skills needed to care for them into the future. These are the first grants of their […]
BBC: Struggling English museums get rescue funds. “Museums, theatres and other cultural venues in England are to receive £270m funding to stay afloat and fix their crumbling buildings, the government has said. The money will go to attractions ‘in urgent need of financial support to keep them up and running, carry out vital infrastructure work and improve long term financial resilience’, […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/20/bbc-struggling-english-museums-get-rescue-funds/
Historic Environment Scotland: Unlock Scotland’s past with trove.scot. “Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has today launched trove.scot, its new digital portal for the historic environment. Users can now delve into Scotland’s heritage with the platform, which brings together millions of HES’s unique and diverse collections of information, images, video, spatial data and archival […]
InPublishing: Classic & Sports Car launches digital archive. “The legacy of British classic car magazine, Classic & Sports Car, stretches back to 1982, and its full archive can now be accessed by readers through publishing services platform Exact Editions. Both individual and institutional subscribers can browse and search more than four decades of issues, including special collectors’ […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/13/inpublishing-classic-sports-car-launches-digital-archive/
University of St Andrews: New partnership will broaden understanding of UK’s public art collection. “The University of St Andrews’ School of Art History is teaming up with education charity Art UK on an pioneering project to research and tell stories about the art collection owned by the UK public.”
>>Why not pay for the statue of the Queen using money from the Sovereign Grant, an annual taxpayer-funded settlement that’s the main source income for the British monarchy? The grant for 2024–25 is £86.3 million, the vast majority of which is spent on the upkeep of properties and staff costs. Why doesn’t the royal family live more frugally for a few months and pay for the statue itself?<<
UK Government is Spending £46 M. on a Statue Despite State of Arts
Has Britain fallen out of love with tea? Consumption in the U.K. is now one-quarter of what it was in the 1970s. That might not be entirely to do with changing tastes: The price of a packet of 80 tea bags has increased by 11 percent in a year, thanks to climate change. For inews.co.uk, Nell Frizzell writes about the complicated relationship between Brits and tea. "It is tempting to see the death of tea as somehow symbolic of the end of a particular type of Britishness. A nostalgic version of the nation held in cricket clubs and church halls, in tea dances and doilies," she writes. "But it is also possible to see the adoption of tea as a part of British history that was, at times, inglorious, undignified and harmful." We want to know, what's your favorite hot drink? [story may be paywalled]
The National Gallery, like the BBC and the NHS, is one of those national institutions for which I have a genuine, but not blind, affection.
At 200 Years Old, the London National Gallery Is Redefining What It Means to Be a 'National' Museum | Smithsonian
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