Author of The Ascent of John Tyndall. History & politics of sci & tech. Chair @VCH_Cumbria, trustee @lowthercastle, & with @JohnTyndallCP and @stsucl
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Just a reminder, after the kind review from @rmathematicus, that these two books are now available:
upittpress.org/books/9780822…
amazon.co.uk/Studies-Scienti…
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:
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002k1g…
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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📜
Huge congratulations to @billshannon19!
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
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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
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🎇🙂We could not be more delighted that our very own Dr Sarah Rose was honoured with a @VCH_London Outstanding Contribution Award last week.🙂🎇
lancaster.ac.uk/history/news…
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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
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
ALT Looking up a snowy Striding Edge to Helvellyn
ALT Looking down Striding Edge
ALT Helvellyn and a black Red Tarn from Helvellyn
ALT Swirral Edge from Helvellyn
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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
thonyc.wordpress.com/2024/11…
ALT Front cover of the book Metropolitan science
...and there's an interesting history of Netherby Hall just here netherbyhall.co.uk/a-history…
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… cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/…
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.
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This #RemembanceDay we look to Scafell Pike and Wastwater for our fact of the week.
While #Cumbria contains England’s highest mountain and deepest lake, Scafell is the UK’s highest War Memorial.
cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/…
Late to #wildflowerhour but a seaside plant near the spectacular Saltburn water-powered tram.
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Our first Red Book for the Cumbria County History Trust! And indeed the first ever for Westmorland. More to follow!
We've just approved the artwork for the cover label of our next #BigRedBook - our 250th, and our first ever publication for the county of #Westmorland.
ALT Crop from the front cover of a book. The book is red with an off white label. On the label, in black, is a shield with three lions and the following text: The Victoria History of the Counties of England A History of the County of Westmorland Volume I Lonsdale Ward
I imagined Labour might like to abolish some laws, but they've clearly succeeded in abolishing the laws of physics!
Did you know a heat pump is 3x more efficient than a gas boiler?
Meaning it generates 3 times more energy than it consumes.
Check if a heat pump could be suitable for your home gov.uk/check-heat-pump
#HeatPumpWeek
A thousand years of Cumbria. Or alternatively forty-nine!
cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/…
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On roads not taken and absent friends. A bit of reflection and autobiography
softmachines.org/wordpress/?…
