James Elder @jameselder@tweetrex.co.uk
- Very old blog
- https://willtherealjamespleasestandup.wordpress.com
Business archivist. Ex rowing cox. Geek, secular humanist, leftie. I look after https://thamesrcarchive.co.uk in my spare time. Be nice, I'm trying my best.
Joined Nov 2022
“War” (Edwin Starr) and “Cloud Nine” were also his.
What a legacy.
RT @consequence@twitter.com
Barrett Strong, the Motown songwriter behind classic hits like "Money (That's What I Want)," "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone," has died at the age of 81: http://cos.lv/ykBW50ME3lU
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/consequence/status/1619880630182871040
Nearing the end of Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution by @EmmaGriffinHist@twitter.com.
Enlightening, and an object lesson in how close reading of a relatively neglected class of archival sources can yield new insights.
RT @ThamesRCArchive@twitter.com
There aren’t enough Rythmonic Dance Bands these days.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ThamesRCArchive/status/1619290694899605511
Oof.
RT @shonaghosh@twitter.com
The effective altruism community has, in the wake of Nick Bostrom's racism and SBF's fraud charges, described its own stereotype, which I present without comment. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/54vAiSFkYszTWWWv4/doing-ea-better-1
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/shonaghosh/status/1617491571620089857
RT @ThamesRCArchive@twitter.com
Latest additions to the TRC library.
Who knew that there were such varied histories of the River Thames to be told…
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ThamesRCArchive/status/1618696425696817153
RT @DapsDraws@twitter.com
The artist’s creed:
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DapsDraws/status/1617976042400120832
End of an era - no more Dukes Meadows shuffle!
RT @LondonPortAuth@twitter.com
A new footbridge has been opened at Dukes Meadows, Hounslow, providing walkers with convenient and safer access to the scenic @ThamesPathNT@twitter.com, in place of the long detour previously needed around Barnes Bridge https://hubs.la/Q01z1KS_0
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LondonPortAuth/status/1618535218113044480
Well they are *quite* accessible, Hermes.
For example I managed to walk down the driveway and open the front door not two hours ago.
Interesting job for someone!
RT @james3neal@twitter.com
JOB: @Converse@twitter.com, Global Digital Asset Librarian to manage internal company assets and overall digital asset management: taxonomy, indexing, cataloging, archiving, metadata tagging, content management systems, etc." $98,000 to $192,500 HT @librarian_elle@twitter.com https://jobs.converse.com/job/00618554
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/james3neal/status/1617097783131148292
RT @Peston@twitter.com
It’s extraordinary and unprecedented that @nadhimzahawi@twitter.com negotiated his multimillion pound tax settlement with @HMRCgovuk@twitter.com while Chancellor of the Exchequer. See attached. I am staggered this was thought appropriate by either the cabinet secretary or Treasury…
RT @implausibleblog@twitter.com
In the summer Zahawi said he was "being smeared" and "I've always declared my taxes."
Today the Guardian report that he has now paid taxes owed, interest, and a 30% fine, a total of £5 million.
Why did HMRC fine him if everything was above board?
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/implausibleblog/status/1616428002572922880
RT @j_a_clarkson@twitter.com
Cambridge University Library @theUL@twitter.com under the stars on a bitterly cold Tuesday evening - I stayed out for five hours before I got too cold and had to go home. The bright arc in the centre is the North star, Polaris - which you can see isn't perfectly aligned with the Earth's pole
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/j_a_clarkson/status/1616049543941947393
RT @AeolianNetwork@twitter.com
Registration is now OPEN for our 6th and FINAL workshop: New Horizons in AI and Machine Learning for Libraries and Archives on 23rd February, 1–6pm UK time. Keynote Speaker: @khetiwe24@twitter.com To register and for more details, see our website: https://www.aeolian-network.net/events/online-workshop-6/ #AI #ML
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AeolianNetwork/status/1616104608144953345
RT @KarimPalant@twitter.com
This is what the ‘No cakes in the office’ lady actually said and …. It’s perfectly reasonable? I don’t disagree with any of it.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/KarimPalant/status/1615805325705191429
RT @100YearsAgoLive@twitter.com
“How you think you’ll look in the photograph vs. how you really look,” from the Casper Daily Tribune, Wyoming.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/100YearsAgoLive/status/1615418279321010176
My history crush.
RT @EnglishRadical@twitter.com
“In order to abolish class rule and the bourgeois state, the workers must themselves become the ‘State’.”
Eleanor Marx, socialist activist and trade union organiser, was born in London #OnThisDay 1855.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/EnglishRadical/status/1615077524903497728
This is fascinating.
RT @boatsing@twitter.com
On HTBS: Siam-born Chaloke Komarakul-na-Nagara, @OxfordUniBC@twitter.com’s cox in the 1933 @theboatrace@twitter.com, was almost certainly the first person of colour to compete in the event, Tim Koch writes. What a life, what a story. https://bit.ly/3ZIAFO3
RT @ARAUK_IE@twitter.com
Still working? Take a break to read our new guest blog by author Andrew Lownie detailing the long, painful and very expensive fight to get the Broadlands archive (bought with tax payer's money) to be available to all researchers. https://www.archives.org.uk/news/the-mountbatten-diaries-scandal-southampton-university-and-the-cabinet-office
As an aside on the Nick Bostrom thing (see last RT) the first three paragraphs are interesting from an archives/historical memory point of view.
- Very old blog
- https://willtherealjamespleasestandup.wordpress.com
Business archivist. Ex rowing cox. Geek, secular humanist, leftie. I look after https://thamesrcarchive.co.uk in my spare time. Be nice, I'm trying my best.
Joined Nov 2022
