Peter Corry

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#CovidEnquiry Recommendation on better data collection, sharing in advance, commissioning of research. Great not easy with GDPR, slow ethics approval, lack of surveillance funding. @BPSU led on CYP COVID monitoring now needs funds and support. 🙆

🚨Major new grant announced 🧓Findings from the Well-being in Later Life in Bradford study will help the NHS & social care improve services to meet people’s needs as they age 💷£892,518 awarded to @drandyclegg & @JamillaHussain1 at @cityofresearch @BTHFT nuffieldfoundation.org/news/nearly-1m…

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@aljhlester Good to have some balanced debate about this. Have you included the Ottoman Empire’s Devshirme system in the Balkans which took a levy of Christian boys, raised them in Islam and relied on them as loyal Janissary soldiers? Some were castrated and served in court.

c) In the Arab system, captives often became free through conversion to Islam and their children were not necessarily born into a state of captivity. It was possible for many who were initially sold to reach a high rank in the ‘host’ society’. In the trans-Atlantic system few captives could gain manumission and captives’ children were not only born into a state of slavery but were regularly separated from their parents trough sale to other owners. d) In the Arab system, captives were taken for domestic or military service or for sexual exploitation. In the trans-Atlantic system, captives were exploited for all of these purposes, but their primary purpose was twofold: to serve as capital assets upon which loans could be leveraged, and to produce and refine commercial crops on semi-industrialised plantations. Both their value as ‘assets’ (which amounted to 40% of British government revenue when compensation was paid to their ‘owners’ for their emancipation) and their unpaid work transformed the global economy and helped transform Britain into an industrial power.

1/6 🧵I’ve given a few talks recently about trans-Atlantic slavery in British history, to people who really don’t want to hear it. I don’t mean haranguing shoppers in Oxford Street, but talks to church, community and business groups comprised of small ‘c’ conservative White people who’ve been willing to hear me out, even if they find it uncomfortable. I’ve kept it factual and based it on two main databases: slavevoyages.org on British participation in the trans-Atlantic slave ‘trade’ and ucl.ac.uk/lbs/ on slave ownership. On every occasion, there have been two main objections. In case its useful for others, this thread sets out what they are, along with my own attempts to answer:

@fotofacade The Britons Arms restaurant is thought to have been a rare English example of a Beguinage, more commonly found in the Netherlands and Belgium. Bruges, Kortrijk, Breda, Leuven, Amsterdam, etc.

A street in Bavaria? No, it's Elm Hill in Norwich, with many buildings with origins in Tudor times.

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@johnghughes3 Thanks. Good to see they will be used again. They looked pretty neglected on the Google Earth view.

Thought you might be interested in this @pccorry #Almshouses corkbeo.ie/news/property/…

@katemacrae I saw similar behaviour by wheatears on St Kilda 4 July 2023. Sorry, no photos.

Puffins & hovering wheatear ... another great wildlife day on Shetland.. see my latest… wildlifekate.wordpress.com/2017/06/17/puf…

Equity in Health Research Working on this important topic with @GenomicsEngland Bringing together community groups and professionals in this field to learn, discuss, share insights and experiences and develop next steps. Find out more breaking-down-barriers.org.uk/equity-in-heal…

@EmmaMacLusby This one was out at Ben Rhydding Gravel Pits NR yesterday.

Searching for orchids at our local nature reserve, I think early purple and maybe paler one is common spotted? #30DaysWild #WildflowerHour

Wow! Does anyone have an open top bus that can take 25,000? Thank you Bradford! Champions of England! The Golden Triangle has just shifted North @CityOfResearch @BiBresearch @NIHR_ARC_YH @drrosiemc @LawtonRebecca @drandyclegg @BTHFT @SaralayaD @wolfsoncahr @CMO_England

@germany_iam Kathe Kollwitz museum in Cologne will reopen in Autumn after renovations.

@GraemeCallister @EHChalus Conscripts in barracks will expect weekend home leave - and transport. When I hitchhiked in Europe in the 1960s there were so many in uniform (they always got lifts first) and railway stations were full of conscripts. Expensive.

@EHChalus My pleasure! It also amazes me how few realise that for universal service, we need universally available services (big & small). Need healthy conscripts? We need universal routine youth health checks. Need weekend volunteers? We need universal public transport to get them there.

There has understandably been a lot on here over the past couple of days about National Service. So as a historian who actually studies and writes about compulsory military service, here are a few thoughts on the challenges it poses. A quick 🧵 1/

📢📢📢 TO ALL THE POLITICAL PARTIES... We need a serious conversation about environmental crime in Britain. Our country is being desecrated and hugely polluted. Tough action, NOT WORDS is required. On-the-spot fines should be increased from £1,000 to £10,000.

@purm I’m sorry, but I was 4 weeks earlier than you this year. I saw 10 on Sunday 21 April, including this friendly couple! I wouldn’t have gone so early, but I think the Butterfly Recorder for @wns_nats Nyree Fearnley reported seeing them there a few days earlier.

Having not seen any this year until now, I saw several Green Hairstreaks in different locations @pccorry have you seen yours on the Chevin yet? I think you see them about a week before me

Saw the cuckoos again. Again missed a photo. Met a man who recently saw a Ring Ouzel there I don’t tire of the regular birds Lapwing, Oystercatcher, Meadow Pipit, Swallow

The @LandmarkTrust is a charity that rescues blgs then lets them for holidays; we have to compete with super commercial cos eg Airbnb. Its not easy. We are so thrilled to again be judged the UK’s no 1 holiday cottage operator by @WhichUK Remember: each booking =>buildings saved

Sorry, no photo but I saw a young male roe deer today in downtown Leeds (Cross Green, 100 yards from dual carriageway A63). Was surprised to see one in such a built up area. Urban corridors? @YorksWildlife @BradfordNature @WoodlandTrust

@stuartpengs Maybe you need more buildings! 😂 Only today I was surprised to see a young male roe deer about 100 yards from a dual carriageway in downtown Leeds. In a small meadow surrounded by bushes/trees with some green access, but would have to cross roads + rail lines.

1. Living in North Wales, it might surprise some to hear we have virtually no deer. I know of a small herd of fallow and that's about it I think. In hundreds of nights out with thermal, never seen one. Given most of the headlines we see now over deer in UK it's about ...

@AbilitiesB @bradford4better I’m fine thanks but feeling older. But it’s still great to hear good news from Bradford.

@pccorry @bradford4better Hope you're well Peter.

Recognising others is recognising the good work you do yourself. Proudly accepted my recognition from my peers @bradford4better . Thank you for this award and promoting my contributions towards improving the health outcomes of our communities. #healthcare #Dietitian #diabetes