Amy Binns

As an #indieauthor and publisher, I am proud beyond measure of this full page review in @TheTLS for biography Hidden Wyndham. Thanks to @goldipipschmidt and @StigAbell Glad you liked it! #scifi #biography

Free for 270 years. Nobody ever asks why. 🇬🇧 In 1753 a British doctor called Hans Sloane died. He left 71,000 objects to the nation. On one condition. It must be free. For everybody. Forever. Parliament raised the money through a national lottery. And built the world’s first public museum. Not for the King. Not for the Church. For all of humanity. The idea was simple. Human history belongs to all of humanity. Not just the powerful. Not just a few. For everyone. 270 years later it still hasn’t charged a penny. 8 million objects. Two million years of human history. The Rosetta Stone. The Lewis Chessmen. The Sutton Hoo helmet. All of it free. Still today. The idea Britain invented in 1753 changed how the entire world keeps its history. This channel exists because people like you chose to make it happen. Thousands of stories like this one are waiting to be told. Battles won. Names forgotten. History that belongs to all of us but gets told to none of us. If you can afford to help keep it free for everyone else: proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

The Fantastic Lesbians have written to STV about their reporting.

And so the sun looks in again at St Cuthbert’s Tomb, to the east of the altar at Durham Cathedral.

Most people think church bells are ringing randomly. They aren’t. In Britain, many church bells follow a system called change ringing, a method based on mathematical patterns, not melodies. Instead of playing a tune, each bell rings once in a sequence. Then the order changes. Again. And again. With just 3 bells, there are 6 possible patterns. With 6 bells, there are 720. With 8 bells, over 40,000. What sounds unpredictable is actually very precise. Each bell is controlled by a person, working in coordination with others, following memorised patterns and timing rules. It requires concentration, rhythm, and teamwork. The tradition developed in England in the 17th century, when bells were redesigned to swing fully, allowing far greater control over when each bell sounds. That distinctive, slightly mysterious sound drifting across towns and villages... is not random noise. It is mathematics, carried on the wind. Follow @oaksandlions for more interesting posts like this. #ChurchBells #ChangeRinging #BritishTraditions

Paddington enjoyed cherry blossoms at Highclere Castle 😄 Sakura Cherry Tree Project planted more than 9,000 cherry trees at 1,000 places across the UK!! Thank you, Lord Carnarvon for hosting us! Thank you, Chairman Sano & Lady Borwick for leading Sakura Cherry Tree Project!

In 1960, Ormond Gigli turned a doomed row of New York brownstones into something unforgettable. With no budget, he gathered 43 women, gave them full creative freedom, and placed them in empty windows just hours before demolition. Shot from a fire escape, the result wasn’t just a photo—it was a fleeting moment of beauty, frozen seconds before it vanished forever. © History Pictures #archaeohistories

A gentle reminder to advance your sundials this evening in anticipation of British Summer Time.

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“My father observed that most buildings, and most buildings that we truly love, are not the work of architects. The agreeable settledness of the old English town, he reasoned, was the work of local craftsmen…” —Sir Roger Scruton

PUBLICATION DAY! The paperback edition of God is an Englishman: Christianity and the Creation of England is now out... 1/2

@ColeFusionHQ Bloke who had lost a finger, called Kit Kat.

British nicknames are an unregulated industry. a 5'6 tradesman called Anthony is professionally known as Shetland Tony. a man who lost an eye is called Keth. a quiet man wore a yellow jumper once and became Mumblebee. what's the best nickname you've ever heard

A revolution is on its way in Europe. New schools are being founded to restore the crafts and beauty in architecture. Support La Table Ronde de l'Architecture in their quest to create the 'Anti-Bauhaus'

My Iranian mother collapsed on the morning of Christmas Day. The volunteers of Hatzola were with us within five minutes: their service is literally a life-saver. The thugs who firebombed their ambulances celebrate the culture of death.

Looking for recommendations for a good book on the pantheon of British gods - not just Welsh or Scots but pre-Roman English deities @arisroussionos @fakehistoryhunt @holland_tom @SketchesbyBoze @MedievalScholar

If you live in London, you should know that Brân (raven), son of Llŷr, had his head, lopped off in a battle with invading Irish, buried on Tower Hill to protect the kingdom, at which Branwen died of a broken heart. This is England’s deep mythology too.

When I was young, my Auntie Annie would tell me tales of her cousin Ivy, who played in an all-women's band. I never met Ivy, and her side of the family remained a mythical branch located far away on the other side of the Pennines. A few years ago, I received a box of old family photographs from someone who traced me through Ancestry, and there amongst them was a picture of Ivy (second from left) and her Celebrity Ladies Orchestra.

Everyone in Britain is heir to an extremely complex & ancient Celtic mythological cycle of native gods & heroes, just like Ireland, but set in the country in which they live, yet the British educational system actively ignores it. I doubt 1/10000 children could name a British god

It's called St Cuthbert's Day. We celebrated it every year at school. The flag bears his cross. He was so revered by King Æthelstan, the founder of our Kingdom, that the king made a pilgrimage to Durham to honour him. Renaming it "Durham Day" erases our history.

Everyone knows Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb. 💡 Everyone is wrong. His name was Joseph Swan. Born in Pallion, Sunderland. Son of a failed entrepreneur. No university. No laboratory. No backing. Just a chemist's apprentice in his home town who couldn't stop thinking about light. He worked on it for twenty years. Along the way he invented bromide photographic paper. Artificial fibre, the process that led to rayon. Over seventy patents. And still nobody had made a lightbulb that worked. Then on the 18th of December 1878, in a lecture hall in Newcastle, he switched it on. It burned bright. Then it broke. But the idea was proven. ⚡ Six weeks later, 3rd February 1879, he demonstrated it again. This time it worked. Seven hundred people watched the room light up. Eight months before Thomas Edison. Edison heard about it. Filed a patent. Then sued Swan in America. The US Patent Office found against Edison. ✅ Edison sued Swan in Britain. The British courts found against Edison again. ✅✅ As part of the settlement, Edison was forced into a partnership with Swan. The company was called Ediswan. Swan's patents. Swan's filament design. Edison's name first. Eventually Edison bought him out. Swan was knighted in 1904. The Savoy Theatre, the first building in the world lit entirely by electricity, used his bulbs. Edison got the credit. Swan got a knighthood nobody remembers. And history forgot Sunderland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Did they teach you his name? Together we keep our history alive. proudofus.co.uk/support Be part of us. 🙏 Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

I once dreamt that I covered my house in glue and rolled it through Westminster Abbey. In Greetham, Rutland, Thomas Halliday, a Victorian stonemason, did the nearest possible thing - embedding medieval fragments from his restorations into his own house and yard.