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We should STOP using the Mercator map projection. When discussing Greenland it totally distorts (enlarges) the size of it. Similarly for Africa, which is shrinks relative to say RUssia.

@JamesT85455 @archeohistories Rubbish! Who did you think were the servants, washerwomen, dairy maids, needle women, herring girls, nurses, cooks, cleaners ……? You mean middle class women.

@archeohistories I thought women didn't work till the 70s 👀

“The Crawlers”, 1877. ‘The Crawlers’ were the lowest of the British poor. This elderly widow is sitting outside a tailor’s shop, holding a baby while its mother works. She was given a cup of tea and a slice of bread daily in return. The photograph titled “The Crawlers” was taken in 1877 and captures one of the harshest realities of Victorian poverty in London. The term “crawlers” referred to some of the most destitute people in society — often the elderly, widowed, or disabled, who were too frail to work and forced to rely on scraps of charity to survive. They were called “crawlers” because many were so weakened by hunger, disease, or age that they could only move slowly, often crawling or dragging themselves along the streets. In this haunting image, an elderly widow sits outside a tailor’s shop, cradling an infant. The baby’s mother, likely a working-class woman struggling to make ends meet, left her child in the widow’s care while she labored inside. The widow’s payment for this exhausting responsibility was meager: a cup of tea and a slice of bread a day. Such arrangements were common, as survival for the poorest relied on fragile networks of mutual aid and the charity of others. This photograph is more than a snapshot, it is a window into the crushing inequalities of Victorian society. While industrial Britain was generating immense wealth, many of its citizens were trapped in cycles of poverty, living day to day on the edge of survival. Social reformers later used photographs like this as evidence to push for changes in housing, sanitation, and welfare laws, laying the groundwork for Britain’s eventual social safety nets. © Historical Photos #archaeohistories

House built by Glasgow's most famous architect kept in chain mail box ideal for a winter walk #12345681" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">glasgowlive.co.uk/whats-on/famil… Why is this considered good architecture when it has failed the basic of keeping its inhabitants dry?

@sweet_nector1 A reel of gunpowder blobs. For children The refill for a cap gun we then had as children. Also used singly in little drop bombs. Made a good bang but not dangerous -unless you tried scrap0ing it out to make a bigger bomb firework.

Any idea what this could be?

@theamelia__ Yes. We played out in the woods, fields and farm buildings of our village. Paddled in streams, built dens, cooked dampers on fires we made. Always managed to get home in time for meals - hunger clock i suspect. No one controlled us or knew where we were. Superb education/memories

@D1984Bob @RupertLowe10 Why? They are hard working, ensure their children are well educated and contribute taxes. We gain, we need a growing tax paying labour force to cope with our aging pop.

Immigrants came when we colonized half the globe. They just showed up bc they were now British subjects. It was going on until the late 50s! We didn’t stop it and we should have! It’s what Powell talked about. Now there’s generations of them. Least we can do is close door on immigration

I am sick of hearing that Britain was built by immigrants. No. No it was not. It was built by British men and women. We should be proud of that.

@AlexRSO1234 @RupertLowe10 The Celts etc were all immigrants! We are a mongrel Nation. Post war Asians and Carribians were essential to the rebuilding of our destroyed country and filling empty jobs in the workforce. Later Indians from Africa brought businesses here As did Huguenots and Hong Konger.s

@RupertLowe10 Celtic, Anglo Saxon and Norman with minimal large scale immigration until the 1970s.

The NHS works well. In Glasgow Phone booked to see my GP who booked an x ray for me at local hospital .No appointment needed. Just go any time I wished during their open hours in next 2 weeks. Went today. Through hospital doors at 12.0. Immediately seen in X-ray. Out by 12.10!

@_princealarming @TheNorfolkLion My grandsons went to a UK church school where they had a broad education about religion. For example when we went to Thailand they were immediately able to identify the Ramayana stories in temple carvings. But not indoctrinated about Christianity , just its stories and morals.

If you don't agree with this set of events then you are misguided. Why the hell should anyone be taught RE if it's unfairly going to present Christianity as the more "correct" one? When I went to school, we all learnt RS&P, religious studies with a twist of philosophy. But at the end of the day, my teacher was a Christian who threw her faith's bias out the door when teaching us about Buddhism and Islam. Newsflash assholes, some of the kids in the room are followers of those religions. Seeming biased towards one religion won't make the learning objective.

🚨 BREAKING: UK Supreme Court rules that teaching core Christian beliefs in Northern Ireland schools is now UNLAWFUL. The highest court in the land has just declared that the Christian religious education currently taught in NI schools (the same basic Bible teaching that’s been there for generations) violates human rights and must be changed. Let that sink in. In a country whose head of state is literally called “Defender of the Faith”, whose laws were built on Christian foundations, whose national anthem prays “God save the King”… teaching children what Christians actually believe is now deemed illegal. How the fk is this right? How is this even remotely just or sane in a historically Christian nation? This isn’t about “inclusivity” or “tolerance”. This is the state targeting Christians, yet again. Northern Ireland voted to keep traditional marriage, voted against liberal abortion laws, yet Westminster and the courts keep forcing progressive secular ideology on a population that repeatedly rejects it. Enough is enough. If you think children in a Christian country should still be allowed to learn Christian teachings in school without it being ruled “unlawful”, make your voices heard!

@SueYoung351 Buying a fridge this week. I was asked ifr i wished to include an extra 10 year warrantee. Not at 90 was my happy reply.

@JoyceWilliams_ And when trying to buy in a store and checking sizes was asked who I was buying them for? For me of course! Surprised assistant said - but we usually sell those to younger women.

M and S . Hopelessly trying to buy women’s black stretch trousers, straight leg elastic waist or zip. Web site totally confusing for a 90 year old. Can’t see waist details and not given. Hopeless too trying to order by phone. Didn’t speak English or know the products to help me

@StonemasonSimon @ExploreCosmos_ Takes away the fear of dying. i know that the atoms currently me may one day be in a tree

@ExploreCosmos_ It's my FAVOURITE thing about us....made of exploded stars. SO MUCH more interesting than ..god did it.

Carl Sagan’s phrase “We are made of starstuff” is more than poetic, it’s a literal truth about our origins. After the Big Bang, the universe contained almost nothing but hydrogen and helium, the simplest elements. It was within the cores of the first stars that heavier elements were born. Through the process of nuclear fusion, these stellar furnaces transformed hydrogen into helium, helium into carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and eventually, in the most massive stars, up to iron. When such stars reached the end of their lives, they exploded as supernovae, scattering their enriched matter across space. Those stellar remnants, dust and gas filled with newly forged elements, drifted through the galaxy, slowly gathering again under gravity to form new generations of stars, planets, and moons. Our Sun, Earth, and all living things formed from this recycled material about 4.6 billion years ago. Every atom in our bodies, the calcium in our bones, the iron in our blood, the nitrogen in our DNA, was once part of an ancient star that lived and died long before our solar system existed. In that sense, we are both cosmic and ephemeral: the universe condensed into form. The atoms that now think, breathe, and love were once part of blazing stellar cores. We are the continuation of a cycle of creation and destruction that began almost 14 billion years ago, a universe that gave rise to consciousness so it could look back and understand itself. When Sagan said that we are starstuff, he meant that we are not separate from the cosmos but its way of knowing itself: the stars, through us, have become aware that they shine.

@Matt_Pinner @jenhawk6248 Joyce. Last peaked around 1938.

Can you name one ? 🤔

@SigmaFemale1818 @JamesMelville For me it was rediscovering the pleasure of a quiet traffic free world and trailer free skies, plus the growth of supportive communities, especially those on line that have survived. I had almost forgotten that was a possible world.

The pandemic served as an X-ray exposing all the fractures in our society and the broken systems that fail the very people they should serve. A catastrophe in spirit is the by product which we continue to observe that has become a negative contagion contaminating the psyche of the masses

I was discussing the Covid era with a few friends earlier today and everyone said the same thing - the Covid era broke something. Britain has never been the same since. A combination of the economic fall out & knocking the stuffing out of the national spirit. You can feel it.

WHY doesn’t the Chancellor put a huge tax on chewing gum?

From my neighbourhood: nextdoor.co.uk/p/KMSnq7L8WRsJ…

@Irmenberga @CleverJonathan @histories_arch @naomirwolf Earthworms! They add inches of top soil every year. Excrete it ready to use. Read Darwins fascinating research on them. They are natures ploughing Machines.

@CleverJonathan @histories_arch @naomirwolf THIS is what I don't understand. WHY is the old stuff under the ground? Who is going around covering useful things in dirt? Houses that are built today, will THEY be underground jn 2000 years? I've asked loads of people but noone knows

Incredibly rare type of Roman road discovered in Worcester 🇬🇧. The road is said to be of “global importance” with its only comparatives being roads in Rome and Pompeii. The discovery was made after a resident noticed what appeared to be a Roman road and contacted an archaeology advisor. The road is believed to have been hidden for nearly 2000 years. Archaeologists were brought in to establish the authenticity of the cobbled path. The road is constructed with large stones laid in bands, a well-known Roman building technique. The site may be reburied to protect it from deteriorating while Historic England is kept informed. #archaeohistories

@ColinSpenc4257 @lw00l Yes as a child when sweets were rationed post war.

Who Remembers.

@Brink_Thinker Yes, no mobile phones.Played outside in gangs anywhere we could find space. Post war we played on bomb sites using rubble to build our dens! Or in the woods, used branches and ditches. Home when hungrry. No watches. In winter played outside in the dark under street lights.

Be Honest.. Did parents really just let their kids wander the neighborhood all day with no phone and just say... be back before dark?