Whoever hacked the Internet Archive needs to know that you've done the equivalent of pulling off a bank heist at a public library. Nobody expected them to be high security, you haven't impressed anyone, and you're a jerk for messing with a public good.

Great to see that Brycchan Carey's recent talk on 'Eighteenth-century clerical naturalists and the origins of the modern life sciences', for IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar is now available on the Institute of Historical Research website. history.ac.uk/podcasts/ratio…

Really pleased to see Sarah Fox's recent talk on 'Britishness revisited: food and the formation of British identities in the late 18th c.' to IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar is now available on Institute of Historical Research's website. history.ac.uk/podcasts/briti…

Elon is actually doing all the things that the far right thinks George Soros has been doing for 20 years. Musk is buying the election, actively censoring speech he doesn't like, and swaying a cabal of billionaires. Not Soros.

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine resumed in a provisional, read-only manner. Sorry, no Save Page Now yet. Safe to resume but might need further maintenance, in which case it will be suspended again. Please be gentle web.archive.org More as it happens.

Stories of the Four Courts Selden's Sister Similar changes were happening in academia.

Neonicotinoids, fleas and sugar beet. If you are interested in these issues, you might enjoy this short ramble through the latest developments youtu.be/JZ37CUnxzfY?si… via YouTube #pesticides #neonics #bees The Wildlife Trusts PAN UK

We are very sorry to learn of the death of Dame Jinty Nelson (1942-2024). As well as being a superb historian of the early medieval world, Jinty was the first female President of Royal Historical Society (2001-05), having been elected a Fellow in 1979. Her portrait hangs in our office 1/2

Jinty Nelson's legacy to the Society is remembered with the Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships -- awarded annually to promote innovations in history teaching bit.ly/4cg7wid. We hope in the coming few weeks to carry several tributes to Jinty as a scholar and teacher 2/2

The most common hospital admission for 5-9yo children in England is for tooth decay! A truly Dickensian state of affairs. So we're taking action - 700,000 new dentist appointments, ending 'dental deserts', supervised toothbrushing for 3-5yos, and reforming the dental contract.

Wayback Machine running strong (yippie!). Still working to bring archive.org items & other services online safely. Internet Archive team spirits high, but tired.

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#LewisMumford The general argument against the individual appropriation of rent for the use of common utilities does not apply only to water power or coal...: it applies equally to other common factors like the social heritage itself... (1931)

#LewisMumford Mark Twain praised the typewriter because it promised to save paper; but it would be quite as just to condemn it because it increased the tempatation to waste it...(1931)

#LewisMumford ...we have achieved the magic formula for automatically increasing the supply of scientific knowledge; but we have forgotten the Master Magician's formula for regulating or halting the flood, and so are on the point of drowning in it (1961)

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#LewisMumford Here lay the secret of Darwin's great popular influence: his theory of natural selection sanctified the brutality of industrialism and gave a fresh impulse to the imperialism of the "superior" races that succeeded it. (1944)

#LewisMumford ...it was not as a biologist but as a mythologists that Darwin triumphed: he lent to the brutal assertion of class, nation, and race the support of a holy "scientific" dogma. The industrial world was flattered to find its own reflections in ... nature... (1944)

Very much looking forward to Tom Pye speaking about 'The endurance of entail: feudalism, political economy, and land reform in late 18th-c. Britain', IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar ; Institute of Historical Research Please join us either online or in person: history.ac.uk/events/enduran…

#LewisMumford ...our massive additons to...scientific knowledge have... lowered our capacty to make rational use of any part of it. In the exploding universe of science, the scarttered parts are travelling at an accelerated rate ever farther from the huan center. (1970)