I am grateful to Ian for bringing to my attention the case of Patience Kershaw, a girl whose testimony to the Antony Ashley-Cooper's Children's Employment Commission (Mines) has been adapted and set to music, performed by many including The Unthanks:

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Mount Everest's famous Hillary Step destroyed, mountaineers confirm
Crumbs.
(tags: everest )

Edward and Catherine Despard
The Anglo-Irish rebel and his Jamaican wife.
(tags: race History ireland )

What's in a name?
My old friend Andrew Smith: "I have the most common boys’ name of my birth year and the most common surname, so you will not be ( Read more... )

Guidelines for a soft Brexit
More from @AndrewDuffEU.
(tags: brexit eu ukpolitics )

The modern myth of the Easter bunny
in case you were wondering.
(tags: history religion )

How the Article 50 letter compares with the European Council draft guidelines
Rather useful.
(tags: ukpolitics brexit eu )

What is vaccine-derived polio?
The last stumbling block.
(tags: health polio )

Shetland Islands toy with idea of post-Brexit independence
#TakingBackControl!!!
(tags: Scotland brexit ukpolitics eu )

Cutting down the Lords
@chrishanretty: it should be drastically reduced in size. I'd ask, why have it at all?
(tags: houseoflords ukpolitics )

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Theresa May 'lacks courage to admit complexity of Brexit'
A messy under-resourced process.
(tags: ukpolitics brexit )

A slave mother's love in 56 carefully stitched words
An eloquent testimony in thread.
(tags: race history )

The Strange Death of Municipal England: Assault on Local Government
Long, analytical, brutal.
(tags: ukpolitics )

David ( Read more... )

Six maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure
What will Trump build?
(tags: maps uspolitics )

Trump’s Presidency: It’s Been this Bad Before - Medium
A Harding retrospective.
(tags: history uspolitics )

Why historians would make bad policy advisers
Obvious really...
(tags: History politics )

APCO's Guide to Election Night 2016
What's happening? And when?
(tags: Uspolitics )

Astrid Lindgren’s second world war diaries make for crisp, painful reading
A Swedish view.
(tags: sweden wwii )

Not so special: Why the US won't help Britain in the Brexit talks
@CER_London pours cold water.
(tags: ukpolitics eu brexit )

Second Best
An Isaac Asimov short story about presidential elections.
(tags: uspolitics history )

The ( Read more... )

Inside The Strange, Paranoid World Of Julian Assange
Fascinating and horrible.
(tags: wikileaks )

Christopher Marlowe credited as one of Shakespeare's co-writers
on all three parts of Henry VI. Makes sense to me.
(tags: shakespeare )

How Not to Do It: Liquid Nitrogen Tanks
Bang!
(tags: physics )

This Election is Positively Delightful Compared to ( Read more... )

What Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980?
Brilliant account of a quest for the truth.
(tags: travel history death )

Unapproved Routes: The Irish Border, 1922-1972 - Dancing at the crossroads of history
Sounds interesting!
(tags: northernireland ireland )

Hamilton’s America: Full Film
Brilliant brilliant documentary. Watch it!
(tags: hamilton )
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