Clio has some reasons to be cheerful
UK libraries and museums unite to save ‘astonishing’ lost library from private buyers - wouldn't it be nice, though, if the people who can afford to buy up this sort of thing would do so to give them to publicly available collections?
And, talking of fun things found in public collections, this is an amazing Twitter thread about an astonishing find by the Conservation Dept at The National Archives.
However the linen condom on display in this tour is only a replica, much to my disappointment: Linen condoms and bed curtains: tour exposes history of sex in Scotland - possibly they were less likely to survive than animal gut ones, of which there are existing examples: The tour, rated 16+, is taking place throughout the summer at Gladstone’s Land, a restored tenement at the top of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. In a first for the National Trust for Scotland, which is more usually associated with heritage gardens, it presents a thematic history of privacy, sex work and contraception, spanning from 17th to the early 20th century and using sources drawn from across Scotland.
I have not yet seen whether there is woazery about wokery over this.
Footprints of possibly last dinosaurs to walk Britain found in Kent. This is almost certainly a stretch of beach I have walked along in my youth.
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