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Call this a recession? At least it isn’t the Dark Ages

Bryan Ward Perkins wrote this piece in the financial times comparing the Dark Ages to our current recession. FT.com / Comment / Opinion - Call this a recession? At least it isn’t the Dark Ages

A social networking site for volunteers

This is a new social networking site for volunteers. Welcome : i-volunteer.org.uk

Charity Builder UK - free health and safety and HR advice

This is a web site that provides free advice on HR and H&S for charities. I've not tried it but it has been recoomended by MLA. Charity Builder UK

Narrative space conference at Leicester

The home page gives outline details of a conference on narrative space at Leicester University. Narrative Space Leicester, 20-22 April 2010 Narrative Space is a 3-day international interdisciplinary conference exploring the creation of narrative environments in museums, galleries, historic sites, buildings and landscapes. Proposals are sought from museum practitioners, architects, designers, artists, filmmakers and others actively involved in the imaginative reshaping of museums, galleries and visitor experiences as well as academics researching in the areas of museum and gallery architecture, exhibition and display, both historical and contemporary. School of Museum Studies - University of Leicester

Collections Trust has moved to SE1

Just heard that the Collections Trust has moved to just around the corner to No 1 London Bridge - maybe we can get some help from them with Museum storage? Collections Trust - Collections Trust Homepage

To stop marketing Phonecalls

Just visit this site to stop annoying marketing calls: TPS Registration

Britain Loves Wikipedia

I have written to join in the 'Britain loves Wikipedia' campaign - hopefully the Old Operating Theatre Museum will be chosen as one of the Museums alongside the V&A. Initiatives/Britain Loves Wikipedia - Wikimedia UK : "nick.pooleatcollectionstrust.org.uk"

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I got really useful advice from this online service when the local Housing Association knocked our wall down. Need Legal Help from an Online Lawyer ASAP? Ask Attorneys for advice with employer termination, discrimination, harassment, liability, overtime, severance packages & more! - Just Answer!

Medicine & dickens

This is a recommended book on Dickens and Medicine - apparently he wrote over 200 articles on the subject PETER LANG PUBLISHING GROUP

Email This! :: Add-ons for Firefox

This is a really useful add-on to firefox which allows you to email the web page your are looking at - it works well with Googlemail Email This! :: Add-ons for Firefox

William the Conqueror's London Walk

I gave a walk around William the Conqueror's London on Saturday for London Walks - part of my series of walks on English Kings, following the publication of my book on the Kings and Queens of England. The walk was essentially about Late Saxon and Norman London. I began with a brief introduction to Saxon London, and then we went to see the London Wall and the Tower of London. The route was: Tower Hill City Wall Postern Gate Tower Moat White Tower Tower Hill All Hallows by the Tower saxon Arch Customs House Billingsgate London Bridge Dowgate St Michael's College Hill Cannon St Cheapside Old Jewry St Lawrence Guildhall You'll find an image of Will the Conq on the following page: English and Its Historical Development, Part 18 (Norman Invasion and Conquest by William the Conqueror).

Tudor Walk for 90 Hounslow Children

I organised a walk for 90 children from a Hounslow Primary School. It went really, really well. We had 4 guides and stopped half way round in St Bartholemew#s. Kids were really enthusiastic and the route well planned and with the stop at st Barts, their attention span was increased so that all 3 parts of the walk worked. Part 1 Charterhouse, Smithfield Part 2 - Drawing in St Barts Part 3 - Smithfield to St Pauls Walk Lunch Part 4 short walk around St Pauls John Rogers (Bible editor and martyr) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Local History Library in Southwark reopens

At last the Local History Library has reopened in Borough High Street - great place and sadly missed over the last year or so. Hundreds flock to reopened John Harvard Library [25 November 2009]

Bright Star - Keats and the Old Operating Theatre

Culture 24 article which mentions the Old Operating Theatre Museum. Bright Star - on the trail of John Keats | Culture24 Sadly, it gets it wrong as Keats died justb before the Old Operating Theatre was built. Ofcourse, as an Apothecary apprentice he may have visited the Herb Garret ......