Alison
I write about the Franklin Expedition and other parts of history heavy on the “doomed” and “ill-fated” side of things. I also enjoy petting cats in Victorian cemeteries.
Humanitarian. She/They. #MDANT. #NUJ. #NoTerfs.
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- Reposted by AlisonI’ve just Fostered a dog
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- If the September 11th attacks were happening today, the media would be saying the video and photographs "appear to show what appears to be planes hitting what appears to be the World Trade Centre".
- Overheard in the hospital: “The history course is doing my head in. I’m not learning about history because historians just talk about themselves and how wrong all the other historians are.”
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- No, of /course/ not. Chomsky was just /really/ looking forward to the new series of Death in Paradise. He wasn't that keen on Kris Marshall but was eager to see what Ardal O'Hanlon would bring to the show.
- Reposted by AlisonToday's #BirdoftheDay theme is #reflections. In honor of the brave people of Minnesota, I give you a Common Loon, aka Common Diver. #birds #nature #wildlifephotography 🪶
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- Reposted by AlisonEverybody to Kenmure Street has won an international award at Sundance Film Festival. Well timed, cos it will remind doubters, haters & sceptics that neighbours will protect one another against an authoritarian state - in Glasgow 2021 or Minneapolis today. www.thenational.scot/news/2581367...
- One of many enraging things about the Mandelson news is that there's no way this wildly rich couple were fumbling under sofa cushions for cash to pay for a training course. They could easily have afforded it. They just didn't want to spend their own money.
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- I just noticed this morning that the beloved Free French Memorial Cross is actually visible - just - from the hospital room mum and I are in. I can't express how comforting this is. Photos are from one of many visits made in previous times.
- Reposted by AlisonStriking numbers which demonstrate, in spades, how tiny is the popular support for the culture of hate that Britain's institutions seem determined to impose on a kind and accepting majority. (Expect the BBC to ignore it or qualify it to oblivion.)
- She’s a THC-cup.
- Reposted by AlisonOnce a ghost made me a compilation tape because it fancied me. And that's the story of THE STONE MIXTAPE, BBC 2 tonight.
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- Spent the day locating ancient parental tech for recycling and getting data off their museum piece laptops and iPads so they're shrived and ready for Silicon Heaven. Anyway this is me finding what looks like a possibly still functioning iPod:
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- Found this while clearing some Alison space in my mum’s house. What on earth could be on it? The hunt is now on for some 20thC tech here so I can find out.
- I sometimes wonder if Spandau Ballet would have been less terrible if they'd hired a singer. #totp
- The people of Minnesota need our help. You can support them as they support each other, and you can do it from anywhere in the world: www.standwithminnesota.com
- Thrilling news. The ICRC's archives contain an unrivalled history of 19th, 20th and 21stC conflict and the horrors suffered by civilians and other non-combatants, alongside that of International Humanitarian Law and the importance of neutral humanitarian action.
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- The stress of the past weeks made me break out in a livid red rash over neck and collarbones. It's now receded into three blotches indistinguishable from lovebites, giving a highly unreliable impression of how much fun 2026 has been so far.
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- I finished reading Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell over the weekend, only 21 years after everyone else. I loved it in the way I love winter weekend mornings in bed: warmly, slightly woozily, while aware I have to leave at some point and grateful I don't have to leave right now.
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