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Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Russian losses in Ukraine may have set a grim new record -- Belarus develops military training grounds and logistics routes in cooperation with Russia -- Ukraine reportedly strikes Russian Shahed, Iskander component facility, major oil refinery amid large-scale attack -- Russia launches more than 10 times as many drones at Ukraine's port infrastructure in 2026 as last year ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/05/tuesday-may-5-2026/
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Sunday, October 5, 2025
As mysterious drone sightings increase, this is what Russia has to gain from them -- Get serious: Russia is already at war with Europe -- Ukraine hits Russian cruise missile ship on Lake Onega -- Ukraine confirms drone strike on one of Russia's biggest, most modern oil refineries near St. Petersburg -- Ukraine accuses China of providing Russia with satellite data for missile strike targeting ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/sunday-october-5-2025/
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
“Peace through strength is possible,” Zelensky — Investigation: Despite sanctions, American trucks are being used by Russia to launch kamikaze drones — Unidentified drone enters Lithuania from Belarus amid rising tensions — Ukraine liberates Kindrativka village in Sumy Oblast amid ongoing Russian offensive … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/07/tuesday-july-29-2025/
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Sunday, May 4, 2025
Ukrainian sea drone downs Russian fighter jet in world-first strike — Russia used thermobaric weapons in drone strike on Kharkiv, Ukrainian prosecutors say — Russian drone attack on Kyiv injures 11 people, including 2 children, damages shopping mall — France to ramp up AASM Hammer smart bomb production for Ukraine … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/sunday-may-4-2025/
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In this video I'm briefly explaining a secret amendments passed by the #georgian #government within the new "Foreign Agents Law". This law lets Ministry of Justice to investigate any individual in the country and demand any kind of information from them, including personal life.
#Georgia #law #russianinvasion #russiancolonialism #RussianLaw #Tbilisi
https://www.tiktok.com/@sabacomedy/video/7370084926986947886
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What To Watch After You Finish “#Bridgerton"
https://www.brit.co/what-to-watch-after-bridgerton/
#Emily #EmilyBronte #Victorian #PrideAndPrejudice #JaneAusten #Regency #Georgian #BecomingJane #Emma #SenseAndSensibility #AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity
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20 Period Romances To Watch if the ‘Pride & Prejudice’ Hand Flex Lives in Your Head Rent-Free
https://theeverygirl.com/period-romance-movies-and-shows/
#AmReading #AmWriting #Regency @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Georgian #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice #DeathComesToPemberley #SenseAndSensibility #Sanditon #Emma #BecomingJane
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Servitude: the thread about why James Craig’s New Town isn’t as regular as he would have liked
Have you ever wondered why at the far western end of Queen Street, where it meets North Charlotte Street, the regular, right-angled Georgian grid of the First New Town does something odd and has a bevelled corner? You have? Great! Lets find out why that is.
The junction of Queen Street and North Charlotte Street – with the continuation of the block if it followed the grid of the New Town plan in greenNo, the Georgians weren’t future-proofing the street corner here for a 20th century traffic engineer’s filter lane. This has to do with something much more predictable than that – land ownership disputes!
1893 OS Town Plan of Edinburgh, showing the bevelled end to the north western block of the First New Town. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandYou see, when Town Council first had a plan of land ownership drawn up for the planning of the New Town, they didn’t actually yet own all the land on which they intended to build. In fact, they only owned about three quarters of it. Standing in the way to the west was “Allan’s Park“, owned by Dean of Guild Allan (Thomas Allan), and “Barjarg’s Feu” – owned by James Erskine, Lord Barjarg of Drumsheugh House.
John Laurie. Plan of lands for the New Town of Edinburgh, 1766. Allan’s Park is highlighted yellow, with the dashed red boundary, Barjarg’s Feu in green. The land owned by the City is surrounded by the red boundary. Crown copyright, NRS, RHP6080/1Allan’s Park was relatively easy to acquire, and was done so by the time the above plan was released to James Craig and other prospective architects for the design competition in April 1766, but Barjarg’s Feu still formed a salient into it. But planning proceeded on the basis that the Council hoped to acquire the land anyway and James Craig’s winning entry therefore drew the western town blocks over it.
Craig’s winning New Town plan (Copy of 1768 as presented to King George III) overlaid on the above land ownership map of James Laurie. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandBuilding commenced at the eastern end within short order and by the late 1760s or early 1770s, the New Town was creeping westwards. By the time it reached the boundary of Barjarg’s Feu in 1785, in the vicinity of Castle Street, the the owner – by now styled Lord Alva having inherited that estate – agreed to sell to the council and the plan could continue uninterrupted (although it took until 1820 to conclude, and was not on entirely favourable terms for the Cityand subsequent proprietors). But if we look closer at the western edge of Craig’s plan, and compare it with what is on the ground, we notice that Queen Street should meet North Charlotte Street on a regular grid (it doesn’t) and both Queen Street and the city grid should extend for another block west from where it does (it doesn’t!). Something else stood in the way. (P.S. Charlotte Square was originally to be St. George’s Square)
North western end of Craig’s 1768 New Town plan. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandSo what went wrong? Well, it wasn’t just Lord Alva’s land in the way. In 1782, the Trustees of Heriot’s Hospital (who had sold much of the land for the northern portion of the New Town to the city) had sold a portion of land to Francis Stuart, 9th Earl of Moray and on this he had built for himself a mansion, Moray House, and laid out extensive gardens. And Moray wasn’t for selling, so the New Town plans had to be hurriedly altered to build around his land.
Moray House, based on Robert Kirkwood’s 1819 elevation. CC-by-SA 4.0 StephenCDicksonAinslie’s 1804 Town Plan of Edinburgh showing Moray’s land, highlighted in yellow, at the end of Queen Street. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandThis explains why the north western corner could not be completed as planned, and why Queen Street stopped short at North Charlotte Street, but not why they build that awkward and incongruous bevel on the corner? Well that’s because of a little legal thing called “servitude”. What does servitude mean? “A right that an owner of heritable property has over property owned by another. A servitude runs with the land and not the owner“. The Earl of Moray and Lord Alva had servitude over each other that neither could built within 90 feet of their boundary. When Edinburgh bought the land from Alva, Moray maintained his servitude over it. And can you guess what the distance from the bevelled façade on the corner of Queen Street and North Charlotte Street is from the boundary with the Earl of Moray’s land? Yes, that’s right, it’s *exactly* 90 feet.
Ainslie’s 1804 Town Plan of Edinburgh with a measured distance to it from Moray’s land. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandExcerpt from “Block plan of Moray Place” of 1825, showing the boundary of the Moray Feu and how the bevel of the end of Queen Street aligns with it. RHP83734 © Crown copyrightThis old boundary cut through what is now Glenfinlas Street and explains why the pavement suddenly changes width about 1/3 of the way down – it was built at two different times.
Glenfinlas Street, showing the width in pavement change.It wasn’t until the intransigent Earl of Moray’s son began to be feu the ground in 1822 that the owners of the properties on the north side of Charlotte Square got the change to buy the rest of “their” gardens. The maps below show 1817 compared with 1849 (slide to compare). You can see at this time, a garden wall still existed on the old boundary at the very west of these gardens, and that the formal portions (marked out by the perimeter paths) also conform to the boundary.
Comparison of Ainslie’s 1804 Town Plan (l) and 1849 OS Town plan (r). Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandYou can find the result of this boundary dispute in other places too. It is the reason for instance that Randolph Lane takes an odd, irregular form if you follow it northwards.
North end of Randolph Lane. The lane is aligned with the Edinburgh grid behind the camera, but follows the alignment of the Moray Feu boundaries beyond it.Amazingly, the last of the legal niceties over this portion of land weren’t resolved along this boundary for almost 170 years! Those nicely cleaned and restored “Georgian” townhouses at 1-3 Glenfinlas Street? They were only built in 1990 to finally finish this corner of the New Town (almost) as planned.
The south portion of Glenfinlas Street – the three “townhouses” built from the cleaner stone date from 1990.There’s actually a few more of these incongruous and awkwardly non-right angles scattered through the New Town – it’s always about old boundaries. This thread details the Gabriel’s Road boundary and the line it still cleaves across the New Town. If you want to understand why any New Town street in Edinburgh isn’t on a right angle – overlay an old land boundary plan on it (in this case, the eastern end of John Laurie’s 1766 plan) and it will probably reveal the answer. Broughton Street and York Lane? Cathedral Lane and the foot of Leith Street? St. James Square and Gabriel’s Road? Truncated southern side of Abercrombie Place? Property boundaries are your answer.
Boundaries highlighted on John Laurie’s 1766 plan (l) overlaid and georeferenced on the modern streets as seen on aerial photograph (r).Note to readers: unfortunately in April 2026, a third-party plug-in more than exceeded its authority and broke many of the image links on this site. No images were lost but I will have to restore them page-by-page, which may take some time. In the meantime please bear with me while I go about rectifying this issue.
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#OnThisDay 1Jan1825 Harry & Ann HOLT cater a dinner for 170 at Baxter&Co (CoachMakers) Long Acre
'The dinner was “got up” by HarryHolt in his best style, and the company certainly did ample justice to his culinary skill & nice taste in the choice of black strap, brandy & stout’
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#OnThisDay 31Dec1787 Jack ‘Scroggy’ SCROGGINS was born (John Palmer) near New Cross, #Deptford. He first entered the Ring a ‘Light Weight’ in May 1803 at the age of 15 before serving several years in the #Navy. Returned to the Prize Ring in 1812. 12win1dr7loss Died 1836 aged 49.
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Traditionally a retired #Prizefighter would take the lease of a Public House & Harry Holt was no different. By January 1821 Holt had moved his family from #Lambeth to #Westminster and taken the licence of the 'Golden Cross' in Cross Lane, Long Acre.
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#OnThisDay 30Dec1828 Jack Perkins, the ‘Oxford Pet’ defeats Dick Curtis in 11 rounds & 23min on the Parish Meadow close to the banks of the #Thames at #Hurley Bottom, #Berkshire. Perkins was Seconded by Tom Spring & Harry HOLT, and Curtis by Josh Hudson & Young Dutch Sam. (£100 a side).
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Barney Arron (1800-1859), the ‘Star of the East’ fought 11x in the #LondonPrizeRing with 7wins4losses. He was the father of American Lightweight Champion (1857) ‘Young Barney Arron’ (pic) & Great Grandfather of American playwright Moss Hart (pic:1940) whose wife was actress Kitty Carlisle Hart (1910-2007)
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#OnThisDay 30Dec1823 Jewish boxer Barney Aaron (pic) defeats Frank Redmond in 42 rounds & 1hr12min at Moulsey Hurst. Aaron was Seconded by two unknown amateurs, and Redmond by Harry HOLT and Dick Curtis (£25 a side) #Molesey
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Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon. They launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compass to direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage. #Chesterfield1774
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Harry Holt gained high praise from his win against Jack O’Donnell & immense respect for fearlessly entering the Ring with Joe Parish, Jack Randall, Dave Hudson & Jack Scroggins. He was seen as a ‘game man’ and #celebrity of the #London Prize Ring.
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During 1820 Harry Holt spars at Benefits for pugilists like Jack Scroggins, Jack Martin, Ned Turner, Bill Eales, Tom Belcher & Jack Randall. He also regularly acts as a Second for several minor boxers at fighting grounds like #Moulsey Hurst, #Banstead Downs & #Wimbledon Common.
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#OnThisDay 28Dec1821 Champion of England Tom CRIBB is arrested on a ‘peace warrant’ after allegedly threatening to throw the proprietor of the Tennis Courts, Mr S.W. HUNT under a wagon & give his son a punch in the mouth. CRIBB was discharged after HUNT was unable to prove his claim.
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#OnThisDay 28Dec1829 Highly respected #pugilist & trainer Bill RICHMOND (born 1763) dies at the age of 67 leaving a wife and 4 children. Buried as William RICHMOND on the 11th January 1830 in St James, #Piccadilly.
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#OnThisDay 28Dec1824 Jem WARD (pic) defeats Phil SAMPSON the ‘#Birmingham Youth’ in 27 rounds and 37 1/2min at Perry Lodge, the estate of the 4th Duke of Grafton (pic: George FitzRoy) 4mi from #Stony_Stratford and 58mi from #London. 6000 persons were in attendance.
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'HOLT & SAMPSON wound up the sports, in a very spirited set-to. They were much applauded. (Holt) returned thanks rather in an eloquent manner for the patronage he had received; & the fluency of his speech, & the superiority he displayed...produced Holt considerable approbation.’
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#LondonBeerFlood: Henry #Meux & Co ‘Horse Shoe Brewery’ in #Westminster (pic: 1764-1921). On 17th October 1814 a large vat ruptured & up to 323,000imp gallons (1,470,000L) of beer spilled into neighbouring houses killing 8 people in what was referred to as the ‘London Beer Flood’
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#OnThisDay 26Dec1826 Peter CRAWLEY has a Benefit at the Tennis Courts. Harry HOLT spars with Bill ABBOTT.
‘Harry Holt then mounted the stage with Will Abbot, & shewed to great advantage the superiority of science and caution over untutored courage..’ MorningAdvertiser27Dec1826
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#CHRISTMAS COMPLIMENTS: A cough, kibed (chapped/cracked) heels, and a snotty nose. #Grose1823
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Harry Holt held his first Benefit at the newly renovated Tennis Courts on Great Windmill St #Haymarket on Thursday the 20th April 1820 and sparred with a 19yr old #boxer named Phillip Sampson who was known as ‘The #Birmingham Youth.’
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In 1831 the (#Royal) Tennis Courts were converted into an Amphitheatre for Cooke’s Equestrian #Circus. In c1851 it became the #Argyll Rooms then the #Trocadero Music Hall (1882) & after the creation of Shaftesbury Ave (1886) it became a restaurant. Now it’s the Picturehouse Central cinema.
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‘One must be extremely exact, clear, and perspicuous in everything one says; otherwise instead of entertaining or informing others, one only tires and puzzles them.’ #Chesterfield1774
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#OnThisDay 23Dec1840 #Birmingham Boxer Johnny BROOME has a Benefit at the Bloomsbury Assembly Rooms, Theobald’s Road, Holborn. HOLT (49) spars with “Massa” KENDRICK (42)
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The (#Royal) Tennis Courts were constructed in (Great) Windmill St, #Haymarket during 1744 by John Cartwright who occupied them until 1761. After a renovation in 1819-20 they could be hired for exhibitions and entertainments like Sparring Benefits, #Circus and #Theatre. #London
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Bill Richmond held the first Benefit at the newly renovated (Royal) Tennis Courts in Great Windmill St, #Haymarket on 29Feb1820. Harry HOLT sparred with Deaf Davis & at the end Tom Cribb put on a dinner at his newly opened Union Arms in Panton St no more than 100m away.
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#OnThisDay 21Dec1824 Actress Miss Maria FOOTE (27)(pictured) famously sues Mr Joseph ‘Pea Green’ HAYNES (24) in the Court of the Kings Bench, for ‘breach of promise of Marriage’ claiming a loss of £10,000 in income. Mr HAYNES a wealthy backer of the Prize Ring is ordered to pay £3000
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And thus with the loss to Jack Scroggins in November 1820, Harry Holt’s #Prizefighting career ended & he never entered the Prize Ring as a professional fighter again, instead he turned to #training fighters & #promoting the Ring as one of the sport’s most devoted & staunch advocates of the era.
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