#ukculture — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/videos/108551/ Callum Turner’s new film sparkles at Dinard Film Festival • FRANCE 24 English #BenHardy #CallumTurner #cinema #culture #Dinard #DinardFilmFestival #F24 #FilmFestival #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #HitchcockD’OrAward #international #IRELAND #IrishCinema #MarkJenkin #news #RoseOfNevada #Trad #UKCinema #UKCulture #world

University of Birmingham: ‘Treasure trove’ of writings by Professor Stuart Hall made accessible for first time. “A treasure trove of writings and recordings from the unpublished archive of celebrated academic and researcher Professor Stuart Hall is now publicly available online for the first time, thanks to a University of Birmingham project. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Professor Stuart Hall […]

https://www.europesays.com/videos/103666/ Photographer Hassan Hajjaj on the stars who stepped into his colourful world • FRANCE 24 English #AliciaKeys #ARTS24 #BillieEilish #CardiB #colors #culture #exhibitions #F24 #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #HassanHajjaj #international #LeeScratchPerry #Madonna #Morocco #Music #news #Paris #ParisMuseums #Philharmonie #photography #PopCulture #RockStars #stars #StreetCulture #uk #UKCulture #world

Museums Journal: Museum leaders call for ‘transformation, not incremental change’. “Museum leaders are seeking ‘transformation, not incremental change’, according to a report published this week by Arts Council England (ACE). The Museums Overview 2026 found that England’s museums face “severe financial pressures”, along with workforce shortages and increasingly unsustainable approaches to […]

#DrumnBass #Jungle #UKCulture

ロンドンの都市的緊張が生んだジャングルの音と人物、その実像

monumental-movement.jp/column-londo...

【コラム】 ジャングルの音：ロンドンの都市的緊張

Nantwitch Town FC: Dabbers club historian launches online archive preserving more than 140 years of club history. “As Nantwich Town prepare to kick off another football season, supporters can now take a journey through more than 140 years of the club’s remarkable past thanks to the launch of a comprehensive new online archive. The free ‘DABBERSarchive’ website brings together thousands of […]

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Housman Country -- Peter Parker

A biography of the A. E. Housman, a study of "A Shropshire Lad', and a rewarding study of how that slim 1896 book of verse played and continues to play an outsize role in creating an England of the imagination, rural, haunted by the melancholy and mortality of youth, and forever slipping out of our grasp into an irrecoverable past.

Parker explores so much here: the homoeroticism, the oblique relation of Housman's poetry to the places it names, the appeal of the book to Americans, its part in the shaping of twentieth century music in England....but how does this English Mastodonian feel about "A Shropshire Lad"?

#HousmanCountry #AShropshireLad #PeterParker #AEHousman #Poetry #Books #19thCentury #EnglishLiterature #BritishLiterature #England #UKCulture #LiteratureInEnglsh #LiteraryHistory

"The long-term music industry plan aims to help the music industry "grow, innovate and succeed" through a collective £45m package."

https://www.festivalinsights.com/2026/07/uk-government-launches-turn-it-up-initiative/

#UKPol #UKpolitics #UKFestivals #LiveMusic #UKCulture #LisaNandy

https://www.europesays.com/videos/57943/ ‘Total Eclipse’ singer and 80s power ballad queen Bonnie Tyler dies aged 75 • FRANCE 24 English #80sMusic #ballad #BonnieTyler #BonnieTylerMusic #BritishMusic #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #grammy #GrammyNominees #INeedAHero #Music #PowerBallad #TotalEclipse #uk #UKCulture #UkMusic #Wales #WelshSinger

Shropshire Council: Sound archive to be safeguarded thanks to university funding. “The collections include local radio archives, oral history interviews, and music recordings. The recordings frequently capture the memories and experiences of people and communities who are underrepresented in the archival record. They include memories of local industries, rural life, the natural world, and the […]

Rubryka: Digital library with Ukrainian literature and historical materials opens in Britain. “The Digital Library of the Nottingham branch of the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain has launched in the United Kingdom, providing online access to Ukrainian literary, historical, and cultural heritage.”

University of Exeter: New research project to uncover the historical legacy of UK film societies. “The University of Exeter will partner with Cinema For All – the charity that supports the country’s 1,600 film societies – to unearth papers and materials relating to the foundational years between 1925 to 1946. The two organisations will liaise with societies across Britain to document and […]

Know Where: Nearest Pint, Pub Density Map. “There has been quite a bit in the news recently about 2 pubs per day closing according to the British Beer and Pub Association. That got me thinking about which areas of the country were best served and where were the dry zones? Nearest Pint, shows pub density per 10,000 population across every parliamentary constituency in Great Britain.”

Museum of London Archaeology: Coasts in Mind Community Archive opens digital doors to public contributions. “Since our Coasts in Mind (CiM) mapping platform launched in autumn 2025, community groups and event participants from Poole Harbour, Swale, Sefton and North Devon have been adding records from their own collections and local archives. Now our Coasts in Mind team are asking members of the […]

https://literaryreview.co.uk/pass-the-cherries

I'd like to read this, as it would help me better understand how Thatcherism poisoned the culture of the UK.

Unlike the reviewer, I do think that a switch in dons' priorities from royal commissions and the BBC to spinning out companies and podcasting signifies not just a change but a decline. That "the continued investment of at least some dons in political life" is illustrated by the involvement of Cambridge authoritarian right theologian James Orr in Reform UK shows how steep this decline has been.

#UKCulture #History #IntellectualHistory #Universities #Oxbridge #ColinKidd #TwilightOfTheDons

BBC: UK’s rudest chalk figure gets a glow-up to stop it fading in the rain. “The charity has cared for the Giant since 1920. Its rangers and volunteers keep the outline defined by rechalking the figure every decade or so to protect it from weeds and erosion. And between chalking it uses sheep to keep the grass short. But the Trust says that coupled with heavier winter rains, the frequent dry […]

https://www.europesays.com/uk/905443/ Locating Shakespeare’s £140 London Flat – Spotlight #EU #Europe #France #History #Literature #london #spotlight #UK #UKCulture

Screen Daily: British Screen Forum awarded £200,000 to address data gaps in UK film industry . “The second pilot will develop a new database which captures the commercial performance of films. It will explore how to gather and analyse the lifetime commercial performance of films while respecting the commercial sensitivity of the features. This will include grouping films together into […]

The Guardian: ‘We’ve scratched the surface’: mission to digitise UK public art reaches 1m entries. “…the UK’s public art collection is a wonderful and varied thing.It is huge, as demonstrated by the charity Art UK, which has announced it has reached a million artworks on its database and appointed a new chair who said: ‘We’ve only scratched the surface.'”

British Library: The British Newspaper Archive reaches 100 million pages. “This week the British Newspaper Archive hits the milestone of 100 million digitised pages. We in the British Library news team are celebrating this achievement and our long partnership with Find My Past by picking a few highlights from the BNA.”

British Library: The UK Web Archive: continuing our work behind the scenes. “Despite recent challenges, the UK Web Archive team remains dedicated to safeguarding the nation’s online heritage. We are hoping to restore the UK Web Archive towards the middle of 2026.”

Arts Professional (UK): Cultural treasures worth more than £59m enter public collections. “This year saw museums and archives up and down the country receive cultural gifts given up in exchange for tax relief, with objects spanning an ‘impressive range’, said Arts Council chair Sir Nicholas Serota.”

https://www.europesays.com/2646654/ Three-Michelin-star expert gives Christmas dinner tips • FRANCE 24 English #celebrations #celebrity #Christmas #christmasdinner #Culture #france #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FranceNews #france24 #FRANCE24English #FrenchNews #London #NewsFrance #restaurants #UKCulture

BBC: Carlisle United heritage archive to go digital. “Exhibition pieces celebrating the 120-year history of Carlisle United will be digitised to ‘better share them with fans’. The Backing the Blues heritage project won a national Sporting Heritage Award earlier this month for its exhibitions, workshops and activities.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/04/bbc-carlisle-united-heritage-archive-to-go-digital/

British Library: 75 Years of the BNB (and bewitching Narnia books). “In 2025 the British National Bibliography (BNB) marks its 75th anniversary, and following a period of unavailability the database has now been fully restored to users. Read on to discover more about this service, its landmark anniversary and its restoration.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/03/british-library-75-years-of-the-bnb-and-bewitching-narnia-books/

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https://bbc.com/news/articles/cy4x78mrxk3o

I believe on freedom of expression grounds that my fellow Brit should have the right to publish her repugnant rantings.

However, nobody has the unqualified right to practise medicine.

In case you think that describing her social media posts as "antisemitic" is just pro-Israel hysteria, I invite you to follow the thread . Do make sure you have a barf bowl handy!

#Antisemitism #UKCulture #RahmehAladwan

BBC: First-time contender crowned World Conker Champion. “The new King and Queen Conker have been crowned after a closely-fought contest at the World Conker Championships. Hundreds of competitors went into battle in Northamptonshire for the event’s 60th year – which attracted increased attention after last year’s cheating scandal, prompting ‘airport-style’ security checks.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/13/bbc-first-time-contender-crowned-world-conker-champion/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/23/reality-check-britain-speak-learn-languages-gcse

Those of us British who worry about the poor state of language learning in the UK need to recognize that an asymmetry of incentives means that is is futile to hope that the British will ever take to learning foreign languages in the way that much of the rest of the world has taken to learning English. We anglophones are both blessed and cursed by English being the international language of business, science, and technology.

That absence of the same incentive
for us anglophones that exists for non English speakers to learn a foreign language should prompt us to think more closely about why we want to improve language learning in the UK. Once we have identified what we hope to achieve through better and more widespread language learning, then we can identify ways of creating incentives for learning and maintaining some degree of foreign language proficiency.

For example, we should be worried about our intellectual life not taking sufficient account of scholarship beyond the English speaking world. So we should think about ways to incorporate rewards for engaging with writing in languages other than English for all humanities academics. Could a mechanism for rewarding individual academics and departments engaging in such activity be devised alongside the Research Excellence Framework?

Similarly, we should recognize the importance of senior civil servants looking beyond the English speaking world when offering advice or formulating policy for ministers. Why not require competency in a foreign language as a condition of entry to the civil service at that senior level?

I could continue with other ways of thinking about creating incentives.

However, a deeper problem remains as long as we continue to think about language learning and education in general in crudely instrumental terms.

Governments, and this applies to New Labour as well as Conservative administrations, have shown a regrettable tendency to talk about education mainly in these terms.

Consequently, the idea that language learning is an important good for both individual learner and society at large because it makes possible an understanding of the history, art, and overall culture of other societies has been allowed to wither and be replaced by silly arguments about whether machine translation is making language learning "obsolete".

#UKCulture #LanguageLearning #Education #ForeignLangauges

Associated Press: Britain’s Royal Mail celebrates Monty Python with stamps featuring iconic sketches and characters. “And now for something completely different: Britain’s Royal Mail has issued stamps celebrating the absurdist comedy of Monty Python. The 10-stamp series announced on Thursday celebrates some of the troupe’s most iconic characters and catchphrases, from ‘Nudge, nudge’ to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/07/associated-press-britains-royal-mail-celebrates-monty-python-with-stamps-featuring-iconic-sketches-and-characters/

Gen Z is changing beauty standards & fashion norms! 👗💄🔥🔗 Discover more—https://ketchuponeverything.co.uk/how-gen-z-is-redefining-beauty-standards-and-fashion-norms/

#genz #beautystandards #fashion #trends #ukculture

The Bank of England is currently asking the UK public for its views on potential themes for the next series of banknotes.

You can vote for up to three of these six themes:

- notable historical figures
- nature
- architecture and landmarks
- arts, culture and sport
- noteworthy milestones
- innovation

I chose "nature". Who wouldn't want to see a hedgehog on a banknote?

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/help-us-design-our-next-series-of-banknotes

#BankOfEngland #Banknotes #Currency #UKCulture #ArtAndDesign #PublicArt

National Archives (UK): Blogs at The National Archives have a new home. “…at over a decade old, the blog is starting to look a bit tired. It is not the easiest thing to find on our website, and its design and limited features aren’t allowing us to tell our stories in the best way possible. So with that, this will be the last post on this blog. Today we are launching our new Blogs at the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/19/national-archives-uk-blogs-at-the-national-archives-have-a-new-home/

The National Archives (UK): Three UK archives engaging new audiences for VE and VJ Day anniversaries. “This year, The National Archives spotted an opportunity to support archives in commemorating VE and VJ Day through its Engagement Grants programme. For the most recent round of applications, themed around ‘community’, we encouraged archives to propose projects that either reached out to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/12/the-national-archives-uk-three-uk-archives-engaging-new-audiences-for-ve-and-vj-day-anniversaries/

Derbyshire Times: New online archive shares Peak District village carnival traditions worldwide – thanks to £64,233 in funding. “The Winster Wakes Archive is now available to the world online after more than a year’s work to curate a collection of resources from residents past and present over more than a century. The Wakes began as holidays run by parish churches and linked to the feast […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/06/derbyshire-times-new-online-archive-shares-peak-district-village-carnival-traditions-worldwide-thanks-to-64233-in-funding/

A Map of British Dialects

https://starkeycomics.com/2023/11/07/map-of-british-english-dialects/

#HackerNews #BritishDialects #MapOfDialects #LanguageVarieties #Linguistics #UKCulture

Ian Visits: British Army puts 80-years of SOLDIER magazine online in free archive. “Good news for researchers as an 80 year archive of the British Army’s in-house magazine, SOLDIER, has been digitised and is now available online for free. The magazine, SOLDIER (yes, in capitals) was authorised by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery as a morale-boosting magazine for British Army troops fighting […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/18/ian-visits-british-army-puts-80-years-of-soldier-magazine-online-in-free-archive/

A great piece from @DazedMagazine on the quiet radicalisation of young women. A timely article, after Netflix's "Adolescence" kick-started a country-wide conversation on how young men are being exposed to misogynistic and harmful content online.

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#Adolescence #Patriarchy #GenderRoles #NextGeneration #UKCulture #OnlineSafety #SocialMedia

“The principle that access to knowledge, and to the greatest things created by humankind, should be equally available to all has been largely upheld by all British public collections since parliament created the British Museum...”

Entry fee would ‘undermine foundational principle’ of national museums - Museums Association

#Museums #UKCulture

https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2025/03/entry-fee-would-undermine-foundational-principle-of-national-museums/#

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I mentioned Richard Neville in a recent post about Australians in Britain. This obituary and the additional note by fellow Australian in Britain Geoffrey Robertson give a sense of Neville's significance.

Richard Neville obituary | Magazines | The Guardian

#RichardNeville #Australia #UKCulture #AustraliansInBritain

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/04/richard-neville-obituary

Google Blog: Unveiling royal style: A digital journey through five centuries of fashion. “Among [Historic Royal Palaces’] most remarkable collections is the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection (RCDC), an extraordinary archive of fashion, history and craftsmanship. Now, in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, we are bringing this collection to a global audience, offering an unprecedented […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/15/unveiling-royal-style-a-digital-journey-through-five-centuries-of-fashion-google-blog/

BBC: Struggling English museums get rescue funds. “Museums, theatres and other cultural venues in England are to receive £270m funding to stay afloat and fix their crumbling buildings, the government has said. The money will go to attractions ‘in urgent need of financial support to keep them up and running, carry out vital infrastructure work and improve long term financial resilience’, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/20/bbc-struggling-english-museums-get-rescue-funds/

University of St Andrews: New partnership will broaden understanding of UK’s public art collection. “The University of St Andrews’ School of Art History is teaming up with education charity Art UK on an pioneering project to research and tell stories about the art collection owned by the UK public.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/11/university-of-st-andrews-new-partnership-will-broaden-understanding-of-uks-public-art-collection/

>>Why not pay for the statue of the Queen using money from the Sovereign Grant, an annual taxpayer-funded settlement that’s the main source income for the British monarchy? The grant for 2024–25 is £86.3 million, the vast majority of which is spent on the upkeep of properties and staff costs. Why doesn’t the royal family live more frugally for a few months and pay for the statue itself?<<

UK Government is Spending £46 M. on a Statue Despite State of Arts

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/opinion/why-is-uk-government-spending-46-m-on-a-statue-of-a-dead-monarch-when-the-culture-sector-is-on-its-knees-1234729101/

#UKPolitics #UKCulture #UKArts #QueenElizabethMemorial #RoyalFamily