Roland Jackson
@Roland_Jackson
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Author of The Ascent of John Tyndall. History & politics of sci & tech. Chair @VCH_Cumbria, trustee @lowthercastle, & with @JohnTyndallCP and @stsucl
Cumbria as much as possible
Joined April 2012
Just a reminder, after the kind review from @rmathematicus, that these two books are now available: https://t.co/69I4vYxqGs
https://t.co/R1qvoaZyJg
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We'll be on Radio Cumbria today around 1215/1220. Here's the BBC Sounds link, available for a month after around 2pm today. You'll find it around 2hr 15mins in: https://t.co/4czg8HeevI
bbc.co.uk
Stories to make you smile, mid-morning updates and The Rewind at 1pm with Stephanie.
Our new red book with Dr Sarah Rose📕and News release📰following the launch celebration🎉 “This is a major milestone in our project(…)We welcome volunteers who wish to contribute to the documentation of their local history” - Sir Roland Jackson, chairman of the CCHT📜
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Our new red book with Dr Sarah Rose📕and News release📰following the launch celebration🎉 “This is a major milestone in our project(…)We welcome volunteers who wish to contribute to the documentation of their local history” - Sir Roland Jackson, chairman of the CCHT📜
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Huge congratulations to @billshannon19!
Our overall winner for the Hunter Davies Lakeland Book of the Year Award 2025 goes to ‘Cumbria 1000 Years of Maps by William D Shannon.’ A lifetime of love for the Lakeland landscape is expressed in this work, published by @ByLakeland
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We're in the final week of #LowtherMedievalCastle phase 3 & much progress! In the ringwork castle trench we have (we think) a post hole & post pad to evidence interior structures, & Norman-era local gritty ware pottery from the bank for dating (+ the Victorian summer house!) 1/4
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🎇🙂We could not be more delighted that our very own Dr Sarah Rose was honoured with a @VCH_London Outstanding Contribution Award last week.🙂🎇 https://t.co/oSgUV7yCoD
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Transcription help: letter from Stanley to Tyndall (1880): "I suppose that the Telegraphic m[ee]t[in]g will take up the ev[en]ing—otherwise the Professor c[ou]ld be spared for an hour. [Please] do not take [pains] to answer, [as I shall] [???] that the [???] is [???]." #histsci
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Not posting much on here now but couldn't resist views from Striding and Swirral edges today. Wonderful winter conditions, except for unconsolidated deep snow drifts #Cumbria
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An overlong review essay of Metropolitan Science: London Sites and Cultures of Knowledge and Practice, c. 1600–1800 by Rebekah Higgitt & Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin with Noah Moxham https://t.co/3uJhCWI5Tu
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...and there's an interesting history of Netherby Hall just here
netherbyhall.co.uk
A History of Netherby Hall If settlements could talk, Netherby Hall would have a fascinating story to tell. Records show that Netherby Hall has been occupied for at least 2,000 years. By AD80 the...
This week’s Place of the Week is Arthuret in north #Cumbria Arthuret encompasses a number of villages including Longtown, which featured in this week’s Fact of the Week Find out more at… https://t.co/A47FPujtqJ
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I'm finding Bluesky intriguing and interesting, because it is so customisable and controllable as a user, but I can't quite make out all the followers who have recently piled in.
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This #RemembanceDay we look to Scafell Pike and Wastwater for our fact of the week. While #Cumbria contains England’s highest mountain and deepest lake, Scafell is the UK’s highest War Memorial. https://t.co/TsjaHITvHZ
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Our first Red Book for the Cumbria County History Trust! And indeed the first ever for Westmorland. More to follow!
We've just approved the artwork for the cover label of our next #BigRedBook - our 250th, and our first ever publication for the county of #Westmorland.
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Once they can read all drunken 19th century correspondents I'll be impressed.
The ability of LLMs to read hand written notes on pdfs is a real step forwards.
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UK! My biography of Henri Bergson – Herald of a Restless World – is out today!!! I am feeling quite emotional, a mix of pride, joy and nervousness! I hope you will be as inspired by Bergson's life and thought as I am! https://t.co/TfQFI91xnk
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I imagined Labour might like to abolish some laws, but they've clearly succeeded in abolishing the laws of physics!
Did you know a heat pump is 3x more efficient than a gas boiler? Meaning it generates 3 times more energy than it consumes. Check if a heat pump could be suitable for your home https://t.co/6Quule4rbq
#HeatPumpWeek
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A thousand years of Cumbria. Or alternatively forty-nine! https://t.co/xeutIGI72I
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On roads not taken and absent friends. A bit of reflection and autobiography https://t.co/nw9SpefUc7
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New Zealand House in London is looking like a Christo installation.
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Distant view of Derwentwater and Castle Rock from Grains Ghyll on a lowering day, and two intelligent Herdwicks in the cloud above (all Herdwicks are intelligent).
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