Guy Baxter
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Associate Director and Head of Archives @TheMERL and @UniRdg_SpecColl. Museums, libraries, digital. Culture, sport, DIY. All views my own.
Reading, England
Joined June 2017
@adamkjohnston I don’t have preferred gender pronouns. Replace all the statues of Robert E. Lee with statues of James Longstreet.
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Historian here and I approve of this. Taking down Confederate statues does not erase history, it stops commemorating traitors to the American republic who fought as Grant said for the worst cause in history.
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St Joseph's College Reading is fundraising for The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD). Check out their @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving
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Help St Joseph's College Reading Trust raise money to support The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)
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A really great achievement!
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Station Jim was born in 1894 and arrived at Slough Railway Station as a three-month-old mongrel.
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National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, 1st December 1948.
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The Landscape Institute welcomes the government’s new Environmental Improvement Plan, however, the Plan is too narrowly focused on protected areas. Landscape is everywhere, not just National Parks. Read our response in full here 📖 https://t.co/dCBxx4EuJS
#landscapedesign
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London dressed in its festive best ✨️ Nowhere does Christmas like London! ♥️
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This person has examined the original footage and drawn a nuanced conclusion. Not sure what they are doing on this platform…
@Councillorsuzie They shouldn't have made the edit. However, anyone watching the full speech versus those watching just the BBC edit wouldn't be far apart at all in their overall opinion of what he said.
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And its goodnight from us. Our last post on here as we hand over The Royal Parks to MPS colleagues. From summer crowds at the Palace to snow-fuelled winter evenings in Richmond Park, its been an absolute privilage for us to police these stunning parks 🚓
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From tomorrow you can book your tickets for this tour of the Ercol factory in Princes Risborough! This exclusive tour from @WycombeMuseum is likely to sell out fast so make sure you secure your space. To book your ticket, go to https://t.co/7681AXhdjn
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James Joyce's private collection goes on display in Reading - BBC News
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An exhibition of rarely-seen documents belonging to the Irish writer are on display in Reading.
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A systemic failure is preventing Gypsy & Traveller children from accessing kinship care, leaving them disproportionately channelled into the general system and severed from their cultural identity, experts have warned. Read the full story here 👇 https://t.co/aI5qHqT4kQ
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New Government push to force both private and council landlords to do more to protect tenants’ health and safety by raising standards of rented homes is a chance to add rented Traveller pitches, say @GypsyTravellers👇 https://t.co/92jcfK7nlr
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Kamala Harris’s election memoir shows just how deluded the Democrats still are | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian
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This unapologetic trawl through a doomed campaign reveals a celebrity-obsessed party high on its own supply. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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The splendid @RailwayMuseum Station Hall reopens tmrw! Bang on time for NRM 50th birthday. The exhibits (inc locos & royal carriages) sparkle in spotlit glory with new interpretation & extra objects for context. Tonight the Princess Royal thanked the team for their work.👌
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In this article, part of a series published last year, Ian Hancock discusses the 'language of the roads', or the speech of Scottish & Irish Travellers and Rominachals https://t.co/Uzr1pf1i1N
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