James Naylor
@jfnaylor
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Citizen of Selhurst Park, most concert halls and dodgier parts of the late 18th century. PhD in Eng Lit and still exploring life writing.
London, England
Joined March 2009
This is Steve Coppell. He's 70 years old and played for Tranmere Rovers, Manchester United and England. https://t.co/3gKpa0VruR He spent the first few years of his professional career studying at Liverpool University — effectively a part-time footballer. He even played for
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There was a time when Twitter was like this a lot more. What a good question.
do you think: 1) Today's young generation faces a more uncertain future than older generations. or 2) We discount how uncertain the world was for older generations because with hindsight we now know how their future ended up.
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Museum job! The Clockworks is looking for an experienced curator to run its unique London museum: world-class objects, wonderful premises, stable funding, great people. Full-time, £45k. Interested? Find out more and come meet us! https://t.co/81Z34Y1FQb
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We are so naive about digitisation. Its most dangerous characteristic is playing to our desire for things to be easy.
This is laughable, the idea that once digitised, archives will be 'preserved forever'. As I write, the British Library - its entire catalogue and digital deposit - has been hacked into oblivion. Destroying a paper archive to save money in storage is completely irresponsible. 1/2
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Nope. Can’t do it. Can no longer listen to @BBCRadio3 re-named Classical Mixtape. I really have tried over the last couple of weeks but those dreadful interruptions from continuity announcers putting on ‘cool’ voices just spoil what used to be a seamless half-hour. Reconsider?
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As classical music journalists, if we're only talking to the top names (and probably finding them, in all sincerity, quite charming) we're not doing our job and might be part of the problem. Talk to the back-desk violinists, the exhausted librarians, the office interns on £17k.
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Over breakfast one morning Suzanne Heywood’s father announced that they were swapping their home in England for a new one out at sea. But what she thought would be a great adventure turned out to be a decade-long nightmare
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Suzanne Heywood grew up sailing the world but longed for a formal education
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“At the age of 22, Jay crossed continents, slept in an attic and earned 40 pounds a week playing non-league football in England....but two years later he was playing in the Premier League.” Inspiring presentation by @Mobeen_Azhar Do listen 🎧
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Aged 22, Jay DeMerit moved to the UK to try to make it as a professional footballer
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When you find out you’re going to have a baby, you get a lot of advice. Unfortunately, most of it sucks. Here is the straight talk parenting advice I wish I had received:
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Best lost opera chorus in the World Cup is the Mexican anthem — the big number in the town square as the villagers stream in to join the hero and the recruiting sergeant’s party and the bar staff get ready for the interval.
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Anyone left here? Instructive reading.
I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?" As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.
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A sound world in which to take refuge.
Oh my god it’s outtttt
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'in this world where false information flies about planet at the speed of light, then the skills of the historian are more nec than ever because the historian teaches us to ask who is telling me this, can I trust them.. why do they want me to believe this?' Hilary Mantel, 2017.
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A joyous night with @divinecomedyhq and as always, the potential to be floored by the tune you didn’t expect to do that to you
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The proof of this is that, like the miraculously-preserved body of a dead saint, this film is as fresh as a daisy 37 years on.
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Arts Management, up. Arts themselves, down.
Change in undergrad degrees awarded 2011-2021 by subject. Much more demand for STEM and medical, less demand for humanities. h/t @benmschmidt
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Overheard through the door: "It's a bookshop, what do you want to go in there for? What is wrong with you today?!" I look out indignantly and see a woman talking to her dog...
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