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Jack Blackburn
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History Correspondent and Deputy Diary Editor for The Times
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There’s been a development

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No better shot to do it with. A perfect straight drive back past the bowler makes Joe Root England’s all time test run scorer. A stoke which sums him up. A magnificent achievement, but there are further summits he strives for.

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Been shopping for a new car and was rather surprised to find that in some cases the government is discouraging you from buying greener cars.

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2024 vs 2019 #decline

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Lads, 1947 called and it’s asking you to just let it go

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There’s a clear difference between the Falklands and Gibraltar, and the Chagos Islands. The Falklands and Gibraltar have populations who want to be British and self-determination argument is clear. Whereas we expelled the 2,000 Chagossians who lived there. Not equivalent cases

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I gained two things from writing this piece 1) An ever greater appreciation for the beauty of the country we call home and 2) The knowledge that some readers think we have a fleet of drones and don’t understand why we didn’t use it to take pictures www.thetimes.com/article/548d...

How landscape of 1930s England compares with today
How landscape of 1930s England compares with today

Thanks to the digitisation of Arthur William Hobart’s images of potteries, sports grounds and nascent suburbs, we can see how much — or how little — has changed

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Maggie Smith RIP (Adapted from Kenneth Williams’s diaries)

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Even by British standards, 85 years is a long time to politely say nothing about something. However, fans of the Brontë sisters have pointed out a mistake on their memorial at Westminster Abbey. Finally, the writers have their diaereses (the dots above the ë) www.thetimes.com/article/c781...

The mystery Brontë memorial blunder — and how it got fixed
The mystery Brontë memorial blunder — and how it got fixed

After 85 years of visitors politely not mentioning Westminster Abbey’s mistake, the ‘Bronte’ sisters are getting their dots back

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Great response to this chilling story on Stalingrad. The documentary is available to watch here: access.historyhit.com/videos/stali...

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Jack Blackburn
@hackblackburn.bsky.social
History Correspondent and Deputy Diary Editor for The Times
584 followers197 following359 posts