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What a wonderful cat Defib is. Shame he's about to become homeless due to @Ldn_Ambulance Local Management incompetence deciding to flex their managerial muscles and kick him out of the station he's called home for 16 years.
#SaveDefib
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Replying to @Ldn_Ambulance
It's been a busy day on the road for Defib, but he's managed to make it back to station to sort some paperwork #InternationalCatDay
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🗣️ Our Director @AllenPackwood recently discovered a forgotten speech given by Winston Churchill in 1923 where he supported an appeal to help British athletes train for the 1924 #Olympics.
Nearly a century on, read highlights from this forgotten speech.
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![A typescript excerpt from Winston Churchill's speech on the Olympics in 1923 at Mansion House. The text reads: "We have been invited to participate in the Olympic Games which will be held in Paris next year; we have accepted the invitation; our athletes are preparing themselves; and the only question at issue is whether they are to be properly supported by their fellow-countrymen and given a fair chance to do credit to the British name. For this purpose a sum of £40,000 is needed. A month ago, when Lord Birkenhead issued his appeal, only £17,000 had been subscribed. But £10,000 more has come in during [...]"](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GUOhXy-WsAE384L.jpg?name=small&format=webp)
ALT A typescript excerpt from Winston Churchill's speech on the Olympics in 1923 at Mansion House. The text reads: "We have been invited to participate in the Olympic Games which will be held in Paris next year; we have accepted the invitation; our athletes are preparing themselves; and the only question at issue is whether they are to be properly supported by their fellow-countrymen and given a fair chance to do credit to the British name. For this purpose a sum of £40,000 is needed. A month ago, when Lord Birkenhead issued his appeal, only £17,000 had been subscribed. But £10,000 more has come in during [...]"
Amanda retweeted
It's election day! Time to form an orderly queue, get your ducks in a row and get voting.
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Thank you to everyone who joined us for twentieth Roskill Lecture given by @harrietharman on Wednesday.
We'll shortly be sharing a recording of the lecture, but in the meantime you can find out more about the lecture in our new blog.⬇️
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#Roskill24
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Such a pleasure to be there. And big fan of Churchill archives!
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A few reflections on running the 50 stories for 50 years series to mark the 50th Anniversary of @ChuArchives over the last year.⬇️
As we bring our 50 stories for 50 years series to a close, we reflect on some of the stories told by our researchers, staff, & volunteers about the Archives Centre.🎉
Thank you to all of our wonderful contributors!🌟
#AC50 #archives
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We have spent the last year celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Churchill Archives Centre in which we have highlighted a lot of objects within our collections. You can explore out '50 Stories for 50 Years' webpage to find out more. #PopularItem buff.ly/3QikrID
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Catch this episode of #ThanksforTyping for @ChrisRenwick and the Archives Centre's Sophie Bridges in conversation with @RosEdwards2 & Val Gillies about the intellectual contributions of Ruth Townsend & Phyllis Willmott to the landmark social research @icstudiesuk in Bethnal Green
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Amanda retweeted
This is the @menshealthuk interview on mental health and other issues that I did with Huw Edwards … to those saying he is “playing the mental health card” - I suggest you take a long hard look in the mirror and ask what kind of person you really are menshealth.com/uk/mental-str…
Amanda retweeted
Please retweet this many, many, many times. It's horrific.
@MarinaHyde is so right.
Why isn't this is a huge scandal?
Hundreds of lives ruined. Not a single person held to account. And still: silence on the Post Office scandal | Marina Hyde theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Amanda retweeted
I don’t usually post personal news but Clinicians have told us to pull every lever.
Our daughter has with #dipg Brain cancer. There is no cure and typically 9m life expectancy.
If anyone knows of trials then please get in contact! #braincancer #childrenscancer @CR_UK
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A thank you from Flo , one of the individuals who took part in the first episode of #insideourautisticminds @BBCTwo @Joemyerscough
Please RT - Thank you .
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In the good old days we would not have had mobile phones. But cardiology Prof A once managed to find her registrars holiday hotel and get a waiter to bring a phone on a lead down the beach to shout at him.
Amanda retweeted
Gary Warren just sent me this. While filming The Railway Children he one day brought his Super 8 camera onto the set. Most of the cast just smiled and waved. Bernard Cribbins, of course, was bound to offer some extra business.
Please twitter friends consider objecting to this planning application which would squeeze a loved local bookshop out of existence..
Replying to @azrushton
We don't know why we aren't listed or valued. However, please, please do object.. you can only object on the basis of loss of disabled access & Article 4 on protection of A1 use. www2.richmond.gov.uk/lbrplan…

































