🧵Early November is a season of remembrance. It begins with All Souls, when thoughts turn towards those who have gone before us, and moves through fading autumn light towards Armistice, when those lost to war are commemorated. Lumb Falls, near Hebden Bridge, inspired Ted Hughes’s 1956 poem Six Young

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: Pop artist, Andy Warhol, shopping for Campbell’s soup. 📷 Bob Adelman (1965).

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1 November 1985. Phil Silvers died (aged 74). He enjoyed major popularity when he starred in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a US Army post in which he played Master Sergeant Ernest (Ernie) Bilko.

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🧵The Wakefield Court Rolls are one of the country's most important historical records. Beginning in 1274, they record everyday life, land ownership, inheritance, trade and local laws across many centuries within the huge Manor of Wakefield. For example, in 1274 Richard de Rodes paid a fine after

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I’ve always had my suspicions about Elias del Barneside too.

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