That's my mother's Christmas present sorted, her father's family had a house on the banks of the Danube in the Wachau area of Austria

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In Crossing the Danube, @shakenbeck.bsky.social offers a new account of the peoples who lived along Europe’s greatest river—the nearly 2,000-mile-long Danube—during the dramatic centuries leading up to the end of the Roman Empire in the West. Out Nov 17 (12 Jan UK pub). Learn more: buff.ly/OoKmZHS

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Something missing here can’t quite work out what it is

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Looking forward to reading this new arrival: “Crossing the Danube” by @shakenbeck.bsky.social (Susanne E. Hakenbeck). I enjoyed opening the book to find it’s dedicated ”To the river Cam”.

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Today is the last week of full-time pay for me. Next week my university will unilaterally break my 1.0FTE contract and only pay me 0.5 of my salary, and I go to a tribunal for unlawful wage deduction. If I don't accept, they say they'll make me redundant - a straightforward unfair dismissal.

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