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Tomorrow I'll be on ABC Radio Melbourne as a guest with David Astle on his 'Victorian Evenings' programme.

We'll be talking about retro shopping centres and perhaps some other local history topics from 8pm on Wednesday 19 March.

Tune in on your radio to 774 AM or online: abc.net.au/listen/live/melbour

ABC listenABC Melbourne Live Audio - ABC listenListen live, whenever you want, wherever you are with ABC Melbourne.
#radio#LocalHistory#Melbourne
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The first college radio broadcast, in 1920, was under the personal call letters of Wendell W. King, a Black Union College student, the chief engineer and an avid amateur radio hobbyist from the age of 12.

WRUC did an excellent job telling his story, including the race-based discrimination he faced at #Schenectady General Electric. You can read it here:

union.edu/news/stories/201708/

Old sepia photograph of a handsome, tightly coiffed black man, Wendell W. King, from sometime in the 1920s. He is in a three-quarter pose, facing to the left of the viewer, a slight smile or at least a pleasant expression on his face. He has large, expressive eyes, strong cheekbones and a strong chin cleft. He is wearing a white shirt and tie and a suit jacket.
#BlackHistory#BlackHistoryMonth#UpstateNY
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Something a bit different for you today! Visitors are often pleasantly surprised to find a bookseller in Stow but we’re not the first to be established here.
Sanderson & Son was in Stow around a century ago and was one of many businesses now lost to history. We’re lucky to own this little picture book of local views which was produced by this Stow bookseller and was once owned by the family of famous bookseller James Thin, whose summer residence was also in Stow!
#localbookshop #localhistory

A purple-covered Edwardian book, "Views of Stow", placed on a wooden table.
Frontispiece of "Views of Stow", with decorative borders and Edwardian fonts.
An Edwardian view of Stow, with Saint Andrew's Church in the middle of the view (building demolished in the '50s) and the church of St Mary of Wedale in the background.
Stow Mill and part of Killochyett and Stow, against a backdrop of gently rolling hills. The Gala Water meanders through the foreground.
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New instance, new #introduction — hello, I’m Kake, I live in South London, and I like making things.

I make all my own clothes (except for socks), and I make patchworked textiles using my own hand-dyed fabrics. Sometimes I embroider them.

I’m part of the creator team on the Discworld MUD; in other words, I help to build a game that’s set in an immersive world made entirely out of words, and I do this with a mix of creative writing, bad puns, programming, bugfixing, and esoteric knowledge of a 30-year-old codebase. discworld.starturtle.net/

I’m good at cooking, but I’m mainly interested in simplifying it so it doesn’t take time away from the other things I want to do. I like to develop fast-to-prepare recipes with vegetables and pulses and wholegrains. I’m an omnivore, and I generally prefer fish to meat.

I spent several years writing an ongoing local history of the land and buildings along a road near my house, but I put this on pause after the pandemic started, when I ran out of the material I’d already researched. One day I might pick it up again. london-road-croydon.org/histor

Also, in no particular order, and not limited to: trans people are valid, immigrants make societies better, it’s OK to be fat, the Fediverse has a racism problem, women are not second-class citizens, Israel’s genocidal behaviour is an outrage, disabled people have value.

discworld.starturtle.netDiscworld MudDiscworld MUD is a multiplayer, text-based online game based on the Discworld books as written by Terry Pratchett. On Discworld you will meet many of the characters from those books. Terry's books are humorous fantasy and the game retains the comical, fun feel of the books.
#Sewing#Quilting#Dyeing
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