🔴 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇮🇪 From Kingdom to Colony: Framing the English Conquest of Ireland

"English colonialism meant replacing one type of kingdom with another, and thus bringing the pre-existing Gaelic kingdom of Ireland into conformity with an English model. In this way, Ireland was transformed from a kingdom to a colony."

Colin Veach, From Kingdom to Colony: Framing the English Conquest of Ireland , The English Historical Review, 2024;, ceae210, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae210.

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Anti-abortion directory goes offline following our investigation.

NHS and councils remove references to ‘Pregnancy Choices Directory’ but campaigners say they should never have been there.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/local-councils-nhs-crisis-pregnancy-anti-abortion/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social&utm_content=abortion_directory

#UK #Abortion #Health #NHS #Pregnancy #Journalism #UKNews #News

"It's something of a "new normal" here — as it is around the nation. No longer are just books under fire, but also the library administrators, teachers and long-beloved librarians who are defending them. They're being shouted down by parents, vilified on billboards, reported to the police, and trolled online, leaving many fearing for their safety."

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/11/1192034923/the-plot-thickens-the-battle-over-books-comes-at-a-cost

I remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.

https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-scraped-30-billion-images-facebook-police-facial-recogntion-database-2023-4

Sometimes you just want to look at some colorful "no known copyright" endpapers. Feel free to reuse!

These are all from books published between 1890 and 1930. Scanned by the Bergen Public Library in Norway. #endpapers

Image credit: Bergen Public Library on Flickr Commons https://www.flickr.com/photos/bergen_public_library/albums/72157633827993925