Unfortunately I couldn’t be at the Million Women Rise March yesterday, or the Abortion Rights Women’s Day event, due to a regular six-hour Saturday meeting (Caroline Lucas, lucky woman, got to leave at lunchtime to address the Trafalgar Square rally), but I have been enjoying The F-Word’s report, and a lovely collection of photos.
Anyone know what is happening with the Portable Antiquities Scheme? This is a brilliant, cheap and popular government scheme, so naturally its funding is under threat.
It allows and encourages people who find antiquities to report them, with the details being registered for researchers – as chronicled on its blog.
More than 200 MPs backed an early day motion supporting it, but can’t find anything since then….
On the usually excellent In Our Time on Radio Four, an account of the importance of Ada Lovelace. (That link will only work for a week – I’d recommend downloading immediately so you don’t miss it.)
And I didn’t think there was any real doubt about this, but further evidence has emerged that the Victorian army doctor James Barry was actually Margaret Ann Bulkley, daughter of a Cork grocer.
And on the Times, a rather rightwing slanted list of 50 green bloggers. But there are some good ‘uns to add to the blogroll.
You can have a long, long, long drumroll for this one, and an apology for extreme tardiness from me, but I can now tell you that the Carnival of Feminists No 54 is now up on In a Strange Land.
It’s great – and don’t waste a second here, do go over there and check it out.
(Then you can come back to my excuses – my problem is that I can just keep up when I keep going, but as soon as I do something like take a week’s holiday, I come back to an avalanche – and in this case I’m still making frantic swimming motions and have a small air pocket.)
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