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NEWS: Analysis of Open Plaques data featured in @heraldscotland today shows only 3 out of 91 #Glasgow plaques & 52 out of 377 #Edinburgh plaques commemorate women [we've corrected the slight errors in the story's figures] heraldscotland.com/news/1838…
Likes are private now - so what's the point of bookmarks? And you can only know who liked yr post via notifications... what about posts more than a few week old? Unusable & insane. Can it get any worse?
awaiting a Bristolian to take an Open Licenced image of the new mysterious Banksy blue plaque in Stokes Croft openplaques.org/plaques/5962…
Somewhat depressing when the Wikimedia pedants delete photographs of plaques :( commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/C…
Quite a story for this plaque just added in Finland. The President, who had earlier handed in his retirement resignation, died of a heart attack in front of an honour guard openplaques.org/plaques/5942…
Not a country, but certainly a huge variety of plaques & organisations putting them up across the UK...so we're flattered to be commended. 😊 Will be interesting to see what comes of plans for the proposed all-England scheme #publichistory #digitalheritage
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The fabulous people at @openplaques do a great job of sharing these plaques. As their map shows, they cover the whole of our country. Each with their own styles, origins, stories, notabilities,... I really think it's quite beautiful. openplaques.org/places/gb
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Good to see Dylan Jones wanting more plaques standard.co.uk/comment/dylan…
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We've joined @wikimediauk @flickrfdn @creativecommons & others in calling for public interest projects like ourselves to be exempt from the #OnlineSafetyBill which puts our #publicheritage #publichistory project at risk. #ForFreeKnowledge sign & support 👉 wikimedia.org.uk/2023/06/onl…
Enjoying the analysis of OP data in Gustar, A.J. 'British Music Plaques' in Statistics in Historical Musicology, 21st July 2020, musichistorystats.com/britis…
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Really excited that plaques have started appearing from Georgia 🇬🇪 (the country, not the state) openplaques.org/places/ge 17 and counting....
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This week saw a 3rd plaque for Iris Murdoch. This one in Oxford where she lived until her death in 1999 openplaques.org/people/27259 (I'm sure @jamesjefferies will be pleased)
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Just watched Paddington 2, filmed in Chalcot Crescent and previously home of Josè Rizal, hero of the Philippines openplaques.org/plaques/619
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in Kettering? How about taking an Open Data licenced photo of the impromptu Mark Watson plaque in Market Place outside Kinos....and of the film plaque on the wall too! openplaques.org/plaques/5751… openplaques.org/plaques/4079…
I'm reading a number of "[xyz city in the UK] revealed as one of England's most Heritage Rich cities" articles in local news websites where Evri have 'analysed' the number of plaques per city......I hope they've cited their source.
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all 42 plaques in Newport, Gwent now classified openplaques.org/places/gb/ar… include 2 for Joe Strummer making him the most celebrated ex-resident!
got a slight fright researching the location for Edith Pretty's new plaque goo.gl/maps/ipReLRDz6Wnm8YdZ…
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@Feargal_Sharkey @Conservatives @alderleyedgecom @NTAlderleyEdge The Esther McVay. "Alderley Edge treatment plant" getting the recognition it deserves
Happily included these 2 on Open Plaques openplaques.org/plaques/5738… and openplaques.org/plaques/5738…
From the archive - Have you seen the dog memorials in the V&A?
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