Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find. Link of the Month:
Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images to Public Domain:
https://tinyurl.com/r4mkxar Links:
01:46 - Updates/ Breaking News:
Bovis Homes Follow Up: https://tinyurl.com/w7ubm5j
Italian Museums Shutter due to Coronavirus: https://tinyurl.com/sozyf53
CBA Announce Neil Redfern as new Executive Director: https://tinyurl.com/qsa2zjn
Heathrow Third Runway Legal Defeat on Legal Grounds:
Heathrow third runway decision: what happened and what does it mean?
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/heathrow-third-runway-court-decision/?fbclid=IwAR15d-G8t7uIM7kxSbEQ8W3yrq1cnUzIVTjmTnmybAoOO4VvTLSTDGdeoD4 Heathrow expansion: What is the third runway plan?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-51646562?fbclid=IwAR2_GD1G43wd3j8DA5s-f04v-8C4ArLYoCcD3f3jwKHUuqg4wie41A55svs
Heathrow ruling prompts wildlife presenter to launch HS2 challenge:
https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/heathrow-ruling-prompts-wildlife-presenter-to-launch-hs2-challenge
HS2: Chris Packham launches legal challenge to rail link:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51722251?fbclid=IwAR0MBRVKseQZdWx5FzXlLixk5QpQOVOYphlajBX-42QWBbb96T6opIlhrzE
17:01 - Board-Game piece from period of first Viking raid found in Lindisfarne:
https://tinyurl.com/uvy4eb3
1,200 Year Old board-game piece from Lindisfarne:
https://tinyurl.com/vy8f3kg
31: 01 - History’s Diverse Stories:
How Britain is facing up to its hidden slavery history:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20200205-how-britain-is-facing-up-to-its-secret-slavery-history?fbclid=IwAR1fD2__lb4w8DjuhxsmhIGpY9jZVSeYNyY5dmN82d3mnNINtaCohCEc4vg
Stop Blaming History for Your All-White, All-Male Movie:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/opinion/sunday/oscars-movies-diversity.html?fbclid=IwAR0LrtIt7NAg1gDNCS5tBTM6ufpeLyeDvZBC8YytJZzlRfwQVOB2nNKdGF4
Royal Palaces employ drag queens to teach gay history:
https://tinyurl.com/wz3ygss
Pride of Place: England’s LGBTQ Heritage:
https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/lgbtq-heritage-project/?fbclid=IwAR0Ou7MIwQywGRrP6I4YBU004YsKJxpk5L_oUOyP_t94EXZr1TEwxTsokj8
Asylum Seekers take part in archaeological dig in Italy:
https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/23011/asylum-seekers-take-part-in-archaeological-dig-in-italy?fbclid=IwAR1WHKE8_fOC0__TJgUa5nDjy1VAuB-wZb5Smtmejz0pH-susUqd1fzyC3w
53:56 - Destruction of DMV:
Family fined for deliberately destroying 800-year-old Medieval ruins:
https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/03/family-fined-deliberately-destroying-800-year-old-medieval-ruins-12175047/?fbclid=IwAR1RnwPdnhZW-UlpWmY4zKCmuYIvhkRiGn0fA-6YRsnwIiBH7-HXKyXHVmE
Court orders remorseless family to pay £160k after ‘cynical act of vandalism’ against DMV near Rugby:
https://tinyurl.com/uospfx4 Illegal metal-detecting at English Heritage sites doubles in two years:
https://tinyurl.com/twloq6k