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Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

12 hours ago

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a line drawing of a large hall, with lovely arched ceilings and a parquet floor, probably good for dancing. Written on the card is Upper Hall of Students' Union, University of Liverpool

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @liverpooluni.bsky.social

This is one of a series of fundraising postcards produced in the 1920s, showing the campus as they hoped it would become

If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

civnode

@civnode.bsky.social

1 day ago

No ads. No algorithm. Free to write, free to read. If you want to reach me: christer@civnode.com

#WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #IndieAuthor #SelfPublishing #AmWriting #PublicDomain #FreeBooks #Literature #CreativeWriting #NoAlgorithm

Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

1 day ago

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a photograph of the Tate library at Liverpool University, with books alcoves, reading desks and a mezzanine gallery

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @liverpooluni.bsky.social - this is the Library @livunilibrary.bsky.social

Compare with yesterday's postcard - shared below - showing a line drawing!

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Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

2 days ago

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a line drawing of a university library. There's an alcove with bookshelves and a card index, behind which a young scholarly man is seated at a desk, reading. Above on a mezzanine atrium more bookshelves, with a gallery Tagging @livunilibrary.bsky.social

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @liverpooluni.bsky.social

This is one of a series of fundraising postcards produced in the 1920s, showing the campus as it was, and as they hoped it would become

If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

5 days ago

A picture postcard showing the University of Liverpool. Printed bat the foot of the card is "Hold to artificial light"; the image lets you see what is revealed - a shadowy image of the entrance to the new metropolitan cathedral in Liverpool. A printed message reads "Victoria University Tower, Liverpool fits into main door-way of new metropolitan cathedral of Liverpool"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @liverpooluni.bsky.social

This was a novelty card - if you held it to the light, a shadow image of Liverpool cathedral door can be seen, dwarfing the University

If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

6 days ago

An monochrome picture postcard showing a line drawing of a brick house next t a larger stone building. A well-dressed man in 1920s clothing is coming out of the house onto the street. The card is labelled "Present Accommodation of the Veterinary Department, The University of Liverpool"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @liverpooluni.bsky.social

This is one of a series of fundraising postcards produced in the 1920s, showing the campus as they hoped it would become

If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

1 week ago

An old colour picture postcard from the 1950s or 1960s showing the Memorial Hall at Harvard University - a grand red-brick building - with cars parked on the street

For 1.4.26 here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Harvard University

Harvard was originally to be a college of Cambridge University, but Oxford objected, leading to Harvard being granted university status in its own right

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Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

1 week ago

A monochrome fundraising postcard showing a line drawing in black ink of a brick-built Gothic building from the 19th century. It's the Victoria Building at Liverpool University seen from the quadrangle

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @liverpooluni.bsky.social

This is one of a series of fundraising postcards produced in the 1920s, showing the campus as they hoped it would become

If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

1 week ago

A monochrome fundraising postcard showing a line drawing in black ink of a 19th century Gothic building: its the Victoria Building at Liverpool University

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @liverpooluni.bsky.social

This is one of a series of fundraising postcards produced in the 1920s, showing the campus as they hoped it would become

If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

1 week ago

Old monochrome picture postcard showing a line drawing of an ornate gothic entrance, with an oriel window above a grand doorway. A man in academic dress is walking out of the arch. Written below is "Victoria Gateway, University of Liverpool"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @liverpooluni.bsky.social

This is one of a series of fundraising postcards produced in the 1920s, showing the campus as they hoped it would become

If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

1 week ago

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a line drawing of a brick and stone building with a bay window. Written below is "Women's Union; the University of Liverpool"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @liverpooluni.bsky.social

This is one of a series of fundraising postcards produced in the 1920s, showing the campus as they hoped it would become

If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a line drawing of brick and stone buildings. Written on the card is "Chemical Laboratories; Medical School; Johnson Laboratories; University of Liverpool"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @liverpooluni.bsky.social

This is one of a series of fundraising postcards produced in the 1920s, showing the campus as they hoped it would become

If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

An old monochrome picture showing a line drawing of a two-story, brick and stone building. Written at the foot of the card is "Electrical School; Zoological School and Museum; The University of Liverpool"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @liverpooluni.bsky.social

This is one of a series of fundraising postcards produced in the 1920s, showing the campus as they hoped it would become

If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

An old monochrome picture postcard in portrait orientation. The image is a photograph of a brick gothic building with a tall clock tower, and tiny people at the front Printed in white at the foot of the card is University College Liverpool

The rear of the postcard, with handwriting in ink. The message reads "Dyma yr ysgol newydd; Nellie"; on the address side is "For Auntie Mary Catherine"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @liverpooluni.bsky.social

The message on the back, in Welsh, reads Dyma yr ysgol newydd - This is the new school

The card dates from between 1902 and 1903

If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

An old monochrome picture postcard showing an aerial photograph of Bedford College, London: 1930s Art Deco brick buildings in beautiful parkland

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the former Bedford College: once part of @londonu.bsky.social, then merged with @royalholloway.bsky.social

The buildings are now home to Regents University

If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

An old colour picture postcard showing Piccadilly in London, in the early twentieth century, with horse-drawn carriages. To the left a fine classical building. Printed at the top of the card is Burlington House, Piccadilly

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Burlington House in Piccadilly - now the home of the Royal Academy of Arts, but once upon a time the home of @londonu.bsky.social

If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a view down a London street. Nearest is a large residential block, all smoky bricks and windows. Next door is a slightly shorter building with a small portico - this is RADA. At the foot of the card is printed College Hall, London

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of College Hall, like yesterday, and also of the rear of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - @radalondon.bsky.social

This is the door to use if you're going to the theatre

If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a residential block, built in brick with stone fascia. Printed at the foot of the card is "College Hall, London"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of College Hall, @londonu.bsky.social

I wrote about this for @wonkhe.bsky.social back in 2022: buff.ly/27NAHAZ

If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

An old monochrome picture postcard showing an ornate brick and stone building, with central oriel windows, set behind a well-tended square. Printed at the foot of the card is "Gordon Hall, 15 Gordon Square, London WC1"; stamped in purple ink is "Museum 3930", a phone number

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Gordon Hall, @londonu.bsky.social

Also known as university hall, latterly the building housed Dr Williams' Library, now part of @thejohnrylands.bsky.social

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Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

An old colour picture postcard showing an image of a brick college building with a clock tower, on a busy London road - plenty of people, horse drawn carts and carriages

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @londonmetuni.bsky.social back when it was the Northern Polytechnic

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Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

3 weeks ago

An old monocrhome picture postcard showing a photograph of cadet soldiers marching along a country road in uniform with rifles on their shoulders. Written on the card is LU (OTC) 1910

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of what I think is the @londonu.bsky.social Officer Training Corps in 1910

Almost all of those pictured would have fought in WW1; and they'd have known that it was likely to happen too

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Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

4 weeks ago

An old monochrome picture postcard in portrait orientation showing an aerial photograph of grand college buildings set in a busy city scene

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of what was then Queen Elizabeth College, @londonu.bsky.social

I wrote about this for @wonkhe.bsky.social in 2022 buff.ly/Ty057Cz

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Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

4 weeks ago

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a large hall with a proscenium arch stage, and chairs arranged in theatre style in front of it

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Senate House, @londonu.bsky.social

Once upon a time, in the last millennium, I trod that stage playing Algernon Moncrieff in a production of The Importance of Being Earnest

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Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

4 weeks ago

An old picture postcard showing an oil painting of the Strand (St Clement Danes church) and Somerset House in London. Its a busty street scene with horse-drawn omnibuses and carriages, and many pedestrians

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Somerset House, once (a very long time ago!) the home of the @londonu.bsky.social central offices

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Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

1 month ago

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a formal London square, with trees, pigeons and deckchairs. Behind the trees can be seen a row of solid Victorian town houses

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Russell Square

The houses visible behind the trees used, I think, to house the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, now part of @ucl.ac.uk @uclsseeslibrary.bsky.social

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Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

1 month ago

An old colour picture postcard showing a watercolour of London buildings; gothic, light stone and towery to the left; more square and squat to the right

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the old London University complex

The tower remains, as part of @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

@londonu.bsky.social was, I think, the less ornate building on the right

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Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

1 month ago

An old colour picture postcard showing four pictures of different concrete and glass buildings, all set in grassland with trees. Acrosss the middle of the postcard is printed "Loughborough Colleges"

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of what became in 1966 @lborouniversity.bsky.social

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Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

1 month ago

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a London street scene with three story brick and stone building. In large letters on the building is Borough Polytechnic Institute Opened 1892

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Borough Polytechnic, which later became London South Bank University

Opened in 1892, as the sign says!

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Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

1 month ago

An old colour picture postcard showing a striking image of a window set into a concrete wall, reflecting a colourful background; below is a sign reading "Houghon Street", an air conditioning unit with two vents that lookm like wide open eyes, and a litter bin

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of LSE

This was outside the old Three Tuns - the @lsesu.bsky.social bar - and the aircon unit does look like it has Seen Things

All gone now, because the concrete never sets on LSE

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Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

1 month ago

An old colour picture postcard showing an aerial view of the main building and courtyard of St David's College, Lampeter: a pleasant yellow-stone building with a central gateway, small towers on the wings, and a fountain in the quadrangle

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of St David's College, Lampeter, now part of @uwtsd.bsky.social

Shared on a Sunday because it is 1 March - Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus, pawb!

#DyddGwylDewiHapus #StDavidsDay

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