Michael Day

@bindonlane.bsky.social

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Change ringer. I will mostly post about work (digital preservation, libraries) and on occasion about bellringing, the First World War, the city of Bath, and other topics

View of Fricourt New Military Cemetery, Fricourt
Title page of book: The City of London Yeomanry (Roughriders) by AS Hamilton
An article from the March 1997 issue of the Library Association Record outlining the timetable for moving the British Library Information Sciences Service to the new British Library site at St Pancras
Photograph of the programme cover for the opera Siegfried, performed at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, London, on 31 March 2026
View of Bathampton Weir from the Toll Bridge, Somerset
A view of Grootebeek British Cemetery, near Ouderdom, West Flanders, Belgium
Eveninh view of the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial to the Missing in Ieper, West-Vlaanderen
The inside of the Royal Albert Hall before a BBC Proms concert
Inside the dome of the Royal Albert Hall, London
Inside the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms
Zillebeke Lake in the late afternoon
Extract from a MailOnline article published on 2 April 2025 on proposed additions to the Queen's College, Oxford war memorial, reading: "Of the 14,561 members of Oxford University that enlisted, around 20 per cent had died by the end of the First World War. Among the alumni who perished were renowned military commander Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig and composer George Butterworth."
The cover of "The Times Book of Church Cats" (1999)
Report of the death of Driver David Howie, Royal Field Artillery, published in the Kilsyth Chronicle, 7 September 1917
Part of casualty list published in The Scotsman, 14 September 1917; via British Newspaper Archive
The grave marker of 925 Private F T Izard, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, in Tyne Cot Cemetery, June 2023
Private Henry Augustus Riggs Day, 1/4th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, Ahmednagar, ca. 1914
The text of a post card of HMT Assaye sent by Henry Day to his brother from Southampton on the 9 October 1914
A person in Bath (Somerset) painting a picture of Bath Abbey
View of the River Thames from the London Cable Car