Hacker News with Generative AI: England

89% of 2024 sexual offences in England went unsolve (theguardian.com)
Victims are being “let down time and time again” by police, a minister has said, as almost every violent or sexual offence went unsolved in hundreds of crime hotspots last year.

Crime, England, Law Enforcement, Sexual Assault

51 points by lr0 4 days ago | 33 comments

How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year (davidallengreen.com)
By the mid 1700s in England there was a curious juxtaposition between the lore of New Year’s Day and the law of New Year’s Day.

History, Culture, England, Law

114 points by quickfox 16 days ago | 61 comments

NHS to begin world-first trial of AI tool to identify type 2 diabetes risk (theguardian.com)
The NHS in England is launching a world-first trial of a “gamechanging” artificial intelligence tool that can identify patients at risk of type 2 diabetes more than a decade before they develop the condition.

Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence, England

3 points by voisin 20 days ago | 0 comments

The rock houses of England's last cave people (bbc.co.uk)
It was the middle of the 20th Century when England's last cave dwellers gave up their homes in a rural part of the country near Birmingham.

History, Archaeology, England, Culture, Housing

12 points by gnufx 23 days ago | 2 comments

Appeal for British oak to recreate Sutton Hoo ship (theguardian.com)
The aim is ambitious: to complete a functioning reconstruction of the extraordinary Sutton Hoo burial ship by 2026 and test it on the river and sea, hopefully providing fresh insight into what life was like in Anglo-Saxon times.

History, Archaeology, England, Reconstruction, Ships

37 points by zeristor 33 days ago | 41 comments

Bowel cancer rising among under-50s worldwide, research finds (theguardian.com)
The number of under-50s being diagnosed with bowel cancer is increasing worldwide, according to research that also reveals rates are rising faster in England than almost any other country.

Health, Cancer, Research, England

17 points by GeoAtreides 37 days ago | 4 comments

A woman appeared on the English stage on this day in 1660 (smithsonianmag.com)
The audience at the King’s Company production of Othello on December 8, 1660, heard an unusual prologue before the play began. “The Woman playes to day, mistake me not,” one of the actors read aloud. “No Man in Gown, or Page in Petty-Coat; / A Woman to my knowledge ….”

Theater, History, England

63 points by pepys 40 days ago | 13 comments

An English castle became a stork magnet (bbc.com)
Helped by a bold rewilding project, storks are migrating between Britain and North Africa again for the first time in 600 years. How can we make their journey safer?

Wildlife, Conservation, Migration, England

67 points by ohjeez 54 days ago | 14 comments

King Arthur's ancient trail across Britain (cnn.com)

History, Archaeology, England, United Kingdom, Mythology

45 points by peutetre 62 days ago | 41 comments

Red squirrels 'to vanish from England' unless vaccine against squirrelpox funded (theguardian.com)
Red squirrels will soon disappear from England unless the government funds a vaccine against squirrelpox, one of the biggest groups set up to protect the species has warned.

Wildlife Conservation, England, Vaccines, Endangered Species

7 points by pseudolus 62 days ago | 0 comments

Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel (historytoday.com)
At 8.23am on the morning of 14 November 1994, crowds cheered as the first Eurostar train carrying fare-paying passengers under the English Channel left London’s Waterloo Station.

History, Transportation, England, France

21 points by Thevet 63 days ago | 21 comments

Cornish monument is 4k years older than was thought and 'without parallel' (theguardian.com)
An enigmatic stone and turf structure on Bodmin Moor that was previously thought to be a medieval animal pen has been found to be 4,000 years older – and unique in Europe.

Archaeology, History, England, Monuments, Ancient History

54 points by zeristor 70 days ago | 14 comments

We Shall Fight in the Buttery – Oxford's War 1939–1945 (literaryreview.co.uk)
It’s said that Oxford was spared destruction on the scale of Coventry because Adolf Hitler wanted the place as his capital after he conquered England. Ashley Jackson’s engrossing new book describes how the city of dreaming spires woke up to the realities of the Second World War. His trawl through the archives has yielded a rich and glittering haul, containing much that will interest more people than mere Oxonians.

History, Oxford, England, Books

55 points by andrewl 74 days ago | 11 comments

Big Data for the Leviathan (lrb.co.uk)
It is an instructive irony of English political history that the Houses of Parliament were burned down not by revolutionaries but by bureaucrats.

Politics, History, England

52 points by pepys 79 days ago | 7 comments

Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales (bbc.com)
The sale of single-use disposable vapes will be banned in England and Wales from June next year, the government has confirmed.

England, Wales, Vaping, Public Health, Legislation

149 points by nithinj 85 days ago | 156 comments

Nature of crimes – Vagrancy, heresy and treason in the 16th century (bbc.co.uk)
Some crimes have always existed, whilst others are particular to certain periods in history. How has the nature of criminal activity differed and changed over time?

History, Crime, Law, England, 16th Century

6 points by thunderbong 86 days ago | 9 comments

An Approach to Flooding in England: Give Land Back to the Sea (nytimes.com)
When a huge tract of land on the Somerset coast was deliberately flooded, the project was slammed as “ridiculous” by a local lawmaker. But the results have been transformative.

Climate Change, Environmentalism, England, Coastal Management

5 points by lhomdee 88 days ago | 1 comments

A Language of Beautiful Impurity (edwest.co.uk)
The Gouth of Hastings was fought at Sandlake Hill in mid-October, 1066. There, the English, under King Harold, won a breme and athel seyer over the Normans, led by Earl William ‘the Unrightluster’, a man who was willing to spill a swith great muchness of blood to fulfil his yearning for the English highsettle, wealth and his own wulder.

Language, History, Linguistics, England

79 points by nafnlj 102 days ago | 24 comments

Pine martens return to Dartmoor after 150-year absence (theguardian.com)
Fifteen pine martens are darting through the woods of Dartmoor for the first time in 150 years after the rare but recovering species was reintroduced into south-west England.

Wildlife, Conservation, England, Reintroduction

82 points by zeristor 108 days ago | 31 comments

America's oldest tombstone came from Belgium and belonged to an English knight (phys.org)
Jamestown, Virginia, was founded in 1607 and was the first English permanent settlement in America. It has been the subject of many archaeological and historical analyses, including a recent study by Prof. Markus M. Key and Rebecca K. Rossi, which set out to determine the provenance of Jamestown's black "marble" knight's tombstone. What they determined was unexpected, says Prof. Key.

History, Archaeology, Virginia, England, Tombstones

50 points by wglb 121 days ago | 26 comments

Sculpture commemorates 16th century drowning that inspired Shakespeare (theguardian.com)
Almost 500 years ago, a wealthy and well-connected judge named Sir James Hales walked into the River Stour near Canterbury in order to take his own life.

History, Shakespeare, England, Art

6 points by n1b0m 125 days ago | 0 comments

Reassessing William the Conqueror (2016) (historytoday.com)
In the popular imagination, William the Conqueror is, without doubt, the villain, yet the sources we have for his life are ambivalent.

History, Biography, Reassessment, Medieval History, England

7 points by pepys 126 days ago | 0 comments

Food allergy diagnoses in England doubled in a decade, say researchers (theguardian.com)

Food Allergies, Health, England, Research, Public Health

12 points by pseudolus 142 days ago | 3 comments

King John's Lost Treasure (historytoday.com)

History, Archaeology, Treasure, Royal Family, England

16 points by benbreen 149 days ago | 3 comments

Elon Musk shares fake news about England rioters being sent to Falklands (theguardian.com)

Elon Musk, Fake News, England, Falkland Islands

20 points by taylodl 162 days ago | 17 comments

Black mothers in England twice as likely to have NHS birth investigated (theguardian.com)