#FindMyPast has added to its collection of school registers. This morning I've dipped into the beginnings of Bearwood Road school, Smethwick. The trials and tribulations and the first inspector's report.
I wonder if any of my #Mathstodon acquaintances know of or have thought about the strategy of defections looked at a bit like "The Prisoner's Dilemma".
I suspect the biggest impact will be to destabilise relationships between those who are staying loyal to their party ... whether the uber loyalists are just pretending ...
This lake is in the grounds of Edgbaston Golf Club, formerly iirc Edgbaston Hall, and again iirc, one of the minor stately homes of Birmingham attacked in the 1791 "Priestley Riots".
This recount business is reminiscent of the 2010 Birmingham Edgbaston General Election count where the Conservatives were convinced they had defeated Labour's Gisela Stuart and demanded recounts
That year the local elections were held on the same day. The Tory counting monitors had sample counts of the council votes (where they'd done reasonably well) and, in extrapolating the numbers to the constituency, the #s didn't reconcile.