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Berkshire Family History Society @berksfhs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Editor – Berkshire Family Historian Learn about volunteering as the remote editor for our quarterly... #BerksFHS #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #MagazineEditor #Volunteering berksfhs.org/job-roles/editor-berks…

A woman at a desk designs the layout of the "Berkshire Family Historian" journal on a computer monitor, with printed copies of the publication and reference books nearby.

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Interesting experience as a social and family historian- on holiday in Australia and staying in Brisbane on Census Night! Included even as visitors and had to put my ancestral background- English Irish Scottish as separate tick boxes - that’s me! Never done that before @berksfhs.bsky.social

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Many years ago my dad went to a derby match in Liverpool when Everton won (many many years ago!). The end some wit was handing out black edged cards about the demise of LFC with the legend “StJohn pray for us”!

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Ah but, she’d argue you/we/they are still wrong

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Funnily enough much the same in Berkshire - But not 42! Still not doing much - struggling to write a conference paper at the moment, brain feels like mush 😂

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Small world- we’re part-time residents ie second home! Had the house 19 years. We try to spend as much time as we can there but have to be in the UK too. Back at the beginning of Sept this year, just got home. Are you melting 🫠 too? Missing the sea here ….

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

All French supermarkets are gradually having them done - even our SuperU in Jard sur Mer

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I really doubt she’s done that! Had a quick skim today it’s bloody fricking brilliant xx

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

@sophiemhistory.bsky.social is a great one as you can probably guess! Mine is not necessarily great but it is gender/crime/social history pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/st...

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“A deed at which humanity shudders”. Mad mothers, the law and the asylum, c1835-1895

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Finally after editing & refining, my article was published online today. Many thanks to Prof Hilary Marland, @fabiolacreed.bsky.social for your invaluable help ‘Kind, Judicious Treatment’: Infanticidal Mothers, Criminal Insanity, and Institutional Care, 1895 to 1919 academic.oup.com/shm/article/...

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‘Kind, Judicious Treatment’ 1: Infanticidal Mothers, Criminal Insanity, and Institutional Care, c. 1895 to c. 1919

Abstract. Between 1895 and 1919, 185 women were admitted to Broadmoor and Rampton State Criminal Lunatic Asylums for the murder or attempted murder of thei

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

To be honest I always thought it is Ashton-in-Makerfield but what do I know? A north westerner exiled darn sarf

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

@berksfhs.bsky.social Thank you Rowena - we are very happy to welcome new volunteers and members and we aren’t just about the Royal County of Berkshire!

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Oh Julia I really hope all goes on well and smoothly for him. GOSH is an amazing place . Take care and thinking of you xx

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Me too, Berkshire. And so agree about slipping into my native accent when meeting up with anyone from Merseyside (both sides of the river). 😘

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

That’s true - and little lowly non-celeb me does the same. Every so often my darling southern husband looks askance at me as the scouse-ism slips through! As they say you can take the girl out of Liverpool/Merseyside but …

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Love your handle btw - used to go to the Kardomah on Bold Street for a treat growing up.😂 wools and plastics - I think the definition has changed over the years!

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Also do you think he was exaggerating the Merseyside intonations to sound as if he was scouse and not Chester? Just a thought …

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

As a native of the Wirral (now in exile) I hear what you say but to me I hear the Cheshire accent more. Just me perhaps - and I always thought wools came from Warrington.😂I know I’m a plastic 😘

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Sorry but Chester does not sound scouse just as people from the Wirral are not Scouse. He has a Chester/Cheshire accent. I’m not denigrating Scouse but the Wirral is not scouse.

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Thank you, my lovely. I’ll be there at your talk 🫣is it Mrs 🦚

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

@royalhistsoc.org I’m thrilled to have been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of my contribution to historical scholarship. I can’t quite believe it @djrgrey.bsky.social Thank you for your support and friendship. @medhistoryman.bsky.social unbelievable right?!

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

What a selfish mother. I had measles as a4 year old (1961 no vaccine at the time) and I have had tinnitus ever since. As I have got older my hearing has worsened. I got off lightly- measles can carry much worse problems in her children’s future

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

@drewdgray.bsky.social ooh just got round to watching Lucy Worsley and you pop up! Looking well there!

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Herewith one fish scaler - kept because my late mother bought it for me but no other reason 🤣😘

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I have a fish scale remover ie a specialised sort of file thingy never used.

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Thought they were getting ultra modern stuff to suit 🤣must admit it gives a whole new meaning to downsizing 😘

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Your parents’ attics🤣🤣? Dear other readers, I know her parents very well 🫣

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I think we can be ageist against Trump and ableist- and that’s my get out clause 🫣

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Ffs the man should be one of those institutions which in the main, under those nomenclatures, no longer exist.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Frankly embarrassing for a British newspaper to report this without noting that the University of the Third Age has functioned in the UK for decades. It has 400,000 members. www.u3a.org.uk/about

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‘Keeps your mind alert’: older Swedes reap the benefits of learning for pleasure

Retirees with ‘fantastic hunger for education’ taking part in university organised events in record numbers

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Very interesting discussion- I started my MA Historical Research in 2009 (age 52) spread it over three years and followed by my PhD achieved in2020. However my university (Roehampton) doesn’t offer such possibilities anymore, such a shame. There’s always U3A of course.

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I find the maps fascinating and have used them to add ‘colour’ to some of my case studies. And to trace where my great grandmother was born. Great source of social history.

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Or someone hearing a word and totally misusing and misunderstanding it.

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