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Butser Ancient Farm @butserancientfarm.co.uk · 3h

Spend four days learning the traditional skills of bow making with expert Phil Brooke. From selecting the right wood and exploring bow design through history to learning traditional techniques, you’ll learn how to craft your own bow. Book your place - www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/whats-on/cal...

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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 3h

So had my smart meter switched today. Advance notice - need parking, heavy equipment etc. Take half hour, shouldn't affect electricity etc. So I moved car and things nearby the electric meter. He was here for 3 minutes in total and carried the most tiny box in.

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Dave Annal Lifelines Research @davelifelines.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here's a link to a list of all the talks that I do, together with a list of all my current bookings. My fee will be going up next year but all existing bookings and any new bookings agreed by the end of 2026 will be at the current rate. @federationfhs.bsky.social lifelinesresearch.co.uk/talks/

lifelinesresearch.co.uk

Talks

I am an experienced speaker with a large repertoire of talks, covering a variety of family history-based topics. I have spoken at RootsTech, The Genealogy Show, Who Do You Think You Are Live? and o…

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Russty Russ @russtyruss.bsky.social · 19h

#OnThisDay 1983 : The first episode of Superted was broadcast on BBC One. Superted's first adventure was seen on S4C the year before. In total there was 36 episodes spanning 3 series. #80s

TV listing
Superted and his friend Spottyman are always on the alert when the evil Texas Pete is around...

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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Anyone else noticed that with the banking software updates that now #Lloyds especially is telling me personal information that I didn't know. What happened to keeping things private for security?? Needed to reimburse someone so copied details off their card. Bank account given as Title, Initials

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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oooh I've been to Wanuskewin which was really cool.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

More than a century before the Eurostar and LeShuttle, a group of engineers and statesmen dreamed (and fretted) about connecting Britain to France with an underwater tunnel. @PM_Keeling drills into the early history of the Channel Tunnel — publicdomainreview.org/essay/t...

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well, this archaeologist is staggered at the response to the oldest pub film! Currently on 150,000+ views. After less than 2 days up its already the third most watched video in Historic England's archive! Thanks everyone 🙂 youtu.be/RlyvHJtptbc?...

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Very Terry 🔥 @bookseditorial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Three days left to watch this on iPlayer, btw.

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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Busy genealogy weekend for many in the UK I believe. Have fun everyone. I'm off to @shropshirefhs.bsky.social's latest Talking Family History Live event. #Shropshire

Poster for today's event. Yes I needed to look up the details because the way in the future diary event suddenly arrived. 😩

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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh my word. Very glad I could zoom in and read this. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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Kent Maps Online @kentmapsonline.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fab launch events for the Ballad of Salt and Stone. This was a really fun project to get involved with, so thank you Digital Drama, @heritagefunduk.bsky.social and the local communities who came together to rewrite a bit of history! We'll be sharing it online soon... #NationalPoetryDay

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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#52Ancestors - A Moment of Courage Now every ancestor that took the plunge and travelled across the globe must have had that huge moment of courage to step onboard a ship knowing that they may not see their family, friends and home ever again. Sadly this was the case for a couple of relations.

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The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Drill hall at Coigach, north of Ullapool destroyed. "We've still to do a full inventory of all the archives that have been lost and those that have been saved." Many original photographs destroyed, but some have been digitised and stored online. #archives #LocalHistory www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Archives and former World War One drill hall destroyed in blaze

The building in Coigach had also served as a village hall and venue for a piping school.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

11:20 is not seeming too early to crack open a bottle of wine at the moment. 😩

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Gloucestershire National Garden Scheme @glosngs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Gloucestershire has had its last NGS open day but there are still gardens you can visit by arrangement. Cotswold Farm (all year) Brockworth Court (April–October) Wicks Green Farm (April–October) Please contact the garden owner to discuss. ngs.org.uk/gloucestersh... 📸 Cotswold Farm

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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh goody a tax code query which can basically be answered with "you clearly earn too much". 🫣😆 Only left HMRC before it became HMRC in 2005 but still know my stuff. #Payroll #TaxCodes

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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oooh if only this was closer. Looks great.

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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#52Ancestors - What Wasn't Written Down The biggest brick wall for me is that no father listed on birth certificate meaning stuck with one missing 3G GP and beyond lines. There is a potential name for the daddy and family rumour passed down is that men came to house on death of my 2G GP.

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

News to me that - if you want Heineken - you would be especially bothered with the nuances of how it tastes (not a dig exactly, it's lager, it's meant to be cold, I'm not sure you can actually pick up the variations).

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Kent Family History Society @kentfhs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

October Calendar is out now .

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Jane Hough 🌳🧬🏡 @allthosebefore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Save the date! @gloucestershirefhs.bsky.social will be hosting a #FamilyHistory Fair at the Heritage Hub in Gloucester on Saturday 7 November, 10am-3pm. Meet volunteers, get research help, book for a talk, or learn more about the archives. Best of all, it’s free! gfhs.org.uk/event/family...

gfhs.org.uk

Family History Fair – Gloucestershire Family History Society

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The lemon is in play

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Laura Hadland @morrighani.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is where the Boy started off. Can you guess how many inches I sawed off his hair in aid of @parkinsons.org.uk? If you like, you can send £1 for every inch to the charity via our JustGiving link at www.justgiving.com/page/hairy-m... The hair itself will be donated to The Little Princess Trust.

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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have an emergency cake fund. I have had emergency cake. I still have emergency cake. I need more emergency cake but I also have a sugar intolerance. 😩 Logged on at 0840, had enough by 0845 when I was actually due to start work. It's only got worse as the morning has continued. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The tragedy of the ship, the Northfleet that was taking emigrants to Australia, which sank on 22 January 1873 whilst being moored off Dungeness, Kent after being hit by the stream ship Murillo with 293 people drowned & only 86 survived. 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

The Victorian ship sinking which killed hundreds off Kent coast

In 1873, passengers of the Northfleet died after it was hit by a steamer off the coast of Dungeness.

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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

May be getting ahead of myself slightly but wrapping the gifts for birthdays in October and November now to allow myself significant time to get them to destinations.

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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So Hotel Burstin in #Folkestone, #Kent caught fire overnight but does appear to now be out. Saw one post on FB that will have made £1.3m of improvements which feels like too soon but perhaps fairly accurate. Sadly although the place looks ok externally it is not somewhere I'd want to step foot.

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Lizzy @lizzycampbell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today is a good day to listen to some Cabin Pressure.

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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

HELP - Send booze. I'm genuinely not convinced 9 bottles of wine and a bottle of whisky is actually enough to get me through the rest of the day.

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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

52Ancestors - A Document with Personality For me this is William GAVIN's diary which has recently been found to be in the hands of @natlibscot.bsky.social and not destroyed as the family were led to believe. buff.ly/g0kI3QC

manuscripts.nls.uk

https://manuscripts.nls.uk/repositories/2/resources/12001

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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Absolutely need to do this here. Resorting to booking holiday from work just because I can't face a full week of dealing with the same issues over and over.

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The Family History Society of Cheshire 🌾🌳 @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🚨𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫🚨Sept 24th Come along to this event, & find out more about railway life in #Crewe in the past! Discover what @rwldproject.bsky.social & @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social are doing with Crewe Works accident registers from c.1917-33. Current & former Crewe Works staff particularly welcome!

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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

22 emails so far today on just one account I have that need actioning. Dread to think how many notifications I've had overall across the board in about last 5 days whilst I tried to have a private life. 😒

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Stoo @stoo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Shout-out to the brave motherfuckers chopping the collapsing, rusting masts off the SS Richard Montgomery on the bottom of the Thames between Southend and Sheerness today. If it goes badly, we're all going to very much know about it. Fascinating, also terrifying stuff youtu.be/R9u41aeItss?...

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Unexploded Bombs off the British Coast: the SS Richard Montgomery

YouTube video by Tom Scott

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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Grumpy Lorna in the house this morning. Was insanely wet and windy last night and at one point sounded like someone dragging a wheelie bin of tins down road. 😩 #NeedMoreSleep

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Gloucestershire National Garden Scheme @glosngs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Explore a classic Cotswold country garden on Wednesday Sept 16 when the Lords of the Manor Hotel, Upper Slaughter, opens for the National Garden Scheme. Feature include a walled, herb and bog gardens. Open 10-3pm, entry £8, children £5. Details: buff.ly/6690kFg #Cotswolds #OpenGarden

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Community Foundation for Shropshire @cfshropshire.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Community organisations across Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin are invited to apply for grants of up to £20,000 to help prevent suicide and self-harm among women experiencing perimenopause or menopause.

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Grade 2* listed Horne's Place Chapel at Appledore, Kent which dates from 1520 & is attached to the house next door to open for Heritage Open Days. 👇 BBC News - Public to see inside chapel ransacked in Peasants' Revolt www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Public to see inside Kent chapel ransacked in Peasants' Revolt

Horne's Place Chapel in Appledore is opening to the public as part of Heritage Open Days.

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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#52Ancestors - A Small Detail I Love Even though this is a photo of a photofrom 1942 can clearly see the detail in my great aunt's bridesmaid's dress. Not the smallest! Not sure if it was of the time to have floral motifs and part of me does wonder if it was done to disguise material flaws.

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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm led to believe there's a family history event in #Gloucestershire early November but can't find anything online about it. Anyone know more? TIA.

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