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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, publications are good or whatever but have you ever seen a photograph of a dog enjoying your exhibition? Priceless.

Cloth exhibition panels hang in pairs from beams in Cromford Mills. A man and a greyhound are walking between them.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Last night, an exhibition I've been working on was launched at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire to mark 250 years since building of 2nd mill (blue print for cotton factories worldwide) and early industrial housing. It's open all weekend, with lots of activities. Critique my graphic design efforts!

Exhibition panels printed on cotton fabric hanging in pairs down a mill building from wooden ceiling beams. On the front panels the date 1776 and 'Why did cotton come to Cromford' are legible.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A small temporary exhibition at Cromford Mills to mark 250 years since the building of Arkwright's second mill (became a blueprint across world for other) and early industrial housing. Pic below.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have had the most Derbyshire morning it's possible to have this morning. Has involved a lot of dogs, talking to everyone, and overfamilar train guards.

Sir Richard Arkwright's Cromford Mills in Derbyshire with a blue sky and fluffy white clouds.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My childhood best friend sent me a photo today of the two of us looking more serious about a cake (I think?) than even I thought I was capable of.

Two young children (about 4 or 5) look down at a cake on a table. The cake looks like it might be some kind of sleeping princess shape. We are dressed in 1980s children's party clothes, ribbons and clips in our, both bobs. We are adorable.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Fellows of @royalhistsoc.org - check your emails to vote in Council elections!

Thank you for voting screen for Royal Historical Society council elections.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The roses are doing a second flowering #tinyjoys

A single yellow with a pink blush hybrid tea rose.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Wikipedia has left my name off the 'notable alumni', for shame.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Just saw a photo (itself old) of my floppy discs for my undergraduate modules. I currently feel about a million years old.

6 'Office Word' floppy discs lined up with labels including 'European Economic History', 'Government II notes and essays', 'Introduction to Political Thought' and 'Basic Questions about Theistic Belief'. I am so old.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Palaeography help please! This is from 1852 census in the occupation column. Next to sempstress we have this. My brain is saying 'Husband poor House' BUT that would be plausible enough for me to mistrust that I am making it say that. And would they say that in that column?

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Just in case you think it's all talk. I think the Daily Worker sign will be Exhibit A.

Bookshelf full of Marxist books, books about Russia and a Daily Worker sign from the Second World War.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I have also bought some fabric samples from them, with the wild idea I will make something from them rather than just gaze lovingly at them occasionally and hope that I were rich.

Fabric designed by Blackpool of Derbyshire

Fabric designed by Blackpop of Derbyshire.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Back from five days in Germany and genuinely thinking I'm suffering from carb withdrawal.

Plate with massive turkey schnitzel in bread crumbs with mushrooms, and cream sauce and what can only be described as a mountain of chips and a tiny salad.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Conservatory cat catching rays before I unjustly turf her into a cooker house.

Black and white tuxedo cat lounges diagonally across a coir rug under a wooden table, face to the camera. Direct sun is streaming in the glass surrounding her.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Mate, no, I'm not opening the conservatory door ...

A black and white cat sits folornly in front of a white door, leading to a conservatory that is already hotter than hellfire.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The smell of this jasmine in the garden is incredible. #tinyjoys

Jasmine climber around arch in flower with cream flowers and bright green foliage

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Excellent day in Nottingham cooking up some history plans. I somehow also managed to avoid this brewing storm!

The Trent Building at the University of Nottingham's Park Campus, with a lake in the foreground and a balustrade with two stone lions.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

My husband just saw this in TK Maxx. I am utterly speechless. Stop this world, I want to get off.

Some kind of garden ornament which seems to depict Frida Kahlo. She looks like a Disney Princess except with a unibrow. It is genuinely vile. Poor Frida.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Pump this Spring sunshine into my veins! (Yes, the new garden needs some attention!)

A pair of legs just out from a garden bench looking towards a garden gate surrounded by foliage at different levels of decay.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I have never been in the interior of Pugin's St Mary's Catholic Church until now. It is astonishing; the smell of candles and incense massively comforting. Four candles lit for the ill and the lost. #tinyjoys

Altar of St Mary's Church, Derby, stained glass windows and Gothic style, with nativity at front of the altar.

Small chapel to St Anthony, with statue of St Anthony and tiered candles.

Tiers of small candles with four small flames burning.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Watching the snow in the silence, it's possible for a second to forget that everything is fucked.

Garden with foliage and stone pillar completely covered in a blanket of snow.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Hope you all have a happy Christmas, one and all. I'm signing off for a few days to see family and do a bit of this.

Black cat is lying on a red William Morris blanket on a lap. The room is painted red and the background are some pine bookshelves and a grey chaise longue. The scene is far more bougie than it has any right to be.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Also enhanced by rereading the copy I read when I was about 14 and clearly stolen from my dad's bookcase. It was 4/6.

Penguin book cover for George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying, possibly from early 1970s, showing a white middle-aged man in a brown suit in the foreground and a woman holding an aspidistra plant behind him.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Just given notice on my rental of ten years. It's a lot at a time of officially 'a lot'. Very glad to be moving into our own place and will be happy not to have to deal with many things, but I will miss a lot, especially the yard.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Without downloading any new pics, describe your vibe for today using an image from your gallery

Bottom half of woman lying on back on a wooden floor, showing bottom of dress and legs in tights. She had lost the will and is just lying on the floor. In front of her is a book case and piles of books. She is spent.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

So much to do and finish this weekend, but the cat and I are starting with the same energy.

Black and white tuxedo cat sat on a blanket-covered lap, with a face that can only be described as dazed and confused, half-asleep.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Latest from the printing class: female blackbird sunning herself in etching and aquatint.

Etching and aquatint print of blackbird stretching wings in brown ink in various tones.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Current process - have etched the outlines and halfway through the aquatints. Next week this print will look dramatically different. It teaches patience.

Etching of a blackbird sunning itself. It doesn't look much yet!

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

This blackbird sunning itself will be tried out with several etching processes and it's genuinely soul-enriching.

Pencil drawing of a blackbird sunbathing with its feathers spread and beak open, surrounded by leaves and organic matter. Handwritten caption reads 'Blackbird sunning (welcome from Ade)', dated 15 August 2025.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Depressed cat asks for cessation in writing history no-one cares about except me.

A black and white cat's head, blurred, pops up behind a laptop screen. On the laptop is a never-ending nightmare.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

My last print in my introduction to printing course: chicks in screen print. Note to academics going through all the things. Do something that's not university related once in a while.

Piece of paper with four chicks on a nest with their beaks open. Their mouths are yellow and orange and the nest is brown and some detail is printed in black.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

My angry bird prints are dry. I kind of love them.

Angry nesting birds in drypoint on cream paper.

Angry birds in drypoint with textured background.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

My husband doesn't think I should throw this away. My take is that this place was definitely not my happy place, that I disliked more people on this photo than I liked and have much better photos than this of the ones I am still in touch with. Thoughts? Will I regret it?!

A whole school year photograph of the 5th year at Barlow R.C High School in 1997. To put it into perspective I think this was the same day that Oasis' Be Here Now came out ...

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Because I am currently committed to sharing the results of my printing night class however terrible they are, please have some angry birds - drawn from life - in drypoint.

Two birds in nests with leaves and twigs around them in drypoint printed on off-white paper. The noise in the background was intentional! No, it actually was.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

The beautiful pigeon has been returned to its owner.

A collared dove/white pigeon with black/purple feathers around the neck like a collar grounded in a yard.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Amazing day yesterday in the restored Derby Market Hall. So good to see Derby turn out for the opening and I hope this fantastic opportunity for the city is well-supported.

Derby Market Hall on opening day. Large Railway Station type roof filled with market stalls and people.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I just gave a keynote. Don't know how good it was but I do know that I deserve these chips.

A bowl of seasoned fries with a big pot of mayonnaise next to them.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Was in an absolutely foul mood today. Stomped across Derby to my night class. Scratched some angry birds into perspex (dry point). You can't really see it here as were printing them next time. Feel 100% better.

Angry birds scratched into a perspex sheet. They're really angry.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

It was. And my prints might have been wonky but I was quite proud of my nests.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

If anyone is invested here is a photo my Nana sent to him in India. On the back she writes 'It's me again pet! Why arnt you sharing the step with me?'

Woman sit on the step of an old car in some kind of uniform. There is another woman behind the wheel and another stood by the side of her. She looks into the camera.

On back of photograph in my Nana's handwriting in capitals: It's me again pet! Why aren't you sharing the step with me?'

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

You could ... And I will still have a lot.

A full book case with lots of old books by Marx, about Marx and about Communism and Russia packed into it.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Why Easter is better than Christmas: I rest my case.

A toasted teakcake on a plate on a garden table with a courtyard garden in the background. The sun is shining strongly.

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