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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 9h

Tonight’s homework: reading The Shepherd’s Calendar again

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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ton Dubbeldam

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Lovely Iron Age enclosure cropmark just east of Montgomery and a few metres over the border into England on the latest Google Earth imagery from summer.

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Richard D. Gregory @richgreg3.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

‘Shocking and sobering’: UK bird populations fall to lowest level on record Nearly 1/2 of species are in decline, with farmland birds and seabirds the worst hit, conservation bodies say @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️🐦 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Shocking and sobering’: UK bird populations fall to lowest level on record

Nearly half of species are in decline, with farmland birds and seabirds the worst hit, conservation bodies say

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I spent most of the last year thinking I had killed this little lithops but it has recharged after some September water and a repot. Just needs some grit now and then it’ll sit quietly until spring 🤞🏻

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

‘I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.’ – Douglas Adams writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Early EnglishGothic splendour of Peterborough Cathedral’s west front. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #PeterboroughCathedral

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.

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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think about the death penalty locally a lot. I think about how a magistrate’s bench could condemn a man to death in Peterborough until 1828. I think about the three different gallows sites that I am aware of (doubtless others existed) and…

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A postbox from Torquay only metres from the beach #PostboxSaturday

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

🧵Bishops' House, at the southern tip of Meersbrook Park in Sheffield, is a wonderful architectural treasure. Built around 1500–1554, this Grade II* listed building is one of only three surviving timber-framed structures in the city. Originally a remote yeoman's farmhouse in

Bishops' House is a historic, half-timbered Tudor house built around 1500, located at the southern tip of Meersbrook Park in Sheffield, Image: Neil Theasby CC BY-SA 2,0

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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"A Record Conger. Caught by Mrs. H. L. Pugh on Tuesday." Bexhill Observer 8.10.1910. #Bexhill #Sussex #History #1910s

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Interesting how the key features of the bishop's town (the bishop in question being Herbert de Losinga (d. 1119), are evident. The key one is the Norman west end of St Margaret's 'Lynn (Lynn Minster if you insist), bottom right, which was once on the waterfront, it's now a street or so away.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I believe that the Catcliffe Glass Cone is the oldest surviving structure of its type in Western Europe and one of only four that remain in this country.Situated just 2 1/2 miles from Rotherham, the glassworks, were established in 1740 by William Fenney. The 20 metre high cone acted as an

The Catcliffe Glass Cone is the oldest surviving structure of its type in Western Europe. It acted as an industrial glassmaking chimney and furnace enclosure.

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Finally made it to the beach after six years. First time using the ramp and getting on to the sand in my wheelchair

A woman smiling with a big stretch of sand and a little patch of sea behind her

Brown sand with a receding blue sea to the left. Above it is the coast of Torquay with the sea wall and a few houses. Above that is a deep blue cloudless sky

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Torre Abbey looking rather lovely this afternoon

Looking through a red stone arch to a small wooden door and tiny square hole

The Spanish barn. Big barn with the buttresses

A crenellated entrance gate to the left next to a slightly more modern range with sash windows above some steps

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Torre Abbey looking rather lovely this afternoon

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

At the start of another research adventure. Currently stuck at Bristol Temple Meads in a train carriage set to heatwave temperatures and crammed with displaced travellers. My pork pie is claggy

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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tastiest apple ever! From a box of free apples in Sheffield... but what a surprise when Rob bit into it to see such red coloured flesh Could be Bloody Ploughman, or perhaps Kissabel? We've saved the seeds so maybe one day we'll have a harvest of our own 🍎

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Looks rather like an angel’s wing in the sky!

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ronald Blythe Fellowship 2026 The John Clare Society runs an annual bursary scheme, providing £1,000 for PhD researchers in the field of John Clare studies. Closing date: 30 October. @bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social johnclaresociety.org/2026/10/01/r...

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Apply for John Clare Society Bursary by 30 October 2026

Apply for the Ronald Blythe Fellowship bursary for John Clare studies! Deadline: 30 October 2026. Fund your research projects

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Back to the opticians because my new varifocals aren’t meeting my needs. Apparently some of the issues include the fact that my glasses are exceptionally thick and I’m quite poor. Specsavers discontinued the varifocals I liked and I have to upgrade to get the same thing I had before 🙄 👓

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Cambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The model created from the Flag Fen auger survey shows that the basin around the post-alignment has a gentle gradient across its western half, beside a deeper 250-300m wide “valley” across the eastern half. This eastern deeper, wetter zone corresponds to the location of the Flag Fen platform.

The deposit model created during the Flag Fen auger survey, with differing colours indicating the variations in depth across the Flag Fen basin.

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tis Lincolnshire Day today. It commemorates the Lincolnshire uprising of 1536 when catholics in the north of the county revolted against Henry VIIIs reforms. Didn’t affect the south of the county, so 🤷🏼‍♀️ Eat sausages! Probably best not to start a revolution today

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just returned from a showing of the newest Sense and Sensibility! It is definitely worth a watch and rather sublime. I’m certain some people will be angered by elements of it because it’s different to other versions but there’s an awful lot to enjoy and I’ll be watching it again many times!

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cute beardy face doodled at the back of ‘The copies of certaine letters which have passed between Spaine and England in matter of religion’, edited by William Bedell (London, 1624). Part of Peterborough Cathedral Library, @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Pet.P.2.38.

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Back to the museum again this morning to look at a very special box. And maybe sit in the strong room. And maybe look at some little tiny bone objects. If I’ve got the energy

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Gift Gift Box

ALT: Gift Gift Box

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Very excited to be reminded that my 5x gt grandmother Sarah Kelly nee Barton was the next door neighbour of Lucy Van der Aa, wife of one of the Dutch POWs from Norman Cross! It’s amazing what links you can make with your family tree 🌳

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Very much enjoying the lighthouse day on Radio 3. It’s a brilliant celebration of British history, music, geography and people

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Faro Menorca: Lighthouse in a Misty Sunset

ALT: Faro Menorca: Lighthouse in a Misty Sunset

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s been a fantastic week for the bees on the ivy

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thought the Edwardian police in Peterborough just walked around bopping burglars on the head with their truncheons? Think again! These officers had skills!

The Chief Constable of Peterborough has brought before the Watch Committee the question of giving a course of instruction in ju-jitsu to the members of the police force.

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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's Friday Murder time. This week is about abortion and the law and once more asks the question "when is a murder not a murder?" In 1828, a major piece of legislation combined a load of different laws around interpersonal violence. It was called the Offences Against the Person Act 1828

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is still very difficult to explain to people why I travel by wheelchair or walk with a stick. Currently struggling to even walk around my house but theres no treatment for that and no point mentioning it. One day a discovery will be made about it, but not soon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Currently watching Robin and Marion on Channel 4 and it is quite the film. Audrey Hepburn and Sean Connery star alongside Ronnie Barker and Richard Harris! Great sets and landscapes (Italy I think), interesting costumes and some questionable humour and the less said about Connery’s beard the better!

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No surprise. A few years ago I was at a literary event at Molcey Mill. I was struggling across uneven ground with my stick (I have ME/CFS) when I saw ‘Baron Peterborough’ in the distance and he scowled at me! No reason for it other than my stick. He was a terrible MP too

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The form of Milber Down Iron Age hillfort in #Devon can today be difficult to appreciate, with a road cutting through it and one half covered by trees LiDAR helps resolve this 🤩 📷 © HE Archive 33541_039 🛩 © Environment Agency / Devon CC See: www.devon.gov.uk/historicenvi... #HillfortsWednesday

Aerial photograph showing two halves of an Iron Age hillfort, one covered in grass, with ploughed fields around, the other covered in trees, with a linear road running through the middle

LiDAR plot in black and white, showing the extent Iron Age hillfort ramparts covered in trees

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I searched for a rhyme relating to the Corsican Tyrant on google - silence I searched for the same thing on DuckDuckGo and it gave me exactly what I was hoping to find and other helpful links. Why am I still using google?

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'The records have been digitised and indexed by the genealogy company Ancestry, which has partnered with the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London.' Leaps and bounds forward in our understanding of the histories of the British enslaved. #Skystorians

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Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online

Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Drawing Across The Ocre, painting by Simon Palmer (b. 1956), Yorkshire landscape artist.

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

St Guthlac’s looking rather splendid from the west today

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just went to look at an exhibition for a proposed new development in town. Big plans for lakes and play parks and cycle routes/pavements, 30% of houses planned to be affordable. Great, right?! I’ve seen it all before. It’s a concept - they don’t have any builders signed up. Frankly, it’s all lies!

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Nicola Harris Author 💙📚💙📚 @nicolaharrisauthor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

💙📚💙 The lower relief represents vine decoration, perhaps alluding to the owner’s wine Imports from Gascoyne. #theelizabethanhouse #greatyarmouth #ceiling #17thcentury #historicalfiction

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is my council. On top of these issues we have at least a 30 minute queue to drive into any facility and then another 30 minutes trying to drive through because it’s a one-way system. I’ve had a bag of electrical junk for months after the bin there was full but it’s not worth a return trip

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Improving your Monday morning with this Bearded Tit. You are welcome. 📷️ @ronpon22.bsky.social

A Bearded Tit stands on a mossy branch, its feathers puffed up into a perfectly round ball. Its warm buff-coloured plumage, pale face and tiny orange bill give it an irresistibly fluffy appearance, while one foot is lifted mid-step as though it's waddling along.

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chris4766.bsky.social @chris4766.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Electric aviation is going to be a thing. Likely to be shorter flights, with much lower carbon emissions.

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