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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Great day @tolpuddlefest.bsky.social with the team @tolpuddleoct.bsky.social with fantastic exhibition by our history group on violent attacks on early #Methodists in #Dorset, and good to welcome President & V President @methodist.org.uk

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Almost ready for the weekend ahead at @tolpuddlefest.bsky.social when we will have Tolpuddle Old Chapel open to visitors with a new exhibition on the history of attacks on the early Methodists along with display of the first title deeds. @methodist.org.uk @tolpuddleoct.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Getting in early with my contribution for this year’s #MagnoliasOfOxford sightings with the welcome appearance of blossom @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social across from my @campionhall.bsky.social office.

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TolpuddleOCT @tolpuddleoct.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

On Sunday 22nd Feb. we will be hosting the excellent production 'To Win The Day'. The drama looks at the impact on the wives and families who were left behind when their husbands were deported. Tickets can be purchased on-line. £5 per person and no booking fee. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1981582087...

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Special interest perhaps but just in case it’s of interest to anyone else here’s a pdf of my great grandmother’s lesson plans for 1920 in #Killybegs National School #Donegal Arithmetic, songs, flowers, and all about matchsticks. colinbrady.co.uk/2026/01/13/1...

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1920 Teaching Notebook of Mary Mulreany

It’s taken me longer than I had hoped to get this second volume posted but here it is; the notebook used in 1920 by my great-grandmother, Mary Mulreany, for lessons at Niall Mór National Scho…

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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

This Friday 10th October 15:30-16:45 in the Weston Library, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow Federico Varese & co-curator Jessica Douthwaite will give a talk on their @bodleian.ox.ac.uk exhibition on John Le Carré visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/lecarre #JohnLeCarré #SpySky

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John le Carré talks

Join us for a series of talks on John Le Carré, to tie in with the new exhibition at the Weston Library

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Citizens Advice centres do incredible work and this statistic is a stark insight into how much that work is needed. #Dorset

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City of Sanctuary UK @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

This article sets the record straight about Schools of Sanctuary — and why it’s rooted in kindness, inclusion, and safety for everyone: www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

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What is a School of Sanctuary as 'Valentine's Day card' claims debunked

It comes amid claims that children were being forced to write Valentine's Day cards to migrant men

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Coffee with Bonhoeffer. Enjoyed a visit to this social enterprise with a big heart for its local community in Cirencester. Great project making great use of the old department store; ethical trading, good food, common table, pay what you can, worth visiting. gloucester.anglican.org/2024/a-new-e...

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

This little wander was delightful; and on the day of announcement that St John Henry Newman will be declared a doctor of the church, added interest to see this chapel where he went to Mass following his reception into Roman Catholicism.

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Spur of the moment walk up Cherhill Down #Wiltshire and for once I’m at a hillfort for #HillfortsWednesday #OldburyCastle historicengland.org.uk/research/res...

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Really good to be back at #Tolpuddle for the rally after a gap of a few years, and to spend time at @tolpuddleoct.bsky.social, recently restored and finding new life.

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

If you’re in #Tolpuddle for the rally next weekend I plan on hanging out on Sunday afternoon with friends at the chapel, a key site for the history of trades unions and social justice in the UK. See you there!

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Before Saltaire and Bournville there was Swindon Railway Village (with a pub on every other corner). Great conversation about the challenges and excitement of a community-led restoration project for the Mechanics Institute which has been vacant since 1986.

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

A Terribly Serious Adventure; engaging & enjoyable crash course in the philosophy I didn’t read as a philosophy student many years ago.

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Great Somerford in the cool of the evening & Britain's first allotments. Enclosure of common land reduced the amount of land available to the poor. Stephen Demainbray, rector 1799–1854 successfully lobbied the King to spare part of his parish from the Great Somerford Inclosure Act 1806.

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Enjoyed the #Glastonbury coverage and lots of county flags; Somerset, Devon, Wiltshire, Cornwall. But failed to spot any from #Dorset. Has the poor cross of St Wite been forgotten already?

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Ian Cambrook @iancambrook.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Gentle reminder👇

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

A visit to see Dauntsey’s Doom, recently restored. #Wiltshire

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

The house by the Thames … Kelmscott Manor, #WilliamMorris

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Simple pleasures of everyday life …

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Looking forward to this gathering; do join us if you can, and perhaps share in this lovely project combining social justice and heritage. #Tolpuddle #Dorset

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Visitation. Dinah Roe Kendall.

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Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Ten years of Laudato Si': from @lsrioxford.bsky.social lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/news/24-may-...

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24 May 2025: Ten years of Laudato Si'

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Thank you @garrettcarr.bsky.social First novel I’ve read through to the end in years.

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Whistler’s later work, his incredible etched glass for the church in Moreton #Dorset, would be much better, but this little panel @campionhall.bsky.social was probably his first commissioned piece around 1936.

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Simple pleasures of everyday life; a Sunday morning in May.

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The Liberation Theology Podcast @libtheopodcast.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

"A small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself." --Pope Leo XIII on capitalism, 1891

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Came upon an open door in Bath and wandered into a wonderful piece of charity history; St John’s Foundation established 1174 and still serving the needs of local people. Lovely buildings, fantastic history. stjohnsbath.org.uk

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Simple pleasures of everyday life; coffee in the garden, this might just be this afternoon’s office. @campionhall.bsky.social #Oxford #Lutyens

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Return visit to Woodchester, a mad, visionary building, all the more wonderful for having been left unfinished.

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

My colleague Prof Celia Deane-Drummond @campionhall.bsky.social reflects on the contribution made by Pope Francis to the global movement for integral ecology and action on climate change.

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

If you happen to be in Dorset on a Thursday, do drop by Tolpuddle and visit the restored old chapel and explore its connection to the #TolpuddleMartyrs #TradesUnions and #socialjustice

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Yesterday’s trip was to Down Ampney for another lovely window by Tom Denny, this one celebrating the life and work of Ralph Vaughan Williams who was born in the village.

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

It’s well worth a diversion; stunning new window by Tom Denny in Tisbury parish church, Wiltshire.

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Salisbury friends … I doubt that I’ll get to this but I’m sure it will be a good evening (even if the author has given away far too much about what an Irishman means when he says he’s grand).

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

A day for glass. The wonderful new Tom Denny window in Tisbury, and revisiting the Harry Clarke in Sturminster Newton. #StainedGlass

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

It’s Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury weekend …

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Being fed takeaways this morning…

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Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Following our instagram hack by what my friend and IT expert @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social described as 'utter bastards', we're back with a new account. Give us a follow there please, help us rebuild an audience of readers.

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Theology pals! Did you guys realise that Anna Rowlands was the topic of an op-ed in the leading newspaper in Ireland, written by one of our most influential politicians of the last generation?: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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Eamon Ryan: Every major religion agrees on this: we must live in harmony with the natural world

Populist politics wants to depict environmental issues as part of a cultural war, blaming elites and sowing disinformation and distrust

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Another few days perhaps until it reaches peak magnificence, this magnolia on the wall of @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social as seen from my office @campionhall.bsky.social Campion Hall, Oxford. There are worse views.

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Fairford attractions. A lovely visit, welcoming guide, friendly town. Stunning glass and fascinating history of local philanthropy.

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

A new condensed version of Frederick Copleston’s 11 vol history of philosophy has just been published. I imagine I wasn’t the only student who relied on these as sole texts for many an essay. www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/fre... Photo: Copleston’s gown still doing duty @campionhall.bsky.social

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Colin Brady @colinmbrady.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Talks on the philosopher Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury and an archaeological dig at his childhood home; first weekend in April.

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