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Katie - The Creative Historian

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Tea addict. History blogger for my sins. QPR fan for my bigger sins. Selling geeky history stuff. Author of 30 Women in History. She/Her.

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 17h
📅 #onthisday 30 Sept 1888 Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes are killed in what became the “Double Event”. Two women, two full lives, later reduced to a myth. Hallie Rubenhold reminds us that justice lies in remembering who they were, not who killed them. 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/376763 #otd
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Royston Museum @roystonmuseum.bsky.social · 16h
On this day in 1896, the county boundary dividing Royston between Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire changed. Historically, the boundary ran through town along Baldock St and Melbourn St. The boundary placed the whole town into Herts. In 1989, the boundary moved again to follow the completed A505.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 15h
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
5. The best way of pushing a book to a kid is to say it isn't suitable. "You won't understand it." "It's rude." "It's far too challenging for someone your age." Then, just leave the book around somewhere they can reach it.
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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
many years back arrived in work to find everyone looking out of one window. there was a car upside down at the bottom of an embankment beside the office car park which was quite a sight to see manager's phone rang and one of the team was on the other end saying "so you can probably see my car..."
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 28/09/2026
We have something very cute to share with you today 🦉 This summer, a pair of barn owls successfully reared four owlets at Kedleston Hall, marking Kedleston's first known breeding success in over two decades.
Four young barn owls jostle onto the small wooden ledge of their nest box, fixed to a huge oak tree behind themA young barn owl in flight, its wings stretched up above it against a blurry green background, its white heart-shaped face facing the cameraA young barn own in flight, a blurry oak tree behind it, its huge white and brown wings beating downwards as it looks at the cameraA barn owl swooping down with its wings fanned wide across a field of long purplish grass
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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 28/09/2026
Hey friends! I’ve been informed that someone is using my name to send fraudulent acquisition queries to authors. Please note: my outgoing work email address should be from @penguinrandomhouse.com. I will not contact you about work from any other email!
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Mark Medina @markmedina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You don’t want a new Halo game. You want to be 15 again. It’s the same reason Call of Duty “isn’t fun anymore”. It’s not really any different than it used to be. You’re just older now and there are a million of them. No MP FPS is gonna make you feel like a teenager again.
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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Next month, Rachel will be giving an online talk to our members about her book. This will be an event exclusively for FoFC members and, therefore, if you aren’t a member then there’s still time to join. Please follow this link to join today: friendsoffriendlesschurches.org.uk/become-a-fri...
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Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Henry IV, depicted on the church of St Mary Magdalene, built on the site of the Battle of Shrewsbury (1403) as a chantry chapel to pray for and commemorate the dead. If I was Henry, I would not have been thrilled with this depiction #battleofshrewsbury #henryiv #houseoflancaster #shrewsbury1403
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is easily answered. Bomb disposal experts are those that get to attempt it twice.
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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In the matter of Suckling against Cock... [From a calendar of Duchy of Lancaster Proceedings for the reign of James I]
Finding aid entry, pen and ink on paper.
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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Found a woman who killed a man by clatting him over the head with a turnip after he called her a mucky bitch The day is redeemed
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026
The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.
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Suffolk Detectorist @sdetectorist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKn The Knight, Sir Findsalot visits @colmuseums.bsky.social
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"One chapel was used by the Church of England and the other was used by non-conformists before burials." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Calls to restore two 'eyesore' chapels at Knottingley Cemetery
Local residents and councillors suggest the buildings could be tranformed into a florist or a cafe.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you ever need your faith in the sciences restored after having it so violently compromised by techbros masquerading as technologists, I encourage you to check out the breakthrough after breakthrough ongoing in oncology. 
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Amrita Sher-Gil ( 1913 – 1941) was an eminent Hungarian-Indian painter. She has been called "one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century" and was a pioneer in modern Indian art. #CelebratingWomen
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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I have been busy transcribing death notices, obituaries etc from old newspapers for my #OnePlaceStudy of Waters Upton in #Shropshire, and have added 70 new items to the Death Notices page of my OPS website. Plenty of #OnePlaceBurials included in the nearly 200 items now on that page!
waters-upton.uk
Death notices etc.
Death notices, reports on inquests and funerals, and ‘in memoriam’ items (nearly 200 in total), relating to events which took place in Waters Upton or relate to people with connections …
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Remains of the 4th century Roman Town House at Dorchester (Durnovaria) in Dorset. The shelter protects some great mosaics! 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Dorchester #Dorset
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Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bartlemas Chapel was founded 900 years ago this year by Henry I, as part of a hospital for 12 lepers. It was rebuilt in 1329. Once located well outside Oxford’s city walls, the chapel is now at the end of an unassuming path off the eclectic Cowley Road. I visited last weekend for #HeritageOpenDays
Exterior of Bartlemas chapel (east end) with two large manicured topiary bushes Interior of Bartlemas chapel - which is still used for occasional services and concerts. Hard to believe that in the late 1800s it was used as a cattle shed!
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you choose to be in any role that involves saving lives, you accept that the part of your brain telling you a given person doesn't deserve your mercy and your care must be ignored. Doctors treat whoever is in front of them. Firefighters pull everyone out of the flames.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It isn't your decision. It's not what a lifeboat rescue is *for*. You save everyone because the sea doesn't give a shit who you are or what you've done.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The old lifeboat station at Penlee point has been kept as it was that day in December. The lost crew were all awarded posthumous medals. For the hour the crew of the Solomon Browne fought the sea and lost, the lights in Mousehole are switched off each year.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.
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Malky @themalky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I drew the new weird cat
Cutesy drawing of a Leopardus tilcayo loafing with its tongue poking out. A short phrase in spanish wraps around its back: un michi tilcayo! (a tilcayo kitty!)
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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yesterday we relaunched the City of London’s Blue Plaque scheme with a plaque for Francis Barber. He was born a slave in Jamaica, brought to England as a child and freed. He was a servant to Dr Johnson, who made him his heir. After Johnson’s death Barber became a school master near Lichfield.
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Debbie Cameron @debsadelight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#adoorableThursday Our Holiday accommodation in Cellardyke The owner is an artist!
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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Personally I would not pick this fight with the youtube guy who demonstrates all the ways he can nail you with an arrow at 200 yards using his feet while wearing 12-inch Pleasers, whose wife can also kill you with her bare hands, and has 9 billionteen followers who are all trans women with swords.
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Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Look what just arrived! I was lucky enough to receive an advance copy of King’s Secretary by Andrew Johnston a few months ago. My comments below: @yalebooks.bsky.social #kingssecretary
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hmm, I started by saying that enslaved women were healers, midwives and knew a lot about medicinal plants. Some plantations relied on their knowledge and skills. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
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More than 1,000 women invested in companies at heart of Britain’s slave trade
Women used profits from trafficking of enslaved Africans to secure their families’ futures, research reveals
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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Looking for some light lunch reading? Rachel Rich and I wrote a bit about how 18th c British food was complex, multicultural and flavourful. theconversation.com/british-food... #HistFood @uclpress.bsky.social +
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British food was complex, multicultural and flavourful in the 18th century – despite what you might think
The King’s table was full of flavours from the British empire and beyond.
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For the last nine months it's been my pleasure & privilege to be the editor of Renaissance Studies, and I think we're well overdue a romp through some fantastic articles we've published this year. See below for some of the finest new research in the interdisciplinary study of the Renaissance! 👇
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Katie - The Creative Historian @creativehistorian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I am not, in fact, very good at whatever I'm doing, but I get a great deal of satisfaction from a damn good try and have no intention of farming that out.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Newhaven fishwives returned from market in Edinburgh, c.1843-6, photo by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson (National Galleries of Scotland).
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Debbie Cameron @debsadelight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A reminder in one small Scottish coastal churchyard of the perils at sea Pittenween One “master mariner” died at sea in 1869 One seaman washed up upon the shore in the Great War “known unto god” Two fishermen accidentally drowned. “Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee For those in peril on the sea”
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 14/09/2026
In case anyone was still in any doubt that trans people have always existed, here's a delightful account of a trans man called Emanuel from 1634. The author even gets the pronouns right! [There are a few more...]
Of the changing of Sexe,

Matus Lufitanus reports that in the village Esquina, there was a maid named Maria Pateca, who at the appointed age for her courses to flow, had in stead of them a mans yard, lying before that time hid and covered, so that of a woman she became a man, and therefore laying aside her woman's habit, was clothed in mans, and changing her name, was Called Emmanuel ; who when he had got much wealth by many and great negotiations and commerce in India, returned to his country and married a wife, but Lusitanus said he did not  certainly know whether he had any children, but that he was certain he remained always beardless.
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Amelia Clark - Lover of Flagons @gingertotty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’m gonna whisper it, but I gotta cos £😬 *effing Christmas cards back in stock, lads* If you want something a bit askew for your seasons greetings… (from killer clowns, Jedis and old gods to sharks & sweary pear trees) See Dippyfishcards.etsy.com #bsnm #mhhsbd #ukgiftam #christmasinseptember
A collection of my very silly Christmas offerings / It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, Santa Cthulhu, Walkies in a winter wonderland, MERRY KISSMAS rockin’ robins, partridge in a swear tree, great WHITE Christmas wishes, Silent night, Jedi knight - use the fork Luke, and RUDEolph!

Please support a now Broke artist!
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Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Book Review: “The King’s Mother” by Annie Garthwaite adventuresofatudornerd.com/2026/09/14/b...
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Book Review: “The King’s Mother” by Annie Garthwaite
The year is 1461, and a new king sits on England’s throne. Edward IV has earned his right to sit on the throne by winning the crown at the Battle of Towton. Now, he must fight for his throne agains…
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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In an era of increasingly AI generated SM posts, reading things that are clearly just people posting things that popped into their brains 2 minutes ago is actually nice, so I am all for this
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Derby Museums currently has the Joseph Wright of Derby: From the Shadows exhibition that was on at the National Gallery. That was great but small and paid. At Derby it is bigger, better displayed and FREE. Until November.
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Allan Lorde @allanlorde.com · 13/09/2026
100%. For those unfamiliar, Van Halen had a line in their rider that essentially said “no brown M&Ms.” It was a way to see if the promoter had actually read the contract. They had a shitload of gear to tour with, so if they’re skipping one thing, it’s guaranteed they’re skipping something essential.
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Gemma Hollman @gemmahauthor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm so excited to reveal that next month, in celebration of Just History Posts' 10th anniversary, I will be hosting an online event! I'll be joined by @g0blinegg.bsky.social, @thehistorybits.bsky.social, @tudorsdynasty.bsky.social and @janegreyinfo.bsky.social Tickets: justhistoryposts.com/events/
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Just History Posts' 10th Anniversary. Saturday 17th October 4pm BST. An online event celebrating history bloggers. Hear what it takes to found and run a history website, and where the future of historical blogging may be. Learn more at justhistoryposts.com. There are 5 headshots of those taking part in the event: Gemma Hollman, Amy Boucher, Sharon Bennett Connolly, Rebecca Larson and Tamise Hills.
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Gemma Hollman @gemmahauthor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I went to Bodiam Castle a few weeks ago, and it was just absolutely wonderful, a "proper" medieval castle, and beautiful even as a ruin.
A yellowed-stone castle seen through a framing of trees and grasses, with a moat with water lilies in the foregroundA view through a small stone window to a stone turret A view from the top of a tower down to a courtyard surrounded by ruined castle walls
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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Time for a resource shout-out! Please share any apps, videos, web-based articles or similar resources that you find helpful for keeping you on the straight and narrow! Specific areas of interest: time management, planning, reading, note-taking, organisation, executive function, sensory sensitivity.
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
Ruby Bridges, age 6Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her schoolNorman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine. Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hi! Live near Sussex? Got teenagers? Do they like history, books, or middle-aged historians who are mildly funny, sometimes? You’re in luck! I’m doing a FREE event for teenagers at Crawley Library on September 22nd. I’ll be joined in conversation by funny history influencer Katie Kennedy

AUTHOR EVENT
Greg Jenner & Katie Kennedy
22 September 2026 6.30pm
Crawley Library

Get more out of what you're into!
West Sussex
Library Service
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Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When it’s bedtime I say ‘Time for Bedfordshire’. I thought it was a quirk from Bridget Jones but I was surprised to see it in a novel from 1950. Now I’m delighted to find it’s a v old usage from c17th, was popular in the 1930-50s & c19th children were told to ‘climb the wooden hill to Bedfordshire’💤
A white woman in a bed asleep with their head hugging a pillow
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