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Katie - The Creative Historian @creativehistorian.bsky.social · 2h

Somehow I feel like that will be grainier than I want a yogurt to be 😔

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Gemma Hollman @gemmahauthor.bsky.social · 6h

I needed to find a way to celebrate Just History Posts, and so I'm hosting an online event on 17th October! Joined by other bloggers, we'll chat everything history websites: running them, challenges we’ve faced, where the future may take us, and more! 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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Katie - The Creative Historian @creativehistorian.bsky.social · 2h

The caramel-flavoured ones are okay but the chocolate is definitely the best one, especially with a cup of tea. They also have a birthday cake flavoured one but I could never find them to try.

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Katie - The Creative Historian @creativehistorian.bsky.social · 2h

I ended up eating these Fibre One Chocolate Brownies when pregnant and they were surprisingly tasty. Not a complete replacement for a Twix but they did scratch an itch www.tesco.com/shop/en-GB/p...

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Liz @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Update from Ancestry on their digitisation of The British Army service records in conjunction with The National Archives

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The British Army Service records with The National Archives | Ancestry

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Isabella Lewis @irvlewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On Saturday, 7 November, I will be running a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon around the theme of Byzantine women & genderqueer saints. I hope that this workshop will help to improve the coverage of women and LGBTQ+ history on Wikipedia. To attend, follow this link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wiki-edit-...

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Wiki Edit-a-Thon: Byzantine Women & Genderqueer Saints

An in-person edit-a-thon that aims to improve the coverage of Byzantine women & genderqueer saints on Wikipedia. No prior experience needed.

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

📅 #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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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 them

A young barn owl in flight, its wings stretched up above it against a blurry green background, its white heart-shaped face facing the camera

A young barn own in flight, a blurry oak tree behind it, its huge white and brown wings beating downwards as it looks at the camera

A 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...

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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!

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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 Lughosti'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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Asquealia 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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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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