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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Guess how many people stayed overnight in one of these lodging houses on Flower and Dean Street London in 1881.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Gingerbread castle ---> gingerbread ruin. #tinyjoys

A half eaten gingerbread castle and the hands that destroyed it.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Chatbots are SO reliable. Remind me again why we should all welcome AI?

An NHS chatbot has asked for my consent. I have clicked 'yes I consent' and it told me it cannot proceed as I have not consented.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Not so #tinyjoys was an afternoon spent at the Fitzwilliam museum. Art and archaeology. Heaven!

Roman bust. Looks like Neptune with a fabulous beard.

Baboon and ?Anubis pots. The baboon is a bit disappointed in you but still loves you.

Joan of Arc by Rossetti. Joan has gorgeous red hair and is holding a sword whilst clearly communing with God.

The Bridesmaid by Millais. Again she has gorgeous flowing red hair and it putting something through a gold wedding ring. Maybe pomegranate? I know they loved their pomegranates.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I'm writing a book about a woman who procured early teenage girls for rich men, including politicians and princes. It's a true story. It happened back in 1885 and I'm constantly surprised by how little has changed. The book tells the girls story, people with hopes and fears just like you. 1/2

Newspaper text says 'Social Scabs. The Higher Levels of London Permeated with Moral Leprosy. The Journal of Ma'am Jeffries and its Astounding Entries. An Appalling Record of Immorality Among the 'Better Classes' - New Yorkers Involved.'

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

New picture in the downstairs loo. #tinyjoys www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Loving this bit of 19th century libel (unless it's true of course) which had me chuckling whilst checking the Commandments.

It was amusing to hear to ex-Home Secretary preach to the people of Derby on the subject of the Ninth Commandment [Thou shalt not bear false witness], the very one which he had broken so often with regard to me. I quite expected him to follow it up with an exposition on the Seventh Commandment [Thou shalt not commit adultery], but was disappointed to hear nothing.’

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Next week I'll be sat on the beach trying to work out 10 pages written like this... This is genuinely my idea of fun.

Notes written in a very scrawling hand. Ten pages in all. Currently I can work out maybe 40% of the words. To be fair the example is the easiest bit to read.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I got a window bird feeder a month or so ago and have only been feeding particularly agile pigeons? Well, look what happened today! #tinyjoys #birdshow

A window bird feeder with 4 tiny birds (possibly a green finch and some house sparrows) having a birdie gossip. I wonder what birds gossip about.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

In our teeny wildflower corner this giant plant grew. It was nearly as high as the hedge and I was going to prune it. I'm glad I didn't. It's now covered in the most gorgeous purple blue flowers. Who knew chicory was so beautiful! #tinyjoys

Purple blue flowers with 12 or so long petals with frilled edges and an inner circle of dark purple stamen.

A chicory bush with multiple purple blue flowers

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Seems to me if you leave guardianship of your daughters to your sister and 'any other child or children' to a solicitor then you've been a very naughty boy. #19thcentury

Text says 'any other child' - unnamed presumably because he doesn't know their names.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It is just lulling them into a false sense of security. (never thought this picture would come in but I knew I saved it for a reason!)

Illustration from the Illustrated Police News of a man being attacked by three cats.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

2 years ago we started a house extension (well the builders did) and I moved a rambling rose. It was really deeply rooted and I had to hack at it to get any of it out. I moved it to a big pot at the bottom of the garden. It is still not very happy but today it gave me this. Plucky fellow #tinyjoys

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

#tinyjoys A week or so ago a big pot was tipped over overnight in the garden. It had been windy overnight but the pot has a few bricks at the bottom so I thought it was unlikely to be that. I checked the camera that looks over the back garden and, well, can you see....?

Grainy shot of a garden with a slatted fence, flower bed, lights, garden storage box, statue, tipped over pot and a badger.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

With many thanks to @kitdewaal.bsky.social I've just spent my tea break in the back of a jeep driving to Muktinath in Nepal. Love www.window-swap.com

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Who among us isn't a fan of Paul McCatney?

An advert. Paul McCartney is holding up an t-shirt. Under the image the text says 'For all Paul McCatney family'

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

1 in 5 girls globally are forced to marry in childhood reports the UN joint report with UNICEF and Plan International: unwo.men/O5bv50VcRqP

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

My plant delivery got these two too excited so I had to placate them with hay. #tinyjoys #guineapigs

Two guinea pigs eating hay. One is reddish brown and the other a darker brown with red tips to her fur. The darker brown one expects more.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Today is #Nationaltripletday and however you celebrate it I'd like to set you a quiz one of my triplets designed a few years ago. Conveniently it has 3 questions. 1) where did Romans be deaded and come back to life? 2) where does a skunk do a stinky tail? 3) how do you win a running cycle race?

Three children dressed as the Three Little Pigs. One holds sticks, one a brick and the third some straw. It is from world book day 2017.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I've been reading about the Salvation Army in the 19th century. Jeremy Corbyn's been around a while hasn't he?

Someone dancing with tambourine. He or she has a beard and a bonnet, wearing a red top that says 'Salvation Army,' a blue skirt showing their petticoat and pantaloons. It looks a lot like Jeremy Corbyn.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

'I am not a social evil, I am waiting for a bus.'

I am not a social evil, I am only waiting for a bus.'

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

#littlejoys I got all these potato stars on one tin. It was potato based tetris.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I have so many questions! This is from the Windsor and Eton Express, 17 July 1869 so there is no-one I can ask.

Discovery of Mutilated Remains at Hounslow - Intense excitement was created on Friday Morning owing to a report that the remains of a child had been found near Mr Mitchell's garden in the Inwood-road...the body, which was supposed to be that of a child of six or seven years of age, was conveyed to the station, search being made in the meantime for the head. Various rumours were afloat as to the object and whereabouts of the murderer, which, however, was finally settled by Dr. Chapman who was sent for to see the body, which he, without hesitation, pronounced to be that of a dog.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

were less than respectable, as was noted in the press at the time who muttered about the 'night-side' of life. Some of these women became celebrities. One such was Mabel Grey who became very famous in the late-1860's, had many rich lovers, and then disappeared...

A Victorian black and white, well sepia, photograph. It depicts a young woman with some of her hair in a braided bun while more hair runs over her shoulder. Credit: Library of Nineteenth Century Photography

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Me 1988ish. I still want that haircut but last time I bleached my hair I looked in the mirror and looked like a cross between Pat Butcher and Myra Hindley! That was the end of my adventures with bleach. I'm now waiting to go grey instead.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Today I'm writing about London's Cremorne Gardens in the 1860s and 1870's. Sounds like a happening place: balloon rides, historical re-enactments, plenty of scandal and a sea bear!

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

What's a cancelled TV series you wish would come back?

Jeff Goldblum in the series Kaos - which was really good and I'm still annoyed they did not renew it. We need more Greek mythology on the TV!

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Eve has not been impressed with the past weeks events. Hopefully next week will improve her mood. Failing that we shall bribe her with pea flakes.

An unimpressed and haughty looking ginger guinea pig.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Today I'm reading Victorian newspaper articles about the benefits of sea bathing and hoping an agent emails me....and now I'm distracted by Cordingly's Floating Bath. Wonder why that didn't catch on?

A line drawing of three men in a boat. One is rowing, one is getting either dressed or undressed and the third appears to be crying in the soggy end.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Today's plan is to drink all the tea.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Might have got teary in the street just now. Haven't done that since the pan banging days.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Went away last weekend and the drive itself was glorious! Both pics taken on the A66 right across from Scotch Corner to Penrith.

View from the passenger seat of a car. There are hills, country roads and a sunset.

View from the passenger seat. A farmhouse in the middle of a beautiful landscape with dry stone walls, green fields and sheep.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

'Flow and Change' is an event organised as part of the Arts for the Future Festival, hosted by the UN Civil Society Arts & Culture ImPACT Coalition and Working Group. This event (tinyurl.com/2kk52bn8), hosted by @ShIVAR_Network, 1/3

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Flower bed has come on this year. Here's May and September.

A full flower bed with purple geraniums and dark red dahlias (and something white I can't remember what it is).

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Greek gods...capricious but at least they have power.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the cinema as a kid...

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

Mr C took the kids out today so I lost myself on the treadmill. Anyone fancy this 10 hours a day? This one is from Brixton prison. The girl I was reading about was sentenced to one month on it. She was 10. Pic: The Monthly Magazine; or, British Register [London], vol. 56, no. 385, 1 Aug. 1823.

A roof over a big wheel that is powered by people.

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Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

Repost with your first crush (if you had one)

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