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Dr Anna Fairley Nielsson @annaandthedead.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#31DaysOfGraves prompts are ready for October 1st 2026! 🪦Welcoming posts from graveyards, cemeteries, or related places throughout October. No rules - interpret however and wherever you want, but AI is strongly discouraged. Browse previous posts using the tag. Translations welcome, German is below 👇

An image of the New Jewish Cemetery, Kraków, overlaid with text:
#31 Days of Graves
Day 1: Flower
Day 2: Urn
Day 3: Glass
Day 4: Entrance
Day 5: Vehicle
Day 6: Weather
Day 7: Home
Day 8: Animal
Day 9: Lettering
Day 10: Missing
Day 11: Humorous
Day 12: Ordinary
Day 13: Unusual
Day 14: Brick
Day 15: Language
Day 16: Faith
Day 17: Music
Day 18: Earth
Day 19: Water
Day 20: Fire
Day 21: Air
Day 22: Mourning
Day 23: Wings
Day 24: Contrast
Day 25: Tree
Day 26: Accident
Day 27: Portrait
Day 28: Landscape
Day 29: Fruits/Vegetables
Day 30: Colour
Day 31: Memento Mori

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Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine @wdytyamagazine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Some experienced terrible cruelty, others simply neglect, and the lucky ones found a happy home." Do you have a British Home Child in your family tree? On #BritishHomeChildDay, we remember the 100,000 British children sent to Canada: www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'History is a Human Craft'. In piece about ethics, our classrooms and AI, I suppose I've put up my barricades and drawn my lines. I suggest 8 'considerations' before we do any teaching with AI. This is part of a new @royalhistsoc.org short series on 'AI and History Teaching' in Transactions.

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History is a human craft | Historical Transactions

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

The BBIH should be YOUR FIRST PORT OF CALL when doing a lit review on British or Irish history. HIGHLY RECOMMEND

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

You can read all about it here, and hopefully I'll publish something formally on abortion in the near future because it's a parade of deception, misery and desperation that deserves airing. sophiemhistory.substack.com/p/michaelmas

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Scandal at the gaol

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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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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Roll up, roll up, it's me again on BBC Oxford's Secret Oxfordshire, chatting (v. quickly!) about Deptford's 1880s middleweight boxing legend + '90s puma puncher... The Greatest Showman, Professor Alf Ball! Meet Alf in my book, THE DEVILS' DANCE FLOOR, next February 🥊🦁 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Secret Oxfordshire - St Giles' Greatest Showman - BBC Sounds

The story of a showman who knew how to draw a crowd at St Giles' Fair

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Can anyone recommend an email provider other than Google? Having a lot of trouble with email at the moment 🫪

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George Marshall Medical Museum @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Researcher Cathy has sent over her most recent blog about Alice Smith, who was admitted to Powick asylum in 1879 with puerperal mania and discharged less than a month later. Thank you, Cathy. It is fascinating to find out more about Alice. medicalmuseum.org.uk/outside-the-...

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Alice Smith - Outside the Asylum — Worcester Medical Museums

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History Today @historytoday.com · 17/09/2026

Congratulations to the nominees in the 2026 @WolfsonHistory Prize. You can find reading related to four of the shortlisted titles in the History Today archive. #WolfsonHistoryPrize 1/5

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/09/2026

if you EVER get called for a meeting and they say “don’t bring a union rep” bring a union rep

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

📍Loci: All Saints', Brixworth - one of the few surviving C7th buildings in the country. www.digest.andymarsh...

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A remarkable survival on a domestic house. This 15th-century Gothic door at De Vaux House, Salisbury, has endured more than 500 years of change. More 📸 here 👉: www.digest.andymarsh...

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

✨A room with a yew. The ancient yew tree at Crowhurst in Surrey is possibly 4000 years old, has a door, and has been used for meetings in the past. More 📸 of inside 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I think that Britain has some of the best door heritage in the world - and this has to be in my top 10 - found over in King's Lynn - a real treasure and rarity. More 📸 ✨ 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sometimes looking closer can confound your expectations. Here the figure on the medieval truss at St. Eilian in Anglesey is holding a pulley wheel between praying hands - but why?! 🤔 Find out here✨👉 www.digest.andymarsh...

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Walking Offa’s Dyke this week. Found a bit of lovely vernacular between Hay and Kington. Today I meet Offa’s Dyke proper from Kington to Knighton.

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What was it is like to fornicate with the Devil 😈?(according to 17th century Scottish belief) Our new clip from You’re Dead To Me on the BBC - with historian Dr Martha McGill and comedian @marjoleinrobertson.bsky.social

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Glamorgan Archives Archifau Morgannwg @glamarchives.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It was great to be at Pyle Library today as part of Ogwr History Month. We gave a talk on records relating to women’s history. Including this photo of nurses at Bridgend Red Cross Hospital during the First World War. Thank you to everyone to came along.

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Glamorgan Archives Archifau Morgannwg @glamarchives.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The American Declaration of Independence, 1776 This year marks 250 years since the signing of the American Declaration of Independence. Today’s blog looks at the stories of some of the people from Glamorgan who emigrated to the United States of America. glamarchives.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/t...

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The American Declaration of Independence, 1776

In the year that marks the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the American Declaration of Independence, we are taking a closer look at the stories of some of the people from Wales who emigrated t…

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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You can read the WHOLE, ENORMOUS story here. Highly recommend grabbing a brew and a biscuit first, it's LONG. But I wanted to do Emma's story justice. sophiemhistory.substack.com/p/trust-the-...

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Trust the Lord

The Man They Couldn't Hang

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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Elizabeth did well for herself. She worked in royal service, as lady-in-waiting to the Duchess of Kent. She knew baby Princess Victoria and her older sister, Princess Feodora. She was in their service at Sidmouth in January 1820, when the Duke of Kent died.

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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Elizabeth Eliza Jones married Thomas Keyse that year. She was a gentry girl, he was a wealthy merchant. They lived in the extremely fancy Wyer Hall in Edmonton. But Thomas was a wrong'un. Along with twelve others, he opened a fake bank. And embezzled ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS.

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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If you think I'm going to tell his story, then you don't know me at all. Because his victim was far more interesting. And her story starts in Leatherhead in 1808, with a wedding.

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Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Happy Bayeux Tapestry day!! 🧵 Although it is usually presented as a story of kings and conquest, the embroidery itself was almost certainly the product of skilled female labour

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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 09/09/2026

Contrary to politicians & media reports, there's been a continuous ongoing narrative that there are 859 #Bessborough children that haven't been found. If we're going to pursue remembering these infants, we need to be factual. It is in fact, 858. 65 children have been found. 🧵

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Ian Ebbage @ianebbage.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Little Hall in Lavenham #adoorablethursday

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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I lost my mum young-ish (I was 31) and found my friends all terrified of the inevitability of this kind of grief, pulling away as though death was contagious. My best support was a friend who lost her dad in her teens and came to me with open arms.

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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So my husband and son are doing the Cancer Research Night Walk in Newcastle next month, along with our dear friend Jack, and if anyone has any spare cash to throw at it, we would be very grateful fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/team/fen-bea...

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Fen Beasts In Toon

Our families have been affected by cancer in the last few years. Tom's niece Eliza had a brain tumour at the age of 1, which she has recovered from but which will impact her for life, and his dad (Mic...

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Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society @llafur.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This Saturday we are exploring the aftermath and legacy of 1926 with another fantastic line-up of speakers and panellists! 📅12.09.26 🕰️10am 🎟️Register for free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1926-and-c...

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Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

More positively I am really pleased that SNIFF: A HISTORY OF SMELLS is out today!! Published by @yalebooks.bsky.social and out in all good bookshops. It's a history of smell across time and space that takes in a panoply of pongs and perfume from paper and ink to stink bombs and whale oil.

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What's everyone researching at the moment? 🌠

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What's everyone researching at the moment? 🌠

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Great to share this taste of Elliot's revelatory PhD research on Richard Gough's Welsh tours (I'm lucky enough to be second supervisor) A wealth of new information on antiquities, folklore, and how gentlemen tourists in Wales could learn very little without the locals of all classes who helped them

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 06/09/2026

I re-photographed this one with the fists of doom: www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop/index.h...

Hand carved #lettering on Welsh #slate from Berwyn quarry. Cut him out in little stars etc, from Romeo and Juliet. Text arranged in a spiral with gold leaf highlights.

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Dr Martin Walsh FRHistS @tmartinwalsh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Its a poignant week for the decedents of the 48 people who died in the Dromcollogher cinema fire on 5 September 1926. A century on its hard to comprehend how an innocent night out could end so tragically. www.live95fm.ie/news/live95-...

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Dromcollogher to mark centenary of cinema disaster that claimed 48 lives

A full schedule of events will take place this week.

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm back on BBC Radio Oxford's Secret Oxfordshire in a few weeks' time, chatting about a man, a myth, a legend, and a puma, with presenter Liz Green. Here's our last segment! And there's plenty more weird and wonderful things eg. leper chapel, croquet, in the series 👊🏻🤼‍♂️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Secret Oxfordshire - Wrestling on the Wroslyn Road - BBC Sounds

What if one village street name is the last clue to Freeland's hidden fighting past?

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Jem Smith was the 1880s Heavyweight Champion of England. The last bareknuckle one. Massive thighs, massive celeb. But his personal life was unexplored. Turns out the wife situation was... complex. He signed with an X. His middle name was Edward (standard): grapplingwithhistory.com/2026/09/01/a...

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A little more about the life of the champion’s wife, Anne Smith

This is part two of the Anne Smith, Mary Ann Smith, Jem Smith story. Read part one here Anne or Ann Curran, the daughter of Irish ‘hawker’ John Curran, was twenty years old when she mar…

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Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine @wdytyamagazine.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

David Olusoga to investigate Britain's slave traders in new documentary: www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

An excellent day at the British Crime Historians symposium today. Helen Rutherford and Clare Sandford-Couch's paper on c19 crime scene maps was fascinating: the second front page illustration The Times ever printed in 1806 was a house floor plan of a murder site. #history #c19 #crimehistory

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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The idea that we, as a culture, tell ourselves the historical stories we *want* to hear very much resonated with my own experiences of asylum history. It also made me want to return to my work on the St James's Home for Inebriate Women, which modelled itself on the laundries #histpsych #drinkhistory

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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Another fascinating day at the British Crime Historians symposium, but the highlight was undoubtedly @louisebrangan.bsky.social's keynote on memories of the Magdalene laundries. Such a nuanced and sensitive exploration of how the laundries have been remembered and misremembered through time.

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 03/09/2026

Horse theft, highway robbery and murder – Angela Muir delves into the extraordinary crimes of Georgian Wales wp.me/p8Mk4U-1sg5

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Dr Angela Muir @drangelamuir.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Today's the day! 'Rogues, Rakes and Robbers: a True Crime History of Georgian Britain' is officially out in the UK with @calonbooks.bsky.social! Thanks @k8lister.bsky.social for the endorsement! #history #newbook #skystorians #book

The cover of the book Rogues Rakes and Robbers A true crime history of Georgian Britain by Angela Muir

The back cover of the book Rogues Rakes and Robbers a true crime history of Georgian Britain by Angela Muir, with an endorsement from Kate Lister saying 'Muir stands and delivers a roaring account of crime in Georgian Britain'

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