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Kate Innes

@kateinnes.bsky.social
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Writer, trained in Archaeology. Author of Medieval 'Arrowsmith Trilogy’ for adults,& historical fantasy/paranormal adventures for young people. If it's old, I'm interested. linktr.ee/MindforestBooks

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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And we are quietly surrendering our autonomy to people with such a moral compass.
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Kate Innes @kateinnes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Last week I was in Bridgnorth #Shropshire, just about to deliver a talk to the U3A, when a lovely man with a camera asked if he could take some photos of me. Little did I know they'd be so good! Thank you Keith! 📸 If your group would like an illustrated talk or creative workshop - do get in touch 😊
Kate Innes, historical fiction writer, holding her first novel set in 13th century Britain, 'The Errant Hours'.
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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cycladic Head Sculpture carved stone, painted c. 2500-2300 BCE Early Cycladic culture Cyclades, Greece Well preserved example showing that these figures were originally brightly painted, not sheer white as so many have become over the centuries. #handmade #cycladic #art #sculpture #head #greece
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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026
Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.
A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
NEW WRITING 👀 I finally got my shit together and wrote a little newsletter about the Spectrum of Allies which is a helpful exercise and a better theory of change than "nobody with a bad point of view can ever change their mind" Please read and use and share the links within!!!
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The Spectrum of Allies is Better than Pessimistic Binaries
A theory and tool that can help you rethink the work head
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In May of 1940 there was a mass panic in Britain - stirred up by the tabloid press - about 'fighting aged men' who had come to Britain as 'refugees' posing a threat to the women and children of this country - and essentially forming a 'fifth column' that could, at any moment rise up against everyone
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WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront
ALT: WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront
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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026
Edward I (1272-1307) commissioned Sir Peter Corbet (Baron of Caus) in 1281 to destroy all the Wolves he could find in the counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Shropshire and Staffordshire. Corbet was a marcher lord. This intensive effort likely represents intensification
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Research analysing more than 26,000 wildfires in Spain found that native broadleaf woodland had the lowest ignition risk and was less prone to intense fires” Rewilding - the smart approach to preventing fires & floods: rewildingeurope.com/news/rewildi...
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Rewilding: the smart approach to preventing fires and floods | Rewilding Europe
Working with nature is one of our greatest opportunities to build a more resilient and prosperous Europe. As climate change fuels more frequent and intense wildfires, floods and droughts…
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“Or call it out Most British people would think we are right to do this” Never think for a minute that those actions you took, the badges and scarves and letters and conversations which were costly indeed but right, did not bring about this change.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 04/09/2026
A park. A street. A journey home. No woman should have to change her route because she feels unsafe. I’m investing £15.6m to put women and girls at the heart of redesigning public spaces across the capital. London won't look away.
Orange graphic with image of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Text reads “Designed by women. Safer for everyone. The experiences of women and girls will help improve the design of parks, streets and other public spaces across London through a new £15.6m fund to make them safer.”
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Kate Innes @kateinnes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I get three or more of these a day. But if it's the first one, an author used to slaving for every opportunity can't help hoping that the big break has finally arrived. If it seems too good to be true - it is.
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Beautiful Wendell Berry quote
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Goodnight from Arthur Braddock, night-grinding his teeth as he dreams the terrors of the Wicker King’s knock. Goodnight from the High Barley village hall, where ghosts move among Mothers’ Union Social Dance in hope of a gentleman’s excuse-me. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
All nature has a feeling: woods, fields, brooks Are life eternal: and in silence they Speak happiness beyond the reach of books; There's nothing mortal in them; their decay Is the green life of change; to pass away And come again in blooms revivified. John Clare.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This will be the talk: www.tickettailor.com/events/tread...
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Buy tickets – Hookland with David Southwell – In-Person Lecture – Treadwells Books
Hookland with David Southwell – In-Person Lecture – Treadwells Books, Thu 24 Sep 2026 - The creator of England's imagined lost county on re-enchantment as resistance. Through near-daily postings in th...
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Stuart @stuartmanderson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"Ich bin ein Binliner..."
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 10/08/2026
📈 Reform UK’s income surged by £21m in 2025 💰 It was the best-funded political party in the country 👨‍👦‍👦 Over half of donations made to Reform came from just three people Want to stop wealthy individuals from wielding an outsize influence on politics? Support our campaign: goodlaw.social/bmrd
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Stop billionaires influencing our politics
Tell MPs to back Stella Creasy's amendment
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. newrepublic.com/post/214111/...
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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
#InternationalCatDay: a marvellous Egyptian faience ring depicting a #cat and her kittens. 🐈 The ring is probably related to Bastet, the feline goddess of fertility and protection. 📷 Metropolitan Museum of Art
Turquoise-green ring with a sculpted cat perched on top and several small kitten figures grouped beside it, the band decorated with vertical ridges and floral-like raised ornamentation.
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Kate Innes @kateinnes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Cover reveal for 'The Ghost Gambit’- Book 2 of the Lily Ash Adventures ☠️ Through London’s museums stacked with ancient treasure, Lily tries to undo the curse that binds her fate with her uncle’s, not realising how many criminals' eyes are fixed on her. YA Supernatural Fiction Coming 11/26! #YAreads
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NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Shropshire Ghost Hoax 👻 The story of Emma Davies is one of the most curious things I've ever researched. You can read more below- nearlyknowledgeable.co.uk/emma-davies-... #hauntings #ghosts #victorians #folktales #history #ghoststories #folklore
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
WOW, I crossed 20k followers! Huge thanks to each one of you for your interest in archaeology. To celebrate this milestone, here's a highlight of our collections,an #IceAge masterpiece: The so-called Venus of Hohle Fels (a cave on the Swabian Jura) was carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years..🧵1/2
An ivory figurine with a weathered surface, shown in a museum setting, with exaggerated breasts, rounded hips, short limbs, and a small ring-like loop at the top where the head would be.
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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Today's a great day to support some creators. Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works, if you'd like. And feel free to tell us about it. Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
'When the board meets, there is now someone in the room representing the ocean and giving a view on how decisions would affect its ability to function as an ecosystem.'
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Giving nature a say: why Scottish marine scientists appointed the ocean to their board
As the rights of nature are increasingly being recognised, the Scottish Association for Marine Science is the latest organisation to make the ocean a trustee
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Shropshire Wildlife Trust @shropshirewildlife.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We’ve got a brilliant mix of family-friendly events and nature experiences happening across Shropshire this month 🌞 👉 Head to our website to find out more, including booking details and important “know before you go” information. 🔗 www.shropshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/…
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Kate Innes @kateinnes.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
If you fancy a night off watching ⚽️🎾, poetry floats your boat, AND you’re in the Welsh Marches - join us for words and wine at The Poetry Pharmacy lab in Bishop’s Castle. Kim Moore, Sarah Holland and me 😊 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-rea...
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Poetry Reading from Kim Moore and Guest Poets
Join us for this exclusive reading from Kim Moore and guest Shropshire poets
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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 04/07/2026
I was the most senior Catholic in the English government & the Vatican
seemed unwilling to move its moral guidance...
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
So yesterday evening at Chalke History Festival a remarkable thing happened, a procession of a reconstructed Iron Age chariot led to the site of a reenacted chariot burial based on those found at Wetwang in E.Yorkshire c.200BC…. 1of2
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Kate Innes @kateinnes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Arid England - the land pants All it’s creatures wait for the relief of night
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Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Heat has driven a swarm of bees through the village, an omen of change, renewal, division, fortune. Our modern eyes want to take photos, swat, destroy, shout be the centre of their own physcodrama Calm steady acceptance, diluted honey water bath as an offering and a nod of the head to the new queen
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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Industrial supertrawlers are tearing through the UK’s Marine Protected Areas, wiping out marine life at an alarming rate & impacting the livelihoods of small-scale fishing communities. Please sign the @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social petition calling for the government to ban supertrawlers from our MPAs.
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Sign the petition
Emma Reynolds: stop the industrial fishing frenzy
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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I co-edit a book series for Boydell & Brewer on "The Urban World in the Middle Ages." Open to *BOOK* proposals c. 800–1600, covering urban life, societies, or cultures in Europe, Mediterranean, or Islamic world. For more info, email me, CuencaE@tamuv.edu. Happy to hear from 1st-time book authors.
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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Emily Osborn highlights precarious position of 19C women ~ recently-orphaned young woman, respectable but poor, tries to sell painting to calculating dealer, as seated gents look up furtively from bare-legged ballerina to watch her predicament (Nameless & Friendless, 1857, Tate)
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Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Loved this chat about words for smells, with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social and @asifamajid.bsky.social (27 mins.) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, Smell
Michael Rosen on the words used to describe the qualities of smells in different languages
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🏰 Ben Paites 🏛️ @benpaites.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
My Ancient (and maybe even modern) Greek language people! 🇬🇷 Could “ίωση ᾰ̓́γω” be correctly translated to “I bring disease”? And if so, is that was this inscription is meant to say? The other option is “ίωση ᾰ̓́νω” (disease above?) which seems odd. It’s an intaglio, once fitted in a ring.
A blue oval stone with Greek letters engraved into it.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/06/2026
I think every politician who proposes to ban anything on the internet for teens should be required to propose, as an alternate, a free and accessible and all weather space for teens to hang out in their own hometown
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Kate Innes @kateinnes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
It’s five years since ‘Greencoats’ was launched into a Covid-struck world! The story takes place in Shropshire during WW2, and celebrates ancient, spooky woodland &its folklore. I’m delighted that it is being adapted into a play at Cundall Manor! Extremely excited to watch it in person one day 💚🌳🤞🏼
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
“Labour may be doing itself no favours by reviving the European debate – but… the whole country will have to face up to it again, sooner or later, and the British know it. It simply cannot be avoided, even in Makerfield” Yes. It’s too damaging to dodge forever. www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
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We need to talk about
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Editorial: Don't let the ugly civil war breaking out in the Labour Party over the EU deter us from the fact that we need to rerun this painful debate 10 years after we left
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13 minutes ago - Tuesday 19 May 2026 07:01If nothing else, the experience of the last decade, including the relatively short time since Brexit actually did "get done"
", shows that the case for Leave has
been proven wrong. It has not made Britain better off. The economic and geopolitical world of 10 years ago was very different to the increasingly protectionist and dangerous one in which Britain now has to make a living.
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Helen Todd @helenrambler.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Excellent piece by Vicky Allan in The Herald - developers to bulldoze ancient woodland for housing, with huge impact on the local community. Yes, new trees planted "to compensate" but that's no replacement for these ancient giants and their complex ecosystems. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2610995...
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Tree protesters have been banned from housing development site - but are fighting on
Paisley protesters have been banned from land targeted for tree felling. But they've not given up their fight to save woodland
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Kate Innes @kateinnes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Please help the Hamad family if you can. They are wonderful people in a dire situation. I live in the UK and make sure your donations reach them.💚 chuffed.org/project/1729...
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Help Mohammed and his displaced family in Gaza provide for their needs
My dear friends, I am Mohammed Hamad from Gaza, 23 years old. My family and I were displaced from our hometown of Beit Hanoun. We have been moved many times during this brutal war and are living under...
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 11/05/2026
WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."
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High-strength, multi-mode processable bamboo molecular bioplastic enabled by solvent-shaping regulation - Nature Communications
Bioplastics derived from biomass show promise as sustainable alternatives to petrochemical plastics, but their adoption is hindered by their inferior mechanical properties and processability. Here, th...
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Kate Innes @kateinnes.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Lilleshall Abbey this week, at height of hawthorn bloom. Beauty and grace in its bones. #shropshire #medieval
Lilleshall Abbey arch into naveLilleshall Abbey chancel arch
Lilleshall Abbey beading on column capitalLilleshall Abbey grafitti J. Cowper 1747
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Jane @woolner.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Okay, so this really needs to be shared far and wide.
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 04/05/2026
Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.
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ALSO, it's not just little old ladies sewed the first spacesuits," it's "the women from the Playtex Corp were the only ones who could sew within the tolerances needed." Yes, THAT Playtex Corp, the one who makes bras.
Bra-makers sent us to the moon.
And the cool thing with them was that they did it all WITHOUT PINS, WITHOUT SEAM RIPPING and in ONE TRY. You couldn't use pins or re-sew seams because the spacesuits had to be airtight, so any additional holes in them were NO GOOD. They were also sewing to some STUPID tight tolerances-in our costume shop if you're within an eighth of an inch of being on the line, you're usually good. The Playtex ladies were working on tolerances of 1/32nd of an inch. 1/32nd. AND IN 21 LAYERS OF FABRIC.
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Born in Iran, Ashkan Asadian came to the UK in 1999, and now has British citizenship. His two children live in Golders Green. He said that as he risked his life to save Moshe Shine, geopolitics had not crossed his mind. "Jewish or non Jewish, just [they are] human." www.bbc.com/news/article...
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'I was trying to save a life,' man who intervened in Golders Green attack tells BBC
Ashkan Asadian said he acted on the spur of the moment without thinking about the danger of the situation.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
In UNO that means you are losing.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
For we know this about May Day , it is the day when all the cut back horns of the old gods grow back. - #CLNolan #MayDay #Beltane
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Kate Innes @kateinnes.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
1st May in a Shropshire Wood 💚
Sunlight on new oak leaves and bluebells under the oak branches
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