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Liz Lloyd

@lizanne.bsky.social
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Bookworm and history enthusiast. Interested in genealogy. Frequently to be found in Portugal. Blog at lizannelloyd.wordpress.com on books and somerville66.blogspot.com on history.

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Really outrageous. They are planning to flatten a historic monument! Promises of developers to resite monuments, which destroy their context anyway, have been known to be revealed later to be lies. www.thenational.scot/news/2660414...
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Fury as 1000-year-old castle refused listed status and replaced by data centre
LOCALS in Fife have been left furious after a 1000 year old castle was refused protected status due to plans for an AI data centre to be built on the historic site being at an “advanced stage” ...
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#SailawaySunday In Alvor the fishermen trust the Virgin Mary to protect their boats.
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#31Daysofgraves Day4 #Glass War memorial Isle of Wight
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Debbie Cameron @debsadelight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A few smiles from my #FamilyHistory for #WorldSmileDay
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Sarah Hardy @sarahsbookishlife.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Five on Friday with Samantha York via @jillsbookcafe.bsky.social jillsbookcafe.blog/2026/10/02/f...
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Five on Friday with Samantha York
Today I’m delighted to feature author Samantha York. Her debut novel The Foreshore, was published by Salt Publishing in August 2025 and explores themes of isolation, grief, and clashing belie…
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Debbie Cameron @debsadelight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#WorldPostcardDay What a great excuse to post my blog about my husband’s Nan who left an album with 200 postcards dating from 1910 to 1919 with dozens from #WW1 and one from the Lusitania! historicalclues.blogspot.com/2022/01/post...
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Helen Baggott | Editor ~ Author ~ Speaker @postedinthepast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Piccadilly Circus, London and Star Postcards, sent to Miss Latham on the Rising Sun Farm: Just a line to say that I'm making a start for England. Best love Gilbert. #PostedInThePast #WorldPostcardDay
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For #WorldPostcardDay the postcards my grandfather sent home during the First World War somerville66.blogspot.com/2015/11/post...
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#Postcards from a soldier #WW1
History, travel, nostalgia and genealogy
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Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Discover the remarkable story of Anna of Denmark, whose resilience helped shape the dawn of the Stuart dynasty. QUEEN ANNA – Book 1 of the Stuart Queens Trilogy: mybook.to/QueenAnna #Stuarts #HistoricalFiction #Audiobook
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Queen Anna (Stuart Queens Trilogy Book 1)
Amazon.com: Queen Anna (Stuart Queens Trilogy Book 1) eBook : Riches, Tony: Kindle Store
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the postcards my mother brought back from Brussels after the war. #PostcardTuesday
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Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
US Book Launch: Anne Boleyn's First Love: The Life of Henry Percy, by Jan-Marie Knights tonyriches.blogspot.com/2026/05/book... #Tudors
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#ThickTrunkTuesday Claremont gardens
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#DailyPictureTheme #Wheels
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Linda/Melinda Huber @lindahuberauthor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
LAST DAY (then I'll shut up about it...) at #99p It was the perfect family holiday – Until her daughter disappeared… ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “An unputdownable story…” getbook.at/TCCS2 #KindleUnlimited #booksky #kindledeals #bargain #suspense #familysecrets
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#MondayBlogs The lives of two Victorian actos who were popular in #postcards somerville66.blogspot.com/2020/12/lewi...
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Lewis Waller and Florence West, a couple of Victorian actors
History, travel, nostalgia and genealogy
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Sarah Murden @sarahmurden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From the archives of All Things Georgian, 'The Long-Eared Aesculapius: Asses' Milk and Georgian Medicine' - wp.me/p3JTNy-39b #mondayblogs #c18 #18c
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A very pleasant morning session in my daughter’s hot tub.
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#SailawaySunday In the Solent
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#SteepleSaturday in the ruins of St Peter's church, Peel, Isle of Man.
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Stephen G. Rae @stephengrae.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#InternationalRabbitDay 🐰 In Cumbrian dialects, 'rabbet' is rabbit, 'borran' is rabbit warren. In lore it's a clever trickster, eventually outwitting its enemy or adversary. In folk magic, rabbit skin is used in fertility ritual more: "Folklore of the Lake District" 📷 Julian Rad #BookwormSat
A rabbit stretches up to munch on rose leaves
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLookingIn to the glass statue at Wisley
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLookingIn to the Botanical Gardens in Singapore
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLookingIn to a butterfly house in Brittany
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Debbie Cameron @debsadelight.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#WindowsonWednesday Ashford in the Water Modern stained glass window installed in 2001, in memory of William and Kitty Olivier, The design is of olive leaves floating in a space of ascending golden light; the olive representing here the traditional biblical symbol of peace and hope.
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Jill's Book Cafe @jillsbookcafe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Today I’m delighted to feature crime author Frances Crawford whose novel A Bad, Bad Place is lauded as a crime debut of the year having won the McDermid Debut Award at this year’s Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.
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Five on Friday with Frances Crawford @Franapunk999
Today I’m delighted to feature crime author Frances Crawford whose novel A Bad, Bad Place is lauded as a crime debut of the year having won the McDermid Debut Award at this year’s Theak…
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLookingIn
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Queen Anna (Stuart Queens Trilogy Book 1) by Tony Riches #RBRT #TuesdayBookBlog A crown won in the eye of a storm. A queen who refuses to be broken... Princess Anna of Denmark sails for Scotland to marry King James VI, but storms ravage her fleet, igniting a deadly obsession with witchcraft in her…
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Queen Anna (Stuart Queens Trilogy Book 1) by Tony Riches #RBRT #TuesdayBookBlog
A crown won in the eye of a storm. A queen who refuses to be broken... Princess Anna of Denmark sails for Scotland to marry King James VI, but storms ravage her fleet, igniting a deadly obsession with witchcraft in her new home. Arriving in a strange and paranoid court, Anna finds her new husband’s bed is a treacherous place.
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLookingIn to the shopping Mall in Hong Kong.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Amen. #BookSky
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#CeilingsonSunday Madeira
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#SailawaySunday Museum in Lagos
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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's that time of year.
Fly Agaric mushrooms.
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#FlowersonFriday Guildford castle grounds
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A morning of things not working. Took my new phone to have all the Apps moved from my old phone but it took 2 hours to do then the car park didn’t recognise my reg to let me leave & finally the car wouldn’t start till I relocked it & unlocked again.
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#Woodensday Pew base St Peter & St Paul's Clandon
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekKn for knobs Portugal
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#MondayBlogs Cléo de Mèrode, spirit of La Belle Epoque somerville66.blogspot.com/2018/07/cleo...
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Cléo de Mèrode, spirit of La Belle Epoque
History, travel, nostalgia and genealogy
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Sarah Murden @sarahmurden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
From the archives of All Things Georgian, 'The Oxford Sausage of the 18th century' - wp.me/p3JTNy-5ru #mondayblogs
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The Oxford Sausage of the 18th century
Bangers, or more correctly named, sausages, have been made for centuries, but today we’re going to look at those made in the 18th century and by whom. According to the newspapers of the Georgian pe…
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#StaircaseSaturday Monchique
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Weymouth Lifeboat station welcomed my school party every year to visit the #RNLI lifeboat and hear about their valuable voluntary work saving lives.
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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
One of the burns that runs through the forest here. Bertie is too frit to drink or splosh about in this one (but he drinks daily from one less intimidating).
A burn through a forest. Bertie looks on.
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Charlotte Strawbridge @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What’s happening in my studio at the moment… (And thank you to Martyna Koleniec for creating my fabulous new studio companion) 🤍 #ArtistStudio #OpenStudios #WrokInProgress #WildlifeArtist
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
2 years ago in a museum in Athens, I met a wonderful Jewish woman who told me, “With my right eye I cry for the Jews of Israel; with my left, for the Palestinians.” I’m pleased our government has finally taken some action. The violence needs to end, then a peace process can begin.
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#ThicktrunkTuesday
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Barb Taub @barbtaub.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
📚#NewRelease #WW1 Dual-Timeline Story. Rosie's #BookReview of The Unknown Birds by Rose Prendeville #TuesdayBookBlog #WarStories #BookX rosieamber.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/%...
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📚#NewRelease #WW1 Dual-Timeline Story. Rosie’s #BookReview of The Unknown Birds by Rose Prendeville #TuesdayBookBlog #WarStories #BookX
The Unknown Birds by Rose PrendevilleMy rating: 4 of 5 stars The Unknown Birds is a dual timeline slow-burn romance set around the poems if the first World War. The story beings in 1939 with Charlo…
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alifeinbooks @alifeinbooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New on my blog - Books to Look Out For in October 2026: Part One alifeinbooks.co.uk/2026/09/book... #BookSky
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Books to Look Out For in October 2026: Part One - A Life in Books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Baby coo.
Young Highland cow.
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Sarah Murden @sarahmurden.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New on All Things Georgian, 'Guest Post : Charles James Fox and the West Indian Heiress' - wp.me/p3JTNy-7wh #mondayblogs
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Guest Post : Charles James Fox and the West Indian Heiress
Welcome back after the summer break and as we are now heading towards the end of the year I have plenty more tales from the Georgian Era. Today I am delighted to welcome, a now regular guest, Elain…
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#MondayBlogs Billie Burke & the Ziegfeld Follies somerville66.blogspot.com/2018/05/bill...
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Billie Burke and the Ziegfeld Follies #wwwblogs #actress #moviestar
History, travel, nostalgia and genealogy
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Liz Lloyd @lizanne.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforIntegers Concorde at Brooklands Museum
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