Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettOffice of Public Works @opwireland.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Explore history through food & drink at Brewing Power, a six-part public lecture series at Dublin Castle, 6–21 Feb 2026. The series brings together research, film, reconstruction & guided tastings to uncover everyday life in sixteenth-century Ireland. 🎟️ ow.ly/MhuU50XZZNr @historytcd.bsky.social 0104
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettIrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 07/12/2025So here are some notes regarding those porters brewed for this talk ...beerfoodtravel.blogspot.comStrong Words and Strange Porter: Some Notes on the Beer Recipes for a Talk and Tasting in L. Mulligan Grocer, Stoneybatter, Dublin on 7th December 2025When Dr. Christina Wade first approached me to collaborate on a couple of 18th century beers to tie in with the English vs Irish porter wars chapter i 3187
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettBritish Gardening History @britgardhistory.bsky.social · 07/12/2025LOST APPLE 'RYMER' REDISCOVERED! Thanks to amazing sleuthing by Stephen Ainsleigh Rice in England and Gary Sully in Australia, this wonderful cooking apple has been confirmed rediscovered. Believed lost for nearly 100 years, DNA testing shows it was a grandparent of Bramley. 1/3 16716
Elizabeth Pimblett @lzbth.bsky.social · 28/11/2025I'm drinking cider from a 1900 half pint silver-plated pub mug. And it makes the mug looked gilded inside. 5231
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/11/2025🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 75,000 signatures! 🙏 LET’S KEEP GOING! If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74... 241081623
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettBarry M @barmas.bsky.social · 15/11/2025There aren’t many outlets that post such regular content dedicated to cider. And though we only publish once a week this year (last year was a blistering twice a week), I’m proud of the coverage we give. We don’t get mentioned much on socials or beer sites, but if you like this kind of content… 🙂cider-review.comSubscribeDon’t want to miss a single cider or perry post? Join our list of subscribers to receive a notification as soon as an article is published, right to the comfort of your inbox. 11811
Elizabeth Pimblett @lzbth.bsky.social · 09/11/2025@barmas.bsky.social Do you remember that conversation we had on Twitter a couple of years ago, about an engraving of a. 18th century London tavern, selling Redstreak cider? We've found a painted version! 2151
Elizabeth Pimblett @lzbth.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Just back on Bluesky after forgetting about it for many months. What did I miss? 140
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettCider Review @ciderreview.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Jack reports on PerryFest, held in the Museum of Cider @museumofcider.bsky.social, sorry, Museum of Perry, in Hereford, and has a chat with the organisers of this unique event, Paul Stevens and @lzbth.bsky.social.cider-review.comPerryFest 2025Jack reports on PerryFest, held in the Museum of Cider, sorry, Museum of Perry, in Hereford, and has a chat with the organisers about this unique event. 176
Reposted by Elizabeth Pimblettphacelia - daily action is the antidote to despair @phacelia.bsky.social · 16/04/2025A way to support museums/research gardens/universities that are under attack from Trump. UC Berkeley's beautiful botanical research garden membership special - 20% off thru 4/18 Depending on level you join at, you can get Membership in the North American Reciprocal Museum Association....botanicalgarden.berkeley.eduJoin - UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley 101
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/04/2025DOGE was never about savings. It was always about surveillance. Over the weekend, we released new details—and now whistleblowers are coming forward too. What’s becoming clearer by the day: DOGE isn’t a government efficiency program. It’s a data weapon aimed at the American people. 21289922648
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettBarry M @barmas.bsky.social · 27/03/2025What a day. Giving the keynote speech at the biggest cider maker’s conference in Britain was not something that I’d ever envisaged doing. So thank you to @3ccpa.bsky.social for inviting me. The cider community here is just so open and welcoming. Failed to take photos of my talk 😁 3392
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettNatalie Grueninger @onthetudortrail.bsky.social · 28/03/2025New episode! It was enlightening to speak with @bamcshane.bsky.social about the lives and experiences of Irish women religious and the impact of the dissolution of the monasteries. A must-listen episode for anyone interested in early modern women. Tune in! talkingtudors.podbean.com 1135
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettAmerican Association for State and Local History @aaslh.org · 28/03/2025Yesterday, President Trump issued an executive order that attempts to dictate what history is shared at the Smithsonian Institution and National Park Service sites. Read our statement on this political interference in the practice of history.aaslh.org Defending Our Full, Shared History at the Smithsonian and National Park ServiceYesterday, President Trump issued an executive order that attempts to dictate what history is shared at Smithsonian Institution and National Park Service sites. The order seeks to replace evidence-based history with a deceptive, exclusionary narrative at some of our nation’s most important cultural and historical 24722
Elizabeth Pimblett @lzbth.bsky.social · 28/03/2025You know when you're attending something good when you completely forget to take photos. #Craftcon was superbly organised: well done Three Counties Cider and Perry Association!! What a programme. And it was so good to be able to do a talk at it for the museum, on Cider brandy. 081
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Arresting Quaker women for non-violent protest and breaking into a meeting house to do so. The first time anyone has been arrested in a meeting house in living memory. Despicable behaviour from a Labour government’s Home Office/the Met Police. 381019445
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettDr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 28/03/2025FFS! It’s right out of the fascist playbook 1164
Elizabeth Pimblett @lzbth.bsky.social · 10/03/2025I bought this sherry cask (very reasonably) for a display at the Museum, but can't find an accurate date for it. 1930s- 1960? 140
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettEveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 10/03/2025We have been researching the financial links between MPs and the private healthcare sector🚨 Can anyone answer this? Why are lobbyists with private healthcare clients donating to MPs? Why are companies that already provide services for the NHS donating to MPs? Well...we are building a map, to... 7159121
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettDr Christina Wade 👻🍺 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Day 6 #31beerherstories women could also brew & sell ale alongside their husbands in Ireland. Jacoba Payn and her husband, John Kyng, owned a brewing pan worth 3 shillings 4d & wooden brewing vats worth 4s. Did they brew together? Possibly. Or she brewed and they 1203
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettJocelyn @historygirl.bsky.social · 04/03/2025The Frederick C Murphy Building probably means nothing to most people, but that is the NATIONAL ARCHIVES. Mother fuckers. @universalhub.comgsa.govNon-core property listLearn about our lease cost avoidance plan and its successes. 34024
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Trump posted: ‘All federal funding will STOP for any college, school, or university that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS!’ 1903616631
Elizabeth Pimblett @lzbth.bsky.social · 02/03/2025This was a welcome surprise whilst walking along a canal bank near Thrupp. 050
Elizabeth Pimblett @lzbth.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Got in our Museum Accreditation return tonight at 11pm after a little tussle with Grantium. Now I'm going to float up the stairs to bed. 😁 020
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettFishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Us: "We need a responsible person to oversee the public while they visit our internationally important archaeological site. The responsible person: 1018713
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettSusie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed. (Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists). 878272013717
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettCarwyn Graves @carwyngraves.bsky.social · 15/11/2024"Another benefit is the three crops: apples, wool and meat. “If you compare a holistic system of traditional orchards, then try to get the same from separated, specialised orchards and pasture, you would need significantly more land. It’s the direction...” wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/is-...wickedleeks.riverford.co.ukIs cider the ultimate, eco-friendly tipple?A new wave of small-scale cider producers is coming to the rescue of our diminishing… 12615
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettJoost Depuydt @joostdepuydt.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Impressed by Plantin offers the prints of 14,000 woodblocks, freely available for creative reuse. museumplantinmoretus.be/en/impressed...museumplantinmoretus.beImpressed by Plantin | Museum Plantin-MoretusThe Plantin-Moretus Museum keeps an extraordinary collection of 14,000 woodblocks. 14,000 examples of true craftsmanship, drawings masterly cut in wood. We are supplying this impressive collection of ... 32277133
Elizabeth Pimblett @lzbth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Well, we had a brilliant afternoon at the museum, listening to a talk by the eminent apple historian and detective John Bunker. His talk was lyrical, and made me want a log cabin with orchards in Maine too. 170
Elizabeth Pimblett @lzbth.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Oh my goodness, I'm away from here for a few days and come back to find lots of my favourite people posting away, as if I've walked into a pub and all my friends are there unexpectedly.media.tenor.coma man and a woman are walking down a sidewalk in front of a building with the words `` on our way to the bar '' .ALT: a man and a woman are walking down a sidewalk in front of a building with the words `` on our way to the bar '' . 190
Elizabeth Pimblett @lzbth.bsky.social · 28/10/2024I found a bottle in my cellar from when I tried to make a Kent style cider. Wasn't too impressed by it at the time, and I take my hat off to those who use dessert apples well. 3 or 4 years later, it's mellowed into something lovely & really drinkable. 260
Elizabeth Pimblett @lzbth.bsky.social · 20/10/2024Small cider apple display in a marquee in torrential rain for Apple Day... 😂 150
Elizabeth Pimblett @lzbth.bsky.social · 16/09/2024Reading the tributes to Susanna Forbes, of Little Pomona, everyone comments on her generosity of spirit. We have lost someone very special. Talented, clever but above all, genuinely kind. ❤️ A lovely friend. 240
Elizabeth Pimblett @lzbth.bsky.social · 02/09/2024Torrential downpour in Leominster, Herefordshire this afternoon, which filled these abandoned Wetherspoons glasses right up! 060
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettMarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social · 24/08/20241/5 Five part post on women and investment activities in C17th. All data drawn from a MarineLives article on the same #earlymodern #skyhistorian www.marinelives.org/wiki/Women%2... 195
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettAndrew Levi @andrewprlevi.bsky.social · 24/08/2024Tim Leunig in the FT is right about Brexit. But it’s far worse. Brexit ripped us out of our $19 trillion GDP domestic market & reduced us to one a 6th of it, thumped our economy, fractured the UK, threw our governance into chaos, & generated perilous geopolitical effects. A🧵/1. 16307154
Elizabeth Pimblett @lzbth.bsky.social · 20/08/2024Moving the replica of Lord Scudamore's 17th century glass. I wonder if the Museum of London/London Museum would like to lend us the original? 🤔 170
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettDr Christina Wade 👻🍺 @braciatrix.bsky.social · 20/12/2023BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! Hello friends! 👋 My book 'The Devil's In The Draught Lines' on the history of beer and women in the UK with @CAMRA_Official @CAMRABooks is now available for preorder! Makes a great last minute holiday gift! For more details: camra.org.uk/publications...camra.org.uk 0116
Reposted by Elizabeth PimblettDr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social · 06/11/2023I'm giving a FREE online talk on 15 November all about food, meals and manners as part of a project with @TheMoRW. I hope you can make it. Book your spot here: museum-of-royal-worcester.arttickets.org.uk/museum-of-ro... 122
Elizabeth Pimblett @lzbth.bsky.social · 06/11/2023I've decided it's time to write a blog, about Early Modern cider, of course. I've a week off after a very October to focus on my postgrad research and also a trip to Somerset. But just sipping coffee atm.....must start! 161
