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N16Breda Corish

@n16breda.bsky.social
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Post-Public History MA at UCL 2023-24 & "Finding Ireland in the History of London" is my thing ☘️ www.irishlondonhistory.com Irish in Hackney & Stoke Newington - used to be @N16Breda on Twitter

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Guten Abend @seppmattes.bsky.social 😃 Just passed through Karlsruhe on the Paris-Munich TGV - great memories of visiting FIZ STN all those years ago!
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Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine @wdytyamagazine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🇮🇪 Do you have Irish ancestry? Irish family history research can be tricky because so many records have been destroyed - here's our expert guide to help you get started: www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A fantastic new resource here for exploring the long history of people from Africa and of African heritage in Ireland over the centuries ☘️
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
17 Sept 1656: In his speech at the opening of #Parliament at #Westminster #otd Oliver Cromwell proposes there should be a new legal system for #Ireland to replace the inequalities of Common Law
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@djrgrey.bsky.social you might be interested in this 👇
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you're in the City of London & interested in the history of capital punishment, worry checking out this exhibition in Barbican Library - "The Bloody Code: Capital Punishment in Law & Art" - which pairs historic prints & sources w contemporary artistic responses to the topic. /1
Introductory exhibition panel for The Bloody Code, curated by Art Responders & on display 4-29 September 2026.
Two images illustrate the exhibition focus on the late 17th-mid 19th period of public executions and the persistence of capital punishment in "retentionist countries since the UK's last execution in 1964"17th century illustration of "The manner of execution at Tyburn"2002 poster "Abolish the death penalty" by Elvin Shirinov Azadkhan, 2022, AzerbaijanB/W print of labour organiser Joe Hill (1875-1915), executed in 1915
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
'Evening, Killarney.' (1941) Speaking to an art critic in the 1930s, Paul Henry said: 'What always strikes me about the Irish landscape is its otherworldliness. There's an air of mystery about it ... you feel that anything may happen round the corner.'
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Department of You Couldn't Make This Stuff Up is on fire today 👀
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
👀 I did not have this on my bingo card for 2026
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Sarah Wise @misssarahwise.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Online + in person I’m giving 2 talks for the Society of Genealogists on Tue 22 Sept as part of their ‘Poor London’ week of events. 1)All about the Old Nichol area, East London 2)‘Pauper emigration’ to Canada1869-1904 – children packed off for a life of exploitation portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1...
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Big thank you & GRMA to the amazing @hackney-hist-fest.bsky.social for making my HHF 2026 talk available online "The Reed Celtic Cross: One thousand years of Ireland's history in Abney Park Cemetery" - from the early medieval period to the Celtic Revival #IrishLondonHistory☘️ youtu.be/wBjHq_8oubs?...
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The Reed Celtic Cross: One thousand years of Ireland's history in Abney Park Cemetery - Breda Corish
YouTube video by Hackney History Festival
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
On 7 June 1934, the British Union of Fascists held a rally at Olympia, which saw violence meted out against anti-fascist hecklers who infiltrated the crowd. This began a summer of anti-fascists activity, which also highlighted the violent tactics of the BUF. hatfulofhistory.com/2018/09/09/f...
Front cover of pamphlet:

FASCISTS AT OLYMPIA

STATEMENTS FROM:-THE INJURED,
DOCTORS WHO ATTENDED THE INJURED, AND FROM EYEWITNESSES, INCLUDING MR.  GEOFFREY LLOYD, M.P.
Mr. GERALD BARRY
MR. A. E. COPPARD MR. A. J. CUMMINGS
Mr. ALDOUS HUXLEY
THE VERY REV. H. R. L. SHEPPARD
MISS VERA BRITTAIN
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Big thank you & GRMA to the amazing @hackney-hist-fest.bsky.social for making my HHF 2026 talk available online "The Reed Celtic Cross: One thousand years of Ireland's history in Abney Park Cemetery" - from the early medieval period to the Celtic Revival #IrishLondonHistory☘️ youtu.be/wBjHq_8oubs?...
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The Reed Celtic Cross: One thousand years of Ireland's history in Abney Park Cemetery - Breda Corish
YouTube video by Hackney History Festival
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
What a find!
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Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Anyone struggling to get Bayeux Tapestry tickets might consider as a (free) alternative the Northern Line platforms at Charing Cross, where you can see David Gentleman’s 1979 mural telling the story of the building of the nearby Eleanor Cross that gives the area its name. It deserves a proper look.
Woodcut showing a tree being cut down and the frame of the cross being builtA woodcut showing a statue of Queen Eleanor being carved. A chap on the left, holding a drawing of the statue, is looking rather uncertain, or possibly nervous.Woodcut showing a statue being halued into place. A bird flies overhead, unhelpfully.A wooden wheel is being turned, presumably for a crane that is putting a statue into place on the cross.
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Reposting for the day that's in it #Normans #Hiberno-English
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Some great #IrishLondonHistory ☘️ here from @oispooky.bsky.social "Anne or Ann Curran, daughter of Irish ‘hawker’ John Curran, was 20 years old when she married James (Jem) Smith" - the future Heavyweight Champion of England - on 24 Sept 1883 at St Peter’s Church in West Hackney (my local parish!)
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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In Joyce’s Ulysses, Leopold Bloom buys a bar of lemon soap from Sweny’s Chemist. A small episode in an enormous novel, not enough perhaps to stake a substantial claim for this chemist as a Dublin landmark. Modern-day Sweny’s could so easily be an attempt to cash in on this tenuous association -
A photo of the frontage of Sweny’s Chemist in Dublin. Two arched glass windows, a matching arched glazed door way, and the letters SWENY spelled out in gold letters above the door.
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Dr Paul Huddie @paulhuddie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Out now for pre-order at just €49.50, Tom Bartlett's edited volume! In which I contirbute a chapter entitled 'The Irish Soldier and the Crimean War'. Full details at: www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2026/t... #Irishhistory #militaryhistory #CrimeanWar
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
V sad I won't be able to attend this 1 Oct 2026 lecture by Professor Mícheál Ó Mainnín at @greshamcollege.bsky.social, exploring "portrayal of the Irish language by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and the motivations for some negative stereotypes..." www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/sha...
Screenshot of Gresham College Lecture, ar Barnard's Inn Hall, Thursday, 1 Oct 2026 - 18:00
"Shakespearean England and Views of the Irish Language"
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Corn dollies, crafted straw figures. connecting to ancient beliefs of goddess worship, fertility. Dolls made from the last of the harvest were kept until the next spring then placed in the soil to ensure a good harvest #WomensArt
Straw female figure with long skirt holding a baby, all against a red background
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Irish in Britain @irishinbritain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Coming soon! Liverpool University's Victoria Gallery & Museum presents, St Brigid’s Arms, an innovative free exhibition from Emerald Lens, shining a spotlight on the experiences of women of Irish heritage in the north of England 3 October – 17 April 2027 ow.ly/2EZ150ZEpKx
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Part of #IrishLondonHistory ☘️ in the borough of Hackney In 1786, Mary Wollstonecraft had to abandon the school for girls she had founded in Newington Green and become a governess in Ireland. Her father was a Spitalfields merchant of Irish descent & her mother came from Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal.
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"An impulsive Irish spirit" in Stoke Newington, Ireland and France: Mary Wollstonecraft
This plaque on the side of Newington Green Primary School records the presence of one of Stoke Newington’s leading intellectual dissenters – that pioneering champion of women’s rights, Mary Wollstonec...
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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
As well as the damage to artists, the tidal wave of AI is totally drowning out educational and good travel accounts. We are being buried alive by it. For me to do one post for @tuatha.ie I have to visit the site, edit the images, research info and write a post balanced to a general audience...
An AI post of Poulnabrone Dolmen, though this one is reasonably realistic and not as obvious, you can tell it's AI as Poulnabrone does not have a sea view, also the gentians dont flower there like in the image. But this shows how difficult it is becoming to tell the real from fakeAnother AI image, this time I think it is supposed to be Knowth in the Boyne Valley, this is more obviously fake but only if you know the real siteAnother AI image supposedly representing the Grianán, this is pretty rubbishA truly terrible AI representation of Newgrange
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A random persistent memory from 1995 on one of many work trips to the small city of Bloomington, Minnesota - seeing *very* excited newspaper headlines marking the visit of King Harald & Queen Sonja of Norway. Fun fact - MN has more Norwegian immigrant descendants than any other US state 🇳🇴
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
#OTD 1940, my Dad was 16 years old and helping his father repair the roof of the family home in Ballycullane, Co. Wexford when they heard the German bombs exploding in Campile, about 10 km west. To his dying day in 2013, he could still describe the sound of that awful day in rural Ireland.
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A surprising item in the Saatchi Gallery"s fantastic exhibition "The Sun & the Moon" - a bust of Sol Invictus/the Unconquered Sun dated to about the 1st century AD. Surprising because it was found in Ireland in 1840 during restoration of the Church of Ireland Cathedral of St Patrick in Armagh.
A limestone bust with a halo of small rays associated with the Roman iconography of the Unconquered Sun, "Sol Invictus"Poster for The Sun & The Moon exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea, LondonPhoto of the complete bust on a plinth in the Saatchi Gallery
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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Explore life on the estates of the "Big Houses" through this online exhibition drawing on many of the National Library of Ireland's photographic collections: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/onlin…
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Online Exhibition | Power and Privilege: The Big House in Ireland
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Back in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich to see the Traders gallery. Can highly recommend a visit to the impressively engaging & thought-provoking presentation on the history of the East India Company. /1
Photo of introductory panel for the East India Company display in the National Maritime Museum
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The Irish Story @theirishstory.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Today in Irish History – August 22, 1922 – Béal na Bláth, The Shooting Of Michael Collins www.theirishstory.com/2018/08/22/t...
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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 19/08/2026
Leamaneh Castle • Clare Leamaneh was originally constructed as a tower house in the 15th century by Turlough O’Brien at the start of an old routeway that traverses the Burren from north-south In c1648, Conor O’Brien and his wife Mary McMahon, constructed this palatial four-storey fortified house
The stone built roofless ruin of a fortified house in County Clare Ireland
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"Female Emigration! Dedicated with all Due respect to the fair sex of Great Brittain & Ireland -by their Obedient Servant-W.N" It depicts young Irish women leaving Cork for Australia in October 1834, on an assisted migration scheme for poor single women certified as "industrious and virtuous". /1
A b/w cartoon showing 5 images in 2 panels, contrasting the poor conditions experienced by the female migrants with the comfort of the ship's captain & officers.

Image ID PAD4796. Copyright: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.
CC-BY-NC-ND
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 14/08/2026
We've updated our A-Z listing of UK history societies - now with links to c.140 societies and organisations that bring historians together and provide support: bit.ly/4wodFDb. Also of value for making connections, @balhnews.bsky.social's guide to local history groups bit.ly/4gaHYHA #Skystorians
Page from RHS website listing 'History societies, organisations and networks', with image of the Uk and text: The Royal Historical Society works closely with a number of other UK and Irish societies dedicated to the study, communication and promotion of historical knowledge and understanding.

Once a year, the Society hosts a half-day meeting of heads of UK history societies to discuss subjects of shared interest, such as publishing, membership and advocacy for the discipline. The Society also holds regular online meetings with its equivalent national organisations worldwide.
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Currently in Dante's Inferno a.k.a. carriage 6 of the delayed & very slow SWR train to Southampton. All the phones going off simultaneously courtesy of UK Govt Wildfire Alert siren for that imminent apocalypse feeling 😬
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Cat in a Dublin pub, 1966, photo by Evelyn Hofer, German-American photographer.
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
And for fellow London hunters of Parliamentarian graves, here's the Historic England write-up for Charles Fleetwood in Bunhill Fields historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...
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Monument to Charles Fleetwood, South Enclosure, Non Civil Parish - 1396553 | Historic England
List entry 1396553. Grade II Listing: Monument to Charles Fleetwood, South Enclosure. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Took refuge from London heat in Bunhill Fields burial ground & finally spotted the tomb of Charles Fleetwood - son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell & the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland who implemented the 1653 Act for the Settlement of Ireland which confiscated most Catholic-held land 😬 #IrishLondonHistory☘️
View of the historic South Enclosure of the NonConformist burial ground Bunhill Fields, London EC1. A red arrow indicates the chest tomb of Charles Fleetwood, one of a number of 17th & 18th century burials in this sectionCharles Fleetwood (1618-1692), Parliamentarian, soldier, and commander in chief in Ireland 1652-1655. After the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Fleetwood was banned from holding public office and lived out his days in Fleetwood House, Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney.Map showing the Settlement of Ireland by the Act of 26th September 1653. Taken from the book "The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland" by historian John Prendergast, published 1863Photo of the City of London information board at the entrance to Bunhill Fields
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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🚨New Substack🚨 Did you know that one of Hansard's first indexers was a woman? In the latest post for Scribble Book, @jhdavey.bsky.social explores the fascinating life and career of Nancy Bailey.
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Nancy Bailey: Hansard's first indexer
A few weeks ago, I wrote a short newsletter about Hansard to mark the digital release of all the volumes from 1809 on https://hansard.parliament.uk. I was also invited onto Matt Chorley’s show on BBC ...
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Fifty years ago, Carlo Ginzburg published a book about the extraordinary mind of an Italian miller, demonstrating the power of microhistory. A new edition has just been published and I've reviewed it for @historytoday.com: www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
On a recent trip to Waterford, some unexpected encounters with the Workhouse in Ireland's past & present. Staying in a historic Dungarvan warehouse, we were in a space once leased by the local Board of Guardians when starving people overwhelmed the Workhouse during the Great Famine, an Gorta Mór. /1
Photo of a cut-stone warehouse now known as Crew's in Dungarvan.
https://crews.ie/about-us/
"Crews [restaurant, B&B, and self-catering accommodation] is housed in our building which dates back to the 16th century. It is steeped in history that has been renovated from the point of dereliction to its present condition by George and Philomena Horsom over the last 40 years.
The buildings long past housing everything from a work house, to a grain store and most recently the Dicken’s Leather Factory to name but a few. They have honoured the buildings history through out it’s restoration and many of the original features are preserved and visible today in Crew’s."Photo of a hand stretched across an old upright wooden beam inside Crewe's warehouse accommodation Photo of a photo history book titled "Dungarvan Historic Guide & Town Trail" published by Waterford County Museum Extract from "Dungarvan Historic Guide & Town Trail" describing the building previously known as Barry's Stores and the events of 1847 when the Dungarvan Workhouse Board of Guardians leased the building to provide temporary accommodation for 300 people.
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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Happy World Lighthouse day - George Bernard Shaw said: 'I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.' Here's the Fastnet off West Cork
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Dictionary of Irish Biography @dib.ie · 27/07/2026
#DIBLives Antarctic explorer Tom Crean (d. #OTD 1938) spent more time in the Antarctic than Scott or Shackleton; he was awarded the Albert Medal and the Polar Medal with 3 Antarctic clasps. The Crean Glacier in South Georgia and Mount Crean in Antarctica are named for him. www.dib.ie/biography/cr...
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The moon like a searchlight over east London last night
Nighttime photo of London terrace rooftops illuminated by a very bright moon
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I would enjoy seeing a modern cinema audience react to a faithful ending to a Táin film though. "Then the two magic bulls have a big fight, and you're going to learn a lot about Irish place names"
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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Top of the Pops (26th July 1979). The Undertones are at number 39 with Here Comes The Summer.
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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Birth control before the Pill: "buy a pound of white petrolatum. Mix it thoroughly with 2 Oz boracic acid. Before intercourse, take a piece of cotton about the size od a large egg, put a string around its center, dip...insert. afterwards...remove by aid of string." 🫣
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A reminder of how things used to be near St. Anne's church in Limehouse
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
My first ever sighting of the Jersey Tiger Moth - having a good feed by the railway line near Hackney Downs. Lovely to see but also "a reminder of how rising temperatures are altering our natural environment" butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo...
Photo of a Jersey Tiger Moth with diagonal black & white striped wings & a flash of red underneathPhoto of a Jersey Tiger Moth from the front
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