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Because women deserve pockets too. www.pocketsforwomen.co.uk "Sheffield's own pocket warrior" - the Guardian

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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I finally got round to doing a blog post. Hopefully won't be a year before the next one 😳 www.pocketsforwomen.co.uk/blog_post/po...
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Pockets For Women Is Still Here
We're still here! Sorry it's been so long since the last one. And thank you to the person who checked up on me. I admit I did step away from Pockets F...
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I've had someone checking in, as I haven't released a newsletter for a while, (I had cancer a couple of years ago). I'm not ill again ( apart from hitting menopause like a brick wall 😔), I was just taking some time out. If I can get my arse into gear there'll be another newsletter this week 😬
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Love this! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Here For The History - Why don’t women’s clothes have pockets? - BBC Sounds
The surprising history of how women’s pockets fell in and out of fashion over time.
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Just seen this on a men's clothing site. Interesting to see they sometimes have a pocket tax too 🤔
A screenshot of a webpage with an option to add a left pocket for the price of 9.95
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Club Launchpad @clublaunchpad.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Well what a fabulous evening of football that was with the Professionally Amateur Sports Club, run by Millie at @swfccp.co.uk After many of us weren't allowed to play football at school, because it was too rough or 'unladylike', it was so great to finally have a go, without any judgement.
A group of women posing for a photo in a field A group of women posing for a photo in a field
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Couldn't have put it better myself 😁
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Club Launchpad @clublaunchpad.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
We've launched our first club! The Professionally Amateur Sports Club. Is there a club you want to set up? Put an idea out there. If it doesn't fly you've not had to do anything. If you get a club we can guide you through the admin of running it, without a group WhatsApp you end up muting 😁
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Hi any women in Sheffield want to join my Professionally amateur sports club? It's basically for women who aren't good at sports but enjoy them anyway, and want to try new sports and have fun @helpsheffield.co.uk www.clublaunchpad.com/c/xri7
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The Professionally Amateur Sports Club
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Club Launchpad @clublaunchpad.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Fancy starting a new choir? Already run one? We have the platform to help www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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‘Highlight of my week’: how community choirs have changed people’s lives
As James Corden and Ruth Jones announce new series, people share how choirs have brought friendship, belonging and valuable memories
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This is what I do when I'm not thinking about pockets 😁
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Club Launchpad @clublaunchpad.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
We have launched our new website, www.clublaunchpad.com to help propose, find and run clubs in the UK. Please check it out!
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Happy international Women's Day! May all your dresses have pockets 😁
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Been rewatching Babylon 5. The most unbelievable part? Babylon 4 disappeared just 4 years before and they managed to build another one and already have it running for at least a year. Pure fantasy 🙄😂
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
"Why should he, an eight-month-old boy, have more pockets on his clothes than I do?" Well, exactly! He can look after your car keys then 😂🙄 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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One look at my baby’s dungarees was all it took to give me the rage
Why should he, an eight-month-old boy, have more pockets on his clothes than I do?
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Fabulous news! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK households to get £15bn for solar and green tech to lower energy bills
The government has announced the details of its long-awaited Warm Homes Plan which promises to cut energy bills.
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I've not worn a handbag for years. Having a clear out, and I finally know where all my pens went. 😳 (Also a Lego spaceman, who doesn't wish to show his face!)
Lots of pens and pencils and a Lego spaceman
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Pockets are the way forward. I haven't worn a handbag in years, it's so liberating!
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Fabulous 😁. Love a dress with pockets (obvs!)
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Just finished War and Peace! It was free in audible read by Thandiwe Newton, and was really good. ( Having previously watched the BBC adaptation helped!) I've been listening to it on and off for the last year. Hope that isn't my achievements for this year peaked 😂
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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🌱 🐦 Lush times at @sheffieldtransformed.org this weekend... We had a dream team there running a workshop on 'How we can use community land buy-backs to get land justice' and the room was packed! 💥
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Probably don't need this anymore 😳
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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Let communities own rivers, woods and moors! Write to your MP about the upcoming Community Right to Buy laws. See our template letter here - www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... "Approaching Hartington via Sheen, Derbyshire" by Caff, released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0.
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Just found out that a league as an imperial unit is about 3 miles. This makes 20,000 leagues under the the sea pretty good going considering the diameter of the Earth is only around 12,000km 😁
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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Lovely to have space for discussing community ownership of Moscar Moor on BBC Sheffield this morning… You can listen in from 8.12 via www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #reclaimourmoors
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
In case it all gets a bit much and you want some more fun in your life I can highly recommend John Finnemore's Substack 😁 open.substack.com/pub/johnfinn...
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Things Which Are Motorcycles, and Things Which Aren't.
Concerning an implacable robot master, a weak-willed human servant, what shadows are, and why hippos should always carry rubber bands.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
England's Community Right to Buy must enable communities to own environmental assets. Excellent to see this cross-party amendment to the English Devolution Bill tabled by @vikkislademp.bsky.social @simonforstroud.bsky.social @sianberry.bsky.social: publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Was really happy to see @threeacresacow.bsky.social at the Crucible this evening. Some things you take for granted as being just the way things are, but seeing the history of enclosure, shows how recently we had common rights to land. Also a great crowd and some lovely communal singing 😁
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Broomhall is a model for redesigning Sheffield www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/from-red-lig...
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From red light district and rat runs to calm streets
Broomhall is a model for redesigning Sheffield
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End Sexism In Schools @endsexisminschools.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Is that the wonderful @katemossewriter.bsky.social writing in The Observer talking about End Sexism in School's new report into the History curriculum? 👀 New report out Wednesday - watch this space.
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Girls just wanna be in our history textbooks | The Observer
Women are still largely missing from the history we teach in classrooms. If we want a fairer future, we must stop erasing half the past
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
A great article about pockets in women's clothing, the history and the designers who champion them. www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
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'Girls need to carry things too!': How women's pockets became so controversial
Why do men's clothes have so many pockets, and women's so few? For centuries, the humble pocket has been a flashpoint in the gender divide of fashion. Is that finally set to change?
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
In Bruges last month there was a little kid who'd lost his parents on a tour, but as soon as he started with his anguished cries of “mummy!” the crowd mobilised. Some to comfort him, others to look for the parents. They were reunited in minutes. Most people are nice. It's hard to remember sometimes.
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Pyjamas with pockets naysayers : I found mine extremely useful when camping for my torch in a middle of the night toilet trip
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Bloody Popcorn @bloodypopcorn.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
My 13-year-old just recently got some black skinny jeans from the women’s department because fellow emo kids told him that was the best place to find them, and, oh, the validation I felt when he complained about the teeny tiny pockets
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ALT: a woman holding a cup of coffee with the words exactly written below her
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Thanks! That's so lovely 😁
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Burning Our Moors: Protect our kids, not grouse hunts.
Wealthy landowners are burning our moorlands for grouse shooting on the land. But the toxic smoke from this burning blows over surrounding communities and releases tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere...
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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
🥾 Just shy of 200 people joined us up at Moscar Moor today to mark the start of the shooting season and united around our call for this huge grouse shooting estate in the Peak District to be taken into community ownership.
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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
🛑 Stop grouse shooting 📣 Join our walk to protest against this cruel and environmentally destructive practice. 🗓 10.30am on Sunday 10th August 📍Redmires Reservoir Car Park 🥾 Hike ~3km easygoing trail to a meeting point where we will gather for speeches and music
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Reassuring that when it comes to drawing a pelican on a bicycle, AI is still pretty rubbish 😂 simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/25/...
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Pelicans on a bicycle
I decided to roll out my own LLM benchmark: how well can different models render an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle? I chose that because a) I like …
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
"McCardell insisted on putting pockets in women’s clothing; previously, pockets were reserved almost exclusively for men." She sounds fabulous 😁 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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It Has Pockets!
How Claire McCardell changed women’s fashion
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
So proud that she's my MP
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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🎓 Members of our history and ecology group made a visit to Sheffield archives... 🗺️ We've got saucy historic maps of the moors and other info to digest before we start making beautiful propaganda! 🎶 I'll know my song well before I start singing 💬 Do get in touch if you want to reclaim our moors!
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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
We’re in Westminster and we’re ready for our parliamentary debate on banning driven grouse shooting – you can watch along online at www.youtube.com/live/dVP_u8X...
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I hear you!
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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
✨ Hurrah for The Star! 🎩 Duke of Rutland urged to sell 'trashed' grouse moor 'to people of Sheffield' www.thestar.co.uk/news/environ... Reclaim our moors! Are you game?
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Once again cannot express how much I love Naga Munchetty's 'time of the month' program on @bbc5live.bsky.social . So glad someone is talking about these women's health issues. This week IBS. With the rise in bowel cancer, people need to not be ashamed to talk about poo.
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Sounds like a great opportunity and a really good cause
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
That's why I'm here 😁
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Regarding Back to the Future, am disappointed that we not only didn't get flying cars, but that we got Biff in charge 😞
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/s... This is a fabulous article on the history of pockets and the continued fight for them
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Dress Codes: Why don’t women get as many pockets as men? | CNN
Women demanding functional, capacious pockets in their garments is not a new phenomenon — but one stretching back hundreds of years.
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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I absolutely love this 😁
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