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Tempus Fugit History

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Historical tours, talks & research focusing (mostly) on London's deathly side. Run by @misssamperrin.bsky.social ⌛🪽🏳️‍🌈

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Tempus Fugit History @tempusfugithistory.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Hi all, Fancy helping keep beautiful #hampsteadcemetery open for longer hours? Course you do! 👇🏻 chng.it/bgJTDzq8FT

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We Can Make an Impact.

RESTORE THE SEASONAL OPENING HOURS AT HAMPSTEAD CEMETERY - A lifeline for our community

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Tempus Fugit History @tempusfugithistory.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

"Trusting to your prompt insertion of this answer to my foul calumniators and little enemies, I am, Sir, your obliged servant..." Samuel Sheen's panto-villain response to criticism of his revolting burial ground, 1846. Also, calumniators is a fabulous word.

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Tempus Fugit History @tempusfugithistory.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/p...

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Pope's funeral to take place on Saturday as Vatican releases new photos of his coffin

The funeral of the late Pope Francis will take place on Saturday, with his body going on public display from Wednesday for mourners to pay their respects.

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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

🦇Today is #InternationalAppreciationBatDay 🦇 📚Pierpont Morgan Library MSS 0081 (circa 1185) and 175 (circa 1500): two hanging bats

Pierpont Morgan Library MSS 0081 (circa 1185) and 175 (circa 1500): two hanging bats and a hybrid man (king?)-bat: - two silvery bats with outstretched wings set against a background of gold and red - in a square box trimmed with a green and black line-surround.

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Tempus Fugit History @tempusfugithistory.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

@nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social Saw these, thought of you vm.tiktok.com/ZNdFHXmTW/ 🐦

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TikTok - Make Your Day

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Tempus Fugit History @tempusfugithistory.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

"Some of the tombs even address the passerby directly, as if its occupant could speak again, and pass on what they’ve learned." www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

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Breakthrough as life-size sculptures discovered in Pompeii tomb

New discoveries are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in society, writes Emily Hauser

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NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Folklore is a Palimpsest, a physical reminder that the past holds space in the presence. A living, breathing continuum. It calls out from the ephemeral, 'we were here. We lived, and we loved. We weren't so different from you' #Folklore #Shropshire #History

About 200 years of graffiti present at Lilleshall Abbey

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Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

New blog! deadgoodreading.com/a-stone-is-m...

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A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs

My last post was October last year. It has been a while! Clearly I went into hibernation mode. I have not stopped reading, but as I have 3 part time jobs, a podcast and a blog the latter has suffered ...

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

#OTD 1912: Titanic sank. The next day, newspapers reported NO LIVES LOST. How did this happen? During wireless chatter, someone asked: "Are the Titanic passengers safe?” The answer came: "The ship is being towed to Halifax and everyone is ok." That 2nd transmission didnt refer to the Titanic.

A collection of newspapers declaring that no lives were lost in the sinking of the Titanic.

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Tempus Fugit History @tempusfugithistory.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Evening, This is my first post on @bsky.app, glad to be here. Hello! Formed on Halloween night of 2023, TFT currently offers guided walks featuring east London's plague pits and Georgian body snatching, as well as guided walks of #HampsteadCemetery. Watch this space for further details 👀

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