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Dr Trixie Gadd

@trixiegadd.bsky.social
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Historian working on clerical lives in 17th-century Dorset. Academic proofreader. Walker and knitter.

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Southern History Society @southernhistsoc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Southern History Society is on Bluesky! We publish Southern History, the peer-reviewed annual on the history of southern England, Cornwall to Kent, since 1979. I'm Jacob, and I'll be posting here. If you would like to learn more about the society, check out our website in our bio!🔗🦋
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It does sound most bizarre. I'm picturing her in a cart on the way back from Allesley to Meriden, which perhaps overturned in quick sand and the bag of oats landed on top of her?
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We're absolutely delighted to share the first draft text from our new VCH Dorset project. @markforrest.bsky.social has written an account of the parish of East Holme, south west of Wareham. All comments, questions, or offers of support for our work in Purbeck welcome. #Skystorians #LocalHistory
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VCH Dorset - Draft Text
Draft text for VCH Dorset
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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just shocking what's going on over on Instagram with the rise & rise of Ai generated "nature" imagery - how are kids meant to make sense of the natural world when they are presented with this kind of shit. 35,000 likes....
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Well done to all of you - it was a really interesting and well-run conference, and I very much appreciated it being fully hybrid.
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I do. Can I send it to you?
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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
‘They car-bombed my house – there’s not much more they can do’: the astonishing podcast taking on illegal bloodsports www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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‘They car-bombed my house – there’s not much more they can do’: the astonishing podcast taking on illegal bloodsports
After 20 mutilated animal corpses were left outside a rural primary school, the creators of award-winning podcast Buried began investigating – with a little help from Chris Packham. It plunged them in...
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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Here it is! Coming to a bookshop near you in mid-August. Our new book on The Ritual Year, published by the wonderful @grantabooks.bsky.social who are an absolute pleasure to work with. #booksky
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come www.bl.uk/stories/news...
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EThOS records restored
We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.
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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
One of my fave things in York Minster: a medieval wren stalking a spider. It reminds me that history isn't only kings and battles. Someone, centuries ago, found joy in the same things we still notice today. It's a reminder of how much we have in common over our differences.
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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
#ChancelArchTuesday & this week - a rather incredible easter egg from the small village of Godmanstone, Dorset (if you know the answer, hands down - no spoilers) a 🧵👇
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
An excellent morning for lepidoptera: large skipper, red admiral, silver-studded blue, speckled wood and peacock on a short walk round the local heath.
Large skipper, red admiral, silver-studded blue, speckled wood and peacock
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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Nightmare for a friend of mine in London. Please share.
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Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It's getting real! Don't worry, there will be an #OpenAccess version so anyone can access without charge. www.routledge.com/Alice-Thornt... @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social
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Alice Thornton’s Books: Reassessing the Life Writings of a Seventeenth-Century Woman
This book is the first dedicated study of Alice Thornton (1626–1707) and her life writings, offering unprecedented insights into how one early modern woman revised and reshaped her life story over 40 ...
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
But it's free delivery 😁
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World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org · 01/06/2026
Trying something new: feeding old print gazetteers through modern OCR + open LLMs + our newly-expanded index to see how much can be turned into searchable, mappable data. Read more at blog.whgazetteer.org?p=434 Play with it: worldhistoricalgazetteer.github.io/gazetteer-of...
Global heatmap of the roughly 116,000 places extracted from A Gazetteer of the World (1856), plotted on a world basemap. Density is highest across Britain and Europe, South Asia, and the eastern United States; sparser across much of Africa, South America, and the interior of Asia, reflecting the 1856 compilers' Anglocentric reach.
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I'm just back from a short walk in my Dorset neighbourhood and found the same - painted ladies everywhere!
Painted lady butterflies
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World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org · 22/05/2026
🕵️We're transcribing and geocoding all 7 volumes of "A Gazetteer of the World" (1856), a monumental work edited anonymously by "a Member of the Royal Geographical Society" @rgs.org - can anyone suggest who that might have been, and why they might not have been named? archive.org/details/agaz...
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Come and hear about 17th-century Dorset - tickets available now.
Poster for "From culture wars to conflict: Dorset in the civil war", Dorset History Centre, 9.30-15.15 on Saturday 6 June 2026.
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Dr Stuart B Jennings, FRHisS @stuartbj.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Forth-coming #EnglishCivilWar conference
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
It was a lovely evening, thanks Catherine, and the birds did indeed seem to be contributing. I have sat on the bench outside All Saints many times, especially en route up the hill to the beach when recovering from surgery - now I've finally been inside!
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Great concert by @bournemouthso.bsky.social tonight, and huge thanks for streaming the post-concert Q&A as well.
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Richard Sims @simsre.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
#HillfortsWednesday A change this week, Roger Sewill and his pony Scarlet are on a three week trek to visit every hillfort in Dorset www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The excellent Tess of the Vale’s website has a map of these to enable you to visualise the journey tessofthevale.com/product/dors...
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Dorset Hillfort Map - Tess Of The Vale
Map of the county of Dorset featuring all possible Iron Age hillforts found to date (2024).
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Fab to finally see (and hear) you in person 😊.
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I was very lucky to catch two birds I rarely see up close this morning - a greenfinch in nest-building mode and a surprisingly quiet chiffchaff.
Female greenfinch with a white feather in her mouth perched on a budding branch.A fluffy chiffchaff on a twig.
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Stephen Gadd @docuracy.co.uk · 11/03/2026
Medieval Markets & Fairs in England & Wales: remember the excellent dataset published back in 2003? I've given it a snazzy new interface, incorporating various updates which were made following publication. Separately, I'm working on extending it to 1846... ihr-digital.github.io/markets-and-...
Image showing the new interface for the 2003 Medieval Markets & Fairs dataset.
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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 26/02/2026
Curlews are in crisis. Ground-nesting birds aren’t fledging enough chicks due to farming, predation, development & climate change. Saving them means tackling our biggest environmental challenges. Join our FREE webinar with Mary Colwell @curlewaction.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1983671521...
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Thanks, I just finished watching this one and found it fascinating. I expected stone and underground mutton, but not John Piper and witchcraft.
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
On World Wetlands Day, my local marsh has become more wet than land. Don't think I'll be eating my sarnies on the marooned bench any time soon.
Flooded Stanpit Marsh from Hengistbury Head.
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Does your church have an issue with dogs wandering in? Get yourself some LAZY TONGS.
A sketch of a pair of long scissor tongs with a diagram of their demonstration on a small dog. The dog is sticking its tongue out, clearly unable to deal with the LAZY TONGS.

The text in the top right corner says the following.

'LAZY TONGS used for the removal of Dogs from Church. About 1750 to 1800. Preserved in BANGOR CATHEDRAL (wrought iron).'
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Molyneux?
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Delicious sunset this evening.
Swirly orange sky
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Stephen Gadd @docuracy.co.uk · 19/12/2025
Fun piece by @justincolson.bsky.social and Werner Scheltjens. My job on this project is to turn messy medieval records into a tidy database so that my colleagues can more easily spot trends in fashion, industry, and commercial networks. theconversation.com/medieval-lon...
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Medieval Londoners’ cheaply imported mass-produced Christmas gifts look surprisingly familiar
We often imagine medieval life as dull, dirty and short, with little in the way of material comfort or decoration. However, medieval Londoners were importing toys, treats and trinkets by the boatload ...
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 16/12/2025
For your collective delectation this holiday season: Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!) loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
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Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
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Naturehawk @naturehawk.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Head on with a Swallow...this was not an easy image to capture... #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography
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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
It's quiz time! This time we're getting a little spooky 👻🎃 Take our Halloween quiz, if you dare 👉 3081ca794b59.quillforms.app/forms/a… 🧑‍🎨 William Blake (1757–1827) 📷 Tate
A muscular, mythical figure holds a mirror, standing between dark curtains with stars in the background.
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Furze?
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Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence Network @earlymodernwar.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Our jam-packed programme is ready to go! Keep reading for more ⬇️
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I'd never really looked at them in profile before - had to go and compare them with my walking shoes, and found that all my shoes go up slightly at the toe. The Ghost 15 definitely isn't rockered, but I can't speak for the latest version.
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I'm on my third pair of Brooks Ghost - plain and comfy.
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
This week's fungi for #FungiFriday.
Death cap and false death cap, red and orange fly agaric, lawyer's wig, penny bun and blusher.
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I was on the South Dorset Ridgeway the other day and had never seen so many crane flies - a cloud flew up with every step I took.
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Oh my goodness. I assume this is the John James who appears in the dean of Salisbury's Act Books officiating at the dean's consistory court and visitations from 1558. Very sad background to why Thomas Glasier begins to officiate in Feb 1577.
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Congratulations, Ruth.
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
It looks like "in o[u]r terme", but I'm not sure that makes sense.
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I love autumn ❤️
A sunlit acorn nestling in moss and oak leavesA brown roll-rim mushroomA parasol mushroom springing up from low-growing ivy
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VCH Oxfordshire @vch-oxon.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Ticket price includes a drinks reception at Ditchley Park, one of Oxfordshire's finest C18 country houses, and not normally open to the public. Plus: you'll be helping the VCH Oxon project on its way to completion! Please repost to your friends and followers and anyone who may be interested...
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Not sure of context, but could be badly written "yll report"??
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.
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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Osborne was still there in 1650, but I've no further evidence until Thomas Samways was appointed in Aug 1662.
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