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XanthH

@xanthh.bsky.social
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#NOWAR! Scottish-German painter, writer, gardener, actor, photographer and family historian. Editor of German language online lexicon on nuclear weapons, "Atomwaffen A-Z". Living in Berlin, often in Greece.

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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Truly an admirable woman.
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IPPNW Germany @ippnwgermany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
20.000 bei der Unzwingbar-Kundgebung! ❤️ Große Bühne für den Protest gegen Aufrüstung und Wehrpflicht! Pressemitteilung: www.friedenskooperative.de/presse/mehr-... ++ Fotos von gestern findet Ihr hier: www.flickr.com/photos/friek...
Schülerer*innen des Schulstreiks und Martin Sonneborn auf der Konzertbühne vor begeistertem Publikum am 02.10.2026
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IPPNW Germany @ippnwgermany.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Soundcheck und letzte Vorbereitungen für die Unzwingbar-Kundgebung am Brandenburger Tor. Wir freuen uns auf euch! Mehr Infos unter unzwingbar.de #b0210 #berlin
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you don't know this story, as a US-American, you should.
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Exploring Marshallese Displacement in '67 Bombs to Enid'
Explore the compelling documentary '67 BOMBS TO ENID,' revealing Marshallese trauma and resilience after U.S. nuclear tests in the 20th century.
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In this final part of A Walk in the Garden, I’m taking you into the front garden. Enjoy the roses, Japanese anemone, coral bells and other plants that catch the eye of the passers-by. 🌱
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A Walk in the Front Garden
In this final part of A Walk in the Garden, I’m taking you into the front garden. Enjoy the roses, Japanese anemone, coral bells and other plants that catch the eye of the passers-by.
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On this day 40 years ago, Mordechai Vanunu was kidnapped, drugged and taken to #Israel where was imprisoned for 18 years, 11 of which were in solitary confinement. Even today the nuclear whistleblower is not allowed to leave Israel. Read his story here: ippnweupdate.wordpress.com?p=7662
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40 years later: The Abduction of Mordechai Vanunu
Front page of The Sunday Times, 5 Oct 1986. Image: Peter Hounam Few whistleblowers have risked as much as Mordechai Vanunu did when he handed over covertly taken photographs of the Dimona nuclear f…
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Second part of A Walk in the Garden in which we explore more of the back garden and say goodbye to the old weeping willow. 🌱
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A Walk in the Garden, part 2
The second part of a walk in the garden takes us further back, introducing various garden features, some more plants and the willow whose days are sadly numbered.
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Before I leave my garden for a couple of months, I thought I could record the state of play there. There's lots going on. 🌱
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A Walk in the Garden
Take a walk with me through our Berlin garden. There’s much to see at this time of year. The richness of Autumn is palpable, one of my favourite times of year.
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On this day in 1842, Helen Chambers, my 2x great-grandmother was born. This is her story, one of unimaginable loss. Her experience shows that even middle-class women lost their children to infectious diseases in the 19th Century. #familyhistory #genealogy
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No Time to Grieve
My 2x great grandmother suffered untold loss in her life. Of 13 children, 7 died young. She had no time to grieve one before becoming pregnant with the next.
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICYMI: The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty is 30 years old! And yet this groundbreaking treaty has still not entered into force, although a global network of monitoring stations verifies the ban on nuclear explosions that is miraculously still holding. #armscontrol
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30 years later: The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
Negotiations begin on the CTBT in Geneva. Image: CTBTO The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) was adopted on this day — 10 September 1996 — by a vote in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)…
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sounds interesting
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In my new guise as a Data Doctor on #Wikitree I discovered Florence. She had a surprise for me in store. And with a little help from a colleague on BlueSky, I found out more. And ended up adopting her. #genealogy #storytelling
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Discovery of a Data Doctor
Correcting (and adopting) an orphan profile on Wikitree
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
On the plan it is clear that the wall that still remains used to be much longer and was the coal store. Here's a picture of the remaining wall in 2010 when the kids climbed up on it.
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The plan explains why I recently found wall foundations in my flower bed. After nagging my husband to help me remove what I thought was a large stone, he discovered a long cemented block that could not be removed. #Puschkinallee5 #OPS
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Is your family on Wikitree?
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On her baptism in Ashford her mother gives "single woman" as occupation. I think it's her. Thank you!
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Also it is only an assumption that Lancaster is the mother's name. She might have been given the father's name. So many possibilities...
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Elham is a bit far away from Ashford but near enough to be worth looking at. I only looked on the GRO and not FreeBMD, so thank you for that.
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
That really made my day. I was real shanny watching that there video.
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I did find Rose Lancaster, 19 years old in 1901, living just a few streets away and working as a laundress. In 1911, the Kennett family ran a laundry in Cheriton. All sorts of questions are bouncing around my head. It's not my family, but Florence won't let me go. #adoption
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In my new 'job' as a Data Doctor on #Wikitree while sourcing orphaned profiles.in Kent, I found this 👇. In 1901, the Kennett family had taken Florence in as a 'nurse child'. By 1911 she had been adopted by them. I couldn't find her birth registration. #genealogy
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is the old plan for our house and garden in November 1984 when it was the Kreiskulturhaus Treptow. The Coach House was used as a music school. More about it in my short video talk at #AATP #Puschkinallee5 #OnePlaceWednesday
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ever tried using #Wikitree and found it hard-going? My experience is that if you stick at it and use the right extensions you can find a helpful and friendly community of Genealogists. #genealogy #orphantrail
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Life on the Orphan Trail
Wikitree and best practice
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In the summer of 1990 the sale of the century was in full swing. Everything had to go. Including the Wall. Read the latest in the series "Back in the Day in Berlin" here 👇
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Going, going, gone
Part 19: The take-over of East Germany
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I think the word is memento, actually 🙄
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Excellent presentations. I particularly enjoyed Janet Few's A Plague on All Your Houses about epidemics and infectious diseases.
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just found this little momento in a box of photos. It is a Dinky Toy Meccano British Railway train from the 1950s. Brought back lots of memories. #familyhistory
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My 2x great grandfather was a coachman at Kirtlington Park in Oxfordshire. He made enough money to start up his own stables in Leamington after he got married.
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
But there were perks too, and the pay wasn't bad once you'd risen up the hierarchy into the upper servant level, like ladies maid, butler, or housekeeper. Sometimes you were even allowed to marry.
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wonderful @nwkfhs.bsky.social zoom talk yesterday evening by Judy Hill on the life of servants in the Victorian period in Britain. Sounded pretty grim, but better than the mines, factory or being an ag lab. #genealogy
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A Few Forgotten Women @afewforgottenwomen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
@afewforgottenwomen.bsky.social are proud to be a Silver Sponsor of 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔! Find out more - sog.org.uk/welcome-to-a... #AllAboutThatPlace #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #WomensHistory #AFewForgottenWomen
Square promotional graphic on a parchment-style background. At the top, purple text reads “Silver Sponsor” and “All About That Place”, with a decorative gold flourish beneath. Below is “A Few Forgotten Women” in large purple lettering. The centre features the A Few Forgotten Women logo, showing a seated Victorian woman surrounded by a wreath of blue flowers and greenery, pinned in place with a gold drawing pin. An antique compass overlaps the lower left of the logo. At the bottom is a green decorative ribbon displaying #AATP in white.
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North West Kent Family History Society @nwkfhs.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Can you help run our Society? We urgently need to fill a number of volunteer roles within the Society including a Chair, further details can be found on what’s involved below. Please feel free to contact the Society if you are able to help in any way #NWKFHS
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Thomas Cordukes was the last of the profiles I completed in order to graduate from the Orphan Trail 1. Now I want to take on Orphan Trail 2 which deals with the really old profiles pre 1700. But there's a waiting list... #Wikitree #Genealogy
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Thomas Cordukes (abt.1747-1822) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree
Is this your ancestor? Compare DNA and explore genealogy for Thomas Cordukes born abt. 1747 North Ings, Sheriff Hutton, Yorkshire, England died 1822 York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom including ancestors + descendants + 1 photos + DNA connections + more in the free family tree community.
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IPPNW Germany @ippnwgermany.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Vor 20 Jahren wurde der Semei-Vertrag unterzeichnet, um eine atomwaffenfreie Zone in Zentralasien zu schaffen. Die USA weigern sich bis heute, den Mitgliedsstaaten eine Garantie zu geben, sie nicht mit Atomwaffen anzugreifen. Mehr zum Semei-Vertrag: www.atomwaffena-z.info/glossar/begr...
Karte von Zentalasien: Kasachstan, Kirgisistan, Tadschikistan, Turkmenistan, Usbekistan
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Actually, THIS is the quick peek I wanted to give you of Puschkinallee 5, my One-Place-Study. #AATP #OnePlaceWednesday
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A quick peek at the subject of my One-Place-Study, Puschkinallee 5, in Berlin Alt-Treptow. More on 13 Oct, #AATP #OnePlaceWednesday
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In the meantime I am discovering so many more of the family in Kent that I'm joining the Kent Team on the Wikitree England Project. Orpington pops up all the time!
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My favourite is: I resolve that if my beloved Mary shall die, I I'll marry another Mary. 😂
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
For Caturday, I thought this painting by Horatio Henry Couldery might entice you to read my latest family story. Horatio's mother was my 4th great grandaunt. And he wasn't the only artist in the family. #genealogy #caturday
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The Couldery Family
Animal, landscape and portrait artists
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IPPNW Germany @ippnwgermany.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Sat, 12.09.2026 Global Health Conference "The Right to Health in Times of War" in #Berlin: How can we protect health care? What does solidarity look like in practice? Register now: ippnw.de/bit/ghc
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Looking forward to it!
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My first time giving a video talk at #AATP on 13 Oct 2026 on my One-Place-Study about our house on Puschkinallee in Berlin. Hope you can join me. #OnePlaceWednesday
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Society of Genealogists @sogorg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Which AATP talks are you most looking forward to? 👀 The full All About That Place 2026 itinerary is now available! Take a look at what's coming up and tell us which talk, workshop or session you're most excited about. See the itinerary: sog.org.uk/welcome-to-a... #Genealogy #AATP2026
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I'm on the #Wikitree England Project Orphan Trail, stage 1.2. This means I am working on orphaned profiles in the period 1700-1837. This one has all but defeated me. Most of it is made up of research notes. Hopefully my notes can help a relative of this family with their research. #genealogy
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Agnes (Casson) Coward (bef.1791-bef.1836) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree
Is this your ancestor? Explore genealogy for Aggy (Casson) Coward born bef. 1791 Halldunnerdale, Lancashire, England died 1836 Halldunnerdale, Lancashire, England including ancestors + descendants + 1 photos + more in the free family tree community.
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Everyone remembers 1989 when the Wall came down. But what happened in 1990 in Berlin? Short answer: a lot. Apart from partying, there was much to debate...
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No longer divided, not yet united
Part 18: Berlin after the Wall
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I finished my second profile on the Orphan Trail for the #Wikitree England Project. I deliberately chose a woman and I loved her name: Love. So if anyone out there is related to her, I hope you benefit from my work. #genealogy
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Anna Maria (Love) Welham (1878-1936) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree
Is this your ancestor? Explore genealogy for Annie (Love) Welham born 1878 Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England died 1936 Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England including ancestors + descendants + more in the free family tree community.
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🤣
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Well done. I'm only just starting tomorrow on my storyboard. Talking about my OPS in Berlin.
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
That's exciting. But a long time to wait.
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XanthH @xanthh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I do hope Sydney's family likes what I did, if they ever find him.
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