Anne M Powers
@annempowers.bsky.social
#Genealogist and #historian currently researching enlightenment families of #Derby, UK.
Author of A Parcel of Ribbons; The Female Infidel; Silk Threads and Ironworks.
Also current #politics and stuff. Reposting does not necessarily imply endorsement
Author of A Parcel of Ribbons; The Female Infidel; Silk Threads and Ironworks.
Also current #politics and stuff. Reposting does not necessarily imply endorsement
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Another beautiful #London map today (Forest Gate, 1867-93), and one that might be a handy accompaniment to the modern resident or visitor, as it details incredible local developments over the last decades of the 19th century. I will turn over the next few posts to the opening words of Tony Kirby…
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November 7, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Another beautiful #London map today (Forest Gate, 1867-93), and one that might be a handy accompaniment to the modern resident or visitor, as it details incredible local developments over the last decades of the 19th century. I will turn over the next few posts to the opening words of Tony Kirby…
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The cost for a copy of a will rise from £1.50 to £16.00 from 17th November in a huge price increase shock. 👇
www.family-tree.co.uk/news/probate...
www.family-tree.co.uk/news/probate...
Probate price shock: What it means for family historians — and how to stay ahead
From 17 November the fee for a copy of a will increases from £1.50 to £16. Read on for practical advice from Fraser & Fraser to help you plan and budget.
www.family-tree.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The cost for a copy of a will rise from £1.50 to £16.00 from 17th November in a huge price increase shock. 👇
www.family-tree.co.uk/news/probate...
www.family-tree.co.uk/news/probate...
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I often say that our maps are a frozen moment, that with a little research- which we provide -you can see more than the lines on a sheet of paper. There are lives among the lines, when you look.
These words can't be truer than when looking at our #Germany 1940’s series. Read on for some examples...
These words can't be truer than when looking at our #Germany 1940’s series. Read on for some examples...
November 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I often say that our maps are a frozen moment, that with a little research- which we provide -you can see more than the lines on a sheet of paper. There are lives among the lines, when you look.
These words can't be truer than when looking at our #Germany 1940’s series. Read on for some examples...
These words can't be truer than when looking at our #Germany 1940’s series. Read on for some examples...
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#Germany sale *Extended!*
Reprinted British War Office plans, based on maps from before and during WW2, only £1 plus postage!
We will be previewing some of these incredible historical documents in the next few days.
All of these maps are partially coloured, beautiful and invaluable to many.
Reprinted British War Office plans, based on maps from before and during WW2, only £1 plus postage!
We will be previewing some of these incredible historical documents in the next few days.
All of these maps are partially coloured, beautiful and invaluable to many.
October 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
#Germany sale *Extended!*
Reprinted British War Office plans, based on maps from before and during WW2, only £1 plus postage!
We will be previewing some of these incredible historical documents in the next few days.
All of these maps are partially coloured, beautiful and invaluable to many.
Reprinted British War Office plans, based on maps from before and during WW2, only £1 plus postage!
We will be previewing some of these incredible historical documents in the next few days.
All of these maps are partially coloured, beautiful and invaluable to many.
The days when you could arrange for a train to stop specially for those attending a funeral. The joys of #oldnewspapers.
October 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The days when you could arrange for a train to stop specially for those attending a funeral. The joys of #oldnewspapers.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Are you working as a genealogist or historian? Are you looking for an opportunity to present your research? Look at this call for papers for the RQG @regqualgenes.bsky.social conference in Birmingham in April 2026. Deadline is 16 November.
#genealogy #earlymodern #familyhistory #skystorians #cfp
#genealogy #earlymodern #familyhistory #skystorians #cfp
Call for papers - We are inviting abstract submissions (deadline 16 Nov) for the RQG Conference to be held in Birmingham 25 April 2026. Presentations welcome on the theme 'Exploring the Past, Embracing the Future' #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.qualifiedgenealogists.org/2026-confere...
2026 Conference - Register of Qualified Genealogists
RQG Conference 2026 The Birmingham & Midland Institute, Birmingham (UK) B3 3BS Call for Papers (deadline 16 November 2025) Click here for guidelines and submissions Tickets available via…
www.qualifiedgenealogists.org
October 22, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Are you working as a genealogist or historian? Are you looking for an opportunity to present your research? Look at this call for papers for the RQG @regqualgenes.bsky.social conference in Birmingham in April 2026. Deadline is 16 November.
#genealogy #earlymodern #familyhistory #skystorians #cfp
#genealogy #earlymodern #familyhistory #skystorians #cfp
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Your author has a bias when it comes to #Liverpool. For ten years he was a resident, and for several of those he had two full AGM sets of the city on his walls. It is a deep joy to look at a past city in front of you, tracing streets you know so well, seeing lost businesses & forgotten histories.
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October 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Your author has a bias when it comes to #Liverpool. For ten years he was a resident, and for several of those he had two full AGM sets of the city on his walls. It is a deep joy to look at a past city in front of you, tracing streets you know so well, seeing lost businesses & forgotten histories.
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When you spend a whole day disentangling father, son and cousin in early 17th century London who all have the same name - the joys of #genealogy.
October 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
When you spend a whole day disentangling father, son and cousin in early 17th century London who all have the same name - the joys of #genealogy.
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Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
October 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
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Walking down Granger Street from the Grey Monument you can’t help but marvel at the impressive curve downhill, mighty Victorian frontages reaching the sky with their stout columns & understated decoration. Old money flows down the road.
#Newcastle has many facets, some occasionally hidden.
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#Newcastle has many facets, some occasionally hidden.
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October 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Walking down Granger Street from the Grey Monument you can’t help but marvel at the impressive curve downhill, mighty Victorian frontages reaching the sky with their stout columns & understated decoration. Old money flows down the road.
#Newcastle has many facets, some occasionally hidden.
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#Newcastle has many facets, some occasionally hidden.
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Rosebank forced to admit its climate impact would be 50x greater than it initially claimed. Clear evidence that this climate-wrecking oil field must never be developed
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Controversial UK oil field reveals climate impact if approved
The impact from the Rosebank oil field is estimated at nearly 250 million tonnes of planet warming CO2.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Rosebank forced to admit its climate impact would be 50x greater than it initially claimed. Clear evidence that this climate-wrecking oil field must never be developed
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"
In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation
Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m
In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation
Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m
October 12, 2025 at 8:08 AM
9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"
In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation
Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m
In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation
Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m
Blessings on the parish clerk at St Peter Cornhill in the sixteenth century who recorded relationships, addresses and ages for at least some of those buried there. And in beautiful legible writing.
October 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Blessings on the parish clerk at St Peter Cornhill in the sixteenth century who recorded relationships, addresses and ages for at least some of those buried there. And in beautiful legible writing.
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This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.
This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview
The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show
bylinetimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.
This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
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Israeli quadcopters shooting children.
And our government continues to materially supporting Israel every day.
Even as Israel rejects a two state solution, votes to fully annex the West Bank, and murders more doctors, nurses, journalists, children.
And our government continues to assist it.
And our government continues to materially supporting Israel every day.
Even as Israel rejects a two state solution, votes to fully annex the West Bank, and murders more doctors, nurses, journalists, children.
And our government continues to assist it.
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Israeli quadcopters shooting children.
And our government continues to materially supporting Israel every day.
Even as Israel rejects a two state solution, votes to fully annex the West Bank, and murders more doctors, nurses, journalists, children.
And our government continues to assist it.
And our government continues to materially supporting Israel every day.
Even as Israel rejects a two state solution, votes to fully annex the West Bank, and murders more doctors, nurses, journalists, children.
And our government continues to assist it.
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Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly
scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/09/ance... #genealogy #FamilyHistory #ancestry #archives
scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/09/ance... #genealogy #FamilyHistory #ancestry #archives
Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly
From Scotland, a daily news blog about genealogy, family history and personal heritage.
scottishgenes.blogspot.com
September 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly
scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/09/ance... #genealogy #FamilyHistory #ancestry #archives
scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/09/ance... #genealogy #FamilyHistory #ancestry #archives
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Today I offer a reminder of the word ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. To be ‘foreswunk’ (my own version) is to be exhausted before you even begin.
September 19, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Today I offer a reminder of the word ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. To be ‘foreswunk’ (my own version) is to be exhausted before you even begin.
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Big US tech company Nvidia saying they're gonna build data centres in the UK and we have to burn more gas to power them? Uh, no. British people shouldn't be paying higher bills and suffering accelerated climate change for your bottom line.
September 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Big US tech company Nvidia saying they're gonna build data centres in the UK and we have to burn more gas to power them? Uh, no. British people shouldn't be paying higher bills and suffering accelerated climate change for your bottom line.
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Do you have experience of driving a bus or a lorry but you'd rather carry books?
Would you like a job driving around #Orkney, going to schools and delivering books to people?
There's still time to apply for the job of driving #BookyMcBookface at:
myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/ork...
Would you like a job driving around #Orkney, going to schools and delivering books to people?
There's still time to apply for the job of driving #BookyMcBookface at:
myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/ork...
September 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Do you have experience of driving a bus or a lorry but you'd rather carry books?
Would you like a job driving around #Orkney, going to schools and delivering books to people?
There's still time to apply for the job of driving #BookyMcBookface at:
myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/ork...
Would you like a job driving around #Orkney, going to schools and delivering books to people?
There's still time to apply for the job of driving #BookyMcBookface at:
myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/ork...
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As a result of an enquiry this week, we came across two fabulous photographs of a travellers' camp in Derby (now Stores Road area), taken by the council's public health department in May 1901.
#history #travellers #1900s
#history #travellers #1900s
September 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
As a result of an enquiry this week, we came across two fabulous photographs of a travellers' camp in Derby (now Stores Road area), taken by the council's public health department in May 1901.
#history #travellers #1900s
#history #travellers #1900s
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Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.
September 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.
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Economic problems again feature heavily in today’s Russian papers: “More & more regions of Russia are facing a shortage of petrol” ▪️ “Devaluation of the rouble is inevitable” ▪️ “Russians have less and less money left over.” #ReadingRussia
"More & more Russian regions facing petrol shortage" says Russian paper
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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September 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Economic problems again feature heavily in today’s Russian papers: “More & more regions of Russia are facing a shortage of petrol” ▪️ “Devaluation of the rouble is inevitable” ▪️ “Russians have less and less money left over.” #ReadingRussia