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Barb Drummond

@barbdrummond.bsky.social

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Self publishing historian mostly on 18th century Britain. Books on wife selling, machines of the Enlightenment, and much more. New book The Great Flood of 1607 published on 2 September. Love photography, churchcrawling, curiosity

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 50m

This, by my own personal Thirties poet, was printed in one of the first numbers of the US paper People's Daily World (Saturday 8 January 1938).

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Stand strong and stay safe, Portland. 💙🐸
#FuckICE

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Barb Drummond @barbdrummond.bsky.social · 1h

I have a set of 13 walks. Give me an email address & I can send them as screen shots.

Barb Drummond @barbdrummond.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe reflects how unpopular Tyhe other royals were

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Barb Drummond @barbdrummond.bsky.social · 3h

Stunning church. So much to see. Dinosaur, sanctuary ring….

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We stayed up late watching Reds. As the credits ran, news of Diana’s car crash was announced

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Barb Drummond @barbdrummond.bsky.social · 23h

From today’s @ipaper @PatrickCockburn on #Gaza

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@UK offering #Palestine #PFI #nooo!

Barb Drummond @barbdrummond.bsky.social · 1d

More #PublicHealth problems #Over50s #NHS

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#SteepleSaturday #MaryRedcliffe

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Barb Drummond @barbdrummond.bsky.social · 1d

#SteepleSaturday #StThomas #Bristol

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Barb Drummond @barbdrummond.bsky.social · 1d

#SteepleSaturday #StJames #Bristol

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Steve @portaspeciosa.bsky.social · 1d

Would somebody remind me what the symbolic significance of the gall in the Oak leaf means please.

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 2d

Normalise admitting you don't know enough about a subject to form an opinion of it.

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Barb Drummond @barbdrummond.bsky.social · 1d

In a subway?

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 1d

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)

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Nima (Doctor Yak) 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @doctoryak.bsky.social · 2d

"Putting the N back in Cuts" 🤣🤣

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Barb Drummond @barbdrummond.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliant writer. Tragically short life

Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 2d

"It was there that I saw him first and for the only time in my life, at a noon hour crazy with heat. It was at a moment when time, demented and wild, breaks away from the treadmill of events and like an escaping vagabond, runs shouting across the fields. Then the summer grows out of control."

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