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Durham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social · 9h

History and art combine to bring hidden stories of Black communities to life – featuring our colleagues Amanda Herbert and Liam Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social with Heworth Grange School in Gateshead

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History and art combine to bring hidden stories of Black communities to life - Durham University

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Alicia @irishknit.bsky.social · 6h

So, are we changing from the Pussy Hat of 2017 to Frog Hat 2025? #Knitting #Resistance

Female mannequin wearing a green hood with frog eyes.

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Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 6h

It seemed like a really cruel thing to do when their only crime was losing their father.

Plus it must have been more expensive than just giving their mother some financial help?

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Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 6h

One of the men on the local war memorial, his father died when he was young, his sister went into a children's home in Southwark where they lived, his mother was sent to work as a maid in Wiltshire and he was sent to a children's home in Shropshire. Mercifully they managed to reunite

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Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 6h

I'd agree with Wodehouse. E F Benson's Mapp &Lucia novels are favourites of mine but may seem a bit too British and old fashioned. The Diary of a Nobody is a wonderful Victorian social comedy.

You might like David Lodge's novel Changing Places about a British university lecturer visiting a US uni

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Andrew @generalising.bsky.social · 1d

I got very curious about this. You can trace Shearer's unit (21 CCS) and you can see what looks like the echo of his little blaze of fame: in Sept 1916 you get visits from various grandees including ... the editor of the BMJ, who presumably came to see for himself.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 11h

When people tell you that founders as enslavers was something we should see "in the context of their time." Great piece fr @katytelling.bsky.social abt a wealthy 18hc Virginian (and there were others) who thought Washington and co. risked their honor and more. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/13/a...

A Great Reputation Among Men: Race and Contested Masculinities in the Early American Republic

By Kathleen Telling In 1785, Robert Pleasants, a wealthy tobacco planter, abolitionist, and prominent member of Henrico County’s Quaker community, penned a letter to Virginia’s most famous son, Geo…

ageofrevolutions.com

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 21h

Here is a fairly drafty first draft!

I am so thrilled to tell the story of these two Appalachian Indigenous women from the 16th century, a story that is just barely tellable. Please let me know if you use it!

www.scottcave.net/blog/2025/10/13/luisa-and-teresa-of-appalachia

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Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 14h

Is it foggy in the church this morning?

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17h

'Staff working with elderly and disabled service users have been advised to travel to work in racially mixed groups and carry panic alarms....It comes against a backdrop of charities also warning of growing intimidation, racial abuse and threats of violence towards staff and beneficiaries.'

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 14h

I was expecting it to be a storyline about mental health in farming.

Maybe Justin will buy it to rewild?

#TheArchers

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 16h

98%! Only 2 in every 100 installations don’t need corrective action. Read it and weep

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18h

98% of homes with external wall insulation installed under the government’s ECO scheme require work to correct major issues that will cause problems such as damp and mould - our new @nao.org.uk report www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (full report www.nao.org.uk/reports/ener...)

Thousands of homes with botched eco insulation 'must be fixed'

Insulation programmes costing billions of pounds have led to widespread problems with damp and mould.

www.bbc.co.uk

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 16h

absolutely in love with the new Daihatsu Midget concept. lil bug car. lil friend.

Rocketengine @rocketengine.bsky.social · 1d

Daihatsu Midget X

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 16h

"A provider told me last week they had 80 applications for a job they were advertising and not one person turned up for the interview.”

Carers - who are overwhelmingly racialised - are too scared to even show up for interviews - and the UK has 130,000 job vacancies.

Do the math.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17h

'Staff working with elderly and disabled service users have been advised to travel to work in racially mixed groups and carry panic alarms....It comes against a backdrop of charities also warning of growing intimidation, racial abuse and threats of violence towards staff and beneficiaries.'

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Bill Braviner @billbraviner.bsky.social · 17h

#MorningPrayer
Keep us close to you, Lord,
gathered in fellowship and faith
around the table of your grace,
of your self-offering,
of the new covenant of your love.
Keep us focused on,
and responsive to
your agenda rather than our own;
help us ever to follow
your call, your will.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

Counterpoint, it's actually okay to judge people from history by modern day standards, because we, should, have learned from mistakes of the past and recognise we don't need to celebrate people who did utterly horrific things, and can instead use them as an object lesson in not doing them again.

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Paul Lashmar @paullashmar.bsky.social · 1d

Such an important article. thebristolcable.org/2025/10/at-h...

At home with refugees - The Bristol Cable

A veteran journalist reflects on the hidden traumas he has witnessed over a quarter of a century of hosting refugees in his Bristol home

thebristolcable.org

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 1d

Moreover, while not a *tool*, there are few more explicitly political *symbols* than the Eucharist, than communion: it is literally the inbreaking of God’s Kingdom into our midst, strengthening and binding the faithful as a counter-polity to witness against the death-dealing powers of the world.

Kevin the Pikachu @kap3692.bsky.social · 1d

'i don't like that they used the Eucharist as a political tool by showing up at the ice facility unannounced and expecting to be let in'

do you seriously believe this is the first time Catholic priests have tried to bring communion to ice detainees

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Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 1d

#ToPray✝️
If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe I know nothing of it for it was not shown
But this was shown: in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love
Let nothing disturb you
Let nothing frighten you
Everything passes away except God

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If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it,
for it was not shown to me.
But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.
Let nothing disturb you.
Let nothing frighten you.
Everything passes away except God.

(Julian of Norwich - 1342-1416)

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Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 1d

I have often thought that would be a cat's approach to such situations!

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Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social · 1d

I can only offer incoherent feelings of rage and hopes that your pain improves soon. And that that doctor reads a flipping textbook

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Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social · 1d

www.wilgafney.com/2025/10/12/t... 🪔

The Will of God

Proper 23, Year C, A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church Isaiah 61:1–4, 8–10; Psalm 133:1–3; 2 Corinthians 2:14–16; Mark 14:3–9 “The Will of God.” Not this Wil of God (one L)…

www.wilgafney.com

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Helen Baggott | Editor ~ Author ~ Speaker @postedinthepast.bsky.social · 1d

You can now find all the information about my work as an editor, author and speaker in one place:
www.helenbaggott.co.uk
#Genealogy #Postcards #Indieauthor

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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