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Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · Jan 4

Happy #NewYear! 🥳

I've seen others doing an #intropost for the new year so thought I would as well.

📚 I write books about real historical women who lived in #Somerset or #SouthAmerica.

🇬🇧 I live in Somerset, England with my husband, a guide dog, 2 step kids and twin bio kids.

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Happy New Year with open book and snowflakes

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Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · 5h

This free downloadable board game is a reprint of an original from 1909.

It looks like a really cool way to teach kids about the Suffragettes. 💪

#suffragettes #boardgame #genderrights #histodon #Pankhurst

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Somerset @somersetuk.bsky.social · 6h

Tips to help 'endangered' hedgehogs in your garden

#Somerset #BBCNews

🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

Tips to support hedgehogs from rescue charity Secret World

Secret World wildlife centre in Somerset say they've seen a 'big increase' in hedgehog admissions.

www.bbc.com

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Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · 2d

🎉On This Day in #Somerset: A Calendar of Women is released today! 🎊

It's got...
🔱 Roman goddesses
🗳 Courageous suffragettes
🌍 African royalty
🧙‍♀️ Witches
👷‍♀️ Trailblazers
... and much much more!

Could make a great gift for someone in your life!

#book #Somersethistory #historybook #womeninhistory

Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · 3d

You can now preorder the paperback of On This Day in Somerset ahead of the official publication day tomorrow! 🎊

Head to books2read.com/somerset

#newbook #newrelease #booksofbsky #paperback #almanac #historybook #Somerset

Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · 7d

🎉 Just hit a milestone: 700 books sold! 📚✨

Thank you SO much to everyone who’s supported my writing journey, every single purchase means the world to me. Here’s to many more history adventures! 💖

#books #author #writer #onthisdayinsomerset

Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · 13d

✨ Happy St Elfleda’s Day! ✨
2 miracles are associated with this 10th-C saint: 1️⃣ When a king visited Elfleda and she had no drinks for his men, she prayed and turned water into mead so everyone could have a drink! 2️⃣ For her second miracle, check out Unsung Women in Somerset or On This Day in Somerset

Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · 21d

📻 I was on BBC Somerset again today talking about On This Day in Somerset.

We chatted about a witch, a pilot and all sorts!

If you want to give it a listen, I come on around the 2:16 mark.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

#bbcsomerset #Somerset #history #womeninsomerset #booksofbsky

Simon Parkin - 14/10/2025 - BBC Sounds

Simon takes your calls plus the best gossip from the county.

www.bbc.co.uk

Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · 22d

Cultural leaders of an indigenous Ecuadorian group, the Shuar, have called for the repatriation of a museum's collection of shrunken heads. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#Ecuador #Oxford #indigenous #decolonisation

Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · Oct 4

On This Day in Somerset is out on 3rd November! You can preorder from books2read.com/somerset

This is a book that you can read a lot of all in one go or read each day in order throughout 2026.

#somerset #books #newbooks #herstory #almanac #2026

Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · Oct 2

Today is 2nd October and it was on this day in 1850 that Sarah Biffin died in Liverpool.

🎨 🖌️ Mouth and Foot Painting Artists states she was “the first recorded British mouth-painter”.

Sarah features in Unsung Women in Somerset as well as On This Day in Somerset. linktr.ee/helenpugh

Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · Sep 30

#ShoemakersMuseum in Street, #Somerset

♡ Good for kids with some hands-on stuff and big fossils

♡ Info on women in Street, useful for my book research

♡ Also info on African Americans who visited Street and Black people's contributions to shoemaking

#streetsomerset #history #shoes #fossils

Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · Sep 29

Today is 29th September and it was on this day in 1777 that Caroline Herschel and her brother William moved to 19 New King Street in Bath from a previous home also in Bath.

🎼🌠🪐☄️

Caroline Herschel features On This Day in Somerset, so go check it out! books2read.com/somerset

Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · Sep 15

Books where women take their rightful place... centre stage!

#books
#indieauthor
#womeninhistory
#historicalwomen
#booksofbsky
#history

Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · Sep 10

I'm looking ahead to what book I should write after On This Day in Somerset.

Should it be an almanac calendar of...?

women in rural England

Or

women in Bristol and Bath

Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · Sep 5

helen-pugh.medium.com/suggestions-...

Suggestions for the New Banknotes

The Bank of England has announced a redesign of our nation’s banknotes and has invited the general public to suggest what could feature on…

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Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Bank of England will redesign our nation's #banknotes & has invited the public to suggest what could feature on them.

I've just posted to Medium my suggestions for #women with a connection to #Somerset. Link below.

#qotd Who do you think deserves to be on a banknote in your country?

Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · Aug 1

Head to linktr.ee/helenpugh for books that include Pachamama and many other Inca goddesses and women.

#pachamama #1deagosto #pachamamaraymi #diadelapachamama #diosa #madrenaturaleza #naturaleza #inca #incaica #precolombino #prehispanico #1staugust #1august #raymi #mothernature #precolumbian #incan

Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · Jul 20

Happy St Ealswitha's Day!

Ealswitha (or Elswith or Ealhswith) was Queen of Wessex as the wife of Alfred the Great.

One of her links to Somerset is spending part of 878 AD hiding at Athelney from the Vikings.

For more, check out Unsung Women in Somerset.

#20july #onthisday #Somerset #history

Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · Jul 18

#FridayFun Philomena Cunk settles the age-old question of how to pronounce Bath once and for all! 🤣

#cunkonbritain #bath #romanbaths
www.facebook.com/reel/1206158...

Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · Jul 15

Hope you're enjoying the summer (or winter)!

These could make a great holiday read for you and/or the kids in your lives.

Epic journeys through hundreds of years of South American legends, history, culture and even football.

Head to linktr.ee/helenpugh
#kidslit
#kidsbooks
#historyforkids

Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · Jun 17

For what it's worth, I'm adding this to the copyright page of my books from now on:

No portion of this work may be used for training artificial intelligence without written permission from the author.

#noai #author #writer #writingcommunity #books #writerslife #ai

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Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · May 16

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⚓️ The ship was then rescued by the West Africa Squadron and she was taken to the Church Missionary School at Charlotte village in Sierra Leone.

🇬🇧 When she was about 11, she was invited to study at the Bath Institution, where she thrived.

For more, see Unsung Women in #Somerset.

#history

Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · May 16

#OnThisDay in 1866:

❤️ Mumu (aka Annie Jane Elwin) passed away at the #Bath Institution for the Blind and Deaf.

🇸🇱 Born in Sierra Leone, as a young child, she was kidnapped by slavers and put on board a slave ship.

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#somerset #Africa #deafness

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Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · May 12

🗓 #OnThisDay in 1993, Kathleen Tacchi-Morris died in North Curry.

🌎 One of the wonderful things she did was to set up a Trust to establish creative exchanges between students in Britain and those across the world.

📚For more see Unsung Women in Somerset.

#Somerset #somersetday #englishhistory

Helen Pugh @helencpugh.bsky.social · May 6

Available via these links:

Unsung Women in Somerset (Junior Colour Edition): amzn.to/4jVMkSU

Inca-tastic Tales: amzn.to/44q7gxa

Jungle-tastic Tales: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

#booksforkids #kidslit #readingwithkids #culturalbooksforkids #historyforkids #commissionearned

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