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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 18h

Edith Cavell, English nurse, was shot dead by a German firing squad #OTD 12 October 1915. Her death was a cause of national outrage and mourning. After the War, her body was returned home to England and buried in the cathedral close at Norwich.

#31DaysofGraves 12: notable woman

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 12h

A friend sent me this. It’s a little wonder. Lamberts of Norwich was a tea importer, wholesaler and retailer originally established in London Street in 1843, they had a warehouse in Hay Hill too, demolished in the late 1960s. They used to produce collectors cards. This set of cacti is from 1962.

The cover of a lamberts card booklet or Picture card album.

Some lovely drawings of cacti on the cards.

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Alison Honeybone @alihon.bsky.social · 19h

Perfect autumn picture....

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ChrisGibsonWildlife @chrismothman.bsky.social · 19h

Excitement on Harwich Beach yesterday: hundreds of Pointed Snails on the upper beach. First recorded here about 20 years ago, this is still the only Essex site so far as I am aware.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine for a second, Keith Floyd being the new Masterchef presenter. That would be good telly.

harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 1d

I think my favourite piece I’ve written for your fine site was on Floyd: thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Axis of Tweeville: Mawkish Brit Food Culture V The Glory Of Keith Floyd | The Quietus

We have an odd relationship to food and drink in Britain. We’re good at wallowing in a simpering nationalistic jingoism, a sentimentality that often shuns the very best of what we do – offal; non chai...

thequietus.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

LLMs are doubly deceptive. Most people think that they can ask it a question and get an answer. The majority of the rest think that you can ask an LLM a question and it will return what an answer might look like, statistically.

But it's actually even worse. It doesn't "read" the prompt; it guesses.

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European Democrats @europeandemocrats.bsky.social · 1d

Another voice silenced in Russia. Pavel Syutkin — a historian of Russian cuisine, not a political activist — has been arrested in Moscow for allegedly spreading “fake news” about the Russian army.

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Nadiia Omelchuk🇺🇦 @ukrainianart.bsky.social · 1d

I am a craftswoman from Ukraine, and each piece of jewelry is woven with great love and faith in peace!🕊🇺🇦
It's my only opportunity to work and support my family during the war.💔
Please share this post, leave a comment or place an order!
I'm waiting you on Etsy or in DM📩
www.etsy.com/shop/NadiiaJ...

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 2d

Almost midnight in Kyiv.
Calm.
We have power, water.
Drops of rain gently sing a lullaby
to those who didn’t sleep last night.

Please, don’t take for granted
the quiet treasures you have –
power, water, windows, a roof.

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Alison Honeybone @alihon.bsky.social · 1d

Harvest time is over....

Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 2d

A rusting old ruined tractor in rough dank grass.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Christian Thiels @christianthiels.bsky.social · 1d

Vera Erdesz - you were just a child. Evil men (and some women, too) murdered you and an estimated 1.5 million girls and boys. Never forget what humans can do to humans.

Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 2d

10 October 1933 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Vera Erdesz, was born.

In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

Vintage sepia-tone photograph of a smiling girl with braided hair.

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you to all our visitors, old and new.

We're at almost 1000 followers. If you know anyone who you think would like our shortcuts and uncanny visitors, let them know where to find us.

Also on Instagram.

www.welcometowillerby.co.uk

Screenshot of the home page of the linked village website.

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Myq Kaplan @myqkaplan.bsky.social · 2d

When I first heard about Stockholm Syndrome, it sounded awful, but now I love it.‬

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Alison Honeybone @alihon.bsky.social · 1d

Wow that sounds pretty lively! Hope you can get through the day...

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 2d

the falconer? no, we haven't heard anything from him in a while. i'm hearing this for the first time. folks, our gyre is beautiful, some are saying the widest and getting wider. one of the widest ever, in terms of gyres.

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 2d

many ppl are saying - have you heard this yet? it’s true - many people are saying that life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. it’s true. you’re hearing it more and more.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2d

This is a land of wolves now? Wow. I didn’t know that. You’re just now telling me for the first time. The rule of law lived an amazing life. What can you even say?

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English Faculty Library @eflcam.bsky.social · 2d

👋Oh, hello #OpenAccess @universitypress.cambridge.org text challenging #EarlyModern historical gender assumptions through primary source materials.📖

We've been waiting for you. ❤️

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 3d

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Alison Honeybone @alihon.bsky.social · 2d

This is an amazing picture!

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famous bog body @bogbird.bsky.social · 2d

still looking for a good discord server for people who are learning how to draw

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Alison Honeybone @alihon.bsky.social · 2d

This is such sharp analysis. It's so important to discuss this painful situation with tact and respect, which you always do, Ben. Many (not all) interventions are placebos and the placebo effect is not non-existent. It provides the sense that Something Has Been Done. But is that really fair?

Alison Honeybone @alihon.bsky.social · 2d

The start of this tale is the most perfect evocation of that slow, eerie realisation that (in the words of Wilco)...'no it's not OK'....

Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 2d

Gibbet Cross.
A Willerby Story.
Th ghosts are always trying to find their way home.
willerby.substack.com/p/gibbet-cross

Screenshot of text from the linked story overlaid on a photo of a petrol station at night..

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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · 3d

This coming Sunday, three historic performances of the late, great Tony Harrison's masterpiece "v." in the Leeds graveyard where it's set. I'm speaking before the final reading. Please come. slunglow.org/v-a-homecomi...
@lrb.co.uk
@richardburgon.bsky.social

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 3d

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Alison Honeybone @alihon.bsky.social · 3d

Very sorry for your loss

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 3d

We are honored to announce that THIS POOR BOOK—celebrated poet Fanny Howe’s final book, a kaleidoscopic recasting of her twenty-first-century poems—will be out May 5, 2026. Preorder:

bookshop.org/p/books/this...

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