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Elizabeth Trueman
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Cats, Anglo-Saxons & Vikings, Gardening & Nature. 🐈🪓🌱
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Snake Gate — Abaty Tyndyrn [Tintern Abbey], bank of the River Wye, Monmouthshire
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November 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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For anyone interested in vikings: a symposium on the impact of the viking Great Army, to be held at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge on 24 April 2026.
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Why on earth would Meghan still want to be called the Duchess of Sussex? | Arwa Mahdawi
She and her husband seem keen on their titles and accolades, and less enthusiastic about putting in the work that ordinarily goes with them, writes Arwa Mahdawi
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November 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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BBC News - Plaque for Scottish Holocaust victim to be unveiled in Edinburgh
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Plaque for Scottish Holocaust victim to be unveiled in Edinburgh
The Stolperstein stone has been laid outside St Stephen's Church in Stockbridge in Edinburgh.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Had a rather mixed experience yesterday with local history some of which Beryl and myself do not intend to repeat.
November 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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BBC News - Sutton Hoo ship name contest urges no 'Boaty McBoatface' suggestions - BBC News
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Sutton Hoo ship name contest urges no 'Boaty McBoatface' suggestions
Sutton Hoo Ship's Company wants help naming their replica, but urges people not to make joke suggestions.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Battered halloumi henge!

Yes please!
#Stonehenge
November 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Here's an example of a #chiphenge, this one by food artist Prudence Stait who has also made a chips White Cliffs and a chips Angel of the North among other things, viewable at the link.
#Stonehenge
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A Stonehenge made from chips with a mushy peas ground and a lemon slice rising sun. She even included the 3 lintel stretch correctly lined up with the inner trilithon horseshoe. Nicely done
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Blackston Cross on Dartmoor - thought to be a way-marker on the route between Tavistock Abbey and Plympton Priory. I liked the single tree echoing the cross.

#Landscapephotography
#Dartmoor
Blackaton Cross shot against a moody sky and with a single tree to the right mirroring the stone cross. Originally a way-marker on the route across Dartmoor between Tavistock Abbey and Plympton Priory, the granite cross has been heavily restored
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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BBC News - Woman, 104, receives France's highest military honour for D-Day role
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Woman, 104, receives Legion d'Honneur for role in D-Day landings
Evelyn Armstrong from the Borders is recognised for her work as a plotter during the D-Day landings.
www.bbc.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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BBC News - Staff wellbeing 'crisis' forcing teachers out of schools, charity says - BBC News
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Staff wellbeing 'crisis' forcing teachers out of schools, charity says
A poll of teachers around the UK suggests they have a poorer wellbeing than the general population.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Today is #WorldDiabetesDay.

#Diabetes can affect anyone, at any stage of life.

Support at home, school, work and during pregnancy makes a real difference.

Listen, learn and show up for those living with diabetes. More info 🔗 bit.ly/4hUOjY0
A four-panel illustration showing that diabetes can affect people at any stage of life. Top left: A child stands with one foot on a football while checking their blood glucose with a small device. Top right: A pregnant woman sits comfortably on a sofa and checks her blood sugar while another woman looks on supportively. Bottom left: A middle-aged construction worker wearing a hard hat and safety vest checks his glucose monitor while speaking with a colleague. Bottom right: An older woman in a wheelchair reads a book with a smiling young girl beside her, who is holding a cat. The panels are labelled: “Diabetes can… affect people… at any stage… of life.”
November 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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It's World Diabetes Day - May Your Numbers Ever Be In Your Favor.

Love & cupcakes to everyone touched by this bullshit disease that has no earthly business not being cured in 2025 except that we are cash cows for pharma execs.

#Diabetes #T1D #T2D #LADA & others
November 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Sir Frederick Banting.
Co-discovered insulin and its therapeutic potential.
Born 14/11/1891
Picture of Sir Frederick Banting and poster of World Diabetes Day 2025. He died aged 49 years.
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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What on earth has happened to the sizing on #Vinted??? You can now only search by bracket and those do not correlate at all to the stated UK sizes.
a woman is making a funny face with her hands and says `` so frustrating '' .
ALT: a woman is making a funny face with her hands and says `` so frustrating '' .
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November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Beatrix Potter painted stunning watercolours of fungi as well as animals and we needed you to know that.
Watercolour of two fly agaric toadstools in a leafy setting. The toadstools have their characteristic white stems, red caps and white spots.
November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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BBC News - Gold jar from Galloway Hoard on display for first time
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Gold jar from Galloway Hoard on display in Kirkcudbright
It resembles a perfume bottle and a Latin inscription on it suggests it had a religious function.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Guðrøðr (Gothfrith), Norse king of Dublin, raided Armagh #OTD in 921. It was Martinmas Eve, and it would have been filled with people, food and drink. Guðrøðr was briefly king of York before Æthelstan, king of the Anglo-Saxons, drove him out in 927. #medievalsky
Artist's impression of Viking longships, with round shields arrayed along the gunwales, sailing along a river.
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Honestly the weirdest thing about America is that you are actively encouraged to self-ID as "pro life" and "Christian" while actively advocating for state-mandated murder.
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Is anyone else finding America particularly terrifying right now? Here we have a “pro-life” Christian man calling for Stevie Nicks to be executed and pastors are preaching that the 19th amendment that allows women the vote should be repealed.
Centre for Reproductive Rights tweeting “This is a must watch! Stevie Nicks speaks openly about the abortion that allowed her to continue her career at the height of Fleetwood Mac's rise. She makes it plain: access to abortion made her life, her art, and her voice possible”. Anti-abortion podcast bro, Eric Conn retweeting with the caption “She is a murderer and should have been put to death. The idea that women are victims in cases like this is insane.”
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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It is early in the morning, and there are few people about in this 1919 work by William Nicholson of the Cenotaph in London. It is the original white-painted wood and plaster structure designed by Edward Lutyens, it stands out in stark relief against the Foreign Office.
November 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM