Dr Trixie Gadd
@trixiegadd.bsky.social
Historian working on clerical lives in 17th-century Dorset. Academic proofreader. Walker and knitter.
On World Wetlands Day, my local marsh has become more wet than land. Don't think I'll be eating my sarnies on the marooned bench any time soon.
February 2, 2026 at 1:07 PM
On World Wetlands Day, my local marsh has become more wet than land. Don't think I'll be eating my sarnies on the marooned bench any time soon.
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Does your church have an issue with dogs wandering in? Get yourself some LAZY TONGS.
January 16, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Does your church have an issue with dogs wandering in? Get yourself some LAZY TONGS.
Delicious sunset this evening.
December 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Delicious sunset this evening.
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Fun piece by @justincolson.bsky.social and Werner Scheltjens.
My job on this project is to turn messy medieval records into a tidy database so that my colleagues can more easily spot trends in fashion, industry, and commercial networks.
theconversation.com/medieval-lon...
My job on this project is to turn messy medieval records into a tidy database so that my colleagues can more easily spot trends in fashion, industry, and commercial networks.
theconversation.com/medieval-lon...
Medieval Londoners’ cheaply imported mass-produced Christmas gifts look surprisingly familiar
We often imagine medieval life as dull, dirty and short, with little in the way of material comfort or decoration. However, medieval Londoners were importing toys, treats and trinkets by the boatload ...
theconversation.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Fun piece by @justincolson.bsky.social and Werner Scheltjens.
My job on this project is to turn messy medieval records into a tidy database so that my colleagues can more easily spot trends in fashion, industry, and commercial networks.
theconversation.com/medieval-lon...
My job on this project is to turn messy medieval records into a tidy database so that my colleagues can more easily spot trends in fashion, industry, and commercial networks.
theconversation.com/medieval-lon...
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For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
loreandordure.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Reposted by Dr Trixie Gadd
Head on with a Swallow...this was not an easy image to capture...
#birdphotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography
#birdphotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Head on with a Swallow...this was not an easy image to capture...
#birdphotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography
#birdphotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography
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It's quiz time! This time we're getting a little spooky 👻🎃
Take our Halloween quiz, if you dare 👉 https://3081ca794b59.quillforms.app/forms/art-quiz-halloween
🧑🎨 William Blake (1757–1827) 📷 Tate
Take our Halloween quiz, if you dare 👉 https://3081ca794b59.quillforms.app/forms/art-quiz-halloween
🧑🎨 William Blake (1757–1827) 📷 Tate
October 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
It's quiz time! This time we're getting a little spooky 👻🎃
Take our Halloween quiz, if you dare 👉 https://3081ca794b59.quillforms.app/forms/art-quiz-halloween
🧑🎨 William Blake (1757–1827) 📷 Tate
Take our Halloween quiz, if you dare 👉 https://3081ca794b59.quillforms.app/forms/art-quiz-halloween
🧑🎨 William Blake (1757–1827) 📷 Tate
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Our jam-packed programme is ready to go! Keep reading for more ⬇️
October 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Our jam-packed programme is ready to go! Keep reading for more ⬇️
I love autumn ❤️
September 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I love autumn ❤️
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Ticket price includes a drinks reception at Ditchley Park, one of Oxfordshire's finest C18 country houses, and not normally open to the public. Plus: you'll be helping the VCH Oxon project on its way to completion!
Please repost to your friends and followers and anyone who may be interested...
Please repost to your friends and followers and anyone who may be interested...
September 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Ticket price includes a drinks reception at Ditchley Park, one of Oxfordshire's finest C18 country houses, and not normally open to the public. Plus: you'll be helping the VCH Oxon project on its way to completion!
Please repost to your friends and followers and anyone who may be interested...
Please repost to your friends and followers and anyone who may be interested...
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WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Very excited to see that a flutter of gorgeous silver-studded blue butterflies has emerged on the same little patch of Dorset heathland as last year.
June 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Very excited to see that a flutter of gorgeous silver-studded blue butterflies has emerged on the same little patch of Dorset heathland as last year.
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The British Continental Podcast returns to explore the UK's shifting road racing landscape with James McKay and Lucy Gadd. Plus, Adam Howell's rise from lockdown cyclist to race winner, a season review, and a preview of the East Cleveland Classic.
thebritishcontinental.co.uk/2025/04/10/p...
thebritishcontinental.co.uk/2025/04/10/p...
Podcast | New World Disorder
The British Continental Podcast returns to explore UK domestic racing, team closures, and the future with riders James McKay and Lucy Gadd. Plus, Adam Howell’s rise from lockdown cyclist to r…
thebritishcontinental.co.uk
April 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The British Continental Podcast returns to explore the UK's shifting road racing landscape with James McKay and Lucy Gadd. Plus, Adam Howell's rise from lockdown cyclist to race winner, a season review, and a preview of the East Cleveland Classic.
thebritishcontinental.co.uk/2025/04/10/p...
thebritishcontinental.co.uk/2025/04/10/p...
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How did two short-eared owls end up getting shot on a grouse moor in the Yorkshire Dales ? Thanks to @rspbinvestigations.bsky.social quick thinking Investigation teams , we know . . .
April 2, 2025 at 9:50 AM
How did two short-eared owls end up getting shot on a grouse moor in the Yorkshire Dales ? Thanks to @rspbinvestigations.bsky.social quick thinking Investigation teams , we know . . .
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'...for three months we were all dirt and confusion...' (Mary Crawford in Mansfield Park)
#Garden & #Landscape #historians: can you help? I'm looking for contemporary accounts of living with landscape #improvements, c. 18th century. What was it like while the work was being done?🙏 #GardenHistory
#Garden & #Landscape #historians: can you help? I'm looking for contemporary accounts of living with landscape #improvements, c. 18th century. What was it like while the work was being done?🙏 #GardenHistory
March 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
'...for three months we were all dirt and confusion...' (Mary Crawford in Mansfield Park)
#Garden & #Landscape #historians: can you help? I'm looking for contemporary accounts of living with landscape #improvements, c. 18th century. What was it like while the work was being done?🙏 #GardenHistory
#Garden & #Landscape #historians: can you help? I'm looking for contemporary accounts of living with landscape #improvements, c. 18th century. What was it like while the work was being done?🙏 #GardenHistory
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Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage
March 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage
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March 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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"It was found that 85% of the tracked dogs were walked off-lead in the breeding season despite signage requesting owners not to let their pets run free due to ground-nesting birds. At Snelsmore Common, Berkshire, more than 90% of the site was disturbed by dogs, reducing its conservation value"
A tracking study has found that dogs walked off-lead cause significantly more disturbance on lowland heaths than pets kept on the lead:
Dog-tracking study reveals disturbance to lowland heaths
Researchers tracked dogs on heathland sites, showing off-lead walking can reduce conservation value.
bit.ly
January 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"It was found that 85% of the tracked dogs were walked off-lead in the breeding season despite signage requesting owners not to let their pets run free due to ground-nesting birds. At Snelsmore Common, Berkshire, more than 90% of the site was disturbed by dogs, reducing its conservation value"
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GET INVOLVED!
The ever-brilliant National Archives have made some of the #Railway company accident records available for transcription.
Could YOU help with a page or two?
A brilliant way to get involved with #Railway200!
Find out more here - & thanks!
The ever-brilliant National Archives have made some of the #Railway company accident records available for transcription.
Could YOU help with a page or two?
A brilliant way to get involved with #Railway200!
Find out more here - & thanks!
Railway Accident Project | FromThePage
Railway Accident Project - collection overview. Part of a joint initiative between the University of Portsmouth, the National Railway Museum (NRM) and the Modern Records Centre at the University of…
buff.ly
January 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
GET INVOLVED!
The ever-brilliant National Archives have made some of the #Railway company accident records available for transcription.
Could YOU help with a page or two?
A brilliant way to get involved with #Railway200!
Find out more here - & thanks!
The ever-brilliant National Archives have made some of the #Railway company accident records available for transcription.
Could YOU help with a page or two?
A brilliant way to get involved with #Railway200!
Find out more here - & thanks!
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Have you heard about our digital festival?!?! A way to get your history fix without leaving the comfort of your home. It’s an absolute bargain too!! Enjoy xxxx
www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk/winter-warme...
www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk/winter-warme...
Winter Warmer Digital Festival 2025 - Gloucester History Festival
www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk
January 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Have you heard about our digital festival?!?! A way to get your history fix without leaving the comfort of your home. It’s an absolute bargain too!! Enjoy xxxx
www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk/winter-warme...
www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk/winter-warme...
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22nd December 2024
St Botolph's hassocks enjoying choir practice this afternoon.
St Botolph's hassocks enjoying choir practice this afternoon.
December 22, 2024 at 5:34 PM
22nd December 2024
St Botolph's hassocks enjoying choir practice this afternoon.
St Botolph's hassocks enjoying choir practice this afternoon.
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“When the dark comes rising, six shall turn it back…”
It’s 20 Dec—Winter Solstice Eve—& the day Susan Cooper’s great, cult novel The Dark Is Rising opens.
Simon McBurney & I co-adapted a 12-part audio-drama of Susan’s novel.
You can listen along, an ep a day, here:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
It’s 20 Dec—Winter Solstice Eve—& the day Susan Cooper’s great, cult novel The Dark Is Rising opens.
Simon McBurney & I co-adapted a 12-part audio-drama of Susan’s novel.
You can listen along, an ep a day, here:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
BBC Sounds - The Dark Is Rising - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of The Dark Is Rising on BBC Sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 20, 2024 at 7:33 PM
“When the dark comes rising, six shall turn it back…”
It’s 20 Dec—Winter Solstice Eve—& the day Susan Cooper’s great, cult novel The Dark Is Rising opens.
Simon McBurney & I co-adapted a 12-part audio-drama of Susan’s novel.
You can listen along, an ep a day, here:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
It’s 20 Dec—Winter Solstice Eve—& the day Susan Cooper’s great, cult novel The Dark Is Rising opens.
Simon McBurney & I co-adapted a 12-part audio-drama of Susan’s novel.
You can listen along, an ep a day, here:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
Reposted by Dr Trixie Gadd
Beat Kümin and I are accepting applications for our 4yr M4C fully-funded PhD Studentship for 2025/26
at Uni of Warwick and Warwick County Record Office
"Warwickshire Identities: Early Modern Archival Perspectives"
Get in touch with me for more info. Full details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
at Uni of Warwick and Warwick County Record Office
"Warwickshire Identities: Early Modern Archival Perspectives"
Get in touch with me for more info. Full details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
December 9, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Beat Kümin and I are accepting applications for our 4yr M4C fully-funded PhD Studentship for 2025/26
at Uni of Warwick and Warwick County Record Office
"Warwickshire Identities: Early Modern Archival Perspectives"
Get in touch with me for more info. Full details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
at Uni of Warwick and Warwick County Record Office
"Warwickshire Identities: Early Modern Archival Perspectives"
Get in touch with me for more info. Full details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...