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Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡 @researchdogsbody.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you

Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡 @researchdogsbody.bsky.social · 4d

#LeavingMyKitchen

Twins #BabyShower cake, a gluten-free/vegan chocolate sponge, using unrefined sugar for the cake and buttercream - almost a chemistry lesson rather than a cake!

Hand-made baby clothes, topped with pink and blue sprinkles, the whole cake was handpainted.

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 11d

Emily Fazakerley who in 1881 had the first private telephone installed in North Wales so she could listen to the opera. 👇
BBC News - Woman installed first north Wales phone 'to listen to opera'
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Tech entrepreneur had north Wales' first phone - for opera

Emily Fazakerley had the first telephone installed in north Wales in order to listen to the opera.

www.bbc.com

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 11d

The Musical Box, Liverpool's oldest record shop which has been in the Quinn family for 4 generations to receive a blue plaque. 👇
BBC News - Musical Box: Liverpool's oldest record shop to get blue plaque - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Musical Box: Liverpool's oldest record shop to get blue plaque

The Musical Box counted Beatles legend John Lennon and football manager Bill Shankly among its customers.

www.bbc.co.uk

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 13d

If #Railway200 has sparked or rekindled your interest in #RailwayHistory, and you fancy study at Masters or PhD level - then come & study with Dr Mike Esbester at the University of Portsmouth!

An expert in railway, transport & mobility history:

www.port.ac.uk/about-us/str...

Mike Esbester

www.port.ac.uk

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Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡 @researchdogsbody.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations Jane

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Jackie Depelle @jackiedepelle.bsky.social · 14d

Good to see active @alangodfreymaps.bsky.social account. Current subscription offers #Doncaster #Cambridgeshire #Exeter - lots of reduced railway maps www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/subscription... @doncasterdistfhs.bsky.social @devonfhs.bsky.social @balhnews.bsky.social @federationfhs.bsky.social

Subscriptions to the Godfrey Edition

www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 16d

New this week in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'.

"Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography", by Alana Harris and Laura Mitchison bit.ly/4gH9e0f

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First page of new TRHS article: 'Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography'

Abstract in full
‘Us and Them’ is a community history project and artistic collaboration exploring physical and intellectual disability and mental illness, in the past and present. It is part of a broader initiative to open out wider conversations about the history of psychiatric care in Epsom (Surrey, UK) and to explore ways in which medical histories, creative engagement strategies and oral history praxis can illuminate the instability of contemporary understandings of ‘healthy minds’ and ‘normative bodies’. This article charts our recent reuse of asylum photography and the restaging of wet-plate collodion portrait making, opening out key ethical questions about our complicity as consumers of historical sources, the role of re-enactment and empathy, and the place of the haptic and the ludic in exposing the porous and precarious boundaries between ableism and disability. Exploring our own vulnerabilities and solidarities in co-producing a public history project with our disabled artist collaborators, it offers insight into our evolving ‘micro ethics’, foregrounds lived experience perspectives, and offers some initial thoughts on ways to rethink critically some core tenets of oral history methodology.

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Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡 @researchdogsbody.bsky.social · 16d

There are some lovely windows in that chapel, I was there only a few weeks back.

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 18d

The Anderson Boat Lift, Cheshire which allows boats & barges by 50 feet from the Weaver Navigation Canal to the Trent & Mersey Canal is celebrating its 150th anniversary. 👇
BBC News - Anderton Boat Lift: Victorian engineering feat's legacy lives on - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anderton Boat Lift: Victorian engineering feat's legacy lives on

Cheshire's Anderton Boat Lift, built in 1875, inspired similar engineering feats around the world.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡 @researchdogsbody.bsky.social · 18d

Lovely to spend time with @allthosebefore.bsky.social at the Secrets and Lies conf, another @afewforgottenwomen.bsky.social volunteer and @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social member

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Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡 @researchdogsbody.bsky.social · 19d

#LeavingMyKitchen - well left my kitchen a day or two ago!

30th Anniversary cake for brother & wife

Red velvet cake with vanilla/orange flavoured buttercream & handmade fondand, handpainted dog snouts peeking out from under a duvet [based on their favourite poster], bespoke topper to finish.

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Paul Chiddicks @chiddickstree.bsky.social · 19d

From the fields of Herefordshire to the trenches of France the forgotten faces of the Somme tells the story of my ancestor William Wootton and my visit to the Western Front #WW1 #Genealogy #MilitaryHistory

chiddicksfamilytree.com/2025/09/21/t...

The Forgotten Faces of the Somme

From the Fields of Herefordshire to the Trenches of France When I think of the First World War, I don’t just picture the vast battlefields or the rows of white crosses that stretch endlessly into t…

chiddicksfamilytree.com

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Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡 @researchdogsbody.bsky.social · 19d

Great day yesterday at the Secrets and Lies conference, lots of lovely comments after my talk on tracing female ancestors, thank you to all who came along. Also enjoyed flying the @afewforgottenwomen.bsky.social flag with @janetfew.bsky.social and @helenshields.bsky.social

More of the same today

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Prof Dave Day. @natationist.bsky.social · 19d

What a great talk on researching women's lives by researchdogsbody. Really well received by a packed house.

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Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social · 26d

A poster offering a £500 reward for information on the murder of millowner Thomas Ashton in 1831. The murder may have inspired Mrs Gaskell's novel 'Mary Barton'. On display at Cheshire Museum of Policing, Warrington, at today's Open Day.

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 26d

Wirral Council set to scrap 90 year old bylaws including beating carpets on a seashore, sounding a noisy trumpet or wantonly singing. 👇
BBC News - Wirral Council set to scrap 90-year-old seaside carpet beating law - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wirral Council set to scrap 90-year-old seaside carpet beating law

Wirral Council is looking to repeal

www.bbc.co.uk

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Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡 @researchdogsbody.bsky.social · 25d

What a ridiculous headline!

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The Family History Society of Cheshire 🌾🌳 @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social · 26d

#WhatsOn this week at @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social

2 x Discussion Groups [MAC users & Family Historian
3 x Helpdesks - #Chester #Tameside #Wallasey

1 x Zoom talk
𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐥’𝐬 #𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐲
Registration required 👉 www.fhsc.org.uk/.../313-fhsc....

How to join FHSC 👉 www.fhsc.org.uk

Pinboard with FHSC Events picked out in post-it notes

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Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡 @researchdogsbody.bsky.social · 26d

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Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡 @researchdogsbody.bsky.social · 27d

#LeavingMyKitchen
#BirthdayCake

Planter of Chrysanthemums

#ChocolateCake with buttercream ganache, hand painted, with silk chrysanthemums and bespoke topper also made by me

Really pleased with how this has turned out, it's for my Mum's 85th family lunch today, first birthday without Dad 💔

Cake in the shape of a terracota planter with pink silk chrysanthemums

Cake in the shape of a terracota planter with pink silk chrysanthemums, with a Cheers to 85 years topper

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Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡 @researchdogsbody.bsky.social · Sep 5

Just booked mine too - excited to meet up again and also to eventually catch up with @whoamiftr.bsky.social @historylady2013.bsky.social and @msfrugalone.bsky.social

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Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡 @researchdogsbody.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm speaking at Secret and Lies and am at the dinner, not doing full black tie/posh frock - more VERY smart-cas!

Looking forward to catching up again xxx

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Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡 @researchdogsbody.bsky.social · Aug 26

Very proud of latest numbers on my @playingpasts.bsky.social website

Playing Pasts @playingpasts.bsky.social · Aug 26

If you've ever wondered about publishing an article on @playingpasts.bsky.social and the numer of people who will read your work - then take a look at the latest metrics

#Metrics
#SportsHistory

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Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · Aug 22

Great overview- and fantastic visual notes too- of a recent seminar on downward social mobility run by @cadebellaigue.bsky.social & @evemworth.bsky.social www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/down...

Downward Social Mobility in Britain since 1850, 31st March 2025

www.history.ox.ac.uk

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