Helen Pugh

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

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

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

#cunkonbritain #bath #romanbaths
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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.

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#kidslit
#kidsbooks
#historyforkids

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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⚓️ 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

#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

🗓 #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

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

Pictured is the golden wyvern, associated with the House of Wessex

#OnThisDay in 871, Alfred the Great became King of #Wessex with his wife, Elswitha, by his side. They would undergo many upheavals, the lowest point being their wandering through the #Somerset Levels when she was in her mid- to late twenties.

For more, check out Unsung Women in Somerset.

Today is St Elfleda's Day, a saint connected to Glastonbury. (It's sometimes given as 23rd Oct instead.)
She features in Unsung Women in Somerset as well as my upcoming book, On This Day in Somerset.

#Somerset #onthisdayinsomerset #Glastonbury #saints #womeninsomerset #womenshistory

Really enjoyed the exhibition on women in Somerset in WWII at the Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury. Useful for my research for On This Day in Somerset!

#qotd What was the last interesting place you visited?

#Somerset #womeninsomerset #Glastonbury

Lovely to see my book on sale at Somerset Rural Life Museum 😍

#Somerset #womeninsomerset #unsungwomen #glastonbury

#qotd Have you heard of the other books around it?

#Meta stole my books: Cuentos incatásticos and Pachamama, diosa extraordinaria. Meta used the #LibGen dataset, full of pirated works, to train their AI.

META must #DoTheWriteThing.

Please continue to support authors by purchasing our work and using your local library. #makeitfair

When individuals download things illegally, the UK government condemns them, so why, when wealthy corporations steal the work of writers and artists, does it think that the right response is to change the law and make it easier for the thieves to get away with it? #DoTheWriteThing #MetaBookThieves

Meta has used the Library Genesis (LIbGen) dataset, which is full of pirated material, to develop their AI systems!

The #MakeItFair campaign is fighting against propsed changes to copyright law that would damage creative industries.

#dothewritething #societyofauthors #libgen

👉 You can now pre-order the ebook of:

On This Day in Somerset (A Calendar of Women)

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😃📚😃

#onthisdayinSomerset #womenInHistory #womenInSomerset #history

Pre-order coming soon! Hope you like the cover!

From Roman times to the present day and from Athelney to the Zoylands, this is 366 days of women across Somerset.

#somerset #onthisdayinSomerset #womeninSomerset #womeninhistory #womenshistorymonth #onthisday

#OnThisDay in 1750, Caroline Herschel was born in Germany.

A talented singer and astronomer, she lived in Bath for several years and will feature in my next book!

#Somerset #bath #womenshistorymonth #womeninhistory #astronomy #carolineherschel

A large willow construction of arches and pillars over a path

Bridge in white and blue wrought iron work, reflected in the river Tone, along with the very blue sky

Interesting day in Taunton. Visited the Willow Cathedral in Longrun meadow.. #willow #taunton

On this day in 1881, Diana Bevin née Tidbould gave birth to her seventh child in Winsford, an Exmoor village in #Somerset. This child was Ernest Bevin, who became a Labour politician.

Diana took on roles like midwife, kitchen assistant and a worker at the local Royal Oak pub.

#womenshistorymonth

She later lived for many years in Long Ashton with her husband, where she worked as a healer.

She features in Unsung Women in Somerset, which is out now!

#Somerset #womeninhistory #womenshistorymonth #wwii

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Today in 2010, Andrée Peel died in Long Ashton at the incredible age of 105.

Born and raised in France as Andrée Virot, she joined the French Resistance during World War II and saved the lives of 102 allied pilots. Andrée survived torture and concentration camps.

#onthisday #shero

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Holnicote Estate applying for future beaver releases after trial Bosses at a Somerset estate say the animals have created a "wetland wonderland".

National Trust bid for more beaver releases

#Somerset #BBCNews

🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

#OnThisDay in 1547, a witch named Yamque was burnt to death in #Lima, #Peru.
She had dealings with a prominent #Inca princess who wanted to kill her conquistador husband...

More info: books2read.com/idie

#SouthAmerica #February #26February #witch #historyofwitches #witches #witchcraft #princess

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do.

Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

Pictured is the holy well where Ine and Ethelburg’s friend St Aldhelm died. Located in Doulting, it's worth a visit in my opinion.

#Today is St Ethelburg’s Day!

Ethelburg. Queen of Wessex. Battle leader. Traveller. Pilgrim. Nun.

There's a whole chapter about the fascinating Ethelburg in Unsung Women in Somerset. Out now! books2read.com/unsung

#6february #saint #womenInSomerset #somerset #onthisday

Happy St Bridget's Day!
She is mentioned in Unsung Women in Somerset, as she has a link to #Glastonbury!

The image is of her milking a cow and it's found on Glastonbury Tor.

#somerset #unsungWomen #womenInHistory #stbridgetsday

#qotd What are you hoping for this month?

This day in 1989 marked Kathleen Tacchi-Morris’ 90th birthday & she set up a Trust to establish creative exchanges between British students and students across the world.

The Trust became the Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, opened in #Taunton in 2000 & still going today.

#Somerset #womeninhistory