A headline that reads TikTokers are putting sliced potatoes in their socks and their children's socks to draw out toxins.
Future medical historians, rejoice! There will be much to say about 2025.
12.11.2025 10:26 β π 180 π 26 π¬ 17 π 11@corpyburd.bsky.social
Lover of all things #RipperStreet #SASRH & general history nik nackery Scotland
A headline that reads TikTokers are putting sliced potatoes in their socks and their children's socks to draw out toxins.
Future medical historians, rejoice! There will be much to say about 2025.
12.11.2025 10:26 β π 180 π 26 π¬ 17 π 11The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
The first 3 seasons of Ripper Street were written round real police cases. A Victorian police procedural.
11.11.2025 19:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Enjoyπ #RipperStreet
11.11.2025 18:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Time for some lunch...Tuna with fresh diced pickles, spinach and mayo on white bread...with a hot mug of tea with lemon and sugar...a fine lunch indeed...also watching the series Ripper Street...love this show...On episode 4 of season 1...The brits always have great detective shows...lolππ€ͺπ
10.11.2025 17:51 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Really very highly recommend you listen this episode of @k8lister.bsky.social's show that covers the origin of Frankestein, or rather some of the ways in which Percy Bysshe Shelley was a rotten little nepo bitch.
07.11.2025 23:51 β π 76 π 11 π¬ 4 π 0Explore WWI through a new lens on Rondo Travelβs 2025
*Women on the Western Front* tour to Ypres & the Somme.
Discover stories of Dr. Elsie Inglis and Dorothy Lawrence, visit trenches, Lochnagar Crater, and enjoy hands-on learning and even chocolate-making.
Email: info@rondotravel.co.uk
Born #OTD 1896, Dorothy Lawrence was a journalist determined to report from the front line of World War One. So she posed as a man and made her way to the heart of the conflict. Hear her story in our Women and War podcast: tinyurl.com/yu4yedh6 #history #womenshistory
05.10.2025 10:35 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0I've been researching the journalist Dorothy Lawrence for many years but have only now been able to fill the key gaps in her story. Hopefully soon I will be sharing the details with the wider world.
11.11.2025 06:55 β π 29 π 3 π¬ 2 π 1Movie TV Tech Geeks #Exclusives #OliviaHolt #JingleBellHeist #Netflix 'Heart Eyes' and 'Rogue Heroes' Stars Are Dressed for Seasonal Stealing in New 'Jingle Bell Heist' Image [Exclusive]
10.11.2025 20:48 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Tram car in Glasgow bearing a large 1957 public-health poster urging residents to get chest X-rays during the anti-tuberculosis campaign, dated 11 Marchβ12 April.
Glasgow fought tuberculosis long after rates fell elsewhere in Britain. In 1957, the city launched a month-long mass X-ray driveβbacked by a full media blitz. This ad appeared on the side of a tram. This image is from the Wellcome Collection, London.
#Glasgow #Scotland #PublicHealth #TB #MedHist
I've reviewed another book!
You can read the full review here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/09/b...
Or here;
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/book-revie...
In the following thread I'll share a few of the most interesting bits as a bit of a teaser.
It's a good look.
09.11.2025 19:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0when you're a Victorian editor, who's commissioned some travel writing about Covent Garden, but left the image selection to the guy in the office with the laudanum habit
08.11.2025 14:11 β π 28 π 6 π¬ 2 π 13. Remmick (Sinners). I already loved Jack from his role in Rogue Heroes, but this one sent me over the edge. Like hello??? The sas? The smile? Help.
07.11.2025 15:05 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0I am enjoying the series "SAS Rogue Heroes".
04.11.2025 22:28 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Great soundtrack. And there's tea!π(& Rum) #SASRogueHeroes
05.11.2025 21:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Adam & Charlene will be in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Actress Niamh McCormack, known for her role inΒ House of Guinness will also be starring in the upcoming production at Dublinβs Gaiety Theatre. The performance is scheduled for early 2026.
05.11.2025 20:23 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0He was. His group were always adopting stray dogsπ Below is the real Paddy Mayne with Withers. Bottom pic is Toad who plays Withers in SAS Rogue Heroes S2
05.11.2025 09:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Looking Ahead to 2026 β Letβs Talk History!
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Bookings for 2026/27 are now open.
I offer talks on these subjects
β¨ Menβs Clothing in Late Medieval Scotland
β¨ Womenβs Clothing in Late Medieval Scotland
β¨ Clothes of the Jacobites
β¨ NEW: Scotland and the Wars of the Roses
π You can suggest ...
04.11.2025 21:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yes. Waiting for the "They're banning Christmas." brigade.
04.11.2025 17:38 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0Yes. D Day landings. Guys started filming end of Augustπ #SASRogueHeroes #S3
04.11.2025 16:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Jerrard Tolkien? Who him, who he? Is this an alternative universe for Jelon? What is he smoking in his pipe?
04.11.2025 12:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A set of 6 knives in a wooden case with a dark red velvet lining.
This set of 6 instruments belonged to William Walker, the first Ophthalmic Surgeon to be appointed to the Royal Infirmary and held the appointment of Surgeon Oculist to Queen Victoria. The case includes some corneal splitting knives and an iris hook.
03.11.2025 12:01 β π 53 π 11 π¬ 4 π 6A plate from βEngravings, Explaining the Anatomy of the Bones, Muscles, and Jointsβ by Scottish surgeon-anatomist John Bell FRCSEd, published in 1794. Bell illustrated his own works based on dissections he carried out in his Edinburgh anatomy school.
31.10.2025 11:49 β π 66 π 18 π¬ 3 π 1A small porcelain measuring cup being supported by a wire stand. It reads Novocain and you can see some measuring lines.
Novocaine has been used as a local anaesthetic from the early 20th century. Previous to this, cocaine was one of the most commonly used local anaesthetics.
30.10.2025 12:04 β π 52 π 8 π¬ 4 π 1Exododus - a mass departure of fat heads.
04.11.2025 09:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I love the way in SAS: Rogue Heroes all of the mains have a love story. But randomly Bill Fraserβs love story is with a dog. Not in a creepy wayβjust he really loves this dog as his main B plot.
04.11.2025 02:46 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0