#MemorialMonday #SophiaWren #StMary #Bath
03.11.2025 10:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@barbdrummond.bsky.social
Self publishing historian mostly on 18th century Britain. Books on wife selling, machines of the Enlightenment, and much more. New book The Great Flood of 1607 published on 2 September. Love photography, churchcrawling, curiosity
#MemorialMonday #SophiaWren #StMary #Bath
03.11.2025 10:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0From @Mubi a lovely slow moving film about an early career academic navigating her career and friendships. #MustSee
02.11.2025 20:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@Henbury churchyard #churchcrawling think building on left was SundaySchool, on right sextons house
02.11.2025 17:24 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Looks over caffeinated
02.11.2025 16:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0My #book on #WifeSelling shows women earned their dowry before marriage so had more #rights than often claimed. Couples celebrated sales with dinners, rang church bells. Fascinating insight into lives of working people. In all formats in physical & online stores including #WomensHistory
02.11.2025 12:04 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My #book @TheGreatFloodOf1607 is still available in all formats from online & physical shops including @GriffinBooks in #Penarth and soon in @Bookspace. It describes the disaster, its impact, aftermath and how victims felt they were being punished by #God as in the time of #Noah. #climate #weather
02.11.2025 10:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 01970 Pevsner attributes clerestory windows to Francis Niblett but this looks more modern
02.11.2025 10:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0#StainedGlassSunday #Caerleon
02.11.2025 10:11 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#StainedGlassSunday #Slimbridge #RiverSevern
02.11.2025 09:58 β π 37 π 6 π¬ 2 π 0#Framilode #StainedGlassSunday
02.11.2025 09:56 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1#Rockhampton #StainedGlassSunday
02.11.2025 09:53 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#StainedGlassSunday #BourtononTheHill
02.11.2025 09:50 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Minority representation on TV causes outrage There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television. Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg." She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce." "I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough. There are too many people with angry red faces on television.β
Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
It also triggered scientific investigation into earthquakes as such a large area was affected. Think it caused collapse of walls of Galway and may have reached the Caribbean
01.11.2025 21:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Extraordinary series!
01.11.2025 21:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just watched @KellyReichardt early film @RiverOfGrass @Mubi echoes of early @JimJarmusch of 2 strangers in accidental #shooting then forced to flee with no money. #Intriguing #Grim
01.11.2025 21:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0As recently as 2016, it was legal in every state.
It should be illegal in every state.
An important point for anyone going on about net contribution of immigration
01.11.2025 12:51 β π 29 π 7 π¬ 2 π 0Yes
01.11.2025 19:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#GreatPultneyStreet #Bath
01.11.2025 15:46 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0#Bath #StMichael #SteepleSaturday
01.11.2025 15:44 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#Proposal for #Commemorative #stamp #ITScandal #Noooo!
01.11.2025 13:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#Labour continues to disappoint. Allowing βaffordable housing to be sold to #PrivateBuyers
01.11.2025 13:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Humanities are often seen as less important than sciences. But many scientists are interested in humanities so they complement each other
01.11.2025 12:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#SteepleSaturday #Cardiff
01.11.2025 12:06 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Wow!
01.11.2025 10:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sharon Graham, UNITE, "If you've got a Β£1,700 bill, Β£500 of that is profit.. They've made Β£30 billion in a single year.. It's obscene"
Meanwhile Labour go after the poor, the disabled, the elderly, instead of windfall taxing energy companies. Disgraceful