With @olliedouglas.bsky.social of @themerl.bsky.social and my esteemed colleague Julie-Marie Strange @durhamhistory.bsky.social - in the recently restored Redhills, historic home of the Durham Miners’ Association and the Pitmen’s Parliament. 🗃️📜🐄
05.03.2026 15:55 — 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Absolute Units returns! We’re here with the most special of guests, Old Crockern, the giant who watches over Dartmoor. Plus @lisaschneidau.bsky.social and Ruth Webb.
Listen as we delve into the fight for wild camping on Dartmoor, right up to the present day.
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Part 2 is here!
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loved working on these episodes. huge thanks to @lisaschneidau.bsky.social, @olliedouglas.bsky.social, Ruth, and Crockern!
05.03.2026 11:29 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you to Ruth and Lisa for an extremely special conversation. If you can make it to Reading, come and see Old Crockern plus many more stories and displays in Radical Rural. It’s free and we’d love to see you here.
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05.03.2026 11:28 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Absolute Units returns! We’re here with the most special of guests, Old Crockern, the giant who watches over Dartmoor. Plus @lisaschneidau.bsky.social and Ruth Webb.
Listen as we delve into the fight for wild camping on Dartmoor, right up to the present day.
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The MERL continue to be the Absolute Units of social posting
05.03.2026 11:12 — 👍 53 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
thank you Herdwick Sheep
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sheep happens
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if not we need to tear it up and start again
05.03.2026 09:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0some day, penguin, although they may have to expand the letters by 2
05.03.2026 09:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hehehehehe
Wordle 1,720 1/6
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1,719 Wordles later, our gambit has paid off
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Wordle 1,720 1/6
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this is my Roman Empire
04.03.2026 15:36 — 👍 336 🔁 18 💬 4 📌 1
Absolute Units returns tomorrow!
We're back with Ruth Webb and @lisaschneidau.bsky.social, picking up where we left off last time and continuing the story of Old Crockern and the fight for wild camping on Dartmoor.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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we would love to welcome you!
27.02.2026 16:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
people are saying it's the freest a museum has ever been
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wdyt? could you do this?
27.02.2026 12:09 — 👍 43 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
free museum visit right now if you can
get to Reading, England
and enter The Museum of English Rural Life
<3 <3
26.02.2026 11:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The MERL's LATE events are always worth being on time for!
26.02.2026 10:43 — 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0have you been looking for a reason to come to @themerl.bsky.social? here is a very good one
26.02.2026 11:03 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
"Spring LATE. See The MERL after dark. Music, drinks, activities. 25 March 2026."
Tickets are now available for our next LATE! Join us after hours on the night of 25 March for drinks, activities, and talks.
£5 per person; £3 concessions for @uniofreading.bsky.social staff/students.
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@uorlgbtsociety.bsky.social thanks for sharing the blog friends <3
26.02.2026 10:28 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As far as I know, farm archives have never really been used to track queer histories before. Given they mostly record the financial ongoings on a given farm, you can understand why. However, my year of research at The MERL has proved their potential.
Find out more in this blog:
For more about @timjerrome.bsky.social's research, check out the two episodes he recorded with us on Absolute Units!
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This is our second and final blogpost for LGBTQ History Month, following Lottie Wood's reflections on the life of E. M. Barraud last week!
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