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The Suffragettes had female bodyguards. Trained by the 4 ft 11 inch Edith Garrud - the first female martial arts instructor the West. Edith lived to the age of 99. Hear her story in our Women and Conflict podcast: tinyurl.com/49v7j3wh #history #IWD2025 @womenshistnet.bsky.social

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1/ 🧵 To mark #InternationalWomensDay, a short tribute to some female architects of 1960s public housing. First up, Kate Macintosh and the incomparable Dawson's Heights Estate she designed for Southwark Borough Council aged just 28 in 1966.

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Westminster Bridge is closed in both directions due to a police incident #WestminsterBridge www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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That’s quite a saving ✈️

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, not only the first woman to qualify as a doctor in the UK (1865) but an elected member of the London School Board (1870) and Britain's first female mayor, in Aldeburgh (1908) #InternationalWomensDay

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International Women’s Day: today we've published plaques to 3 impressive women, all pioneers in their fields: botany, dentistry and local politics.

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On #IWD2025 we're celebrating the lives and legacies of four remarkable female scholars: Gertrude Bell, Beatrice de Cardi, Joan Evans, and Margaret Stokes. #AccelerateAction

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💪 The #ULEZ is revealed to have reduced #AirPollution significantly across ALL of London. 💚 Congratulations to @london.gov.uk, thank you for protecting children’s #Health and ensuring the next generation of Londoners can grow up breathing cleaner air.

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Today’s report shows that ULEZ works. One year on, the ULEZ expansion is helping to: 🌳 Drive down levels of pollution 🌳 Take old polluting cars off our roads 🌳 Bring cleaner air to millions more Londoners.

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Hi gang. My films ‘In The Loop’ and ‘The Death of Stalin’ are on #BBCFour this evening, at 9pm and 10.40pm. Do enjoy if you’re a fan of repeated threat.

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Good morning #London! ☀️

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St Paul’s Cathedral welcomes everyone today to mark the beginning of Lent with the Imposition of Ashes. #AshWednesday #Lent #Free #StPaul’sCathedral #London

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Not an expert but starting a trade war with Mexico, Canada and China, threatening to invade Panama and Greenland and deporting two million people from Gaza, bombing Somalia, sacrificing Ukraine and allowing Russia to keep territories it took by force may not be the best way to get that Nobel Prize.

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Happy Pancake day! 🥞 Have you had yours yet? Come on, even Bob the Builder is flipping his. #PancakeDay #FlippingPancakes #London #GuildhallYard #CityofLondon

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The incredible success of the Egyptian geese. Quite exotic not so long ago, and now ubiquitous in #London freshwaters. #WorldWildlifeDay #EgyptianGeese #LondonWildlife #WildLondon

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Maravilloso discurso de #ZoeSaldaña #Oscars2025 😍 #Winner #BestSupportingactress So well deserved! #Oscars #ZoeSaldana

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Do you have a favourite to win Best Picture tonight? 🎬 How many of them have you watched? In our house, Dune: Part Two seems to be the winner, although controversially I quite liked Emilia Perez. 😮 Hoping Flow wins an award too! 🐈‍⬛ #Oscars2025 #Oscars

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#LondonJobs #CleanAir

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How a post-apocalyptic movie with no people, no dialogue or narration, can have as much drama and hope as hundreds of rubbish films out there. If only there were more FLOWs around the world! #Flow #BestAnimationFilms #BeMoreFlow youtu.be/bIkGBw_8sDs?...

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Signs of Spring. Getting slowly there one crocus at a time. #SpringIsNere #Ladywell #SouthLondon #WildLondon #LondonFlora #Lewisham #AChorusofCroci

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Our third annual Wassail is coming to Bermondsey. Save the date and spread the word! @theorchardproject.bsky.social @nationalparkcity.bsky.social @bostse1.bsky.social @lb-southwark.bsky.social

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From a Bankside brothel to a temporary ecological park next to Tower Bridge, several of the 'lost' gardens of Southwark and Lambeth are featured in the current Garden Museum exhibition, which closes in just over a week Read more ➡️

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Books & Flowers 📚🌷 London has so many wonderful bookshops. We love them all, but occasionally enjoy a bit of nostalgia from this beautiful one. Do you know where I am? Hint: Over 225 years selling books makes it London’s oldest bookshop. #London #LondonShops #LondonBookshops #HistoricLondon

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All Pie Is Good Pie. 🥧 And so we fell in love with Ron, or was it Gary? Finally watched Linklater's fabulous dark comedy Hit Man. Funny and thrilling, with an air of Wes Anderson. Glen Powell and Adria Arjona (fab in Good Omens) cheered up our grey evening. #HitMan #Linklater #Netflix #Ego&Id 🐈🐱

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Learn how to save a life in five minutes with @londonambulance.nhs.uk at their #free drop-in event today at #WaterlooStation #London until 4pm. #LondonAmbulance

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Struggling with your Internet? If you’re a #CommunityFibre customer, this is why. #Outage metro.co.uk/2025/02/17/t...

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We don't get that many exhibitions on women artists, so it's so great when it happens. ‘Evelyn De Morgan: The Modern Painter in Victorian London’ will be on show at #GuildhallArtGallery from 4 April. #WomenArtists #EvelynDeMorgan #London #Pre-Raphaelite #Free www.thecityofldn.com/event/evelyn...

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More Roman London remains have been uncovered! The stone wall of the 2,000 years old basilica, found in the basement of an office block in Gracechurch St close to #LeadenhallMarket, will be opened to the public to see. #CityofLondon #London #RomanLondon #HiddenLondon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Celebrate Lunar New Year at Museum of the Home✨ Bring the family for a vibrant day of creativity, connection and celebration. Whether you’re looking to get creative, dive into stories or discover playful new ways to become the snake, this is for you🐍

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As cars get bigger, so do the risks. People hit by larger cars when walking or cycling are far less likely to survive. @cleancitiescampaign.org needs your help to stop #Carspreading! Find out how: https://buff.ly/4gCta2z

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If you are going to the centre of #London today, be aware of a gathering of approximately 400 tractors from 12:30pm, as farmers are protesting in #Whitehall. From about 1:30pm, Whitehall and Parliament Street will be closed from Trafalgar Sq to Parliament Sq. #FarmersProtest #LondonDemonstrations

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A controversial new Chinese super-embassy may see thousands of demonstrators this Saturday afternoon outside Royal Mint Court, next to the #TowerofLondon & #TowerBridge. Protesters will oppose China’s plan to construct its largest embassy in Europe. #London #LondonDemostrations #ChineseEmbassy

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It’s LGBT+ History Month! And there are lots of interesting #free events on, like a talk by author #PeterParker on ‘Some Men in London: Queer Life in the Capital, 1945-1967’. In person at #ShoeLaneLibrary on Fri 21 Feb and online. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/some-men-i... #SocialActivism #LGBTplusHM25

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At Lamorbey and Sidcup Local History Society we are delighted to welcome back Public Historian Dr John Price on 4 February for part 2 of his Postman's Park talk - the Forgotten Heroes: who are the 84 heroic individuals missing from the Watts Memorial? #London #History @jpaprice.bsky.social

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Five years on from Brexit, London remains a European city, where European Londoners are valued and cherished. You are our neighbours, colleagues, friends and loved ones. Thank you for making London your home. You are wanted here—and always will be.

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A supersized Mother Goddess, hop poles, hessian textiles, human butterflies… Yesterday we were at the wonderful launch of 0.1% by #JonathanBaldock at #LondonMithraeum Bloomberg SPACE. An immersive celebration of female figure, above London’s Roman Temple of Mithras. #Free #London #RomanTemple

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Forget roses and champagne, how about donning a hard hat to explore London’s newest museum? Check out a chance to win a @londonmuseum.bsky.social behind-the-scenes tour and a dinner at one of #London's most celebrated restaurants. #competition #StValentine www.londonmuseum.org.uk/smithfield/v...

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A new 54-storey tower is coming soon next to Liverpool St at 99 Bishopsgate #CityofLondon #LondonSkyline #London bit.ly/3EiyUkt

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