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Keeper of lost things. Returner of lost books to their families or archives 📚History and book hound. Writes poems sometimes. Maid of Kent. Never stop being curious.

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‘God knows what’s hiding in this world of little consequence Behind the tears inside the lies A thousand slowly dying sunsets God knows what’s hiding in those weak & drunken hearts.. People help the people’ Cherry Ghost ‘People help the People’ m.youtube.com/watch?v=9U5S... A song for our times ❤️

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Happy Mothering Sunday. Here’s me on my Great Grandmother’s knee with my grandmother & my mother, on the right my mother sits on her Great Grandmother’s knee with her Grandmother & mother - my unbroken thread of mother’s love thru poverty, two wars , Depression & the Spanish Flu ❤️ #motheringsunday

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Slava Ukraini ❤️

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Slightly amazed to discover, I know not how, a book that belonged to Ralph Hart Tweddell, the inventor of the portable riveter, which had a big impact on ship building and other industries…’The Arts and Industry of All Nations’ 1860 quite a book and quite a man #engineers 💙 📚

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Looking forward to starting this jigsaw from the Bodleian Library….🧩🧩💙📚

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Post an old photo in your possession & say why you like it. This photo hangs on our landing, the Cambridge University Golf Blues in 1913. My husband’s gfather is 3rd from the left. He’s 22. What sense did they have of what was to come? On the back I recorded what happened to them all/1

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Splendid works by Hungarian art nouveau mosaicist/glass artist Miksa Róth (early 1900s) www.facebook.com/rothmiksamoz...

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How exactly do you live with 80 minutes of memory? This book is a thing of beauty…the Professor believes in the beauty of miscalculation for teaching you as much as getting it right ❤️#booksky 💙📚

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Post an old photo in your possession and say what you like about it….this feels like that moment of stillness, just before the noise of the Great War. These unknown members of my family, gliding gracefully towards disaster #Birdsong #oldphotoalbum

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It's incredible how such small books has had such a huge impact on literature & love of reading. I have always adored Beatrix Potter's tales. Which one is your favorite?

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This little book, 169 years old, belonged to my great, great, great grandfather, George Purser, who signs it when he is 13 years old. His father, James, works as a Beadle at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, (900 years old in 2023) - there have been beadles at the hospital since the 1500’s. /1

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The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.

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This year more than 20% of the enquiries we received were from people researching their family history. They've used our parish records, hospital admission and discharge registers, and nurse training records to track their ancestors #ArchivesAdventCalendar #Family #Geneaology

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Post an old photo in your possession & say what you like about it….This little chap is unknown but part of my Birmingham family history. He lives on the mantelpiece, he’s so proud of his outfit. It was taken by HJ Whitlock, famous photographers of the Royal Family c1830’s #geneaology #oldphotoalbum

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Here’s my Bobbin Robin he sings to me every morning for suet pellets ❤️

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Post a photo in your possession & say what you like about it. My mother, in the garden of the family home in Camberwell.l, South London. Whenever she passed this photo she’d tap the glass & say ‘We always had shoes’. I like it because in spite of grinding poverty she’s laughing ❤️ #oldphotoalbum

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It’s 2025 in New Zealand, just wanted to report the year is going great so far I have not read anything

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Book Cover of the Day:

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Happy New Year from Dorothy Parker (and me).

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Post an old photo in your possession & say what you like it about it.. The juxtaposition of the man on the safety of the boat and the man on the ice. Winter proper: Thames 1947 ❄️ #theoldphotoalbum

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The ‘No idea what day it is’ post Christmas jigsaw is up and running….❤️ Roy Kittenstein😻

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From my pocket….another story with its roots deep in our family tree. The characters in this story, seen below, became part of a chain of events that finally, it’s believed, became the inspiration for a famous Victorian novel…maybe you recognise one of them? Pull up a chair and I’ll begin….💺📚💙

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