Andrew Elsden
@farmersfriend.bsky.social
Interested in rural history and social issues in Lincolnshire Fens and Northumbria. See https://www.farmersfriendlincs.com/about-3
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My book Marsh Fen and Town South Lincolnshire and Beyond is now available in paperback on Amazon. #ruralhistory #socialhistory
Remember how the YTS scheme fucked up the employment market for low paid and youngsters in the 80's? A recycled Tory policy is not going to increase employment, reduced energy costs and proper economic growth will.
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Young people on benefits to be offered construction and hospitality work
The government says it will fund training and work experience for 350,000 not in work or education.
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December 7, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Remember how the YTS scheme fucked up the employment market for low paid and youngsters in the 80's? A recycled Tory policy is not going to increase employment, reduced energy costs and proper economic growth will.
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Are political commentators so out of touch with ordinary voters that they are losing their relevance? The obsession with right wing and left wing is both limiting and fast becoming dated. In my opinion politics is transforming to a different split as described by this person:
December 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Are political commentators so out of touch with ordinary voters that they are losing their relevance? The obsession with right wing and left wing is both limiting and fast becoming dated. In my opinion politics is transforming to a different split as described by this person:
I always feel single women without children are a middle class heresy that needs challenging. I suspect @k8lister.bsky.social may agree. app.inews.co.uk/full_page_im... Sent from the app.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I always feel single women without children are a middle class heresy that needs challenging. I suspect @k8lister.bsky.social may agree. app.inews.co.uk/full_page_im... Sent from the app.
Connections between town and country and the people that live and work in them have been eroded. In Spalding this is illustrated by the fact that the former site of the livestock market is now occupied by a supermarket. Read more in my book, from Amazon for £9.99 in paperback.
November 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Connections between town and country and the people that live and work in them have been eroded. In Spalding this is illustrated by the fact that the former site of the livestock market is now occupied by a supermarket. Read more in my book, from Amazon for £9.99 in paperback.
A reminder that food production can be a weapon of war: "Pre-World War One two thirds of Britain’s annual imports of sugar were from Germany and Austria-Hungary. " From my book Marsh Fen and Town South Lincolnshire and Beyond. Available from Amazon £9.99.
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Marsh Fen and Town 12 Sugar Beet
YouTube video by Andrew Elsden
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November 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
A reminder that food production can be a weapon of war: "Pre-World War One two thirds of Britain’s annual imports of sugar were from Germany and Austria-Hungary. " From my book Marsh Fen and Town South Lincolnshire and Beyond. Available from Amazon £9.99.
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My thoughts on Farming Succession
Extract from my book Marsh Fen and Town South Lincolnshire and Beyond now available in both hardback and paperback on Amazon.
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Extract from my book Marsh Fen and Town South Lincolnshire and Beyond now available in both hardback and paperback on Amazon.
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Farming Succession
YouTube video by Andrew Elsden
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November 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
My thoughts on Farming Succession
Extract from my book Marsh Fen and Town South Lincolnshire and Beyond now available in both hardback and paperback on Amazon.
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Extract from my book Marsh Fen and Town South Lincolnshire and Beyond now available in both hardback and paperback on Amazon.
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Marsh Fen and Town explores the balance between people and the environment. #marshfenandtown
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Balance
YouTube video by Andrew Elsden
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November 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Marsh Fen and Town explores the balance between people and the environment. #marshfenandtown
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November 4, 2025 at 7:52 AM
My book Marsh Fen and Town South Lincolnshire and Beyond is now available in paperback on Amazon. #ruralhistory #socialhistory
November 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
My book Marsh Fen and Town South Lincolnshire and Beyond is now available in paperback on Amazon. #ruralhistory #socialhistory
This morning I saw some dolphins
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Amble Dolphins 271025
YouTube video by Andrew Elsden
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October 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This morning I saw some dolphins
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TB has a devastating effect on farms. Sadly since I wrote this nothing has changed. #tb
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TB Blues
The ApocalypseBovine TB is a potential apocalypse that can hit a farm with devastating consequences. These are made all the worse by the potential of having movements of livestock frozen and the abili...
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October 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
TB has a devastating effect on farms. Sadly since I wrote this nothing has changed. #tb
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I personally don't like the moniker "Black History Month" as I view it as divisive. However, I do hold value in suppressed and untold history and stories. Nowadays PC censorship tends to hide them as I have discovered as I research migrant stories.
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Black History or British History?
In this short piece I describe the "boomer boys" from Nigeria post WW2. A piece of social history that has been lost.
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October 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I personally don't like the moniker "Black History Month" as I view it as divisive. However, I do hold value in suppressed and untold history and stories. Nowadays PC censorship tends to hide them as I have discovered as I research migrant stories.
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Bring back "Letter from America" I used to love Alastair Cook and this type of calm perspective is so needed now.
October 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Bring back "Letter from America" I used to love Alastair Cook and this type of calm perspective is so needed now.
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
Bring back Amy Sedaris, laundry expert.
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BRING BACK AMY SEDARIS -LAUNDRY EXPERT
If there is one advert I miss at the moment from TV it is the Lenor advert with the hearty, chirpy greeting, “Hi! I’m Amy Sedaris, laundry expert.” The advert always made me smile, with her chirpy voi...
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October 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Bring back Amy Sedaris, laundry expert.
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Okay, funny bookstore category
September 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Okay, funny bookstore category
A look at the history of cabbage growing in the Fens. #History #RuralHistory #marshfenandtown
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Cabbage
A look at cabbage growing in the Fens
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October 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A look at the history of cabbage growing in the Fens. #History #RuralHistory #marshfenandtown
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The rise and fall of woad growing in the Fens #RuralHistory #history #ruralhistory
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Woad
In this article I look at the rise and fall of woad production in the Fens.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The rise and fall of woad growing in the Fens #RuralHistory #history #ruralhistory
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By the early 1800’s coffee was transforming from a luxury commodity to a household essential. There was a political awakening that the working class poor needed something nice in a time that essential items like bread were expensive in relation to pay. This was enabled by chicory.
#ruralhistory #chicory
My latest article looks at chicory and how it made coffee in an adulterated form available for the working class stimulating a growing and processing industry that fell foul of energy costs in the 1970's.
www.farmersfriendlincs.com/post/chicory
My latest article looks at chicory and how it made coffee in an adulterated form available for the working class stimulating a growing and processing industry that fell foul of energy costs in the 1970's.
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CHICORY
This article looks at the past development of chicory to adulterate coffee and how this intertwined with coffee making it affordable to the working class before becoming a victim of energy costs in t...
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September 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
By the early 1800’s coffee was transforming from a luxury commodity to a household essential. There was a political awakening that the working class poor needed something nice in a time that essential items like bread were expensive in relation to pay. This was enabled by chicory.
#ruralhistory #chicory
My latest article looks at chicory and how it made coffee in an adulterated form available for the working class stimulating a growing and processing industry that fell foul of energy costs in the 1970's.
www.farmersfriendlincs.com/post/chicory
My latest article looks at chicory and how it made coffee in an adulterated form available for the working class stimulating a growing and processing industry that fell foul of energy costs in the 1970's.
www.farmersfriendlincs.com/post/chicory
CHICORY
This article looks at the past development of chicory to adulterate coffee and how this intertwined with coffee making it affordable to the working class before becoming a victim of energy costs in t...
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September 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
#ruralhistory #chicory
My latest article looks at chicory and how it made coffee in an adulterated form available for the working class stimulating a growing and processing industry that fell foul of energy costs in the 1970's.
www.farmersfriendlincs.com/post/chicory
My latest article looks at chicory and how it made coffee in an adulterated form available for the working class stimulating a growing and processing industry that fell foul of energy costs in the 1970's.
www.farmersfriendlincs.com/post/chicory
A Dane's view of Long Sutton, how a run on the Bank was prevented, and a former colleague of my great-grandfather ages me. #marshfenandtown #History
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Marsh Fen and Town 31 Long Sutton
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September 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
A Dane's view of Long Sutton, how a run on the Bank was prevented, and a former colleague of my great-grandfather ages me. #marshfenandtown #History
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The 1829 beer tax was deemed an unfair tax on the rural labouring poor. #ruralhistory #history #workingclasshistory
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Taxing the Rural Labouring Poor
In 1829 a tax was imposed upon beer which was seen as a particularly hurtful tax on rural labourers
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September 13, 2025 at 5:24 AM
The 1829 beer tax was deemed an unfair tax on the rural labouring poor. #ruralhistory #history #workingclasshistory
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Today is #WorldSuicidePreventionDay2025 . Some of you know I used to be a volunteer for LRSN and an Ag Bank Manager. In my working life I had 2 colleagues and 8 customers take their own lives. Spend a bit of time online and you might save one.
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ZSA FREE online training
Short, free online training courses from the Zero Suicide Alliance to support potentially life-saving conversations.
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September 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Today is #WorldSuicidePreventionDay2025 . Some of you know I used to be a volunteer for LRSN and an Ag Bank Manager. In my working life I had 2 colleagues and 8 customers take their own lives. Spend a bit of time online and you might save one.
zerosuicidealliance.com/training
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An incident of adulterated milk. #marshfenandtown www.farmersfriendlincs.com/post/adulder...
Adulderated Milk
Would you drink milk containing boric acid? Food adulteration has been a hazard throughout time with the risk of poisoning it can create. Boric acid is used in insecticides and fungicides, so possibl...
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September 10, 2025 at 5:16 AM
An incident of adulterated milk. #marshfenandtown www.farmersfriendlincs.com/post/adulder...