Kirsten Elliott
@kirstenelliott.bsky.social
Historian, researcher, lives in the West Country but my heart is in Hampshire.
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Merry Christmas from LDN
December 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Merry Christmas from LDN
The tree is up - Christmas can't be far away.
December 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The tree is up - Christmas can't be far away.
Islay is the birthday girl. 14 today and loving rolling in muddy gass.
December 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Islay is the birthday girl. 14 today and loving rolling in muddy gass.
To all Islay the Westie fans: here she is - the Woozelbears poster girl.
December 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
To all Islay the Westie fans: here she is - the Woozelbears poster girl.
We had a sunny but splashy outing on Mendip today, plus lunch at Hunters Lodge.
December 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
We had a sunny but splashy outing on Mendip today, plus lunch at Hunters Lodge.
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Mason = snivel
Kuenssberg = snide
They should co-host an opinion programme. We’ll call it Snivel and Snide
Kuenssberg = snide
They should co-host an opinion programme. We’ll call it Snivel and Snide
December 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Mason = snivel
Kuenssberg = snide
They should co-host an opinion programme. We’ll call it Snivel and Snide
Kuenssberg = snide
They should co-host an opinion programme. We’ll call it Snivel and Snide
@bathecho.bsky.social Police helicopter has been going round and round in the Bathwick/Bathampton/Claverton area for about an hour. Any idea what's up?
December 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
@bathecho.bsky.social Police helicopter has been going round and round in the Bathwick/Bathampton/Claverton area for about an hour. Any idea what's up?
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Gullis, bless his cotton socks, is one of the dumbest people ever elected to office in the UK. That Reflux are reduced to celebrating his arrival amongst their band of crooks and loonies is genuinely hilarious.
Reminder: A man once flattened live on air by Mick Lynch - who reduced him to a blinking screensaver in under 30 seconds - is now hailed by Reform as some kind of intellectual prize. #ukpolitics
December 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Gullis, bless his cotton socks, is one of the dumbest people ever elected to office in the UK. That Reflux are reduced to celebrating his arrival amongst their band of crooks and loonies is genuinely hilarious.
Has somebody been up to something illegal in Balmy Bathwick? We seem to have the police helicopter circling round.
December 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Has somebody been up to something illegal in Balmy Bathwick? We seem to have the police helicopter circling round.
Here's some pictures from Andrew just to prove that Islay and I were there - one on Pope's Walk and one in Prior Park.
November 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Here's some pictures from Andrew just to prove that Islay and I were there - one on Pope's Walk and one in Prior Park.
Guess where we went today - yes, even Islay the westie who forgot all about her arthritis and had a lovely time.
November 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Guess where we went today - yes, even Islay the westie who forgot all about her arthritis and had a lovely time.
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⭕ #PARIS | Des milliers de personnes dans la rue contre le plan colonial de #Trump et la poursuite du génocide en #Palestine.
À l'appel de près de 70 organisations, des milliers de personnes manifestent en solidarité avec la #Palestine.
À l'appel de près de 70 organisations, des milliers de personnes manifestent en solidarité avec la #Palestine.
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
⭕ #PARIS | Des milliers de personnes dans la rue contre le plan colonial de #Trump et la poursuite du génocide en #Palestine.
À l'appel de près de 70 organisations, des milliers de personnes manifestent en solidarité avec la #Palestine.
À l'appel de près de 70 organisations, des milliers de personnes manifestent en solidarité avec la #Palestine.
Amazing what you can do with 6 chrysanthemums and some foliage.
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Amazing what you can do with 6 chrysanthemums and some foliage.
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Sorry, this is from the other place.
Can you imagine the uproar from the right wing press if someone had died in the back of an ambulance because Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion had blocked the roads?
But when it’s greedy farmers who don’t want to pay the same tax as the rest of us … nada!
Can you imagine the uproar from the right wing press if someone had died in the back of an ambulance because Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion had blocked the roads?
But when it’s greedy farmers who don’t want to pay the same tax as the rest of us … nada!
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Sorry, this is from the other place.
Can you imagine the uproar from the right wing press if someone had died in the back of an ambulance because Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion had blocked the roads?
But when it’s greedy farmers who don’t want to pay the same tax as the rest of us … nada!
Can you imagine the uproar from the right wing press if someone had died in the back of an ambulance because Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion had blocked the roads?
But when it’s greedy farmers who don’t want to pay the same tax as the rest of us … nada!
Sad to read of the death of Stan Hitt, Head of Parks Department in Bath for so long, and a wonderful man. There goes another link with my Mum, as well, since they were friends, even if she did badger him about making improvements in the park. They had a mutual love of plants and gardens.
November 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Sad to read of the death of Stan Hitt, Head of Parks Department in Bath for so long, and a wonderful man. There goes another link with my Mum, as well, since they were friends, even if she did badger him about making improvements in the park. They had a mutual love of plants and gardens.
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Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
So on FB I justified my comments to sceptics upset by David Olusoga's programme Empire by pointing out I'm a professional historian and, asked if I worked for the BBC, said I'm an independent thinker. Whereupon an irate bloke said I seemed very full of myself. For simply stating facts? Really? 🤔
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
So on FB I justified my comments to sceptics upset by David Olusoga's programme Empire by pointing out I'm a professional historian and, asked if I worked for the BBC, said I'm an independent thinker. Whereupon an irate bloke said I seemed very full of myself. For simply stating facts? Really? 🤔
@davidolusoga.bsky.social Been defending your Empire programme all day against the usual suspects. The irony is we've been saying what you said about Bath for ages, in some detail - not always pleasing some. One day my OH Dr Andrew Swift may finish his magnum opus on Bath's slavery connections.
November 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
@davidolusoga.bsky.social Been defending your Empire programme all day against the usual suspects. The irony is we've been saying what you said about Bath for ages, in some detail - not always pleasing some. One day my OH Dr Andrew Swift may finish his magnum opus on Bath's slavery connections.
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Probably won’t see this in mainstream media - aka the right wing press - coz it’s against their narrative. Wind energy in Britain broke a new record last week with nearly 23GW on the grid one cold windy evening. That was 56% of all electricity on Britain’s grid.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Probably won’t see this in mainstream media - aka the right wing press - coz it’s against their narrative. Wind energy in Britain broke a new record last week with nearly 23GW on the grid one cold windy evening. That was 56% of all electricity on Britain’s grid.
buff.ly/r8yeFmJ
buff.ly/r8yeFmJ
Winter sunlight on the Shakespeare monument in the Great Dell.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Winter sunlight on the Shakespeare monument in the Great Dell.
Boris Johnson caught telling lies again.
November 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Boris Johnson caught telling lies again.
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I want A.I. to do my admin and laundry while I write and illustrate books. I don't want A.I. to write and illustrate books while I do my admin and laundry.
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I want A.I. to do my admin and laundry while I write and illustrate books. I don't want A.I. to write and illustrate books while I do my admin and laundry.
We had a lovely time today in, on and around Mendip.
November 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
We had a lovely time today in, on and around Mendip.
Fed up with Farage? Me too. I’ve signed the Never Nigel Pledge. Add your name today, and help show that division and hate have no place in our communities.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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