Lucy Walker
lucymw.bsky.social
Lucy Walker
@lucymw.bsky.social
Archaeologist and landscape historian, social and cultural history, museums, contemporary writing, art and music
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September 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Recent drone footage combined with old photographs and recorded memories - will be a fascinating event. Everyone welcome....
September 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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September 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Love this thread!
Customer feedback this week;

‘Please can you get some more diversity at the National Trust by encouraging more hot men to visit.’

Ideas for how we do this v welcome. Nothing too racy please - we are the National Trust not the National Tryst.
September 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
For those in Cambridge UK - cambridge.gov.uk/butterfly-tr...
Butterfly trail
Explore Cambridge’s green spaces through the wings of 30 beautiful butterflies and moths.
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August 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Jeremy Hunt literally owning a property empire, sells a number of properties and avoids a huge slice of tax.

Nothing said.

Angela Rayner buying a house on the coast & it’s absolutely outrageous.

Working class girl, getting above her station.

Aspiration, only when it suits.

This country eh?
August 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Three very interesting articles have been published recently about Hughes Hall and Fenner's. The first being this one in The Telegraph:
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/33bfa17...
Cambridge University facing revolt for ‘mistreatment’ of iconic Fenner’s cricket ground
Sporting community in revolt over measures stopping ‘undesirable individuals’ from accessing pitch, fewer fixtures and state of facilities
www.telegraph.co.uk
August 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Here’s a cricket stat! This season Cambridge University CC played 38 home fixtures. Only 18 of those (47%) were played at the club’s home ground Fenner’s. Why? @acscricket.bsky.social @hugheshall.bsky.social @protectfenners.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2025...
Cambridge University facing revolt for ‘mistreatment’ of iconic Fenner’s cricket ground
Sporting community in revolt over measures stopping ‘undesirable individuals’ from accessing pitch, fewer fixtures and state of facilities
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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As it's #WorldCalligraphyDay, our #ObjectOfTheWeek is this lovely letter from Cromwell's mother Elizabeth, written in July 1643. It's probably the only example of her handwriting and signature - which is lovely and clear (unlike the notation below it!)
August 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Margaret Rossiter, whose #histsci scholarship revealed structural inequalities affecting #WomenInSTEM, has passed away. Dr. Rossiter was co-founder of @historyscience.bsky.social’s Women’s Caucus & namesake of a prize honoring work on the history of women in science. May her memory be a blessing.
August 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Necklace with Pendant of Aphrodite Anadyomene
Gold and lapis lazuli/early 7th century
At Dumbarton Oaks
August 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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For #internationalowlawarenessday here are some owls I painted on glass from my book Wild Folk written by Jackie Morris and now free falling after our publisher went into administration.
August 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Today is #InternationalOwlDay From our collections:

🦉 Ceramic vase by Sally Tuffin for Moorcroft
🦉 A Doulton & Co. Ltd jar and lid
🦉 Tudric owl jug by Liberty & Co

#OwlishMonday
August 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...
Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives
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August 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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This is bloomin' lovely and brilliant! A short animated film on where we came from to show your littles.
July 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Anyone for #cricket? Concening news about management of iconic #Fenner's ground in #Cambridge and difficult access for players and training. Covered in Telegraph and CI July 8 and 16 www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/eb8c037...
July 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Ashley
Photographer East Coast of Australia
"Here's a little #wildlifewednesday moment for you, filmed only an hour ago, as this gorgeous humpback descends into the water right on sunset, ready for the night to take over"
July 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Katharine McCormick funded the research that led to the first birth control pill. Her investments were guided by a long-term vision of societal advancement, not just immediate results. She empowered generations of women to take charge of their futures. #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM
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The Forgotten Mother of the Contraceptive Pill
As reproductive rights continue to be under siege, we remember Katharine Dexter McCormick, a key figure in expanding access to birth control pills in the U.S. At one point in the late 1940s or early '...
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July 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Armed with boxes of slides & a fine speaking voice, Henry Sara toured local halls & workers' institutes in the 1920s & 1930s, speaking of revolution

From #BastilleDay to the Soviet Union, via 'The Fraud of Spiritualism', surviving slides for his talks are online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
July 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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It's hot AF but I still made cake. The bananas said I had to. www.glutenfreetranquility.com/gluten-free-...
Gluten free Banana Cake
Gluten free banana cake with cream cheese frosting is so good and the perfect combination of flavors. Makes a delicious banana snack cake.
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July 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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It is so important to look after and cherish our historic places, and use them for what they are designed to be. Fenner’s is the premier Cambridge cricket ground and should be enjoyed to the full by the whole Cambridgeshire cricketing community. #testmatchspecial #cricket
See @TImWig's article in the Telegraph about the strange story of the demise of cricket at the iconic Fenner's ground in Cambridge www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2025...
July 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM