Stephanie
@stephanieoffer.bsky.social
Researching links between the Church of England in Croydon &the slave trade
Have ME, FM &mental health problems. Christian
Also into knitting, gardening #TheArchers
She/her
Formerly known as foggyknitter
Have ME, FM &mental health problems. Christian
Also into knitting, gardening #TheArchers
She/her
Formerly known as foggyknitter
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I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
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This week is #TransAwarenessWeek.
Trans people have the same right to freedom, joy, safety, and healthcare as everyone else. But in the UK and across the world, their rights are under attack.
We need to stand up to transphobia and guarantee everyone’s dignity.
Trans people have the same right to freedom, joy, safety, and healthcare as everyone else. But in the UK and across the world, their rights are under attack.
We need to stand up to transphobia and guarantee everyone’s dignity.
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This week is #TransAwarenessWeek.
Trans people have the same right to freedom, joy, safety, and healthcare as everyone else. But in the UK and across the world, their rights are under attack.
We need to stand up to transphobia and guarantee everyone’s dignity.
Trans people have the same right to freedom, joy, safety, and healthcare as everyone else. But in the UK and across the world, their rights are under attack.
We need to stand up to transphobia and guarantee everyone’s dignity.
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Gay Sheep Knitwear Show
"raising awareness of the prejudice of gay sheep through a 37-piece knitwear collection. The first ever gay wool show, with the tagline 'I Wool Survive,' will take place this week"
www.esquire.com/uk/style/a69...
#knitting #crochet #yarnsky
"raising awareness of the prejudice of gay sheep through a 37-piece knitwear collection. The first ever gay wool show, with the tagline 'I Wool Survive,' will take place this week"
www.esquire.com/uk/style/a69...
#knitting #crochet #yarnsky
Rainbow Wool | Farm EN
YouTube video by Rainbow Wool
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November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Gay Sheep Knitwear Show
"raising awareness of the prejudice of gay sheep through a 37-piece knitwear collection. The first ever gay wool show, with the tagline 'I Wool Survive,' will take place this week"
www.esquire.com/uk/style/a69...
#knitting #crochet #yarnsky
"raising awareness of the prejudice of gay sheep through a 37-piece knitwear collection. The first ever gay wool show, with the tagline 'I Wool Survive,' will take place this week"
www.esquire.com/uk/style/a69...
#knitting #crochet #yarnsky
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X is a radicalisation machine that pushes people into angry extremism, peddles disinformation and conspiracy theories and is run by an egomaniacal lunatic who threatens civil war on our streets and wants to trash our democracy.
It does nothing but harm.
So, yes. Government should stop using it.
It does nothing but harm.
So, yes. Government should stop using it.
🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it?
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
November 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
X is a radicalisation machine that pushes people into angry extremism, peddles disinformation and conspiracy theories and is run by an egomaniacal lunatic who threatens civil war on our streets and wants to trash our democracy.
It does nothing but harm.
So, yes. Government should stop using it.
It does nothing but harm.
So, yes. Government should stop using it.
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A photo for the class!
Groundwater level monitoring at Salisbury Cathedral.
Salisbury Cathedral, built in the 13th century, is the highest is the UK reaching up to 123m and is built on wet sand and gravel close to the river Avon.
Salisbury Cathedral, built in the 13th century, is the highest is the UK reaching up to 123m and is built on wet sand and gravel close to the river Avon.
November 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
A photo for the class!
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Check my new essay "The deepest South: Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history?" just published in @aeon.co Many thanks to historian Sam Haselby, who beautifully edited it #slaveryarchive aeon.co/essays/way-d...
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Check my new essay "The deepest South: Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history?" just published in @aeon.co Many thanks to historian Sam Haselby, who beautifully edited it #slaveryarchive aeon.co/essays/way-d...
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I didn’t know Neil had released his autobiography!
#TheArchers
#TheArchers
I try my hardest to stop buying books but sometimes it is just too difficult.
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I didn’t know Neil had released his autobiography!
#TheArchers
#TheArchers
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oh no it’s that day of the year again: the #hiddenbooksgame when i question whether i’ve ever read a book in my life 😬
November 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
oh no it’s that day of the year again: the #hiddenbooksgame when i question whether i’ve ever read a book in my life 😬
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My sole Police & Crime Commissioner story: on the day of the first PCC elections in 2012, I met the only Scottish person disappointed they weren’t having them introduced there: the pilot of the Fair Isle plane, who gets paid overtime to fly the ballot box to Lerwick every time there’s an election.
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
My sole Police & Crime Commissioner story: on the day of the first PCC elections in 2012, I met the only Scottish person disappointed they weren’t having them introduced there: the pilot of the Fair Isle plane, who gets paid overtime to fly the ballot box to Lerwick every time there’s an election.
Morrisons are to be congratulated on their world first - crossing a cow with a salmon
November 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Morrisons are to be congratulated on their world first - crossing a cow with a salmon
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Anyone available to preside for some Baptisms?
Please.
I'm basically begging you. 🥺
Please.
I'm basically begging you. 🥺
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Please watch & more importantly share this very cheeky, rather urgent request for £15k (ideally in one lump sum!)
I'm only on Bluesky so if anyone can post on any other social platforms that would be hugely appreciated @churchofengland.org @dioceseofyork.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social Thanks🙏
I'm only on Bluesky so if anyone can post on any other social platforms that would be hugely appreciated @churchofengland.org @dioceseofyork.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social Thanks🙏
November 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Please watch & more importantly share this very cheeky, rather urgent request for £15k (ideally in one lump sum!)
I'm only on Bluesky so if anyone can post on any other social platforms that would be hugely appreciated @churchofengland.org @dioceseofyork.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social Thanks🙏
I'm only on Bluesky so if anyone can post on any other social platforms that would be hugely appreciated @churchofengland.org @dioceseofyork.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social Thanks🙏
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#MorningPrayer
Grant us, Lord,
the wisdom and courage
to meet injustice
not with a desire
for revenge and retribution,
but with the strength
to expose it, name it,
and shame it.
Guide us not to play evil
at its own game,
but to show to all the way
of your justice, peace and love.
Grant us, Lord,
the wisdom and courage
to meet injustice
not with a desire
for revenge and retribution,
but with the strength
to expose it, name it,
and shame it.
Guide us not to play evil
at its own game,
but to show to all the way
of your justice, peace and love.
November 13, 2025 at 6:50 AM
#MorningPrayer
Grant us, Lord,
the wisdom and courage
to meet injustice
not with a desire
for revenge and retribution,
but with the strength
to expose it, name it,
and shame it.
Guide us not to play evil
at its own game,
but to show to all the way
of your justice, peace and love.
Grant us, Lord,
the wisdom and courage
to meet injustice
not with a desire
for revenge and retribution,
but with the strength
to expose it, name it,
and shame it.
Guide us not to play evil
at its own game,
but to show to all the way
of your justice, peace and love.
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Such an imaginative lead for heritage in Scotland. I saw similar graphic novel artists used to illustrate the Ad Gefrin Anglo Saxon museum in Northumberland in May. A hugely effective new way to communicate archaeology 👏👏
www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
Archaeologists and Game Designers Collaborate to Create “Basically the Best Book on the Picts Ever Written” - Dig It!
Carved in Stone: A Storyteller’s Guide to the Picts is an illustrated and comprehensive book for anyone interested in Scotland’s past, including those who play tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs). Fol...
www.digitscotland.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Such an imaginative lead for heritage in Scotland. I saw similar graphic novel artists used to illustrate the Ad Gefrin Anglo Saxon museum in Northumberland in May. A hugely effective new way to communicate archaeology 👏👏
www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
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Something I do wish non-historians would internalise is that (modern) historians are not (generally) just making shit up. We do in fact have sources and evidence and proof of things which have happened in the past
November 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Something I do wish non-historians would internalise is that (modern) historians are not (generally) just making shit up. We do in fact have sources and evidence and proof of things which have happened in the past
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A thoughtful and nuanced review (and I particularly appreciated the last columns’s brief take on morality and the C of E’s reparation scheme).
How do Lenny Henry’s arguments for reparations for trans-Atlantic slavery stand up to Lord Biggar’s arguments against them? Head-to-head review here:
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
A thoughtful and nuanced review (and I particularly appreciated the last columns’s brief take on morality and the C of E’s reparation scheme).
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Zadie Smith.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Zadie Smith.
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Doris Lessing: “A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.”
October 4, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Doris Lessing: “A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.”
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Could you be considered a casualty of the Wars of the Roses if you were killed by an old halberd falling off a wall or something
Now I’m wondering what’s the oldest possible war you could still considered to be a casualty of if you got injured on a weapon from it current day. Like is there a cutoff for this kind of thing. Because I would like to live to an old age and then go out with a good story so I’m just wondering
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Could you be considered a casualty of the Wars of the Roses if you were killed by an old halberd falling off a wall or something
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'Incendiaries' (1940-1945) by Paul Lucien Dessau
(Museum of London)
(Museum of London)
November 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
'Incendiaries' (1940-1945) by Paul Lucien Dessau
(Museum of London)
(Museum of London)
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NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
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always good to have a couple of strings to your bow
November 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
always good to have a couple of strings to your bow
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Trenches on the Somme
Mary Riter Hamilton
1919
Mary Riter Hamilton
1919
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Trenches on the Somme
Mary Riter Hamilton
1919
Mary Riter Hamilton
1919
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‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’
It was originally ‘ekename.’
‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”
Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.
Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'
It was originally ‘ekename.’
‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”
Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.
Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’
It was originally ‘ekename.’
‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”
Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.
Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'
It was originally ‘ekename.’
‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”
Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.
Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'