Andrea Dumbrell
@andreadumbrell.bsky.social
Museums, walks, and random industrial heritage.
Mainly in London but often elsewhere.
Walk Ambassador for Refugee Tales and likely to go on about it a bit.
Here's the fundraising page: https://www.justgiving.com/page/andrea-dumbrell-refugee-tales-2025
Mainly in London but often elsewhere.
Walk Ambassador for Refugee Tales and likely to go on about it a bit.
Here's the fundraising page: https://www.justgiving.com/page/andrea-dumbrell-refugee-tales-2025
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Andrea's Refugee Tales Walk 2025
Help Andrea Dumbrell raise money to support Gatwick Detainee Welfare Group
www.justgiving.com
In July I'm off on a 5 day walk with @refugeetales.bsky.social Why? To raise awareness of the impact of indefinite immigration detention. And hopefully raise some money too.
If you'd like to donate here's the link: www.justgiving.com/page/andrea-...
#RefugeeTales #Walking #CapitalRing #Solidarity
If you'd like to donate here's the link: www.justgiving.com/page/andrea-...
#RefugeeTales #Walking #CapitalRing #Solidarity
Lovely @refugeetales.bsky.social walk today in the Lee Valley
March 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Lovely @refugeetales.bsky.social walk today in the Lee Valley
March 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Good news: local wildlife is making a comeback in East London.
Hackney Marshes is seeing a revival of kestrels, weasels, shrews and other small mammals. This is great for our environment and communities as we continue to build a greener London for everyone.
Hackney Marshes is seeing a revival of kestrels, weasels, shrews and other small mammals. This is great for our environment and communities as we continue to build a greener London for everyone.
Hackney Marshes: Rewilding efforts sees 'overnight' animals rebound
Animals are returning to the Hackney Marshes following years of decline, environmentalists say.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Good news: local wildlife is making a comeback in East London.
Hackney Marshes is seeing a revival of kestrels, weasels, shrews and other small mammals. This is great for our environment and communities as we continue to build a greener London for everyone.
Hackney Marshes is seeing a revival of kestrels, weasels, shrews and other small mammals. This is great for our environment and communities as we continue to build a greener London for everyone.
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Flongs, spikes, NIBS... Remember these? A round-up of terminology from the early days of journalism, back when I was a lass. annasayburnlane.substack.com/p/flongs-spi...
Flongs, spikes, NIBs and dots per inch
Research for Death On Fleet Street
annasayburnlane.substack.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Flongs, spikes, NIBS... Remember these? A round-up of terminology from the early days of journalism, back when I was a lass. annasayburnlane.substack.com/p/flongs-spi...
Reposted by Andrea Dumbrell
We have hundreds of thousands of English Bluebells awake 🥳
However, if you zoom in to this photo you will see clear evidence of similar numbers just breaking ground 🥱
Also a lot are still waiting for their alarm clocks to go off 😴
However, if you zoom in to this photo you will see clear evidence of similar numbers just breaking ground 🥱
Also a lot are still waiting for their alarm clocks to go off 😴
March 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We have hundreds of thousands of English Bluebells awake 🥳
However, if you zoom in to this photo you will see clear evidence of similar numbers just breaking ground 🥱
Also a lot are still waiting for their alarm clocks to go off 😴
However, if you zoom in to this photo you will see clear evidence of similar numbers just breaking ground 🥱
Also a lot are still waiting for their alarm clocks to go off 😴
I just missed #MosaicMonday but here’s a picture regardless. One of the wonderful Paolozzi mosaics at Tottenham Court Road station #PublicArt
March 4, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I just missed #MosaicMonday but here’s a picture regardless. One of the wonderful Paolozzi mosaics at Tottenham Court Road station #PublicArt
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London was the first city in the Western world to host a Ramadan Lights display. It’s a powerful symbol of who we are as Londoners.
I’d like to extend my warmest wishes to Londoners and those around the world observing the holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan Mubarak.
I’d like to extend my warmest wishes to Londoners and those around the world observing the holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan Mubarak.
Ramadan Lights Return to the West End | Mayor of London Switches on the Dazzling Display
YouTube video by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan
youtu.be
February 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
London was the first city in the Western world to host a Ramadan Lights display. It’s a powerful symbol of who we are as Londoners.
I’d like to extend my warmest wishes to Londoners and those around the world observing the holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan Mubarak.
I’d like to extend my warmest wishes to Londoners and those around the world observing the holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan Mubarak.
I have apparently raised 33% of my fundraising target for the wonderful @refugeetales.bsky.social . I am suitably excited. If you want to help it on its way towards 50% that would be lovely www.justgiving.com/page/andrea-...
Andrea's Refugee Tales Walk 2025
Help Andrea Dumbrell raise money to support Gatwick Detainee Welfare Group
www.justgiving.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I have apparently raised 33% of my fundraising target for the wonderful @refugeetales.bsky.social . I am suitably excited. If you want to help it on its way towards 50% that would be lovely www.justgiving.com/page/andrea-...
Here is a photo of some #mud from the @refugeetales.bsky.social walk at the weekend. We walk regardless of weather! Want to donate to this great cause? See the link 🤩
February 25, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Here is a photo of some #mud from the @refugeetales.bsky.social walk at the weekend. We walk regardless of weather! Want to donate to this great cause? See the link 🤩
Wonderful #orchids at @rbgkew.bsky.social today!
February 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Wonderful #orchids at @rbgkew.bsky.social today!
Interesting article - why not give it a read?
‘Refugees will often have shown great courage, fortitude and ingenuity in the face of the obstacles placed in their way. Showing such virtues in order to escape oppression is not normally seen as evidence of bad character, rather the contrary.’
Christopher Bertram: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...
Christopher Bertram: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...
Christopher Bertram | Bad Character
There is a troubling disconnect between the deterrent rationale and the mechanism that will be used to deny citizenship...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Interesting article - why not give it a read?
This year’s @refugeetales.bsky.social walk will be passing by the home of the #EalingBeavers. So exciting! 🦫 🦫
Surely one of the most unexpected (and marvellous) gifts of London. A few hundred yards (if that) from a Central Line tube station can be found... a colony of beavers. Yes. In Ealing. This is their work.
February 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This year’s @refugeetales.bsky.social walk will be passing by the home of the #EalingBeavers. So exciting! 🦫 🦫
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The ghost village of #Tyneham yesterday. The residents were removed by the military in 1943 - and never allowed to return. We left at dusk, just before the gate to the long, narrow road was closed. I always expect to look back and see lamps lighting in the windows, smoke unfurling from chimneys...
February 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The ghost village of #Tyneham yesterday. The residents were removed by the military in 1943 - and never allowed to return. We left at dusk, just before the gate to the long, narrow road was closed. I always expect to look back and see lamps lighting in the windows, smoke unfurling from chimneys...
Oh February sunshine, how I love you 😎
February 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Oh February sunshine, how I love you 😎
Today’s work trip to @designmuseum.bsky.social to see the Barbie exhibition. Intrigued by the different stages of face painting and hair attachment #Barbie #DollDesign
February 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Today’s work trip to @designmuseum.bsky.social to see the Barbie exhibition. Intrigued by the different stages of face painting and hair attachment #Barbie #DollDesign
Today’s random find at the British Library’s medieval women exhibition. This may be the skull of Margaret of Anjou’s lion. How wonderfully bizarre. I love it 🦁
February 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Today’s random find at the British Library’s medieval women exhibition. This may be the skull of Margaret of Anjou’s lion. How wonderfully bizarre. I love it 🦁
Good afternoon. Here are two goats for you. #Goats #LondonZoo
February 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Good afternoon. Here are two goats for you. #Goats #LondonZoo
In July I'm off on a 5 day walk with @refugeetales.bsky.social Why? To raise awareness of the impact of indefinite immigration detention. And hopefully raise some money too.
If you'd like to donate here's the link: www.justgiving.com/page/andrea-...
#RefugeeTales #Walking #CapitalRing #Solidarity
If you'd like to donate here's the link: www.justgiving.com/page/andrea-...
#RefugeeTales #Walking #CapitalRing #Solidarity
Andrea's Refugee Tales Walk 2025
Help Andrea Dumbrell raise money to support Gatwick Detainee Welfare Group
www.justgiving.com
February 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
In July I'm off on a 5 day walk with @refugeetales.bsky.social Why? To raise awareness of the impact of indefinite immigration detention. And hopefully raise some money too.
If you'd like to donate here's the link: www.justgiving.com/page/andrea-...
#RefugeeTales #Walking #CapitalRing #Solidarity
If you'd like to donate here's the link: www.justgiving.com/page/andrea-...
#RefugeeTales #Walking #CapitalRing #Solidarity
Reposted by Andrea Dumbrell
This #free #online #training event, from @ihrlibrary.bsky.social and @ials.bsky.social, will be useful for anyone researching #migration and #refugee narratives - including our friends @refugeetales.bsky.social.
www.history.ac.uk/events/resea...
www.history.ac.uk/events/resea...
Researching migration and refugee narratives
www.history.ac.uk
January 28, 2025 at 8:53 AM
This #free #online #training event, from @ihrlibrary.bsky.social and @ials.bsky.social, will be useful for anyone researching #migration and #refugee narratives - including our friends @refugeetales.bsky.social.
www.history.ac.uk/events/resea...
www.history.ac.uk/events/resea...
Wonderful #StainedGlassWindow at St Mark's #Swindon. The photograph doesn't do it justice. I especially liked the two figures swinging thuribles which are emitting peacock feathers to represent the incense smoke.
February 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Wonderful #StainedGlassWindow at St Mark's #Swindon. The photograph doesn't do it justice. I especially liked the two figures swinging thuribles which are emitting peacock feathers to represent the incense smoke.
Trip to #Swindon today. So here's an acknowledgement of GWR at #PaddingtonStation
February 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Trip to #Swindon today. So here's an acknowledgement of GWR at #PaddingtonStation