Dr Trixie Gadd
@trixiegadd.bsky.social
Historian working on clerical lives in 17th-century Dorset. Academic proofreader. Walker and knitter.
‘They car-bombed my house – there’s not much more they can do’: the astonishing podcast taking on illegal bloodsports www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘They car-bombed my house – there’s not much more they can do’: the astonishing podcast taking on illegal bloodsports
After 20 mutilated animal corpses were left outside a rural primary school, the creators of award-winning podcast Buried began investigating – with a little help from Chris Packham. It plunged them in...
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Here it is! Coming to a bookshop near you in mid-August. Our new book on The Ritual Year, published by the wonderful @grantabooks.bsky.social who are an absolute pleasure to work with. #booksky
EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come www.bl.uk/stories/news...
EThOS records restored
We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.
bl.uk
One of my fave things in York Minster: a medieval wren stalking a spider. It reminds me that history isn't only kings and battles. Someone, centuries ago, found joy in the same things we still notice today. It's a reminder of how much we have in common over our differences.
#ChancelArchTuesday & this week - a rather incredible easter egg from the small village of Godmanstone, Dorset (if you know the answer, hands down - no spoilers) a 🧵👇
An excellent morning for lepidoptera: large skipper, red admiral, silver-studded blue, speckled wood and peacock on a short walk round the local heath.
Nightmare for a friend of mine in London. Please share.
It's getting real! Don't worry, there will be an #OpenAccess version so anyone can access without charge. www.routledge.com/Alice-Thornt... @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social @hagenilda.bsky.social
Alice Thornton’s Books: Reassessing the Life Writings of a Seventeenth-Century Woman
This book is the first dedicated study of Alice Thornton (1626–1707) and her life writings, offering unprecedented insights into how one early modern woman revised and reshaped her life story over 40 ...
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Trying something new: feeding old print gazetteers through modern OCR + open LLMs + our newly-expanded index to see how much can be turned into searchable, mappable data. Read more at blog.whgazetteer.org?p=434 Play with it: worldhistoricalgazetteer.github.io/gazetteer-of...
🕵️We're transcribing and geocoding all 7 volumes of "A Gazetteer of the World" (1856), a monumental work edited anonymously by "a Member of the Royal Geographical Society" @rgs.org - can anyone suggest who that might have been, and why they might not have been named? archive.org/details/agaz...
Come and hear about 17th-century Dorset - tickets available now.
Great concert by @bournemouthso.bsky.social tonight, and huge thanks for streaming the post-concert Q&A as well.
#HillfortsWednesday A change this week, Roger Sewill and his pony Scarlet are on a three week trek to visit every hillfort in Dorset www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The excellent Tess of the Vale’s website has a map of these to enable you to visualise the journey tessofthevale.com/product/dors...
Dorset Hillfort Map - Tess Of The Vale
Map of the county of Dorset featuring all possible Iron Age hillforts found to date (2024).
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I was very lucky to catch two birds I rarely see up close this morning - a greenfinch in nest-building mode and a surprisingly quiet chiffchaff.
Medieval Markets & Fairs in England & Wales: remember the excellent dataset published back in 2003? I've given it a snazzy new interface, incorporating various updates which were made following publication. Separately, I'm working on extending it to 1846... ihr-digital.github.io/markets-and-...
Curlews are in crisis. Ground-nesting birds aren’t fledging enough chicks due to farming, predation, development & climate change. Saving them means tackling our biggest environmental challenges. Join our FREE webinar with Mary Colwell @curlewaction.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1983671521...
On World Wetlands Day, my local marsh has become more wet than land. Don't think I'll be eating my sarnies on the marooned bench any time soon.
Does your church have an issue with dogs wandering in? Get yourself some LAZY TONGS.
Fun piece by @justincolson.bsky.social and Werner Scheltjens. My job on this project is to turn messy medieval records into a tidy database so that my colleagues can more easily spot trends in fashion, industry, and commercial networks. theconversation.com/medieval-lon...
Medieval Londoners’ cheaply imported mass-produced Christmas gifts look surprisingly familiar
We often imagine medieval life as dull, dirty and short, with little in the way of material comfort or decoration. However, medieval Londoners were importing toys, treats and trinkets by the boatload ...
theconversation.com
For your collective delectation this holiday season: Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!) loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
loreandordure.com
Head on with a Swallow...this was not an easy image to capture... #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography
It's quiz time! This time we're getting a little spooky 👻🎃 Take our Halloween quiz, if you dare 👉 https://3081ca794b59.quillforms.app/forms/art-quiz-halloween 🧑🎨 William Blake (1757–1827) 📷 Tate
Our jam-packed programme is ready to go! Keep reading for more ⬇️
Ticket price includes a drinks reception at Ditchley Park, one of Oxfordshire's finest C18 country houses, and not normally open to the public. Plus: you'll be helping the VCH Oxon project on its way to completion! Please repost to your friends and followers and anyone who may be interested...
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.
Very excited to see that a flutter of gorgeous silver-studded blue butterflies has emerged on the same little patch of Dorset heathland as last year.
