The latest addition to the Kolonko-Weet family! This is Pumpkin, a rescued four year old Scottish Fold.

Just thinking about stuff. From a negative in my collection, no info/date.

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history? We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop. Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details! www.historyworkshop....

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Poppy has since passed away. She was 15. I like to think she's on her blue blanket in the afterlife.

I'm attending a conference this month at Cranfield University. I'm eager to learn more about how they are using genetic genealogy and biomolecular archaeological methods in conflict recovery and identification!

This is my plea: stop using colourised photos in the news and in books. Don’t encourage ‘fun’ distortions of historical images that could produce confusion, for the sake of clicks/likes. Accept historical images with all their flaws and gaps: they don’t need ‘correction’, they need interpretation.

I’ve written lots about the problems with historical photo colourisation (which also uses forms of AI). This is an extension of this practice (an extreme one) reliant on the same logic of emotional ‘impact’ outweighing veracity, and ignoring or refusing to accept the historical limits of imagery.

Mother and Baby Home archives to be digitised. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #uk #ancestry #genealogy #FamilyHistory

"DNA doesn't lie" But like any other data, it can be misinterpreted. #genealogy

New Documentary on DNA Doe Project. Disney has announced details on a new documentary from National Geographic, called “Naming The Dead.” It premieres on August 2, 2025, on the National Geographic channel. It will also stream on Disney+ and Hulu. buff.ly/URp164P #DNA #DNATesting #Genealogy

There's still time to submit an abstract for the RQG Conference 2026, Birmingham UK 25 April 2026 (deadline 16 Nov) our theme is 'Exploring the Past, Embracing the Future' #CFP #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #RQGConf26 wp.me/P5HycY-10w

I'm going to do the scary thing and submit a paper for the Register of Qualified Genealogists conference next year.

If you're asking an AI bot for answers, you're looking for a well-written Wikipedia page, not a dissertation or an expert working group. But the cool thing is that already exists, it's called a Wikipedia page, it's free and you can find them online.

"this product is good because it's like having a pocket full of PhDs" just suggests to me you've never actually been in a room with a bunch of experts on a topic. You think you're going to come away with a quick, simple, easy-to-digest summary of their expertise? Think again.

Huge well done to Chris for getting this done. If you don't know Chris's work, he's at the forefront of finding, recording and contextualising the physical remains of the world wars in this country - we don't call him Concrete Chris for nothing! 😁 #Archaeology 🏺 chriskolonko.wordpress.com

You may have seen the fantastic news about the WW1 pillboxes along the River Ant in Norfolk being awarded Grade II listed status For #ADayInArchaeology, @ckolonko.bsky.social takes us behind the scenes of the research and application that made it happen 👉 shorturl.at/Bba0W

What are you up to next Friday? Why not join us in researching a woman (or women) born in 1819…. Full details on our website www.fewforgottenwomen.com/1819

Still a little bit of space in tomorrow's workshop. Please RT! #Speirgorm #Fingal #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #DNATesting #AncestryHour #GenHour

According to a book I'm reading, there is mention of a Norfolk merchant family of the surname "Keynfford" in the Paston letters. However, the book has no sources for this and I cannot find any mention of this name (nor variations that I've tried) in the letters. Can anyone clarify for me?

Your brain works fine when you're under 25 (no matter how 'inconvenient' this fact may be) theneuroscienceofeve... The 'frontal lobe theory', that your brain isn't 'fully mature' until age 25, remains very influential... and almost entirely wrong. #Brains #Teens #development #Policy

What with all the news about PIP recently, why not learn more about the history of disability in Cambridgeshire with an online talk? It'll be on Wednesday 16th July at 7pm for Disability Pride Month. You can book on Eventbrite.

Campop blog #54: The 1960s sexual revolution brought new attitudes to pre-marital sex, but Simon Szreter argues that an earlier sexual revolution changed attitudes to sex within marriage, enabling a massive decline in family size @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/06...

Absolutely. Different laws, values, and attitudes can have an impact. Learn the history of each era and it'll give you more understanding of the person and their families.

Women have always worked. Sex before marriage has always happened. People have always moved from area to area. We're all genetically related to each other.

My #genealogy friends know what I’m going to say before reading the remaining words: Names were *not* changed at Ellis Island! 🗽

NC1 is about to be debated! parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...

Just watched my husband writing his book, and it impresses me how he flies into it.

Excellent week so far. A bbq with family, a pub lunch with my friends, and a sushi and champagne evening with my husband for our wedding anniversary.

Campop blog #53: the word 'spinster', like so many words for women, has derogatory implications. Amy Erickson describes its origin in an occupation so ubiquitous for women that it came to be used as a term for any unmarried woman @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/06...

Talk to the hand

@ckolonko.bsky.social and I had a fantastic time attending last night!

Had a lovely long lunch at Wagamamas with my 3 besties. Much needed as I feel refreshed.

Whilst my husband is busy at band practise, I'm busy organising our financial spreadsheets. I live a wild life.

Found this article from Coram (the foundling hospital) website coramstory.org.uk/explore/cont... which suggests it is abandoned. #AncestryHour - makes more sense when they seperately use the word stillborn too.

#18thcentury question: I came across a burial of a ‘Dropt Child’ at Westminster, 1768. It is next to the burial of a stillborn child. Is it a term for a miscarried baby? OED doesn’t have that meaning but does have a meaning of ‘abandoned’.

@domesticploddess.bsky.social Is Karen on here as well?

More than 100 of the UK’s most high-profile disabled people, including Liz Carr, Ruth Madeley and Rosie Jones, urge the Prime Minister to abandon the “catastrophic plans to cut disability benefits”. My exclusive in today’s Guardian: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Digitally Reconstructed: #Roman Roads That Shaped 1,000 Years of Travel Across Medieval #Britain search.app/ywDzn #Genealogy

Have you ever wondered why a #genealogy #speaker isn't at a #conference (or speaking at your local society)? There can be many reasons why your preferred subjects aren't being covered or a speaker isn't there, but here are a few of the more common:

"You could say... He's a SNP of the old block," I chuckle to myself #genetics #genealogy

Calling all #History departments of #Universities I am re-writing a piece on special collections that are useful when researching #FamilyHistory and #Genealogy Give your project (past/present) a shout out to ensure they’re included.

A tapestry with two Nereids (one of them holding a mirror), which is thought to have come from 5th- or 6th- century Egypt (per Dumbarton Oaks, where it is on display, though the findspot is unknown). It was very cool to be able to get so close to it and see all of this detail. 🏺

A lovely evening with @ckolonko.bsky.social, watching a dinosaur programme with the soothing, dulcet tones of Attenborough narrating.

"Scientists have successfully analysed the #DNA of two naturally mummified individuals from the #Takarkori rock shelter, in what is now southwestern Libya. Their findings reveal something extraordinary: these ancient people belonged to a previously unknown branch of the human family tree." #BBC

I'm stargazing at the end of the month at the Breckland Astronomical Observatory. I'm a novice, what tips or advice can those more expertised can give me? #astronomy

I'm at a point of getting fed up of seeing 'this important wartime thing was demolished and now I'm angry' posts on Facebook. So I've decided to try and educate people by making them aware of the actual situation and that it's not 'councils don't care' or 'are erasing our wartime history'.

BBC News - Norwich castle confirms summer opening after years of delays - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...