Good morning dear friends, I wish everyone happy, healthy, productive, safe and peaceful day. Lviv, Ukraine 🇺🇦

Except Mary, Jesus and Joseph were brown… Merry Christmas, everyone.

Tesla doesn't recongise Trade Unions. Apple doesn't recognise unions. Amazon is anti-union. McDonald's is anti-union. Starbucks is anti-union. Google is anti-union. Walmart is anti-union. The big corporations are not on your side.

The setting for my talk, 'Country Seats & Sporting Feats', at #TableyHouse this week, very grand, and some of the sporting items that were displayed from the archive to go along with the theme of my talk. Enjoyed it very much and delighted to have been asked back #FamilyHistory #SportsHistory

Great day yesterday at the Secrets and Lies conference, lots of lovely comments after my talk on tracing female ancestors, thank you to all who came along. Also enjoyed flying the @afewforgottenwomen.bsky.social flag with @janetfew.bsky.social and @helenshields.bsky.social More of the same today

Doris Storey the swimmer from Leeds who worked at Burton's who went to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin who won 2 gold medals at the 1938 Empire Games in Sydney. 👇 BBC News - 'Our Olympian grandma from Leeds refused to stand for Hitler' - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#LeavingMyKitchen - well left my kitchen a day or two ago! 30th Anniversary cake for brother & wife Red velvet cake with vanilla/orange flavoured buttercream & handmade fondand, handpainted dog snouts peeking out from under a duvet [based on their favourite poster], bespoke topper to finish.

What a great talk on researching women's lives by researchdogsbody. Really well received by a packed house.

Big crowd for researchdogsbody. No surprise there.

New today on @playingpasts.bsky.social the concluding part of @dralexanderjackson.bsky.social's series on the life of Clarice Vizard "A man may be useful, but a woman is essential, in a pub.” Link 👉 bit.ly/3HH3vKJ @bssh.bsky.social #Football #WomensFootball @nfmofficial.bsky.social #WomenInSport

If you've ever wondered about publishing an article on @playingpasts.bsky.social and the numer of people who will read your work - then take a look at the latest metrics #Metrics #SportsHistory

Very proud of latest numbers on my @playingpasts.bsky.social website

Her name was Diana. She was 23 years old and 7 months pregnant. Russia murdered her today in an attack on the maternity hospital in Kamyanske.

It's funny but I cannot think of a sport where my personal interest is less in tune with my social media than F1. It's demonstrably a very physically and mentally challenging effort, there's a huge amount of skill, I respect the engineering, I just find it insanely, monumentally dull.

I used this Terry Pratchett quote at my father’s funeral in May. RIP Jota #YNWA

In a world that is increasingly multilingual, becoming a hyperpolyglot—a speaker of more than 11 languages—remains a rare, herculean feat.

Grifters, the lot of them, ppl who have no idea what real hardship is really like.

Be still my beating heart - NEW titles on the BNA/newspapers at FMP relating to #Cheshire 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝; 1857-66 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫; 1836-42 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞: 1891-92, 1894-96, 1898-1906 Updates 𝐇𝐲𝐝𝐞 & 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐩 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐥𝐲 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐝: 1889, 1897 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧: 1914-18

Very much looking forward to our inaugral 'Zooming in on Family History' discussion group at @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social - all members who registered an interest have received the zoom link Should be a lot of fun

Thinking about my favorite anti-war cartoon

Absolutely!👏👏✨🇬🇧🇪🇺

Official forecasts failed to predict that annual births would fall below 700,000 for the first time — 15 years earlier than expected. www.ft.com/content/1e72...

Don’t be fooled by pro-Putin propaganda, the Russian economy is hurting. youtu.be/jDoai2ItqnE?...

Silence Is Complicity Straighten your spine Speak & live your truth

We are delighted to announce that the #Crewe Research Centre move has been completed We are open again on Mon 9 June at 10am, with an open evening on Tue 10 June between 5:30-9pm - all welcome Find out more 👉 www.fhsc.org.uk/crewe-resear... Huge thanks to all volunteers who helped with the move

Nailed it✔️

This!!

Man of the people? The millionaire, right-wing, private schooled, city banker, who claims an EU parliament pension and pays his taxes in Belgium? You've been had by this grifter. Wake up and smell the Rubles!

Ursula von der Leyen speaks about Erasmus and young people traveling throughout the EU to learn and discover "Our task is to ensure that people realise how our respective traditions and characteristics are part of a greater whole" "And that this is precisely the core of our European identities"

Ursula von der Leyen, "I don't believe in lamenting the voters of extremes" "No, it is up to us to have the better arguments" "It is up to us to understand the reasons for their dissatisfaction" "We do not protect our democracy by defending the status quo" "We have to be drivers of change"