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Lucy Whitfield @katchuri
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Ellie Eagle-Skinner@serenceinwyn
17 Jul 2024
I have a small following but I’d really appreciate if any of you can retweet the poster for my husband’s debut #edfringe show. It’s a brilliant show with stories jokes & music about the adventures of being a folk singing comedian when you’re blind. @MichaelRosenYes can you help?
A blue poster with black and white photos of David with a microphone and his accordion. The title is David Eagle The Eagle is Candid and it’s on every night at 21:30 at Cabaret Voltaire in Edinburgh

ALT A blue poster with black and white photos of David with a microphone and his accordion. The title is David Eagle The Eagle is Candid and it’s on every night at 21:30 at Cabaret Voltaire in Edinburgh

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Spent part of today researching & learning about the fabulously-named Freelove, who ran this pub in Bradford-on-Avon. With that name, you'd be forgiven for thinking she came from the 1960s, but she was born in about 1823 near Semington, and ran The Plough in the 1850s & 60s.
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or Thermuthis and Quevedo even if their parents were farmers or bankers, and it could be that her name came via that route. Or her parents were wider thinkers of the day in the 1820s.
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Still, the name Freelove for me always brings to mind the character of Topaz from Dodie Smith's I Capture The Castle, as a hippy before her time, and in my mind's eye she inhabits some of that book's lovely images.
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Things your pet genealogist thinks about while she can’t sleep… …that the Bridgerton siblings’ names are all far too Catholic to be authentically aristocratic for the period in which it’s set, and what those names really should be. What would your guesses be?🧵
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And Hyacinth is a bit out there even in the early 19th century, so to fit she’d probably have been Harriet or Henrietta. So, there we are: Arthur, Benjamin, Charles, Diana, Elizabeth, Frances, George and Harriet – the new, more correctly named, Bridgertons.
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And now, perhaps, I might get some sleep.
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A couple of months ago, I had a work experience student. We did a deep dive into women-friendly industrial workplaces & turned up Elise Hassan - manageress of Warminster Castle Laundry. Quite a tale - paralysed parents, Tiger Bay, shipwrecked husbands... wordpress.com/view/thewomenw…
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I didn't wake up this morning and expect to be discussing gender politics and Mr Men/Little Miss books live on the radio. But poke the specialist women's historian... 1hr8min in. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0hxsg…
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