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Joanna Foster

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Head of fabtic, working with children, young people and practitioners. Author of 'Children and Teenagers Who Set Fires'. Proud to be Valleys Welsh in England.

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A compostable food carton featuring the logos of Bertie’s Cheesecake and Zooteek deli.

A compostable food carton featuring the logos of Bertie’s Cheesecake and Zooteek deli.

Breakfast on the go courtesy of Zooteek deli and Bertie’s burnt Basque cheesecake, #StNeots

Naughty but nice

#SaturdayVibes

14.03.2026 10:32 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Wood sculpture of a standing female figure with raised fist salute

Wood sculpture of a standing female figure with raised fist salute

#WOMENSART blog:

Elizabeth Catlett: Homage To My Black Sisters womensartblog.wordpress.com/2016/11/10/e...

#WomensHistoryMonth

14.03.2026 04:25 👍 256 🔁 40 💬 2 📌 0
Monochrome photograph featuring a crowd of woman sitting on grass a woman near the front holds a placard with writing 'Eve was framed'

Monochrome photograph featuring a crowd of woman sitting on grass a woman near the front holds a placard with writing 'Eve was framed'

Women's liberation protest sign, New York, August 26, 1970. Tens of thousands of women marched along Fifth Avenue to Bryant Park to demand equal opportunity in employment and society #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

13.03.2026 05:45 👍 444 🔁 93 💬 2 📌 4
Firefighters lining up a ladder ready to install nesting boxes

Firefighters lining up a ladder ready to install nesting boxes

Firefighter on a ladder installing house martin nesting boxes

Firefighter on a ladder installing house martin nesting boxes

Firefighters in Charlbury have installed house martin nesting boxes as part of ladder practice. The boxes were fixed below eaves awaiting the arrival of the birds later this month. Charlbury Wildlife Society reports the martins are already regulars at (the eaves of) the nearby Rose & Crown pub.

12.03.2026 11:44 👍 22 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1
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Helen Matthews (c. 1872–1950), Scottish artist, footballer & suffragette (below left), also recruited the first Black woman footballer in the UK. Emma Clark (below right) is thought to have made her debut for the British Ladies' Football Club in 1895. #WomensHistoryMonth ⚽️

12.03.2026 02:41 👍 272 🔁 54 💬 0 📌 2

Not only would I be happy to replace Churchill on fivers with a badger, I'd replace the Churchill statue in Parliament Square with a big bronze badger AND I'd replace Ed Davey with an ACTUAL badger coz it'd probably vote in less austerity.

11.03.2026 18:32 👍 492 🔁 76 💬 23 📌 5

@jonpountney1.bsky.social

This is the print I ordered

It’s a beauty!

11.03.2026 19:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Diolch, Jon. Perffaith / Thanks, Jon. Perfect.

It’s the print of a table in a cafe with the sun coming through a blind. I’ve sent you an email with my address.

Already excited to receive my brown paper packaging tied up with string…

11.03.2026 19:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Mahogany wood booth seating in a chip shop of blue and painted walls where the sun is streaming in.

Mahogany wood booth seating in a chip shop of blue and painted walls where the sun is streaming in.

A mug of tea alongside traditional style salt and vinegar cellars on a table.

A mug of tea alongside traditional style salt and vinegar cellars on a table.

Channelling my inner Martin Parr to best capture the vibe in this fabulous old fashioned chippie I’ve found in #Leicester

Friendly service, hearty food and prices as down to earth as the good folks and kids enjoying the treat of a chip supper on a school night

#Grateful

#JoyInTheLittleThings

11.03.2026 16:43 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120% from 2017 to 2025.

The top 1% now control $55.8 trillion in assets — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.

Meanwhile, millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.

Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

10.03.2026 23:00 👍 5259 🔁 2112 💬 183 📌 95

This constantly repeated scenario of hundreds of thousands fleeing from one bombed out location only to then be forced to flee from another. What a moral stain.

10.03.2026 17:14 👍 300 🔁 77 💬 2 📌 0
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Morning all

Manchester, October, 1962. Photographer Henri Cartier- Bresson.

10.03.2026 07:00 👍 125 🔁 18 💬 19 📌 2
Words written in white capital letters on a dusk sky that say, “If you never go, you will never know”.

Words written in white capital letters on a dusk sky that say, “If you never go, you will never know”.

Landed in Leicester where I’m working for most of the week

Like every new place I arrive, I seek out an eatery away from the high street for dinner

Tonight I enjoyed one of the best Tom Kha soups I’ve ever had

I’m proud to hail from the South Wales Valleys but my god, I love a multi-cultural city

09.03.2026 21:24 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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08.03.2026 20:16 👍 805 🔁 356 💬 49 📌 15
Black and white headshot of Maya Angelou with her head resting on her hands.

Black and white headshot of Maya Angelou with her head resting on her hands.

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.

In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, and how you can still come out of it."

~ #MayaAngelou

#MondayMotivation

09.03.2026 08:30 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Black and white photo of Maya Angelou.

Black and white photo of Maya Angelou.

“I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side.”

#SelfCareSunday this International Women’s Day as inspired by queen Maya Angelou

08.03.2026 18:22 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Black and white photograph from a 1977 protest march for International Women’s Day. A group of women carry a banner saying “Defend Women’s Rights”.

Black and white photograph from a 1977 protest march for International Women’s Day. A group of women carry a banner saying “Defend Women’s Rights”.

International Women’s Day began as a labour movement

15,000 women marched through New York City in 1908 demanding shorter working hours, better pay and the right to vote

In 1911, International Women’s Day was created for women around the world to demand their rights

#HerStory

#IWD2026

08.03.2026 08:28 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Welsh people very friendly - boys are lovely. Nicer than the English boys.

01.03.2026 12:37 👍 234 🔁 33 💬 4 📌 4
Textile banners with tbe text 'Girls say no to the bombs' with images of dives and peace and womens symbols

Textile banners with tbe text 'Girls say no to the bombs' with images of dives and peace and womens symbols

Banner by UK peace activist Thalia Campbell, a founder of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in 1981. She produced over 250 textile banners in activism for disarmament of nuclear weapons #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

07.03.2026 06:26 👍 452 🔁 111 💬 0 📌 4

I suddenly remember to notice my 7-year-old’s hand in mine: the warmth of it, the size - smaller than it will be when she is eight, larger than six. My heart is so full of the transient beauty of it, I almost can’t stand it.

28.02.2026 16:28 👍 93 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
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Morning all.

Photographer Robin Dale, Ulla Street Boot Boys. Middlesbrough 1970s.

06.03.2026 07:35 👍 146 🔁 20 💬 15 📌 0

I shall always remember the custodian who heard me read my oath aloud comment on how eloquently I had spoken

It put quite a spring in the step of this fresher from the South Wales Valleys

#Proud

#FirstGeneration

05.03.2026 17:53 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Resource packs including colourful craft items, jigsaws, stress balls, creative toys and six different books.

Resource packs including colourful craft items, jigsaws, stress balls, creative toys and six different books.

So very happy my latest resource packs have been landing in Manchester, Leicester and South Wales on #WorldBookDay

With stories of bear hunts, #Welsh dragons, dreaming big, courage, fire engines and the Great Fire of London, they can leave an impact on #children as needed as becoming #fire safe

05.03.2026 17:48 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I just messaged you and then remembered this! I messaged that I’m in Aberdare on Sat 28 March for a women’s art exhibition at the museum and wondered about being able to pick up my photographic print from you later that day, please? Pob lwc for tomorrow; gutted not to be there as I’m in Yorkshire.

05.03.2026 09:29 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

1/3

tucson.com/news/local/b...

04.03.2026 04:01 👍 2425 🔁 1546 💬 62 📌 158

Good morning my lovelies 💕

04.03.2026 06:42 👍 48 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0
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From Gaza to Iran, Children Have Always Been Sacrificed by Western Imperial Aims A US-Israeli strike on a elementary school in Minab reportedly killed at least 165 – mostly young girls who were only trying to learn.

"From Gaza to Iran, Children Have Always Been Sacrificed by Western Imperial Aims"

A US-Israeli strike on an elementary school in Minab reportedly killed at least 165 – mostly young girls who were only trying to learn, writes Fatima Bhutto for Zeteo:

03.03.2026 11:08 👍 1294 🔁 457 💬 50 📌 21
Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman on a scooter in a street facing left dressed in a long black dress and hat

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman on a scooter in a street facing left dressed in a long black dress and hat

In 1916, Florence Norman, a suffragette in London, used a motorised scooter known as a Autoped #WomensArt
Every month on Womensart is #WomensHistoryMonth 💙

03.03.2026 05:49 👍 827 🔁 179 💬 5 📌 14

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.

Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

02.03.2026 07:57 👍 5334 🔁 1147 💬 35 📌 21
Stitched banner saying “Welcome to Sheffield. Lesbian capital of the north”.

Stitched banner saying “Welcome to Sheffield. Lesbian capital of the north”.

Just one of many reasons why it’s always good to be working in God’s County

#WomensArt

#MondayMotivation

#Yorkshire

02.03.2026 07:50 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0