Dr Claire Cunnington

Guess how many people stayed overnight in one of these lodging houses on Flower and Dean Street London in 1881.

Ooh do go to this exhibition if you are in London.

Overview and 1st findings on how general audiences engage with fiction which depicts CSA'
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Every day I read new revelations about Epstein's connections. I am exhausted. Those of us who know about the terrible things some men and women do, know all of this. What I want to see are some consequences for their selfish choices. We live the consequences every day. When will they face any?

How to piss off all sexual offenders.
#BelieveVictims

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A gingerbread castle

A half eaten gingerbread castle and the hands that destroyed it.

Gingerbread castle ---> gingerbread ruin. #tinyjoys

The voice acting is so good on it too. You'll know who I mean! Plus the fighting is great and there's romance too. Give it a go. You can blame me if you don't like it. 🙂

I haven't played BG3 (I've just bought it but I need to be vaguely sociable over christmas!) but DOS2 is my favourite game ever...so far. Rumour has it BG3 might beat it though!

Tonight the kids and I planted some seeds then lit a candle to make wishes. It's our solstice tradition. As it is lightening up from now on I wished for that. It's been an absolute shit of a year for me and lots of others. Thankfully the wheel keeps turning.

Divinity original sin 2?

Thanks! I'll have a read. Trauma and creativity is another area I want to research.

Remembering Our Dead - Reports 1 Nov 2024 to 20 Nov 2025

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I would love to research spiritual beliefs after childhood trauma. I know I was very angry with a God I said I did not believe in. #academicsky

I'm 55. Britain was definitely not better 50 years ago. I suspect it might have been better 20 years ago though.

If you're in the UK and trying to go anywhere by train today...don't. I had 2 trains to catch today. First one was cancelled, second one tree fell on the line.

I have been trying to trace the parents of an exploited girl from 1885. She was born in Dublin and I had some info thanks to @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social I was just about to give up, as the Irish records are so patchy, when I had a breakthrough! Both #researchthrills and #sadstory. #academicsky

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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record. “If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”

Her adoptive dad had sexually assaulted her for years. But when Taylor Cadle told police, she was treated like a “monster.” She was charged with lying to the police and had to write an apology letter to her abuser.

Justice finally came when Taylor took her phone and hit record.

Super interesting talk by @carolinederry.bsky.social and @drcisme.bsky.social last night complemented by items from Josephine Butler archive. The parallels with what's going on today were striking.

It was lovely to meet you too @carolinederry.bsky.social and look at the original letters.

An NHS chatbot has asked for my consent. I have clicked 'yes I consent' and it told me it cannot proceed as I have not consented.

Chatbots are SO reliable. Remind me again why we should all welcome AI?

All ready to go for this talk on Thursday. Really looking forward to it. Squeee!

That’s no ballroom…

Interesting! What on earth is going on? Politics again presumably. As usual I wish victims/survivors weren't politically exploited.

Looking forward to this!

Writing about the murder of a child is hard because you don't want to use the old tropes, it does need to be included in my book and, on a personal level, it breaks my heart.