@serenaj1642
🇬🇧 Author, publisher, independent historian | British Civil Wars: biographer of Col Sir George Lisle | transcribing & publishing the 1640s English newsbooks | 🦋 Est. Sep 2023 As of 24 Apr 2025 account is inactive until/unless Bsky allows follower removal
It's a sunrise. It means the account is brand new, probably not more than a couple of days old.
Click on it, and a pop-up will tell you when the account was created.
My grandfather fought in Italy in 1944 and spoke much about mules. IIRC he even had to take an army course on muleteering so he knew how to handle them.
The title "Earl of Essex" seems to have cursed him and his son equally.
Ah, Bezos doesn't own the WSJ, he owns the Washington Post.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp owns the WSJ. Which IMO makes this headline even more interesting.
Oops. Time for a deep breath and a fresh coffee!
Eeesh, I feel your pain, Paul.
Before now I've had half the book typeset before someone remembered to tell me it was hardback size and not the standard softback 🥴
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Warmest congrats to you.
My gr-grandfather was a coal miner: he told my grandfather the mine was "no place for a man", and if he ever caught him near the pit, he'd throw him down it.
WW2 intervened & led Grf to other work opportunities, around the world - a huge relief to Gr-Grf, I'm sure.
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I genuinely hope that confused person appreciates the reintroduction, and now understands what you do.
Keep being you! You don't need to change what you do, or change who you are ❤️
Great news: the full rights to the Lisle bio have just been signed back over to me. So I can now think about revisions, which it sorely needs: it's 10 years old now.
Cheriton first, though; getting the THB website running again, and getting the newsbooks online.
Anyone know how I can clone myself?
In an infringement of copyright & total disregard for my livelihood, many of my academic publications have been taken without my consent to train AI. I stand with the @Soc_of_Authors Action.
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I certainly found it a huge challenge to stay sane & healthy, and maintain healthy work/life boundaries. In my case I also lived alone so had noone to tell me to take a break, and no other income but what I could pull in, which intensified the "must work myself to death to survive" mentality.
I hear you Rebecca, and see myself until I stopped freelancing a couple of years ago. You're right in every respect.
You mention no disturbance while working at w/ends, I pulled a lot of all-nighters at my desk, because nobody would pester me with emails at 2:30am!
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Whether genealogy, history, or any other discipline.
Always. view. the. original. document.
Never trust the third party, even if they are the UK GRO and the copy they give you is "certified" as correct.
Their incorrect transcription in 1997 threw us off track for nearly 30 years.
Visually impaired people can't see the image, so you add a text description to it that their screen reader equipment can read aloud to them.
It means they can still make sense of the conversation thread, join in with jokes etc.
If by lack of cohesion you mean there was no command & control linking Hopton's & Forth's forces then yes: Forth's gout mostly kept him off the field, & Hopton didn't have permission to command the Oxford contingent.
Thus noone oversaw the R wing, leading to the catastrophic incident with Bard. >>
<< Neither commander was fit to be on the field: Forth was very ill & had just told the King as much, & Hopton seems to have been having a crisis of confidence. Likely he was also in very bad shape physically after being severely blown up the previous July. After Cheriton he was effectively demoted.
<< Blindly following these accts equates to bad follow hygiene. It's like an infection. By following them, you're passing them on to your followers.
Of the dozens of empty acct follows that have swamped me, most came from just THREE people I follow (see the "followed by" info on the spam acct). >>
<< It seems that when you follow the empty acct, its handler/bot follows all YOUR followers, & if they follow it, it follows all THEIR followers. It's follow farming. Watch one over time. The acct will accumulate follows & followers but never do anything. >>
<< These 3 ppl are probably autofollowing everything in sight. I can't get mad, they have no idea, but I will be unfollowing them 😔
Yes, some genuine newbs don't do much at first. If you're unsure, wait to see if your new follower becomes a human. If it doesn't, it's probably a sockpuppet. BLOCK.
PLEASE, please, stop following the empty accts. You know the ones: no pfp, bio, posts, replies.
You know they're sockpuppets, right? Bad faith managed accts that quietly accumulate followers, before eventually going live to those followers as a spam or disinfo channel.
How does it work? >>
Thanks all, for reposts yesterday regarding legal advice 👍
(I've deleted the call-out now)
Ha! Sounds like me, I can only decipher mine because I remember most of what I wrote, and use the letters I do recognise as a memory jogger!
Rather than use Signal they should have asked me to take minutes for them. There's no way in hell the best cryptographer would ever decipher my handwriting without me there to explain 👀
I'm looking for references to the smell of death, decay, and cadavers in the early modern period. Any pointers would be much appreciated!
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