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Catherine Bridges

@Cathey2012

I live in London and I love History, Museums, and culture, Victorians, Elizabethans.American and British History

 London, England
Joined September 2012
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The Spitalfields Nippers show the East End before the welfare state newstatesman.com/culture/201…

The Spitalfields Nippers show the East End before the welfare state

Horace Warner's photographs of the Spitalfields Nippers shows what happened to some of society's most vulnerable - and reminds us of the value we must place on their protection.

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Gestapo impostor tricked Nazi sympathizers in WWII bit.ly/1rsCmq8
Mass murderer's girlfriend who was jailed after accompanying him on 1950s killing spree set to ... dailym.ai/12j0B5m via @MailOnline
Mass murderer's girlfriend who was jailed after accompanying him on 1950s killing spree set to ask...

Mass murderer's girlfriend who was jailed after accompanying him on 1950s killing spree set to ask...

Caril Ann Fugate (left) was just 14 when she accompanied Charles Starkweather (right) when he killed 11 people beginning in 1957. She was jailed for being an accessory to murder.

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Germany: a bike ride along the Cold War borderlands | via @Telegraph fw.to/uFjStQE
Photos of atomic war preparation attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki dailym.ai/ZtQsRJ via @MailOnline
Photos of atomic war preparation attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Photos of atomic war preparation attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Previously unseen pictures reveal the preparations in the hours leading up to the US nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in August 1945.

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London At War: The First Bombs To Hit Central London disq.us/8kllf6
Columbus Day: 'How is this still a thing?' wapo.st/10Oc4ZP via @washingtonpost
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Red Fox Genome Reveals Evolutionary History po.st/Dk3EVi via @po_st
Rediscovered Slides Show Victorians Knew How to Get Silly In Front of the Camera: petapixel.com/2014/10/08/red…
Rediscovered Slides Show Victorians Knew How to Get Silly In Front of the Camera

Rediscovered Slides Show Victorians Knew How to Get Silly In Front of the Camera

Funny faces and unusual antics in front of a camera might be more prevalent now than ever before, but if you think our Victorian ancestors didn’t have fun

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Pancake flap: 'Aunt Jemima' heirs seek dough usat.ly/1vJZxlK via @usatoday
Pancake flap: 'Aunt Jemima' heirs seek dough

Pancake flap: 'Aunt Jemima' heirs seek dough

Descendants say their great-grandmother helped create recipe, was exploited.

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Soaring immigration sparks British baby boom dailym.ai/1CRp5zD via @MailOnline
Soaring immigration sparks British baby boom

Soaring immigration sparks British baby boom

The number of babies being born has dropped across the EU since the financial crash. But the UK has bucked the trend, with soaring birth rates in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds

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Chilling image of 'Grey Lady ghost' captured in archway by couple visiting courtyard at castle ... dailym.ai/1CRbCYw via @MailOnline
Chilling image of 'Grey Lady ghost' captured in archway by couple visiting courtyard at castle...

Chilling image of 'Grey Lady ghost' captured in archway by couple visiting courtyard at castle...

Dean and Amy Harper believe they have pictured the 'Grey Lady', who has supposedly haunted Dudley Castle in the West Midlands for centuries.

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50 great things to do in America | via @Telegraph fw.to/0ITtk1j
Bid to make biggest Scotch egg in history - Edinburgh Evening News: edinburghnews.scotsman.com/l…
Striking photos reveal hidden history of black Britons in the Victorian era cnn.com/2014/10/06/world/bla…
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The world's rudest buildings: structures bound to amuse the immature among us bit.ly/1wqZETI
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Armoured fish living in a Scottish lake were the first to have sex, 385 million years ago ind.pn/1usPZr6
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Small fire damages historic clipper Cutty Sark: bit.ly/1FpSxPv via @col_telegram
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