Steph Birch

Awesome human, multifaceted interests and talents, modest too. Personal interest in skeletal dysplasia and lots of other stuff too

[Steph Birch @Birchroots]

@Ryanair I’m having an issue with payment for flights. Every method is being rejected. Can you advise?

[Denby Pottery @denbypottery]

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Thank you for all of your support.

[Steph Birch @Birchroots]

Rewatching Broadchurch with my now 18 year old. That cast was amazing.

[Steph Birch @Birchroots]

@denbypottery In 20 years of daily family use, we have only had 2 chips and 2 breakages - both caused by toddlers. It’s tableware built to last. I’ve just ordered replacements #SaveDenby

[Steph Birch @Birchroots]

@denbypottery @Baroness_Nichol We have a full Denby linen set from 2005, parents still using their Denby set from 1976. It’s an institution; sets each generation up for tableware. This isn’t something that should be lost

[Denby Pottery @denbypottery]

We need your help to #SaveDenby!
We are sad to share that we may be forced to close and a British institution could be lost.

We need your help:
1. Share this post
2. Sign the government petition
3. Buy Denby
4. Visit us at the Pottery Village

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[Steph Birch @Birchroots]

@PippaMusgrave1 If a previous owner asset stripped and loaded with debt … they no longer own the car parks; they’re now rented

But no doubt business rates and a NI increase will get the blame

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

"No woman or maiden shall be forced to marry a man whom she dislikes."

That's not a modern law.

That was written in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 over a thousand years ago.

Anglo-Saxon women had more legal rights than your great-grandmother. On the same island. A thousand years earlier. 🔑

She could own land. In her own name. Buy it. Sell it. Leave it to whoever she chose. No permission needed. Not from her husband. Not from her father. Not from anyone.

She could run a business. She could stand in an open-air court, raise her hand in oath, and the law would hear her the same as any man. ⚖️

On the morning after her wedding, her husband owed her a gift. Land. Money. Property. It was called the Morgengifu, the morning gift. It wasn't symbolic. It was legally binding. And it was hers. Not jointly owned. Not held in trust. Hers. Through everything. 💍

A woman called Wynflaed owned seven estates across four counties, her will still survives.

Cynethryth, wife of King Offa, struck coins bearing her own name and face. The only Anglo-Saxon queen known to have done it. The coins are still in museum collections. 🪙

Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, built ten fortified towns and led armies in battle. In the tenth century. ⚔️

While most of Europe treated women as property, this island wrote their rights into law. 🇬🇧

Then the Normans came. 1066.

And they took all of it away.

Every. Single. Right. 🚫

A married woman's property became her husband's. She couldn't own land. Couldn't sign a contract. Couldn't keep her own wages. Under the doctrine of coverture, her legal

identity was absorbed into his.
Bracton wrote it plainly: "husband and wife are one person, being one flesh and one blood."

In the eyes of the law, she didn't exist.

For over eight hundred years.

Let that satisfy. Eight. Hundred. Years.

In 1882, the Married Women's Property Act gave a married woman the right to own property, keep her earnings, and exist as a separate legal person. 📜

But Britain didn't invent those rights in 1882.

It restored them.

Rights that Anglo-Saxon women had exercised a thousand years before. On the same island, under the same sky, in a language that became the one you're reading now. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

This island forgot once.

We won't let it forget again.

Happy Mother's Day ❤️

Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

[Steph Birch @Birchroots]

Driving through Oxfordshire, multiple bins in every lay-by and the verges largely free of litter. Good!

Derbyshire has been the worst, Shropshire also looks grim.

More public bins, a deposit scheme to return bottles & number plates printing on drive through orders. Please!

[BBC Shropshire @BBCShropshire]

'Door handle height at gym means we can't get in' https://t.co/UQbuQlfCZc

[Steph Birch @Birchroots]

https://t.co/SoSr2uVxRJ

David Lloyd bought a local gym and pool, announced an £11m refurbishment and then made the building inaccessible

All 139 branches will have height restricted access from changing room to pool. This isn’t Equality

[Steph Birch @Birchroots]

“I’m sorry you feel that way” is not an apology. It deflects from accountability and shifts focus from what went wrong to how the complainant feels about it.

It is legitimate, and sometimes necessary, to say: that is not an apology.

[Steph Birch @Birchroots]

@miriam_cates I would welcome urgent clarification on this matter. Trusts for vulnerable people, such as children with disabilities, has long been a way to ensure money is used to meet the needs throughout their life. I expect most trusts have a parent as a trustee; this isn’t her 2nd home

[Steph Birch @Birchroots]

@Charlyf_81 Take care Charlotte, I hope the visit goes well

[Steph Birch @Birchroots]

@GeneticAll_UK Great to see EFTUD2 on there - there is so little information on MFDM. Hope this helps future families get support

[Steph Birch @Birchroots]

@StigAbell @Erwhatdidyousay You will need a vacuum or three

[Steph Birch @Birchroots]

@acondroplasia_ Esta es una noticia decepcionante, especialmente para las familias que han apoyado esta investigación.

[Jenni Russell @jennirsl]

Please read; the most important piece I've written. Mass poisoning has suddenly killed off most sea life for 30 miles by the Tees. The govt claims it's natural; ind scientists warn it's manmade. The govt is desperate not to inquire too deeply as its freeport policy is at stake.

[Steph Birch @Birchroots]

@Charlyf_81 Same stuff as the brand name Keppra? A close family member does

[Steph Birch @Birchroots]

@JaneyGodley My Grandma made these for me, which I loved. My kids don’t understand the attraction!