Kathryn Baird
@Kathryn11Baird
Transcribes Pitman shorthand: diaries, postcards, letters. Useful, beautiful, fascinating. Author - Fifty Mysterious Postcards, published by The History Press
A podcast about postcards, Pitman shorthand, swearing, my Auntie Barbara, and lots more. Thanks to @devlin_jp for the morning we spent having a chat and for featuring my unusual hobby. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lif…
A 'Suffolk pink' house with handy postbox #PostboxSaturday
Dating advice from 1926 in an old autograph book. #AutographBookSummer 2025
I visited the Munnings Art Museum this week and delighted to see it had a convenient postbox #PostboxSaturday
Great news and a super poem about autographs #AutographBookSummer 2025
So pleased that my poem found a home in this Hobbies edition from @TheToyPress And in such nice company of chums @JohnHRice @dreambeastpoems @rrouillard @Beccabeccabecs @robwaltonwriter @dragontripper @FionaHalliday1 @escherrington @Jacqsalpoet @MelSzymanik
Who was Mildred Minshall who painted this picture in an old autograph book in 1923? #AutographBookSummer 2025
Happy #FingerpostFriday from Dedham, with extra helpful sign.
Today, I am wearing the stripy T-shirt similar to Jane's in 1976.
Old Ladybird Books updated. (‘Play With Us’ 1964 and 1976) Jane gives up walking alone in the country Artist: Harry Wingfield
Sid James came to a Summer Gala in my village in 1969 #AutographBookSummer 2025
Wore my postcard necklace yesterday on a visit to @AlfredMunnings Today, I’ll be relaxing just like Violet, the artist’s wife, before writing postcards.
I'm very fond of this Alice in Wonderland illustration in another old autograph book. It's #AutographBookSummer 2025 - don't miss out!
Is this an example of a cat with a job? Rare sighting of an 'incidental cat in estate agent's particulars' guarding the stairs.
Written in my autograph book on the day I left primary school. (I should have posted this yesterday - 22 July) #AutographBookSummer 2025
Illustrating the need for a risk assessment before kissing in a hammock in 1923. #AutographBookSummer 2025
In an old autograph book. Signed M Marshall 1.1.24 #AutographBookSummer 2025
Lovely!
#AutographBookSummer My mother told her friends she would never marry but would live in a house with lots of cats
Another autograph from 1969 when Julian Mitchell, Iris Murdoch, Adrian Henri and Roy Fuller came to my school. 2025 #AutographBookSummer
Adrian Henri came to my school in 1969. I had my autograph book handy and he must have asked me how to spell my name. 2025 - #AutographBookSummer
In my bid to make 2025 ‘autograph book summer’ I share Iris Murdoch’s autograph from 1969 (when she came to my school with Adrian Henri) and Richard Coles’ autograph from 2017. @RevRichardColes (Also a few drawings by VTM in a much older autograph book)
Mr B is back from his walk. He took this photo of the River Nene (it’s pronounced Neen here) at Elton.
