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Historian @unisouthwales & @unisouthampton | postdoc @ntvhistory | writing a book on Britain’s nuclear test veterans | mostly photos of Reg 🐈‍⬛⬆️. she/her

Southampton, England
Joined July 2012
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Dr Fi Bowler
10 months
So excited to say that I’ve signed a contract with @LivUniPress for my first book, “The British Nuclear Test Veteran”, which will use oral history narratives to document the history of the ntv community in the UK. 🎉📚
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6 months
We’re currently fostering the world’s most criminal cat and this is a thread of his various exploits over the last month.
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6 months
Not to alarm anyone but as of this afternoon Reg has worked out how to open doors
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26 days
I got him a bow tie to go with his tuxedo
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3 months
He likes to be held up to inspect the corners of the room
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5 months
Guess who walked across my laptop and logged me out of my meeting this morning
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16 days
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like working from home with cats it normally looks something like this
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3 months
This is my parents’ cat. He’s called Percy and he weighs the same as a small horse.
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17 days
Percy has just had his first thought. Please give him space during this difficult time.
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4 years
Presented without comment
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22 days
Reg jumped out of the bedroom window then stood on the roof and yelled until I got a ladder and helped him get down
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21 days
Six months ago today I brought home a skinny, sickly tuxedo to foster. Now he’s mine and I’m his and he causes absolute chaos. Wouldn’t have it any other way ❤️
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3 months
Guess who’s been dipping his paws in the pasta sauce
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5 months
Right well I should’ve seen this one coming
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8 days
How your email finds us
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3 months
The chair never stood a chance
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5 months
Good morning from Reg and the egg box he stole from the recycling bin at some point in the night
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3 months
There is nothing more terrifying than turning round to find a cardboard box with eyes and a vendetta
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5 months
Just popping a load of washing on for us
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2 months
Absolute mystery where Reg is today. I fear we may never know.
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6 months
Showing Reg all his fans
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5 months
Things I’ve had to say to Reg so far this morning: - that curry is not for you - ⁠get out of the washing machine - ⁠get off of the washing machine - ⁠don’t lick the toolbox - ⁠that one is your destruction shoe - ⁠seriously, stop licking the toolbox It’s half past eight.
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4 years
2020 has peaked with me emailing my therapist Gavin asking for a session and then accidentally sending the email to Gavin Williamson MP and Secretary of State for Education
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4 months
Oh yeah also I’m keeping the tiny criminal
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4 years
Special mention this morning goes to the guy in a van who shouted “cheer up, love, it might never happen” at me when we are quite literally in the middle of a pandemic.
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5 months
Me and Reg reading your tweets about us
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2 months
This is my parents’ other cat Freya. She has an expensive fur coat, 7 mysteriously deceased husbands and a plethora of alibis.
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3 months
Asked this guy to come and look at my extractor fan. He’s been sniffing it for twenty minutes and he just charged me £750?
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4 months
*We* are brushing *our* teeth
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22 days
Me: I would never spoil the cat Also me:
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4 months
Reg officially graduated from foster care on Tuesday, so I let him borrow my PhD cap for a photoshoot. It went about as expected.
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10 days
He makes his bed every morning
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11 days
Living with Reg is like having a little one man comedy sketch in your front room
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4 months
My favourite genre of text is my dad texting me about the family cat
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5 months
It is a truth universally acknowledged that one of Reg’s paws will always be suspiciously wet at any given time
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2 months
I wonder if he knows how loved he is
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5 months
Reg is home alone today. Fully expecting to come back to this tbh
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1 month
I need to brush my teeth but first I must answer the sink gremlin’s three riddles
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1 month
He has a passion for fiction
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5 months
Jon took these photos of me hugging Reg last night and we’ve been laughing about them ever since
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3 months
Reg, seeing a sink he is not currently sat in: yeah I need to sit in that
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1 month
Babe the door is literally open
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4 months
My coworker has some very distracting habits
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4 months
To be loved is to be changed ❤️
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4 months
Apprehended a criminal this morning for attempted theft
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3 years
Sending off draft PhD chapters to my supervisors
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5 months
“Your Honour my client is innocent, no jury would convict.” Sir your client has eaten half of the jury and is attempting to bap the other half off of the nearest high surface.
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2 months
*We* are getting ready to go out
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5 months
Felt a strange sense of being watched as I took the bins out
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2 months
Guess who just climbed out of an upstairs window onto the roof and made me climb out after him to drag him back inside by his front leg
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4 months
Me: Why is the wifi not working? Reg, arse first on the router: No idea boss
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18 days
The kitchen inspector is in
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5 months
Well this can only go well
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5 months
House didn’t burn down but the welcome home was slightly… ominous
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5 months
Apologies for the radio silence, I’ve been dealing with some very difficult personal news. Reg is all good, currently snuggled in his drawer bed in the utility room like a little gremlin.
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2 months
He’s going to be late for work (crimes)
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2 months
He’s redecorating
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28 days
If I don’t pay him enough attention he just comes up to me, grabs my arm and bites it
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5 months
Laundry by Reg: a four part photo essay
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16 days
I don’t think he wants me to go out
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6 months
Tea towels 0 - Reg 3729
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4 months
A double-whammy today: mysteriously wet and mysteriously orange (?) paw
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3 months
Never a moment’s peace in this house.
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5 months
Us: Do you want to come over? Our friends: Will Reg be there? Us: ….Yes Them: We’ll be there in five
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2 months
Car insurance man: And is there anyone else in your household? Me: I have a cat but he won’t be driving the vehicle.
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5 months
Someone asked if Reg allows belly rubs and I thought the people deserved an answer. Volume up for purrs.
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2 months
Imagine pulling a box out from under your bed and finding Freya asleep in it, because that is what happened to my neighbour
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3 months
Why’s he so proud about it
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4 months
Reg’s morning tally - selfies: 1, crimes: 73
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3 months
Good morning we are ready to face life’s trials and tribulations
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6 months
Lots of people telling me to get Reg more toys to keep him occupied. He has them. So many. He chooses crime over toys every moment of every day and I love him for it.
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3 months
“Tell Cersei, I want her to know it was me”
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3 months
Had some friends round yesterday for a BBQ. Reg had opinions about it.
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6 months
Anyway, he’s really cute and we love him a lot, even though he’s nearly destroyed our house and our sanity.
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4 months
Reg is not a fan of the postman
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3 months
If you pet Reg just right he does the open mouth of joy
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3 months
There’s a bug on the ceiling
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4 months
Our new album drops next week
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4 months
Yeah half marathon training would be going great if the cat would Stop. Eating. My. Shoes.
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5 months
Bit of a chaotic afternoon at the caravan park today
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6 months
Woke up the next morning to find he’d stolen some scissors and brought them into his bed with him
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1 month
Do you know someone who lives a lavish lifestyle, but doesn’t have a job? Your intelligence is vital in helping us put those who think they’re 'untouchable' before the courts. Find out how here-
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2 months
No, no it’s fine Reg, I didn’t need to make the bed anyway
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9 days
In the caravan of shame for committing crimes (dragged all the tea towels into his water bowl)
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4 months
I don’t know what he’s doing but he’s doing it with style
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4 months
He’s so perfect (and criminal)
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2 months
Caged for his crimes
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1 month
He likes to be tall
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5 months
Do any journalists want to write a piece about Reg, his destruction and the amazing work Cats Protection does? I can provide photos of the tiny crime lord 🙏
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6 months
And he will scream if you take him out
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23 days
Oh my sweet summer child…
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7 months
Everyone say welcome to our new foster cat Reg. He is very small and looks quite angry but is in fact a sweetheart
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5 months
Reg really said 🟠🟠
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3 months
It’s called fashion, look it up 💅
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5 months
Reg would like it on record that the water bowl started it
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3 months
Once again my coworker is proving difficult to work with
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3 months
Hole in Net Curtains by Reginald Manicvandal III (Mixed media, 2024)
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6 months
Bonus footage of his anti-tea towel campaign
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2 months
Dad and Reg update: two weird little guy besties 👯
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3 months
Dad, trying to get the cat to like him: it’s okay, I’m just a weird little guy too
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2 months
Why does he look so displeased when he is the perfect shape to cuddle
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5 months
Tragically another victim of Reg’s crime spree has been discovered
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4 months
Reg fell face first into a smoothie this morning
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