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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 6h

As fans of ‘FAN Club’ research in #FamilyHistory will know, it’s always a good idea to check out the neighbours of the person(s) you are looking into. This can apply when looking at tombstones and church monuments too, as this example (in two posts) from a #OnePlaceStudy shows. #OnePlaceWednesday.

Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 4d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 11: Military

The base of a tablet inside St Mary’s church at Fawsley (my local #OnePlaceStudy) gives strong military vibes! The tablet is dedicated to Richard Knightley (d. 1728) & family but has no details of military service. Nearby though, another tablet helps us out... [1/2]

Two photos, of different parts of the same memorial tablet, combined in one image. Above: The first part of the inscription on the upper part of the tablet, which reads: "Near this place lyes interr'd Richard Knightley of Fawsley Esq who married Elizabeth Waldron Daughter of Henry Waldron, Judge of the Island of Barbadoes by whom he had numerous Issue. Lucy Knightley, his Eldest Son who is now Possessor of Fawsley and at whose charge these Monuments were erected, Richard Elizabeth, and Deborah, are now liveing, all the rest dyed Infants." (Below these words, but not shown here, the inscription concludes: "His Second Wife was Mary Upton, by whom he had noe Issue, he departed this life the Ninth day of July in ye year of our Lord 1728 Aged 69." Below: Carved into the stone at the base of the memorial tablet are lots of objects described in one publication as "military trophies." They include the helmet of a suit of armour, a drum, numerous weapons including swords, pikes and firearms, plus - I think - one or two musical instruments.

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 5h

Opinion | Why is participation in museums so difficult?

Ideas and practices of participation have boomed in museums over the last 20 years, says Helen Graham, associate professor at the University of Leeds.

Why is participation in museums so difficult? - Museums Association

Ideas and practices of participation have boomed in museums over the last 20 years

www.museumsassociation.org

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Colwyn Bay Heritage @colwynbayheritage.bsky.social · 8h

Before the late 19th century the land was fields and woods, with a few farms and cottages, and was owned by the Pwllycrochan Estate. The development of the town of Colwyn Bay was linked to the sale of the estate in 1865. More: shorturl.at/RnQZD #colwynbay #northwales #wales #localhistory

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Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you to @iwm21.bsky.social for this link. I have to confess I love a good graveyard. You can learn so much about peoples’ lives who didn’t make it into the history books, about attitudes to death and burial and headstones are wonderful microcosms of nature too

Tombstone tourism: Why visiting graveyards is becoming so popular

A growing number of tourists are “rebelling against tick-box travel” by ditching the popular sights for a trip to the graveyard.

www.euronews.com

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 1d

#OTD 1913 • An explosion at the Universal Colliery, Senghenydd, killed 439 miners and one rescuer ⛏️

www.library.wales/discover-lea...

#Wales #History

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James Coverley @jamescoverley.com · 22h

#ancientbluesky #history #archaeology

There'll be a new video out on YouTube tomorrow with as much blood and gore as I'm allowed, and more about what was going on behind the scenes after Nero's death via my newsletter Acta Populi on Thursday. So sign up!

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Potentially Interesting Roman History | James Coverley | Substack

A Roman historian answers the weird, scandalous, and overlooked questions your schoolbooks were too polite to print. Click to read Potentially Interesting Roman History, by James Coverley, a Substack ...

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 14h

For #HillfortsWednesday the absolutely whopping ramparts of Tredegar hillfort in Newport, partly hemmed in by the Gaer housing estate & re-used for an historic golf course

331m top to bottom 😮

Stunning vegetation-stripped LiDAR DTM from National Library Scotland 👌

👉 coflein.gov.uk/en/site/93429

A hillshaded orange & silver Lidar map of a substantial polygonal hillfort

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 14h

A glorious October morning in a #OnePlaceStudy three years ago, to welcome you to #OnePlaceWednesday! Use the hashtag today to share posts with news, pics, questions, links, and general chat relating to your one-place studies or places featuring in your #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory research.

#OnePlaceWednesday.
Image: A photo of the view across a small lake, with a Cedar of Lebanon (on the right) and other trees on and above the far shore. The green foliage and blue sky above are perfectly reflected on the still surface of the water.
One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

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Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social · 13h

Why the past matters. Chilling testimony from Hannah Arendt writing in the middle of the last century on how darkness thrives when we stop listening to each other’s stories

In Our Time - Hannah Arendt (Archive Episode) - BBC Sounds

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and life of Hannah Arendt, political philosopher

www.bbc.co.uk

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Miss History G, Linda @misshistoryg2.bsky.social · 13h

Japanese Postcard, c1920s
A favourite from my collection of international #postcards, this photograph of three ladies has been tinted in delicate shades of pink and lilac. Beautiful!
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPink #postcard #Japan #nationalcostume #kimono

A colour postcard in portrait format. It shows a photograph of a group of three Japanese girls in national dress, one with a fan, another with a furled parasol, standing near some wooden buildings. Only the dresses and some flowers have been tinted in delicate shades of lilac and pink.

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Colwyn Bay Heritage @colwynbayheritage.bsky.social · 1d

Albert Rigby represented the UK in the EEC in Brussels, was a member of the Balance of Payments Forecasting Committee and the World Economic Prospects Committee for thirteen years, which arose from his early involvement with the Ministry of Food in Colwyn Bay. #colwynbay #northwales #wales #history

Albert Rigby And Patricia Wrigley - Colwyn Bay Heritage Group

An eighteen year old boy and a seventeen year old girl could not have possibly known what love is but we did and so it has remained ever since...

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Boathouse Hotel, Holyhead @boathousehotel.bsky.social · 3d

Grants for #community groups in #Wales up for grabs!!

#charity #charities #socialenterprise #Holyhead #Anglesey #NorthWales #Wales

@thewallich.bsky.social @naturcymru.bsky.social @tirweddaucymru.bsky.social @ynysmon248.bsky.social @angleseysocial.bsky.social @colwynbayheritage.bsky.social

NationCymru @nation.cymru · 3d

Community groups across Wales can now apply for grants of up to £10,000 to help them start a social business or community-led housing project

Welsh-speaking community grants scheme expanded

Community groups across Wales can now apply for grants of up to £10,000 to help them start a social business or community-led housing project. For over three years, the scheme has supported Welsh-spea...

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 3d

A pair of acclaimed Welsh musicians are set to breathe new life into the traditional folk songs of Swansea and the Gower with a bilingual performance that bridges past and present

New project reimagines the folk songs of Gower and Swansea

A pair of acclaimed Welsh musicians are set to breathe new life into the traditional folk songs of Swansea and the Gower with a bilingual performance that bridges past and present. Fiddle player and s...

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Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 3d

This looks fascinating. I worked as a tour guide in a glass factory when I was a teenager talking visitors through the processes on the floor below. Didn't know the concept started between the wars

Richard Hornsey @hornseyhq.bsky.social · 3d

Just out: Factory tourism in inter-war Britain: the spectacular construction of social-democratic mass production: academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

Factory tourism in inter-war Britain: the spectacular construction of social-democratic mass production

Abstract. In the 1920s and 1930s, British mass-manufacturers opened their factories to hundreds of thousands of ordinary consumers. As the market for brand

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Colwyn Bay Heritage @colwynbayheritage.bsky.social · 4d

Gordon Scott Whale opened the North Wales Wireless College in Caernarfon in 1918, having trained with the Direct Spanish Telegraph Company and worked for Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Company. #colwynbay #northwales #wales #localhistory #WirelessTechnology

Wireless College - Colwyn Bay Heritage Group

In 1920 the college was relocated to Upper Colwyn Bay and then to its more familiar home on East Parade during the summer of 1923.

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 5d

#FindsFriday
Papyrus with lists of #Roman centurions stationed in #Egypt have found by Polish archaeologists in Berenike. These documents were found along with, among other things, pottery from Italy, Roman coins, in what may be the remains of a centurion’s office. #Archaeology #History

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Colwyn Bay Heritage @colwynbayheritage.bsky.social · 5d

This area is of interest for its narrow streets and paths serving terraced houses on Church Walks, Mount Pleasant and Rose Hill. The terraces on Rose Hill, with their small front gardens, are of note, facing the footpath which leads up to Llanelian Road. #oldcolwyn #colwynbay #northwales #wales

Rose Hill Cottages, Old Colwyn - Colwyn Bay Heritage Group

This area is of interest for its narrow streets and paths serving terraced houses on Church Walks, Mount Pleasant and Rose Hill.

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Chicago Tafia Welsh Society @chicagotafia.bsky.social · 5d

Born on this day in 1925: Tecwyn Roberts 🚀 🌕

A pioneering Welsh spaceflight engineer from Rhos-y-bol, Ynys Môn, Tecwyn Roberts played a crucial behind-the-scenes role in some of NASA’s most historic missions.

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Archives & Collections, Library of Birmingham @theironroom.bsky.social · 5d

#PhotoFriday this week is of Mrs Mabel Harris’ establishment at 22 Weaman Street photographed c 1930. Purveyor of many delectables including tea, coffee and cocoa. A very fine window display there. Ref - MS 4557, Box 5 #LibraryofBham @Brumpic

A female figure stood in the doorway of a shop on the left of the photograph. She is wearing a full-length dress made of fabric from the late nineteenth century. Her hand is on her right hip and the other holding the window frame of her shop window. The shop window is packed with examples of sale goods. A sign in the middle window advertises coffee, tea and cocoa. Above the shop window are hoardings either side of a window advertising cigarettes.

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 6d

Bluestone National Park Resort in Pembrokeshire has become the first holiday park in the UK to be completely fossil fuel free in all its purchased energy

Bluestone becomes UK’s first fossil fuel free holiday resort

Bluestone National Park Resort in Pembrokeshire has become the first holiday park in the UK to be completely fossil fuel free in all its purchased energy. The five star holiday resort committed to an ...

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 6d

In the footsteps of Professor Daryll Forde's 1930s excavations of Pendinas #hillfort, #Aberystwyth, this lunchtime, recceing a guided walk

This press photo from 1934 shows the dapper 32 yr old Prof (sitting, right) on the south gate excavation, looking out over the very same view of Penparcau 🛖

A 1934 photo of an excavation in the foreground, held up against the modern day view across a valley & village in the background

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Archifau Prifysgol Bangor University Archives @archpbu.bsky.social · 6d

LANSIAD LLYFR | BOOK LAUNCH

Dr Shaun Evans
Mewn sgwrs gyda | In conversation with Dr Lowri Ann Rees

COMING OF AGE CELEBRATIONS ON WELSH LANDED ESTATES: GENTRY, CULTURE & SOCIETY c.1770-1920

5.30pm, 23/10/2015
Lecture Room 2 Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University

Croeso i bawb | All welcome!

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Colwyn Bay Heritage @colwynbayheritage.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!

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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 6d

Of course Kathleen Carpenter, #freshwater ecologist, signed The Welsh Womens #Peace Appeal, clearly & confidently with her best fountain pen, as a testament to her loyalty & humanity.
New permanent exhibition at Llfrygell Genedlaethol Cymru National Library of Wales
www.wcia.org.uk/academi-hedd...

Background of handwritten names, with inset photograph of young woman in Edwardian clothing; white blouse; patterned neck scarf; coils of hair on her head

Large wooden chest with background image of 4 well dressed women in early 1900s coats and hats; one woman holding open a document.

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Jilly @jillysnaps.bsky.social · 7d

Take Me to Church

Canterbury Cathedral

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekOforOpulent

#WindowsOnWednesday
#EastCoastKin

Interior of Canterbury Cathedral, showcasing its grand Gothic architecture with soaring vaulted ceilings, pointed arches, and intricately carved stone columns. The view looks towards the altar, draped in green cloth, and flanked by ornate wooden choir stalls with red cushions. Stained glass windows fill the space with warm, colourful light.

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