Louvain Rees ⚰️
@hellohistoria.bsky.social
BBC award-winning Social Historian ✍️
Death, Wales & Psychiatry 💀
Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠
Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠
🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚
📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her
🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
Death, Wales & Psychiatry 💀
Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠
Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠
🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚
📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her
🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
Pinned
PSA 📢
A lot of my research is centred around death, psychiatry, and mental health history.
Please be aware that some of my posts may be upsetting or uncomfortable to read.
Please keep this in mind when reading my posts
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A lot of my research is centred around death, psychiatry, and mental health history.
Please be aware that some of my posts may be upsetting or uncomfortable to read.
Please keep this in mind when reading my posts
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Explore Charles Booth’s maps and notebooks online ✍️🏻
This is a brilliant resource for those interested in social history 🔎
booth.lse.ac.uk/map
#London #History
This is a brilliant resource for those interested in social history 🔎
booth.lse.ac.uk/map
#London #History
December 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Explore Charles Booth’s maps and notebooks online ✍️🏻
This is a brilliant resource for those interested in social history 🔎
booth.lse.ac.uk/map
#London #History
This is a brilliant resource for those interested in social history 🔎
booth.lse.ac.uk/map
#London #History
December 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
It's thought that these were cargo on a ship that was wrecked off Tusker Rock ⚓️
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It's thought that these were cargo on a ship that was wrecked off Tusker Rock ⚓️
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Discovered years ago that my natural bio-rhythm demands a working day c 11.30am til 7-8pm. Since we had Tiny Son that's not been possible, but he's just trotted off to his grandparents so I'll be writing about Welsh vernacular architecture til 8ish...
📸 Roof near Llangors, Powys
📸 Roof near Llangors, Powys
December 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Discovered years ago that my natural bio-rhythm demands a working day c 11.30am til 7-8pm. Since we had Tiny Son that's not been possible, but he's just trotted off to his grandparents so I'll be writing about Welsh vernacular architecture til 8ish...
📸 Roof near Llangors, Powys
📸 Roof near Llangors, Powys
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I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
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When working in the archive of St Mary’s Church in Chennai, I opened a large volume of burial records only for some white-ish powder to sprinkle out on the floor. Later I described it to one of the archivists. Oh, that’s arsenic powder, he said. They put it in to kill bugs that might eat the pages.
December 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
When working in the archive of St Mary’s Church in Chennai, I opened a large volume of burial records only for some white-ish powder to sprinkle out on the floor. Later I described it to one of the archivists. Oh, that’s arsenic powder, he said. They put it in to kill bugs that might eat the pages.
Word on the street is that if you don't subscribe to my blog, Santa won't bring you any presents 🎄
It's FREE ✍️🏻
hellohistoria.substack.com
#Wales #History
It's FREE ✍️🏻
hellohistoria.substack.com
#Wales #History
December 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Word on the street is that if you don't subscribe to my blog, Santa won't bring you any presents 🎄
It's FREE ✍️🏻
hellohistoria.substack.com
#Wales #History
It's FREE ✍️🏻
hellohistoria.substack.com
#Wales #History
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A massive sinkhole has developed in a canal in the English county of Shropshire, trapping two boats in deep mud and prompting emergency services to declare a “major incident.” https://cnn.it/48QqZaZ
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A massive sinkhole has developed in a canal in the English county of Shropshire, trapping two boats in deep mud and prompting emergency services to declare a “major incident.” https://cnn.it/48QqZaZ
✨️ NEW BLOGPOST ✨️
In this blogpost, I explore the life of Elizabeth Martin an 18th-century woman with "meticulous" handwriting ✍️🏻
hellohistoria.substack.com/p/the-carefu...
#Wales #History
In this blogpost, I explore the life of Elizabeth Martin an 18th-century woman with "meticulous" handwriting ✍️🏻
hellohistoria.substack.com/p/the-carefu...
#Wales #History
The Careful Housewife | Elizabeth Martin
In this blogpost I explore the life of Elizabeth Martin an 18th-century woman with "meticulous" handwriting.
hellohistoria.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
✨️ NEW BLOGPOST ✨️
In this blogpost, I explore the life of Elizabeth Martin an 18th-century woman with "meticulous" handwriting ✍️🏻
hellohistoria.substack.com/p/the-carefu...
#Wales #History
In this blogpost, I explore the life of Elizabeth Martin an 18th-century woman with "meticulous" handwriting ✍️🏻
hellohistoria.substack.com/p/the-carefu...
#Wales #History
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It just so happens that two further pieces of Price memorabilia have also arrived:
Another copper token Price commissioned to mark the cremation of his son in 1884.
An exceedingly rare pamphlet from an exhibition of Price’s life in 1896. Among its many strange items was his preserved right foot 🔥
Another copper token Price commissioned to mark the cremation of his son in 1884.
An exceedingly rare pamphlet from an exhibition of Price’s life in 1896. Among its many strange items was his preserved right foot 🔥
October 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It just so happens that two further pieces of Price memorabilia have also arrived:
Another copper token Price commissioned to mark the cremation of his son in 1884.
An exceedingly rare pamphlet from an exhibition of Price’s life in 1896. Among its many strange items was his preserved right foot 🔥
Another copper token Price commissioned to mark the cremation of his son in 1884.
An exceedingly rare pamphlet from an exhibition of Price’s life in 1896. Among its many strange items was his preserved right foot 🔥
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Can’t quite believe it’s done but it’s done.
Two years of translating and unpicking (and growing a human somewhere in the middle) the most bizarre yet brilliant manifesto by Dr William Price: Gwyllllis yn Nayd.
Spoilers: these aren’t the ravings of a lunatic as previous biographers have concluded.
Two years of translating and unpicking (and growing a human somewhere in the middle) the most bizarre yet brilliant manifesto by Dr William Price: Gwyllllis yn Nayd.
Spoilers: these aren’t the ravings of a lunatic as previous biographers have concluded.
October 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Can’t quite believe it’s done but it’s done.
Two years of translating and unpicking (and growing a human somewhere in the middle) the most bizarre yet brilliant manifesto by Dr William Price: Gwyllllis yn Nayd.
Spoilers: these aren’t the ravings of a lunatic as previous biographers have concluded.
Two years of translating and unpicking (and growing a human somewhere in the middle) the most bizarre yet brilliant manifesto by Dr William Price: Gwyllllis yn Nayd.
Spoilers: these aren’t the ravings of a lunatic as previous biographers have concluded.
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According to British #folklore ghost activities are heightened at #wintersolstice & #Christmas 👻
This new book in our collection by @folklorewales.com & @folklorepod.bsky.social presents & categorises some #Welsh #ghoststories now available in English for the 1st time!
#WelshCulture #ghosts
This new book in our collection by @folklorewales.com & @folklorepod.bsky.social presents & categorises some #Welsh #ghoststories now available in English for the 1st time!
#WelshCulture #ghosts
December 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
According to British #folklore ghost activities are heightened at #wintersolstice & #Christmas 👻
This new book in our collection by @folklorewales.com & @folklorepod.bsky.social presents & categorises some #Welsh #ghoststories now available in English for the 1st time!
#WelshCulture #ghosts
This new book in our collection by @folklorewales.com & @folklorepod.bsky.social presents & categorises some #Welsh #ghoststories now available in English for the 1st time!
#WelshCulture #ghosts
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Pretty houses fronting Chipping Campden High Street in the sunshine today… 😊
December 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Pretty houses fronting Chipping Campden High Street in the sunshine today… 😊
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Hello 🌞
I seem to have a few new followers! 👋
I am a social historian specialising in death and working-class histories in Wales 🏴
I hope you'll enjoy my ramblings ✨️
• linktr.ee/louvainrees
• hellohistoria.substack.com
• instagram.com/louvainrees
#Wales #History
I seem to have a few new followers! 👋
I am a social historian specialising in death and working-class histories in Wales 🏴
I hope you'll enjoy my ramblings ✨️
• linktr.ee/louvainrees
• hellohistoria.substack.com
• instagram.com/louvainrees
#Wales #History
December 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Hello 🌞
I seem to have a few new followers! 👋
I am a social historian specialising in death and working-class histories in Wales 🏴
I hope you'll enjoy my ramblings ✨️
• linktr.ee/louvainrees
• hellohistoria.substack.com
• instagram.com/louvainrees
#Wales #History
I seem to have a few new followers! 👋
I am a social historian specialising in death and working-class histories in Wales 🏴
I hope you'll enjoy my ramblings ✨️
• linktr.ee/louvainrees
• hellohistoria.substack.com
• instagram.com/louvainrees
#Wales #History
Hello 🌞
I seem to have a few new followers! 👋
I am a social historian specialising in death and working-class histories in Wales 🏴
I hope you'll enjoy my ramblings ✨️
• linktr.ee/louvainrees
• hellohistoria.substack.com
• instagram.com/louvainrees
#Wales #History
I seem to have a few new followers! 👋
I am a social historian specialising in death and working-class histories in Wales 🏴
I hope you'll enjoy my ramblings ✨️
• linktr.ee/louvainrees
• hellohistoria.substack.com
• instagram.com/louvainrees
#Wales #History
December 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Hello 🌞
I seem to have a few new followers! 👋
I am a social historian specialising in death and working-class histories in Wales 🏴
I hope you'll enjoy my ramblings ✨️
• linktr.ee/louvainrees
• hellohistoria.substack.com
• instagram.com/louvainrees
#Wales #History
I seem to have a few new followers! 👋
I am a social historian specialising in death and working-class histories in Wales 🏴
I hope you'll enjoy my ramblings ✨️
• linktr.ee/louvainrees
• hellohistoria.substack.com
• instagram.com/louvainrees
#Wales #History
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December 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Shilton, Oxfordshire, Holy Rood. Fantastic seventeenth century chest.
December 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Shilton, Oxfordshire, Holy Rood. Fantastic seventeenth century chest.
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December 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
December 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Books are such good friends! 📚📖📚🙂
December 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Books are such good friends! 📚📖📚🙂
December 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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29 January, online and in-person at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, open to all, I'll be talking about my recent adventures in memoir and #drinkhistory:
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19867...
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19867...
Jennifer Wallis: Writing Oneself Into History: Researching Alcohol and Family Histories
In this talk Dr Jennifer Wallis discusses recent research that melded her usual historical work on the history of alcohol with memoir and family history.
www.imperial.ac.uk
December 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
29 January, online and in-person at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, open to all, I'll be talking about my recent adventures in memoir and #drinkhistory:
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19867...
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19867...