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Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 9h

There is still chance to purchase tickets for the Malton Regency Ball!

Visit our website here: www.maltonmuseum.co.uk/.../malton-r...

📍The Milton Rooms, Malton
⏰ Friday 17th October, 7pm - 11pm

Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

📷 An image from the National Archives titled ‘The Fashions of the Day, or Time Past and Time Present,’ published 2 November 1807, demonstrating the change in style

Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

The Malton Regency Ball takes place this Friday and is the perfect opportunity to embrace the fashion of the late Georgian era.
Tickets can be purchased here: www.maltonmuseum.co.uk/.../malton-r...

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Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

...Romans, pervaded Regency England and signalled a significant shift in fashion history.

Examples of Regency fashion feature in adaptations of Jane Austen classics, Bridgerton, and over on the Malton Regency Ball Instagram and Facebook.

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Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

Classicism greatly impacted art and fashion in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Josephine Bonaparte became one of the proponents of what became known as the Empire silhouette, with high waistlines and flowing skirts – this neoclassical fashion, which revived styles from the Ancient Greeks and...

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Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

Gowns became simpler and narrower, adopting an empire style, while the ruffles and ornate brocaded fabrics of male attire yielded to intricately folded neckcloths, simple shirts, and tighter breeches, with hair powder abandoned due to a tax imposed by William Pitt the Younger.

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Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps the most renowned fashion statement of the eighteenth century was the extravagant wigs and powdered hair, worn by the elite to symbolise affluence, as well as to conceal hair loss and scars from disease.

Towards the turn of the century, fashion began to alter.

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Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

The Regency Era refers to the period 1811-1820, but Regency fashion extended beyond this, overlapping the late Georgian and early Victorian periods, 1795-1837.

Georgian fashion was an elaborate display of elegance and wealth, featuring wide hooped skirts, fitted bodices and intricate details.

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Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

Meet Malton’s Ghostly Chalk Warriors
our Object of The Month 👋- they’ve been striking this
pose for over 2,000 years and still haven’t dropped their
standards 📷.

Want to know what they reveal about Iron Age bravery?
Click the link below to find out…

www.maltonmuseum.co.uk/2025/10/09/o...

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Dr Simon Elliott FSA @simonelliott20.bsky.social · 5d

Severus Marches On! Malton, and a pleasure to help raise funds for the new @maltonmuseum.bsky.social !!!

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Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 5d

There is just one week to go until the Malton Regency Ball!

Book your tickets on our website here: www.maltonmuseum.co.uk/online-booki...

#regency #georgianera #nineteenthcentury #regencyball #history #museum

Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 5d

You're welcome to pop in when we're open and browse our books, gifts and souvenirs. We hate to say the C word so soon, but now's the perfect time to start your Christmas shopping and support Malton Museum while you're doing it!

October opening times: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 10:30 - 3:30.

Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks to everyone who attended @simonelliott20.bsky.social's talk on Septimius Severus. It was great to be able to ask questions and be in the presence of a true enthusiast - thank you Simon!

If you missed it, we have a few copies of The African Emperor available to purchase in our shop.

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Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 7d

This money will allow us to commission more detailed design plans and building surveys, bringing us closer to our goal.

If you want to help make a new museum for Malton & Norton a reality, follow the link bellow
www.maltonmuseum.co.uk/.../donate-n...

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Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 7d

We want to change that! We are applying for National Heritage Lottery Funding to transform the old Fleece Inn building into a modern and welcoming museum, and we need to raise a £60k kickstarter fund to unlock this investment.

www.maltonmuseum.co.uk

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Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 7d

...story of Malton's development from earliest times to the present day.

But they also tell us our museum is too small, that we lack basic facilities, such as toilets and changing spaces, and we lack the room to properly host school groups and other community activities.

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Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 7d

Can you help revitalise this much loved building into a museum fit to tell Malton & Norton's story?!

Currently, visitors to our museum in Yorkersgate tell us how much they love the warm welcome provided by our volunteers, the amazing objects in our collection, and the creative way we tell the...

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Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 9d

Purchase tickets on ur website here: www.maltonmuseum.co.uk/online-booki...

📷 The Subscription Rooms, 1972
Credit: The Press and Gazette & Herald archives

Online Booking - Malton Museum

Welcome to our online booking system To book tickets for our Roman festival please visit our Online Shop Further information Feel free to contact us with any questions via: Email: events.maltonmuseum@...

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Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 9d

The Assembly Rooms remain in use for museum lectures and connect to the Milton Rooms. The current Milton Rooms complex, built in 1931 on the former site of the original theatre, will host the Malton Regency Ball next week.

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Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 9d

...beside an elegant Assembly Room/ballroom.

A small Georgian theatre was also built, with its stage facing the contemporary market place, later becoming a lecture hall and reading room for the Mechanics Institute.

So, the Subscription Rooms hold social, political, and architectural significance.

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Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 9d

It was as a result of minor political unrest and unpopularity that Earl Fitzwilliam opted for a new electoral strategy of ‘education and civilisation’, subsequently paying for the construction of the Subscription Rooms in Yorkersgate. It initially comprised a library and a philosophical institute...

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Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 9d

Today is World Architecture Day! 🏛️

Malton Museum is currently situated in the Subscription Rooms, where it first opened in 1935. The Subscription Rooms, however, have been around much longer, having been commissioned by the Fitzwilliam family and built during the Regency Era in 1814.

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Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 9d

The lecture is at 7:30 pm on Wednesday 15th October.
Our new Venue: The Library, The West Wing, Malton School, Middlecave Road.

Guests are very welcome – guest admission is £5.00 per lecture. Entry is free for members.

Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 9d

‘The Mallon Crew’ is the heart-breaking account of the devastating impact of the war on one Lancaster bomber crew. The retired teacher decided in 2012 to find out what his father had done in the war. He was staggered to discover a series of tragedies that was scarcely believable.’

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Malton Museum @maltonmuseum.bsky.social · 9d

For our next Friends Lecture, Vic Jay will discuss his research on a group of pilots’ wartime experience on the Lancaster Bomber; they were known as the Mallon Crew.

This biography explores how seven men volunteered for the Air Force, how chance brought them together, and what happened to them.

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