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Men of Worth Project
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Andy Wade, Historian. Author.
We research Keighley & Worth Valley people who served in wartime. We remember their service and try to ensure they’re not forgotten. Est. 2001, QAVS 2021.
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Men of Worth Project @menofworth.bsky.social · Oct 31
Yesterday we launched our #Oakworth #Remembrance #Trail. We installed 96 boards on lamp-posts around our village, next to, or close to the homes of the Oakworth men who died in the first and second world wars. A QR Code guides visitors to their biographies on our website:
www.menofworth.org.uk/trail
Seven out of the eight adult volunteers who came out to install the 96 Oakworth Remembrance Trail Boards on Thursday 30th October 2025. Each volunteer is holding a white A3 sized correx board printed with details of a serviceman who died in either the First or the Second World Wars, which will go on to lamp-posts near their homes from before they enlisted. Behind this group is a large laurel hedge and a drystone wall. A man is standing in front of a stage in a village hall and he is holding a clipboard. He is talking to a large group of people seated on several rows of chairs, many of whom are Army Cadets and Sea Cadets in uniform. Nobody has fallen asleep, yet...
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🚨Railway200 news!🚨

The Railway Work, Life & Death project is in the partner zone on Inspiration, the #Railway200 exhibition train!

Come on board at #Southampton Central - we're there on Tuesday 16 Dec, with our Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts work!

www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/finding-the-...
Finding the south coast’s forgotten railway workers - Railway Work, Life & Death
Read about our public exhibition, showcasing research from the Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts project - out now.
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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TOMORROW!

Looking forward to this - we're as ready as we're ever going to be.

Come along and find out more about the Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts project - and the wider Railway Work, Life & Death project from which it came!

#Railway200

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🚨Railway200 news!🚨

The Railway Work, Life & Death project is in the partner zone on Inspiration, the #Railway200 exhibition train!

Come on board at #Southampton Central - we're there on Tuesday 16 Dec, with our Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts work!

www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/finding-the-...
Finding the south coast’s forgotten railway workers - Railway Work, Life & Death
Read about our public exhibition, showcasing research from the Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts project - out now.
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
December 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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New Blog. About my new framed Ambriotypes. A rare find from 1858, with the Photographer's details.
#OldPhotos #FamilyHistory #Sussex #Kent #Farmers
lynnswaffles.com/2025/12/14/%...
🚜Abraham & Mary Hale photos dated 1858🚜
It’s rare to find an Ambrotype, especially from 1858, with the Photographer’s details.
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December 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Thinking about the 130 or so British librarians killed in WW1. Their colleagues raised funds to create a lasting memorial to their sacrifice. Sadly, the tablet they commissioned is now displayed behind the scenes at the British Library, visible only to staff.
#fwwhist #PubLibs 💙📚
Photo of a stone tablet with five columns listing the names & institutional affiliations of approx 130 British librarians killed in WW1. The tablet border is inscribed “IN MEMORY OF THE BRITISH LIBRARIANS FALLEN IN THE WAR MCMXIV-MCMXVIII”.
December 11, 2023 at 6:01 PM
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With thanks to @balhnews.bsky.social for the invitation, it was a pleasure & an honour to give the 2025 Dymond Lecture last night.

We flagged the #LocalHistory connections in the Railway Work, Life & Death project - particularly fitting in the #Railway200 year!
Title slide for the presentation, called '"Heads - you lose!" Working for the railways in Britain before 1939', with contact details, a QR code to the Railway Work, Life & Death project website, logos for the University of Portsmouth and British Association for Local History, and a 1920s posed staff safety image of a railwayman leaning out of a carriage window, about to hit his head on a railway signal, captioned 'Heads - you lose!'
December 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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What an immense honour it is to have The Taking of Vimy Ridge: First World War Photographs of William Ivor Castle named one of The Hill Times Top 100 Best Books of 2025 🥳

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December 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Tonight is the night! Join us at 7pm for our Annual Dymond Lecture. This year's speaker is Dr Mike Esbester, who will be exploring the hidden human stories behind Britain's railways.

Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
1920s posed railway staff safety image, showing a railwayman leaning out of a carriage, but his head is about to hit a signal post. The caption reads ‘Heads – you lose! Is it safe to lean out of or open the doors of vehicles in motion where there are pillars, ladders, walls or bridges, unless you are satisfied there is sufficient clearance?’
December 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
menofworth.bsky.social
HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were sunk on this day in 1941. One man who survived was P. O. Robert Silcock of #Oakworth, who was later killed in the fall of #Singapore. You can read his story, he was present at some very notable dates in naval history: https://menofworth.org.uk/robert-silcock/
Petty Officer Robert Silcock -
Robert joined the Royal Navy on 5th September 1933 as a Stoker 2nd Class. He gave his civilian occupation as : Haulage hand (Colliery).
menofworth.org.uk
December 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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The headstones of some of the almost 5,000 German war graves to be found in a large Staffordshire cemetery. In the foreground is the grave of Siegfried Primke, whose JU-88 crashed in the Bristol Channel on 7th December 1941.

📍Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery 🇬🇧
December 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Our November #HuttedHistories on Wednesday 26th is the last one of 2025, and a home grown one too!

Lyndsay will be talking about Biscuits at War - ‘They Shall Grow Not Mould’.
It’s a great talk - come and join us. There’s cake and biscuits too!

Tickets: www.greatwarhuts.org/event-detail...
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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We are back!🎄

110 years after the First World War Taff opens the batting, once again, with some natty pieces of 1915 headgear and introduces #HutVent2025

(With grateful thanks to Ramsey Green)

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December 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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On the second day of #HutVent2025 Taff tells the story of the Military Cross and the tale of one particular recipient...

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December 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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It's Day 3 of #HutVent2025 and Kieran has a fascinating German publication to share with us! 🗞️

youtu.be/R3hvBu6_sG8
December 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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On Day 4 of #HutVent2025 Taff is looking at the role of Army Drummers...

youtu.be/Ze_dSOyrpYM
December 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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On the 5th Day of #HutVent2025 Kev tells us about Spicer Goggles and lachrymatory gas...

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December 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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We have a special guest for Day 6 of #HutVent2025 to help Lyndsay tell the story of a 1915 biscuity present (there were always going to be biscuits!)...

shorturl.at/VwzJ4

#HutVent
December 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Read more of William’s remarkable story here 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
#Genealogy #WW1 #MilitaryHistory #History

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December 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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I love finding variant prints made from the same negative within the same collection 👇🏼

(These ones belong to the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Museum & Archives).
December 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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During the summer of 2025 I visited the WW1 battlefields and I made a promise. At every cemetery I visited, I would choose one individual, not known to me, and tell their story. This is the final story……..#WW1 #Genealogy #MilitaryHistory #History

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Before the Guns Fell Silent: The Final Days of Private Crump
Private William Richards Crump was born in Birmingham in 1893, the youngest of two boys born to Minnie Crump. His baptism, alongside that of his older brother Francis, took place on 11 August 1894 …
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December 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Just added a section from the local newspaper describing the solemn mass at St. Anne's Church shortly after they dedicated their Great War Memorial. The memorial is one of #Keighley's finest and their ceremony must have been quite an occasion:

menofworth.org.uk/memorials/st...

#GreatWar #WW1 #FWW
A beautiful war memorial which is on permanent display in the entrance to St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church at Keighley. It is made from salmon pink alabaster and light grey bath stone with the lettering picked out in gold. There are 121 names of local men from the church who died during the First World War.
December 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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🚨NEXT WEEK!🚨

Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!

‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939

Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online

#LocalHistory #Railway200

www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
Posed staff safety image, showing a railwayman leaning out of a guard's van, about to hit his head on a passing signal post. The image caption reads 'Heads - you lose!', with explanatory text above.
December 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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My latest book is released today.

It looks at the alleged disappearance of the 1/5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment during their advance on Kuchuk Anafarta Ova on 12th August 1915.

I've provided a link to where you can buy a copy in the comments.

#WW1 #Norfolk #FWW #Gallipoli #history
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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I've been able to hold a physical copy of my new book today.

It looks at the alleged disappearance of the 1/5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment at Kuchuk Anafarta Ova on 12th August 1915.

It's on sale now & I've left a link to where you can get a copy in the comments.

#WW1 #FWW #Norfolk #Gallipoli
December 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Join us next week for our Annual Dymond Lecture. This year's speaker is Dr Mike Esbester, who will be exploring the hidden human stories behind Britain's railways.

Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
1920s posed railway staff safety image, showing a railwayman leaning out of a carriage, but his head is about to hit a signal post. The caption reads ‘Heads – you lose! Is it safe to lean out of or open the doors of vehicles in motion where there are pillars, ladders, walls or bridges, unless you are satisfied there is sufficient clearance?’
December 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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One of my favourite collections that I've ever worked with was this set of Magic Lantern Slides produced during the First World War. They came to us packed in wooden crates, and we re-housed them into custom-made archival boxes, and had them digitized.
December 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM