Margaret Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬🐄🌳🏡
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I came, I saw, I researched 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Welsh girl living abroad in Cheshire Sport Historian, Genealogist Fellow of Royal Historical Society Member of Few Forgotten Women Team Editor: Playing Pasts. Chair: FHSofCheshire. Oh and cows - love cows 🐄
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Glad he's OK - I have 5 sporty children [I taught them well!] and spent many an hour in A&E over the years with everything from dislocated fingers to concussion and broken bones!

Who says sport is good for you!
a yellow and orange ambulance with the word emergency on it
ALT: a yellow and orange ambulance with the word emergency on it
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Rosie - let me know what you want to do, is there another one you also might like? Mxx
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Don't forget that there are resources on our website too. We've just added more for those researching the history of mental health and asylums #SocialHistory #MentalHealth #FamilyHistory #Genealogy www.fewforgottenwomen.com/mentalhealth
Mental Health | Few Forgotten Women
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#LeavingMyKitchen

Twins #BabyShower cake, a gluten-free/vegan chocolate sponge, using unrefined sugar for the cake and buttercream - almost a chemistry lesson rather than a cake!

Hand-made baby clothes, topped with pink and blue sprinkles, the whole cake was handpainted.
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Emily Fazakerley who in 1881 had the first private telephone installed in North Wales so she could listen to the opera. 👇
BBC News - Woman installed first north Wales phone 'to listen to opera'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tech entrepreneur had north Wales' first phone - for opera
Emily Fazakerley had the first telephone installed in north Wales in order to listen to the opera.
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The Musical Box, Liverpool's oldest record shop which has been in the Quinn family for 4 generations to receive a blue plaque. 👇
BBC News - Musical Box: Liverpool's oldest record shop to get blue plaque - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Musical Box: Liverpool's oldest record shop to get blue plaque
The Musical Box counted Beatles legend John Lennon and football manager Bill Shankly among its customers.
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If #Railway200 has sparked or rekindled your interest in #RailwayHistory, and you fancy study at Masters or PhD level - then come & study with Dr Mike Esbester at the University of Portsmouth!

An expert in railway, transport & mobility history:

www.port.ac.uk/about-us/str...
Mike Esbester
www.port.ac.uk
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New this week in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'.

"Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography", by Alana Harris and Laura Mitchison bit.ly/4gH9e0f

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First page of new TRHS article: 'Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography'

Abstract in full
‘Us and Them’ is a community history project and artistic collaboration exploring physical and intellectual disability and mental illness, in the past and present. It is part of a broader initiative to open out wider conversations about the history of psychiatric care in Epsom (Surrey, UK) and to explore ways in which medical histories, creative engagement strategies and oral history praxis can illuminate the instability of contemporary understandings of ‘healthy minds’ and ‘normative bodies’. This article charts our recent reuse of asylum photography and the restaging of wet-plate collodion portrait making, opening out key ethical questions about our complicity as consumers of historical sources, the role of re-enactment and empathy, and the place of the haptic and the ludic in exposing the porous and precarious boundaries between ableism and disability. Exploring our own vulnerabilities and solidarities in co-producing a public history project with our disabled artist collaborators, it offers insight into our evolving ‘micro ethics’, foregrounds lived experience perspectives, and offers some initial thoughts on ways to rethink critically some core tenets of oral history methodology.
There are some lovely windows in that chapel, I was there only a few weeks back.
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The Anderson Boat Lift, Cheshire which allows boats & barges by 50 feet from the Weaver Navigation Canal to the Trent & Mersey Canal is celebrating its 150th anniversary. 👇
BBC News - Anderton Boat Lift: Victorian engineering feat's legacy lives on - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Anderton Boat Lift: Victorian engineering feat's legacy lives on
Cheshire's Anderton Boat Lift, built in 1875, inspired similar engineering feats around the world.
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#LeavingMyKitchen - well left my kitchen a day or two ago!

30th Anniversary cake for brother & wife

Red velvet cake with vanilla/orange flavoured buttercream & handmade fondand, handpainted dog snouts peeking out from under a duvet [based on their favourite poster], bespoke topper to finish.
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Great day yesterday at the Secrets and Lies conference, lots of lovely comments after my talk on tracing female ancestors, thank you to all who came along. Also enjoyed flying the @afewforgottenwomen.bsky.social flag with @janetfew.bsky.social and @helenshields.bsky.social

More of the same today
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What a great talk on researching women's lives by researchdogsbody. Really well received by a packed house.
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A poster offering a £500 reward for information on the murder of millowner Thomas Ashton in 1831. The murder may have inspired Mrs Gaskell's novel 'Mary Barton'. On display at Cheshire Museum of Policing, Warrington, at today's Open Day.
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Wirral Council set to scrap 90 year old bylaws including beating carpets on a seashore, sounding a noisy trumpet or wantonly singing. 👇
BBC News - Wirral Council set to scrap 90-year-old seaside carpet beating law - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wirral Council set to scrap 90-year-old seaside carpet beating law
Wirral Council is looking to repeal
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