MargaretR
@margr.bsky.social
Bibliophile. Yorkshire to the core.
Addicted to family, local and military history research.
Always learning.
Addicted to family, local and military history research.
Always learning.
Excitement abounds!
Time to bring out the best Christmas Jumper on the planet, from #BritishLibrary.
First outing of the year is always #ChristmasJumperDay #Books
📚🥰🎄
Time to bring out the best Christmas Jumper on the planet, from #BritishLibrary.
First outing of the year is always #ChristmasJumperDay #Books
📚🥰🎄
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Excitement abounds!
Time to bring out the best Christmas Jumper on the planet, from #BritishLibrary.
First outing of the year is always #ChristmasJumperDay #Books
📚🥰🎄
Time to bring out the best Christmas Jumper on the planet, from #BritishLibrary.
First outing of the year is always #ChristmasJumperDay #Books
📚🥰🎄
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Each door of the History & Heritage Yorkshire Advent Calendar reveals a festive nugget of history, folklore and traditions, curious snippets and the events that shaped the region.
Please enlarge the image to read. #AdventCalendar #Heritage #Yorkshire #folklore #Christmas
Please enlarge the image to read. #AdventCalendar #Heritage #Yorkshire #folklore #Christmas
December 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Each door of the History & Heritage Yorkshire Advent Calendar reveals a festive nugget of history, folklore and traditions, curious snippets and the events that shaped the region.
Please enlarge the image to read. #AdventCalendar #Heritage #Yorkshire #folklore #Christmas
Please enlarge the image to read. #AdventCalendar #Heritage #Yorkshire #folklore #Christmas
It’s back. #HutVent2025 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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)
youtu.be/7na3SWTP_Jg
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)
youtu.be/7na3SWTP_Jg
December 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
It’s back. #HutVent2025 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I love Queen Maud Style 😍
Day 1 of my Edwardian #AdventCalendar is this c. 1902 Laferriere evening gown of silk satin with a silk lace overlay. The gown, hand-embroidered with metallic thread, artificial diamonds and sequins, belonged to Queen Maud of Norway. Nasjonalmuseet collection. #fashionhistory
December 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I love Queen Maud Style 😍
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Each door of the History & Heritage Yorkshire Advent Calendar reveals a festive nugget of history, folklore and traditions, curious snippets and the events that shaped the region.
Please enlarge the image to read. #AdventCalendar #Advent #Yorkshire #chocolate
Please enlarge the image to read. #AdventCalendar #Advent #Yorkshire #chocolate
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Each door of the History & Heritage Yorkshire Advent Calendar reveals a festive nugget of history, folklore and traditions, curious snippets and the events that shaped the region.
Please enlarge the image to read. #AdventCalendar #Advent #Yorkshire #chocolate
Please enlarge the image to read. #AdventCalendar #Advent #Yorkshire #chocolate
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A little thread, to mark Great Uncle Arthur day.
#OTD #WW1 #Cambrai
2nd Btn Coldstream Guards. After moving around the general area during recent days, including some time in support at Bourlon Woods, the Btn, as part of the 1st Guards Brigade, spent the night of 29th November 1917 (cont..)
A little thread, to mark Great Uncle Arthur day.
#OTD #WW1 #Cambrai
2nd Btn Coldstream Guards. After moving around the general area during recent days, including some time in support at Bourlon Woods, the Btn, as part of the 1st Guards Brigade, spent the night of 29th November 1917 (cont..)
November 30, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I think these are the last flowers from my garden this year, picked today 🌹
#GertrudeJekyll
#GertrudeJekyll
November 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I think these are the last flowers from my garden this year, picked today 🌹
#GertrudeJekyll
#GertrudeJekyll
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This #MapMonday let us take you back in time ⌛
We've just added first edition 6-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales to our website, published from the 1840s to 1880s. These maps are all from bound volumes.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#188
We've just added first edition 6-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales to our website, published from the 1840s to 1880s. These maps are all from bound volumes.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#188
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This #MapMonday let us take you back in time ⌛
We've just added first edition 6-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales to our website, published from the 1840s to 1880s. These maps are all from bound volumes.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#188
We've just added first edition 6-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales to our website, published from the 1840s to 1880s. These maps are all from bound volumes.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#188
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Nothing has changed - #Egyptian flip flops 😃: a pair of sandals made of woven reed and palm leaves. Dating around 1000 BC. It has been remarkably preserved because of Egypt's arid desert climate.
On display at National Museum Copenhagen.
📷 me
🏺 me
On display at National Museum Copenhagen.
📷 me
🏺 me
November 14, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Nothing has changed - #Egyptian flip flops 😃: a pair of sandals made of woven reed and palm leaves. Dating around 1000 BC. It has been remarkably preserved because of Egypt's arid desert climate.
On display at National Museum Copenhagen.
📷 me
🏺 me
On display at National Museum Copenhagen.
📷 me
🏺 me
Just 2 of those in my family who did not return from The Great War. Gt Uncle Arthur Coldstream Gds, lost between Metz & Gouzeaucourt Nov 1917, no known grave, he is listed on the memorial at Louverval. Also his cousin William RE, died in July 1917, buried at La Clytte nr Ypres.
We do not forget.
We do not forget.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Just 2 of those in my family who did not return from The Great War. Gt Uncle Arthur Coldstream Gds, lost between Metz & Gouzeaucourt Nov 1917, no known grave, he is listed on the memorial at Louverval. Also his cousin William RE, died in July 1917, buried at La Clytte nr Ypres.
We do not forget.
We do not forget.
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🔆 Sending warmth and light to you all.
One for All Hallows' Day - not taken today, but still worth posting. My favourite photo I've taken of York Minster at first light - it seems to magically exude warmth and light - after the darkness recedes and night turns into day...
One for All Hallows' Day - not taken today, but still worth posting. My favourite photo I've taken of York Minster at first light - it seems to magically exude warmth and light - after the darkness recedes and night turns into day...
November 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
🔆 Sending warmth and light to you all.
One for All Hallows' Day - not taken today, but still worth posting. My favourite photo I've taken of York Minster at first light - it seems to magically exude warmth and light - after the darkness recedes and night turns into day...
One for All Hallows' Day - not taken today, but still worth posting. My favourite photo I've taken of York Minster at first light - it seems to magically exude warmth and light - after the darkness recedes and night turns into day...
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“The Wreck of the SS Rohilla” 🧵In the early hours of 30 October 1914, as war raged across Europe, the SS Rohilla steamed down the North Sea bound for Dunkirk, carrying medical personnel and supplies. Built for the British India Steam Navigation Company, she had been 1/3
October 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
“The Wreck of the SS Rohilla” 🧵In the early hours of 30 October 1914, as war raged across Europe, the SS Rohilla steamed down the North Sea bound for Dunkirk, carrying medical personnel and supplies. Built for the British India Steam Navigation Company, she had been 1/3
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I am SO pleased to see this! Richard Taylor has quite rightly won his case. I was shocked at how the project and people, Richard T in particular, were so falsely portrayed in the film. Good to see it’s being put right. Do see Richard T’s X thread below. 👇
x.com/richardtaylo...
x.com/richardtaylo...
October 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I am SO pleased to see this! Richard Taylor has quite rightly won his case. I was shocked at how the project and people, Richard T in particular, were so falsely portrayed in the film. Good to see it’s being put right. Do see Richard T’s X thread below. 👇
x.com/richardtaylo...
x.com/richardtaylo...
I am here
@simoninsuffolk.bsky.social
@simoninsuffolk.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I am here
@simoninsuffolk.bsky.social
@simoninsuffolk.bsky.social
Today we said goodbye to our beautiful, funny, loving, gentle little TashCat, gone to join her brother TimothyCat in that great playground o’er yonder.
How I will miss her snuggles and cuddles. Farewell my little MissMiss, thank you for 15 years of joy 😢😿💔
How I will miss her snuggles and cuddles. Farewell my little MissMiss, thank you for 15 years of joy 😢😿💔
October 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Today we said goodbye to our beautiful, funny, loving, gentle little TashCat, gone to join her brother TimothyCat in that great playground o’er yonder.
How I will miss her snuggles and cuddles. Farewell my little MissMiss, thank you for 15 years of joy 😢😿💔
How I will miss her snuggles and cuddles. Farewell my little MissMiss, thank you for 15 years of joy 😢😿💔
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The striking form of Howden Minster, Yorkshire. Dating mostly from the 14th century, the building suffered the loss of its choir roof in the C17th. Its grandeur is a lasting reminder of the Minster’s historic ties to the powerful bishops of Durham.
September 23, 2025 at 6:08 AM
The striking form of Howden Minster, Yorkshire. Dating mostly from the 14th century, the building suffered the loss of its choir roof in the C17th. Its grandeur is a lasting reminder of the Minster’s historic ties to the powerful bishops of Durham.
‘‘Tis the season of steamed up kitchen windows 🍂😏
September 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
‘‘Tis the season of steamed up kitchen windows 🍂😏
This thread 👇🏻
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The stunning Georgian interior of St Deiniol’s, Worthenbury has a complete set of original 18th-century box pews, an elegant triple-decker pulpit, and a grand west gallery.
1/7
1/7
September 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This thread 👇🏻
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September 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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We were honoured to welcome His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh to Jewry Wall during his visit to Leicester yesterday.
The Duke explored our fully immersive museum – where 21st century technology brings to life one of the largest surviving Roman structures in Britain.
The Duke explored our fully immersive museum – where 21st century technology brings to life one of the largest surviving Roman structures in Britain.
September 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
We were honoured to welcome His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh to Jewry Wall during his visit to Leicester yesterday.
The Duke explored our fully immersive museum – where 21st century technology brings to life one of the largest surviving Roman structures in Britain.
The Duke explored our fully immersive museum – where 21st century technology brings to life one of the largest surviving Roman structures in Britain.
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The last hoorah of summer.
Hello autumn. 🍂
Hello autumn. 🍂
September 5, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The last hoorah of summer.
Hello autumn. 🍂
Hello autumn. 🍂
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I am guessing this mask was worn for the purpose of disguise at a #1740s party but really I want it to be the garb of a lady robber, scourge of the highways in a well cut jacket and a jaunty tricorn hat @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
September 4, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I am guessing this mask was worn for the purpose of disguise at a #1740s party but really I want it to be the garb of a lady robber, scourge of the highways in a well cut jacket and a jaunty tricorn hat @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
View through my window just now
September 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
View through my window just now