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What is a One-Place Study?🔗 In short, it’s an addictive combination of #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory – and more besides. For a little more detail, follow the link to our website! #OnePlaceWednesday

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Want to live in an Anglesey windmill? Melin y Gof/Stanley Mill is for sale. Read more about its history on my web site: www.anglesey-history.co.uk/windmills/me... tppuk.com/property/tre...

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Final day of the Association of Lighthouse Keepers tour of Anglesey. We stopped at Point Lynas, in the company of Gaynor who grew up at the lighthouse where her father was keeper, and Amlwch Port lighthouse. Read more at lighthouses.wales/the-lighthou... and lighthouses.wales/the-lighthou....

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Another good day with the Association of Lighthouse Keepers tour of Anglesey. We went to Holyhead Breakwater lighthouse, where we climbed the tower, and also to the disused Admiralty Pier/Salt Island lighthouse at Holyhead Port.

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An excellent day today with the Association of Lighthouse Keepers tour of Anglesey, visiting the Skerries and South Stack.

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I've updated my new Lighthouses of Wales website!

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We had an excellent excursion over the weekend, visiting 3 churches on Anglesey owned by the charity friendlesschurches.bsky.social‬, in the company of their director Rachel Morley. We saw Bodwrog, Llanbeulan and Tal-y-Llyn. To join the Society go to: https://www.hanesmon.org.uk/aaswp/membership/

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“Mailboat. Near Holyhead by now.” From #Ulysses, remembering a departed acquaintance. #MrBloom was considered a landlubber because he longest sea voyage was to #Holyhead. #BloomsDay #Ireland #Wales #IrishSea #IrelandWales #literature #Anglesey #YnysMôn #JamesJoyce @cerysmatthews.bsky.social

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Thinking about #WBYeats on the train across #Anglesey #YnysMôn "How often he went on this journey, think of it, think of it...the embryonic #poem still coiled in the ivory skull?" @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social Memories of Yeats Whilst Travelling to #Holyhead #Poetry #Ireland #Wales #IrishSea 🚄🚢

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Imagine the sails going around - From Penmon across Ynys Seiriol #PufffinIsland towards the Great Orme - the north #Wales coast from #Anglesey #YnysMôn with former #windmill in foreground. #heritage #landscapes #nature #IrishSea @northwaleswt.bsky.social

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It's not every day that north-west Wales gets invaded by the Spanish Armada! The historical ship Galeón Andalucía is visiting Caernarfon for the next few days.

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Does anyone know the location of the missing Telford milestone near Holyhead? 82 of the distinctive markers along the Holyhead Road/A5 from Shrewsbury survive, but the one 2 miles from the port has disappeared. www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-w...

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News that Bangor University is to reconsider proposed cuts to its Archives and Special Collection service following significant public and political pressure has been welcomed

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@friendlesschurches.bsky.social I spotted a friend of ours in St Pancras, John Betjeman!

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Dr Gareth Huws yn trafod pwysigrwydd archifau

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Dr Shaun Evans, Director of the Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates (ISWE), discussing Bangor University’s Archives and Special Collections

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Alyn Giles Jones (1928-2000) Bangor University's first full-time archivist. "For him the safety of the documents in his care was paramount and he was prepared to stand up to the most senior academic colleagues in their defence". Professor A.D. Carr.

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Hot off the printer and ready for proof-reading - my Lighthouses of Wales book is almost ready to submit to the publisher! It will be out in Autumn 2025. Follow this account or lighthouses.wales for further details.

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Marian Gwyn @mariangwyn.bsky.social speaking at CartoCymru @librarywales.bsky.social on the Jamaica plantation maps of the Pennant family, Penrhyn Castle held at Bangor Uni archives @archpbu.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social Please support their petition: www.change.org/p/save-your-...

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A quick guide to 1,500 years of history in Bangor, Gwynedd:

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“It was a hot sunny day, the sky was intensely blue, and there were wonderful views of the Anglesey landscape and the mountains of Eryri and Llyn. The hedges were a mass of hawthorn blossom, and the churchyard was full of bluebells and campion.”

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We held our AGM last night, followed by a excellent and amusing talk by Arwyn Owen, 'Anglesey's Hidden Prehistory', about his PhD work tracking down previously unknown prehistoric sites. Would you like to join the society? Details at www.hanesmon.org.uk/aaswp/member...

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#TombTuesday Bodowyr Burial Chamber is a Neolithic #burial chamber made of a few large stacked stones (also known as a dolmen or a passage grave) in a farmer's field on Ynys Mon (Anglesey). It is located at Bodowyr Farm. #WALES #Archaeology 🪨

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#StandingStoneSunday the magnificent & enigmatic cylindrical polished pillar, standing to one side of the central chamber at Bryn Celli Ddu #Neolithic tomb, Ynys Môn/Anglesey No doubt this once embodied a god or goddess & was of enormous significance to the original builders 📷 My own, April 2024

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Melin Adda #Anglesey #YnysMôn 🎨 Harry Hughes Williams #WelshArt #Wales #Art #NationalWindmillDay

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An update from our Director, Rachel Morley, about the upcoming repair projects. As we look forward to completing repairs at Gumfreston, Llangua, Llanddoged, and Bodwrog, we’re also excited to announce six new repair projects for the 2025–26 financial year.

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Join ARACymru for a special opportunity to explore Wales’ most iconic cultural institutions — #NationalLibraryofWales in #Aberystwyth. Whether you’re new to the profession or a long-time member of ARA, this is a great opportunity to connect with Wales’ archival heritage. tinyurl.com/yc3ctmte

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From #stromatolites to the #moon - Great to see Dr. Margaret Woods, geologist & @bangoruniversity.bsky.social Fellow included in exhibition of #Anglesey People at Oriel #YnysMôn - diolch yn fawr @celiahumebatik.bsky.social #geology #womeninscience #GeoMôn #UNESCO www.orielmon.org/en/exhibitio...

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Memorialised inside St Doged's, Llanddoged, the Kyffin family, like many gentry families across England and Wales, have their origins closely tied to the Dissolution of the Monasteries. 1/9

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I had an excellent evening at the newly restored @friendlesschurches.bsky.social church St Doged's, Llanddoged, near Llanrwst, where we heard a talk by their director Rachel Morley as well as the architect and conservator.

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The new series of the hit television show 'Vanished Wales' returns to screens on later this week, exploring sites of history and heritage that have disappeared from Welsh cities, towns and villages in recent years

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The #MonaLisa of #YnysMôn

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Hendy Head, Llanfairpwll, Anglesey. Tricky to date but plausibly Iron Age. Did this stare down on the Menai Strait in AD60 when the Romans attacked & witness “..women in black like Furies wave torches & Druids pour forth dreadful curses..”? (Tacitus) Oriel Môn. #StoneHeadSunday #StandingStoneSunday

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Charity shop find today - a pile of old stamp albums which include design classics like this 1968 Pont Menai Bridge stamp, one in a series of four British bridges. One for @angleseyhistory.bsky.social #YnysMon #Anglesey

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Tributes after sudden death of 'man of the people' who brought Welsh history to life www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-w...

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#StoneHeadSunday, anyone? This the Bryn y Môr head on display at the wonderful Oriel Môn, Anglesey. Found on the farm of the same name near Valley in the 1950s. As with many heads, it is difficult to date, & suggestions range from prehistoric to medieval. Coarse sandstone 32kg. #StandingStoneSunday

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In a Celtic bubble having worked to the haunting rasp of the carnyx on the edges of a sacred pool with a team of the most extraordinary individuals. Sworn to results secrecy but fair to say you WILL hear more, much more. @drtobydriver.bsky.social @theduncanmackay.bsky.social @archaedelle.bsky.social

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🚶‍♀️Now the weather has warmed up and we literally have a spring in our step we're keen to get outside and explore again.If you are located in North West Wales, we have 6 guided walks scheduled for the following months.So keep your eyes posted on our event page to book yourself a place buff.ly/6sKJWXB

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Meeting up with a host of archaeologists at RAF Valley on Anglesey this weekend as the #OpNightingale team work to discover more of the magical Llyn Cerrig Bach votive deposit 🧙 With @richardosgood.bsky.social @archaedelle.bsky.social @theduncanmackay.bsky.social Kate Waddinton & Prof Mel Giles

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Popped into Buckley Library, Flintshire on the way back from a site meeting to see the upstairs exhibition of the Buckley Pottery collection. Buckley produced domestic pottery from the 14th century through to the late 1940’s which was distributed across Wales and exported to Ireland & North America

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Pleased to finally meet Anglesey geologist Edward Greenly in person (or at least his portrait, on display at @sosbangor.bsky.social). Read more about him on my blog: www.anglesey-history.co.uk/on-the-trail... . Thanks to @alecbmmoore.bsky.social for helping us find it.

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Thanks @cduigan.bsky.social @angleseyhistory.bsky.social for the helpful chat this morning, and for the tipoff about the source of the Puffin Island engraving! I look forward to reading it

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