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Capt Vivian Hewitt, who lived at Bryn Aber, Cemlyn Bay, features on @BBCRadio4's Start the Week today: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m.... He was a pioneering aviator, one of the first to fly to Ireland from Britain, as well as a keen ornithologist who set up a bird sanctuary at Cemlyn.

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Unexpected nostalgic bargain from 1959 in a local shop yesterday. Love the vintage illustrations, esp Boudica glamming up the rampaging in a nice frock & Druids v Romans beside a sort of Anglesey Stonehenge lookalike 😄 #Ladybirdbooks #Romans @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social @theduncanmackay.bsky.social

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A 3-minute clip of the Irish Mail Boat docking at Holyhead in 1898. Both my grandmother & then my mother were sent from Dublin to boarding school in England, travelling alone by boat and rail - my granny mentioned once the delight of seeing the welcoming lights at port at the end of a crossing

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Another excellent piece in @nation.cymru mentioning our recent Day School about connections between Anglesey and Ireland. Read it at: nation.cymru/feature/lett...

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A very windy evening at South Stack lighthouse last night - the rotating beams of light were highlighted by the sea spray as black-backed gulls swooped and swirled in the gusts. Watch my video of the light beams at youtu.be/MmZa2RcpdU8

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I enjoyed giving my talk "The Towers of Ynys Cybi", about the lighthouses and tower windmills of Holy Island, last night at a very windy South Stack. I'll be giving the same talk at Menai Heritage on the evening of 12 March, 7pm.

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Tickets are still available for my talk at RSPB South Stack tonight, "The Towers of Ynys Cybi, just a short chough's flight from one of the towers, South Stack lighthouse! 20 Feb., 18:30. Book your place: cafficybi200225.eventbrite.co.uk

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Historic lifeboat station at Moelfre up for sale: www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-w...

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When on Ynys Môn/Angelsey.. It would have been rude not to stop yesterday at the evocative Neolithic chambered tomb at Bryn Celli Ddu, with its dark passageway, cylindrical tomb guardian & ledges of modern offerings

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Our Day School ‘Anglesey and Ireland: connections through time’ features in an excellent piece in @nation.cymru by Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social. nation.cymru/feature/bren...

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We were pleased to have the Consul General of Ireland in Cardiff, Denise McQuade, at our Day School, ‘Anglesey and Ireland: connections through time’, last Saturday, where she opened the proceedings.

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"Riots in Amlwch. Town in state of shock". The Anglesey Antiquarian Society's lecture, to be delivered by Dr Lowri Rees @lowriannrees.bsky.social, on Friday, 21st February at 7:00 pm at Oriel Môn Llangefni will delve deeper into this 'headline' and explain the background and the consequences.

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"Terfysg yn Amlwch. Y dref wedi dychryn". Bydd Dr Lowri Rees @lowriannrees.bsky.social, yn cyflwyno darlith i Gymdeithas Hynafiaethwyr Môn nos Wener, 21ain Chwefror am 7:00 o'r gloch yn Oriel Môn a byddwn yn dysgu mwy am y cefndir i'r pennawd ac hefyd y canlyniadau.

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Copper Kingdom museum may reopen at Parys Mountain: www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-w...

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I always enjoy exploring the Rex Whistler mural at nationaltrust.bsky.social #plasnewydd, on Anglesey, particularly viewing the imaginary lighthouses. One featured on the cover of Hague and Christie's classic Lighthouses book. Read about the mural at www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/wales/...

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"The question is whether he or I shall govern #Ireland." Marquess of Anglesey on Daniel O'Connell A shared heritage - @antiquariansmon.bsky.social Day School delegates explore more #Anglesey & #Ireland connections at Plas Newydd @nationaltrust.bsky.social @angleseyhistory.bsky.social #history

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The final talk for the Day School is Yr Athro/Professor Marged Haycock - Draw dros y don - Cecile O'Rahilly in Wales, and the scholarly connections between Ireland and Wales, 1900-1950.

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After the Day School lunch we have Dr Dafydd Gwyn - 'An unprecedented novelty and magnitude: trade and movement across Anglesey 1816-1873'.

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Last before lunch at our Day School is Professor Emeritus Paul O'Leary, joining us pre-recorded - 'A Ballon, a Coffin and a Treaty: Anglesey and Ireland in the period of Union 1800-1922'

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The next speaker for our Day School is Dr Mark Redknapp - 'When the Vikings set foot on Anglesey'

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First up for our Day School is Jon Gower - The Crossroads of the Waves: Anglesey and cargoes across the Irish Sea.

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We are getting set up for our Day School, "Anglesey and Ireland: Connections Through Time". Book sales table all ready! If you aren't here today you can buy our books at www.hanesmon.org.uk/aaswp/studie...

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A shared heritage - delegates start to arrive from across the #IrishSea in the traditional way 🚢 for @antiquariansmon.bsky.social Day School on #Anglesey's Connections to #Ireland. @angleseyhistory.bsky.social

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I will be giving a talk on the Windmills of Anglesey at Oriel Môn, in conjunction with their exhibition of artwork of the mills. All welcome! 29 March at 2:00pm. You can read more about the mills on my website: www.anglesey-history.co.uk/windmills/

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Spring lectures 2025 - series of 5 lectures on Wednesday evenings in the Thomas Telford Centre, Menai Bridge (opposite Waitrose), £3 entry - a warm welcome for everyone.

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The Anglesey geological legacy of four Victorian Women www.geomon.co.uk/the-anglesey...

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Lots of people appear to have developed an interest in settler colonialism in recent times. Such people may be interested to know that it is the 160th anniversary of an interesting little aspect of this phenomenon later this year: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wale...

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Next week I'll be delivering an in-person talk as part of the Penmaenmawr Museum Winter Lectures: Hillforts in north Wales 🛖. Weds 19 Feb 2025 Venue: the Penmaenmawr Community Centre LL34 6AB, 7pm talk start. All welcome! I'll also be selling & signing books 📚 📷 Conwy Mountain hillfort 2023

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The story of marram grass weaving at Niwbwrch/Newborough.

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I'm looking forward to giving this talk at RSPB South Stack, just a short puffin's flight from one of the towers, South Stack lighthouse! Charismatic Birds, Lighthouses & Windmills: a Caffi Cybi “double header” 20 Feb., 18:30, RSPB South Stack. Book your place: cafficybi200225.eventbrite.co.uk

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An interesting article about Anglesey's famous Bryn Celli Ddu Burial Chamber: www.stonetemplegardening.com/post/bryn-ce...

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Hand-harvesting and weaving marram grass which grows on sand dunes to make baskets. An Anglesey tradition being brought back to life wp.me/p8Mk4U-UK4

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A shared heritage - St. Brigid's Cross & St. Ffraid's Church at #Trearddur Bay #SundayMorning #StBrigidsDay #IrelandWales #Anglesey #HolyIsland #HighCross #YnysMôn #Wales #Cymru #Ireland @cerysmatthews.bsky.social

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I enjoyed visiting the Anglesey Windmills exhibition at Oriel Môn. Works by Harry Hughes Williams, Kyffin Williams and more, plus photos and documents. In the History Gallery until 13 July. Read more about our windmills on my web site: www.anglesey-history.co.uk/windmills/

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I'll be giving a talk on Tues 20 Feb, 6:30pm, at RSPB South Stack Cafe, on "The Towers of Ynys Cybi: The lighthouses and tower windmills of Holy Island". All welcome! To book a place visit cafficybi200225.eventbrite.co.uk

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Ymunwch â ni ar ein cwrs byr rhad ac am ddim newydd sbon! Join us on our brand new, and completely free, short course! Sesiynau gan/ sessions by Dr Euryn Rhys Roberts, Dr Lowri Ann Rees @ystadaucymru Dr Leona Huey, Dr Mari Elin Wiliam! @marccollinson.bsky.social @archpbu.bsky.social

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They knew how to throw a party at Holyhead! The scene at Admiralty Pier/Salt Island lighthouse when King George IV arrived in 1821.

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Looking forward to seeing this exhibition, which opens at Oriel Môn, Llangefni, tomorrow! You can read more about the windmills of Anglesey on my website: www.anglesey-history.co.uk/windmills/

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The Anglesey Column, built on a prominent outcrop of the world renowned Precambrian Anglesey blueschist, features in the latest issue of Earth Heritage magazine. Article starts on page 36 at www.earthheritage.org.uk/wp/wp-conten...

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Ancient 'treasure' found under old RAF Valley runway www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-w... The artifacts can also be seen on BBC's Digging for Britain: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Forthcoming book alert! Lighthouses of Wales By Warren Kovach (@lighthousewales.bsky.social and @angleseyhistory.bsky.social ) Anticipated publication date: 15 November 2025 Available for pre-order 👇 #maritimehistory #coastalhistory #booksky

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Find out more about our upcoming Day School, "Anglesey and Ireland: Connections Through Time" with the following video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeyF... To book a place see our web site: www.hanesmon.org.uk/aaswp/day-sc... Thanks to Rose McCarthy of "Find Irish Family" for producing the video.

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I may be showing my age, but it has dawned on me why the new #Heneb logo looks so familiar! www.heneb.org.uk

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"Holyhead remains a town between the land and the sea; a border town between #Wales and #Ireland; and a meeting place of its peoples." A shared heritage - #Holyhead part of the journey to Irish Independence. #IrelandWales #migration #Easter1916 #Anglesey www.irishpost.com/history/holy...

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We were utterly thrilled to discover the two Iron Age items featured on #diggingforbritain tonight - and hope there will be more to show @profaliceroberts.bsky.social in the future! Lovely thing is that both finds were made by RAF members on the Op nightingale programme. #archaeology

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Our piece on the fieldwork of RAF Valley is featured in #diggingforbritain tonight! And these Op Nightingale projects benefit hugely from the photographic work of Harvey Mills - here, thus, is the portfolio for ‘Ex Druid Sacrifice’. Enjoy. youtu.be/g7i6a7-PBNk

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Small pilgrimage to #Beaumaris memorial for @linneansociety.bsky.social Fellow Rev. Hugh Davies, author of natural history classic "Welsh Botanology" (1813) which listed English and Welsh names for plant species #historyofscience #Wales #envhist #botany #Anglesey #YnysMôn #language #nature #culture

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Mae lleoedd dal ar gael! Bydd ein Hysgol Un-dydd nesaf, Môn ac Iwerddon: cysylltiadau trwy’r oesoedd, ar ddydd Sadwrn 15 Chwefror 2025. Bydd pum darlithydd yn traethu yn ystod y dydd, pob un yn canolbwyntio ar wahanol agweddau o hanes Môn a’r Iwerddon.

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