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Today in 1945, British troops of 15th Scottish Division pass through the German town of Kleve, towing a six-pounder anti-tank gun behind their Loyd carrier. #OTD #WW2 Photo: Sergeant Jones #IWMcollections B 14674 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

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Before it became an airport Heathrow was plain old Hounslow Heath across which General Roy set his baseline for surveying Britain by triangulation. The NW end is marked by this cannon, just outside the airport perimeter #industrialarchaeology #OrdnanceSurvey

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The Bayeux Tapestry Begins Major Conservation Project Ahead of Museum Expansion https://www.medievalists.net/2025/02/bayeux-tapestry-begins-major-conservation-project/ #bayeuxtapestry #medievalsky #museumsky

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19th century pictures of Royal Navy officers from my collection, with little biographies for some! If anybody has Wordpress experience & advice on how to better display the pictures, let me know. Enjoy, I've got lots more to add still. jamesfitzjames.com/carte-de-vis... #NavalHistory #19thC

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😱 🐟 🏛️ The English city in the sea. "Beneath the North Sea, just off the Suffolk coast, lies the ghost of a city once alive with trade and bustling streets. Dunwich was once a medieval port, as vast as the City of London, with a population at its height in the 13th century of ten thousand."

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Lisa Jardine Grants are travel grants from @royalsociety.org to support archival research & career development. Open to PhD students and EC researchers in history of science, and other interdisciplinary studies combining humanities and the natural sciences. Deadline for applications: 11 March 2025

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The story of the headstone I found on a beach. And the story behind it. This is what I discovered using some of the information on the headstone... #genealogy #beachcombing #churchyards #Liverpool historicalclues.blogspot.com/2025/

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Don't erase history - preserve it! And we can't do that without archivists, digital preservation specialists, archive assistants, conservators and the all important depositors - so today's post is dedicated to them all Below: our 'Don't Erase History' rubbers - free if you visit!

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ATTENTION ECRS! 📢DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING ESSAYS FOR HAKLUYT SOCIETY ESSAY PRIZE IS 1/3/25! £1250 1st prize ... do think about submitting an entry ... www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci... www.hakluyt.com/previous-win... Please share widely!

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A fancy monument in Woolfardisworthy

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The Prize Papers will change the way we see the past. The research possibilities are almost unlimited. Join us for the conclusion of the three-part series “Secrets of the Prize Papers” with insights from @lhaasis.bsky.social and @mouseemperor.bsky.social – pod.link/1460242815 #earlymodern #history 🗃️

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While you were partying, we studied the blade...

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St Julian on his feast day. Although French (or possibly Spanish!) he has a strong link with East Anglia because of his patronage of a church in central Norwich, and with Mother Julian of Norwich who took his name when she was an anchoress there. Links in the post.

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#Rockets and weapons go on display in #Nagpur Museum, India timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/...

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DCMS seeks 4 British Museum Trustees: 'This campaign is to appoint four new trustees to the Board of the British Museum. We are seeking three Generalist trustees and one trustee with the expertise in Historic Buildings Conservation.' Deadline 27 February 2025.

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OTD 1601 Capt Tom Lee, soldier, spy & inveterate bad boy of the #nineyearswar, comes a cropper when he attempted to accost Q. Elizabeth in her privy chamber. Planned to force her to sign a release warrant for the Earl of Essex. Doorway was defended by clerk of the kitchen & Lee apprehended

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The Fowlis Wester (Parish Church) Class 2 #Pictish cross-slab. 3m tall, it includes a cross with (rare) projecting arms and Pictish symbols like the crescent and v-rod. Elsewhere, a figure leads a cow (with bell) in front of a procession of warriors, and two warriors ride side-by-side on horseback.

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Archaeologists put together funding bid to conserve medieval wall paintings at St. Peter & St. Paul's, Pickering church, North Yorkshire which date from 1470 👇 BBC News - Funding bid to save rare medieval wall paintings www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Service held at Bridlington Priory Church to remember the 70 sailors & 30 vessels in 'The Great Gale' in 10th February 1871 👇 BBC News - Deadly gale that killed 70 sailors remembered www.bbc.com/news/article...

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We are thrilled to announce launch of the Military Writers Guild Awards! These awards recognize the contributions of writers focusing on military affairs. We invite submissions across 3 categories: Professional Writing, Creative Writing, and Emerging Writers. www.militarywritersguild.org/awards

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Some great fun early modern history here if you need a distraction from current real life

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Painting the painter: Mark Cousins's new doc offers a peculiar glimpse into the life and work of Scottish painter Wilhelmina Finally on VoD: dmovies.org/2024/07/04/a...

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Wow, what an incredible historical piece! So much detail. 1778 copper plate-printed linen commemorative handkerchief depicting “The Royal Review Portsmouth” with fleet identified by name and number of guns. It's inked “Jane Godfrey, 1778”. The size is 29” x 27”. [Augusta Auctions] #19thc 🗃️ 🗃️🪡

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Last but not least the SS Eastfield gun: it’s going to need a lot of love @bournemouthuni.bsky.social #navalhistory

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The Viking-age origins of Community Wealth Building. "The evidence has been found in a runic inscription on one of the hoard’s four elaborately decorated silver “ribbon” arm rings. It reads: “This is the community’s wealth.”" www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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I’m not sure if this will reach people who liked my post about Dorothy but I’ll give it a try! Loads more about her here.

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I have enough material to put together events surrounding an attack on a vessel in Newhaven harbour during a food riot. I wonder if people might be interested in a walk along the route (on the beach)? It is a depressing story, but really brings home conditions when harvests fail. #SussexCoast

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Ooh... the Royal Observatory in Greenwich have made a guide to some of the celestial highlights visible in the UK this winter, with some live observing (recorded a couple of days ago). Take a look & enjoy the sky! www.youtube.com/watc... More about Royal Museums Greenwich: https://www.rmg.co.uk

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US Veterans group receive historic howitzer www.yahoo.com/news/veteran...

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Feature on the #Gripshunden , Denmark's Royal ship in Swedish waters phys.org/news/2025-02...

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How one family repatriated a Japanese sword a very long but fascinating read www.outsideonline.com/culture/essa...

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anyone else having trouble posting?

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Can anyone help @cathrynpearce.bsky.social identify makers mark from spoon recovered from the naval wreck HMS Brazen 1800?

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