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#ironworkthursday ‘Then did the little Maid reply, “Seven boys and girls are we; Two of us in the church-yard lie, Beneath the church-yard tree.”’ 🥹🥹😭 We Are Seven William Wordsworth St Mary’s Churchyard, Conwy

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Window grille - 1899 Wrought iron, restored to original colour. Designer - #HectorGuimard From Castel Henriette, Sèvres, #Paris - unfortunately demolished 1969. Now in #V&AMuseum #London #IronworkThursday #ArtNouveau

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#ironworkthursday Look! A the wondrous National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

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#ironworkthursday Flash from the past Roman Caerleon

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#ironworkthursday 🙂

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Wrought iron gates - 1892 Earlshall Castle, Fife Designer #RobertLorimer Probably made by the firm of Thomas Hadden. Now National Museum of #Scotland, #Edinburgh #IronworkThursday

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#UnJourUnePhoto #Photobruary #ChallengePhoto 19 février 2025 ~ Métallique

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Sketches from the zoo (presumably Regent’s Park) by Christina Rossetti, including, of course, at the bottom a wombat, ca. 1862.

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Book Cover of the Day:

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Not many people know this... I also write non-fiction. If #ww2 is more your thing you might like my book about a volunteer ambulance driver and debutante in London during the #blitz. One minute driving through bombs, the next dancing at the Embassy Club https://buff.ly/3Qq1DXs Currently £1.99 Kindle

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Reddit user u/onestonewithlichen 's Mum has brought some of the Luttrell Psalters' marginalia monsters to life via the medium of wool-felt.

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With a spell of slightly warmer weather forecast, minds just might turn to the coast. Beach traders were a feature of Scarborough. In 1863, the Scarborough Gazette reported girls with apple baskets, a Mr Bland crying 'Fish and Fresh Cockels,' competing with Mrs Hicks 'Fresh Fish!' whilst

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If you haven't - please do fill this in. If you are a creative of any sort. The ALCS guidelines are very useful as the questions become more impenetrable. Also - you don't have to answer it all. www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

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Here's a starter pack for organisations relating to local history and heritage in the Greater London area. Please advise if you know of potential additions, or if you are included but wish to be removed. go.bsky.app/6ZX5gxf

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@victurk.bsky.social well hello there I know you from the Other Place! 🌞

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“Hey Mr DJ put a record on…” In the 1930s British #PubLibs worried that the rise of cinema would mean fewer visitors. They sought to stay relevant by hosting e.g. gramophone recitals, as seen here at the Leytonstone library in east London. I would definitely have gone along, in my best blouse!! 💙📚

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Forgot to mention the hyena! In 1884, Hezekiah Moscow was a hyena tamer. #AThousandBlows

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“I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.” 📖 “Tom Brown’s Schooldays” ~ Thomas Hughes, 1857 #BookchatWeekly #ClassicLitMonday 🎥 “Tom Brown’s Schooldays”, 1951 10:45am TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

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Set above the city Glasgow Necropolis has to be one of the spookiest and atmospheric graveyards in the UK? #momentomoriMonday

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Study of the head of a bat, 1888 by English author,artist and naturalist Beatrix Potter #womensart

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Our newest episode is out--Supernatural Music: Fairy Bagpipers, Phantom Fiddlers, and The Choir Invisible. Sing along with a banshee! Trill to a phantom air from Dartmoor! Rhapsodize over an orca’s mermaid song! Music of the spheres or something more mundane? www.buzzsprout.com/1859647/epis...

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#worldradioday My dear Dad passed away before Xmas. He began his early career as a Marconi apprentice cycling to work from parental home Hatfield Peveral to Chelmsford. Here is a great history resource from Essex Record Office www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/tag/marconi/

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English Heritage has announced they will award a blue plaque (site unknown) to Una Marson, journalist, activist, poet, first black woman broadcaster for the BBC. This is in addition to the Southwark heritage blue plaque at the site of her former home in Brunswick Square, Camberwell. #WorldRadioDay

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #Romans

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A terrifying advertising slide masquerading as a motto for #MottoSlideMonday

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Died #OnThisDay 1890 James Pilkington Liberal MP, Blackburn 1847-65. He had been the most high-profile victim of the 1862 ‘garotting panic’ when he was attacked, robbed of his watch & ‘almost strangled to death’. This & other cases prompted the 1863 Security against Violence Act.

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There's sadly no grand dog show in #AThousandBlows. It's got LOADS of other good stuff though eg. boxing, explosions, MENACE, six-packs, an arm getting sawn off, Daniel Mays, quips, an aquarium owner being v. odd in a corner, and a ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review from the Standard: www.standard.co.uk/culture/tvfi...

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The Government is considering allowing AI companies to freely use your works, unless you opt-out. This is unfair and unworkable. Now is your chance to tell them what you think! Submit a response to their AI consultation using the guidance below. www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

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Please sign and share this student-led petition to save Ancient History here at Cardiff University www.change.org/p/save-cardi...

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New on All Things Georgian, 'Turtle Feasts in the 18th century' - wp.me/p3JTNy-76v #MondayBlogs

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A rather unique research ‘tool’ 😆 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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"I mustn't tell you what I mean! I mustn't tell you what I've seen!" #otd b.1870 the great #MarieLloyd. The Censor couldn't understand her nuanced performance but banned her anyway. Her response: the song "You Can't Stop A Girl From Thinking!" @musichallsociety.bsky.social @heathertweed.bsky.social

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John Logie Baird musical book at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery - www.hmag.org.uk/event/john-l...

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it’s only taken me [forever] but i finally did my map of witchcraft cases in France 1790-1940 by department adjusted for average department population in 1881 (the numbers are the department codes) 🗃️ #HexTag

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