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Jenni Phillips @jenniph.bsky.social · 1d

Always pleasing to find someone with an occupational surname employed in the appropriate line of work (C 5/619/99, Mason v Mason, TNA, 16 Dec 1699) #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #EarlyModern #Chancery

Excerpt from handwritten late 17th century Chancery document stating: “paid Willm Mason for mason worke”

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London Topographical Society @londontopsoc.bsky.social · 1d

We have just joined BlueSky! Since our foundation in 1880, we have reproduced an unrivalled selection of historic maps, plans and views of London. We also publish books and monographs containing original research. See more of what we have to offer at: londontopsoc.org

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Maxine Beuret @maxinebeuret.bsky.social · 4d

Local Historians come and make your own short film! One day free course at the @heritagewshc.bsky.social on Monday 10th November. Fun collaborative day learning new skills to share local history and heritage. For more information and to book visit: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Digital Storytelling for Local History. One day free course on Monday 10th November at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Chippenham. Booking at https://www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/digital-storytelling-local-history-chippenham

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks Daniel! In that case I think you will also like our programmes, with have extracts from the wills that inspired Chris' music ...

Two pages with songs titles, references, and extracts from three wills. The first will is that of Margaret Cooke, the song is 'Fellows in Service'. The second is the will of Whitelock Bulstrode, the song is called 'Naughty Nasty Persons', the third will is of John Lux, the song is called 'Blow His Old Trumpet'.

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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 2d

LANSIAD LLYFR | BOOK LAUNCH

Dr Shaun Evans
Mewn sgwrs gyda | In conversation with Dr Lowri Ann Rees

COMING OF AGE CELEBRATIONS ON WELSH LANDED ESTATES: GENTRY, CULTURE & SOCIETY c.1770-1920

5.30pm, 23/10/2015
Lecture Room 2 Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University

Croeso i bawb | All welcome!

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 2d

people will be like 'we've digitised these manuscripts, thus preserving them!' sorry mate if you want to preserve the data on your server copy it out onto parchment, the chats on your server won't survive as a paste-down in an old gradual stuffed on a shelf in a damp cellar for 1700 years

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Dr. Jude Seal - 'Unfunded Hobbyist' @judeseal.bsky.social · 2d

#Medievalsky At some point I remember having a handlist of early English / general European medical manuscripts and editions - but I cannot remember for the life of me if I found it somewhere or compiled it myself. (It was c.2022 - so my memory is a bit vague due to PhD stress) Any ideas? #medicine

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James @derpjames.bsky.social · 2d

There was a debate in Parliament a short while back about stopping the use of vellum for recording statutes and it went:

"we could use this archive-grade paper that would last a few hundred years!"

"...we don't know how long vellum lasts yet, but it's at least millenia"

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Whitchurch Hospital Historical Society @whitchurchhospital.bsky.social · 2d

Two photos of the main entrance and water tower featured in Hilary M. Thomas’s book published to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Whitchurch Hospital in 1983.

#mentalhealthhistory
#whitchurchhospitalhistory
#hospitalhistory

Black and white image showing the hospital water tower on the left and the main entrance block on the right

Black and white image showing trees on the left, water tower and main hospital entrance towards the right. The bowling green is can also be seen in the front of the image

Front cover of book published in 1983 for the 75th anniversary of opening the hospital

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King's College London, History Department @kingshistory.bsky.social · 3d

See the fantastic work of our colleague Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social on the history of Horton cemetery #Epsom #London
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#WorldMentalHealthDay

'Grandad is one of 9,000 buried in Epsom's derelict Horton Cemetery'

The Friends of Horton Cemetery wants the site to be a memorial to those buried there.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Church Monuments Society @churchmonuments.bsky.social · 2d

Back to the Campaign for Real Advent (abstinence, penitence, no celebrating before the 24th)

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 3d

#31daysofgraves • Urn 🏺

📍St Mary's Church • Prestbury ⛪

#History

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Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society @llafur.bsky.social · 3d

19/10/2025: History on Film: Fascism & Oil – Documentary Double Bill

Compelling double bill exploring Welsh voices standing against oppression, featuring Facing Up to the Fascists and Pouring Water on Troubled Oil!

More info: thewelfare.co.uk/Shows/histor...

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 3d

#WorldMentalHealthDay 🧠

Here is my piece for BBC Cymru Fyw exploring the daily lives of those who called the Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum home 💉🧠

www.bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/665...

#Wales #History #histmed

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Glamorgan Archives Archifau Morgannwg @glamarchives.bsky.social · 3d

Glamorgan History Society Autumn Day

The Glamorgan History Society will be holding it’s annual Autumn Day in Bridgend on Saturday 8 November. This year, in celebration of the Society’s 75th anniversary, the theme is ‘Writing the History of Glamorgan’.

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 4d

#31daysofgraves • Hand 🖐🏻

Er serchog gof am Martha 🪦

📍Edwardsville Cemetery 🪦

#Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 5d

Last week I was going through index cards given to the history society and I found a section on ghosts 👻

'The Tall Man of Ewenny Hill' is such a terrible ghost name. I hope he's okay 👻

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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 5d

The Thorntons helped Christopher and Anne Danby out in the 1660s. Alice was still pursuing this 'debt' in her last will and testament, written in 1705! #EarlyModern 📜 🗃️

Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · 5d

8 Oct. 1688 #OTD Thornton wrote to her great-nephew, Abstrupus Danby, seeking help with her son’s debts. She reminded him ‘how sad and necessitous a condition your father and mother ... were in for several years when their just right was detained from them and they cast off by all’. #EarlyModern 1/2

Outside of a 17th-century letter. Addressed to Abstrupus Danby at his house in York. Above that he has annotated it as a letter from his aunt Thornton, about what she did for his family, and that he is willing to pay her £50 next Martinmas.

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The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social · 4d

#OTD (9th Oct) 1538 - John Mathesoun, Chancellor of the Cathedral Church of Caithness (#Dornoch) asked that the Pope would grant him indult to use the divine office and canonical hours published by Francis, ‘cardinal priest of Sta Croce in Gerusalemme’. www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk

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Explore York Archive @yorkarchive.bsky.social · 6d

We are sharing some of the #monsters in our Knowles collection. The collection contains lots of early illustrations, templates, and research notes of existing artworks and designs in churches in York, England, and parts of Europe.

#EYAMonsters #EYA #archives

Two medieval-style illustrations of a person figting mythical monsters. Text above describes designs on glass at York, text below describes the wool embroidary that these images are from.

Pencil sketches of a heraldic eagle, a shield, a fish and a dragon-like creatures on aged paper.

Two images of creatures from St. Martin's Church in Spurriergate, York; left: a horned demonic creature, right: a lion-like creature.

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Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social · 8d

200 years ago a woman named Margaret McDonald was transported to Australia for using and passing on forged bank notes. We found her in some rare documents in the archives. This is her story. #Dundee #Archives

The Female Convict of 1825

We found an interesting series of documents tucked away in the Towns Clerk’s correspondence file of 1825.

dundeecityarchives.wordpress.com

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Norfolk Record Office @norfolkro.bsky.social · 6d

"Both discoveries show the crucial role of county council archives and their staff in preserving this musical heritage." We couldn't agree more! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 6d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 7d

This is a lovely article which did a lot to clarify my thoughts on how @vch-home.bsky.social has adopted approaches which engage with creators who are also members of its audience. If you can't access it and would like to read it, do drop me a line.

Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 7d

This from our Co-General Editor, @ruthslater.bsky.social, engages with how we cultivate participatory projects that embed local communities in the development of local histories and allow these communities to reflect on how their histories have shaped their collective identities. [Full Text £] 🗃️

Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 7d

3/ In the 1st article, I reflect on @vch-home.bsky.social as participatory historical geography, arguing that the VCH's current emphasis on participatory methods shows how long-standing research projects can adopt these developing ways of working rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society @llafur.bsky.social · 7d

Are you of African/Caribbean descent with ties to the Valleys? The Black Valleys Project would love to hear your story!

Help support the creation of new Black Welsh History resources for local schools.

🗓️Friday 24th October
🕰️2pm
📍Rhondda Heritage Park Museum

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