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Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS

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Short misadventurer in archaeology, mischievous military historian, author, broadcaster, relentless miniature painter & wargaming collector. Follows cricket but doesn't understand it. Looks a little like Asterix 🙂 Rep @Pastpreservers; CMRS TCD, NI , Wales

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Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social · Nov 15

We all use social media for different reasons; I see here as my virtual office/street, where we can chat about history, archaeology, warhammer, wargaming, sci-fi, music, culture... in short, pretty much anything! I generally follow back (technical competence notwithstanding 🤭) so, welcome all!

two men are standing next to each other in a room and talking .

Alt: At UNIT HQ, the 4th Doctor (Tom Baker) is about to have a check up from Medical Officer Lt Harry Sullivan RN (Ian Marter) and offers him a Jelly Baby.

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Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social · 2m

There certainly isn't 🙂!

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Mini Motley Sanctuary @minisanctuary.bsky.social · 10h

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#etsyshop #handmade

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Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social · 11h

One of the most lovely yet ill-thought out forts of the period, John! Beautiful, symmetrical & daunting to approach from sea, but dangerously overlooked by landward high ground & arguably indefensible from assault on that flank; John Churchill (later Duke of Marlborough) took it after a 13 day siege

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 12h

14 Oct 1148: St. Malachy of #Armagh reaches Clairvaux #otd He died there on 2 Nov as witnessed by St Bernard, his later biographer #otd (British Museum, Malachy is on the right)

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Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social · 12h

A Tuesday hobby night... and all is well in this part of County Down; dog asleep by stove, daughter doing crystal art in corner, Egyptology doc on tv and putting together my last 28mm Thirty Years War Swedish regiments - well, mostly supergluing my fingers tbh 🤭

A roaring stove, with a small black labrador curled up in front; and a hobby project in front of that! Three ECW Bicorne & Perry Miniatures command figures awaiting their troops, which will be Warlord Pike & Shotte infantry 🙂

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Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social · 23h

Two pairs of suit trousers remains a wise choice, Hugo.

Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social · 23h

Absolutely - these were considered educational events (although I'm not sure how 'Pimpo' the clown fitted in to this 🙂) and it's something really worth noting how socially important such outings were...

Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social · 1d

The irrepressible 'lord' George Sanger certainly did get around! I know he was in Dundee & Aberdeen in 1900s with a real menagerie, which I'm sure was quite a draw for errant pupils! A proper showman, I believe his 'catchphrase' was "I donned my tights the very day Queen Victoria put on the Crown"!

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Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social · 1d

@derbyshiredro.bsky.social one of my favourite churches and places - All Saints, Wingerworth on a recent visit in May... such an interesting site with hidden associated archaeology surrounding it 🙂

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Derbyshire Record Office @derbyshiredro.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to the school log, or diary, for Hamlet Lane School in South Normanton, now known as the Glebe Junior School, we know that #OnThisDay in 1911, they had issues with attendance. The reasons given were the Pinxton Feast and Sanger's Circus visiting Alfreton.

#1910s #history

A handwritten diary entry for 13th October 1911: 'Pinxton Feast and the visit of Sanger's Circus to Alfreton have interfered with the attendance. Two families excluded by Dr. for scabies. Medical inspection.

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HaT Miniatures @hatminis.bsky.social · 8d

71st Fraser's Highlanders en 1781 by Mr. Borodino.

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Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social · 1d

I missed this! Belated congratulations and very well done Áine 🙂!

Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social · 1d

Wonderful stuff! Do you have any future plans to come to Belfast at all Loreena? Or maybe a winter concert at Navan Fort, outside Armagh?! (I'm totally getting ahead of myself there 🤭)

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Loreena McKennitt @loreenamckennitt.bsky.social · Jun 17

Loreena is remounting her celebrated seasonal performance of Under A Winter’s Moon this December at Toronto’s Koerner Hall, in her home base of Stratford and in neighbouring London, Ontario.

On sale now, ticket link 🔗 in bio:
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Loreena remounts her 'love letter to the season - Loreena McKennitt

Loreena remounts her ‘love letter to the season This December Loreena […]

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 2d

A comet appears; Bishop Wilfrid is driven out; AElfwine is killed, and St AEthelthryth dies.

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 173; The Parker Chronicle; started in 9th & continued into 11th century; England (Winchester); f.8r
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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 2d

always a better choice than *gestures at everything else*

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

Tired Of Reality? Press advertisement for London’s Games Workshop

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Ireland's Native Woodland Trust @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social · 2d

This is what we're up against. People still removing woodlands when we've already lost so much

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Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · Aug 17

Self-promotion warning: @manchesterup.bsky.social will issue paper edition of our essay collection on #earlymodern European overseas empires in Jan '26 for pre-order @ GBP 30 @carrington-farmer.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195791/

Manchester University Press - Agents of European overseas empires

Agents of European overseas empires - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Agents of European overseas empires by Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 2d

#earlymodern

Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 2d

earlymodern historians bis (@onslies.bsky.social)

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 8d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social · 2d

I've heard this about UK passports×, Catherine- funny enough, when my daughter was heading off to a school trip to Spain earlier on in the year... I'd never come across that before!

Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social · 2d

Roodstown isn't anywhere near that adventurous Mark! But I would have done the same... ocassional climbing over a gate/fence is a yes, teetering on a cliff edge quite a different prospect!

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Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social · 3d

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Heather Tulip @octotulip.bsky.social · 3d

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David White (Boogie Wonderland 2 Year Anniversary)

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Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you Hugo, it's about the same from me! I know that one in Ardee - it's lovely! Funny enough, this is all photographic research for a gazetteer on Irish masonry castles... but it seems a bit tower house heavy at the moment!