Louvain Rees ⚰️
@hellohistoria.bsky.social
BBC award-winning Social Historian ✍️
Death, Wales & Psychiatry 💀
Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠
Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠
🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚
📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her
🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
Death, Wales & Psychiatry 💀
Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠
Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠
🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚
📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her
🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
Pinned
PSA 📢
A lot of my research is centred around death, psychiatry, and mental health history.
Please be aware that some of my posts may be upsetting or uncomfortable to read.
Please keep this in mind when reading my posts
✨️
A lot of my research is centred around death, psychiatry, and mental health history.
Please be aware that some of my posts may be upsetting or uncomfortable to read.
Please keep this in mind when reading my posts
✨️
Reposted by Louvain Rees ⚰️
Yesterday, I finally visited @gwentarchives.bsky.social to look at Abergavenny Asylum records 🔎
Looking forward to seeing where this research takes me 👀
#Wales #History #histmed
Looking forward to seeing where this research takes me 👀
#Wales #History #histmed
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Yesterday, I finally visited @gwentarchives.bsky.social to look at Abergavenny Asylum records 🔎
Looking forward to seeing where this research takes me 👀
#Wales #History #histmed
Looking forward to seeing where this research takes me 👀
#Wales #History #histmed
Yesterday, I finally visited @gwentarchives.bsky.social to look at Abergavenny Asylum records 🔎
Looking forward to seeing where this research takes me 👀
#Wales #History #histmed
Looking forward to seeing where this research takes me 👀
#Wales #History #histmed
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Yesterday, I finally visited @gwentarchives.bsky.social to look at Abergavenny Asylum records 🔎
Looking forward to seeing where this research takes me 👀
#Wales #History #histmed
Looking forward to seeing where this research takes me 👀
#Wales #History #histmed
Reposted by Louvain Rees ⚰️
Been looking at case files for ten minutes and I already want to slap a Victorian doctor.
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Been looking at case files for ten minutes and I already want to slap a Victorian doctor.
Been looking at case files for ten minutes and I already want to slap a Victorian doctor.
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Been looking at case files for ten minutes and I already want to slap a Victorian doctor.
Reposted by Louvain Rees ⚰️
Naughty goings on in 18th-century Cork
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Naughty goings on in 18th-century Cork
Reposted by Louvain Rees ⚰️
Clacton in 2025 is very different to 1912.
For example, a few minutes walk from my flat I used to be able to find:
🐂 People riding bucking bullocks bareback
🤷🏻♀️ An irrepressible Australian jackass, the limit in perversity (!)
🦘 A boxing kangaroo called Bob
Now there is just Wetherspoons.
For example, a few minutes walk from my flat I used to be able to find:
🐂 People riding bucking bullocks bareback
🤷🏻♀️ An irrepressible Australian jackass, the limit in perversity (!)
🦘 A boxing kangaroo called Bob
Now there is just Wetherspoons.
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Clacton in 2025 is very different to 1912.
For example, a few minutes walk from my flat I used to be able to find:
🐂 People riding bucking bullocks bareback
🤷🏻♀️ An irrepressible Australian jackass, the limit in perversity (!)
🦘 A boxing kangaroo called Bob
Now there is just Wetherspoons.
For example, a few minutes walk from my flat I used to be able to find:
🐂 People riding bucking bullocks bareback
🤷🏻♀️ An irrepressible Australian jackass, the limit in perversity (!)
🦘 A boxing kangaroo called Bob
Now there is just Wetherspoons.
Reposted by Louvain Rees ⚰️
GEORGIAN NAME OF THE WEEK!
Queen Onion
(c.1770-1829)
Queen Onion
(c.1770-1829)
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
GEORGIAN NAME OF THE WEEK!
Queen Onion
(c.1770-1829)
Queen Onion
(c.1770-1829)
Reposted by Louvain Rees ⚰️
His grandmother is an absolute 'nutcase.'
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
His grandmother is an absolute 'nutcase.'
Reposted by Louvain Rees ⚰️
Equal Pay Act 1970, Sex discrimination Act 1975 and Race Relations Act 1976. Women’s Archive Wales want to understand more about the impact of these legislations on women in Wales.
Contact Ffion Fielding, by emailing [email protected], before 15th December 2025.
Contact Ffion Fielding, by emailing [email protected], before 15th December 2025.
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Equal Pay Act 1970, Sex discrimination Act 1975 and Race Relations Act 1976. Women’s Archive Wales want to understand more about the impact of these legislations on women in Wales.
Contact Ffion Fielding, by emailing [email protected], before 15th December 2025.
Contact Ffion Fielding, by emailing [email protected], before 15th December 2025.
Reposted by Louvain Rees ⚰️
Please have a read, share and consider whacking a fiver in if you’re able :) 🤶🏼🎄 #swansea www.gofundme.com/f/sun-swanse...
Donate to SUN Swansea Christmas Dinner Fundraiser, organized by SUN Baby Bank
For the past five years, we have worked to ensure that some of the most vulnerab… SUN Baby Bank needs your support for SUN Swansea Christmas Dinner Fundraiser
www.gofundme.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Please have a read, share and consider whacking a fiver in if you’re able :) 🤶🏼🎄 #swansea www.gofundme.com/f/sun-swanse...
I've purchased a power bank so my phone doesn't run out of charge when I am at the archives.
It means I don't have to rush when taking photographs of documents.
It means I don't have to rush when taking photographs of documents.
a cartoon of a man standing next to a car that says nerrrrrrrdd !!!
ALT: a cartoon of a man standing next to a car that says nerrrrrrrdd !!!
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I've purchased a power bank so my phone doesn't run out of charge when I am at the archives.
It means I don't have to rush when taking photographs of documents.
It means I don't have to rush when taking photographs of documents.
Reposted by Louvain Rees ⚰️
Reposted by Louvain Rees ⚰️
For #MementoMoriMonday these gorgeous hooped tombs at Diserth - are they a north Wales speciality?
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
For #MementoMoriMonday these gorgeous hooped tombs at Diserth - are they a north Wales speciality?
Reposted by Louvain Rees ⚰️
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Reposted by Louvain Rees ⚰️
🚨REMINDER🚨
Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr!
📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...
Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr!
📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🚨REMINDER🚨
Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr!
📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...
Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr!
📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...
Reposted by Louvain Rees ⚰️
In September, we hosted our first-ever working party at St Michael’s, Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire, showcasing the skills that are needed to repair a historic church.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
In September, we hosted our first-ever working party at St Michael’s, Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire, showcasing the skills that are needed to repair a historic church.
Reposted by Louvain Rees ⚰️
RIP Rosemary Church, who "founded the Faringdon & District Archaeological & Historical Society" which "catalogued gravestones, transcribed documents, collected photographs from a bygone age, put on exhibitions and talks, and set up a history resource centre"
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Rosemary Church obituary
Other lives: Primary school teacher who set up a local history society in the Oxfordshire town of Faringdon
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
RIP Rosemary Church, who "founded the Faringdon & District Archaeological & Historical Society" which "catalogued gravestones, transcribed documents, collected photographs from a bygone age, put on exhibitions and talks, and set up a history resource centre"
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Reposted by Louvain Rees ⚰️
1. The Toronto St. Patrick’s Day Parade used to be so dangerous that it was cancelled for more than a century.
Why? Religious hatred & sectarian violence.
Here’s my annual thread about the bloody riots that rocked our city in the days when Toronto was known as "The Belfast of Canada."
Why? Religious hatred & sectarian violence.
Here’s my annual thread about the bloody riots that rocked our city in the days when Toronto was known as "The Belfast of Canada."
March 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
1. The Toronto St. Patrick’s Day Parade used to be so dangerous that it was cancelled for more than a century.
Why? Religious hatred & sectarian violence.
Here’s my annual thread about the bloody riots that rocked our city in the days when Toronto was known as "The Belfast of Canada."
Why? Religious hatred & sectarian violence.
Here’s my annual thread about the bloody riots that rocked our city in the days when Toronto was known as "The Belfast of Canada."
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Transcribed three casefiles this morning ✍️🏻
Luckily, I can tell which doctor is which by their handwriting. It's a niche skill but one that helps me greatly.
#nobodycares
Luckily, I can tell which doctor is which by their handwriting. It's a niche skill but one that helps me greatly.
#nobodycares
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Transcribed three casefiles this morning ✍️🏻
Luckily, I can tell which doctor is which by their handwriting. It's a niche skill but one that helps me greatly.
#nobodycares
Luckily, I can tell which doctor is which by their handwriting. It's a niche skill but one that helps me greatly.
#nobodycares
Reposted by Louvain Rees ⚰️
What a way to go 😱 🐟
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
What a way to go 😱 🐟
What a way to go 😱 🐟
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
What a way to go 😱 🐟
🪦 lunch with the locals 🪦
November 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
🪦 lunch with the locals 🪦