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Louvain Rees ⚰️
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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
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · Jan 20
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

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 1h
Sin-eating & Singing | A Welsh Funeral ⚰️

"The night before ye Burying all the neighbours & friends of ye Deceased come & watch his Body & to say their prayers."

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#Wales #History #FolkloreThursday
Sin-eating & Singing | A Welsh Funeral.
From Ty Corff to Sin-eating, I'll be exploring death, burial and mourning customs/ traditions relating to Wales.
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 18h
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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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 22h
#31daysofgraves • Glass 🪟

📍Western Cemetery • Ely 🪦

#Cardiff #History
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 22h
#31daysofgraves • Glass 🪟

📍Western Cemetery • Ely 🪦

#Cardiff #History
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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 1d
Day 7, Angel: This is the grave of George Fleet J, who died in Trinity at age 15, 1873. His grave is decorated by a detailed flying angel blowing a trumpet, with a banner behind her reading 'Behold He Cometh'. George is buried at the Methodist graveyard in Trinity, NL.
#31DaysofGraves 🏺
A marble gravestone with an angel flying and playing a trumpet. The description is pretty much in the skeet actually!
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Derbyshire Record Office @derbyshiredro.bsky.social · 28d
Ragged Schools between the 1840s and 1870s provided an education to the country's poorest children. In this blog post, the Derby Ragged School is explored, including some entries from the school's log in our collection: recordoffice.wordpre...

#EYAEducation
Derby Ragged School
Ragged Schools were an attempt between the 1840s and 1870s to provide free education for children living in extreme poverty, who could not afford to pay for admittance into other schools.  The…
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Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society @llafur.bsky.social · 7d
Join Llafur and our guest speakers to explore the 1925 anthracite strike and its legacy a hundred years on!

📆 25/10/2025
⏱️10:30-16:00
📍Ammanford Welfare Hall

🎟️Free tickets: tinyurl.com/anthracitest...
The Anthracite Strike of 1925 Event Location: Ammanford Welfare Hall, 11 Wind St, Ammanford SA18 3DN Event Date: 25/10/2025 Event Starts: 25/10/25 10:30 am Event Ends: 25/10/25 04:00 pm Join Llafur and our guest speakers to explore the 1925 anthracite strike and its legacy a hundred years on. Speakers – Aled Eirug, Robert Smith, Ioan Matthews, Bill Jones and Sian Williams.
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Glamorgan Archives Archifau Morgannwg @glamarchives.bsky.social · 1d
This image was taken 100 years ago in 1925. It’s one of a number featured in an album of photographs taken of Tonypandy Secondary School in the Rhondda Valleys.

This photo shows the school’s student teachers for the year 1924-25, with the Headmaster seated at the centre.
A group of student teachers are photographed in three rows outside the school building. The back row is made up of men, all standing. The middle row sees women seated with the headmaster in the centre. In the front three women sit on the floor.
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 2d
I am actually a 'serious' historian and I do post about my work... but I also post whatever comes into my head ✨️
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 2d
#31daysofgraves • Angel 👼🏻

A bare-breasted angel 🪦

📍Forrabury Church ⛪

#Cornwall #History
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 2d
#31daysofgraves • Angel 👼🏻

A bare-breasted angel 🪦

📍Forrabury Church ⛪

#Cornwall #History
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 2d
Petition to set up a Lidl bakery next door to my house so I can eat pretzels all day.
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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 2d
#31DaysOfGraves Day 7 : Angels in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh.
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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 2d
🚴John Betjeman said that it was worth cycling 40 miles in a headwind to see them.
🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.
View along the nave of St. Wendreda’s Church, March, showing the magnificent medieval angel roof with carved wooden angels soaring above the slender stone arcades.
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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 2d
Awful news! Following the theft of the Ely Bronze Age torc & a Bronze Age bracelet in 2024,now more Bronze Age gold has been stolen from St Fagans Museum in Cardiff. 😔

#Archaeology 🏺 #Gold #Torcs

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Bronze age gold jewellery stolen in raid on St Fagans museum in Cardiff
South Wales police issue public appeal for information after burglary at one of Wales’s most beloved museums
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Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society @llafur.bsky.social · 3d
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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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 2d
#31daysofgraves • Gender 🪦

Mary Richards (d. 1749) 🪦

"An Aged Mother she was indeed, helpful to those that were in need.

She served God whilst she had Breath, which made her happy in her Death."

📍Holy Trinity Church • Marcross ⛪

#Wales #History
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 2d
#MementoMoriMonday ☠️

📍St Laurence's Church • Ludlow ⛪

#History
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 6d
After a hiatus, I am back to transcribing Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum casefiles.

I love my work, but it can be emotionally exhausting.
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · Mar 12
I am currently writing up a paper I am giving in a few months. It's about the female experience in Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum.

I've just rediscovered a woman who stole an attendant's clothes, escaped by jumping the fence, and was never seen again.

I hope she had a good life 🙏
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South Wales Record Society @swalesrecordsoc.bsky.social · 3d
More in the thread!
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · Jan 9
I was searching for a burial record and came across one for an 'illegitimate' child who was baptised in Cowbridge.

While the vicar has recorded the father's occupation as 'Labourer', the vicar recorded the mother's occupation as "Strumpet." 👀

#Wales #History
A black-and-white document reading "Labourer" and "Strumpet."
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Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social · 2d
It's interesting that Riddell's supernatural tales comprised only a small fraction of her total literary output, but this plaque specifically commemorates her ghost stories. I wonder what she would have thought of this?
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Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social · 3d
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Charlotte Riddell: Queen of Ghost Stories honoured with blue plaque in Carrickfergus
Her more than 50 stories explored moral ambiguity and an obsession with the supernatural in the Victorian age.
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 3d
📢NEW POST📢

I had a chat with Catherine Hurcombe for the Public Engagement with Research at Exeter series.

Read on to learn more about the wills project engagement with volunteers and artists👇

#EarlyModern 🗃️ @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social

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What's in a Will? Using Public Engagement to Add Depth to a Project
In this interview, Catherine Hurcombe speaks to Dr Laura Sangha from the Department of Archaeology and History about her role on the research project, The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790,...
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 3d
#31daysofgraves • Bird 🐦

📍St Tyfodwg’s Church • Llandyfodwg ⛪

#Wales #History
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Helen McAra @hedgerownibbler.bsky.social · 5d
Happy UK Fungus Day! All of these were photographed by me in the UK. Aren’t they beautiful!
#ukfungi #ukfungusday
Lots of different coloured mushrooms in a whole range of different shapes and sizes. Some look like coral, others like cauliflowers or little cream coloured balls. There are some that look like jellies or turkey’s tails.
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 3d
#UKFungusDay 🍄

Here's a gorgeous Amanita Muscaria 😍

#Wales
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