Lizzy Sharpe
@lizzysharpe.bsky.social
Collections Assistant at Dover Museum
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December 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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This door for #adoorablethursday is from the Maison Dieu. Above the door a carving of the word Museum in the stonework can still be seen marking a former entrance to Dover Museum. After bomb damage at its Market Square site in 1942 the museum temporarily moved to the ground floor of the Maison Dieu.
December 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This door for #adoorablethursday is from the Maison Dieu. Above the door a carving of the word Museum in the stonework can still be seen marking a former entrance to Dover Museum. After bomb damage at its Market Square site in 1942 the museum temporarily moved to the ground floor of the Maison Dieu.
December 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Have you got your bingo cards ready?
December 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Have you got your bingo cards ready?
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Seeing @danherb10.bsky.social photograph of this beautiful church door in Barfreston reminded me of this pen drawing of the same door in a sketchbook dated c1830 from #Dover Museum's archives.
#adoorable #AdoorableThursday #church
#adoorable #AdoorableThursday #church
December 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Seeing @danherb10.bsky.social photograph of this beautiful church door in Barfreston reminded me of this pen drawing of the same door in a sketchbook dated c1830 from #Dover Museum's archives.
#adoorable #AdoorableThursday #church
#adoorable #AdoorableThursday #church
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December 11, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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A warning from the past: if there is anything you would like to preserve long-term in good condition, please don't stick tape on it!
As tape deteriorates, it can discolour, become brittle, lose its adhesive strength, and leave a residue stain.
Enough to give an archivist nightmares! 👻
As tape deteriorates, it can discolour, become brittle, lose its adhesive strength, and leave a residue stain.
Enough to give an archivist nightmares! 👻
December 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A warning from the past: if there is anything you would like to preserve long-term in good condition, please don't stick tape on it!
As tape deteriorates, it can discolour, become brittle, lose its adhesive strength, and leave a residue stain.
Enough to give an archivist nightmares! 👻
As tape deteriorates, it can discolour, become brittle, lose its adhesive strength, and leave a residue stain.
Enough to give an archivist nightmares! 👻
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The self-help market for writing is saturated with gurus and big promises, which might partly account for the lack of success of my own How To Write course, where I do nothing except tell you to fuck off for 20 years, read a shitload of books and write in whatever way you want to.
December 2, 2025 at 7:50 AM
The self-help market for writing is saturated with gurus and big promises, which might partly account for the lack of success of my own How To Write course, where I do nothing except tell you to fuck off for 20 years, read a shitload of books and write in whatever way you want to.
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Oscar had been warned about the dangers of placing his tongue on his spear in minus 10° C weather, but he just couldn’t help himself - 8th/9th century,
Amiens. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 172, f. 5v
Amiens. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 172, f. 5v
December 2, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Oscar had been warned about the dangers of placing his tongue on his spear in minus 10° C weather, but he just couldn’t help himself - 8th/9th century,
Amiens. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 172, f. 5v
Amiens. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 172, f. 5v
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November 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Gold jar from Galloway Hoard on display for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...
Gold jar from Galloway Hoard on display in Kirkcudbright
It resembles a perfume bottle and a Latin inscription on it suggests it had a religious function.
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Gold jar from Galloway Hoard on display for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...
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"Giving up [on 1.5C] would be a total betrayal. Defeatism never took a single of a fraction of a degree of global warming. It never created a single job.”
Hear, hear, Ed Miliband.
(But also: some of those defeatists appear to be in the Treasury currently)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Hear, hear, Ed Miliband.
(But also: some of those defeatists appear to be in the Treasury currently)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Giving up would be a betrayal’: Miliband says 1.5C target still alive before Cop30
Exclusive: Environment secretary says global tipping points are possible as he rejects far-right climate ‘defeatism’
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"Giving up [on 1.5C] would be a total betrayal. Defeatism never took a single of a fraction of a degree of global warming. It never created a single job.”
Hear, hear, Ed Miliband.
(But also: some of those defeatists appear to be in the Treasury currently)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Hear, hear, Ed Miliband.
(But also: some of those defeatists appear to be in the Treasury currently)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🦇Bats in Churches research reveals ancient buildings as vital wildlife refuges: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/10... .
New research from the Bats in Churches partnership project reveals that half of all Church of England churches are home to bats. In older churches that rises to nearly eight in ten.
New research from the Bats in Churches partnership project reveals that half of all Church of England churches are home to bats. In older churches that rises to nearly eight in ten.
Bats in Churches research reveals ancient buildings as vital wildlife refuges - News - Bat Conservation Trust
New study reveals England’s ancient churches are vital sanctuaries for rare and endangered bats
www.bats.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 9:31 AM
🦇Bats in Churches research reveals ancient buildings as vital wildlife refuges: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/10... .
New research from the Bats in Churches partnership project reveals that half of all Church of England churches are home to bats. In older churches that rises to nearly eight in ten.
New research from the Bats in Churches partnership project reveals that half of all Church of England churches are home to bats. In older churches that rises to nearly eight in ten.
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As we spend this time of year reflecting on the nature of death and remembering the dead, Dover Museum looks to their collections that relate to this theme. Pictured are drawings of gravestones from around #Dover District and #Thanet by John Lewis Roget (1828–1908).
#Halloween #Thesaurus
#Halloween #Thesaurus
October 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
As we spend this time of year reflecting on the nature of death and remembering the dead, Dover Museum looks to their collections that relate to this theme. Pictured are drawings of gravestones from around #Dover District and #Thanet by John Lewis Roget (1828–1908).
#Halloween #Thesaurus
#Halloween #Thesaurus
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I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.
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#OnThisDay, October 23 1905, Getrude ‘Trudy’ Ederle was born in New York. Trudy was a medal winning Olympic champion swimmer, who also became the first recorded woman to successfully swim the Channel on August 6th 1926.
October 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
#OnThisDay, October 23 1905, Getrude ‘Trudy’ Ederle was born in New York. Trudy was a medal winning Olympic champion swimmer, who also became the first recorded woman to successfully swim the Channel on August 6th 1926.
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On this day in 1905 Gertrude 'Trudy' Ederle was born in New York. Trudy was both an Olympic swimming champion and in 1926 became the first woman to swim the Channel.
Trudy's story is one of many being explored in @dovermuseum.bsky.social newest exhibition, At the End of History.
#illustration
Trudy's story is one of many being explored in @dovermuseum.bsky.social newest exhibition, At the End of History.
#illustration
October 23, 2025 at 7:09 AM
On this day in 1905 Gertrude 'Trudy' Ederle was born in New York. Trudy was both an Olympic swimming champion and in 1926 became the first woman to swim the Channel.
Trudy's story is one of many being explored in @dovermuseum.bsky.social newest exhibition, At the End of History.
#illustration
Trudy's story is one of many being explored in @dovermuseum.bsky.social newest exhibition, At the End of History.
#illustration
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October 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
On this day in 1905 Gertrude 'Trudy' Ederle was born in New York. Trudy was both an Olympic swimming champion and in 1926 became the first woman to swim the Channel.
Trudy's story is one of many being explored in @dovermuseum.bsky.social newest exhibition, At the End of History.
#illustration
Trudy's story is one of many being explored in @dovermuseum.bsky.social newest exhibition, At the End of History.
#illustration
October 23, 2025 at 7:09 AM
On this day in 1905 Gertrude 'Trudy' Ederle was born in New York. Trudy was both an Olympic swimming champion and in 1926 became the first woman to swim the Channel.
Trudy's story is one of many being explored in @dovermuseum.bsky.social newest exhibition, At the End of History.
#illustration
Trudy's story is one of many being explored in @dovermuseum.bsky.social newest exhibition, At the End of History.
#illustration
October 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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🚴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.
🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.
October 7, 2025 at 6:09 AM
🚴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.
🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.
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And now he crieth in the wilderness.
October 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
And now he crieth in the wilderness.
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#OnThisDay, October 1st 2000, the last hovercraft arrived in Dover having made its final cross Channel journey. A hovercraft first landed in #Dover on 25th July 1959 after crossing the Channel in two hours.
October 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
#OnThisDay, October 1st 2000, the last hovercraft arrived in Dover having made its final cross Channel journey. A hovercraft first landed in #Dover on 25th July 1959 after crossing the Channel in two hours.
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Today is #WorldMaritimeDay. Pictured is a #watercolour of Granville Dock at #Dover Harbour in 1843 by S.J. Mackie (1823-1902) from Dover Museum's collection. Mackie’s work included a custom’s official, a civil engineer, an antiquarian, a fossil enthusiast and geological editor.
September 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Today is #WorldMaritimeDay. Pictured is a #watercolour of Granville Dock at #Dover Harbour in 1843 by S.J. Mackie (1823-1902) from Dover Museum's collection. Mackie’s work included a custom’s official, a civil engineer, an antiquarian, a fossil enthusiast and geological editor.