Brian Edwards
@public-history.bsky.social
Historiographer and public historian that is fanatical about rugby union.
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Yesterday we welcomed a team from NHK (Japan's biggest broadcaster) interviewing @public-history.bsky.social about the amazing story of the Wiltshire Thatcher and the cover of Led Zeppelin IV (with Stairway to Heaven!). Broadcast in the New Year.
More at www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...
More at www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Yesterday we welcomed a team from NHK (Japan's biggest broadcaster) interviewing @public-history.bsky.social about the amazing story of the Wiltshire Thatcher and the cover of Led Zeppelin IV (with Stairway to Heaven!). Broadcast in the New Year.
More at www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...
More at www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...
The questions were so interesting it was a pleasure being interviewed by Yasuhiro Kodama and Haruyoshi Nishimura for a Japanese television series about famous rock music album covers.
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The questions were so interesting it was a pleasure being interviewed by Yasuhiro Kodama and Haruyoshi Nishimura for a Japanese television series about famous rock music album covers.
November 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Led Zeppelin IV released on this day 1971. The Victorian photograph on the cover is of the Wiltshire Thatcher - the original is in the collection of Wiltshire Museum. @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Led Zeppelin IV released on this day 1971. The Victorian photograph on the cover is of the Wiltshire Thatcher - the original is in the collection of Wiltshire Museum. @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social
An open air talk to Christian Climate Action pilgrims at Silbury Hill in the footsteps of talks popularised in the 19th century: the collapse on 29 May 2000, Edward Drax's miners of 1776, Dean Merewether's 1849 tunnel, BBC failing to backfill in 1970 + climate info text from @jimleary.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
An open air talk to Christian Climate Action pilgrims at Silbury Hill in the footsteps of talks popularised in the 19th century: the collapse on 29 May 2000, Edward Drax's miners of 1776, Dean Merewether's 1849 tunnel, BBC failing to backfill in 1970 + climate info text from @jimleary.bsky.social
'Sofa',... end credits from Men Behaving Badly series 6 episode 6, broadcast 11 December 1997. Moments earlier, a large exotic snake had been tipped out of a sack in front of the sofa, but was removed. Wondering if the cast and crew were aware of the justifiable reputation for adders on that hill.
November 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
'Sofa',... end credits from Men Behaving Badly series 6 episode 6, broadcast 11 December 1997. Moments earlier, a large exotic snake had been tipped out of a sack in front of the sofa, but was removed. Wondering if the cast and crew were aware of the justifiable reputation for adders on that hill.
Released this day in 1967, I didn't buy it until nearer Christmas. My father was sick of it within the first few days but within a week started to sing along to the Mother's Lament.
November 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Released this day in 1967, I didn't buy it until nearer Christmas. My father was sick of it within the first few days but within a week started to sing along to the Mother's Lament.
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A splendid 2 days exploring the mysterious and not so mysterious Chiltern chalk figures.
Had a lovely visit to an iconic Chilterns monument today with @jonwoolcott.bsky.social , the man who's bringing us a brilliant new book in April!
In between rain deluges, we captured the impressive Vale below the Chilterns Scarp, and even managed to see and hear one of my favourite things
In between rain deluges, we captured the impressive Vale below the Chilterns Scarp, and even managed to see and hear one of my favourite things
October 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
A splendid 2 days exploring the mysterious and not so mysterious Chiltern chalk figures.
The wonderful White Horse of Kilburn.
October 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The wonderful White Horse of Kilburn.
Have just written a draft note about the onset of Guy Underwood's interest in dowsing during wartime for a magazine. Can't though source any photograph of him other than one used in a previous article. Has anyone knowledge of any photographs of Underwood please?
October 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Have just written a draft note about the onset of Guy Underwood's interest in dowsing during wartime for a magazine. Can't though source any photograph of him other than one used in a previous article. Has anyone knowledge of any photographs of Underwood please?
This is further from the window in the living room. I am writing an article about hill figures and having lived in a house for 20 years with a full view of a chalk horse, I now miss that hillside companionship terribly.
October 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is further from the window in the living room. I am writing an article about hill figures and having lived in a house for 20 years with a full view of a chalk horse, I now miss that hillside companionship terribly.
Can't conjure up another unknown painting of Stonehenge at short notice, this Victorian painting by Charles Maggs is on our living room wall.
October 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Can't conjure up another unknown painting of Stonehenge at short notice, this Victorian painting by Charles Maggs is on our living room wall.
60 years before train passengers spotted hill figures at Westbury or Uffington, the White Horse of Cherhill was the subject of 'first to spot' it wagers for those travelling to and from Bath for the season. This is a period interior. The view is a late Victorian painting by James Pegrum.
October 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
60 years before train passengers spotted hill figures at Westbury or Uffington, the White Horse of Cherhill was the subject of 'first to spot' it wagers for those travelling to and from Bath for the season. This is a period interior. The view is a late Victorian painting by James Pegrum.
It is sad that English Heritage dropped the annual Stonehenge Dahlia Exhibition this year, having for the previous two years revisited the Victorian Dahlia Shows of 1842-45. Here's the article I produced in 2014.
October 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
It is sad that English Heritage dropped the annual Stonehenge Dahlia Exhibition this year, having for the previous two years revisited the Victorian Dahlia Shows of 1842-45. Here's the article I produced in 2014.
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And it now is! 😊
Paintings of Stonehenge by Victorian women are rare, and these details are tantalising: could this be Elizabeth Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1818-1897) and her daughter Lady Ermyntrude Russell (1856-1927)? Such precious women's artwork needs to be in the Wiltshire Museum collection.
October 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
And it now is! 😊
It is that time of year...
October 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
It is that time of year...
From the presentation at Pewsey last evening - Eldon Threads' fantastic map of Wiltshire's unique White Horse herd, and the similar outline of the left facing White Horse of Hanover as featured on Georgian coins that were contemporary with the cutting of many of these equine hill figures.
October 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
From the presentation at Pewsey last evening - Eldon Threads' fantastic map of Wiltshire's unique White Horse herd, and the similar outline of the left facing White Horse of Hanover as featured on Georgian coins that were contemporary with the cutting of many of these equine hill figures.
Paintings of Stonehenge by Victorian women are rare, and these details are tantalising: could this be Elizabeth Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1818-1897) and her daughter Lady Ermyntrude Russell (1856-1927)? Such precious women's artwork needs to be in the Wiltshire Museum collection.
October 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Paintings of Stonehenge by Victorian women are rare, and these details are tantalising: could this be Elizabeth Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1818-1897) and her daughter Lady Ermyntrude Russell (1856-1927)? Such precious women's artwork needs to be in the Wiltshire Museum collection.
The unfamiliar signs of Stonehenge. No.1. No entry to John Travolta. No Night Fever!
October 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The unfamiliar signs of Stonehenge. No.1. No entry to John Travolta. No Night Fever!
