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The image shows Lady Lumley's Almshouses, located in Thornton Dale, North Yorkshire. This terrace of twelve houses was built in 1670 from local limestone. They were founded by Lady Elizabeth Lumley to provide housing for local people in need, and they continue to serve this purpose today as a registered charity. Imnage: Lady Lumley's Almshouses, Thornton-le-Dale by John Lord CC BY-SA 2.0

🧵I was thinking about writing a short post on the Lady Lumley almshouses in Thornton Dale, built around 1670. In reading about their founder, Lady Elizabeth Lumley (c.1577–1657), I realised how remarkable her life was. Born Elizabeth Cornwallis into a powerful Norfolk family,

Brownish drawing of a skeletal death with a quiver of arrows at his side, touching a bagpiper on the hat and piercing his bagpipe with a dart of death.

#TheVIctorianBookoftheDead #InternationalBagpipeDay
Death stabs the bagpiper with his dart of death.
De Kapelle der dooden, 1741

1826 Forget Me Not dedication page, an embossed floral scroll on blue paper. Inscribed to Henrietta Dawson by P. M. French.

Blank 1827 embossed Forget Me Not frame on orange paper. Artsy women appear at the top of the frame.

Embossed Fountain design on olive paper for 1828. Inscribed with the words I will never forget, in French, and signed illegibly.

Embossed frame on orange paper with a bust of maybe Socrates on top, standing women to the sides. Inscribed lightly with the name Grace Robson?

Forget Me Not?

We have a run of this annual set of gift books from 1823 to 1846 @newberrylibrary.bsky.social. Several have embossed dedication pages, most of which have been filled in by or for women! Many thanks to @drbibliomane.bsky.social for this excellent rabbit hole!
#WomensHistory #WHM

An explosion of daffodils at my #OnePlaceStudy St. John's Square, Wakefield today.

FindmyPast doubles British Newspaper Archive digitisation capacity From Scotland, a daily news blog about genealogy, family history and personal heritage.

FindmyPast doubles British Newspaper Archive digitisation capacity
scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2026/03/find... #genealogy

Approaching the magnificent York Minster from Chapter House Street.
With @deadsleuth.com

Stone Age woman was buried like a man, revealing flexible gender roles 7,000 years ago in Hungary A study of 125 skeletons from two Neolithic cemeteries in Hungary has revealed that men and women had clear gender roles — but sometimes those roles were fluid.

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Lots of accidents here, it seems... He accidentally poisoned people with contaminated sweets, now they found his burial place after losing it for ages.

The image shows a soldier in a red dress uniform, wearing white gloves. the blade of a sword is visible. the text reads "updated profile: samuel lister, 1793-1813"

Check out new details relating to the funeral of Sam Lister, #AnneLister’s beloved sibling whose death ultimately led to her inheriting Shibden Hall, in this revised profile by Lynn Shouls (lynnshls.bsky.social) 👇
www.packedwithpotential.org/profiles/sam...

#history #oneplace #militaryhistory

Terracotta statuette of a dog with upright, pricked ears and a fluffy upright tail. He has an oval object - supposedly meat - in his mouth, painted red. Black pigment can still be seen on his ears and the tip of his tail, in addition to some traces of red on his coat.

Every dog owner: ‘What’s that in your mouth?? Omigod, drop it, drop it!’ 😱

This Greek (Boeotian) terracotta dog appears to have a red piece of, um, meat in its mouth. I’m sure he earned it (‘Hey, that dead guy over there wasn’t using this.’)

1st half of the 5th c. BCE. #MetMuseum 📸 me 🏺

Looking down on West Bow from Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh #scotland #photography

A historical oil painting portrait of Mary Anning (1799–1847), the pioneering British fossil hunter, paleontologist, and self-taught scientist from Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. Painted by B. J. Donne in the 19th century (posthumous or based on contemporary sketches), it depicts her standing outdoors on a rocky coastal shore under a dramatic, stormy sky with dark clouds and a glimpse of the sea and distant cliffs in the background. She wears a long, dark green cloak with a hood, a red neck scarf, and a wide-brimmed bonnet tied under her chin. In her gloved right hand she holds a geological hammer (her iconic tool), and a small wicker basket hangs from her left arm, likely for carrying fossils. A loyal black-and-white dog (possibly her famous companion Tray) lies curled at her feet on the rocks. Mary Anning stands with a calm, resolute expression, gazing slightly upward and to the side, conveying quiet determination and intelligence. The painting's muted tones and romantic style emphasize her as a lone figure in a rugged, fossil-rich landscape, symbolizing her groundbreaking contributions to early paleontology despite societal barriers as a working-class woman.

Fossil collector & self-taught paleontologist Mary Anning's discoveries revolutionized our understanding of prehistoric life.

"The greatest fossilist the world ever knew," she made her finds in the Jurassic marine fossil beds along the cliffs of Lyme Regis (UK). She died #OTD in 1847. #WomenInSTEM

Take Me To Church.
Westminster Abbey, March 2025.

A treat to die for! 😬

Ivory carving of death as a skeleton partially wrapped in a shroud, sitting on the edge of a tomb, elbow on an hourglass and hand on head. The picture of despair.

#MementoMoriMonday mood.

1547 ivory
collections.madparis.fr/document/col...
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"But, as you well know, I have not a little of Yorkshire cavalier about me; and, tho’ I would go thro’ fire and water to serve a friend, perhaps you would often think me too [unbending] to the world in general -" #AnneLister to Maria Barlow, Dec. 2025.

(The things I read in these letters.. 😅)

The Volga Lagoon, by Fyodor Vasilyev

The Volga Lagoon, by Fyodor Vasilyev

Angled view past a stone column across the cathedral nave to the other side, with Romanesque arches, a stained glass window visible through one. The chairs in the nave are modern, made of tubular metal with pale wooden seats and backs.

Ely Cathedral's nave.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteriors 📷 #photography

From the fujifilm community on Reddit: Buying a $2k camera just to take pics of your cat | X-T5 Explore this post and more from the fujifilm community

if you ask me, that is money well spent. This looks gorgeous!
#cat #catphotography #photography

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Day 66 Photo of 365 - Walls
#photoaday #day66 #leica #prague

365 Days of Music - “Ventura Highway” from Homecoming (America 1975)

What the wind left behind

#B&W #photography #photo #blackandwhite #bwphotography #bnwphotography #monochrome #mono

Today is International Women's Day and this post features a newspaper report from Penrith Observer on 4 September 1917 about Nellie Spindler from Wakefield who as a nurse in World War 1 in France who paid the ultimate sacrifice for helping many others.
#IWD

Delicious images of Edinburgh from Tom Duffin

Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train.

A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin

@tomduffinphotos.bsky.social.

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Ghastly or gorgeous? Amid the Gothic spender of the cathedral sits this Victorian pulpit. Does it fit in or is it a case of the #UberGothic? It's a given of course that the stacking chairs while economic are utterly out of place #HolyTrinityBristol for #SundaySermons

Antwerp Central Station

A "Railway Cathedral" indeed! Welcome to Antwerp Central Station, considered one of the most beautiful train stations in the world.

The panel which I featured a couple of days ago, showing Edward Akroyd laying the foundation stone for All Souls' Church, is nothing compared to the rather grand bronze statue of Colonel Akroyd of which it forms a part.....

Black and white images of photographs of lady embalmers, labeled as Mrs. Russ, Mrs. Greenslade, Mrs. Young, and Miss Gardner.

#InternationalWomensDay #TheVictorianBookoftheDead Profiles of early lady embalmers. While women traditionally laid out the dead, the notion of them working as embalmers seemed to shock. "STRANGE OCCUPATION FOLLOWED BY MANY AMERICAN WOMEN."
thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/2018/11/14/l...

Playing in puddles, Manchester, 1966, photo by Shirley Baker.