BBC Radio 4βs The Long View - Cottingley Fairies mentioned! π§ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0β¦ #CottingleyTruther #FrancesWasRight #TheFifthPhotoIsReal https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002s4cv
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We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/
Archaeology often challenges assumptions about listed buildings. This Leicestershire house was thought to be 17th century until a survey revealed evidence that it was mediaeval.
On 26 Feb I'll be speaking online about Reinterpreting Listed Buildings:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...
Kindle edition currently 99p. www.amazon.co.uk/Anglo-Saxons...
Iβm sharing this in recognition of Gladys Mae Westβs work on GPS because itβs been a transformational technology for archaeology and that lady deserves to be lauded.
I love it when a plan comes together. Together with @cmackie.bsky.social in April I will be running two on-Island public facing events in the run up to the 2026 General Election - one aimed at voters aged 16-18, and one aimed at people considering standing for the Keys.
A mud and stud cottage with lovely daubed walls, thatched roof and brick plinth. It looks really inviting and makes you want to go in through the door and explore.
I'm absolutely delighted to share that I have just been appointed Project Officer for Lincolnshire County Council's new Mud and Stud project. Really looking forward to getting stuck into the first proper county-wide study of its indigenous building technique!
This is thought to be the earliest photograph of a snowman in the world β β
It was taken at Penllergare by Mary Dillwyn in c.1853 π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ
Mary is thought to be one of the earliest female photographers in the world π·
museum.wales/articles/972...
#Wales #History
Elephant and Castle pub on Westgate
Historic England is seeking memories and stories of listed pubs. Wakefield has a number of listed pubs, for instance the Elephant and Castle on Westgate, or the Black Swan on Silver Street. Can you help?
More information: www.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk/historic-eng...
Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: MΓ na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
This is wonderful news! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
This happens to me ALL. THE. TIME. Pleased to hear Iβm not the only one β¦
Two students look at objects in the reading room at The Museum of English Rural Life.
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
Now this is how to start a history book. A Wiltshire story teller 1890s.
"There were a time, 'tweren't in my time, neither in your time, nit (nor yet) in anybody else's time; 'twere when magpies builded in old men's beards and turkey-cocks chewed baccaβ.
An interesting paper of an under researched topic which invites further discussion. It brought to mind family stories of a Grandmother who worked in a steel foundry during WW2. While that wasn't exceptional but her refusal to leave at the end of the war was & more so, the management's capitulation!
Black and white photo of a young Rosalind Franklin in a lab. She wears a plaid dress and is holding what appear to be two sample dishes, one in each hand. There is a lab bench next to her with glassware and other lab equipment. Franklin is looking to her left, at something outside the frame of the photo.
Rosalind Franklin was born #OTD in 1920. Her X-ray diffraction work was critical for establishing the helical nature of DNA. π©βπ¬ π§ͺ
Work carried out by Franklin (with doctoral student Raymond Gosling) was given to Watson and Crick without her consent.
Image: Vittorio Luzzati / Jewish Womenβs Archive
We had a feeling the press would love the first findings from our survey - and weβve been getting some wonderful coverage! Take a look at the press page on our website to see how itβs been reported so far.
A snippet of folklore for #Halloween π
If you sit on a church porch at midnight on Halloween, you will see a procession of all the people who are destined to die in the parish during the next year π
#Wales #History
Book cover for "Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880β1940", by Gareth Roddy
Published today: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880β1940', by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4nwj9Y2
Gareth's book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series @uolpress.bsky.social. Available Open Access and in paperback print #Skystorians 1/2
The #ScottishGaelic Texts Society Annual #CannaLecture will take place at the University of Edinburgh on 21 November 2025, delivered by Dr Martin Macgregor.
llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scott...
Absolutely delighted to see this paper published and particularly pleased that it's open access! 'Environmental patriarchy in a small democracy: Women politiciansβ experiences of patriarchy in Manx politics' is available here: www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/...
That ship has already sailed β¦
Has she just eaten a Big Breakfast? That would have me snoozing too!
There is a moment at this time of year when the word βapricityβ really comes into view. For those who donβt know it, it was recorded only once, in 1623, before slipping out of view. Apricity is the warmth of the sun on a chilly day.
The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324
Folk explanations of place name derivations. Just finished revising a short study of them. Some were serious & others humorous. A favourite:
The Shropshire village of Selattyn on the Welsh border was thought to derive from a local schoolmaster who advertised "I sell Latin".
Research by @emvchung.bsky.social one of @camunicampop.bsky.social brilliant PhD students in the Guardian today www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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