On 4 April to mark Vaisakhi (Sikh New Year), we welcome Guljar Singh Gola for a special event honouring the life of his late father, Sewa Singh Gola (1938-2024). For more details please see the event listing on our website: tinyurl.com/4scbk9c5
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We're delighted to be hosting an exhibition by Wilderspin National School - a unique story of the ambition and endurance of infant education pioneer Samuel Wilderspin; A ‘Journey’ which ended at Barton on Humber and Hull in 1840s. Until 26 March.
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55 years ago, yesterday, BBC Radio Humberside officially launched from Jameson Street via the m.v Miranda in the North Sea. The station covered the largest geographical area of any BBC station at the time. Today, it emits from Dock Street, Queens Gardens.
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With the news that Carling Black Label is returning, read our blog on the origins of Carling beer which goes back to the Carling family of Etton, 12 miles from Hull tinyurl.com/yc5mhum6
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With the news that Carling Black Label is returning, read our blog on the origins of Carling beer which goes back to the Carling family of Etton, 12 miles from Hull tinyurl.com/yc5mhum6 @hulllibraries.bsky.social
Here's the old bus station when new in 1935. Thanks to today's reorganisation of @EYBuses service, those of us who commute to the east of the city centre are going to see a lot more of its successor!
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In our latest blog we peak behind the curtains of the male-dominated academic world of the 1950s, uncovering a hidden story of women working together to support themselves and the University of Hull: tinyurl.com/36msmxb2 @hulllibraries.bsky.social
With #WinterOlympics starting we look back at Tom Longstaff. Awarded Gold at the games in 1924, he was born in #Hull in 1876. He was the first to climb +7000 metres and even took part in the Everest Expedition of 1922. Image from his book.
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#OTD in 1968, Harry Eddon was found as the sole survivor of the #RossCleveland which sank off Ísafjörður, Iceland, where it was sheltering from a blizzard. Part of the larger Triple Trawler Tragedy, which claimed 58 lives in January-February 1968.
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We recently posted about the newly revealed archaeology of the old town walls. Several courses of brick have survived below our feet, which date to the 14th Century. You can find out more on the BBC here: tinyurl.com/bdfa36xs
Image: Location of area on 1715 plan of #hull
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#OTD 885 years ago, William le Gros, Lord of Holderness fought at The Battle of Lincoln along with King Stephen, who was captured and William fled. He previously fought at battle of the Standard and later founded Meaux Abbey.
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We like an architectural folly - and we've helped The Folly Flâneuse with images for her blog about one at Hedon, supposedly the tomb of Albina wife of Drogo of Holderness - for whom see Prof Barbara English's article on BBC news website last Xmas Day. thefollyflaneuse.com/albinas-tomb...
#OTD 150 years ago John Bacchus Dykes died. Born in Hull in 1823, he learnt to play piano and violin, later composing over 300 hymn tunes, including one of the most famous maritime Hymns, ‘Eternal Father, Strong to Save’.
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One of the first departments established at @uniofhull.bsky.social was Zoology. In our latest blog we explore some recently discovered letters that give us a fascinating insight into the work of the first Head, Professor Alister Clavering Hardy. tinyurl.com/yh9ewue6
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This is good - they've found a stretch of Hull's medieval northern walls, in about the highlighted area on this section of the Tudor plan.
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Yesterday in 1903, Harry Houdini performed at the Palace Theatre, exhibiting there several times. He jumped from Corporation Pier in 1914 and parts of his film, Haldane of the Secret Service were filmed here: tinyurl.com/h6h5d752
(Image: Houdini in the Humber)
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We're open to the public today, Saturday 20 December 9.30-12.30 and then Tuesday 23 9.30-4.30. We're then have our Christmas break and reopen Saturday 2 January 2026 at 9.30. Best wishes to all our users for Christmas and the New Year. (Image: Queens Gardens, 1957)
Yesterday marks the 20th Birthday to the History Centre Partnership - signed in 2005 between @hullcitycouncil.bsky.social
and @uniofhull.bsky.social It provided the firm foundation to establish with HeritageFundUK support a then ground-breaking joint archives service.
Don't miss out last talk of the year tomorrow at 12.30. ‘Larkin and Ted Tarling: a developing friendship’ by Graham Chesters of the @plsoc.bsky.social. Admission is free - as are the mince pies!
There is also a small accompanying exhibition.
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#OTD in 1734 the iconic King Billy statue was officially opened. Made by Flemish sculptor P. Scheemakers it replaced an earlier Market Cross.
It has served as a landmark in the city ever since. The image is the earliest depiction in 1735.
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Sewa Singh Gola was one of the first Sikhs to move to Hull in the 1970s, and a founding member of the first gurdwara in the city. We are currently working with his family to create an archive about Sewa’s life and the wider Sikh community in Hull
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We reopen today after our stocktaking closure. Excellent work by the team on cataloguing building plan files (Building Control and City Architect's) and repackaging Local Studies photographs so they're easier to retrieve and use.
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Last chance to see our newest exhibit, Tracks Through Time: The Story of Hull's Railways which will be taken down on 11 December.
If you haven't seen it, do come along and find out some interesting facts you may not have known!
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Though we are closed this week, we are still busy behind the scenes. Here you can see a few plans of old and new Drypool Bridge that were recently catalogued.
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Tuesday 11 November - today's talk is "The Hull to Grimsby Hovercraft Service" with Paul Drury-Bradey. 12.30pm, free admission.
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"At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."
War Memorial Fountain, 1922, Reckitt's, Dansom Lane, #Hull
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With Patisserie week just gone and the finals coming up on #GBBO here is our take, as part of our #HistoryBakers series, Mrs K. Leng’s Dorset Apple Cake. Who doesn’t like Apple Cake!
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#OTD in 1909 M. E. Ling of #Hull arrived in Edinburgh to attempt to fly across the Firth. The Ling Monoplane, later known as the Newington Monoplane was designed and built in the city. It was one of the regions first attempts at flight.
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Yesterday marked the 220th anniversary of #Trafalgar. Doubtless many #Hull seamen fought there in the Navy - voluntarily or otherwise. A replica of HMS Pickle, the vessel which brought news of the battle to Britain, is moored in Hull tinyurl.com/2rbz9n6z
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