1928 Brough Superior catalogue.

A significant study that includes new information on the "battle" of Wakefield. A good area for discussion and debate. @wfdhistsoc.bsky.social @wakefieldmuseums.bsky.social @richardiiisociety.bsky.social

There are plans to upgrade Reading Groups? @wflibraries.bsky.social

Anyone for Cricket! @wfdhistsoc.bsky.social @wflibraries.bsky.social

A scholarly and attractive new book on Christopher Saxton, Elizabethan map maker and the Atlas. Available now. @wfdhistsoc.bsky.social @wakefieldmuseums.bsky.social @wflibraries.bsky.social

Rare Saxon artefact to go on display at Chichester museum The Stopham sword mount has been bought for the Novium Museum after a crowdfunding campaign.

Rare gold & garnet sword fitting found in 2022, thought to be 1,200 to 1,300 years old will go on display at the Novium Museum, Chichester, W. Sussex. 👇
BBC News - Rare Saxon artefact to go on display at museum
www.bbc.com/news/article...

A small model of a castle in a glass case. It is in a library.

🏰 Come along to view our amazing model of Sandal Castle and listen to this fascinating talk. You will learn about the use and layout of the Castle from the ruins left behind!

- 20 October
- starts 5:45pm
- Wakefield Library

Booking essential, visit: www.ticketsource.co.uk/wakefield-li...

Abstract Composition by Edward Wadsworth Tate Gallery

Edward Alexander Wadsworth was born in Cleckheaton in October 1889. He was an extremely talented painter, printmaker, draughtsman and designer. A friend of Wyndham Lewis, he was briefly a Vorticist (1914–15), producing abstract, geometric works such as Abstract Composition (1915, Tate). During

See the blog for more; rickarobooks.co.uk/2025/08/16/a...

Now in stock at your local bookshop "Darling Reads". "Horbury's Part in Hitler's Downfall". A local history book not to be missed. @darlingreads.bsky.social @darrenbyford.bsky.social @wakefieldmuseums.bsky.social @wfdhistsoc.bsky.social

1,000-year-old onion and garlic eye remedy kills MRSA A 1,000-year-old treatment for eye infections could hold the key to killing antibiotic-resistant superbugs, scientists say.

For those who say rude things about "Dark Age" medicine then you might want to read this.

An Anglo-Saxon remedy can kill antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

A T.E. Lawrence commemorative engraved glass goblet, produced by A.E.H. in 1985, for the 50th anniversary of his death, Number 18.

Handsome and Striking binding on the Castle Hill Press, "Translating the Bruce Rogers Odyssey".

Nanook in the North enjoying the sun in his garden.

🎉🎉𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗿𝘆

𝗛𝗼𝗿𝗯𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 & 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗙𝗮𝘆𝗿𝗲
𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 & 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆
𝟭𝟰 & 𝟭𝟱 𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲

𝗛𝗼𝗿𝗯𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄
𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆
𝟮𝟵𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲.

King's Lynn detectorist unearths warrior's gold scabbard stud Experts say the stud, found at a detecting rally, could be one of

#FindsFriday
The scabbard stud, or boss - about 13mm (0.5in) in diameter and inlaid with red stones separated by strips of sheet gold - was found in September👇
#History

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Swaledale Sheep-Breeders Association Flock Books. @dbderbzbooks.bsky.social @brockholes-preston.bsky.social @swaledalemutton.bsky.social

Lecture Programme - Wakefield Historical Society Promoting knowledge of the area's past

Tonight!

7pm, Wednesday 12 March
West Yorkshire History Centre Kirkgate Wakefield

Wakefield Historical Society AGM. The AGM will be followed by short talks.

Find out more:

www.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk/whs-events/l...

Wednesday March 12th the AGM
@wfdhistsoc.bsky.social
there will be short talks: “The portraits of Thomas Gent, printer and historian”, "Wakefield's first station plans, "Reform School, "Burgess Rolls" and more besides. Do come along. @wakefieldmuseums.bsky.social @visitwakefield.bsky.social

Happy World Book Day

An account of the career of Peter Brears in the museum world. @ @wfdhistsoc.bsky.social @wfdhistsoc.bsky.social

The Gentlewoman's Kitchen, by Peter Brears, published by Wakefield Historical Publications 1984. @visitwakefield.bsky.social @wfdhistsoc.bsky.social @wakefieldmuseums.bsky.social

Copper plate with an engraved figure of a crowned king with a large, bushy beard. He holds a pyx in one hand.

The same copper plate, but with inverted colours, so it now shows the finer details of the first image.

Shown in the first image is a copper printing plate depicting the bust of a crowned king holding a pyx, from the east window in York Cathedral. If we invert the colours, we get the second image, which really highlights the intricate details that were carved into the plate with great skill.

View of Rotherham, c.1830, by William Cowen, 1791-1864 (Clifton Park Museum). #NorthernArt

Spring flowers and Nanook in Carr Lodge Park, Horbury. @horburysouthossett.bsky.social @darlingreads.bsky.social @heirline.bsky.social @visitwakefield.bsky.social

Looking for a new time-keeping piece? How about this pocket-dial, made in 1593 for Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. The following description of it can be found in Archaeologia, Volume 40 (1866): 343-60.

Drawing of a gold coloured, circular brooch, with a large red centre with red petal like shapes coming off it. There are four small, red circles around the brooch, the rest of it appears gold with filagree working.

This is a drawing of an Anglo-Saxon jewelled brooch discovered in a Barrow in Derbyshire.

The ornament was composed chiefly of filigree work, of gold or silver gilt, and set with garnets, or red glass. The inward part is raised above the rest, and supposed to be gold.

A cache of letters from Charles Waterton to Lady Anne Cullum from 1840/50s mentioning Wakefield, "Perhaps no town in England exhibits more more frequent and detestable instances of drunkenness" @wfdhistsoc.bsky.social @ancestralenq.bsky.social @antiquaries.bsky.social @wakefieldmuseums.bsky.social

A splendid copy of the Beauchamp Pageant.

We are excited to join the Bluesky community & wanted to kick off with our Indie Books of the Month for February! Grab in the shop for 10% off!
Or get at @bookshop-org.bsky.social through our shop:
uk.bookshop.org/lists/our-so...
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