Ann Roberts

In English (or at least Devonian) wild blueberries, Vaccinium myrtillus, are whotleberries. Also known as bilberries.

There’s also an opportunity to hear Ian in Exeter in person this coming Friday organised by the Devonshire Association Buildings Section.
Mint Methodist Church, no booking required, pay on the door.
Full details here
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Common Toadflax still flowering in #Devon hedgerow.
#WildFlowerHour

Can anyone help with translation from Latin please?

You’re welcome. My pictures were taken last month during Heritage Open Days.

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Spanish tortilla or frittata

Discover Devon's @unesco.org designated heritage on a Discovery Day 🔎

✦ 13 October: Free tour exploring rare items in our new Treasures Exhibition

✦ 23 October: Free workshop on why The Exeter Book is so special

Tickets: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/whats-on/

Hosted by The Devonshire Association

See this? Post a bridge.

I’ll dm you tomorrow

How very sad though this may not be the one your ancestor would have known. This was the chapel of Exminster Hospital (Devon County Asylum ). Exeter Asylum (Digby Hospital) was a few miles away.
I have some photos of both asylums if you haven’t seen them.

Heritage Open Day visit to chapel of old Exminster Asylum (now Exeter Pre-Prep School).
Built 1875 of Heavitree sandstone with Bath stone dressings. Cruciform plan with bellcote over the crossing.
Designed by Exeter architect Joseph Neale.
Good carved details including reredos, capitals and pulpit

Here's how the real two-tier Britain works:
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵

Work of the Week! Bedruthan Steps by Robert Borlase Smart

He described himself as an “oil painter of seascapes, watercolourist and etcher of architectural subjects” and worked for a time as artist and art critic for the Western Morning News.

🌟Fellows of the RHistS were emailed yesterday regarding this year's elections to the Society's Council. I am one of this year's candidates, and hope if you are a Fellow you'll consider voting for me. I'm particularly concerned with issues of EDI within the historical profession.🌟 #skystorians

I’ve been enjoying watching the Fred Dibnah repeats on BBC4.
I really wish they would re-show Alec Clifton-Taylor’s progs.

I’ve been interested in visiting there. Is it worth it?

Extraordinary sculpture by Jyll Bradley. Centrepiece of exhibition at The Box, Plymouth. As you circle the blues and violets remain in front of you while the warmer tones are furthest away caused by the different refractive index of the materials. Think rainbows or prisms.
Photo doesn’t do it credit

Evening primrose, bird’s foot trefoil, purple loosestrife and meadowsweet
All at Dawlish Warren
Tuesday 8 - 9am
#WildflowerHour
#Devon
@warrenbirding.bsky.social

Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...

🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

A yellowed page with music written across it in black notes. Black Latin text is under the lines of music

A rare medieval manuscript is bringing the sound of monks back to Buckland Abbey for the first time in 500 years.

A 15th-century book that once belonged to Buckland Abbey to come home for the first time since 1539, thanks to a British Library loan.

Ornate remains of traceried stonework from the medieval abbey beside the Great Barn on a lawn of bright green grass.

We’ve partnered with the University of Exeter Cathedral Choir to bring the voices of the long-lost monks back to life.

The music will be part of the soundtrack to a new exhibition at the abbey, and will be performed live in the abbey’s medieval Great Barn in August.

Your rare and lovely thing looks to be in better condition than mine. On the other hand mine is signed by Bill Miller.

Oh my! Gotta laugh. She’d have still been a Tory MP if she hadn’t had a Reform candidate standing against her who split her vote.

MWF Quote of the Month - July 2025

This months quote is a powerful reminder of the importance of supporting other women. True progress is built when women stand together and lift each other up.

Old Man’s Beard ( clematis vitalba)
#WildflowerHour #Devon

Dr Julia Neville is seated talking to a young woman about local history.

At our AGM last month, we awarded our Outstanding Individual Contribution Awards to Dr Julia Neville and Dr Hugh Pihlens!

Hear from Dr Julia Neville about her work in the study of Devon local history: ow.ly/BhgS50W4BcP

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

A swallow’s nest with four young birds looking over the edge.

Swallow babies waiting for their next feed.

Mazawattee Tea ‘the cup that cheers but does not inebriate.
The advertising tapped in to the late-Victorian and Edwardian temperance movement.