@annroberts.bsky.social
Local history and research. Women’s history. Also architecture, art and heritage. Devon based.
Evening primrose, bird’s foot trefoil, purple loosestrife and meadowsweet
All at Dawlish Warren
Tuesday 8 - 9am
#WildflowerHour
#Devon
@warrenbirding.bsky.social
🌳 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...
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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.
03.07.2025 19:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh 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.
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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.
19.06.2025 09:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Mazawattee Tea ‘the cup that cheers but does not inebriate.
The advertising tapped in to the late-Victorian and Edwardian temperance movement.
For comparison
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Congratulations to new Fellow Julia Neville in Devon. I know how much work you have devoted to history over the past few years!
16.05.2025 14:42 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2Congratulations Julia. Well deserved.
17.05.2025 09:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0POST FROM TAVISTOCK POLICE ON FACEBOOK
Police are investigating a report of theft of a lectern from St Paul's Church in Yelverton on the evening of Monday 12th May.
Please share this appeal far and wide.
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Poem response to Starmer's Farage/Powell cosplay - full text in the link
Island of Strangers - by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
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Paternoster House, Exeter is being converted to apartments. Once home to Exeter’s first department store. Purpose built in 1880 for Brock’s furniture, furnishings, stationery, and books emporium. Removal of modern fascias has exposed the original rather lovely signage. Love it when that happens.
28.04.2025 19:27 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Reposting this for
#WorldDownSyndromeDay
I find it particularly frustrating because my local library service doesn’t subscribe either so I have no access.
19.03.2025 09:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So all these are free to access whilst the ODNB remains behind a paywall.
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Costa Coffee AD1350
(I believe it used to be a pub)
Hello Bluesky - it's good to be here! Do follow us if you're interested in vernacular architecture and buildings archaeology.
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Snowdrops with bare trees behind and the river Dart beyond
A close up view of massed snowdrops.
Snowdrops in the rain.
Huccaby, Dartmoor.
You may not know this, but approximately 100 years worth of parish register images for Plymouth & West Devon are not yet available online through Find My Past, but are in The Box, Plymouth Archives. Need something checked? Email me at dwresearchservices@gmail.com for a quote.
14.02.2025 13:48 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This might help explain the significance of 6/8 and multiples
archives.history.ac.uk/richardII/co...
Typo alert
That should be 1909.
Fantastic evening yesterday with Lee Rawlings (@montagfire.bsky.social ) performing a dramatic reading of EM Forster’s short story The Machine Stops. Incredible story for our time but written in 1905. Prescient and quite scary.
11.02.2025 10:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1There’s lots of interest there.
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A bright background of different blue glass. The Anglo Saxon princess is wearing a crown, but with a halo. She is dressed as a nun, holding a crozier & a model of the church.
👀 Chester Cathedral, #Chester
Detail from the great West Window by W T Carter Shapland - 1961
Carter Shapland came from a #Devon farming family, but trained with Wippell of #Exeter
The shrine of St Werburga was in the former abbey, now cathedral
@chestercathedral.bsky.social
#StainedGlassSunday
Detail from a window by his daughter Veronica Whall at St Mary’s, Berry Pomeroy.
#StainedGlassSunday
