Gillian W Roberts

Detail from the ‘Four Season Mosaic’ depicting ‘Spring’ from Roman York (Eboracum). The mosaic was discovered in 1853 at Tanners Row & dates to sometime between 268AD to 350AD. Now part of the collections at the Yorkshire Museum in York. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain

The BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship offers up to £4000 to research the history, culture, literature, and/or identity of the North East of England and the Scottish Borders in the long eighteenth century. Deadline for applications is 31 May 2025. Find out more at www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

Dr Shaun Evans, Director of the Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates (ISWE), discussing Bangor University’s Archives and Special Collections

Round glass bead with a green base color, featuring a portrait of a woman with a necklace framed in red on a blue background.

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: a glass mosaic face bead. 1st century AD.

📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg

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We need EVERYONE to see this advert for a Head of Operations at the Palace (£40-45k). Otherwise we might get some kind of numpty in charge.

Please share. If we get 50 shares we'll post a video of #CuratorRob playing a hoover like a didgeridoo.

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Chapter 10.2 Re-planning Bristol - The Post-war City Part 2 - New homes for all

2/ The history of Bristol's post-war public housing is superbly recounted by Pete Insole in this fully illustrated story map:
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Chapter 9 Bristol Homes for Heroes

Pete and his team have produced a range of superb resources. You'll know 'Know Your Place' but, ICYMI, this too (and much else) ...
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Tai Peilot, Llanddwyn

A row of C19th pilots’ houses built to serve the now-defunct lifeboat station that ran 1826-1907.

The Tŵr Mawr conical lighthouse tower (35 feet) built by Caernarfon Harbour Trustees, 1824.

St Dwynwen’s Church, Llanddwyn, Ynys Môn.

A spectacular day for views down the Llŷn.

The remains of a C16th chancel, casement-moulded windows within a circular llan.

Patron saint of lovers, 25 Jan

Believed dd. 465, she prayed to live unmarried after her affair with Maelon Dyfrodill turned sour.

Box pew painted soft grey green beneath gallery with fielded and raised panelling. Stone stairs with slate flag to first floor.

Pulpit, a box pew and gallery.

View from round-headed window on first floor. Black sheep and lambs grazing.

First floor gallery with unpainted wooden pews. Funeral bier tucked in the eaves.

Pen-rhiw Chapel @Saint Fagan’s

Unitarian church (1777)Dre-Fach Felindre, Carmarthenshire. - area known as Y Smotyn Du - the black spot, by denominations suspicious of the reforming,egalitarian faith.

Iorwerth C Peate (1901-1982) St Fagans first curator is buried in the grounds.

Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters ‘DEI’ added to website address

This is US army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers, awarded Medal of Honor by president Nixon in 1970, served Vietnam war, wounded 3x leading defence of base, the highest-ranking African American to receive the honour, buried Arlington national cemetery.

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Handsome shop, delicate window openings stone dressing & string course, pale brick, majolica-like tiles.

Sister Dora statue, in 1875, when the town was hit by smallpox, she opened an epidemic infirmary treating thousands of patients.

Lloyds Bank, handsome corner building in classical style.

More recce’s…

Corner building, 3storey and attic, red clay brick, ironwork crown

Former education building, Red clay brick, chateau-ish

Frontage of former music shop, modelling of guitars, violins and other musical instruments in frieze to front elevation

Corner building former Midland bank, red brick and stone dressing and mouldings, incorporating a second bank to the right

A Victorian Society recce around Walsall

A calm sea and a pebbled beach at sunset, rock pools in the foreground

Traeth Llanulltyd Fawr, Dydd Sul
Beach Llantwit Major
Sunday

Oh, isn’t that lovely - the house, and the chaps who remembered her!

Aah! I am rubbish at the geography down there. Solid Gog, I’m afraid! Thank you for the link, I’ll have a nosey!

That’s a fabulous story, thank you. And Cheriton - not far from my husband’s stomping ground. When I was at NRAS I listed some estt pprs for Kirton - that’s Cheriton, isn’t it? Long way from Devon!

Kennixton farmhouse, Saint Fagans.

Welsh vernacular architecture: floor is lime mortar beaten with crushed seashells, bedrooms with rare straw-rope under thatching, a beautiful scissor brace in the principal room.

This house is well-loved: the banked cegin fire make it also feel well-lived.

What is a One-Place Study? - Society for One-Place Studies A One-Place Study (OPS) is a perfect combination of family and local history of places around in the world. Those places include towns, parishes, villages, hamlets, streets, or even individual buildin...

Well, this is an interesting idea. A One Place Study is a deep dive into the history of a particular place, but it could be local history, family history, natural history, or a combo of all of the above.

www.one-place-studies.org/about/what-i...

Historic England acquires collection featuring some of UK’s oldest photos Janette Rosing built up pioneering trove of 8,000 images dating back to the early days of the Industrial Revolution

Janette Rosing photographs dating to 1830s acquired by Historic England under AIL.

The images include photography by pioneers WG Campbell, William Russell Sedgfield.

The calotype, collodion, dry plate & platinum print images are being digitised.

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Artists decry ‘irresponsible’ plans to demolish brutalist Midlands tower Conservation groups say University of Wolverhampton’s proposals overlook historical significance of art school

Miserable proposal to demolish Wolverhampton School of Art.

Brutalist building of 1966 and 1970 by Diamond, Redfern & Partners, sits beside Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Molineux Stadium

Artists decry ‘irresponsible’ plans to demolish brutalist Midlands tower

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Stained glass window detail showing Thomas Traherne, in 17th century clerical dress, standing under a waterfall of light surrounded by aspects of creation.Colours are mainly red, with jewel-like effects of green, purple and turquoise.

'You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars'. Thomas Traherne (d.1674), poet and cleric. His visionary insight lives on in a stunning Tom Denny window at Hereford Cathedral. 🌊✨ #StainedGlassSunday

Stunned by Silence’ – dir Malka Holmes 2024 - Greengage Films

This hauntingly beautiful film documenting curlew conservation in north Wales by my friend, Malka Holmes.

Narrated by Iolo Williams, featuring Mary Colwell, Dion Williams and David Gray.

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On so many levels this is fabulous news. Don’t let anyone tell you archaeology doesn’t matter, or that it doesn’t make a difference. This 👇

Trump’s executive order on gender uses language pointing to ‘fetal personhood’ Words ‘at conception’ in order gesture to push by anti-abortion movement to give embryos and fetuses legal rights

Re-read your Handmaids Tale, Trump is coming for us.

Trump’s executive order on gender uses language pointing to ‘fetal personhood’

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Plas Teg: Once in a Generation Welsh House Clearance — Rogers Jones Co

Plas Teg, Flints. GI 1610
Sir John Trevor Surveyor of the Queen’s Ships.
Significant house for Jacobean court gentry.

P Smith: well-known Renaissance type resemblance to Wollaton Hall & Hardwick Hall.

Interesting contents sale owned by Cornelia Bayley.

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Historic Buildings Destroyed as Palisades Blaze Rages Museums and galleries are shuttering as the deadly firestorm continues to burn through LA County.

And more on loss of historic buildings from @hyperallergic.com #climateheritage

Front cover of the Victoria County History of Wem, which chronicles the social and economic history of the market town of Wem in north Shropshire

Hey @shroppiemon.bsky.social - look what I got for Christmas! I've been dipping into this throughout the festive period and have learnt absolutely loads of stuff. Would love to see more Shropshire towns get the @vchlondon.bsky.social treatment in this way. Recommended ✅

#Wem #Shropshire #History 📚

Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏

Tudor psychedelia for £35 a night! Is this rescued Yorkshire pile Britain’s most thrilling holiday let? It’s got triple-height splendour and 1550s wall paintings likely inspired by Emperor Nero’s villa in Rome. Our writer plays lord of the manor at Calverley Hall – once home to knights, weavers, stonema...

After the VAG winter conference this weekend, it’s good to see this article this morning on Calverley Old Hall with stunning wall paintings.

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