Ruth Brown

As Chair of the 2025 @clahistorians.bsky.social
Bolton-Johnson Prize I congratulate historians Brooke Larson & @thehistoriann.bsky.social CO-WINNERS with The Lettered Indian and Piracy & the Making of the Spanish Pacific World. Was a pleasure to work with jurors Jonathan Ablard & Kaysha Corinealdi

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‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

Exciting! Congrats @musicheritageplace.bsky.social #earlymodern 🗃️ www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Earlier in September, we were able to welcome the Catalan TV for a news report on Catalan documents found in our collection at the National Archives, UK. Quentin Daste, an associated researcher of the Prize Papers and expert for the Catalan sources from the ship San Magin...

Last week I was lucky enough to visit before the exhibition ended (although the queues were horrendous even with a timed ticket) chateaudechantilly.fr/evenement/le...

Ultimatum for repairs on suffragette Edith Rigby's Preston house A council serves an urgent notice demanding remedial action to protect Edith Rigby House in Preston.

This is so sad to see. The owner of the Grade 2 listed 200 year old former home of suffragette Edith Rigby, Winckley Square, Preston, Lancs has been told to carry out repairs in the next 2 weeks. Rigby was jailed 7 times as a suffragette. 👇

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St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

Saddened to hear this. Someone is deliberately targeting museums - I don't think Ely has ever got its golden torc back. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #wales

Delighted to be giving a Bede's World / Durham World Heritage Site lecture in @durham.ac.uk on 18 October.

But clearly not her fingers- she might be able to wriggle out of it.

The Triumph of the Eucharist and the Catholic Faith, Léonard Limousin, Frick 1916.4.22

I reckon the enamel plaque with the sons of Antoinette of Bourbon, Duchess of Guise, helping her chariot wheel over some heretics and unbelievers is one of the best things in the Frick

Hogarth masterpieces restored at Barts Hospital open to public The restoration of the north wing has 'recaptured its beauty and dignity', the project teams says.

The Grade 1 listed North Wing of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London reopens after £9.5 million restoration with 2 William Hogarth masterpiece murals available for the public to see for the first time. 👇
BBC News - Hospital's Hogarth opens to public for first time
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So, it appears I was not joking about the cannon safari; in #Bideford the #Armada guns appear to be being slowly eaten by the Holly and Ivy, in some sort of pagan Wickerman ritual...

Surely Mr Putin will step up the plate for poor Darren?

They are very cunning; they haunt abandoned batteries, old quays and country estates- you have to creep up quietly on them...

Watercolour of a train interior with hills through the windows

Today marks the 200th anniversary of the modern railway 🚂

In June 'Train Landscape’ by Eric Ravilious topped the @railway200.bsky.social vote for the UK’s favourite railway artwork!

Read more 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto...

📷 @abdnartmuseums.bsky.social #Railway200

Whitby Goth Festival which next takes place in Whitby at the end of October.

Welcome to my new newsletter!
A little coffee-break read. This first edition lingers on October’s autumn moods—with a sneak peek at two festive attractions our museums and country houses are preparing. Visit payhip.com/b/DQzbO to download. #Yorkshire #History #Travel #heritage

How the war detectives solved the mystery of two missing Scottish soldiers How a small, dedicated team identified two Scots who died more than 100 years ago in Northern France.

How two soldiers who died at Lens near Arras, France in WW1 were identified. 👇
BBC News - How the war detectives solved the mystery of two missing Scottish soldiers - BBC News
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Funnily enough we are off to Cornwall next week on a cannon safari, but probably not as far as Penzance this time.

Not St Michael's Mount is it? they have civilian cannon.

Doesn't look like a royal cypher. 1725-85- ish.

Holgate Mill is a restored five-sailed tower mill in York, and is the oldest five-sailed windmill in the country. After falling into disrepair, it was restored by the Holgate Windmill Preservation Society and is now a working mill that produces stone-ground flour.

This Arts and Crafts-style building was originally built in 1927 as a memorial to Joseph Rowntree and served as a library for factory employees.

Founded by Kathy King in 2022 to open York’s architecture and urban landscape to the public, York Unlocked takes place this weekend. As it says on the box it is a festival that allows residents and visitors to see York in a new way, and aims to educate and inspire a love of architecture.

House in Low Moor surveyed by the YVBSG in May 2025.

Join us on Saturday 18 October at our follow-up day to hear about buildings we recorded in the south Bradford area in May. We'll also have a walk around the historic buildings of Wibsey. Everybody welcome! Booking details at www.yvbsg.org.uk/events.html.

Most glorious Annunciation ever. Yet Mary is clearly not convinced! Painted in 1333 by Simone Martini of Siena, whose day is today, with some help from Lippo Memmi.

Good friends on this project, and a beautiful restoration and conservation of this fine tower in Scotland. Also a great example of, what you see now (bare stone walls) is not what it was intended to be.

Plus an awesome new painted ceiling

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A while back Historic England asked for my opinion on which was the oldest pub in London. The result is a new online article that outlines the variables, busts some myths, and points to a couple of genuinely ancient pubs in and around the city...

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Mumbai bridge dig reveals hidden cannons from colonial past Mumbai’s built heritage has thrown up another surprise. Heritage enthusiasts have stumbled upon a few old cannons at the site of the ongoing Sindoor bridge

More #cannon dug up in #Mumbai www.mid-day.com/amp/mumbai/m...

New interactive book puts the spotlight on the archaeology of Uist The archaeology of Uist is the subject of a new book by the UHI Archaeology Institute’s Dr Rebecca Rennel and Dr Emily Gal.

The #archaeology of Uist is the subject of a new book by the UHI Archaeology Institute’s Dr Rebecca Rennel and Dr Emily Gal.

Portrait of a “guild boy” by the great Frans Floris of Antwerp. Today is his day.

Transported back to Holyrood & the Chapel Royal in 1561 where Mary Queen of Scots likely heard something close to this carefully recreated music for a church Mass in the 16th century. I’m trying to track down all 4 of the Scottish Renaissance Polyphony CDs but 1 & 2 elude me #earlymusic #earlymodern

War memorial plaque commemorating Sapper A. E. Wiles of the Royal Engineers.

War memorial plaque. St. Michael and All Angels Church, Cherry Burton, East Yorkshire. Commemorating Sapper A. E. Wiles of the Royal Engineers, KIA in the Dardanelles, 18th August 1915. #LestWeForget