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The image shows Temple Newsam House, a historic country estate located in Leeds, West Yorkshire, This Tudor-Jacobean mansion was built in the early 16th century and is famous as the birthplace of Lord Darnley, the husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. The estate features a working rare breed farm, which is considered the largest in Europe. The surrounding parklands and gardens were famously landscaped by the renowned 18th-century landscape architect Capability Brown. Today, it is managed by Leeds City Council and houses extensive collections of fine and decorative arts Image Tim Green

🧵One of the gems of Leeds is most certainly Temple Newsam and one of its most famous residents was Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley who was born at the house probably around December 1545. His mother was Lady Margaret Douglas, the daughter of Archibald Douglas, sixth Earl of Angus, and Margaret

Three-storey stone terrace rising uphill

Front view of section of three-storey stone terrace rising uphill

Three-storey stone terrace rusing uphill and with stone sett street

Long Row, Belper: housing built by William Strutt, 1794-1797 for the workers of his new cotton mill - one of the world's first factories and some of its earliest industrial housing.

Old photo: Built in 1784, Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, Cheshire, is at the heart of an early industrial community considered to be of international importance.
The cotton mill and its estate are now in the care of the National Trust, and operated as a museum.

Hartwell terrace, Queens Road, Hyde Park, Leeds, 1970s, photo by Peter Mitchell.

There is now a huge variety of documented walks from Chinley station. The Steel Cotton Rail Trail takes you from Chinley>New Mills, our own Cracken Edge walk makes for an energetic hill walk from/to Chinley
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Peter J. Marshall (1933-2025) - RHS We are deeply saddened to learn of the death, on Saturday, of Professor Peter Marshall, former Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London and President of the Royal Historical Socie...

We are very sorry to learn of the death last Saturday of Professor Peter J. Marshall (1933-2025), former Rhodes Professor of Imperial History @kingshistory.bsky.social and President of the Royal Historical Society, 1996-2000 bit.ly/4lUl74K

Peter will be greatly missed by many #Skystorians

New article by Ryan Foster just published on -thwaite names in Cumbria. Much missed colleague and committee member of Scottish Society for Northern Studies who died last year, still bringing new insights to Viking Age Cumbria www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #placenames #medievalsky

The many mills of Oldham (Oldham Borough Police collection, Greater Manchester Police Museum and Archives).

Stott Park Bobbin Mill is the last survivor of the 100-odd Lake District mills which produced wooden bobbins for the Lancashire cotton industry. It originally used water power, later electricity. It still has a small steam engine, which provided backup when water power failed #industrialarchaeology

View from coast path over Burton Bradstock to Shipton Hill Fort on the horizon

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With Shipton hillfort in the distance, this view overlooks the village of Burton Bradstock. This was home to the first flax spinning factory in Dorset and eventually to three spinning mills and a swingling mill

Nutclough Mill, Keighley Rd, Hebden Bridge, W. Yorkshire which is far larger than the photo shows as it was built into the hillside. It is 5 storeys high. Built in 1797 it was used as a cotton spinning mill with a number of firms working here. /1

Surprising find on Greek hotel bookshelf! The 2019 conference programme from the University of Leeds' peerless International Medieval Congress

Once the home of tobacco and snuff merchant William Travis of Hull, Snuff Mill House, Cottingham (c.1750) was attached to the snuff mill which over time was also used for a variety of other processes including paper and cloth manufacture. The mill was demolished around the 1930s

Once the home of tobacco and snuff merchant William Travis of Hull, Snuff Mill House, Cottingham (c.1750) was attached to the snuff mill which over time was also used for a variety of other processes including paper and cloth manufacture. The mill was demolished around the 1930s

US Tariffs are big and important news for the world economy. How should we react? I tackle this topic in my substack this week - timleunig.substack.com/p/how-to-res... trial)

Made in Manchester: Lanarkshire-born Matt Busby (1909-94) played football for Man City and later, as manager of Man United, was the first manager of an English team to win the European Cup. He is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time. 1/6

NEW ESSAY: Ribbons, Bands and Cords – Observations by 18th Century Naturalists and Artists. www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/ri...

Lovely blue skies over what is probably Manchester's oldest surviving textiles mill. Medlock Mill started spinning cotton in 1794 but today stands disused and derelict under threat of major demolition works.

Dean Clough and H. Fletcher, Halifax, 1986, by Michael Kenna, Widnes-born photographer.

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There’s a special issue of the international review of social history coming out. Here’s a great paper from it !

Stanley Mills. The image shows a seven-storey brick build mill building with a slate roof and bellcote decoration. It is seen from a corner view with the narrow end to the left. There is another similar building in the background on the left, and on the right the ground slopes down to a glimpsed river.

Stanley Mills, built to harness the tremendous power of the River Tay to process cotton on a site north of Perth in the late 1700s. Part of the complex is a fascinating visitor centre telling the story of the mills. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

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YouTube video by University of Leeds Studying Undergraduate History at the University of Leeds #UniversityOfLeeds #HistoryBA

Great to see the first of this new suite of videos about our undergraduate degrees in History at Leeds launched. Featuring brilliant colleagues @sarakbarker.bsky.social & @lauracking.bsky.social and our wonderful students & alumni, plus me making the case for the value and joy of a History degree.

I’m sorry to add to our woes but my friend saw this

A photo of the new water wheel at Cromford Derbyshire, sitting in the same wheel pit as built by Sir Richard Arkwright in 1771 . But instead of powering the cotton mill it provides Hydro power.

Long exposure shot of the first picture.

Hydro Power at Cromford Mills

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1811. Walton and Company leased it in 1847 for yarn spinning and power loom weaving, which took place in other buildings on the site. Image courtesy of Tim Green

Castle Mill was built in 1791 as a cotton mill. It became the centre of Knaresborough's linen trade. It was constructed as the result of an agreement between John and Charles Lomas, who ran the paper mill and water-works on the

Loom with a view: Lancashire’s old cotton mills – in pictures Amid the clatter, Daniel Meadows spent the late 1970s shooting the boiler rooms, weaving sheds and ‘mee-mawing’ workers of an industry that has since vanished

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Crop from the title page: The Victoria History of the Counties of England, A History of Westmorland Volume I.

Map showing the area covered by the volume. The small towns of Burton-in-Kendal and Kirkby Lonsdale to the south, with Lancashire beyond. To the east is the West Riding of Yorkshire and to the west, Kendal Ward of Westmorland. The area covered is the Lune valley and - on a map, at least - forms a flat bottomed triangle. In case any geographers are watching, we'd love to know how t write Alt-Txt for maps...

Illustration from the proofs: three sheep atop a rocky outcrop. The outcrop is known as 'Fox's Pulpit' after the Quaker, George Fox, who preached at this spot, 300 metres up, for 3 hours, in 1652. The Anglicans had a chapel up there before that. No, we really don't know why: the medieval chapel was in a much more hospitable spot at the bottom of the valley.

Huge excitement in the office today at the arrival of the page proofs from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for a very special publication.

Lonsdale Ward will be the first ever volume we have produced for the historic county of Westmorland, and will also be our 250th #BigRedBook. 🗃️