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Merry Christmas from Portsmouth History Centre

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2020-12-25

Wishing you all a safe & peaceful festive period🎄. Here we have some lovely Christmas cards from archives. Have you sent cards this year? Is there anyone you could call to catch up with?

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2020-12-21

Clare in the Community cartoonist & writer finishes up our & archives resource gallery https://t.co/yhg1rxA8f0

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2020-12-18

award winning children’s book author, illustrator & artist, is also the political cartoonist & his work features next in our & archives resource gallery https://t.co/yhg1rxiwQq

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2020-12-16

Next featured in our & resource gallery is Posy Simmonds’ artwork for her retelling of The Little Match Girl from Dec 1984 https://t.co/yhg1rxiwQq

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2020-12-07

Climbing the ruins of Tintern Abbey by moon and torchlight https://t.co/uNlyQnIlyV

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2020-11-29


On our Archivist's last day in the Museum before lockdown he worked with a volunteer whose favourite artist here was George Harding, so it is fitting for the last theme of - - to be ‘Light above me and I am below’. Thanks for following us!

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2020-11-29

Our post mortem casebooks reveal a great deal about between 1840 and 1946 but they also give glimpses into the intimate lives of people, their jobs, families, travels, hobbies, stresses, beliefs and prejudices

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2020-11-28

Our Society Papers, presented at general meetings for peer review, cover various topics of and are often accompanied by wonderful

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2020-11-26

Where do we begin with the theme of for 👏🤔how about field equipment!. Here is Brian Harlands excellent sketch, & a photo with colleagues, Svalbard 1938. Note 'food reserves' and 'hankie' ❄️🏔️🧥🥾🪓

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2020-11-26

Today's theme for week is 'plans'.

This plan of the Gallery has been inscribed with hand-written notes in red indicating areas that were hit by bombs during the Second World War including the dates of the attacks.

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2020-11-23

Maps make it possible to bring the history of an area to life. Tithe, Enclosure & Estate maps & are popular for tracing the history of houses; mapping boundary changes & observing land use change over time https://t.co/FXyemU4ilO

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2020-11-23

Our next is House, built in the early C.17th for the 1st Earl of During WW1 it was used as a convalescence home for wounded soldiers, one of several such homes in the county.

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2020-11-22

Day 2 of the fest. Today's theme is
These C.17th homes in are called the Flemish Weavers Cottages. A 1672 Royal proclamation invited persecuted Dutch artisans to settle in England. A few may have settled in the town, bringing new innovations

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2020-11-22

1736 Edward des Bouverie, Earl of Radnor died.
In 1717 he bought Longford Castle, He was buried in & bequeathed £500 to the colonists of Georgia for them to give up slavery which was apparently declined

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2020-11-21

Is this the 🌍 ’s first use of emojis?

Dating all the way back to the 19th century, William Weightman writes to his lover using hand drawn coded symbols similar to the emojis we use today.

👁️ if 👇 🥫 decipher this ❤️ ✉️…


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2020-11-21


Z is for New ZEALAND.
This beautiful snapshot shows a meeting of the members of Newton corps, 1962.

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2020-11-04

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Here's your puzzle for today: Barnsley in the 1960s

Simply follow this link: ➡ https://t.co/Yuy6oxfUbF

We'll share a new puzzle each morning. Let us know your best time & share this post to challenge others!

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2020-11-04

R is for

We have a large collection of recruitment posters in the collection, including these lithograph posters created by Abram Games, 'Official War Poster Artist', during the Second World War

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2020-09-11

- 'N' is for lovely, leafy Newland Park. "the most pleasing of Hull's late Victorian middle-class planned developments." Here's the original layout plan of 1877 [C DBHT/9/356] by Wm. Botterill.


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2020-08-12