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An event with Kirsty Hartsiotis author of 'Gloucestershire Folk Tales for Children' is at The Museum in the Park in Gloucestershire on Sunday 18th of December.

More details of tickets here: https://t.co/mRquL7i0S8

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2022-12-15

Happy It is also the Feast Day of the county’s patron saint, St Frideswide. Please share your favourite local historical facts with us or tweet some Oxfordshire museums today. https://t.co/dJr5o5CGyl

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2022-10-19

A recent researcher enquiry prompted a visit to some of our supply booklets in our collection. Here are the scanned covers of some of these interesting & informative records that hold so much detail on the local area & industrial development.

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2022-08-02

💡More Spotlight on historical 🌹: 📷🔁St. Anne's, Dirleton Castle grounds; Amisfield walled garden, Gullane House.
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2022-06-28

Great news from : free access to their historical collection – 50 million digital pages – for the jubilee! Available to everyone registered with FMP, from 10am BST Monday 30 May to 10am BST Monday 6 June 2022.

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2022-05-30

📢Haddingtonshire Histories Podcast Alert📢
🌟“The East Lothian Witchcraft Trilogy” PART 2 focuses on accusations, legal proceedings, punishment, recognition & pardons.🌟
Available on & https://t.co/KSN5ONc5uc

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2021-11-09

Happy It is also the Feast Day of the county’s patron saint, St Frideswide. Please share your favourite local historical facts with us or tweet some Oxfordshire museums today. https://t.co/ASHAjrdygz

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2021-10-19

Telford Park Tennis Club, tennis first played 1st August 1880. Founded 1884 the second oldest Tennis Club in London (preceded only by Wimbledon)
Miss Johnson in 1930, winner of the Ladies Championship

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2021-08-01

Here you can see a shingling hammer at work, bashing the impurities out of the ball of molten iron that has just been removed from a furnace. Find out more: https://t.co/iCPxLNIcb8 From the at

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2021-06-10

Why not visit our brand new website Cholera in Gateshead, focused on the 1831 pandemic, and have a go at our game Save Gateshead! https://t.co/kS0yrdaZct

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2021-05-17

Happy Oxfordshire Day! 19th October is It is also the Feast Day of our county’s patron saint, St Frideswide. Share your favourite local historical facts or Oxfordshire museums today.
https://t.co/7Cy3pIXU3C

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2020-10-19

“Liverpool taken from the opposite side of the River” - another wonderful engraving by William Daniell

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2020-08-29

More stylish swimwear! This programme from our marked the opening of the SS in West St, 1934. At the time, it was the largest covered seawater pool in the world

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2020-07-28

“Park Entrance” by Grainger Smith - the very grand entrance to Birkenhead Park perfectly depicted in 1950, still standing proud at the entrance of our beloved park today

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2020-07-20

Alan Franks was a well-known Wallasey artist who favoured local scenes. We love this oil painting wonderfully depicting the pier at New Brighton before demolition

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2020-06-20

in 1747 elected an MP posthumously?

Edward Legge, a Naval Officer serving in the West Indies, was elected on 15 Dec. News later arrived that Legge had in fact passed away 87 days prior, on 19 Sept.

🎨 Portsmouth Harbour in 1747

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2020-05-10

We hold some beautiful old maps & plans illustrating the natural in our archives. This one, of Sheffield Park, depicts the lake, deer park and wooded areas. From a book of maps by Edward Wakefield, 1816 (ACC 10528/1)

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2020-04-14

I've created some new pages to organise my local history content. The "Postcards from Ton" series can be found here -
https://t.co/fFLrmJFGeX

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2020-03-26

Did you know there"s a reference library at the top of our museum in Barbican House? We also have a great little bookshop downstairs.

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2020-03-05