Edie Ochiltree, a character in Walter Scott's novel The Antiquary, drawn by Mary E. Sealy in 1844

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13 Sept 1502x1504: b. John Leland & antiquary in (BM)

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William Owen Pughe, linguist, lexicographer, grammarian, poet and antiquary who was regarded as the principal authority on the Welsh language and scholarship, was born in Llanfihangel-y-Pennant 1759 https://t.co/hvlhvO5VxZ

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William Owen Pughe, lexicographer, grammarian, editor, antiquary, and poet died 1835 https://t.co/hvlhvO5VxZ

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Our May Marvel of the Month explores the remarkable life and work of English antiquary and topographer, Edward Brayley (1773-1854), who produced a rich history and geography of the county of https://t.co/FbjoEC5i3U




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Edward Jones, ‘Bardd y Brenin’, harpist, historian, bard, antiquary, performer, composer, arranger, and collector of music died 1824 https://t.co/OKzukSjJiA

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To Foelgastell today exploring with ; should be a hillfort on the moel? Remains of a shared meadow's strip fields and at Morfa Melin a date stone! Family home of the upwardly mobile Philip Lloyd. Read Carms Antiquary 2019 for more on him.

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Edward Jones, ‘Bardd y Brenin’, harpist, historian, bard, antiquary, performer, composer, arranger, and collector of music died 1824 https://t.co/OKzukSjJiA

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On this day in 1626 English antiquary John Aubrey was born. The Man who ‘Discovered’ Avebury.

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He was followed by a flurry of other Victorian writers. But most notably in the Edwardian period when in 1904 M R James published his ‘Ghost Stories of an Antiquary’ a collection of now iconic ghost stories including ‘Oh Whistle and I'll Come To You’ shared with his friends.

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12 Sept 1605: b. William Dugdale, herald and important antiquary at Shustoke, near Coleshill in Warwickshire
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Here's a Gilbertine from his very influential Monasticon Anglicanum, 1655–1673 (British Museum)

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Illustration by Scott Plumbe for 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas' by British writer, M.R. James (1862-1936).

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William Owen Pughe, linguist, lexicographer, grammarian, poet and antiquary who was regarded as the principal authority on the Welsh language and scholarship, was born in Llanfihangel-y-Pennant 1759 https://t.co/hvlhvOnwWz

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The antiquary’s last will and testament. Thomas Rowlandson, from The English Dance of Death, vol. 1 by William Combe, London, 1815 https://t.co/lznEV87SAw

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Edward Jones, ‘Bardd y Brenin’, harpist, historian, bard, antiquary, performer, composer, arranger, and collector of music died 1824 https://t.co/OKzukSjJiA

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Scott Plumbe illustration for 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas' by British writer, M.R. James (1862-1936).

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Many works classified as 'books' in the main Explore catalogue are unique, like this 1766 album of prints, drawings and letters relating to France compiled by the antiquary Walter Bowman https://t.co/hbjpaDZPel

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For over 40 years the Great Yarmouth banker and antiquary Dawson Turner (1775–1858) assembled an extraordinary visual record of the of now preserved in the . (Add Ms 23024–23062) : https://t.co/gnw4ASLghK

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