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The engineer Robert Stephenson was born #OnThisDay in 1803. Stephenson built the Conwy Tubular Bridge in 1848 and the Britannia Bridge in 1849-50. Learn more about them on Coflein. #WelshHistory
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William Henry (Bill) Smith, secretary of the Cardiff Grand Opera Society and 1st president of the Welsh National Opera Company was born in #Cardiff #Wales #onthisday 1894 https://t.co/Z4j2OwM7Uc #WelshHistory @MusicNLW @WNOtweet
Maria Jane Williams of #Aberpergwm, singer and harpist, and a pioneer in the field of #Welsh folk music was born at Aberpergwm in the #Neath Valley, #Glamorgan, #Wales #onthisday 1795 https://t.co/Gan6mLbJYa #WelshHistory @MusicNLW
Absolutely love these new Irish stamps featuring #ThinLizzy front man #PhilLynott #BlackIrishHistory #BlackHistoryMonth 🖤
Hugh Jerman, artist and muscian was born at #Llanidloes, #Montgomeryshire #Wales #onthisday 1836 https://t.co/mM2Q7xnFDw #WelshHistory @MusicNLW @NLWGraphic
Alun Sbardun Huws, musician and composer of some of the most popular #Welsh pop songs was born in #Bangor #onthisday 1948 https://t.co/rJJAnDZZLz #WelshHistory #Wales @MusicNLW Image: @Sainrecords
Just 2 more weeks 2 c #GetUpStandUpNow >15Sept amazing powerful beautiful retrospective of #BlackBritishArt as curated by #ZacOve with tribute to #HoraceOve @SomersetHouse I was just exclaiming WoW! on loop. Essential #BlackBritishHistory 🖤
***NEW ARTICLE*** by @LoefflerMarion in @WelshBiography on Maria Jane Williams of #Aberpergwm in the #Neath Valley, #Glamorgan, singer and harpist, and a pioneer in the field of #Welsh folk music https://t.co/Gan6mLtkPI #WelshHistory #Wales @MusicNLW
Granville Sharp (1735-1813) was the unofficial leader of the abolitionist movement in Britain. With the London Committee, he lobbied Parliament for 2 decades to pass the Slave Trade Act of 1807, ending the transatlantic slave trade in the #BritishEmpire. #history #britishhistory
Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, one of Wales' most influential and versatile composers, was born in #Dolgellau #onthisday 1918 https://t.co/VYMq3GjwOW @MusicNLW #WelshHistory #Wales Image: @RSMusicians
John Blanke was a 16C black trumpeter in the royal courts. John is thought to be shown here in the Westminster Tournament Roll - a 60ft long illustrated manuscript of Henry VIII’s extravagant pageant held to mark the birth of his male child #AllOurStories #BlackBritishHistory
@grahammctavish @ClanLands @SamHeughan Yaaaay! The better to see you with, my dears! 🙌🏼❤️ #clanlands #scottishhistory
@tcddublin #Otd 1803: Irish rebellion of 1803: In opposition to Acts of Union 1800, Robert Emmet led an armed outbreak with #Dublin's working classes, that was easily suppressed. Thomas Paliser Russell & James "Jemmy" Hope also leaders of it. Lasted just 1 day! . . . #IrishHistory #Ireland
Enoch Rowland Jones, euphonium player and singer was born in Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, #Amman Valley #Carmarthenshire #Wales #onthisday 1912 https://t.co/K9ppqcDWAl #WelshHistory
Widojest Week 2019 | Day 4: Fairy Tale
“I had to,” he croaks back, voice foreign and miles away. “My parents… they were going to kill my parents.”
#widojestweek #widojest #criticalrolefanart #jesterlavorre #calebwidogast #daciafufanart #letbrenwashhishands #hehadalongdayokay
Old Royal High School as seen from Regent Road, a 19th century neoclassical doric style building on Calton Hill in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland and landmark monument of the Greek Revival architecture in Scotland.
#Edinburgh #Scotland #ScottishHistory #Sunsets #podcast
Further incredible photography by Housk Randall from DeMask Publication. From #fetish, #kink & #bdsm #archives @BishopsgateInst #fetishhistory #fetisharchives #rubber #bondage #queerhistory
“...to truly understand the American outlook in the 18th Century, it is necessary to learn about the British conflicts of the 17th Century - especially the English Civil War.”
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Learn more in Ch 19: The #AmericanRevolution (follow link in bio)
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Today we launched the the @UCDDigital digitsed versions of the Oram Diaries, written by father and son John and Arthur Oram (farmers & land agents from Mayo) who recorded life in Ireland during the mid-1800s to early 1900s #irishhistory