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Bexhill Museum
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We are an independent museum in Bexhill, East Sussex. Our collections include natural history, clothing and transport. Our opening hours are Tuesday to Sunday from 11-4.
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cpdinosaurs.bsky.social
Born on this day in 1790: Gideon Mantell!

Here, the Crystal Palace Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus gaze upon their most famous fossil specimens, and ponder what might have been - if the quarrymen had just placed the gunpowder a little bit to the left in each instance..
An Iguanodon head super imposed over the “Maidstone slab” Iguanodon specimen A Hylaeosaurus head superimposed over the Tilgate Forest specimen
February 3, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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liber-ray.bsky.social
I had so much fun exploring the medieval vaults of Oxford’s Mitre Inn (now Gusto Restaurant) as part of @lincoln.ox.ac.uk’s Hidden Spaces series- check out the video on YouTube or Instagram! 🤗🎉

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Lincoln's Hidden Spaces: Mitre Vaults
YouTube video by Lincoln College, Oxford University
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February 3, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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mattpope.bsky.social
For those of you coming to tonight's talk, you'll get to hear more of this breaking news of this brilliant day of archaeology and living history in Bexhill! 🏺
archsoutheast.bsky.social UCL Archaeology South-East @archsoutheast.bsky.social · 5h
Archaeology Exhibition Day | Saturday 21 Feb 11-3 | Bexhill Drill Hall

Join us for a FREE open day featuring:
🎖WW1 display by the Royal Sussex Living History Group
🔍Artefacts from the dig
👷Meet the archaeologists
🗣Share your stories, objects and memories

More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology-...
Poster advertising Cooden Camp Archaeology Open Day, Saturday 21st February 11-3 Bexhill Drill Hall. Free Entry. Inset is an historical photograph of men in flat caps sitting on the ground to eat lunch, with white tents in the background.
February 3, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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orodentia.bsky.social
#RodentOfTheDay Wyoming Pocket Gopher (Thomomys clusius)

The "Wyoming Pocket Gopher is Wyoming’s only endemic mammal and is found only in south-central Wyoming."

Photo (c) Hannah Griscom

Ph/Inf: fieldguide.wyndd.org?species=thom...
Like other pocket gophers, Wyoming Pocket Gopher has a large head and shoulders tapering towards the posterior end. The front feet are large and strong with large claw-like nails used for digging. The species has small eyes and ears and fur-lined cheek pouches that open externally of the mouth (Keinath and Beauvais 2006; Buskirk 2016). Pelage is generally pale yellow-brown (Coues 1875), with young individuals lighter than adults. On the dorsal side, pelage is uniform in color. Wyoming Pocket Gopher can be distinguished from the sympatric Northern Pocket Gopher by its smaller size, lack of dark post-auricular patches, and presence of white hairs on the margins of pinnae that are lighter than the hair of the dorsum (Thaeler and Hinesley 1979). This one is standing on pale, rocky soil and is emerging from a tunnel. Photo (c) Hannah Griscom
February 3, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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anniebrassey.bsky.social
Sunbeam #Benares #India 3.2.1887. "Returned to station & went on by train to Benares. Drove through the narrow & dirty streets to the Golden Temple. Not much to be seen in the shops except London brasswork & Hindoo gods...Dined at Clarke's Hotel, & returned to the train very tired." #Brassey #1880s
Page and map from "The Last Voyage" by Annie Lady Brassey, published posthumously in 1889. Benares, India 3.2.1887.
February 3, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Potsherds from the Bronze Age settlement mound of Tabakoni, Georgia.

The bases are decorated with impressions, likely left by mats, providing a rare insight into textile remains that seldom survive in the archaeological record #TextileTuesday

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🏺 #Archaeology
Seven potsherds: two rims, two handles, and three bases, impressed with a weave-like design, probably the impressions of textile/wicker mats.
February 3, 2026 at 1:15 PM
bexhillmuseum.bsky.social
"The Children's Fancy Bazaar At The Kursaal, Bexhill.
Workers in the Bexhill Leaguers' Bazaar."
Bexhill Chronicle 3.2.1899. #Kursaal #Bexhill #Sussex #History #1890s
February 3, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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anniebrassey.bsky.social
Sunbeam #Japan 3.2.1877. "But Mabelle & I spent most of the day in bed; she suffering from a blow from the boom, which had produced slight concussion of the brain, & I having a wretched cold, which has been gradually getting worse the last few days, & which has quite taken away my voice." #Brassey
Page and map from "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" by Annie Lady Brassey, published in 1878. Japan 3.2.1877.
February 3, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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seasideferry.bsky.social
My next talk is all about the #Victorian drinking fountain movement. Sounds niche now but it captured the nation from the 1850s and saved thousands of lives by the provision of free, filtered water.
Online THIS Saturday 7 FEB, book via the link
@thevicsoc.bsky.social
sogorg.bsky.social Society of Genealogists @sogorg.bsky.social · 2d
Discover your Victorian ancestors this February with our programme of talks & events.
Explore crime, hospitals, social reform, everyday life and practical research skills: from Jack the Ripper and Victorian detectives to tithe records and public health.
See what’s on and book:
www.sog.org.uk/events
February 3, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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cambriancam.bsky.social
#MineralMonday

Here is a big dark green Tourmaline (var. Elbaite) crystal from Brazil. The variety of green colored Elbaite is known is Verdelite. Would you believe I bought this specimen for $33 at an auction? This is at least a $300 specimen.
February 2, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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Time is ticking and our deadline is looming... Will you help to safeguard the Giant's lair, including Giant Hill, and the surrounding area for wildlife and heritage to flourish?
Aerial view of the Cerne Abbas giant - a landscape feature showing the white chalk outline of a naked man with a club raised in one hand. There is text over lay which reads 'It's a Giant opportunity'
January 20, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
Selling Education in England, 1650–1715*
Abstract. In the period 1650–1715, a growing consensus emerged that educational culture in England did not meet the needs of the population, and that chang
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February 3, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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lemoustier.bsky.social
Extremely excited to be down in Lyme for the first time (for me !). Utterly gorgeous house, and wonderful to have all four of us back together in one place - first time in over 6 years...
Photo of a woman with a wooly hat on standing in front of Axminster train station sign, which says "Change here for Jurassic Coast". She is smiling at the camera. Photo of a beautiful bedroom looking out into twilight garden. The room is decorated in Regency style. Photo of a bottle of Cahors wine and glass and tray of cheese and biscuits, in front of a fireplace, with decorative Coade stone mantelpiece. Detail of part of Coade mantelpiece decoration, a Grecian style semi-clothed woman is standing on an urn, holding up a basket with fruits. The fire is just visible out of focus behind.
February 3, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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fotofacade.bsky.social
In Anglo-Saxon architecture, Roman stone meets a timber way of thinking: stone becomes articulated into the Saxon timber-centric world view. I suppose, in this way, it is also a memory as well as a material. Here at All Saints', Earls Barton. 📸 my own.
February 3, 2026 at 7:00 AM
bexhillmuseum.bsky.social
"The Marina Looking West, Bexhill-On-Sea." Postcard c.1955. #Bexhill #Sussex #Seaside #History #1950s
February 3, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
For #EpigraphyTuesday a Roman infantery helmet (Weisenau type) with an owner’s inscription formed by punched dots on the neck guard: the helmet belonged to Lucius Lucretius Celer, legionary in the centuria of Gaius Mummius Lolianus of the legio I adiutrix. 🧵1/2

📷me

🏺 #archaeology
Side profile view of a helmet displayed in a museum case. It's mounted on a metal stand.The patinated helmet features a rounded dome-shaped skull cap, a broad flared neck guard extending downward. The punched inscripton is visible.
February 3, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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peterheadcbe.bsky.social
“A few days ago, sunspot 4366 didn't exist. Now it is a behemoth almost half the size of the great Carrington sunspot. Rapid growth is making the sunspot unstable. It has unleashed dozens of solar flares in past 24 hours, including a powerful X8-class flare” www.spaceweather.com
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February 2, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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classicalalan.bsky.social
I had a lovely (if rather damp) day out with the one and only @stonelands.bsky.social on Sunday, during which she introduced me to Coldrum Long Barrow in Kent. Its name is possibly derived from the old Cornish word 'Galdrum' which means 'place of enchantments'. #TombTuesday
A cluster of four huge stones sticking out of grassy ground. Beyond are trees and undulating fields.
February 3, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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stonelands.bsky.social
St Lythan's for #TombTuesday. There is something about this site, it always feels quite eerie. Maybe it's not called the Accursed Field for nothing!
February 3, 2026 at 8:26 AM
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sussexwildlife.bsky.social
It's been a difficult time for our coast, with many marine pollution incidents in a row. Marine Conservation Officer, Sarah Ward, explains what we are calling for to hold those responsible to account.

https://f.mtr.cool/pieuharphy
📷© Jon Santa Cruz
February 3, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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mikeyashworth.bsky.social
Cover to the 1956 edition of the Port of Leith Official Handbook giving details of the facilities & charges at "Edinburgh's Gateway to the Sea". An unattributed sketch depicting a busy quayside view of the harbour. @threadinburgh.scot

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The dust jacket or wrapper to a fine 1956 edition of the Official Handbook issued by the Leith Dock Commission giving details as to the "history and development, along with information on its trade, facilities... and schedules of rates, etc." This includes text, tables, photographs and plans of the port and the various facilities. The Commission was formed of members from the Corporation of Edinburgh, the Edinburgh Merchant Company, the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, the Leith Chamber of Commerce, shipowners and ratepayers. At the date of publication of this the second edition, the port facilities had recently been expanded with two new deep water berths in the Western Harbour having come into use. The Port described itself as "Edinburgh's Gateway to the Sea". The dust wrapper, or jacket, is an unattributed b/w sketch of the busy Docks and quaysides. Dominated to the right by a coaling tower, vessel alongside, and in the background a flour mill. To the left a tug and a small coastal vessel.
February 3, 2026 at 10:18 AM
bexhillmuseum.bsky.social
The detail in our Winter Wartime model railway is astonishing and has been featured on tv. When you visit us you can press the buttons to start the trains, turn on the streetlights, start the sails of the windmill and much more. It is set in the snowy #Bexhill winter of 1940.
This snapshot is a close up of one portion of the railway. It is looking up Devonshire Road and the Boots building is on the corner on the left, about halfway up. Everything is snow covered. There are lots of buildings of the town in this view.
February 3, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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heritagecommunity.bsky.social
We're at St Mary's Church, East Guldeford, C1505, right on the border of Sussex & Kent.
This fabulous font is a C12th Sussex marble one, fancy!, so it predates the Church by 350 ish years. Where did it come from....... well, it may have come from the inundated Church at Broomhill, Camber.
February 3, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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tomsharperocks.bsky.social
3 February 1790, Lewes, Sussex: birth of surgeon, palaeontologist and fossil collector Gideon Mantell who described Iguanodon in 1825 and Hylaeosaurus in 1833, popularised geology through lectures and textbooks and wrote on the geology of southeast England.
Portrait of Gideon Mantell as a young man with long sideburns, wearing a dark coat and white shirt. An ammonite and hammer rest on a table next to him.
February 3, 2026 at 7:51 AM
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forestcollectiv.bsky.social
#MedievalMonday & it is of course Stokesay Castle,
a big favourite for many on here i know. Looked incredible in autumn too

see more from Shropshire in the new episode >>>
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February 2, 2026 at 7:32 AM