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We are the Colwyn Bay Heritage Group. Check us out here: https://colwynbayheritage.org.uk Making the heritage and history of the Colwyn Bay area (Old Colwyn and Rhos on Sea too) accessible to all. Here too for Wales, history, antiquities and nostalgia.
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One of the great worries about women standing for office was that it would give them the opportunity to promote votes for women. So, to be selected, many had to promise not to include politics✍️ Norena Shopland
1894: The first Welsh women politicians
Norena Shopland Prior to 1894, only a few women had the right to vote or stand for political office, but this changed with the reforming of local government that year. Now, working-class people were…
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November 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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handhyorkshire.bsky.social
The coming of December allows me to share some of my favourite winter images and fascinating nuggets of information not directly connected to Yorkshire. Sunlight soap was a groundbreaking product launched in 1884 by the British company Lever Brothers, founded by William and
Advert for Sunlight Laundry Soap, with the equation 'labour light, clothes white = Sunlight' It was the world's first mass-marketed, pre-packaged, and branded laundry soap.
December 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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themerl.bsky.social
POV: you're a museum that just threw a party.

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us at last month's LATE! Hope you had as much fun as we did ❤️
December 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
colwynbayheritage.bsky.social
During the 1930s the church was enlarged and complemented with an extension designed by the eminent local architect, Sidney Colwyn Foulkes. This addition comprises a room with a large mullioned and transomed bow window with a semicircular roof. #oldcolwyn #northwales #wales #churches #localhistory
United Reformed Church, Berthes Road, Old Colwyn - Colwyn Bay Heritage Group
In 1898 English Congregationalists began meeting in Ebenezer chapel schoolroom, and in 1925 built this church. The wood from several cleared oak trees on the
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November 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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groomb.bsky.social
A lone policeman stands watch on Manchester's deserted dockside during a strike, December 1970. (Mirrorpix/@manchestereveningnews.co.uk)
November 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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hellohistoria.bsky.social
Absolutely heartbreaking.

A 16-year-old girl confined to the asylum for life. She died in Abergavenny Asylum aged 33.

"I am afraid that she is one of those cases who are doomed to spend their lives in an asylum."

#Wales #History #histmed
Typed text reading: "She never employs herself and requires careful management. I am afraid that she is one of those cases who are doomed to spend their lives in an asylum."
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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archaeohawke.bsky.social
#FindsFriday

Pair of showy fibulae. Part of the Treasure of Untersiebenbrunn, from an East Germanic (Gepidic) grave discovered in 1910. #Gold plating on silver with inlaid garnet, glass, enamel.

#Archaeology
#Art #History #artwork #Jewellery
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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ancestralenq.bsky.social
New research suggests cats became our companions 3.5 to 4 thousand years ago rather than 10 years ago. 😺👇
BBC News - Cats became our companions way later than you think
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Cats became our companions way later than you think
In true feline style, cats took their time in deciding when and where to join us on the sofa.
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November 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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llafur.bsky.social
Tomorrow! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
llafur.bsky.social Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society @llafur.bsky.social · 7d
🚨REMINDER🚨
Join Llafur and Cyfarthfa Foundation at our joint conference 'History and Heritage in Merthyr!
📅This Saturday (28/11/25) from 9:30am
📍Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil
Free tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/llafu...
November 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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museumsassociation.org
News | Museums prepare for one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year

Find out how museums across the UK are celebrating Christmas 2025 - and don't miss out on the MA's special 20% discount on new memberships for #MuseumShopSunday this weekend!
Museums prepare for one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year - Museums Association
How museums across the UK are celebrating Christmas 2025 - don't miss out on the MA's special 20% discount on new memberships this weekend!
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November 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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archaeohawke.bsky.social
#FindsFriday

Bronze head of Hadrian, from a larger statue. Hollow cast in the round. The pupils of the eyes, probably of glass, are now lost. The head has been roughly hacked from its body. 117-138 AD. Found in the River Thames at London Bridge.

(See Alt. For details)

#History #Art #Archaeology
There is a break in the hair on the left side; a narrow crack runs from the left cheek, under the chin, and back halfway up the right cheek; a repair patch is missing on the front of the neck. This is a superb casting of the head of Hadrian, one of a mere handful of major bronze portraits of that emperor to have survived from antiquity. Hadrian, apparently aged arouund 30, is clearly recognisable from his incipient beard, moustache and distinctive physiognomy. However, the portrait is in an extremely provincial style, exemplified by the tightly bunched curvilinear hair, the large ears and the wide spacing of the eyes. The beard is lightly incised and, though curly looks wispy, while the stylised curls around the front of the head give way to simple incised locks further back' (CSIR I, 10, p. 115). Hadrian (reigned AD 117-138) is famous as the emperor who built the eighty-mile-long wall across Britain, from the Solway Firth to the River Tyne at Wallsend: Height: Height: 430 millimetres Weight: Weight: 26.50 kilograms (with block) (with block)Weight: Weight: 16 kilograms (without block) (without block)Width: Width: 360 milimetres Depth: Depth: 340 millimetres The statue may have been put up to commemorate Hadrian's visit to Britain in AD 122; Hadrian travelled very extensively throughout the Empire, and imperial visits generally gave rise to programmes of rebuilding and beautification of cities. There are many known marble statues of him, but this example made in bronze is a rare survival
November 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
colwynbayheritage.bsky.social
The much missed Dinosaur World stood opposite the boating lake and was a very popular attraction in the park until 2003. Advertised as the largest collection of dinosaurs in the British Isles, the collection of over 50 life-sized models were shown in their natural habitat. #localhistory #northwales
Indoor Outdoor Centre (Formerly Dinosaur World) - Colwyn Bay Heritage Group
Dinosaur World stood opposite the boating lake and was a very popular attraction in the park until 2003. Advertised as the largest collection of dinosaurs in
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November 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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oneplacestudies.bsky.social
A warm #OnePlaceStudies welcome to another #OnePlaceWednesday! Have you been researching a place and/or its people and history? Do you have OPS-related news, pictures, blog posts or other resources or updates? Questions or general OPS chat? Do share, using the hashtag, at any time today!
Photo of the view looking North across The Canal lake at Fawsley. On the other side of the water there are several Oak trees at the bottom of the gently rising grassy slope, on top of which, on the right, sits Fawsley St Mary's church with its tower, and two Yew trees in the churchyard. More trees can be seen along the skyline. The church, the trees and the blue sky above (with a few wispy white clouds) are all reflected in the still water of the lake. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.
November 26, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
'Archival Reader' in action!

Cutting edge technology in use in the University of Warwick Library, beaming microfilmed content to a very 1960s student #Warwick60

More '60s and '70s campus photos online at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Black and white photograph taken in the University of Warwick library in the 1960s. It shows a woman looking at microfilm on the 'Archival Reader', a big manual microfilm reader. Metal filing cabinets containing rolls of film can be seen in the background.
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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vch-home.bsky.social
A great blog from @ihr.bsky.social director, @clairelanghamer.bsky.social advocating 'History by Doing', bridging the gaps between the histories of people and places where we live, and work and those universities teach/research and delve into: they're all one. 🗃️

You want examples? A short 🧵
Advocating for History by Doing History - On History
This blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history m...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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cardiffanimfest.bsky.social
🌟Watch a curated programme of Welsh Animation online!🌟

If you haven’t got a ticket yet, make sure to grab one so you're ready! You can stream the full programme from the comfort of your home, and all of the films have English, Welsh and Japanese subtitles available!🎬

🎟️ bit.ly/Watch-Wales-...
November 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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jeffm2018.bsky.social
The Dino episodes released a few years ago are immense and stunning. Really looking forward to this.
tetzoo.bsky.social Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 5d
Years of work involving an amazing team at BBCSstudios Framestore AppleTV, our series #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge is out now on #AppleTV. Huge thanks to everyone involved. All 5 eps have been released!
Prehistoric Planet Ice Age promo card, Woolly mammoths. Giant kangaroo Procoptodon from Prehistoric Planet Ice Age. Homotherium serum from Prehistoric Planet Ice Age.
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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jeffm2018.bsky.social
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels
#ElanValley in mid #Wales built for #Birmingham and the water feed from this system of dams feed uses gravity all the way. The dams all top over when full, best time to see them in when they are full. #ClaerwenDam #GarregDdu
#Dam #Engineering
One of the dams in the Elan Valley. This is the Claerwen Dam One of the dams in the Elan valley. This is the Claerwen Dam Garreg Ddu dam. Interesting one because the dam is underwater at this level and meant to control water levels in times of drought. So at the moment ot looks like a bridge but the arch legs are very long to the dam below.
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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antiquity.ac.uk
NEW Have archaeologists identified the largest nucleated settlement in prehistoric Ireland and Britain? Survey at Brusselstown Ring, one of the largest hillforts in Ireland, found evidence for potentially hundreds of occupied roundhouses!

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
Photogrammetry map of a round hill (Brusselstown Ring hillfort) annotated with potential roundhouse footprints, test trench locations and a potential cistern
November 26, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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stonefishweirs.bsky.social
Images of fishermen and small river craft, possibly on the nearby #Tigris and #Khosr Rivers. At #Nineveh, South-West Palace. Iraq. Palace, #iraq. dating #assyrian, 700-692 BC. : Located in the deserts of Iraq, the iconography this location is heavily defined by water. #fishing #heritage #fishweirs
Fishing image #Nineveh, South-West Palace. Iraq. Palace, #iraq. now at the British Museum. London. Fishing image #Nineveh, South-West Palace. Iraq. Palace, #iraq. now at the British Museum. London. Ancient Assyrian soldiers on a reed boat, in the swamps of southern Iraq. Assyrian, around 640-620 ВС from Nineveh, southwest of the palace.
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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groomb.bsky.social
Having been mistakenly included on an electoral roll, Manchester shopkeeper Lily Maxwell voted in a by-election on this day 1867, more than 50 years before (some) women were enfranchised by the Representation of the People Act. Suffragists seized on it as a test case.
November 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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groomb.bsky.social
Butlin's Filey, Yorkshire, The Gaiety Bar, photo by David Noble, c.1970. Camp closed 1983. I went in 1960, aged five.
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
colwynbayheritage.bsky.social
Free talk: The Real Story Behind Richard 11's Ambush in Colwyn Bay – THIS MORNING at Colwyn Bay Library.
#colwynbay #northwales #wales #localhistory
The Real Story Behind Richard II’s Ambush In Colwyn Bay - Colwyn Bay Heritage Group
Free local history event – no booking required
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November 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
In stead of sending a link to old threads every time someone uses the term "Dark Ages", I decided to put it all in an article.

Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”.

Read it here:
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Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”
This is not YET another article on why calling the early middle ages the dark ages is iffy, it’s a list of sources & references. These days most historians no longer use the term “D…
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November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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theghostmonk.bsky.social
Was King William II's death while hunting in the New Forest, #Hampshire, an accident, murder - or was it a pre-Christian god-king human sacrifice made to ensure fertility to the land and future prosperity to the people, as has been suggested? (But by whom I've forgotten - Murray?).
#WyrdWednesday
An illustration or woodcut showing a man collapsing against a tree in a forest with an arrow protruding from his chest. In the background we can see a stag heading out of frame to the left and the small figure of a bowman who may have been aiming for the deer - or not.
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM