Dorothy Halfhide
@dot8.bsky.social
Retired health librarian, serial volunteer, Women's Institute bod, fan of husband, local history & Peterborough Cathedral. Talk to me about Thorney Museum!
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Niftier than the average discarded libary shelving. At a rather higher than the usual - please come and take me away - price point however 📚
If you have a VERY large room, Lambeth Palace Library is selling off its old bookshelves.
www.lassco.co.uk/product/the-...
www.lassco.co.uk/product/the-...
The vast Lambeth Palace Library Bookcase - LASSCO - England's prime resource for Architectural Antiques, Salvage Curiosities
The vast Lambeth Palace Library Bookcase originally by Edward Blore c.1830, later reformatted c.1945
www.lassco.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Niftier than the average discarded libary shelving. At a rather higher than the usual - please come and take me away - price point however 📚
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In one of our archive strong rooms there is a shelf. The shelf does not contain the most exciting or interesting item in the archive but it does contain something amazing.
Read this short thread to find out more. 🧵👇
Read this short thread to find out more. 🧵👇
August 28, 2025 at 9:56 AM
In one of our archive strong rooms there is a shelf. The shelf does not contain the most exciting or interesting item in the archive but it does contain something amazing.
Read this short thread to find out more. 🧵👇
Read this short thread to find out more. 🧵👇
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In the moulding above the tomb of Bishop Blyth at Salisbury Cathedral is a possible mason's joke. We see rose after rose on a vine at the end of which there is a gardener in the act of cutting them down. A comment by the mason regarding the length of time he spent carving them?
July 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
In the moulding above the tomb of Bishop Blyth at Salisbury Cathedral is a possible mason's joke. We see rose after rose on a vine at the end of which there is a gardener in the act of cutting them down. A comment by the mason regarding the length of time he spent carving them?
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For context, this is over 200 years old and was made by prisoners of war with scraps from their meals (and a bit of material). It’s incredible that it’s been made and even more incredible that it still exists #NormanCross
I had hoped to be sharing more of the Norman Cross collection but I’ve postponed my visit due to the heat . However, I do have a little beauty from last week. This is one of the little pincushion boxes that aren’t as well known. Would you want one for your sewing kit?!
July 1, 2025 at 7:37 AM
For context, this is over 200 years old and was made by prisoners of war with scraps from their meals (and a bit of material). It’s incredible that it’s been made and even more incredible that it still exists #NormanCross
If you need some history help, King Charles II is the one who had a spaniel named after him. He was the King Charles that came before the current King Charles, and AFTER the King Charles who was played by Alec Guinness.
May 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Next weekend there’s going to be a celebration of Patty Clare, the wife of poet John Clare, in Northborough near Peterborough. We’ve got some cracking speakers, food and music at the Packhorse, poetry, flowers and cake! Tickets are available on the door
April 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Next weekend there’s going to be a celebration of Patty Clare, the wife of poet John Clare, in Northborough near Peterborough. We’ve got some cracking speakers, food and music at the Packhorse, poetry, flowers and cake! Tickets are available on the door
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WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language.
The results tell us a lot!
Extracts below... 🧵
The results tell us a lot!
Extracts below... 🧵
April 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language.
The results tell us a lot!
Extracts below... 🧵
The results tell us a lot!
Extracts below... 🧵
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We need your help! We're still quite new to Bluesky and would love a few more followers.
Please like and share this post. In return, reply with a colour or emoji and we'll find something from our collections.
Thank you in advance 🙂
Please like and share this post. In return, reply with a colour or emoji and we'll find something from our collections.
Thank you in advance 🙂
March 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
We need your help! We're still quite new to Bluesky and would love a few more followers.
Please like and share this post. In return, reply with a colour or emoji and we'll find something from our collections.
Thank you in advance 🙂
Please like and share this post. In return, reply with a colour or emoji and we'll find something from our collections.
Thank you in advance 🙂
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Today is #worldmathsday so here is our Comptroller’s wife adding up the household accounts with a counting board, together with a brilliant blog explaining how you can add, subtract, multiply and divide just by moving counters around.
#historysky #maths #medieval
urchin.earth.li/~aendr/kentw...
#historysky #maths #medieval
urchin.earth.li/~aendr/kentw...
March 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Today is #worldmathsday so here is our Comptroller’s wife adding up the household accounts with a counting board, together with a brilliant blog explaining how you can add, subtract, multiply and divide just by moving counters around.
#historysky #maths #medieval
urchin.earth.li/~aendr/kentw...
#historysky #maths #medieval
urchin.earth.li/~aendr/kentw...
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Bonkers in a good way though right?
More blue skies in Suffolk. This is Kentwell Hall which is one of the most bonkers places I’ve visited
March 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Bonkers in a good way though right?
As recently noted @pborowomenshist.bsky.social
Campop blog #40: today malaria is a major cause of illness and death in tropical countries, but a milder form used to be endemic in the UK; Mathias Ingholt explains what we know about this disease in northern Europe
@camunicampop.bsky.social
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/03...
@camunicampop.bsky.social
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/03...
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, CambridgeThe not-so tropical disease: malaria in northern Europe « Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, ...
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk
March 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Light in the darkness for today’s #windowsonwednesday picture of the Great #Kitchen at Kentwell.
The #16thc style #lanterns are made of wood, with horn or parchment panes, and burn #beeswax #candles.
#tudor #light #livinghistory
The #16thc style #lanterns are made of wood, with horn or parchment panes, and burn #beeswax #candles.
#tudor #light #livinghistory
March 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Light in the darkness for today’s #windowsonwednesday picture of the Great #Kitchen at Kentwell.
The #16thc style #lanterns are made of wood, with horn or parchment panes, and burn #beeswax #candles.
#tudor #light #livinghistory
The #16thc style #lanterns are made of wood, with horn or parchment panes, and burn #beeswax #candles.
#tudor #light #livinghistory
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The 700 year old white rabbit in St Mary’s Church still wearing it’s pilgrims bag with its Scallop shell symbol #Beverley #Yorkshire
March 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The 700 year old white rabbit in St Mary’s Church still wearing it’s pilgrims bag with its Scallop shell symbol #Beverley #Yorkshire
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A very small #Tudor at one of our re-enactments, trying to open the door into our Tower of Babel tree.
He won’t have much luck because everyone knows it only opens at midnight on Midsummer Eve at the full moon….
#adoorableThursday
#gardens
#woodcarving
#sculpture
#cedar
#trees
He won’t have much luck because everyone knows it only opens at midnight on Midsummer Eve at the full moon….
#adoorableThursday
#gardens
#woodcarving
#sculpture
#cedar
#trees
February 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
A very small #Tudor at one of our re-enactments, trying to open the door into our Tower of Babel tree.
He won’t have much luck because everyone knows it only opens at midnight on Midsummer Eve at the full moon….
#adoorableThursday
#gardens
#woodcarving
#sculpture
#cedar
#trees
He won’t have much luck because everyone knows it only opens at midnight on Midsummer Eve at the full moon….
#adoorableThursday
#gardens
#woodcarving
#sculpture
#cedar
#trees
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#GreensleevesProject update:
A short video showing work on the #embroidered smock sleeves.
Underscored by Sam Brown playing #Greensleeves on the #lute.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1cQ...
#earlymusic #historicaldress #blackwork #tudor #tudors #earlymodern
Supported by @antiquaries.bsky.social
A short video showing work on the #embroidered smock sleeves.
Underscored by Sam Brown playing #Greensleeves on the #lute.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1cQ...
#earlymusic #historicaldress #blackwork #tudor #tudors #earlymodern
Supported by @antiquaries.bsky.social
Greensleeves - lute solo - Her smock "embroidered gorgeously"
YouTube video by Passamezzo
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February 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
#GreensleevesProject update:
A short video showing work on the #embroidered smock sleeves.
Underscored by Sam Brown playing #Greensleeves on the #lute.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1cQ...
#earlymusic #historicaldress #blackwork #tudor #tudors #earlymodern
Supported by @antiquaries.bsky.social
A short video showing work on the #embroidered smock sleeves.
Underscored by Sam Brown playing #Greensleeves on the #lute.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1cQ...
#earlymusic #historicaldress #blackwork #tudor #tudors #earlymodern
Supported by @antiquaries.bsky.social
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For #TudorTuesday here’s a spectacular photo of one of our Tudors at a firing of our #pottery kiln.
NB one of the things in the picture might not be entirely Tudor….
#photography #deliberatemistake #anachronism
NB one of the things in the picture might not be entirely Tudor….
#photography #deliberatemistake #anachronism
February 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
For #TudorTuesday here’s a spectacular photo of one of our Tudors at a firing of our #pottery kiln.
NB one of the things in the picture might not be entirely Tudor….
#photography #deliberatemistake #anachronism
NB one of the things in the picture might not be entirely Tudor….
#photography #deliberatemistake #anachronism
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#WindowsonWednesday
Sunshine catches woodsmoke particles in the air in the Great Kitchen corridor at Kentwell Hall during a Tudor re-creation.
#photography
#tudors
#historiccookery
Sunshine catches woodsmoke particles in the air in the Great Kitchen corridor at Kentwell Hall during a Tudor re-creation.
#photography
#tudors
#historiccookery
January 29, 2025 at 7:46 AM
#WindowsonWednesday
Sunshine catches woodsmoke particles in the air in the Great Kitchen corridor at Kentwell Hall during a Tudor re-creation.
#photography
#tudors
#historiccookery
Sunshine catches woodsmoke particles in the air in the Great Kitchen corridor at Kentwell Hall during a Tudor re-creation.
#photography
#tudors
#historiccookery
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For #textiletuesday, more beautiful work from the #Greensleevesproject
#embroidery
#textilehistory
#blackwork
#Elizabethan
#embroidery
#textilehistory
#blackwork
#Elizabethan
#greensleevesproject update!
#Greensleeves is given a number of accessories, including a #purse.
Sarah Thursfield has made this beautiful reproduction of a typical late #Elizabethan #sweetbag worked in #silk thread, with #spangles
#tudor #tudors #blackwork #earlymodern #embroidery #braid
#Greensleeves is given a number of accessories, including a #purse.
Sarah Thursfield has made this beautiful reproduction of a typical late #Elizabethan #sweetbag worked in #silk thread, with #spangles
#tudor #tudors #blackwork #earlymodern #embroidery #braid
January 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
For #textiletuesday, more beautiful work from the #Greensleevesproject
#embroidery
#textilehistory
#blackwork
#Elizabethan
#embroidery
#textilehistory
#blackwork
#Elizabethan
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The events take place at different times throughout the year, starting at Easter and for a whole fortnight in August. #tudor #history #daysout #suffolk www.kentwell.co.uk
Kentwell Hall
www.kentwell.co.uk
January 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The events take place at different times throughout the year, starting at Easter and for a whole fortnight in August. #tudor #history #daysout #suffolk www.kentwell.co.uk
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Come to Kentwell and live as a Tudor!
Beautiful place, lots of wonderful people, and lots and lots of history....
Beautiful place, lots of wonderful people, and lots and lots of history....
January 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Come to Kentwell and live as a Tudor!
Beautiful place, lots of wonderful people, and lots and lots of history....
Beautiful place, lots of wonderful people, and lots and lots of history....
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Lovely day of research at @britishlibrary.bsky.social which has turned up the wonderful news that in 1800 Fleet Street had a Nandos
January 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Lovely day of research at @britishlibrary.bsky.social which has turned up the wonderful news that in 1800 Fleet Street had a Nandos
I visited Hazel's exhibition at the Museum yesterday about Trades Unions and coordination and representation in and around Peterborough. Very interesting! Especially the final illustration....
January 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I visited Hazel's exhibition at the Museum yesterday about Trades Unions and coordination and representation in and around Peterborough. Very interesting! Especially the final illustration....
Off to London to see the Medieval Women exhibition at the BL.
January 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Off to London to see the Medieval Women exhibition at the BL.
@pborowomenshist.bsky.social I like this(didn't find it on B*****y to share?
So pleased to reveal a project I've been working on the last few months: an animation inspired by our Medieval Women exhibition, telling the story of five of its key figures.
The full animation can be seen in today's post on the Medieval MSS blog!
blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...
The full animation can be seen in today's post on the Medieval MSS blog!
blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...
January 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
@pborowomenshist.bsky.social I like this(didn't find it on B*****y to share?