Morwenna Rae
@morwennarae.bsky.social
Museum person, Midlander. Gardener. Team Leader at Erewash Museum. Part of Lichfield Discovered CIC.
Artist Laura Knight ❤️. Even better for me, she was born in the patch covered by Erewash Museum, so I can add her to the list of stories we don't yet tell, but will find a way!
'Sunday Afternoon, Hyde Park.' Laura Knight was virtuosic and prolific and popular; she was the first woman elected to full membership of the Royal Academy since 1768. Her name comes with remarkable and redoubtable attached to her achievements. This is from 1952.
June 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Artist Laura Knight ❤️. Even better for me, she was born in the patch covered by Erewash Museum, so I can add her to the list of stories we don't yet tell, but will find a way!
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Let's curl and slay!
We got some curlers to share! These were found at a mid-18th cent. peruke business under what is now Magdalen College, Oxford. Results are almost ready, so get ready to sashay through the centuries!
#archaeology #Artefact #wig #curler #magdalencollege #Oxford #wigslayer
We got some curlers to share! These were found at a mid-18th cent. peruke business under what is now Magdalen College, Oxford. Results are almost ready, so get ready to sashay through the centuries!
#archaeology #Artefact #wig #curler #magdalencollege #Oxford #wigslayer
May 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Let's curl and slay!
We got some curlers to share! These were found at a mid-18th cent. peruke business under what is now Magdalen College, Oxford. Results are almost ready, so get ready to sashay through the centuries!
#archaeology #Artefact #wig #curler #magdalencollege #Oxford #wigslayer
We got some curlers to share! These were found at a mid-18th cent. peruke business under what is now Magdalen College, Oxford. Results are almost ready, so get ready to sashay through the centuries!
#archaeology #Artefact #wig #curler #magdalencollege #Oxford #wigslayer
Biddulph Grange Gardens @nationaltrust.org.uk. Beautiful (and busy!) in the sunshine. The plant collection is very special and it's full of secret passages and hidden grottos. Completely different to most fancy gardens.
May 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Biddulph Grange Gardens @nationaltrust.org.uk. Beautiful (and busy!) in the sunshine. The plant collection is very special and it's full of secret passages and hidden grottos. Completely different to most fancy gardens.
The very atmospheric D. H. Lawrence museum in Eastwood, Notts. Like a time capsule inside and out - really worth a visit.
May 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The very atmospheric D. H. Lawrence museum in Eastwood, Notts. Like a time capsule inside and out - really worth a visit.
I think Friday evening cricket is my favourite of the kids' activities.
May 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I think Friday evening cricket is my favourite of the kids' activities.
Whatever your political views, it's an interesting turnaround of First Past The Post systems to keep out smaller or newer parties.
An illustration of how FPP goes from sandbag to springboard - Reform votes and seats in different councils:
Oxfordshire: 18% vote, 2% seats
Cambridgeshire: 23% vote, 16% seats
Devon: 27% vote, 30% seats
Leicestershire: 33% vote, 46% seats
Derbyshire: 37% vote, 66% seats
Oxfordshire: 18% vote, 2% seats
Cambridgeshire: 23% vote, 16% seats
Devon: 27% vote, 30% seats
Leicestershire: 33% vote, 46% seats
Derbyshire: 37% vote, 66% seats
May 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Whatever your political views, it's an interesting turnaround of First Past The Post systems to keep out smaller or newer parties.
First week in the new job done. A place with loads of stories and potential. And, very importantly, a wisteria about to bloom (that I'm desperate to prune properly as well!)
April 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
First week in the new job done. A place with loads of stories and potential. And, very importantly, a wisteria about to bloom (that I'm desperate to prune properly as well!)
A couple of years ago, the council removed trees in a wooded area of a park. It felt slightly ruined tbh.
But now it's beautiful. There are carpets of wildflowers, the remaining trees aren't such twiggy specimens and it's full of birds and insects. Managing woodland well is part of the ecosystem.
But now it's beautiful. There are carpets of wildflowers, the remaining trees aren't such twiggy specimens and it's full of birds and insects. Managing woodland well is part of the ecosystem.
April 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
A couple of years ago, the council removed trees in a wooded area of a park. It felt slightly ruined tbh.
But now it's beautiful. There are carpets of wildflowers, the remaining trees aren't such twiggy specimens and it's full of birds and insects. Managing woodland well is part of the ecosystem.
But now it's beautiful. There are carpets of wildflowers, the remaining trees aren't such twiggy specimens and it's full of birds and insects. Managing woodland well is part of the ecosystem.
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Raking shadows thrown by low sun emphasise the terraced banks of an extensive IronAge/#RomanoBritish field system on the steep N-facing slopes of Burderop Down, Wilts. ... AND the ditches of a #medieval sheepfold that cut across them.
📷 historicengland.org.uk/education/sc...
📷 historicengland.org.uk/education/sc...
April 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Raking shadows thrown by low sun emphasise the terraced banks of an extensive IronAge/#RomanoBritish field system on the steep N-facing slopes of Burderop Down, Wilts. ... AND the ditches of a #medieval sheepfold that cut across them.
📷 historicengland.org.uk/education/sc...
📷 historicengland.org.uk/education/sc...
April 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Remains of an 18th-century flour mill, Gentleshaw.
April 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Remains of an 18th-century flour mill, Gentleshaw.
Footprints etched into a stone slab at St Wystan's in Repton. I'd love to know why.
#apotropaic #church
#apotropaic #church
April 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Footprints etched into a stone slab at St Wystan's in Repton. I'd love to know why.
#apotropaic #church
#apotropaic #church
St Wystan's church in Repton is most famous for it's Anglo Saxon crypt that housed the bones of Mercia' kings.
I was quite taken with the ceiling grotesques that are so high up, you need a camera zoom to see them. Who was the audience for these creepy chaps and what was the message?
I was quite taken with the ceiling grotesques that are so high up, you need a camera zoom to see them. Who was the audience for these creepy chaps and what was the message?
April 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
St Wystan's church in Repton is most famous for it's Anglo Saxon crypt that housed the bones of Mercia' kings.
I was quite taken with the ceiling grotesques that are so high up, you need a camera zoom to see them. Who was the audience for these creepy chaps and what was the message?
I was quite taken with the ceiling grotesques that are so high up, you need a camera zoom to see them. Who was the audience for these creepy chaps and what was the message?
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Vultures circle over Council art collections as austerity bites:
Sotheby’s offers to value cash-strapped councils’ art collections
Critics warn auction house is pressuring struggling authorities into selling public assets
www.ft.com
April 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Vultures circle over Council art collections as austerity bites:
A reminder of how much I appreciate modern sanitation. This bad boy was in use as a public loo until...1980!
It's an earth closet, so you did the business then covered it with a layer of earth (ideally good loamy soil, but anything to hand). Then it was taken outside.
#sharpspottery #history
It's an earth closet, so you did the business then covered it with a layer of earth (ideally good loamy soil, but anything to hand). Then it was taken outside.
#sharpspottery #history
April 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
A reminder of how much I appreciate modern sanitation. This bad boy was in use as a public loo until...1980!
It's an earth closet, so you did the business then covered it with a layer of earth (ideally good loamy soil, but anything to hand). Then it was taken outside.
#sharpspottery #history
It's an earth closet, so you did the business then covered it with a layer of earth (ideally good loamy soil, but anything to hand). Then it was taken outside.
#sharpspottery #history
In 1750, a group of German Moravians, looking for religious freedom, built a village in Ockbrook, Derbyshire. The church is still in use today and the village is like stepping into another world.
April 3, 2025 at 6:21 AM
In 1750, a group of German Moravians, looking for religious freedom, built a village in Ockbrook, Derbyshire. The church is still in use today and the village is like stepping into another world.
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🚨Job Klaxon🚨
Can you help us bring the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers to a wider audience?
We're looking for a project Outreach & Education Co-ordinator to help showcase this fantastic archival collection (1 year, 0.5 FTE)
Find out more at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
Can you help us bring the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers to a wider audience?
We're looking for a project Outreach & Education Co-ordinator to help showcase this fantastic archival collection (1 year, 0.5 FTE)
Find out more at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
April 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
🚨Job Klaxon🚨
Can you help us bring the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers to a wider audience?
We're looking for a project Outreach & Education Co-ordinator to help showcase this fantastic archival collection (1 year, 0.5 FTE)
Find out more at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
Can you help us bring the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers to a wider audience?
We're looking for a project Outreach & Education Co-ordinator to help showcase this fantastic archival collection (1 year, 0.5 FTE)
Find out more at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
The ruins of the medieval St Mary's Abbey are casually in a field in Dale Abbey, Derbyshire.
April 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The ruins of the medieval St Mary's Abbey are casually in a field in Dale Abbey, Derbyshire.
Hyacinths on a glorious sunny day. This is Delft Blue and the salmon pink of Gypsy Queen four years on from being planted.
The name comes from yet another Greek who got entangled in a romance with the gods and ended up dead, but floral.
The name comes from yet another Greek who got entangled in a romance with the gods and ended up dead, but floral.
April 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Hyacinths on a glorious sunny day. This is Delft Blue and the salmon pink of Gypsy Queen four years on from being planted.
The name comes from yet another Greek who got entangled in a romance with the gods and ended up dead, but floral.
The name comes from yet another Greek who got entangled in a romance with the gods and ended up dead, but floral.
The Scala Picture House in Ilkeston must be one of the oldest cinemas still going. It's a rather magnificent Edwardian concoction decorated with swags and scrolls, that's been running for over 110 years.
March 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Scala Picture House in Ilkeston must be one of the oldest cinemas still going. It's a rather magnificent Edwardian concoction decorated with swags and scrolls, that's been running for over 110 years.
Glorious morning for a walk around some very old trackways.
March 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Glorious morning for a walk around some very old trackways.
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12th century carved stone grave slab from St. Peter’s Church in Northampton. It was found in 1843 being used as a door lintel in a cottage in nearby Black Lion Hill. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Medieval #Northampton
February 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
12th century carved stone grave slab from St. Peter’s Church in Northampton. It was found in 1843 being used as a door lintel in a cottage in nearby Black Lion Hill. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Medieval #Northampton
Long Eaton mills, still in use with loads of textile businesses. Amazing architecture, especially with a blue sky.
Long Eaton was a lace making centre for many years.
Long Eaton was a lace making centre for many years.
February 27, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Long Eaton mills, still in use with loads of textile businesses. Amazing architecture, especially with a blue sky.
Long Eaton was a lace making centre for many years.
Long Eaton was a lace making centre for many years.
I’ll find out from social media this evening whether the museum is closing permanently. So that’s a joy in this brave new world.
February 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I’ll find out from social media this evening whether the museum is closing permanently. So that’s a joy in this brave new world.