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1620: seeking predictions from an angel, Richard Napier asks whether one of his clients will 'live long & prosp[er]' #earlymodern 🖖
![Manuscript image showing part of a paragraph that reads: 'wheather Mr John Monson hayre to Sir Th shall live long & prosp[er] & attayne to honour & good & a happy mariage', then, added later in a darker ink (but not shown in the image): 'he shall'. (NOTE6839 in the online edition.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k254wppy2ojyxlyxgi2odu5z/bafkreid5dg4nfnubkseed4f762m3mngvzupzzf4kqfcmdudv7yahs7hoq4@jpeg)
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
1620: seeking predictions from an angel, Richard Napier asks whether one of his clients will 'live long & prosp[er]' #earlymodern 🖖
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A lovely story of an archivist reaching out for religious community support to fully understand a holy book in the collection, and that community getting a wonderful experience in return.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sikhs flock to see rare outing of ancient holy book in Edinburgh
The Guru Granth Sahib is so fragile it was taken to Edinburgh Gurdwara in a special convoy by curators for just a few hours.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
A lovely story of an archivist reaching out for religious community support to fully understand a holy book in the collection, and that community getting a wonderful experience in return.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Good to see the problems facing our colleagues @britishlibrary.bsky.social being raised here by @hetanshah.bsky.social (of @britishacademy.bsky.social). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed! www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
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November 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Good to see the problems facing our colleagues @britishlibrary.bsky.social being raised here by @hetanshah.bsky.social (of @britishacademy.bsky.social). If this had happened in France it would be considered a national problem to be urgently addressed! www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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The first issue of the Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, appeared #OnThisDay 18 November 1837. Without it, Chartism would have been a far weaker thing.
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www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
November 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The first issue of the Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, appeared #OnThisDay 18 November 1837. Without it, Chartism would have been a far weaker thing.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
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📢NOVEMBER WILL OF THE MONTH📢
This month's featured testator is a widowed clergyman from Pembrokeshire who made his will in 1786.
Reverend William Thomas asked to be buried 'as remote from every other grave as conveniently may be'. 🪦✝️💀
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This month's featured testator is a widowed clergyman from Pembrokeshire who made his will in 1786.
Reverend William Thomas asked to be buried 'as remote from every other grave as conveniently may be'. 🪦✝️💀
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
November 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM
📢NOVEMBER WILL OF THE MONTH📢
This month's featured testator is a widowed clergyman from Pembrokeshire who made his will in 1786.
Reverend William Thomas asked to be buried 'as remote from every other grave as conveniently may be'. 🪦✝️💀
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
This month's featured testator is a widowed clergyman from Pembrokeshire who made his will in 1786.
Reverend William Thomas asked to be buried 'as remote from every other grave as conveniently may be'. 🪦✝️💀
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
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The manuscript is also known for two distinctive illustrations on pages 121 and 166: a menorah and a crucifixion scene.
Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images (provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright Royal Irish Academy Library): www.ria.ie/collections/...
Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images (provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright Royal Irish Academy Library): www.ria.ie/collections/...
November 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The manuscript is also known for two distinctive illustrations on pages 121 and 166: a menorah and a crucifixion scene.
Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images (provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright Royal Irish Academy Library): www.ria.ie/collections/...
Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images (provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright Royal Irish Academy Library): www.ria.ie/collections/...
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When the Sheffield–Chesterfield line opened, it used the latest technology to run. This Telegraphic Despatch (telegram) form is from 6th January 1871. They were used for traffic related arrangements, problems and discrepancies.
#Railway200
#Railway200
November 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
When the Sheffield–Chesterfield line opened, it used the latest technology to run. This Telegraphic Despatch (telegram) form is from 6th January 1871. They were used for traffic related arrangements, problems and discrepancies.
#Railway200
#Railway200
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Today's #Museum30 theme is #Makers, so we're celebrating Thomas Preston, the scribe who hand wrote the Litlyngton Missal - a 14th-century service book made for the Abbey's High Altar.
Thomas lived in the monastery while he worked on the missal and later became a monk at the Abbey.
Thomas lived in the monastery while he worked on the missal and later became a monk at the Abbey.
November 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Royal licence to William ap Gruffith ap Gwilym & Joan his wife to purchase from Ievan ap Cynwric ap Iorwerth ap Howel, free tenant of the township of Crewerion, 7 messuages, 37 acres of land, and the moiety appurtenant to Gavel Meibion Howel, in the said township.
Dyddiad/Date: 1425 PENRH/166
Dyddiad/Date: 1425 PENRH/166
November 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Royal licence to William ap Gruffith ap Gwilym & Joan his wife to purchase from Ievan ap Cynwric ap Iorwerth ap Howel, free tenant of the township of Crewerion, 7 messuages, 37 acres of land, and the moiety appurtenant to Gavel Meibion Howel, in the said township.
Dyddiad/Date: 1425 PENRH/166
Dyddiad/Date: 1425 PENRH/166
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Thrilled to have been invited to present my work with
@ystadaucymru.bsky.social at this year's @archpbu.bsky.social's Annual Lecture.
So humbled by the amount of people that joined and with whom I was also able to chat - before and after the lecture -over some great big archive maps!
@ystadaucymru.bsky.social at this year's @archpbu.bsky.social's Annual Lecture.
So humbled by the amount of people that joined and with whom I was also able to chat - before and after the lecture -over some great big archive maps!
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Thrilled to have been invited to present my work with
@ystadaucymru.bsky.social at this year's @archpbu.bsky.social's Annual Lecture.
So humbled by the amount of people that joined and with whom I was also able to chat - before and after the lecture -over some great big archive maps!
@ystadaucymru.bsky.social at this year's @archpbu.bsky.social's Annual Lecture.
So humbled by the amount of people that joined and with whom I was also able to chat - before and after the lecture -over some great big archive maps!
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From today's script: the fun and games that result from a parish being split between two different counties.
And dioceses.
Oh, with a majority population of Roman Catholics after the Reformation.
This should be enough for a lot of people to guess where I'm talking about.
And dioceses.
Oh, with a majority population of Roman Catholics after the Reformation.
This should be enough for a lot of people to guess where I'm talking about.
November 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
From today's script: the fun and games that result from a parish being split between two different counties.
And dioceses.
Oh, with a majority population of Roman Catholics after the Reformation.
This should be enough for a lot of people to guess where I'm talking about.
And dioceses.
Oh, with a majority population of Roman Catholics after the Reformation.
This should be enough for a lot of people to guess where I'm talking about.
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This #MapMonday let us take you back in time ⌛
We've just added first edition 6-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales to our website, published from the 1840s to 1880s. These maps are all from bound volumes.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#188
We've just added first edition 6-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales to our website, published from the 1840s to 1880s. These maps are all from bound volumes.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#188
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This #MapMonday let us take you back in time ⌛
We've just added first edition 6-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales to our website, published from the 1840s to 1880s. These maps are all from bound volumes.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#188
We've just added first edition 6-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales to our website, published from the 1840s to 1880s. These maps are all from bound volumes.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#188
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I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...
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Couple of wills talks coming up: I'm presenting to the Devonshire Association, Tavistock & West Devon branch on Friday.
Then next Friday @bhamhistory.bsky.social & I are giving a talk at a joint Devon History Society & Devon Archaeological society workshop at Devon Heritage Centre.
🗃️
Then next Friday @bhamhistory.bsky.social & I are giving a talk at a joint Devon History Society & Devon Archaeological society workshop at Devon Heritage Centre.
🗃️
November 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Couple of wills talks coming up: I'm presenting to the Devonshire Association, Tavistock & West Devon branch on Friday.
Then next Friday @bhamhistory.bsky.social & I are giving a talk at a joint Devon History Society & Devon Archaeological society workshop at Devon Heritage Centre.
🗃️
Then next Friday @bhamhistory.bsky.social & I are giving a talk at a joint Devon History Society & Devon Archaeological society workshop at Devon Heritage Centre.
🗃️
Interesting perspectives on this in the diary of the amazing Amy Dillwyn www.southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/37.htm
November 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Interesting perspectives on this in the diary of the amazing Amy Dillwyn www.southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/37.htm
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This is the feast of Albertus Magnus, d. 1280, who wrote a LOT. BNF lat 6520 is a particularly pretty copy of his De animalibus from the early 15th century.
I'm interested in these high-end 15c MSS of Scholastic authors that use a ton of gold but also a fairly informal grade of Textualis.
I'm interested in these high-end 15c MSS of Scholastic authors that use a ton of gold but also a fairly informal grade of Textualis.
November 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This is the feast of Albertus Magnus, d. 1280, who wrote a LOT. BNF lat 6520 is a particularly pretty copy of his De animalibus from the early 15th century.
I'm interested in these high-end 15c MSS of Scholastic authors that use a ton of gold but also a fairly informal grade of Textualis.
I'm interested in these high-end 15c MSS of Scholastic authors that use a ton of gold but also a fairly informal grade of Textualis.
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An absolutely outstanding signature on this commissioner's return for an Elizabethan Duchy Chamber case. TNA DL 1/42/K1b
November 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
An absolutely outstanding signature on this commissioner's return for an Elizabethan Duchy Chamber case. TNA DL 1/42/K1b
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Help please with #palaeography - what is Andro's surname? Or what word follows?
November 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Help please with #palaeography - what is Andro's surname? Or what word follows?
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November 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Ar y diwrnod hwn, ym 1897, ganed Aneurin Bevan yn Nhredegar. Mewn cofnod ar 31 Mai 1918 mae Bevan yn ymddangos, am fod yn wrthwynebydd cydwybodol yn ystod y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf.
November 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Ar y diwrnod hwn, ym 1897, ganed Aneurin Bevan yn Nhredegar. Mewn cofnod ar 31 Mai 1918 mae Bevan yn ymddangos, am fod yn wrthwynebydd cydwybodol yn ystod y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf.
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On this day, in 1897, Aneurin Bevan was born in Tredegar. In an entry from, 31st May 1918 Bevan appears for being a conscientious objector during the First World War.
November 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
On this day, in 1897, Aneurin Bevan was born in Tredegar. In an entry from, 31st May 1918 Bevan appears for being a conscientious objector during the First World War.
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A chance to see a well-used, 3m long, birth scroll made in England c.1500. Covered in prayers & illustrations, in Latin & English, invoking Sts Quiricus & Julitta, it's worn from use, engrained with vaginal fluid, imbued with love, pain, fear, hope & life. 🧵👇
wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/...
wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/...
November 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
A chance to see a well-used, 3m long, birth scroll made in England c.1500. Covered in prayers & illustrations, in Latin & English, invoking Sts Quiricus & Julitta, it's worn from use, engrained with vaginal fluid, imbued with love, pain, fear, hope & life. 🧵👇
wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/...
wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/...
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Religious creed registers as maintained by the workhouse authorities are a valuable resource for family historians. They often survive when the daily admission and discharge register do not. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #DidYouKnow www.exploreyourgenealogy.co.uk/workhouse-re...
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Religious creed registers as maintained by the workhouse authorities are a valuable resource for family historians. They often survive when the daily admission and discharge register do not. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #DidYouKnow www.exploreyourgenealogy.co.uk/workhouse-re...
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Remember last year when you successfully campaigned to stop the government destroying wills after digitization? On Monday, the cost of accessing a single will is increasing from £1.50 to £16.00.
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Remember last year when you successfully campaigned to stop the government destroying wills after digitization? On Monday, the cost of accessing a single will is increasing from £1.50 to £16.00.
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I'm a bit chuffed with this tbh: it brings together data from 4 different sources - my/LondonLives inquests, @camunicampop.bsky.social bills of mortality, Locating London's map polygons, and a bit of population data by @timhitchcock.bsky.social . And I learned some new JS and observable plot tricks.
I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...
November 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I'm a bit chuffed with this tbh: it brings together data from 4 different sources - my/LondonLives inquests, @camunicampop.bsky.social bills of mortality, Locating London's map polygons, and a bit of population data by @timhitchcock.bsky.social . And I learned some new JS and observable plot tricks.