Ann Roberts
@annroberts.bsky.social
Local history and research. Women’s history. Also architecture, art and heritage.
Devon based.
Devon based.
October 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Can anyone help with translation from Latin please?
October 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Can anyone help with translation from Latin please?
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Discover Devon's @unesco.org designated heritage on a Discovery Day 🔎
✦ 13 October: Free tour exploring rare items in our new Treasures Exhibition
✦ 23 October: Free workshop on why The Exeter Book is so special
Tickets: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/whats-on/
Hosted by The Devonshire Association
✦ 13 October: Free tour exploring rare items in our new Treasures Exhibition
✦ 23 October: Free workshop on why The Exeter Book is so special
Tickets: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/whats-on/
Hosted by The Devonshire Association
September 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Discover Devon's @unesco.org designated heritage on a Discovery Day 🔎
✦ 13 October: Free tour exploring rare items in our new Treasures Exhibition
✦ 23 October: Free workshop on why The Exeter Book is so special
Tickets: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/whats-on/
Hosted by The Devonshire Association
✦ 13 October: Free tour exploring rare items in our new Treasures Exhibition
✦ 23 October: Free workshop on why The Exeter Book is so special
Tickets: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/whats-on/
Hosted by The Devonshire Association
See this? Post a bridge.
September 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
See this? Post a bridge.
Heritage Open Day visit to chapel of old Exminster Asylum (now Exeter Pre-Prep School).
Built 1875 of Heavitree sandstone with Bath stone dressings. Cruciform plan with bellcote over the crossing.
Designed by Exeter architect Joseph Neale.
Good carved details including reredos, capitals and pulpit
Built 1875 of Heavitree sandstone with Bath stone dressings. Cruciform plan with bellcote over the crossing.
Designed by Exeter architect Joseph Neale.
Good carved details including reredos, capitals and pulpit
September 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Heritage Open Day visit to chapel of old Exminster Asylum (now Exeter Pre-Prep School).
Built 1875 of Heavitree sandstone with Bath stone dressings. Cruciform plan with bellcote over the crossing.
Designed by Exeter architect Joseph Neale.
Good carved details including reredos, capitals and pulpit
Built 1875 of Heavitree sandstone with Bath stone dressings. Cruciform plan with bellcote over the crossing.
Designed by Exeter architect Joseph Neale.
Good carved details including reredos, capitals and pulpit
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Here's how the real two-tier Britain works:
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
August 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Here's how the real two-tier Britain works:
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
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Work of the Week! Bedruthan Steps by Robert Borlase Smart
He described himself as an “oil painter of seascapes, watercolourist and etcher of architectural subjects” and worked for a time as artist and art critic for the Western Morning News.
He described himself as an “oil painter of seascapes, watercolourist and etcher of architectural subjects” and worked for a time as artist and art critic for the Western Morning News.
August 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Work of the Week! Bedruthan Steps by Robert Borlase Smart
He described himself as an “oil painter of seascapes, watercolourist and etcher of architectural subjects” and worked for a time as artist and art critic for the Western Morning News.
He described himself as an “oil painter of seascapes, watercolourist and etcher of architectural subjects” and worked for a time as artist and art critic for the Western Morning News.
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🌟Fellows of the RHistS were emailed yesterday regarding this year's elections to the Society's Council. I am one of this year's candidates, and hope if you are a Fellow you'll consider voting for me. I'm particularly concerned with issues of EDI within the historical profession.🌟 #skystorians
August 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
🌟Fellows of the RHistS were emailed yesterday regarding this year's elections to the Society's Council. I am one of this year's candidates, and hope if you are a Fellow you'll consider voting for me. I'm particularly concerned with issues of EDI within the historical profession.🌟 #skystorians
Extraordinary sculpture by Jyll Bradley. Centrepiece of exhibition at The Box, Plymouth. As you circle the blues and violets remain in front of you while the warmer tones are furthest away caused by the different refractive index of the materials. Think rainbows or prisms.
Photo doesn’t do it credit
Photo doesn’t do it credit
August 14, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Extraordinary sculpture by Jyll Bradley. Centrepiece of exhibition at The Box, Plymouth. As you circle the blues and violets remain in front of you while the warmer tones are furthest away caused by the different refractive index of the materials. Think rainbows or prisms.
Photo doesn’t do it credit
Photo doesn’t do it credit
Evening primrose, bird’s foot trefoil, purple loosestrife and meadowsweet
All at Dawlish Warren
Tuesday 8 - 9am
#WildflowerHour
#Devon
@warrenbirding.bsky.social
All at Dawlish Warren
Tuesday 8 - 9am
#WildflowerHour
#Devon
@warrenbirding.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Evening primrose, bird’s foot trefoil, purple loosestrife and meadowsweet
All at Dawlish Warren
Tuesday 8 - 9am
#WildflowerHour
#Devon
@warrenbirding.bsky.social
All at Dawlish Warren
Tuesday 8 - 9am
#WildflowerHour
#Devon
@warrenbirding.bsky.social
🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations
Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...
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July 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
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A rare medieval manuscript is bringing the sound of monks back to Buckland Abbey for the first time in 500 years.
A 15th-century book that once belonged to Buckland Abbey to come home for the first time since 1539, thanks to a British Library loan.
A 15th-century book that once belonged to Buckland Abbey to come home for the first time since 1539, thanks to a British Library loan.
July 4, 2025 at 7:04 AM
A rare medieval manuscript is bringing the sound of monks back to Buckland Abbey for the first time in 500 years.
A 15th-century book that once belonged to Buckland Abbey to come home for the first time since 1539, thanks to a British Library loan.
A 15th-century book that once belonged to Buckland Abbey to come home for the first time since 1539, thanks to a British Library loan.
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We’ve partnered with the University of Exeter Cathedral Choir to bring the voices of the long-lost monks back to life.
The music will be part of the soundtrack to a new exhibition at the abbey, and will be performed live in the abbey’s medieval Great Barn in August.
The music will be part of the soundtrack to a new exhibition at the abbey, and will be performed live in the abbey’s medieval Great Barn in August.
July 4, 2025 at 7:04 AM
We’ve partnered with the University of Exeter Cathedral Choir to bring the voices of the long-lost monks back to life.
The music will be part of the soundtrack to a new exhibition at the abbey, and will be performed live in the abbey’s medieval Great Barn in August.
The music will be part of the soundtrack to a new exhibition at the abbey, and will be performed live in the abbey’s medieval Great Barn in August.
Oh my! Gotta laugh. She’d have still been a Tory MP if she hadn’t had a Reform candidate standing against her who split her vote.
Reform UK hires ex-Tory MP who was suspended for using racist language
Reform UK hires ex-Tory MP who was suspended for using racist language
Anne Marie Morris, twice suspended while an MP between 2010 and 2024, will lead Reform’s social care policy
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UK politics live – latest updates
Reform UK has hired a former Conservative MP who was suspended for using the N-word.
Anne Marie Morris, who had the whip withdrawn by Theresa May in 2017 for using the term in a debate about Brexit, will lead Reform’s social care policy. She is one of several ex-Tories who have defected to Nigel Farage’s party. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Oh my! Gotta laugh. She’d have still been a Tory MP if she hadn’t had a Reform candidate standing against her who split her vote.
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MWF Quote of the Month - July 2025
This months quote is a powerful reminder of the importance of supporting other women. True progress is built when women stand together and lift each other up.
This months quote is a powerful reminder of the importance of supporting other women. True progress is built when women stand together and lift each other up.
July 1, 2025 at 9:59 AM
MWF Quote of the Month - July 2025
This months quote is a powerful reminder of the importance of supporting other women. True progress is built when women stand together and lift each other up.
This months quote is a powerful reminder of the importance of supporting other women. True progress is built when women stand together and lift each other up.
June 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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At our AGM last month, we awarded our Outstanding Individual Contribution Awards to Dr Julia Neville and Dr Hugh Pihlens!
Hear from Dr Julia Neville about her work in the study of Devon local history: ow.ly/BhgS50W4BcP
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
Hear from Dr Julia Neville about her work in the study of Devon local history: ow.ly/BhgS50W4BcP
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
June 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
At our AGM last month, we awarded our Outstanding Individual Contribution Awards to Dr Julia Neville and Dr Hugh Pihlens!
Hear from Dr Julia Neville about her work in the study of Devon local history: ow.ly/BhgS50W4BcP
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
Hear from Dr Julia Neville about her work in the study of Devon local history: ow.ly/BhgS50W4BcP
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
Swallow babies waiting for their next feed.
June 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Swallow babies waiting for their next feed.
Mazawattee Tea ‘the cup that cheers but does not inebriate.
The advertising tapped in to the late-Victorian and Edwardian temperance movement.
The advertising tapped in to the late-Victorian and Edwardian temperance movement.
May 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Mazawattee Tea ‘the cup that cheers but does not inebriate.
The advertising tapped in to the late-Victorian and Edwardian temperance movement.
The advertising tapped in to the late-Victorian and Edwardian temperance movement.
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Congratulations to new Fellow Julia Neville in Devon. I know how much work you have devoted to history over the past few years!
We're delighted to welcome today 337 new Fellows & Members who've been elected to the Royal Historical Society bit.ly/3FfrjEb
Our new Fellows practice history in 11 countries, our Associate Fellows promote history across many sectors & our PGR Members study at 68 universities worldwide #Skystorians
Our new Fellows practice history in 11 countries, our Associate Fellows promote history across many sectors & our PGR Members study at 68 universities worldwide #Skystorians
May 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Congratulations to new Fellow Julia Neville in Devon. I know how much work you have devoted to history over the past few years!
POST FROM TAVISTOCK POLICE ON FACEBOOK
Police are investigating a report of theft of a lectern from St Paul's Church in Yelverton on the evening of Monday 12th May.
Please share this appeal far and wide.
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Police are investigating a report of theft of a lectern from St Paul's Church in Yelverton on the evening of Monday 12th May.
Please share this appeal far and wide.
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May 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
POST FROM TAVISTOCK POLICE ON FACEBOOK
Police are investigating a report of theft of a lectern from St Paul's Church in Yelverton on the evening of Monday 12th May.
Please share this appeal far and wide.
www.facebook.com/share/1aNbTg...
Police are investigating a report of theft of a lectern from St Paul's Church in Yelverton on the evening of Monday 12th May.
Please share this appeal far and wide.
www.facebook.com/share/1aNbTg...
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Island of Strangers - by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
May 14, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Island of Strangers - by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
Paternoster House, Exeter is being converted to apartments. Once home to Exeter’s first department store. Purpose built in 1880 for Brock’s furniture, furnishings, stationery, and books emporium. Removal of modern fascias has exposed the original rather lovely signage. Love it when that happens.
April 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Paternoster House, Exeter is being converted to apartments. Once home to Exeter’s first department store. Purpose built in 1880 for Brock’s furniture, furnishings, stationery, and books emporium. Removal of modern fascias has exposed the original rather lovely signage. Love it when that happens.
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#WorldDownSyndromeDay
#WorldDownSyndromeDay
I found this so moving.
An effigy which appears to depict a child with Downs Syndrome.
One of the 11 children of Edward Seymour and his wife Elizabeth Champernowne on their memorial. No name for this child sadly and referred to as [shudders] “imbecile child”.
St Mary the Virgin, Berry Pomeroy
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An effigy which appears to depict a child with Downs Syndrome.
One of the 11 children of Edward Seymour and his wife Elizabeth Champernowne on their memorial. No name for this child sadly and referred to as [shudders] “imbecile child”.
St Mary the Virgin, Berry Pomeroy
1/3
March 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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#WorldDownSyndromeDay
#WorldDownSyndromeDay