Caryl Thomas
@carylthom.bsky.social
History, books, the arts...all that sort of stuff | 🏴
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Christmas sorted. Prints, homewares, cards and t-shirts inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Designed in Manchester. Made in the UK. gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Christmas sorted. Prints, homewares, cards and t-shirts inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Designed in Manchester. Made in the UK. gailmyerscough.co.uk
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Incredible response with this! Keep going folks!
It's an incredibly important building to the Valleys and Wales
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's an incredibly important building to the Valleys and Wales
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Campaign to save Cwm Rhondda chapel for community
A campaign to save the chapel has raised almost half the funds needed after just four days.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Incredible response with this! Keep going folks!
It's an incredibly important building to the Valleys and Wales
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's an incredibly important building to the Valleys and Wales
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bangor University are looking to make more cuts & the University Archive Service, which is accessible to all, is in the firing line. It may not affect you directly, but it will have a huge impact on Welsh & Global history research. #history #heritage #University #archives #Wales #saveyourarchive
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
SAVE YOUR ARCHIVE / ACHUBWCH EICH ARCHIFDY
chng.it
May 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Bangor University are looking to make more cuts & the University Archive Service, which is accessible to all, is in the firing line. It may not affect you directly, but it will have a huge impact on Welsh & Global history research. #history #heritage #University #archives #Wales #saveyourarchive
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Can you help me?
The charity that I founded, THE FOLKLORE LIBRARY & ARCHIVE is growing rapidly and tomorrow we receive a massive bequest of items.
We share a lot of our news on this platform.
Can you follow and share @folklorelibrary.bsky.social and help me to spread the word about the charity?
The charity that I founded, THE FOLKLORE LIBRARY & ARCHIVE is growing rapidly and tomorrow we receive a massive bequest of items.
We share a lot of our news on this platform.
Can you follow and share @folklorelibrary.bsky.social and help me to spread the word about the charity?
May 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Can you help me?
The charity that I founded, THE FOLKLORE LIBRARY & ARCHIVE is growing rapidly and tomorrow we receive a massive bequest of items.
We share a lot of our news on this platform.
Can you follow and share @folklorelibrary.bsky.social and help me to spread the word about the charity?
The charity that I founded, THE FOLKLORE LIBRARY & ARCHIVE is growing rapidly and tomorrow we receive a massive bequest of items.
We share a lot of our news on this platform.
Can you follow and share @folklorelibrary.bsky.social and help me to spread the word about the charity?
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Archivists search for people in rare VE Day film. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Archivists search for people featured in rare North East VE film
The BBC and the Yorkshire and North East Film Archive want to trace those captured in the 1945 footage.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Archivists search for people in rare VE Day film. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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🌿Welsh folklore tells us that Palm Sunday is a time to remember the dead:
"In some parts of Wales Palm Sunday, called in Welsh Sul-y-Blodau (Flowering Sunday), all the graves in churchyards, cemeteries, and burial-places are decorated with flowers."
#PalmSunday #FolkloreSunday
"In some parts of Wales Palm Sunday, called in Welsh Sul-y-Blodau (Flowering Sunday), all the graves in churchyards, cemeteries, and burial-places are decorated with flowers."
#PalmSunday #FolkloreSunday
April 13, 2025 at 7:21 AM
🌿Welsh folklore tells us that Palm Sunday is a time to remember the dead:
"In some parts of Wales Palm Sunday, called in Welsh Sul-y-Blodau (Flowering Sunday), all the graves in churchyards, cemeteries, and burial-places are decorated with flowers."
#PalmSunday #FolkloreSunday
"In some parts of Wales Palm Sunday, called in Welsh Sul-y-Blodau (Flowering Sunday), all the graves in churchyards, cemeteries, and burial-places are decorated with flowers."
#PalmSunday #FolkloreSunday
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The unmarked graves of thousands of people who died during the Irish famine in Belfast are finally set to be officially marked.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#History
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#History
Belfast: Hidden famine graves set to be publicly marked
Belfast City Council is planning to recognise the burial ground thousands of people who died during the Irish famine in Belfast.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The unmarked graves of thousands of people who died during the Irish famine in Belfast are finally set to be officially marked.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#History
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#History
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Excellent bit of #FWW research here…
We know how much you all enjoy the detective work in some of our posts, so here is a special one for you on this fine Sunday morning.
Several months ago we spotted this pipe for sale in an antiques centre near Haverhill. It is a Captain Comfy pipe, made in France…
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Several months ago we spotted this pipe for sale in an antiques centre near Haverhill. It is a Captain Comfy pipe, made in France…
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April 1, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Excellent bit of #FWW research here…
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Via the Classic Art Memes FB group.
'Junge Dame im Salon', by Felix Heullant Armand, 19th century.
'Junge Dame im Salon', by Felix Heullant Armand, 19th century.
March 6, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Via the Classic Art Memes FB group.
'Junge Dame im Salon', by Felix Heullant Armand, 19th century.
'Junge Dame im Salon', by Felix Heullant Armand, 19th century.
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"A new Scottish tartan has been created to honor the thousands of people—primarily women—executed for witchcraft in Scotland between the 16th and 18th centuries.”
wildhunt.org/2025/02/newl... #folkloresunday
wildhunt.org/2025/02/newl... #folkloresunday
February 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
"A new Scottish tartan has been created to honor the thousands of people—primarily women—executed for witchcraft in Scotland between the 16th and 18th centuries.”
wildhunt.org/2025/02/newl... #folkloresunday
wildhunt.org/2025/02/newl... #folkloresunday
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The Outsiders touring exhibition on homelessness and substandard housing is now open at @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social. Please spread the word and visit if you can. St Albans is only 25 minutes from St Pancras and this is the only opportunity to see it in the South of England.
January 18, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The Outsiders touring exhibition on homelessness and substandard housing is now open at @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social. Please spread the word and visit if you can. St Albans is only 25 minutes from St Pancras and this is the only opportunity to see it in the South of England.
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She spent #WW2 deciphering #Luftwaffe codes at @bletchleypark , then entertained #TSEliot, #Larkin & #DylanThomas, married #VernonWatkins, had 5 kids, & wrote bks on poetry, lit, & #CrackingTheLuftwaffeCode… The remarkable #GwenWatkins: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Gwen Watkins obituary
Codebreaker at Bletchley Park during the second world war who went on to become a successful author
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
She spent #WW2 deciphering #Luftwaffe codes at @bletchleypark , then entertained #TSEliot, #Larkin & #DylanThomas, married #VernonWatkins, had 5 kids, & wrote bks on poetry, lit, & #CrackingTheLuftwaffeCode… The remarkable #GwenWatkins: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Doing stuff like this is how you go missing in fairyland for 7 years, people
#TombTuesday
Let’s go inside Bryn Celli Ddu!
A remarkable Neolithic passage tomb built some 5,000 years ago to align with midsummer sunrise! 🌅
Look out for the stone pillar in the burial chamber. Pehaps a tomb guardian keeping watch from the shadows!
Anglesey, Wales
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#Archaeology
Let’s go inside Bryn Celli Ddu!
A remarkable Neolithic passage tomb built some 5,000 years ago to align with midsummer sunrise! 🌅
Look out for the stone pillar in the burial chamber. Pehaps a tomb guardian keeping watch from the shadows!
Anglesey, Wales
🎥 by me
#Archaeology
February 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Doing stuff like this is how you go missing in fairyland for 7 years, people
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'Announced on Holocaust Memorial Day, the Wiener Holocaust Library’s new online platform includes more than 150,000 items collected over nine decades. Users can view letters, pamphlets and photographs that record the rise of fascism in Britain and Europe.' Link: www.whlcollections.org/index/
‘New way of bearing witness’: one of biggest Holocaust archives goes online
Exclusive: Wiener Holocaust Library has digitised more than 150,000 items including letters, pamphlets and photos
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
'Announced on Holocaust Memorial Day, the Wiener Holocaust Library’s new online platform includes more than 150,000 items collected over nine decades. Users can view letters, pamphlets and photographs that record the rise of fascism in Britain and Europe.' Link: www.whlcollections.org/index/
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Kosminsky cited research which found there were 15 TV dramas that “have been green-lit but are unable to proceed” because of cost. “Their subject matter is of particular interest, particular cultural significance, to a UK audience. But they are... not likely to appeal to an American audience.”
Mark Rylance took ‘significant’ pay cut to get Wolf Hall made, director tells MPs
Second series of BBC drama was initially rejected by all the streaming services, Peter Kosminsky tells inquiry into UK film and TV
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Kosminsky cited research which found there were 15 TV dramas that “have been green-lit but are unable to proceed” because of cost. “Their subject matter is of particular interest, particular cultural significance, to a UK audience. But they are... not likely to appeal to an American audience.”
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Genetics shows that women stayed put in Late Iron Age Dorset, while men moved to other groups.
Ancient DNA study shows women at the centre of societies in iron age Britain – supporting decades of archaeology
Genetics shows that women stayed put in Late Iron Age Dorset, while men moved to other groups.
theconversation.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Genetics shows that women stayed put in Late Iron Age Dorset, while men moved to other groups.
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it's another totally normal day in the countryside
Someone needs to throw that into a volcano
Gold mourning ring found on Dorset farm dated to 17th Century
Metal detectorist Anthony Woolmington found the mourning ring on a farm near Shillingstone.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
it's another totally normal day in the countryside
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When did salutes become like bloody champagne?! Oh it's only fascist if it comes from the Reich region otherwise it's just a sparkling 'Roman salute'?!?
Pull the other one it's got swastikas on it...
Pull the other one it's got swastikas on it...
January 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
When did salutes become like bloody champagne?! Oh it's only fascist if it comes from the Reich region otherwise it's just a sparkling 'Roman salute'?!?
Pull the other one it's got swastikas on it...
Pull the other one it's got swastikas on it...
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#Pompeii is back in the news with the discovery of an extraordinary private bathhouse.
The BBC’s ‘The New Dig’ documentary lovingly follows the process of its excavation and the dramatic discovery of two of the occupants of the house.
Watch on Monday 20th Jan 9pm BBC2 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
The BBC’s ‘The New Dig’ documentary lovingly follows the process of its excavation and the dramatic discovery of two of the occupants of the house.
Watch on Monday 20th Jan 9pm BBC2 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Two - Pompeii: The New Dig, House of Treasures
At the biggest dig in a generation, archaeologists strike gold in a lavish Pompeiian home.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
#Pompeii is back in the news with the discovery of an extraordinary private bathhouse.
The BBC’s ‘The New Dig’ documentary lovingly follows the process of its excavation and the dramatic discovery of two of the occupants of the house.
Watch on Monday 20th Jan 9pm BBC2 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
The BBC’s ‘The New Dig’ documentary lovingly follows the process of its excavation and the dramatic discovery of two of the occupants of the house.
Watch on Monday 20th Jan 9pm BBC2 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Great talking #SOE female agents with James Holland & Al Murray for #WeHaveWays pod.
We easily filled 3 episodes & there was much more to say... first out next week 🫛🎙️🎧
Pics: some of the women:
- #denisebloch
- #jacquelinenearne
- #pearlwitherington
We easily filled 3 episodes & there was much more to say... first out next week 🫛🎙️🎧
Pics: some of the women:
- #denisebloch
- #jacquelinenearne
- #pearlwitherington
January 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Great talking #SOE female agents with James Holland & Al Murray for #WeHaveWays pod.
We easily filled 3 episodes & there was much more to say... first out next week 🫛🎙️🎧
Pics: some of the women:
- #denisebloch
- #jacquelinenearne
- #pearlwitherington
We easily filled 3 episodes & there was much more to say... first out next week 🫛🎙️🎧
Pics: some of the women:
- #denisebloch
- #jacquelinenearne
- #pearlwitherington
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I wrote this piece for the Guardian on how, as an Englishman, I have made my home in Wales.
Would love your feedback on whether you feel the same.
Would love your feedback on whether you feel the same.
A brimming biscuit tin and a warm welcome – this is how an Englishman found his home in Wales | Will Hayward
A brimming biscuit tin and a warm welcome – this is how an Englishman found his home in Wales | Will Hayward
I’d moved around many places but never found the place that spoke to my heart. In Wales, I felt I’d met a friend
* In our end of year series, writers and public figures remember the place or time when they felt most at home
I remember pushing open…
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2024 at 10:02 AM
I wrote this piece for the Guardian on how, as an Englishman, I have made my home in Wales.
Would love your feedback on whether you feel the same.
Would love your feedback on whether you feel the same.
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Just one of the treats in store in the brand new series of Digging for Britain: a beautifully preserved sword from an Anglo Saxon cemetery in Kent that’s providing precious insights into contacts & connections in post-Roman Britain.
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
‘Really incredible’ sixth-century sword found in Kent
Exclusive: Sword is among striking objects unearthed from Anglo-Saxon cemetery near Canterbury
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Just one of the treats in store in the brand new series of Digging for Britain: a beautifully preserved sword from an Anglo Saxon cemetery in Kent that’s providing precious insights into contacts & connections in post-Roman Britain.
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
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Something to brighten up the dark evenings in the New Year! Brand new #DiggingForBritain - packed full of incredible new discoveries!
December 15, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Something to brighten up the dark evenings in the New Year! Brand new #DiggingForBritain - packed full of incredible new discoveries!
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⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed.
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
Storyville Books Bookshop UK
Nestled in the rolling hills of the South Wales valleys, we are the only independent bookshop in Pontypridd, selling new books and more.
uk.bookshop.org
November 24, 2024 at 6:41 PM
⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed.
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...