HistoryShorts
@historyshorts.bsky.social
Curious. Dabbler in local history, family history, ancient history, changing landscapes, placenames etc
Blog: https://historyshorts.blogspot.com/
Blog: https://historyshorts.blogspot.com/
This Victorian Postbox Is Still Delivering 130+ Years Later
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January 23, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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The heavily ploughed interior of Hod Hill #Roman fort, early September 1949
Built in the NW corner of Lydsbury Rings Iron Age hillfort #Dorset
Roman roads and buildings showing up clearly as crop marks
© Historic England see:
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#RomanFortThursday
Built in the NW corner of Lydsbury Rings Iron Age hillfort #Dorset
Roman roads and buildings showing up clearly as crop marks
© Historic England see:
britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW...
#RomanFortThursday
January 22, 2026 at 7:32 AM
The heavily ploughed interior of Hod Hill #Roman fort, early September 1949
Built in the NW corner of Lydsbury Rings Iron Age hillfort #Dorset
Roman roads and buildings showing up clearly as crop marks
© Historic England see:
britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW...
#RomanFortThursday
Built in the NW corner of Lydsbury Rings Iron Age hillfort #Dorset
Roman roads and buildings showing up clearly as crop marks
© Historic England see:
britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EAW...
#RomanFortThursday
Insights into parasites and diseases experienced by Roman soldiers on Hadrian's Wall
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historyshorts.blogspot.com/2025/12/roma... #history
News: Multiple parasite infections in Roman soldiers at Vindolanda fort, Hadrian’s Wall
Local history, hidden history, history news
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January 17, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Insights into parasites and diseases experienced by Roman soldiers on Hadrian's Wall
historyshorts.blogspot.com/2025/12/roma... #history
historyshorts.blogspot.com/2025/12/roma... #history
What secrets might medieval manuscripts hide!
This is a really fascinating story - open access medieval #history at its best. Technology reveals previously invisible drypoint markings in manuscripts, leading to intriguing clues about Eadburg herself.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
This is a really fascinating story - open access medieval #history at its best. Technology reveals previously invisible drypoint markings in manuscripts, leading to intriguing clues about Eadburg herself.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth-century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these ad...
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January 15, 2026 at 5:16 PM
What secrets might medieval manuscripts hide!
This is a really fascinating story - open access medieval #history at its best. Technology reveals previously invisible drypoint markings in manuscripts, leading to intriguing clues about Eadburg herself.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
This is a really fascinating story - open access medieval #history at its best. Technology reveals previously invisible drypoint markings in manuscripts, leading to intriguing clues about Eadburg herself.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Today is the 50th anniversary of Dame Agatha Christie's death
Pic by me of the life-sized bronze statue in Wallingford - you can sit next to Dame Agatha here and cook up a fiendish mystery with her.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pic by me of the life-sized bronze statue in Wallingford - you can sit next to Dame Agatha here and cook up a fiendish mystery with her.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
January 12, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Today is the 50th anniversary of Dame Agatha Christie's death
Pic by me of the life-sized bronze statue in Wallingford - you can sit next to Dame Agatha here and cook up a fiendish mystery with her.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pic by me of the life-sized bronze statue in Wallingford - you can sit next to Dame Agatha here and cook up a fiendish mystery with her.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Forget Gildas and Bede, migration was a constant feature of Early Medieval England.
A study analysed chemical signatures in the tooth enamel of 700+ individuals buried in England AD 400-1100 to reveal a dynamic society
#History news from the wires: historyshorts.blogspot.com/2026/01/migr...
A study analysed chemical signatures in the tooth enamel of 700+ individuals buried in England AD 400-1100 to reveal a dynamic society
#History news from the wires: historyshorts.blogspot.com/2026/01/migr...
News: Migration Was a Constant Feature of Early Medieval England
Local history, hidden history, history news
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January 8, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Forget Gildas and Bede, migration was a constant feature of Early Medieval England.
A study analysed chemical signatures in the tooth enamel of 700+ individuals buried in England AD 400-1100 to reveal a dynamic society
#History news from the wires: historyshorts.blogspot.com/2026/01/migr...
A study analysed chemical signatures in the tooth enamel of 700+ individuals buried in England AD 400-1100 to reveal a dynamic society
#History news from the wires: historyshorts.blogspot.com/2026/01/migr...
Moving mayoral lamps...Another slice of Belfast history to be filed under "I didn't know that!"
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Belfast: Lamps outside Ulster Hall shed light on past and present
Two lamp-posts steeped in history outside the Ulster Hall on Bedford Street have now been refurbished.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Moving mayoral lamps...Another slice of Belfast history to be filed under "I didn't know that!"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Throughout December we’ll be celebrating ‘Festive Fridays’, sharing the most tenuous links to festive-themed archaeological sites in the care of the National Trust!
We’re starting with ‘Christmas Shaft’, an air shaft marked on the 1882 Ordnance Survey at Alderley Edge. bit.ly/3MbSqTI
We’re starting with ‘Christmas Shaft’, an air shaft marked on the 1882 Ordnance Survey at Alderley Edge. bit.ly/3MbSqTI
December 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Throughout December we’ll be celebrating ‘Festive Fridays’, sharing the most tenuous links to festive-themed archaeological sites in the care of the National Trust!
We’re starting with ‘Christmas Shaft’, an air shaft marked on the 1882 Ordnance Survey at Alderley Edge. bit.ly/3MbSqTI
We’re starting with ‘Christmas Shaft’, an air shaft marked on the 1882 Ordnance Survey at Alderley Edge. bit.ly/3MbSqTI
I had visited Kilrea many times before I discovered there was a pillbox constructed in the boundary of St Patrick's Church.
Another pillbox at nearby Portna Lock is very well known...
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Another pillbox at nearby Portna Lock is very well known...
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A tale of two pillboxes near the river Bann
Assessing the purpose of two pillboxes in the small town of Kilrea
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December 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I had visited Kilrea many times before I discovered there was a pillbox constructed in the boundary of St Patrick's Church.
Another pillbox at nearby Portna Lock is very well known...
historyshorts.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-ta... #history
Another pillbox at nearby Portna Lock is very well known...
historyshorts.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-ta... #history
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This is such brilliant archaeology. There's a bit of a persistent story that Britain was somehow culturally separate from europe in the Roman empire when it was so intertwined and connected by people and goods travelling.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Rare mosaic in Rutland reveals forgotten Trojan War tale - BBC News
A paper by experts at the University of Leicester has been described as a "fascinating development".
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December 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This is such brilliant archaeology. There's a bit of a persistent story that Britain was somehow culturally separate from europe in the Roman empire when it was so intertwined and connected by people and goods travelling.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This #MapMonday we celebrate an amazing crowd-sourced project, the Second Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain.
Directed by Professor Alice Coleman, the project involved over 3,000 volunteers, including university students and schoolchildren.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#189
Directed by Professor Alice Coleman, the project involved over 3,000 volunteers, including university students and schoolchildren.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#189
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This #MapMonday we celebrate an amazing crowd-sourced project, the Second Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain.
Directed by Professor Alice Coleman, the project involved over 3,000 volunteers, including university students and schoolchildren.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#189
Directed by Professor Alice Coleman, the project involved over 3,000 volunteers, including university students and schoolchildren.
Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/additions/#189
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Volunteers marked thousands of paper maps in the 1960s as part of the Second Land Utilisation Survey led by Prof Alice Coleman.
The Office for National Statistics preserved and scanned the maps which are now viewable online via @natlibscot.bsky.social
🔎 maps.nls.uk/series/secon...
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The Office for National Statistics preserved and scanned the maps which are now viewable online via @natlibscot.bsky.social
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Second Land Utilisation Survey, Great Britain, 1958-1974 - Map Images - National Library of Scotland
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November 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Volunteers marked thousands of paper maps in the 1960s as part of the Second Land Utilisation Survey led by Prof Alice Coleman.
The Office for National Statistics preserved and scanned the maps which are now viewable online via @natlibscot.bsky.social
🔎 maps.nls.uk/series/secon...
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The Office for National Statistics preserved and scanned the maps which are now viewable online via @natlibscot.bsky.social
🔎 maps.nls.uk/series/secon...
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New analysis of 1960s land use maps, many created by schoolchildren and students, reveals fresh insights on the timing and extent of habitat losses caused by post-war agricultural intensification and urban growth in England and Wales.
www.ceh.ac.uk/press/maps-c...
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#maps #LandUse
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#maps #LandUse
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New analysis of 1960s land use maps, many created by schoolchildren and students, reveals fresh insights on the timing and extent of habitat losses caused by post-war agricultural intensification and urban growth in England and Wales.
www.ceh.ac.uk/press/maps-c...
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#maps #LandUse
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Long-term monitoring tells a story of change. For 80 years scientists have monitored Windermere and nearby lakes in Cumbria, tracking how climate change and pollution are reshaping our freshwater ecosystems.
It’s one of the longest lake datasets anywhere in the world! 🌎
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It’s one of the longest lake datasets anywhere in the world! 🌎
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November 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Long-term monitoring tells a story of change. For 80 years scientists have monitored Windermere and nearby lakes in Cumbria, tracking how climate change and pollution are reshaping our freshwater ecosystems.
It’s one of the longest lake datasets anywhere in the world! 🌎
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It’s one of the longest lake datasets anywhere in the world! 🌎
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We've just added more historic Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland to our website. You can now compare first edition one-inch to the mile maps dating from the 1860s to 1870s with second edition maps published between 1898 and 1902. maps.nls.uk/os/one-inch-...
November 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
We've just added more historic Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland to our website. You can now compare first edition one-inch to the mile maps dating from the 1860s to 1870s with second edition maps published between 1898 and 1902. maps.nls.uk/os/one-inch-...
"I really like it. Being here is interesting, but schoolwork is boring," she said.
Hands-on history resonating with 10-year-old Clodagh
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Hands-on history resonating with 10-year-old Clodagh
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Derrygonnelly : 'Mind-blowing' discovery of 8,000-year-old settlement
A QUB team was hoping to find the ruins of a castle, but they discovered artefacts dating back to the Mesolithic period.
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October 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"I really like it. Being here is interesting, but schoolwork is boring," she said.
Hands-on history resonating with 10-year-old Clodagh
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hands-on history resonating with 10-year-old Clodagh
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Irelands largest stone circle is the Grange Lios embanked stone circle in Lough Gur, County Limerick. It was occupied in the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Early Christian, Medieval, Early Modern and Modern periods. It consists of 113 stone with a diameter of 46 m. #StandingStoneSunday
September 21, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Irelands largest stone circle is the Grange Lios embanked stone circle in Lough Gur, County Limerick. It was occupied in the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Early Christian, Medieval, Early Modern and Modern periods. It consists of 113 stone with a diameter of 46 m. #StandingStoneSunday
#FontsOnFriday - modern (1960) font inside Christ Church, Northcourt, Abingdon. But the church is inside a 13th century Tithe Barn, and the font was carved from stones found on the Northcourt Manor (Northcourt Farm was a grange farm of Abingdon Abbey)
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September 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
#FontsOnFriday - modern (1960) font inside Christ Church, Northcourt, Abingdon. But the church is inside a 13th century Tithe Barn, and the font was carved from stones found on the Northcourt Manor (Northcourt Farm was a grange farm of Abingdon Abbey)
#history #HistoryShorts
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I was delighted to walk along the Randalstown Viaduct for the first time a couple of weeks ago - brimming with butterflies in early September sun 🦋 What a fantastic achievement by the local community!
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September 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I was delighted to walk along the Randalstown Viaduct for the first time a couple of weeks ago - brimming with butterflies in early September sun 🦋 What a fantastic achievement by the local community!
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It's Agatha Christie's birthday! The Queen of Crime was born 135 years ago today.
No better time to virtually meet her statue in Wallingford - there's a seat free beside her!
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#AgathaChristie
No better time to virtually meet her statue in Wallingford - there's a seat free beside her!
youtube.com/shorts/tJvmx...
#AgathaChristie
Is That Agatha Christie on a Bench?
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September 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It's Agatha Christie's birthday! The Queen of Crime was born 135 years ago today.
No better time to virtually meet her statue in Wallingford - there's a seat free beside her!
youtube.com/shorts/tJvmx...
#AgathaChristie
No better time to virtually meet her statue in Wallingford - there's a seat free beside her!
youtube.com/shorts/tJvmx...
#AgathaChristie
I was delighted to walk along the Randalstown Viaduct for the first time a couple of weeks ago - brimming with butterflies in early September sun 🦋 What a fantastic achievement by the local community!
historyshorts.blogspot.com/2025/09/rand...
#history #HistoryShorts
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#history #HistoryShorts
September 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I was delighted to walk along the Randalstown Viaduct for the first time a couple of weeks ago - brimming with butterflies in early September sun 🦋 What a fantastic achievement by the local community!
historyshorts.blogspot.com/2025/09/rand...
#history #HistoryShorts
historyshorts.blogspot.com/2025/09/rand...
#history #HistoryShorts