@lavenderlargs.bsky.social
Love history,gardening, genealogy, travel and languages
am enthusiastic amateur costume maker....endlessly fascinated by everything but excel at nothing 🤣
am enthusiastic amateur costume maker....endlessly fascinated by everything but excel at nothing 🤣
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Looking forward to talking DNA & Irish ancestors!
📸 A snapshot of the people and activities shaping our programme at the Society of Genealogists!
Talks, visits, book club & more — always something to inspire family historians. 🍂
👉 Explore what’s coming up: portal.sog.org.uk/ev...
Talks, visits, book club & more — always something to inspire family historians. 🍂
👉 Explore what’s coming up: portal.sog.org.uk/ev...
September 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Looking forward to talking DNA & Irish ancestors!
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This is another podcast I caught up with this week.
Ruth’s episode is amazing. I urge you to listen to discover exactly what SOG events have to offer. Such good value for money, I guarantee there will be something of interest to anyone researching family history.
Ruth’s episode is amazing. I urge you to listen to discover exactly what SOG events have to offer. Such good value for money, I guarantee there will be something of interest to anyone researching family history.
🎙️ Our amazing Ruth Willmore, Events & Education Manager here at the Society of Genealogists, shares her genealogy journey (sparked by a childhood book + a 200-year-old mourning ring!) on the @genealogyguy.co.uk Podcast.
Listen here 👉
Listen here 👉
Ruth Wilmore, Events and Education Manager at the Society of Genealogists (SOG),. | Armchair Genealogy - Family Tree & History | Episode 23
Ruth Wilmore, Events and Education Manager at the Society of Genealogists (SOG), shares her genealogy journey, with the Genealogy Guy, sparked by a childhood book and a 200-year-old mourning ring. And discusses the great work going on at Society of Genealogists.
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September 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This is another podcast I caught up with this week.
Ruth’s episode is amazing. I urge you to listen to discover exactly what SOG events have to offer. Such good value for money, I guarantee there will be something of interest to anyone researching family history.
Ruth’s episode is amazing. I urge you to listen to discover exactly what SOG events have to offer. Such good value for money, I guarantee there will be something of interest to anyone researching family history.
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Worn #onthisday in 1831 by Queen Adelaide at her coronation in Westminster Abbey in London. Jewellers Rundell, Bridge & Rundel of London created the silver crown set with diamonds, gemstones, and pearls from Adelaide's own collection, visible in John Simpson's portrait. #OTD 📷 Royal Collection Trust
September 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Worn #onthisday in 1831 by Queen Adelaide at her coronation in Westminster Abbey in London. Jewellers Rundell, Bridge & Rundel of London created the silver crown set with diamonds, gemstones, and pearls from Adelaide's own collection, visible in John Simpson's portrait. #OTD 📷 Royal Collection Trust
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*drumroll* 🥁
We have just reached 20,000 followers on Bluesky! 🎉
Huge thanks to everyone who follows us, likes, replies, and engages with us on here. ❤️👏
We have just reached 20,000 followers on Bluesky! 🎉
Huge thanks to everyone who follows us, likes, replies, and engages with us on here. ❤️👏
September 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
*drumroll* 🥁
We have just reached 20,000 followers on Bluesky! 🎉
Huge thanks to everyone who follows us, likes, replies, and engages with us on here. ❤️👏
We have just reached 20,000 followers on Bluesky! 🎉
Huge thanks to everyone who follows us, likes, replies, and engages with us on here. ❤️👏
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I spent a long time thinking about #1840s fashion when I was writing The Dress Diary & I miss it! It is a transitional decade but the fabric techniques were amazing. This is a warp printed silk creating blurry florals bordered by silk fringe @jbrightcollection.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
September 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I spent a long time thinking about #1840s fashion when I was writing The Dress Diary & I miss it! It is a transitional decade but the fabric techniques were amazing. This is a warp printed silk creating blurry florals bordered by silk fringe @jbrightcollection.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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There's flowering and just plain showing off. 🌱 #bloomscrolling #gardens
September 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
There's flowering and just plain showing off. 🌱 #bloomscrolling #gardens
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This fab black and white mosaic is at the entrance to the House of Marcus Caesius Blandus. I love how its marine theme - with its dolphins, hippocampus, trident and rudder- and the crenellated city wall at the top, hint at life in #Pompeii overlooking the Bay of Naples 😍 #archaeology #MosaicMonday
September 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
This fab black and white mosaic is at the entrance to the House of Marcus Caesius Blandus. I love how its marine theme - with its dolphins, hippocampus, trident and rudder- and the crenellated city wall at the top, hint at life in #Pompeii overlooking the Bay of Naples 😍 #archaeology #MosaicMonday
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It's a beetle mosaic and you should thank us for it.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
September 8, 2025 at 7:11 AM
It's a beetle mosaic and you should thank us for it.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
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Part of the ‘Knot Mosaic’ from Fishbourne Roman Palace in East Sussex. The polychrome mosaic dates the the third century AD. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #Fishbourne
September 8, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Part of the ‘Knot Mosaic’ from Fishbourne Roman Palace in East Sussex. The polychrome mosaic dates the the third century AD. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #Fishbourne
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Don't diss this fish*
(*mammal actually)
A Dolphin with Attitude (and a large trident) 🐬🔱
Detail from a late 2nd century AD #Roman mosaic excavated by John Turtle Wood in the Sanctuary of Artemis #Ephesus in 1872
© The Trustees of the British Museum 1872,0803.72
#MosaicMonday #GrumpyDolphin
(*mammal actually)
A Dolphin with Attitude (and a large trident) 🐬🔱
Detail from a late 2nd century AD #Roman mosaic excavated by John Turtle Wood in the Sanctuary of Artemis #Ephesus in 1872
© The Trustees of the British Museum 1872,0803.72
#MosaicMonday #GrumpyDolphin
September 8, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Don't diss this fish*
(*mammal actually)
A Dolphin with Attitude (and a large trident) 🐬🔱
Detail from a late 2nd century AD #Roman mosaic excavated by John Turtle Wood in the Sanctuary of Artemis #Ephesus in 1872
© The Trustees of the British Museum 1872,0803.72
#MosaicMonday #GrumpyDolphin
(*mammal actually)
A Dolphin with Attitude (and a large trident) 🐬🔱
Detail from a late 2nd century AD #Roman mosaic excavated by John Turtle Wood in the Sanctuary of Artemis #Ephesus in 1872
© The Trustees of the British Museum 1872,0803.72
#MosaicMonday #GrumpyDolphin
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8 Sept: Nativity of the Blessed Virgin #otd
Birth of the Virgin c. 1635 (Pinacoteca Malaspina, Pavia) By Orsola Maddalena Caccia [born Theodora], c. 1635 an artist and Ursuline nun who ran a studio that supported an Ursuline convent at Moncalvo, where she was abbess.
Birth of the Virgin c. 1635 (Pinacoteca Malaspina, Pavia) By Orsola Maddalena Caccia [born Theodora], c. 1635 an artist and Ursuline nun who ran a studio that supported an Ursuline convent at Moncalvo, where she was abbess.
September 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
8 Sept: Nativity of the Blessed Virgin #otd
Birth of the Virgin c. 1635 (Pinacoteca Malaspina, Pavia) By Orsola Maddalena Caccia [born Theodora], c. 1635 an artist and Ursuline nun who ran a studio that supported an Ursuline convent at Moncalvo, where she was abbess.
Birth of the Virgin c. 1635 (Pinacoteca Malaspina, Pavia) By Orsola Maddalena Caccia [born Theodora], c. 1635 an artist and Ursuline nun who ran a studio that supported an Ursuline convent at Moncalvo, where she was abbess.
Crocosima and everlasting pea
September 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Crocosima and everlasting pea
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Today’s favourite rose - Munstead Wood - who has been poor this year, the weather hasn’t suited it, but each bloom is precious #roses #myroses #mygarden #gardening
September 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Today’s favourite rose - Munstead Wood - who has been poor this year, the weather hasn’t suited it, but each bloom is precious #roses #myroses #mygarden #gardening
Finally - trimmed lavender and still 2 swallows on the wire - there was a third but it flew off
September 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Finally - trimmed lavender and still 2 swallows on the wire - there was a third but it flew off
Now it's haymaking!
August 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Now it's haymaking!
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Explore more fibulae in Antiquity, with this recently discovered Aucissa-type fibula from the 1st century AD #Roman port of Berenike, Egypt.
Popular in the army, was this a soldier's reminder of home or a keepsake from a posting elsewhere?
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Popular in the army, was this a soldier's reminder of home or a keepsake from a posting elsewhere?
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
August 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Explore more fibulae in Antiquity, with this recently discovered Aucissa-type fibula from the 1st century AD #Roman port of Berenike, Egypt.
Popular in the army, was this a soldier's reminder of home or a keepsake from a posting elsewhere?
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Popular in the army, was this a soldier's reminder of home or a keepsake from a posting elsewhere?
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
The swallows are gathering.....
August 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The swallows are gathering.....
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For #EpigraphyTuesday a Trier black slipped ware motto beaker bearing the Latin inscription: PARCE AQVAM ADIC MERVM - save the water, pour unmixed #wine!
Trier motto beakers are frequently decorated with toasts to life and wine.
From Trier, dating around 300 AD.
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
Trier motto beakers are frequently decorated with toasts to life and wine.
From Trier, dating around 300 AD.
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
August 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
For #EpigraphyTuesday a Trier black slipped ware motto beaker bearing the Latin inscription: PARCE AQVAM ADIC MERVM - save the water, pour unmixed #wine!
Trier motto beakers are frequently decorated with toasts to life and wine.
From Trier, dating around 300 AD.
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
Trier motto beakers are frequently decorated with toasts to life and wine.
From Trier, dating around 300 AD.
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
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Roman floor tile with a sketch of a lighthouse (or space rocket? 🚀😉)
The sketch was scratched into the wet clay before firing.
Two Roman lighthouses flanked the harbour at Dover, the main base of the Roman fleet ‘Classis Britannica’.
British Museum 📷 by me
#TilesonTuesday
#Archaeology
The sketch was scratched into the wet clay before firing.
Two Roman lighthouses flanked the harbour at Dover, the main base of the Roman fleet ‘Classis Britannica’.
British Museum 📷 by me
#TilesonTuesday
#Archaeology
August 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Roman floor tile with a sketch of a lighthouse (or space rocket? 🚀😉)
The sketch was scratched into the wet clay before firing.
Two Roman lighthouses flanked the harbour at Dover, the main base of the Roman fleet ‘Classis Britannica’.
British Museum 📷 by me
#TilesonTuesday
#Archaeology
The sketch was scratched into the wet clay before firing.
Two Roman lighthouses flanked the harbour at Dover, the main base of the Roman fleet ‘Classis Britannica’.
British Museum 📷 by me
#TilesonTuesday
#Archaeology
Isle of Bute from Largs...last night's sunset
August 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Isle of Bute from Largs...last night's sunset
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It's a hot 🔥one for #HillfortsWednesday
Ongoing excavations of conjoined roundhouses within Buckspool coastal promontory fort (📷 Monday) continue to produce a wide range of Roman finds 😮🤔
Dig by @henebtwa.bsky.social for @richardosgood.bsky.social & #OpNightingale
📷 (C) @rcahmwales.bsky.social
Ongoing excavations of conjoined roundhouses within Buckspool coastal promontory fort (📷 Monday) continue to produce a wide range of Roman finds 😮🤔
Dig by @henebtwa.bsky.social for @richardosgood.bsky.social & #OpNightingale
📷 (C) @rcahmwales.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 5:28 AM
It's a hot 🔥one for #HillfortsWednesday
Ongoing excavations of conjoined roundhouses within Buckspool coastal promontory fort (📷 Monday) continue to produce a wide range of Roman finds 😮🤔
Dig by @henebtwa.bsky.social for @richardosgood.bsky.social & #OpNightingale
📷 (C) @rcahmwales.bsky.social
Ongoing excavations of conjoined roundhouses within Buckspool coastal promontory fort (📷 Monday) continue to produce a wide range of Roman finds 😮🤔
Dig by @henebtwa.bsky.social for @richardosgood.bsky.social & #OpNightingale
📷 (C) @rcahmwales.bsky.social
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Looking west along the southern rampart of Poundbury Camp Iron Age hillfort on the edge of Dorchester. #HillfortsWednesday
August 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Looking west along the southern rampart of Poundbury Camp Iron Age hillfort on the edge of Dorchester. #HillfortsWednesday
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Happy #HillfortsWednesday!
Here's the NW edge of the mighty multivallate Badbury Rings @nationaltrust.org.uk #Dorset
The arrow-straight #Roman road from Dorchester to Old Sarum to the left of the modern track photo
Kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2011
see: archaeokap.hdf.me.uk
Here's the NW edge of the mighty multivallate Badbury Rings @nationaltrust.org.uk #Dorset
The arrow-straight #Roman road from Dorchester to Old Sarum to the left of the modern track photo
Kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2011
see: archaeokap.hdf.me.uk
August 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Happy #HillfortsWednesday!
Here's the NW edge of the mighty multivallate Badbury Rings @nationaltrust.org.uk #Dorset
The arrow-straight #Roman road from Dorchester to Old Sarum to the left of the modern track photo
Kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2011
see: archaeokap.hdf.me.uk
Here's the NW edge of the mighty multivallate Badbury Rings @nationaltrust.org.uk #Dorset
The arrow-straight #Roman road from Dorchester to Old Sarum to the left of the modern track photo
Kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2011
see: archaeokap.hdf.me.uk
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Iron age brooch maker, talking to herself: 'Bendy, bendy, wire here. Twisty, twisty wire there. Now I need a curly bit... annnnnd for the final flourish: stick a ducky on top! Ta dah! Done!' ❤️
#Archaeology 🏺
#Archaeology 🏺
A fibula (decorative pin for fastening garments) decorated with a water bird, dating 5th century BC. Found at the Heidentor near Egesheim.
Water birds frequently appear as ornaments since the Bronze Age. They had a special significance in the perception... 🧵1/2
#archaeology 🏺
Water birds frequently appear as ornaments since the Bronze Age. They had a special significance in the perception... 🧵1/2
#archaeology 🏺
August 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Iron age brooch maker, talking to herself: 'Bendy, bendy, wire here. Twisty, twisty wire there. Now I need a curly bit... annnnnd for the final flourish: stick a ducky on top! Ta dah! Done!' ❤️
#Archaeology 🏺
#Archaeology 🏺
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Bianca degli Utili Maselli, holding a dog and surrounded by six of her children by Lavinia Fontana of Bologna, 1552-1614 (Sotheby’s)
Lavinia died #otd 11 Aug 1614. She had been born on 24 Aug 1552.
Lavinia died #otd 11 Aug 1614. She had been born on 24 Aug 1552.
August 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Bianca degli Utili Maselli, holding a dog and surrounded by six of her children by Lavinia Fontana of Bologna, 1552-1614 (Sotheby’s)
Lavinia died #otd 11 Aug 1614. She had been born on 24 Aug 1552.
Lavinia died #otd 11 Aug 1614. She had been born on 24 Aug 1552.