@dmuspecialcolls.bsky.socialA little piece of #Leicester history! 💕 Huge thanks to our visitor who kindly donated these lovely items yesterday. From handmade to shop-bought petticoats, hosiery & garments, still with their original packaging & tags. Do you remember Fenwicks?🧵
#fashionhistory #textiles #Localhistory @dmu.ac.uk
@berksfhs.bsky.socialBritish Rail in the 1970s Talk
Thu 15 Oct 2026 14:30-15:45 | Abbey Baptist Church, Abbey Square
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https://berksfhs.org/events/british-rail-in-berkshire-in-the-1970s/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=event-223925 #BerksFHS #Berkshire #BritishRail #LocalHistory #RailwayHistory
@harchivestrust.bsky.socialDid you know that HAT has a blog? Our blog features all things #Hampshire #LocalHistory #Heritage #Archives and we’d love to hear from you!
Have research you’d like to feature? Get in contact using the below details ⬇️
@chertseymuseum.bsky.social#ThrowbackThursday Holloway Sanatorium #VirginiaWater 1905
Thomas Holloway b.1800 made fortune making ointments & pills. & was pioneer of mass advertising. 1871 held competition to build sanatorium won by Crossland, Salomans and Jones & was opened by Edward, Prince of Wales 1885. #TBT #LocalHistory
@localhistoryhub.bsky.socialFree online CPD: Irish Histories, Migration & Belonging
Join Dr Sophie Cooper from the Irish Diaspora Histories Network (IDHN) for a session exploring migration, identity & belonging.
18 Nov | 4–4:45pm | Online | Free
Register: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Gy3zxdT19a
#LocalHistory #TeacherCPD
@daveshootsbooks.bsky.socialWe've sold several copies of this 1976 #book about #politics in #NewBrunswick over the years! $15. #Booksky #ArthurTDoyle #JamesKiddFlemming #Premier #corruption #scandal #LocalHistory #SocialHistory
@museumofrichmond.bsky.socialfashion designers and artists like Vivienne Westwood. (3/3)
#MuseumOfRichmond #RutColl #ThreadsThroughTime #CommunityQuilt #StudentArt #LocalHistory #RichmondUponThames #ContemporaryArt #ArtAndDesign
@wflibraries.bsky.social📜 Here's a picture of a Victorian display at Wakefield Museum, from 2003.
📸 Our Twixt Aire and Calder website is home to over 15,000 photographs of Wakefield District in time gone by!
📎 See this image and more like it here: https://www.twixtaireandcalder.org.uk/
@melkshamhistorical.bsky.socialA little bit of local history #Melksham #Wiltshire #MDHA #ShamShorts #LocalHistory youtube.com/@mdha1962?si...
@rossslandmuseum.bsky.socialRossland’s Mater Misericordiae Hospital (1897)! 🏥
Built by the Sisters of St. Joseph, it grew to include modern surgical wings & Rossland’s 1st elevator, serving until 2004.
📍 1962 Georgia St
🔗 rosslandmuseum.ca/ma...
📷 c. 1960s
@daveshootsbooks.bsky.socialThis 1976 #book about #NewBrunswick #artifacts is #signed by both #authors. #Illustrated with #B&W #photos and #drawings. $25. #Booksky #antiques #tools #gadgets #SocialHistory #LocalHistory
@museumofrichmond.bsky.socialjigsaw ceramic piece to show my idea. Each member of my family has a piece of jigsaw and when it's connected, it makes a complete puzzle. (2/2)
#MuseumOfRichmond #RutColl #ThreadsThroughTime #CommunityQuilt #StudentArt #LocalHistory #RichmondUponThames #ContemporaryArt #ArtAndDesign
@rwldproject.bsky.socialPleased the Hucknall Dispatch features the #Hucknall accident, 100 years ago today, which killed 5 #Mansfield railwaymen.
Uncovered by project research.
#RailwayHistory #LocalHistory #Nottinghamshire
Tragic night on Hucknall railway recalled 100 years on share.google/q3GtJfbwspjT...
@rossslandmuseum.bsky.socialMiners at the Josie Mine (1904)! ⛏️
Because big Rossland mines ran in shifts, full group photos were rare.
Between 1900–1922, Josie produced 9.3M+ grams of gold!
📷 2291.0079
@melkshamhistorical.bsky.socialWhy The Streets Have Their Name! Fullers Close & Chalfield Crescent, Melksham #MDHA #ShamShorts #LocalHistory #AvonTyres #ChalfieldManor #GreatChalfield #Melksham #Wiltshire
@littleportsociety.org.ukA little more Hope comes to Littleport
www.littleportsociety.org.uk/2026/09/21/a... #burberrys #hopebros #littleport #LocalHistory #history
@ticketscene.bsky.socialPrince Edward County Heritage Conservancy presents a tour of Bloomfield's Oldest Quaker Cemetery on Sunday, October 4, 2026.
Get your tickets online - ticketscene.ca/events/65512...
@uhpress.bsky.socialMany wealthy Moseley residents commemorated their family in stained-glass. John Avins left funds to St Mary's and Moseley Baptist churches. The St Mary's window, 'Moses in the Bulrushes', was destroyed in WW2 and only this fragment survives.
For more www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book...
#LocalHistory
@rowena-abbott.bsky.socialLost village alert!
Retew in #Cornwall was demolished for an expansion to the nearby china clay works. Former resident, Mike Ford, has written 'The History of Retew and its People' to keep memories of the village alive.
#LostVillage #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudies
www.bbc.com/news/article...
@fieldstobarrels.comTen sailors deserted the immigrant ship Coromandel in January 1837 and hid six weeks in the hills above Adelaide; the valley still carries the ship's name.