Retired museum curator; wide interests- civic history; arms and armour; castles; Scotland; Yorkshire; Armourer and Brasier of London. But my bread and butter is historic cannon. Used to be Basiliscoe...
Ruth Brown
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Can still remember the amazement seeing these in an exhibition in Aberdeen in the 1970s.
Last night I became one of the new patrons of the Wilkie Collins Society. I did my DPhil on him 30 years ago so I would love to know who’s working on him or reading him now - with a view to organising an event. Who’s a fan? (And here’s a link to the Society website.) wilkiecollinssociety.org
'Pioneering photography': early images of Newhaven's fishers - in pictures:
The impressive Grotte de la Salpêtrière Cave is an added bonus for visitors to the nearby Pont du Gard Roman aqueduct.
Excavations since the C19th have yielded extensive evidence for Upper Palaeolithic settlement, with sequences through to the Neolithic.
📷 My own, Sunday
I've just booked a week in one of my favourite cities for the end of this month, not been there for more than a year. Lots of exploring around Aberdeen in prospect! Here's Provost Ross's House on Shiprow.
🧵8 posts Rumours of witchcraft were a recurring feature of British life for centuries, flourishing in close-knit communities where superstition, fear and suspicion of outsiders were commonplace. While large-scale panics such as the famous Pendle witch trials of 1612 captured public
Please start your day, like I did, with this magnificent French Marshal’s uniform from the Battle of Blenheim (1704)
🧵Marmion Tower is a 15th-century gatehouse located next to St Nicholas' church in the picturesque village of West Tanfield. The three-storey stone monument is the only surviving remnant of Tanfield Castle, a fortified manor named after he Marmion family who originally secured a royal "licence to
Publication day! Got some help unboxing my author copies.
Roman Life on Hadrian's Wall is now out in the wild (in bookshops at least).
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We spoke with #AntiquityPrize winners R. Alan Williams and Ben Roberts on their prize-winning research, which found British tin supplied the bronze production of the major Bronze Age civilisations of the Eastern Mediterranean 🏺 #Archaeology
Check out the interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UCM...
Simon Knott
Chris Louttit
Dr Toby Driver
Carolyn Day
History and Heritage Yorkshire
History and Heritage Yorkshire
Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺
Antiquity Journal
When David Hill and Robert Adamson captured the lives of a small Scottish community in the 1840s, were they creating the first ever social documentary series? A fascinating new book makes the case
'Pioneering photography': early images of Newhaven's fishers - in pictures:
When David Hill and Robert Adamson captured the lives of a small Scottish community in the 1840s, were they creating the first ever social documentary series? A fascinating new book makes the case
