On 1st Aug 1759 as the 12th Foot (Suffolk Regiment) advanced to the Battle of Minden the soliders plucked red & yellow roses & placed them in their hats🌹
Minden Roses 🏵 are on sale in the Suffolk Regiment #Museum 🏛 shop
The museum is open Wed - Fri 0930-1530🏅
#Suffolk #LestWeForget #history #army
Thank you to Lily for a fascinating talk on the Roman Spoon Bowl Pendant @maacambridge.bsky.social 🛖 @camunivmuseums.bsky.social 🏛
Astonishing the information that can be gleaned from such an object but also the questions it raises 🤔
The #MovingObjects gallery is open now 😊
#heritage #archaeology
It's a respectable 43/50 on Kevs Quizzess #YouTube on '1960's pop classics' 🎙
Shouldn't have missed Little Eva and The Ronettes songs 🎶
Never heard of the Box Tops thou 🤷♂️
Foundations & Shangri-la's never seem to stick Q29 & 14 🤔
Its good for guess the year revision #popmaster
#MusicSky #Music #Quiz
Loverly pm #volunteer @maacambridge.bsky.social 🛖 @camunivmuseums.bsky.social 🏛
The stores move project to move over 300,000 objects from the Shorts Brother site to the Center for Material Culture was a herculean task and is well remembered in our #MovingObjects display 😊
#heritage #museum #history
Its 22/24 on Kev's Quizess #YouTube 'Road Trip music' 🛣
Was expecting a bit more of a challenge 🧠
Does include some of the greatest #80smusic soft rock tunes 🎸 😊
Just couldn't get 'Long Train Running' for a full house 😥
#MusicSky #MusicChallenge #Rock #PowerBallard
Just 11/40 on @philswords.bsky.social Intro's Quiz 'world 2' 🌎
Tough week 😪
Had a guess at a couple of bands on second listen and thought we had the Sex Pistols and Iron Maiden but no 🤷♂️
Pleased I picked the Bond theme thou 😊
#MusicSky #MusicChallenge #QuizTime #popmaster
82 years ago #OTD at 0825 1st Bn Suff Regt (8th Bde 3rd Inf Div) landed on Queen White on Sword Beach as part of #DDay
Visit the Suffolk Regiment Museum 🏛 to see some of the objects they collected as they captured Colville village & Morris & Hillman bunkers🏅
#WW2 #Normandy #Suffolk #LestWeForget
It's 16/40 on @philswords.bsky.social Intro's Quiz 'gemstones' 💎
A second listen👂got me Q6 🙂
Q10 & 12 bands were guesses based on sound and year 🤔
No idea Q9 band had some 'help' for that song 🤷♂️
Pleased I picked Q2 cover version ✔
#MusicSky #MusicChallenge #QuizTime #weekend
My #weekend reading 📚
'The Real Enigma Heros' by Phil Shanahan🏅
The story of the amazing bravery of Fasson, Grazier & Brown during #WW2 and the campaign for their exploits to be properly recognised by the nation🏅
Written by a journalist not a historian 📖
#enigma #Atlantic #BookSky #history #DDay
Fascinating talk 'Eating with the Tudor' by Brigette Webster as part of the Edmunds Lecture Series 🗣
Sumptuary Laws dictating how many dishes per meal depending on income 🤔
Food and nutrition depended on class, wealth, 'health' and also religion 🥘
#Tudors #food #heritage #history #Elizabethan
