Day job in heritage education & public engagement with #archives + volunteer roles focusing on #history #heritage & #culture inc #SarumChronicle & City Livery. Views my own.
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Made a brief visit to @thelondonarchives.bsky.social today & delighted to encounter a secondary #school visit to the #archives + another school group on the tube alighting at Leicester Square. So great to see animated & excited kids on school outings.
#schooltrips #heritage #culture #education
At a loose end today? Why not head to @heritagewshc.bsky.social for a free talk about the fascinating life & times of John Aubrey - Wiltshire-born writer, antiquarian & scientist
#history #localhistory #Chippenham
Still time to book your place on a journey through the amazing world of Wiltshire-born scientist, writer & antiquarian #JohnAubrey with historian & author @lrylandepton.bsky.social Saturday, 6 June at 2pm.
👉Reserve your place by email - [email protected]
🎟️Tickets £10, payable on the day.
Only on near-London suburban routes - if you think the new electric Arterio rolling stock is an improvement. Not so sure after checking out the train specs. But what of the rest of the non-electrified #SouthWesternRailway network? When will we see investment & improvements?
@theguardian.com
Fascinating. Add this to my check list of things to look out for in our #archive & #map collections @heritagewshc.bsky.social (when I have a spare moment!)
#exploreyourarchives #geography #history #archives
Popped into my #messygarden & chose to look skywards... Beautiful evening with wispy, high cirrus clouds & a partial #circumzenithalarc Along with a crescent moon & soaring seagull!
#clouds #cloudscape #bluesky #stormhour
I am so proud to have co-curated this exhibition for @chippenhammuseum.bsky.social with the incredible @anecdotalksb.bsky.social Discover John Aubrey as you’ve never seen him before!!
Really looking forward to this talk. Reserve your tickets now to hear @lrylandepton.bsky.social Aubrey talk. And then head to @chippenhammuseum.bsky.social from 13 June for the Aubrey exhibition co-curated by Louise, contributing editor @vch-home.bsky.social @wiltshistory.bsky.social
Check out our recent blogs including this from the Moulton #archive which includes notes & sketches by Alex Moulton on Germany's devastating V1 flying bomb known as the doodlebug. The collection also includes an official diagram of the weapon market SECRET.
#WWII
wshc.org.uk/doodling-the...
My #messygarden, a mix of the intended & the accidental...
#wildlifegarden #yellowpeonies #pentaglottis #aquilegia #blueflowers
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Dr Louise Ryland-Epton
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Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre
The personal papers of engineer Alex Moulton reveal he was involved, tangentially at least, with early investigations into the V-1.
Join us 6th June, 2pm when Dr Louise Ryland-Epton @lrylandepton.bsky.social takes us on a journey through the amazing world of Wiltshire-born scientist, writer & antiquarian John Aubrey.
👉Reserve your place by email - [email protected]
🎟️Tickets £10, payable on the day.
#science #history
Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre
Why did place names on a map of Canada matter to geographers in London?
In the 1880s, a new railroad connected eastern Canada to British Columbia. As the railway expanded, Indigenous place names were added to official maps - including this 1886 map - which became a point of contention at the RGS.
Video
A year after nationalisation, is South Western Railway delivering?
The Guardian
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
www.theguardian.com
Rail minister Peter Hendy says fast rollout shows reforms are working as questions over reliability remain
