Discover Devon's @unesco.org designated heritage on a Discovery Day 🔎 ✦ 13 October: Free tour exploring rare items in our new Treasures Exhibition ✦ 23 October: Free workshop on why The Exeter Book is so special Tickets: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/whats-on/ Hosted by The Devonshire Association

See this? Post a bridge.

Heritage Open Day visit to chapel of old Exminster Asylum (now Exeter Pre-Prep School). Built 1875 of Heavitree sandstone with Bath stone dressings. Cruciform plan with bellcote over the crossing. Designed by Exeter architect Joseph Neale. Good carved details including reredos, capitals and pulpit

Here's how the real two-tier Britain works: 1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off. 2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵

Work of the Week! Bedruthan Steps by Robert Borlase Smart He described himself as an “oil painter of seascapes, watercolourist and etcher of architectural subjects” and worked for a time as artist and art critic for the Western Morning News.

🌟Fellows of the RHistS were emailed yesterday regarding this year's elections to the Society's Council. I am one of this year's candidates, and hope if you are a Fellow you'll consider voting for me. I'm particularly concerned with issues of EDI within the historical profession.🌟 #skystorians

Extraordinary sculpture by Jyll Bradley. Centrepiece of exhibition at The Box, Plymouth. As you circle the blues and violets remain in front of you while the warmer tones are furthest away caused by the different refractive index of the materials. Think rainbows or prisms. Photo doesn’t do it credit

Evening primrose, bird’s foot trefoil, purple loosestrife and meadowsweet All at Dawlish Warren Tuesday 8 - 9am #WildflowerHour #Devon @warrenbirding.bsky.social

🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

A rare medieval manuscript is bringing the sound of monks back to Buckland Abbey for the first time in 500 years. A 15th-century book that once belonged to Buckland Abbey to come home for the first time since 1539, thanks to a British Library loan.

We’ve partnered with the University of Exeter Cathedral Choir to bring the voices of the long-lost monks back to life. The music will be part of the soundtrack to a new exhibition at the abbey, and will be performed live in the abbey’s medieval Great Barn in August.

Oh my! Gotta laugh. She’d have still been a Tory MP if she hadn’t had a Reform candidate standing against her who split her vote.

MWF Quote of the Month - July 2025 This months quote is a powerful reminder of the importance of supporting other women. True progress is built when women stand together and lift each other up.

Old Man’s Beard ( clematis vitalba) #WildflowerHour #Devon

At our AGM last month, we awarded our Outstanding Individual Contribution Awards to Dr Julia Neville and Dr Hugh Pihlens! Hear from Dr Julia Neville about her work in the study of Devon local history: ow.ly/BhgS50W4BcP #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

Swallow babies waiting for their next feed.

Mazawattee Tea ‘the cup that cheers but does not inebriate. The advertising tapped in to the late-Victorian and Edwardian temperance movement.

Congratulations to new Fellow Julia Neville in Devon. I know how much work you have devoted to history over the past few years!

POST FROM TAVISTOCK POLICE ON FACEBOOK Police are investigating a report of theft of a lectern from St Paul's Church in Yelverton on the evening of Monday 12th May. Please share this appeal far and wide. www.facebook.com/share/1aNbTg...

Island of Strangers - by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

Paternoster House, Exeter is being converted to apartments. Once home to Exeter’s first department store. Purpose built in 1880 for Brock’s furniture, furnishings, stationery, and books emporium. Removal of modern fascias has exposed the original rather lovely signage. Love it when that happens.

Reposting this for #WorldDownSyndromeDay

Hello Bluesky - it's good to be here! Do follow us if you're interested in vernacular architecture and buildings archaeology.

Snowdrops in the rain. Huccaby, Dartmoor.

You may not know this, but approximately 100 years worth of parish register images for Plymouth & West Devon are not yet available online through Find My Past, but are in The Box, Plymouth Archives. Need something checked? Email me at [email protected] for a quote.

Typo alert That should be 1909.

Fantastic evening yesterday with Lee Rawlings (@montagfire.bsky.social ) performing a dramatic reading of EM Forster’s short story The Machine Stops. Incredible story for our time but written in 1905. Prescient and quite scary.

👀 Chester Cathedral, #Chester Detail from the great West Window by W T Carter Shapland - 1961 Carter Shapland came from a #Devon farming family, but trained with Wippell of #Exeter The shrine of St Werburga was in the former abbey, now cathedral @chestercathedral.bsky.social #StainedGlassSunday

Detail from a window by his daughter Veronica Whall at St Mary’s, Berry Pomeroy. #StainedGlassSunday

How lovely is this? #Exeter #charity #roomhire

If you have any interest in queer histories of the English countryside, be sure to check out the first publication of my PhD - an article for the amazing folks over at The MERL:

National Trust bookshop came up trumps again. Reading material to accompany refreshments in the cafe. @nationaltrust.bsky.social #Killerton

Spent a warm winters day exploring the newly created Lower Otter Restoration Project. Has great potential to provide more habitat for birds along the East Devon Coast

The Snark moored up at Exeter Canal Basin.

NEWS: C20 is leading efforts to save Bath Fire Station from proposed demolition. The 1930s classical Art Deco building was a rare pre-war project by a female architect, and went on to play a crucial role in protecting the city during the Baedeker Blitz of 1942. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/c20-lea...

I found this so moving. An effigy which appears to depict a child with Downs Syndrome. One of the 11 children of Edward Seymour and his wife Elizabeth Champernowne on their memorial. No name for this child sadly and referred to as [shudders] “imbecile child”. St Mary the Virgin, Berry Pomeroy 1/3

Join me on 1 February in Exeter where I will be giving a talk about #exeter during #ww1 at the Exeter History Book Festival @devonhist.bsky.social @penandswordbooks.bsky.social www.devonhistorysociety.org.uk/event/exeter...

Today’s #househistory feature in Bricks & Mortar in The Times 😀 A Devonshire house formerly home to the niece of Anthony Trollope plus a pilot who flew the King of Belgium over the fighting trenches in November 1918!! #househistories #history

#mydayinfourpictures 1 Dawn 2 Article writing 3 Afternoon walk 4 Churchyard recording How did your day go?

Family history research. Do you want to know who your ancestors were, where they originated and what they did? I am an experienced genealogist and history researcher with over 25 years under my belt. Check out my website www.dwresearchservices.co.uk. We may even find a skeleton in the cupboard 😃👀

A tale of two headlines based on the same press release. The reality, of course, is that the National Trust’s nature restoration efforts will bolster good farming, by “improving the health of enough soil to provide habitat for 1 billion earthworms.”

"Time: Sound and Light Show" at Exeter Cathedral this evening. Superb #Exeter #Devon

Adoration of the Magi from the west window of All Saints, Kenton for Epiphany.

Devon council urged to halt demolition of historic mill buildings 'Heritage groups call on Teignbridge council to convert buildings in Newton Abbot rather than raze them' www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Dawlish, Christmas Eve, felt like 16 degrees. Not too shabby, eh?

Fabulous evening at All Saints for this evening’s performance of A Christmas Carol with Lee Rawlings ( @Montagfire ) and The Gallery Singers. Great fun with plenty of very creative use of props. A triumph! All in aid of Devon Air Ambulance.

We've had some fun with a client's family history this week. One brick wall down. It took some doing, but we got there. It put a smile on our faces. Documents don't always survive - destruction or damage through flood, fire, insects, or war. But sometimes we get lucky with some lateral thinking.

Behold! A giant cake model of Newton Abbot station. Baked in 1926 to celebrate the station opening, and used for a “guess the weight” competition, according to the “Tuesday Treasures” blog of the Great Western Society. The cake architecture is probably more refined than the actual building...

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