#AdoorableThursday Santa María Magdalena, Zamora

#AdoorableThursday 🚪 📍Monmouth #Wales #History

#OTD 1839 • The Chartist Uprising at Newport 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Reports suggest that some seven or eight thousand men marched on the Westgate Hotel. It is thought that around 50 were injured and some 22 of the Chartists were killed. www.peoplescollection.wales/content/newp... #Wales ##History

'Remember, remember the 5th of November!' 🔥 These are thought to be the earliest photographs of a bonfire. These photographs were taken in 1853 by John Dillwyn Llewelyn at Penllergare in Swansea 📷 museum.wales/articles/972... #Wales #BonfireNight #History

'Remember, remember the 5th of November!' 🔥 These are thought to be the earliest photographs of a bonfire. These photographs were taken in 1853 by John Dillwyn Llewelyn at Penllergare in Swansea 📷 museum.wales/articles/972... #Wales #BonfireNight #History

Our 'Outside the Asylum' display is situated outside the museum's entrance doors. You can find out about some of the people who were admitted to the asylum, and view artefacts once hidden in our collection which help to build a picture of their lives as patients. #HistPsych

Mr Edward Winkle was first admitted to the Powick Asylum on 12 January 1894. His case notes give his occupation as Teacher of Music, and the cause of his malady was said to be ‘Over anxiety & worry, Rheumatic Gout’. Cathy has researched his history. medicalmuseum.org.uk/outside-the-...

Thank you to Sandra who has been looking into the Baldwyn family and those who were admitted to the asylum. Her first write-up is about George Baldwyn. The Baldwyns were a musical family, and friends of Edward Elgar. George's father was an organ builder. medicalmuseum.org.uk/outside-the-...

Another member of the Baldwyn family, Edgar was admitted to the asylum. Edgar was brother to Charles Baldwyn, a well-known artist at the Royal Worcester Porcelain Works. Edgar was from a very creative and musical family, known to Edward Elgar. medicalmuseum.org.uk/outside-the-...

#OTD 1839 • The Chartist Uprising at Newport 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Reports suggest that some seven or eight thousand men marched on the Westgate Hotel. It is thought that around 50 were injured and some 22 of the Chartists were killed. www.peoplescollection.wales/content/newp... #Wales ##History

The first scientific evidence corroborating the medieval presence of the "Black Death" in Edinburgh has been identified in DNA present in the plaque on the teeth of a skeleton unearthed during archaeological excavations under St Giles Cathedral in 1981. Story here 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#MementoMoriMonday 💀 📍St Illtyd's Church • Llantrithyd ⛪ #Wales #History

First scientific evidence of Black Death in Edinburgh found on skeleton

#MementoMoriMonday 💀 📍St Illtyd's Church • Llantrithyd ⛪ #Wales #History

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Every workhouse had a casual ward, a ward for vagrants. I could spent an age explaining settlement law to you, but it's quite dull so, tl;dr you were entitled to workhouse relief in the town where you had settlement, usually the town where you were born. No settlement? You're a vagrant.

In Jan 1875, a young servant asked for and was given a Friday night off. She went home to see her boyfriend, who had five days leave, and he said... you should have more time off. Harriet, the servant, agreed. She wrote to her employer and said "I will be back on Monday"

I walked into the pub and saw my writing framed above the fireplace 🔥 I'm finally famous!

#AllSoulsDay 🕯️ People went about 'begging bread' on All Souls' Day. This was the tradition of begging for bread for the souls of their departed relatives and friends. The bread bestowed upon them was called 'Bara Ran' or 'Dole Bread' 🍞 www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news... #Wales #History

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Imagine being in an orphanage and people pick a mouse instead of you.

Went to Laugharne castle yesterday and I walked in, predictably wearing my favourite Rhaglan castle hoodie, and the people working in the giftshop immediately started ripping into me for having the nerve to walk in wearing another castle's hoodie lol

#Halloween 🎃 If someone runs three times around a church at midnight and then looks through the keyhole of the door, they will see the apparitions of those who are soon to die 💀 📷 Capel y Ffin #Wales #History

#Halloween 🎃 The Yew was regarded as the gentle guardian of the dead 💀 It was formerly revered so much in Wales that to cut it down was considered an act of desecration, while to burn any part of it was looked upon as sacrilege 🔥 #Wales #History

Nos Calan Gaeaf • A Welsh Halloween 💀 "All those who had been drowned in the sea came up to ride over the waves on white horses, and held remarkable revels." hellohistoria.blogspot.com/2016/10/nos-... #Wales #History #Halloween

#Halloween 🎃 In many churchyards, there were coffin-stiles where coffins were placed before being taken into the churchyard ⚰️ It was believed that Death would wait on his horse for three nights before claiming the life of any person 💀 📷 Llanfrynach Church #Wales #History

A snippet of folklore for #Halloween 🎃 If you sit on a church porch at midnight on Halloween, you will see a procession of all the people who are destined to die in the parish during the next year 💀 #Wales #History

A snippet of folklore for #Halloween 🎃 If you sit on a church porch at midnight on Halloween, you will see a procession of all the people who are destined to die in the parish during the next year 💀 #Wales #History

#31daysofgraves • Memento Mori 💀 The memorial brass to Robert & Elizabeth Lloyd 🪦 📍St Dyfnog's Church • Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch ⛪ #Wales #History

Next Tuesday is my 39th birthday and 134 years since Ellen Birch, 29, 'Herculean Lady Boxer', was certified insane. She was committed to Sedgefield Asylum and died seven weeks later. I've more questions than answers. But I think she should be remembered: grapplingwithhistory.com/2025/10/28/l...

"You fight your way and I will fight mine." - Hezekiah Moscow Season II of #AThousandBlows teaser trailer just hit 👊🏾👊🏻🥊 32 seconds in - quick glimpse of something VERY exciting (for me and my research anyway, hah)! Coming January 9th: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohz9...

Fantastic list of attractions at a Wakefield fete in 1894. Go for the lemon and sheep cutting, stay for the old ladies and fish.

Seconds out! Round one! THE DEVIL'S DANCE FLOOR This isn't an official announcement from Duckworth. It's a page from my agent's newsletter and book fair rights catalogue, which is public. So, a tiny-text soft launch? Details subject to change. A lot of thank yous and less Disney, to come. 🐻🥊👊🏾👊🏻🦁🍺

Is it a monster? Or a badger with a hangover? Either way, this little creature was carved into stone at All Saints’ Church, Gresford. The church was mentioned in the Domesday book, but was almost wholly rebuilt in the 15th century 📸RCAHMW, October 2009 zurl.co/GDrhc #EYAMonsters #rcahmw #coflein

#OTD in 1859, a #storm tore through Cwm-yr-Eglwys, destroying St Brynach’s Church & sweeping ships ashore. Only the west wall & bellcote remain — echoes of medieval #Pembrokeshire. Explore its 3D model: zurl.co/BlBGB & archive: zurl.co/04YrY

Also #OTD 25 October 1859, in the worst ‘storm of the 19th century, the Royal Charter (NPRN 426), famous emigrant Australian GoldRush ships, dashed to pieces on the rocks off Anglesey, with some 450 lives lost –including all the women and child aboard. zurl.co/5hogt

Nos Calan Gaeaf • A Welsh Halloween 💀 "All those who had been drowned in the sea came up to ride over the waves on white horses, and held remarkable revels." hellohistoria.blogspot.com/2016/10/nos-... #Wales #History

There's a magnet of a chicken on the fridge. I'm trying to convince my niece it's a baby photo of my brother, and that he was a chicken when he was born and grew out of it.

#31daysofgraves • Colour 🎨 Traces of paint on a headstone at Capel-y-Ffin ⛪ #Wales #History

The spookiest words of them all 🎃

These terrifying bats are looking forward to #Halloween 🦇🦇🦇😱 Bodl. Library MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

The spookiest words of them all 🎃

#31daysofgraves • Occupation 🪦 ‘John Lewis of this Town, late Bathing Man, who died on the 28th Day of December, 1851, aged 69 years’ 📍St Michael's Church • Aberystwyth ⛪️ coflein.gov.uk/en/archive/6... #Wales #History

#31daysofgraves • Column 🪦 📍Oystermouth Cemetery 🪦 #Wales #History

PSA 📢 A lot of my research is centred around death, psychiatry, and mental health history. Please be aware that some of my posts may be upsetting or uncomfortable to read. Please keep this in mind when reading my posts ✨️

Do you ever feel in over your head about eels? Well...sometimes it's the eels that are over your head! The Long Room at the Customs House at the Exeter Quay features a ceiling plaster decoration made by John Abbot in c.1680. And what is lurking among the leave? Yup: eels! 1/2 🗃️🧪

In the morning twenty years later Snowdon took this.

Glamorgan History Society Autumn Day The Glamorgan History Society will be holding it’s annual Autumn Day in Bridgend on Saturday 8 November. This year, in celebration of the Society’s 75th anniversary, the theme is ‘Writing the History of Glamorgan’.

On the mountainside above the village of Aberfan, a large cross was laid out. It was made up of hundreds of wreaths from around the world. #Wales #History

27th October 1966 🥀 Families gathered at Aberfan Cemetery for the mass funeral of victims of the Aberfan Disaster. #Wales #History