Brian Edwards
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Historiographer and practicing public historian that is fanatical about rugby union.
about 8 hours ago
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Just go while you can.
about 8 hours ago
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Am on Zoom in an ASAHRG meeting but sleepily read the next presentation as "1,000 ancient gnomes"...
about 13 hours ago
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The Silbury Hill cake, consumed by ASAHRG on the West Kennet Avenue at Avebury in 2014.
about 16 hours ago
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Amy McGrath
1 day ago
The bronze statue of Terry Jones (which I contributed to) has been vandalized... not even a month in place. Sculptor Nick Elphick has surveyed the damage, says it minimal and CCTV cameras are in place, hoping they catch who did it. JFC, people. JFC.
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Beyond belief vandals target brilliant statue of Monty Python star Terry Jones
Sculptor Nick Elphick visited Colwyn Bay to assess the damage to the bronze tribute
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/beyond-belief-vandals-target-brilliant-33980208
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Jammed pack with rocks.
1 day ago
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Around the time his daughter was born, the portrait painter that had painted "The Keepsake" (pictured), Charles Haig-Wood (1856-1927), inherited a fortune, moved to West Hampstead and created an etching of Stonehenge. Why?
2 days ago
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Noticed this refected in the blank TV screen whilst sitting alongside Nina. Who would have thought that appearing on TV can make one appear slimmer.
3 days ago
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Kennet and Avon canal at Devizes in Wiltshire.
3 days ago
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Is it me, or is Rick Wakeman evolving into a body double for David Attenborough?
4 days ago
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Revisited the Wharf on the Kennet and Avon canal today and Old Swan Yard in Devizes in Wiltshire.
@wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social
@devizine.bsky.social
6 days ago
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7 days ago
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Anna Dillon
7 days ago
A hard choice between the Painted Lady (my name sake) and this iconic chalk downland butterfly.
britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk/vote-placed/...
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Being auctioned by Charles Hanson - comedian Eric Morecambe's pike was based on a well-known illustration by the late Wiltshire based angling writer and artist Bernard Venables, which can be found in the pages of the tremendously popular Mr Crabrtree goes fishing (1949).
7 days ago
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Thomas Leeson Scrase Rowbotham 1782-1853, āStonehenge Looking Westā, 1834, watercolour and pencil, 41.5 x61.5 cm.
7 days ago
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9 days ago
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Devizes Jubilee Morris performing at the British Lion last night - spectacular entertainment.
10 days ago
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It's called science.
#CerneAbbasGiant
11 days ago
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More wandering in Devizes, Wiltshire.
12 days ago
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A quarter of a century is too short a time to let go of proofs right?
12 days ago
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13 days ago
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Andy Brockman
14 days ago
To put this news in context the Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft was redeveloped with lottery money barely a decade ago and has been shortlisted for Museum of the Year.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Above - the Knife Angel sculpture touring Britain to highlight knife crime, and below what is on sale on at least two separately positioned stands in a local Morrisons supermarket - something is very wrong surely.
16 days ago
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Bank Holiday weekends are like...
18 days ago
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18 days ago
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Come along tomorrow night - I am giving a talk about Wiltshire's chalk horses as part of the Broad Town White Horse project presentation - 7.30 pm Broad Town Village Hall, Tuesday 5th May.
19 days ago
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The Bookery, Crediton
19 days ago
This Thursday
@jonwoolcott.bsky.social
will be at The Bookery discussing The Tattooed Hills: Journeys to Chalk Figures, a captivating blend of travel writing & cultural history, in conversation with
@ysella.bsky.social
. Tickets £5:
thebookery.org.uk/event/jon-wo...
@quartobooksuk.bsky.social
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And something I worked on earlier- the fabulous Hawthorn & Hare Morris.
20 days ago
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Sketching around Devizes today.
20 days ago
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Sketching the Bobby Van in Devizes and people enjoying the sun on their doorstep with their lovely dog Nellie.
22 days ago
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Perhaps the Blick Mead project and the Amesbury History Centre and Amesbury Town Council might care to explain how one of these mighty beasts left marks so relatively small, shallow and close together it resembled a pattern expected from cattle?
www.andoveradvertiser.co.uk/news/2605958...
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Unique bench based on extinct animal to be unveiled for town
A local artist has crafted an aurochs-bench.
https://www.andoveradvertiser.co.uk/news/26059581.steel-sculptor-crafts-historic-animal-bench-amesbury/
24 days ago
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1948 Wiltshire's identity - dressing as Moonrakers to attend a Swindon match.
24 days ago
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1948, the brilliant artist educator Edward S. Billing, Avebury henge. Reminiscent of Ladybird illustrations.
24 days ago
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1948 The water tower atop Marlborough Mound, detail from a drawing by Bryan de Grineau.
24 days ago
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From my talk about the history of Wiltshire's chalk horses at Broad Town vilkage hall 7.30 pm on 5th May - 18th century short sword belonginb to a Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London, Royal Crown on both sides and the shell guard embellished with the White Horse of Hanover, blade length 74.5 cm.
24 days ago
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Devizes field sketch and work in progress.
25 days ago
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Silbury Hill and approaching storm photo by Ian Sims.
26 days ago
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When I am sketching the windows of the Black Swan in Devizes Market Place. Completed sketch below.
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26 days ago
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Rhys Bliszko architect and builder of the Stonehenge Inn Stonehenge.
28 days ago
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B&W Thornton of Stratford-upon-Avon
29 days ago
Moorcroft Pottery 165/7 Stonehenge Vase Vicky Lovatt
#Moorcroft
#Pottery
#Stonehenge
#Vase
www.bwthornton.co.uk/Moorcroft-La...
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More Devizes Market doodles.
28 days ago
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@martynjb.bsky.social
posted by Moulding the builders - our team were invited by @englishheritage to mark 100 years of Mouldingās association with Stonehenge that began in the 1920s, building the original cafĆ© and guest houses - a relationship that continues today with ongoing maintenance.
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
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www.uhi.ac.uk/en/archaeolo...
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Research projects - Prehistoric Policies
https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/archaeology-institute/our-research/research-projects/prehistoric-policies-/
about 1 month ago
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The Red Devils landing on Marlborough Common to deliver the match ball to Marlborough RFC today.
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about 1 month ago
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Just came across all the memory sticks from Blick Mead - every find tray, trenches and more 2011-2019.
about 1 month ago
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Dedicated Stonehenge research - required to watch an episode of Ch4 First Dates to discover a woman stating that she and her sister attended Winter Solstice and licked the stones... Got to be a first. Watching First Dates that is.
about 1 month ago
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Wiltshire Museum
about 1 month ago
Wiltshire Museum puts Devizes at the centre of new tourist itinerary linking Stonehenge and Avebury. Launched on World Heritage Day.
www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...
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https://www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-articles/wiltshire-museum-puts-devizes-at-the-centre-of-new-tourist-itinerary-linking-stonehenge-and-avebury/
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Devizine
about 1 month ago
Experiencing Devizes Ways on Market Days; a Special Case for a Town of CultureĀ 2028 Sketches and Written by Brian Edwards If not too distracted when bumping into townsfolk and village friends, you might remember to get more of a cheese you liked or that essential part for the vacuum cleaner.....ā¦
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Experiencing Devizes Ways on Market Days; a Special Case for a Town of CultureĀ 2028
Sketches and Written by Brian Edwards If not too distracted when bumping into townsfolk and village friends, you might remember to get more of a cheese you liked or that essential part for the vacuum cleaner..... As regular readers of Devizine will know, one of the understated pleasures of Devizes is having a wander around on market days. From the listed buildings to the independent shops, our market day wanderings are significantly enhanced by the character of the townās historic environment, and an enduring community spirit enriches the charming thoroughfares and myriad of routeways to and from the Market Place.
http://devizine.com/2026/04/16/experiencing-devizes-ways-on-market-days-a-special-case-for-a-town-of-culture-2028/
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My article about experiencing market days in Devizes and the town's bid to be the Town of Culture in 2028.
devizine.com/2026/04/16/e...
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Experiencing Devizes Ways on Market Days; a Special Case for a Town of Culture 2028
Sketches and Written by Brian Edwards If not too distracted when bumping into townsfolk and village friends, you might remember to get more of a cheese you liked or that essential part for the vacuā¦
https://devizine.com/2026/04/16/experiencing-devizes-ways-on-market-days-a-special-case-for-a-town-of-culture-2028/?fbclid=Iwb21leAROsEVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR5R7DdyT596ZTNkE5LChFDmpqrGowJ364YSQ42gxN0UVBxU9io6tXRHy5V-8A_aem_8ztRNg2NTOAN2aQahHlRvQ
about 1 month ago
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