#LlandudnoGoats #photography #wales #cymru

'She shall be buried by her Antony, / No grave upon the earth shall clip in it / A pair so famous.' 🧾 There are still tickets available for Professor Emma Rees' Weekend Course: Beguiling Shakespeare!

This Ancient Egyptian board game is almost 4,000 years old! Known as ‘Hounds and Jackals’ or ‘Game of 58 holes’, its original name is unknown. It’s suggested it was played in a similar way to ‘Snakes and Ladders’. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

An eighteen year old boy and a seventeen year old girl could not have possibly known what love is but we did and so it remained. #colwynbay #northwales #wales

#HappyHedgehogDay !!! 🦔 Check out this little guy!! A small model of a hedgehog that is about 4,500 years old! from Chalandriani, Syros, Greece. Early Cycladic II period (2800-2300 BCE). National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece. 📷 My own.

A shared heritage - #StBrigidsDay - St. Brigid's Cross & St. Ffraid's Church at #Trearddur Bay #SundayMorning #IrelandWales #Anglesey #HolyIsland #HighCross #YnysMôn #Wales #Cymru #Ireland #Imbolc #Spring @cerysmatthews.bsky.social

The Colwyn Bay Heritage Group invites you to a free Then & Now talk exploring the history of North Wales through place names. Josef will take us through the landscape and languages of North Wales, revealing how the region’s rich history continues to live on in its ancient place names. #northwales

#DailyMegalith #TombTuesday There seems to be a Welsh theme today, so here's my contribution. The rather lovely Bachwen (aka Clynnog) nr #Caernarfon #Gwynedd #Wales (2025) The capstone has 110 cupmarks, and there are fine views out to sea. 🏺 #Neolithic @megalithic.bsky.social

Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘Winter Lane’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt

Discover the history of North Wales through place names with Josef Roberts (Tirlun). Learn how ancient names reveal the stories, language, and landscape of our region. Wednesday 4th February 2026 | 10am Colwyn Bay Library, LL29 7DH Tea & coffee before the meeting Free entry! #colwynbay #northwales

Do you have a 'munitionette' in your family? Discover the lives of the women who endured poisoning, 12-hour shifts and lethal explosions to build Britain's arms in the First World War: www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

In the Second World War the Ministry of Food moved to Colwyn Bay. It was vital to ensure the fair and equal distribution of food. #colwynbay #northwales #wales #WW2 #localhistory

On 17th December 1903, Orville Wright completed the first powered flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft - the Wright Flyer - near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Read more in my book 'The History of Flight' (2004)

The Colwyn Bay newsletters will be published quarterly and if you have any stories to share, local history research or a book that you feel should be featured in or from the local area, do get in touch to be included in future editions. Sign up below: #colwynbay #northwales #wales #localhistory

My blog about my husband’s family. These #Christmas postcards were sent by his grandad from the trenches. #Ww1 #postcards My festive edition can be seen here historicalclues.blogspot.com/2022/12/

Survey of the Coast of North Wales featuring a plan of Beaumaris & the Menai Straits & plan of the entrance to Conwy river, from the Admiralty Survey by Lieut. Charles Gepp Robinson, R.N. 1835 The map features fine inset drawings of the coastal features along the Menai Straits 1835 PENRHOS/6/165

The image in my header is a drawing from a trip to north Wales, where I hiked up to the top of that mountain where Merlin saw the red and white dragons fighting. I fell off the top of said mountain, but not very far (broke my easel, though).

🚨 NORTH WALES TRIALS 🚨 The North Wales trials for Finding Lightning 2025 will be at St Asaph Leisure Centre on Saturday 21 December between 12PM-2PM. Please ensure that the trialists wear appropriate indoor footwear. You can simply turn up on the day.

Some local #Wildlife Photos from recently, all around North #Wales! #Birds #Fungi #Birding #Birdingwales #Birdinguk #UKBirding #UK #Nature #Photo #Photography

An amazing example of upland oakwood/temperate rainforest habitat above ~200m in North Wales. A really surreal place to spend a few hours on a wet and misty day.

#LegendaryWednesday Arawn, lord of the Welsh Otherworld of Annwn, once gave a gift of magical pigs to Pryderi, King of Dyfed. The sorcerer Gwydion used his illusionary magic to steal the animals, sparking a war between Dyfed, in the South of Wales, and Gwynedd in the North.

I’ve created a North Wales Birds 2026 Calendar using my favourite photos from the past year. £10 each includes postage. Message me if you’d like one. Pics from Great Orme, Connah’s Quay, Cilcain, Gronant, Anglesey, Bardsey (cover). A4 & plenty of space to write on 😀. #birdingWales #northwales

🗨️ “Ceramics evolve with us because they arise from human capacities for imitation, social learning, and cumulative memory, which themselves evolved through natural selection,”🏺 Sergi Valverde, principal investigator at the @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social  👉https://shorturl.at/rbt0Y

New Bluesky archive account to follow 🎉 (Festive) welcome to @arundelcarchive.bsky.social!

The Hall was a preparatory school from the early 1900s until 1937 when, along with part of the estate, it was sold to a local builder for housing development. It was demolished in 1938. #oldcolwyn #northwales #welshhistory #localhistory #educationhistory

#BarnsleyRemembers all those who paid the ultimate price by working underground at 1pm today at the Oaks memorial in town, the NUM will also be open from 10am. The Oaks Disaster list is now available on our website www.barnsley-museums.com/Oaks_Disaster

#penrhos #colwynbay #welshconnections #welshhistory #historywales #interestinghistory #interestinghistory #historicalstories

Some teeny tiny punched deco from one of the Snettisham Great torc terminals. I love the way the ripples within each little line show each time the maker struck their punch... Ting, ting, ting... 🎶 If you want to know more about the patterns: bigbookoftorcs.com/2022/05/29/p... #Archaeology 🏺

We're opting for a traditional Victorian Christmas this year, so BRING ON the penny farthing racing cats "Merry and happy may your Christmas be" With cats cycling, cheering and sitting precariously up a tree #ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasCards

Dreaming of a white Christmas...a happy skaters detail from Bruegel the Elder's 'The Hunters in the Snow', 1565 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

Rydym yn chwilio am wirfoddolwyr i ymuno â'n prosiect cymunedol yng Nghoed Cors y Gedol yn Nyffryn Ardudwy! We are looking for volunteers to join our community project at Coed Cors y Gedol in Dyffryn Ardudwy! 🌳 heneb.org.uk/event/commun...

The Wireless College website www.wirelesscollege.co.uk has, over recent years, reunited many former students, culminating in very well attended annual reunions. Contact with other students is still being sought. More: shorturl.at/HCMjS #colwynbay #northwales #wales

The region has been hit by heavy rain and high winds causing disruption

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 10 Artist: Ronald Lampitt

'The dictionary will not be huge because relatively few words survive, but experts from Aberystwyth University say they expect they will end up with more than 1,000 words.'

Tomorrow's visit includes a public lecture, by @heatherlwellis.bsky.social (School of Education, University of Sheffield), on: 'Hunger, Health and Hope: A History of School Meals in Britain' bit.ly/3K8Utrd Booking to attend the lecture online remains open: 6pm Wednesday 10 Dec #Skystorians 2/2

There were some tremendous clouds yesterday as some bad weather came in across the Welsh border. 📷 Nikon FM3A - Color Skopar 28mm 🎞️ HP5 - D23 #BelieveInFilm #filmphotography

History UK has today released its 'History UK Disability and History Report' (2025): bit.ly/44PH51Z The report aims to raise the profile of issues relating to disability and history in UK Higher Education. Its research and writing were co-funded by the Royal Historical Society. #Skystorians

📰 Ancient Egyptian royal "pleasure boat", matching a description by the Greek historian Strabo, found off the coast of Alexandria 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

This poster crosses my path from time to time and it demonstrates a number of things - that long-term planning, informed by environmental factors (in a negative way, maybe), was something the railway could envisage. You might ask who this ad' by a state railway was aimed at? Probably the Treasury.

'A courageous exercise in reckoning with uncomfortable truths.' An insightful review of @lucytaylor12.bsky.social's 'Global Politics of Welsh Patagonia' by Pisca Gayles in the Race and Class Journal. Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... Order Lucy's book here: bit.ly/48ycdEe

The delightful #MollyBrett 💞

Salt being spread in case of snow, Manchester, November 1936 (Fox Photos/Getty Images).

BBC News - Flood and weather warnings in place across Wales as Storm Bram hits www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Four Oaks Restaurant in Eirias Park, Colwyn Bay, had a restaurant, cafeteria, lounge bar and provided party catering. In summer cabaret and supper dance evenings were held which were popular with local people and visitors. More: shorturl.at/7xHHE #colwynbay #northwales #wales #localhistory

This sounds incredible: @aberuni.bsky.social leading the way for ancient #Celtic languages again 👏🏺 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Catch up on week one of my Ancient Greek Art Advent here! #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

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#tinyforests #tinyforestwales #wrexham #wrexhamcbc