The first Drystone Diary is live. What drystone actually is, how it works, and why it matters. kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/drystone-d... #DrystoneDiary #Craft #Scotland #UK #Ecology #Sustainable #Nature #Environment #Writing #History #Culture #Women #Countryside #NatureWriting

In today's inbox: three requests to work for free. One would cost me £190 in rail fare, another would cost me at least 40 hours of work, and the last says "we don't have a budget for speakers, but we can promise a nice lunch." Folks, if you're paying the caterers, you can pay your speaker.

Congratulations to Rick Schulting et al., winners of the 2026 #BenCullenPrize! Their research found evidence for the cannibalisation of enemies in Bronze Age Britain, marking the largest-scale example of interpersonal violence in British prehistory. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Charles Moody's maps are so informative - this one Trewellard Bal 1782 is criss crossed with the mine workings - in Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery, Courtney Library not @kresenkernow.bsky.social

Free NHS eye test this morning all good no spectacles, test next in 2028. He checked visual field too. I'm not against mandatory eye tests for drivers provided 70+ pensioners are not asked to start paying for eye tests or licence renewal.

There is so little historical evidence for the astonishing life story told by Phoebe Hessel - except for the later years and burial in Brighton - I wonder what her really lived life was. georgianera.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/p...

Have you had a chance to visit our ‘Cornwall in Print’ exhibition yet? We love the poster wall upstairs in the Treasures Gallery, which showcases a selection of work by Cornish printers, the letter types they used and the variety of styles chosen by the printers. #letterpress #printinghistory

I wrote a wee article on the excellent #Ghosts exhibition in Basel. Here's a short video I made on some of the displays: youtu.be/Xy6Uv4o4KyM

National Trust continuing to learn more about Britain's colonial past - here, a painting in Saltram, Devon. @corinnefowler.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/n...

A Neanderthal tooth shows clear signs of human intervention to treat bacterial decay, showing that the earliest dentistry began at least 59,000 years ago

✨️NEW BLOG POST TODAY!✨️ #cornwall #Kernow cornishbirdblog.com/the-lost-mon...

📢 We’re recruiting for a Digital Lead here at Kresen Kernow! 👉 Find out more and apply - ehgv.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #DigitalHeritageJobs #ArchivesJobs #CollectionsManagement #Digitisation #LibraryJobs #MuseumJobs #HeritageCareers #DigitalTransformation #CornwallJobs

📰 Newspaper SOS! We’re trying to find a physical copy of last Thursday’s The Guardian, but no local libraries have one 😅 If you’ve got a copy, we’d be so grateful! Drop it at reception or call 01736 363625 and ask for Maisy-Sky. Thank you!

#SundayPixTime Truro Falmouth road 1778 traffic jam.

#SundayPixTime Mary Broad sailed from Portsmouth, England 13 May 1787. She was pregnant with her first child. Gave birth in September and named her daughter Charlotte after the ship. Disembarked Port Jackson, New South Wales February 1788 with her 5 month old daughter.

Went to see Rose of Nevada at newlynfilmhouse.com where it has time to run. It's an unsolved history mystery by the unique @marghjenkin.bsky.social No AI credits though the long suffering, timeless women of few words - food shopping, cooked meals ready, and shared menfolk - are a bit Stepford wives.

Tin of shortbread at Christmas was a classic too.

Step into Cornwall’s letterpress past in ‘Cornwall in Print’. Learn how type was made, see metal and wood type, and uncover stories of local printers and the women who kept presses alive. Free to visit, with events to follow. #cornwallinprint #printinghistory

An 18th century moon mission ~ this photograph-like image of a gibbous Moon, with the dark patches of the Sea of Serenity and the Sea of Tranquillity, is actually a remarkable pastel created by English painter John Russell, way back in 1795

Worth noting that HD's later research was partly possible because of Jane's fortune which derived from her father's participation in slavery and the slave trade - link to info in reply here.

Gender, Science and Sociability in the Diary of Jane Ewbank of York (1778-1824) is published today with Boydell and Brewer! 35% off if you use the code BB135. Book link in comments ws.bsky.social @historyscience.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @bshsnews.bsky.social

One of the most astonishing aspects of this poem is that the speaker appears to imagine herself voyaging through space: "Seiz’d in thought On fancy’s wild and roving wing I sail, From the green borders of the peopled earth, ... I launch into the trackless deeps of space," (4/5)

It’s gorgeous up at my writing spot on the allotment today after the storm has passed over. A riot of colours, with huge queen bees zeppelining around. #cornwall

🔎 Tracing your family history? You might come across a bastardy bond — a fascinating record created when a child was born outside marriage. Here’s one example from the Borough of Launceston: John Goodenough, maltster, was named as the father of a child born to Sally Goodman in 1815. #familyhistory

#SundayPixBeforeandAfter Falmouth Market Strand 1778 and 1950s.

📣Out now on #firstview Michael Edwards @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social on 'Samuel Pepys, the African Companies, and the Archives of Slavery, 1660–1689' #Archives #Letters #Diary #History 17thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 Call for speakers: All About That Place #Share your expertise on the role of place in family history research. Submit your proposal: sog.org.uk/all-about-th... #genealogy #familyhistory #archives

I’m off to The National Archives on Friday. I’ve got a pretty full research list, but happy to do photograph any documents for one-placers if I get time. Just let me have the document references ☺️ #OnePlaceWednesday

Thanks to everyone who made it to our 'Librarian's Tour: Women's History Month Special' on Friday, where we shared stories of women working in the field of natural history in the nineteenth century. Our Librarian Sonia was joined by Exeter Heritage Partnership volunteer Amelia - thanks Amelia!

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Honoured and excited to give this year’s annual Women’s History Lecture at St. Andrew’s this Thursday. I’ll be speaking about my new project, Towards a Global History of Women in Book Production 1600-1900 📚

'The team was surprised ... how infrequently people were gibbeted outside London. In many counties there were only one or two people gibbeted during the whole period between the Murder Act and the Anatomy Act (1752-1832); in Cornwall there were none at all.' S.Tarlow, Close Encounters with Gibbets.

Imogen Peck talking about family archives www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwa-... So much more we can glean from Georgian letters and journals in Cornwall.

The prehistoric #middens have taken a battering in the winter storms. Shells, bones, and shaped stones tumble onto the #beach.

An amazing database of 220 years of migration including over 300 into Cornwall, many from Britanny. www.englandsimmigrants.com What were the pulls and pushes that led people to move? John Allan's church wood carvers' evidence is interesting - what were the other factors?

It’s Manorial Monday! 🎉🗺️ Our partners in the Historic Environment Record team are georeferencing digitised maps and uncovering new finds — including a cross near the church on this map of the manor of Lafrowda, St Just in Penwith. More discoveries to come! #manorialmonday #manors #oldmap

John Nicholls (1662-1714) of Trereife's will stipulated that his widow Frances, born Foote, should not later be buried with him so ‘That after a toilsome and discontented life I may rest in peace and quiet.’ (modernised spelling). @lsangha.bsky.social

We’re delighted to share that Cornish Fisherfolk by Walter Langley has officially joined the permanent collection at Penlee House Gallery & Museum. You can see it now on display in Gallery 5 at Penlee House as part of the Newlyn School collection. penleehouse.org.uk/walter-langl...

Granite best building material ever #Sundaypixstone . This is Pendeen manor. Home of the Borlase family before they decided to vacate in eighteenth century.

Alongside our latest exhibition, ‘Cornwall in Print’, we’ll be highlighting some Cornish printers over the next few months.