Don’t forget we have our spring musical afternoon coming up on April 29th. It’s from 2.30-4.30 at St Augustine’s Hall, #Bexhill. Tickets are £8 and include cakes and live ukulele music. There’s an offer you don’t get every day! #LiveMusic #Ukulele

The Sandbach Transport Festival 2026 25th - 26th April 2026, free to attend Celebrating the town's transport heritage with the main event: A variety of vehicles from classic cars to modern classics, from trucks to planes and everything in between. Find out more 👉 sandbachtransportfestival.com

The life of Adelaide Springett, a child of Victorian London. Behind one photograph is a story of loss, poverty, trauma, and survival against the odds. If we’re to understand history, we have to remember lives like hers. #SocialHistory #VictorianLondon chiddicksfamilytree.com/2024/02/15/a...

Cartwright and Sheldon Ltd roll of honour. The Silk Museum, Macclesfield, Cheshire. Second World War. #LestWeForget

A 3,500 year-old Minoan jar with a cartoon-like octopus under the spout! 🐙 From Kommos, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

A new byelaw excludes trawling from most of Beachy Head East MCZ — protecting rare chalk reefs & the remarkable Ross Worm biogenic reefs. These tiny worms build living reef structures from sand and shell, home to Sussex's distinctive soft corals.  https://f.mtr.cool/yvslascaup

ONE WEEK LEFT! The 'South coast's forgotten railway workers' exhibition is on at the Portsmouth History Centre, Central Library, Guildhall Walk - until 25 April. Pop in and see it whilst you can!

Supervise children and pets at all times on or around chalk cliffs, and keep well away from the edge and base. In an emergency, call 999 and ask for the Coastguard #BeCliffAware

Shipwrecks Mapped in the Bay of Gibraltar. #Archaeology archaeology.org/news/2026/04...

We’ve joined SAVE, National Amenity Societies and local groups to call for the Liverpool Street Station plans to be reviewed. There are serious concerns about the impact on the station, the disruption for those who use it every day, and the cost. Read more 👉 casework.jcnas.org.uk/appl/217001

Only a few days until our next TIA lecture: What is archaeology, and why does it matter? Join Morgause Lomas as we explore how archaeology can be used to engage young people, fostering curiosity, critical thinking, and empathy. Book your spot 👉 tinyurl.com/5arc632d

The haori (woman's traditional jacket) design consists of vertically oriented, elongated hexagons, each representing a stylized tortoiseshell. The kikko pattern, associated with longevity and protection in Japanese symbolism, is reimagined here in a thoroughly modern context. 1926-1940, Japan

✨️✨️NEW BLOG POST TODAY!! If you had happened to walk out on to St Catherine’s Point from the town of Fowey in the winter of 1866 a strange scene would have greeted you . . . #cornwall #Kernow cornishbirdblog.com/discover-the...

✈️ Join us this Thursday (23 April, 6pm BST) for our next virtual lecture : The War in the Air. Dr Ross Mahoney explores the creation of Britain’s official Air War History of the First World War and its lasting impact on air power studies. 💻 Online 🎟️ Free (booking required) 👉 bit.ly/4tjoeGS

To all who wanted to attend my tour today at the British Museum at 2PM, I'm afraid I have a poorly parent and have had to cancel. Also using Eventbrite is like navigating the Minotaur's labyrinth so I have been unable to email you all an apology, but have issued refunds. Big gay stressed hugs!

Here's some ideas for things to look, listen and sniff on a spring nature walk!

Today is #WorldHeritageDay which means that everyone's posts will be full of castles, historic houses, paintings, ceramics and so on. SO we'd just like to remind you that this is heritage as well!

Arguably, earliest eg of ‘revenge porn’. c1050 BCE King Ashur-bel-kala sent versions of this statue around his kingdom, over 3,000 years ago. The only surviving example shows a completely naked woman. The inscription suggests viewers would know who she was meant to be and “laugh at her expense”.

For three more weeks our #ArchivePresent is our exhibition marking the 150th anniversary of the Crime Museum. It's currently sold out, but keep an eye out for cancellations at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/metropolit...! #Archive30 #FridayFeeling

Join our team as an Exhibition Volunteer this summer and help visitors discover our exhibition, ‘Wiltshire & The World: John Aubrey & The Quest for Knowledge’, celebrating the wide-ranging interests of seventeenth-century antiquarian John Aubrey. 🔗 bit.ly/VolunteeratChippenhamMuseum

337 years ago, on the 17th of April 1689, Bostonians rose up against New England Governor Edmund Andros who was then arrested. These events effectively collapsed the short-lived Dominion of New England, which had been established by Charles II in 1686. #otd #history 🗃️

Wonderful : newly Listed, the splendid Odeon cinema in Morecambe, Lancashire! Opened in 1937 & by W C Robson/ Harry Weedon & Partners for Oscar Deutsch's Odeon chain. In the streamlined Moderne style, closed in 1976 & now in retail use @c20society.bsky.social historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...

Remembering Tom Walshaw, who died on this day in 1918, aged 19. Tom served with the 1st Batt. Northumberland Fusiliers. Killed in action in France. Commemorated on the family gravestone at Lister Lane Cemetery. www.listerlanecemetery.co.uk/tomwalshaw

The South Dalton Estate Almshouses, on Main Street in the East Riding village, were built in 1873 by Beaumont Hotham, 3rd Baron Hotham. Designed in a Tudor style, they form a group of cottages with a stone chapel. They stand beside St Mary’s Church, also commissioned by Lord Hotham and

Don’t forget we have our spring musical afternoon coming up on April 29th. It’s from 2.30-4.30 at St Augustine’s Hall, #Bexhill. Tickets are £8 and include cakes and live ukulele music. There’s an offer you don’t get every day! #LiveMusic #Ukulele

"Made In Bexhill. Cycle Car Constructed By Mr A. C. Ticehurst." Bexhill Observer 18.4.1914. #Bexhill #Sussex #Car #History #1910s

Picture Playhouse Cinema, Western Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex c.1922. Photograph by Henry Sargent - our Curator. #Bexhill #Sussex #Cinema #History #1920s

Sunbeam, Cape Madai, #Borneo 18.4.1887. "Only the faintest breath of air could be felt, and even that soon died away. The sails which had just been set had therefore to be taken in again and we proceeded as before under steam. This little experiment delayed us somewhat..." #Brassey #History #1880s

There is also a stylised octopus on each side of this lovely ancient Minoan pouring vessel! 🐙😃

A rather cute 9cm high #Roman Bronze figurine of Hercules (sadly missing his club) 📷 in Verulamium Museum Jan 2026 (Acc No 1978.27) We have a slightly larger (in so many ways 🫢) version of the demi god carved on a hill here in Dorset #FindsFriday @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social

Large Bronze Cauldrons from Late Antiquity Whose Contents Have Not Yet Been Identified, Found in Germany www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/04/l...

"The Ogre's ghost is sometimes said to appear in the form of a sawn tree trunk and haunts Brede and the Groaning Bridge at Stubb's Lane, Brede." #PhantomsFriday #Brede #Sussex

Fab c1905 photo of my 2nd gt-grandfather’s Wine & Spirit Merchant, Marina Court, Bexhill-on-Sea. “Chas. R. Collingwood” across the front, door is open and windows packed with bottles & adverts. Courtesy @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social (via X a couple of years ago) #FamilyHistory #Bexhill #LocalHistory

Spirit at the Piano, by George Roux circa 1885. #PhantomsFriday

This #findsfriday we are bringing back a favourite from staff on display in our Roman Gallery. Found in Westbury Iron Works in the late 19th century, this potter spout froma vessel takes the form of an actor with a comic mask.

Better pictures of the recently reported golden (runic) bracteate and clasp button from Sjonhem, Gotland - along with parallells. #FindsFriday 🏺

Westlothiana lizziae - aka Lizzie the Lizard - from ~340 million years old, East Kirkton Quarry locality. Not actually a lizard, and probably closer to the 'amphibian' branch of tetrapods. On display in National Museum of Scotland, and a model in Dynamic Earth (both Edinburgh) #FossilFriday 🌍⚒️🧪🦎🔬

I spoke with Britain's first astronaut, Helen Sharman, about: 🌖The race to the moon 🌔The Artemis accords 🌑Life at the lunar south pole 🌜Nuclear reactors on the moon 🈷️And more! youtu.be/d9NR-wy5GSs

New public talk! "Done to death by the system": railway worker accidents as 'conventional crime' in 19th & 20th century Britain Sat 2 May, Portsmouth, 12noon Project co-lead Mike (@uophistory.bsky.social) will explore what railway staff accidents tell us about life & work in the past.

On Tuesday our new Exhibition 'Elements of Landscape' opened. 🪾 The exhibition features the work of artist John Hitchens from the 1960s to today. John visited us to see his work in situ and sign a couple of his books for the gift shop!

Where was ink usually kept in the #Roman world? #Inkwells The most common inkwells were the Samian ones (pottery), being the cheaper option than their metal counterparts. Roman writers made use of two colours: red for headings, and black for the rest of the text.

131 years ago, on the 17th of April 1895, China and Japan signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki, ending the First Sino-Japanese war. It ended China's tributary relations with Korea, forced China to pay an indemnity and cede Taiwan, the Penghu islands and the Liaodong peninsula to Japan. #otd #history 🗃️

18 June 2026, 9:00-17:00 at The National Archive, Kew. £30.

On 11 June 2026, I'm running an online intro to early modern legal records, part of The National Archives' Practical Archival Skills Training #TNAPAST workshops. More details can be found via the link. For accompanying on-site workshops, see the below thread www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-early...

Leeds Central Library is well worth a visit for its interior alone. It was constructed between 1878 and 1884 to a design by local architect George Corson, it officially opened on 17 April 1884 as the Leeds Municipal Offices. housing administrative departments for gas,

✨Riot at the arena!✨ This fresco depicts a riot at the arena in Pompeii. The fresco likely depicts the riot that broke out in 59 CE between Pompeians and the neighbouring Nucerians.

What's not to love? #ArchiveStorage #Archive30

📢 We are excited to share that John Newton’s Sermon Book — held in the Library’s collection — will be featured in the inaugural exhibition at the brand-new V&A East Museum, The Music is Black: A British Story.

In January 2026 Paris' mayor Anne Hidalgo announced names of 72 women scientists proposed to be added to 72 male scientists already engraved on the Eiffel Tower. The Association Femmes & Sciences was tasked with preparing a list of 72 women scientists since 1789. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...