The Aliens Register – or Returns of Certificates of Naturalisation (1868 – 1916) is located in the Heritage Research Area. Find out more on our blog, here: theironroom.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/l... #LibraryofBham

#CityOf1000Trades Chaucer Head Bookshop was founded in 1830 by John Cadby. William Downing born in Birmingham in 1844 succeeded Cadby in 1870. Our archive holds a collection for Downing - MS 1366. Ref: L 50.1 D/2 #LibraryofBham

https://youtu.be/Chc3gCij3Ug?si=hl2HsfSS1JgFilM3 Only in Monroe ... The background to Stephen Colbert's involvement. Just lovely 😍

The BBC weather report looks a bit morbid for tomorrow

Keir Starmer's response to Nigel Farage at PMQs just now was probably the most powerful and eloquent I have seen him in the Commons. The full answer is worth reading.

#MapOnATuesday today is this Red Army General Staff map of Birmingham dated somewhere between 1972-1980. The maps came into our possession in 1996. YHTTOH is possibly the Russian version of Witton and ACTOH is Aston. Ref: LS 905/3 #LibraryofBham

This fabulous crocheted scene on a postbox on Abbey Road depicts the famous battle of Rotton Park, a naval battle which took place in Edgbaston Reservoir in 1905, which resulted in the Bearwood fleet taking victory over the Birmingham navy.

Love it: the night after he was kicked off of CBS for good, Stephen Colbert hosted a public access show in southeast Michigan.

youtu.be/GtzCuKJjad0?... The number 11 buzz route round #Brum is 100 years old this week :)) #Birmingham #BrumIsBrill

Manchester Ship Canal, a 36-mile waterway linking the city to the Mersey estuary, was opened by Queen Victoria on this day 1894. Wide enough to take ocean-going vessels, it enabled the Port of Manchester to become Britain’s third-busiest port (Punch cartoon ridiculing the idea).

#MapOnATuesday is this 1758 map of Aston Manor by J. Tomlinson. A reduced copy from the ancient plans of Birmingham series printed by order of the Public Works Committee of Birmingham City Council. Ref - MAP/373483 #LibraryofBham

#LydneyParkGarden yesterday afternoon just after the rain. Note: It closes at the end of May until next year!

You know your dog thinks you were out of the house too long when he's figured out how to make his own tea while waiting for you. #dogs #tea #beagle

Burnham would to Makerfield. Not got the same ring as "Birnam Wood to Dunsinane" Might not go as per the script.

Either AI has to change its name, Al Carns needs to change his name, or social media needs to go back to serif fonts. I can't take any more of this

EXCL: Angela Rayner says she has been cleared of any deliberate wrongdoing by HMRC. 🚨 And she’s not ruling out a bid for No10.🚨 In her first TV interview she insists there has been NO DEAL with Andy Burnham. youtu.be/TB9oy-Jvo-I

Yesterday guitar Some one gave this onr to me. Will restore TLC needed Original early 60s Egmond guitar Interesting neck - body construction.

Yesterday was #NationalNursesDay and we wanted to share this wonderful photograph from 1957💙 Nurse Mrs Ford is being assisted from the St Michael’s Mount boat. Ford had travelled to attend the birth of baby Derek Round, who was the first baby born on St Michael’s Mount in 16 years.⁠ ⁠

#Genealogy Both Ancestry & MyHeritage recently updated their terms of service. Read what the Legal Genealogist Judy Russell has to say about the changes: www.legalgenealogist.com/2026/05/12/a...

BREAKING - Parliamentary Standards Commissioner will launch an investigation into Farage's £5m donation.

The Edward Despenser Chantry or Holy Trinity Chapel at Tewkesbury Abbey contains a fine 14thC depiction of the Trinity flanked by enthusiastically censing angels and kneeling donors. How wonderful it must have been when newly painted. #WednesdayWallPaintings

Say hello to these fabulous beasties who live on #Birmingham's Church of St Martin in the Bullring. Met them at the end of a fab stillwalking.org walk- Devilish Details. Always #lookup! #Architecture #gargoyles #grotesques

Zack Polanski and his partner called their narrowboat their “amazing home” for three years. He registered to vote there. If it was his main residence, council tax was due. None was paid. His team says he stayed there only “occasionally” - if true, there's a very big problem.

🇭🇺 Péter Magyar will be elected Prime Minister of Hungary today at ~2:30pm, after MPs take their oath and the new parliament convenes. 👋 Viktor Orbán is no longer PM or MP. 🇪🇺 For the first time in over a decade, the EU flag will fly on the Parliament building in Budapest.

I’m pleased to see people realising this morning that a Lab>Reform seat change can happen because Lab>others and Con>Reform. The underlying vote flow evidence has been screaming this since autumn 2024 😎.

I met a traveller from an antique land, who said:

Movie poster of the week Casablanca: Classic Hollywood glamour at its finest. This iconic illustrated poster for Casablanca was designed by the legendary Bill Gold. It perfectly captures the drama and romance of the 1942 masterpiece. #MovieWednesday #Moviesky

#MapOnATuesday today is this map of Birmingham from what was the latest Ordnance Survey, c 1864. Published for the proprietors of the Corporation Directory by William Cornish. Drawn and engraved by D. Smith. Reference: MAL/14029 #LibraryofBham

youtu.be/SdyaBNra_xU?... For #InternationalWorkersDay ... England Arise! Words by Edward Carpenter.

Käthe Kollwitz, Working Woman (with Earring), 1910 etching #WomensArt #MayDay, also known as Labour Day is a celebration of the working classes #InternationalWorkersDay

Happy #EdBalls day!! #EdBallsDay

St Martin’s Church and the Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham. #SteeplesOnSunday

Hello #GenHour. My contribution tonight is simply discombobulating. First thing this morning my #AncestryDNA latest/newest match list appeared showing only initials. Just the first page ... The newest ones. Fortunately it sorted itself out later, after I restarted my tablet.

#Shakespeare To celebrate the bard’s day – a photograph of the Shakespeare Memorial Room in the Victorian Birmingham Reference Library when there were proposals to move it to Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings. Ref - LF 53.311 #LibraryofBham @shakespearebtrust.bsky.social

#KiftsgateCourtGarden A taste of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli yet not so. My happy place.

#BlackBritishHistory Birmingham’s first Black councillor, Bert Carless was first elected in 1979. Councillor Carless was awarded an OBE for services to the Handsworth College Group in 1998 #LibraryofBham

Christ Church Quarry Bank. #mosaicmonday

Have I stumbled across #AncestryHour? Am still finding my feet with BlueSky.

This week I received a belated birthday present :)) Some fascinating case studies that echo so many of the knotty problems I've struggled with in my own family tree. Lots of diagrams. Guidance on using some impenetrable websites. I, ummm, am reminded yet again […] [Original post on masto.ai]

In this video I go over three scenarios on what the impact of the Iran War will have on the 2026 election cycle. We are currently between scenario two and three headed for the worst case for the GOP with the electorate.

Fell asleep in my #Casablanca tee shirt and was woken up by Sam playing it again.

My council tax bill arrived today. I live in #reform controlled #worcestershire and my bill has gone up 9.5% year on year. This is not cool.

My first fritillary is in flower :))

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