Louvain Rees 🗃️

Louvain Rees 🗃️

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social historian of death & wales 💀

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🪦 "Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." St Peter's Church • Blaenavon ⛪

'Tolls of Hay Bridge' 🐑 🐄 🐖

Brilliant to see Dunraven Castle featured on Vanished Wales 🏰 Lovely hearing my grandmother and auntie talking about their time working there. You can watch it here 🔽 www.itv.com/walesprogram...

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This week's Friday Murder is less about death and more about reconstructing the (relatively long) life of a woman who had nothing but kept pushing back against expectations. A woman with a strong moral compass, strong will and a strong constitution. sophiemhistory.substack.com/p/who-cares

Who Cares?sophiemhistory.substack.com "Oh Bess Knox, you should be put i'the stocks"

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PLEASE REPOST IF YOU ARE A HISTORY ACCOUNT ❤️ I NEED TO FIND MY PEOPLE 📚

Aberdulais Tinworks & Falls 💧 📍 Neath "The industrial heritage of this area goes back to 1584, when copper was first manufactured. Iron smelting and corn milling followed, with a tin plate works being built around 1830." beta.npt.gov.uk/leisure-park...

Went to Hay Castle and all I bought was a book about bums 🍑

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NEW ON THE BLOG: An unusual cathedral ledger stone leads us to a possible epidemic... peterboroughwomenshistory.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/a...

A Ledger Stone Mysterypeterboroughwomenshistory.wordpress.com Today we have a blog post that we hadn't planned. One of our members was asked a fascinating question on X (formerly Twitter)and we simply had to explore. If you have any questions you'd love to know ...

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Sometimes, I find murders that are less about the death and more about the extremely weird community around the death. Salcott is extremely weird. open.substack.com/pub/sophiemh...

He is a Rum'unopen.substack.com A weird murder in a weird place

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This week's Friday Murder is about SHENANIGANS ON THE RAILWAY, about how much power railway companies actually had in the 19th century, and how health and safety was tragically absent. sophiemhistory.substack.com/p/i-am-going...

"I am Going to Leave You"sophiemhistory.substack.com A very unusual case

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Angiogram of a yo-yoer's hand. See the damaged veins of the index finger? This happens when a string wrapped around your finger chronically prevents the blood to flow properly. #themoreyouknow

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Oldest-surviving anatomical theatre, located in Padua and built in 1594. Over the entrance is the Latin inscription: “hic est locus ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitam.” Roughly: “this is the place where death delights to help life (or the living).” Photo: Rolando Paolo Guerzoni.

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Tintype of an Orthopedic Shoe

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Venetian doorbell.

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Because this gives me joy, some pets in the 1911 UK census 📜 🐕 Roger the Airedale Terrier. Born in Keighley & living in Dulwich, his marital status was uncertain but he was supposed to have 'something over 100' children

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@hellohistoria.bsky.social And ‘We Are Seven’ Conwy St Mary’s graveyard. Linked with William Wordsworth eponymous poem 1798 ‘Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be?’ ‘How many? Seven in all,’ she said, And wondering looked at me. 🥹😢😭

💀 The wind blowing wildly on New Year's Night was regarded as an omen of pestilence and death. (Trevelyan • 1909)

It's that time of the year 🐴 The Mari Lwyd is perhaps one of Wales most well-known folk customs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 The tradition includes a 'battle of wits' in which the Mari Lwyd and her part sing to gain entry into houses 🏠 hellohistoria.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-ho...

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Folklore made stone brings joy to my heart. Feorhunds – the mighty winged-hounds of the mediaeval – standing guard from on high in church or cathedral delights my eyes, but it's seeing story carved as an act of transmission that brings most bliss. – #CLNolan, 1934

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31 Days of Graves • Cemetery Landscape 🪦 Cefn Golau Cholera Cemetery 🪦

31 Days of Graves • Born Overseas 🌎 Captain François Husson, a French prisoner of war (d.1810) 🥀 'By foreign Hands his Humble grave Adorned. By strangers Honour'd and by strangers Mourn'd.' Brecon Cathedral ⛪

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31 Days of Graves • Spooky 💀 Bath Abbey ⛪

An interesting morning looking at Bridgend Local Health Board minutes. A gentleman was suspended from the board for assaulting a ratepayer. The ratepayer was goading him and called him a "Scamp" so your man punched him in the jaw 😐

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31 Days of Graves • Mistake 👀 Spot the mistake on this gravestone 🪦 St Stephen & St Tathan Church • Caerwent ⛪

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31 Days of Graves • Occupation 💼 Here lieth of the body of William Grace son of the Officer of Excise who liv'd in this place died Feb 13th 1824 🪦 St Edmund's Church • Crickhowell ⛪

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31 Days of Graves • Ironwork ⛓️ I love this grave marker 🛌 St John the Baptist Church • Newton ⛪

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31 Days of Graves • Urn 🏺 St Mary's Church • Prestbury ⛪

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31 Days of Graves • Memento Mori 💀 This beautiful representation of death can be found at St Mary's Churchyard, Welshpool ⛪

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31 Days of Graves • Repair 🔨 A memorial to the Rees family at St Davids Cathedral ⛪