In Conversation with Annie

Connecting with @AnnieBrassey through letters, travels, diaries & objects @BexhillMuseum | Currently writing A Trail of Breadcrumbs | Research by @LouiseKenward

[In Conversation with Annie @DearAnnieB]

A chance discovery of Annie led me to caves in Borneo in search of @AnnieBrassey
She continues to grip me as I write and explore.
Part archiving & part new ventures, another chapter begins.
Images courtesy of @bexhillmuseum

[The Keep @TheKeepArchives]

Threat or warning? Sent May 1913 to Hasting’s Police Supt at the height of local suffragette action. The house of an MP was burnt down a month earlier. The Institute (now Hastings Library) was never set alight, but May 1913 saw attacks on suffrage meetings #internationalwomensday

[In Conversation with Annie @DearAnnieB]

Happy new year!

[Annie Brassey @AnnieBrassey]

Sunbeam #Honolulu #Hawaii 31.12.1876. "We went on board & sat in the calm moonlight, thinking & talking over the events of the year, whose end was swiftly approaching & wondering what its successor may have in store for us. So ends...the now old year 1876." #Brassey #NewYearsEve

[Annie Brassey @AnnieBrassey]

Visit from Alice Liddell (1852-1934) & family to see me at Normanhurst Court #Catsfield #Sussex in 1875. From Simon Wright's book "A Rich Man in his Castle" 2010. Alice's two younger sisters Voyaged with us on the Sunbeam! #AliceInWonderland #Alice #Brassey #History #1870s #books

[In Conversation with Annie @DearAnnieB]

So looking forward to working on this book!

[Dr Emma Butcher @EmmaButcher_]

So excited to announce that @FernRiddell, @DigiVictorian and I are co-editing a new THREE BOOK series for @BloomsburyHist. I'll be taking the lead on the final volume, 'Women in Power: Trailblazers'. This covers everything from engineers to business, photography to editing! 2025!

[DW250 @DW_250]

It's the fifth of December. In 20 days time #DorothyWordsworth will be 250! She may celebrate by hugging a turkey / talking to the robins. We'll be celebrating a week early on the 17th with this free #OnlineEvent: https://t.co/WlRPoCxjgy
Come and join us! #DW250 #livelit

[In Conversation with Annie @DearAnnieB]

@AnnieBrassey @sjfrenchie @PhotoHastings Interesting. I hadn’t noticed this before.

[In Conversation with Annie @DearAnnieB]

This looks to be an excellent talk on @AnnieBrassey from brilliant @sjfrenchie @PhotoHastings #Photology series.
Tomorrow in Hastings.

[PhotoHastings @PhotoHastings]

Doings of the Sunbeam: Reintroducing Photographs with the ‘Ethnological’ Collections of Lady Annie Brassey (1839-1887). A Photology talk & discussion by Sarah French, Tue 19 Oct 8pm £3 at The Pig, 37 White Rock

[Wordsworth Grasmere @WordsworthGras]

Dorothy Wordsworth was a remarkable woman. Our forthcoming #DW250 exhibition tells her story - but how did we bring this fascinating woman to life?
Find out in this FREE online event on 27 October: https://t.co/uAhDzSq7c5

[In Conversation with Annie @DearAnnieB]

Wonderful!
Happy 182nd birthday Annie!

[Annie Brassey @AnnieBrassey]

@LouiseKenward Thank you Louise

[Annie Brassey @AnnieBrassey]

Eothen #Quebec #Canada 3.10.1872. "About 20 miles above Quebec the scenery became really splendid; the cliffs so high, with pretty villas nesting here & there among the chamelion-like foliage, that we could almost imagine we were in the fairyland of our childish dreams." #Brassey

[Annie Brassey @AnnieBrassey]

@NauticalHistory @LRFHEC Thank you, here is my "Sunbeam" Constance Alberta Brassey (1868-1873) in 1872. We named our steam yacht "Sunbeam" (1874-1929) after her in 1874. #Brassey #History #1870s #yacht

[Society for Nautical Research @NauticalHistory]

Figurehead of yacht ‘Sunbeam’. Owner’s daughter lost to scarlet fever aged 4. More magnificent material from our figureheads project for the Mariner’s Mirror Pod. Full 📺🎧🗣 here https://t.co/KQAn7elBe6 @LRFHEC #MondayMorning #twitterstorians #maritime

[Annie Brassey @AnnieBrassey]

The last #photography of me (in the high backed chair) aboard the Sunbeam with my family & crew, #Australia, August 1887 & my last #journal page, Torres Strait, 29.8.1887. #Brassey #Victorian #Travel #Writing #History #1880s

[Annie Brassey @AnnieBrassey]

Sunbeam, Bay of Biscay c.11-12.7.1876. Losing children overboard is one of the hazards of this type of voyage. "I asked her afterwards if she thought she was going overboard & she answered, 'I did not think at all, mamma, but felt sure we were gone.'" #Brassey children are tough.

[In Conversation with Annie @DearAnnieB]

@AnnieBrassey Very helpful. Thank you. Objects all giving me licence to write about my rambling wonderings and research - linking everything in one way or another!

[In Conversation with Annie @DearAnnieB]

Writing continues, haphazardly, persistently, intermittently.
Today, again, I return to #Borneo #swiftlets #caves & collections of @AnnieBrassey held @bexhillmuseum
Chapters have been deconstructed & reconstructed, stitched together & patched up with tape...to be continued.

[In Conversation with Annie @DearAnnieB]

@AnnieBrassey is this a similar flint do you think? Possible to think it could be a Clovis? It’s from the right area of Canada (Calgary, Alberta) but my flint knowledge is very small.

[In Conversation with Annie @DearAnnieB]

This week I am again reaching #Canada - revisiting #NiagaraFalls #Toronto & #Quebec via @bexhillmuseum collection of (I think?) a #Clovis flint, tobacco case & bear skull - I need to check back w @AnnieBrassey on details.
#Assiniboia #Assiniboine #Bexhill #Saskatchewan

[Annie Brassey @AnnieBrassey]

@DearAnnieB @bexhillmuseum @HeritageFundUK "Bexhill to Bexhill" exhibition had grown a bit by 31.7.2015. Look, there is me with Mr Pangolin! #Brassey