@SW_Help thanks a bunch! I struggled to the 17.09 from waterloo with a large case and bad knees. And your shit of a guard closed the door on me as I got to the door. He could see I was struggling and his behaviour was malicious. #SouthWestTrainSadists
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Donate to help me raise much-needed funds for #menshealth this #Movember โ for all the dads, brothers, sons and mates in our lives. Stop men dying too young. https://t.co/gSN123zKRd
A small collection of items relating to Shalden arrived in 1978. They included this beautiful map of Shalden Manor Farm and lands adjoining, 1769. It includes Shalden church and houses in the village shown in elevation (14M78/PZ2) #hampshirearchives#hro75years#ManorialDocuments
William Bingley made extensive notes in the early 19th century for a history of Hampshire (16M79), eg this volume about manors (16M79/93); they weren't published, but are held in HRO and provide information for local historians #hampshirearchives#hro75years#ManorialDocuments
Larkin and Owen are two of our finest poets. Removing their work from the curriculum is cultural vandalism.
Their work must be passed on to future generations - as it was to me. I will be speaking to the exam board to make this clear.
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1977 saw the arrival of a collection of glass negatives of the Grayshott area, 1895. Seen here are shops in Hindhead Terrace, Grayshott, the Post Office is at the end. The author Flora Thompson worked here from 1898 to early 1901. (28M77/5) #hampshirearchives#hro75years
@PeteQuiz Guttenberg was the first to use movable type. The printing press had been in use in Europe for a hundred years by then using carved wooden blocks. The printing press was invented in China 800 years before that.
If you are interested in researching the history of a Public House, then read our new blog, which looks at the recently completed catalogue of the Gales Brewery archive https://t.co/NWYdu28nd0 #hampshirearchives#LocalHistoryMonth
In 1966 we received one of our most treasured items, a map of Compton dated 1735. It includes drawings of a sailing barge on the Itchen Navigation and sheep with a shepherd and dog on 'The Great Down' (36M66/93) #hampshirearchives#hro75years
18M54 is a collection from the Heathcote family of Hursley. Seen here is a list of books belonging to Alethea Bigg, drawn up after her death in 1847. Alethea was a friend of Jane Austen, and it includes Pride and Prejudice (18M54/D6/12) #hampshirearchives#hro75years
Watch out this Saturday for our next blog, which looks at the work of a late nineteenth century New Forest photographer, Jules Duplessis of Newtown Park, near Lymington (9A20) #hampshirearchives
This week is focus week for Explore Your Archive campaign. Today's theme is handwriting and featured is an unusual letter from 1826 written mostly in pictures. Can you decipher it? The first words are 'My dear Margaret', ( ref 83M93/16) #hampshirearchives#ExploreYourArchive
Celebrating National Food Day with this tempting list of freshly prepared dishes served at the English Folk Cookery Association House of Studies in Fareham in August 1936. (ref 44A09/A5) #Nationalfoodday#Hampshirearchives