Bess of Hardwick

Time traveller in 21st century. Brings history to life in classrooms; drama to the classroom; & engaging PSHE.

[Bess of Hardwick @besscountess]

Just love William Hole's 1612 anthropomorphic map of Yorkshire. So many women represented. Is this a good thing?

[Bess of Hardwick @besscountess]

Explored histories of women breaking the "rules" & eventual changes in the law from about 1900 with Y4s. One conclusion after discussion of colours of toys and fairytales. "In the future children will do what we are doing & look back & see what we are doing wrong." #Derbyshire

[Bess of Hardwick @besscountess]

Amazing Y1s at Bakewell Infant have been writing a children's picture book about horses during #WW1 with writer, Paul Whitfield. This illustration shows Belmont leaving the farm with a soldier.

[Bess of Hardwick @besscountess]

Well done Graves Youth Theatre for their contribution to celebrate the centenary of Graves Park. Audience member: “GYT gave us a lovely taster of the life of JG Graves. It would be great to see these young people deliver the rest of Graves’ life story in such an important year."

[Bess of Hardwick @besscountess]

“Even in #WW2 things like this happened.” Y9 Girl FREE #RSHE resource exploring sexual exploitation, resilience, healthy relationships @discoverbuxton @LarissaAllwork @EHChalus @EJRenold @alison_twells 
https://t.co/Mei4CVznSB

[The History Press @TheHistoryPress]

#OnThisDay in 1900, Mary Kingsley, British explorer and author, known for her work primarily in West Africa, dies.📚🌍 Discover her life and legacy👉: https://t.co/TCiCSvm8Ev (@HistoryHit) #OTD #WomensHistory

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

Art Nouveau necklace by René Lalique from circa 1905.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Schoolchildren on their way to school during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, carrying lunch pails and books while wearing goggles and cloth masks to shield themselves from the suffocating dust storms that swept across the Great Plains.

During the 1930s, a combination of severe drought and decades of aggressive plowing stripped away the native prairie grasses that had anchored the soil across the Great Plains. When powerful winds arrived, millions of tons of topsoil were lifted into the air, creating massive "black blizzards" that darkened skies as far away as Chicago, New York, and even ships in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Dust Bowl affected parts of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, forcing an estimated 2.5 million people to leave their homes. Schools often remained open despite the conditions, and children frequently wore goggles, scarves, and homemade masks to protect their eyes and lungs from the ever-present dust.

The disaster helped spur major changes in American farming. The federal government established the Soil Conservation Service in 1935, promoting contour plowing, crop rotation, windbreaks, and other practices still used today to reduce erosion.

On April 14, 1935, known as "Black Sunday", a single dust storm carried an estimated 300 million tons of topsoil across the Great Plains, one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.

© Historical Photos

#archaeohistories

[Bess of Hardwick @besscountess]

The really fascinating part of this story. Emma is the only twice-crowned Queen of England. Cannily she negotiated marrying England's Norse invader, Cnut after her Anglo Saxon husband, Athelred was dead.

[Medieval History Buff @Medievalhtybuff]

Emma of Normandy with her two young sons Edward and Alfred and her brother Duke Richard II of Normandy, having been forced to flee England. Emma's first husband, Aethelred The Unready, aware he wasn't the most popular man going, waited to see what reception he might expect before he eventually joined Emma, leaving England to Sweyn Forkbeard.

[Bess of Hardwick @besscountess]

Fascinated by elephants in Sangers Circus 100 years ago, especially when they ate Frank Foster' trousers. More inspiration for ceramic #WW1 memorial! Bakewell Infants #Derbyshire @Circus250

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Alice Barker, a 102-year-old dancer, sees herself on film for the first time.

Alice Barker was a dancer at such New York nightspots as the Cotton Club and the Cafe Zanzibar in the 1930s and 1940s, part of chorus lines that entertained alongside notables such as Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and Frank Sinatra.

There were motion pictures made of Barker, but she had never seen any of them. Moreover, her photographs and memorabilia had all been lost over the years, and she had never seen herself actually dancing.

She passed away on April 6, 2016.

More amazing photos: https://t.co/FRrL4hIDpN

[Deborah Cameron @DebsaDelight]

Start them young! My husband’s uncle, mum and her cousin. C1928 #WorldBicycleDay
#familyhistory

[Plantagenet @Plantagenet1455]

According to historians, tennis originated in 12th-century France, where French monks played an early form of the game by striking a ball with their hands against monastery walls or over a rope stretched across a courtyard. Known as jeu de paume or game of the hand, it is…

[Medieval History Buff @Medievalhtybuff]

13th century depiction of the coronation of Harold Godwinson

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

This is a 'picadil' - it's what holds your ruff up. Woman's picadil, 1600-15, English, ivory satin over pasteboard. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

[Moo @Mooshmauler]

Oxford Circus, opened in 1819, was originally named "Regent Circus North".

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

The work of Dora Maar (1907-1997), French Surrealist photographer, painter and poet who is often only referred to as 'Picasso's muse' #womensart

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Vivien Thomas was a pioneering American lab supervisor in cardiac surgery and the assistant to surgeon Alfred Blalock.

He helped develop a procedure to treat Blue Baby Syndrome which saved thousands of infants' lives.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is what England looked like in 1905

Blackburn, Lancashire

[Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock]

American-born French dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker was born #OnThisDay in 1906. This cut-out mesh costume, embellished with a scalloped design of metal beads, textured sequins and rhinestones, was worn by Baker in the 1930s. Sold by @KerryTaylorAuct. #fashionhistory