Trade directories are a great source of information for family and local historians. If you are curious about your village ‘Rural community history from trade directories’ in our #LocalStudies collection will show you how best to use them.
#LocalAndCommunityHistoryMonth
#LocalStudies celebrates #LoveATreeDay with ‘The Ancient Yew’ by Robert Bevan-Jones: a tree which provides a living botanical link between our own landscapes and those of the distant past. The book includes a yew in Darley Dale.
.Society for Old Lucan (SOL) followers, look at this work-in-progress by butsyp? Photogrammetry survey of St. Finian's church, Esker, Lucan. Finished results will be amazing!👏South Dublin County Council Archaeology Irl Mag Irish Archaeology National Monuments Service SDCC Local History Lucan Living The Heritage Council Abarta Heritage
Hard work done this morning - hand-weeding and growth-clearance from historic memorials in the medieval graveyard Lucan village by butsyp , Eugene and Lesley. 👏 South Dublin County Council Lucan Village Business & Services Group All About Lucan Lucan Living South Dublin Co PPN SDCC Local History
The Stanier family were railway royalty in Swindon.
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#GWR #railwayroyalty #Stanierfamily #Swindon
.Society for Old Lucan (SOL) suspects these medieval acoustic jars in Lucan Demesne (Church of BVM) are Ireland's ONLY intact earthenware jars! Cork & Dunbrody have voids 4 them. The Friends of Medieval Dublin The Heritage Council Christiaan Corlett National Monuments Service South Dublin County Council SDCC Local History Photos by butsyp
St. Mary's medieval graveyard Lucan. Sunlight on gravestone erected by Elizabeth McGlinn of Lucan in memory of her husband Charles, who died age 57 in 1837. Space below indicates Elizabeth meant her own inscription 2b inserted. We can only speculate why it wasn't. SDCC Local History
Delighted to have the #Golden History group visit on Tuesday evening for an information session on Tipperary Studies' collections and services.
#LocalStudies #LocalHistory #Tipperary
Tipperary County Council Thurles Tourist Office Thurles Hour TippCoCoLibraries Public History at UL (Limerick, Ireland)
I may have treated myself to an early Christmas present… it was a pain carrying these back on the bus and trains, but I made it. 🏋️ One of the archive staff said: “You do realise your book buying is the only thing saving us from bankruptcy?” #LocalStudies #FamilyHistory
Read all about the trials and tribulations of a unique Buxton based green community project. Madeline Hall’s ‘ War and Peas ’gives an insight into organic growing and the group’s fight to stay on their land.
#LocalStudies #HBAHGreen #EYANature
Backstory to this memorial, Lucan, at Chapel Hill? Thu 16 Nov Huong Le Lucan Library event booking here: bit.ly/3Qldplu Darren Tully SOL will tell of a pub crawl that went very wrong. Fr. McCartan is buried in St. Finian's, 1807. The Heritage Council South Dublin Libraries SDCC Local History
‘Keeping Chronicles’ in our #LocalStudies collection explores the importance of preserving written memorabilia – diaries, letters, even old cook books. What have you got hidden away which would interest future generations?
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Here's an example of an accession to our #LocalStudies collections. We have a dedicated Local Studies Collection here at Gloucestershire Archives and this interesting report will have a new home there.
New in #LocalStudies , Walking the Peak Way by Ken Reece. A guide to exploring 155 miles of stunning Peak District landscape on this new long distance walking trail through the Dark Peak & White Peak. Experience the views, historical features & picturesque villages on the route.
If you find yourself wondering what the names are of wild flowers, then here is a book from our #LocalStudies which will help sort out your cowslips from your columbine. ‘Wild flowers of the Peak District’ by Patrick Harding, beautifully illustrated by Valerie Oxley.
#EYANature
Does poverty still exist in the countryside and do those who come in to live there have an interest in its future? Rebecca Smith explores the impact on the lives of the working class in her book ‘Rural’, now in #LocalStudies .
#LocalAndCommunityHistoryMonth
On Saturday afternoon 15 June ramble across the little hamlets of Blendon, Bridgen and Penhill, along the gently flowing River Shuttle and into the tranquil Bexley Park Wood, passing its many curious features and ancient structures. Tickets cost £5.00 from #LocalStudies .
Today marks the start of #LocalAndCommunityHistoryMonth , when every year people are encouraged to find out about the history around them. Our #LocalStudies collection is a good place to begin with books, newspapers, photographs and more.
