Time traveller in 21st century. Brings history to life in classrooms; drama to the classroom; & engaging PSHE.
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There must be a story behind William Hole's choices in 1612 for these home counties. Can we make up our own too?
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Helen Poremba, textile artist living and working in rural Northumberland, UK who creates with free-motion embroidery, she ‘draws’ with a stitched line and ‘paints’ with a whole range of recycled fabrics #WomensArt
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A small pyramid of ‘elephants done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 13th/14th century, BNF Latin 8501, f. 34r
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How lively is this anthropomorphic map of the South West by William Hole in 1612?
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Read the delight of the niece of one of these forgotten young women that lay in unmarked graves, until their #WW1 # Derbyshire story finally being told by Brookfield Primary @DerbyshireDRO @discoverbuxton @willpooley @alison_twells @RobGoffee
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A truly remarkable man, Edward Carpenter was ahead of his time in thinking about sexuality, sex education, status of women, nature and the environment. He was also President of the Vegetarian Society. Pictured here with George Merrill. #Derbyshire
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Vivid characterisation bringing Vera Gascoyne, the headmaster's daughter to life from Woodthorpe Primary School class of 1918/19 to life in #WW1 commemoration performance. Shared her experiences of school life, diptheria & brother serving. #Derbyshire primary school.
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Watch the grand opening of #Sheffield University by King Edward VII on 12 July 1905. This film was made by Frank Mottershaw, a pioneer British filmmaker who set up the Sheffield Photo Company in 1900. player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/…
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FREE high quality GCSE Drama resource. Working on the traverse throughout the students are introduced to the diverse stories of sexuality, gender and identity from the past. @DramaTeacher56 @Florencedrama @GemmaLDriver @CreateSheff @willpooley learningcreativelythroughhis…
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Remarkable Miss Outram on right, with her 1910 class at Dronfield Board School. In the 1911 census, she put in the infirmity column "unenfranchised!" In 1914, she was at the centre of a national scandal. She had answered her pupils questions about Sex! @DerbyshireDRO
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Whitwick Mining Disaster - Leicester Mercury 28th April 1898 John Bird (77) miner said: " My mate went to fetch the men stopped, and I think met his death. They're all dead, my lad. I've been in the pit 70 years, and I know. I was hurt in my mind, and I am nervous and grieved."
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Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) was an author and anthropologist best known for the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God”. Her writing preserved important stories and traditions of African American communities.
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Nottingham, England - 1932
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This richly carved doorway is one of the decorative features added to the King's Manor in York ahead of the visit of King James I in 1617. He had previously stayed at the manor in 1603.
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Happy weekend!
Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! 🐙❤️
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
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ALT My photo collage shows four pottery vessels, creamy-yellow in colour, with black hand-painted decoration. All on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum. Top left - Minoan pithoid jar with many handles decorated in ‘Marine Style’, with octopuses, tritons, rocks, and coral. Height 55 cm. From Zakros. 1500-1450 BC Top right - The iconic Minoan ‘Marine Style’ flask decorated with an octopus with sucker-lined arms writhing around the body of the vase. Additional motifs indicate the seabed. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC Bottom left - jar decorated in ‘Marine Style’ with an octopus swimming horizontally among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC Bottom right - a krater decorated with a highly-stylized octopus with arms snaking up and down over the body ofthe vessel, 1370-1300 BC
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If these steps could speak, I wonder what they would say.
These deeply worn stone steps at Wycoller Hall in Lancashire, England, have been shaped by centuries of footsteps.
Generations of residents, servants and visitors passed this way, slowly wearing grooves into the sandstone one step at a time.
The ruined hall is also believed to have inspired Ferndean Manor in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
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Did you know that the first women to land on the Normandy beachhead in June 1944 were nurses of Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service?
Their task was to establish a field hospital for 600 wounded soldiers.
They succeeded.
Please remember these heroines who saved lives:
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Powder flask, 1750-1800. Victoria & Albert Museum.
This powder flask was used to carry gunpowder. Like the pistols and guns that accompanied them, decorated flasks were costly items.
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“You okay? I hate it when they fight.” - 13th century, British Library, Royal MS 12 F XIII, f. 42v
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'Cornflowers' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt
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