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Dr David Barton

@davidbartonmus.bsky.social
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🎓 PhD MEd AFHEA 🌳 Genealogist & Historian 📚 IHGS & Pharos Tutors Student 📝 Charity Trustee 🎵 Music Education Researcher ✍️ Writer 🎶 Flute, Piano & Singing Teacher 🎼 Composer 🎹 Accompanist & Organist 🌐 www.davidbartonmusic.co.uk 📍Lichfield UK

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Dr David Barton @davidbartonmus.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The final sunset of 2025 ✨
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Dr David Barton @davidbartonmus.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
✨ As we approach the shortest day, the skies seem to become all the more spectacular - a reminder that the light remains, and the light in all its fullness will return.
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Dr David Barton @davidbartonmus.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
It might be nearly Christmas, but whatever the time of year, it’s always a season for chocolate brownies - even more so if they are decadently gooey and fudgy in the middle! Do you agree?
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Croydon Bach Choir @croydonbach.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
We are ready 🎶 The soloists are ready 🎤 The wine and mince pies are ready 🍷🥧 Are you ready to come and join us on Saturday for a celebration of Saint Nicholas? If so, get your tickets using the link below! www.cbcplatform.org/dbpage.php?p...
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The Huguenot Society of Great Britain & Ireland @huguenotsociety.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Why not buy a gift of membership for someone interested in the Huguenots this year? Just go to our website www.huguenotsociety.org.uk to download a form from the ‘About the Society’ page and submit it for someone on your gift list. #skystorians #huguenots
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Dr David Barton @davidbartonmus.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
A very worthy and long overdue recipient; congratulations, Sir John Rutter! 🥂
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Dr David Barton @davidbartonmus.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I’d love to say we came to welcome HM King to Lichfield, but in truth, we’d just come for the 10:39 to Sutton Coldfield 😂 Well timed! 🙌 He gave us a wave and a smile too - not bad considering we probably look like we’ve been through a hedge backwards 💨😂
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Presto Music @prestomusic.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Sheet Music Downloads from Carl Fischer & Theodore Presser are now available! 🔎 Explore here: tinyurl.com/3e4v6ur3
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Pam Smith LHG @genejean.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
IHGS has shaped my own #genealogy journey, if you’re at The Family History Show in London on 4th October, make sure to stop by their stand! #OnePlaceWednesday
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Royal Philharmonic Society @royalphilsoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Nominations for the 2026 #RPSAwards have now closed. Huge thanks to RPS Members and colleagues across the classical music profession who have shared their favourites with us! Stay tuned for shortlists, and join us at London's @southbankcentre.bsky.social on 12 March to discover the winners!
A collage showing an array of vibrant images from recent RPS Awards, including: violinist Nicola Benedetti and Ashby Mayes take a selfie; Jasdeep Singh Degun playing sitar; tenor Nicky Spence performing; 2025 hosts Jess Gillam and Tom McKinney; a diverse range of guests and shortlistees interacting and enjoying themselves dressed in celebratory style.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 24/09/2025
If you're starting a postgraduate course in History this autumn, please do consider joining the Royal Historical Society bit.ly/41mTuck Postgraduate Membership brings access to research funding, events, publications and networks. You'll join an international community of more than 6500 historians.
Image of 'Trust me, I'm a Historian' badges and text: 'Postgraduate Membership of the Royal Historical Society. Applications invited for next closing dates of 13 October and 15 December 2025'.
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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 23/09/2025
Campaigners fighting Sheppard Robson and Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s plans to redevelop an area on the edge of the Barbican Estate have won permission to proceed with a legal challenge that claims alternatives to demolition were overlooked
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Campaigners get green light for legal challenge against Barbican demolition
Campaigners get green light for legal challenge against Barbican demolition
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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
EVENT: Join C20 for the launch of a major new book on Richard Neutra’s Lovell Health House in Los Angeles (1927-30); a masterpiece of the international modernist movement and cinematic star of ‘L.A. Confidential’. 🗓️ Wed 15 Oct 2025, 6.30pm 📍 Cowcross St Gallery + Online 🎟️ c20society.org.uk/events
The Lovell Health House, Los Angeles - Richard Neutra (1927-30)
Image © Zachary Gray
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
For over 240 years, our Fellows have used the post-nominals FSAScot to identify themselves as part of Scotland's oldest antiquarian society. If you would like to become a Fellow in 2025 and help play an active role in safeguarding Scotland’s past, apply before 30 September: www.socantscot.org/join/
Photo of a large group of people in waterproof clothing gathered around a speaker at an outdoor archaeological site
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Pharos Tutors @pharostutors.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Victorian and Edwardian Childhood and Education 1820-1920. This course will explore childhood and education throughout the Victorian and Edwardian eras in England and Wales, a period spanning one hundred years of considerable social change. www.pharostutors.com/details.php?...
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Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine @wdytyamagazine.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🌳 Have you traced your family tree as far back as the 17th century? Few records survive from that period - but some do remain, and can even be found online. Find out more with our guide: www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 24/09/2025
Fellows of the Society are recognised for their contribution to historical understanding and knowledge. We welcome invitations to join the Fellowship at any time from historians working in Higher Education and other sectors, as well as independent researchers bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians
Image of badges with caption: 'I know the value of history', plus text: We warmly welcome applications to join the Fellowship. Fellowship recognises the scholarly contribution of historians  working in all sectors of professional history or as independent scholars. Next closing dates: 13 October and 15 December 2025
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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
#AATP25 is very much *not* the event in its usual format, more a look back at some of the fab things from the two events held so far—with a theme for each day. 👇🏻 However, @projectkin.bsky.social and ourselves will be contributing new material: keep your eyes peeled for details! #OnePlaceWednesday
All About That Place. 
Day 1: Introduction. 
Day 2: Health & Medicine. 
Day 3: Military and War. 
Day 4: Leisure and Entertainment. 
Day 5: Town and Country. 
Day 6: Innovation. 
Day 7: Politics and Rights. 
Day 8: Tools. 
Day 9: Collections & Archives. 
Day 10: Sharing Your Findings. 
Images: Logos of the Society of Genealogists, the Society for One-Place Studies, Project Kin, and the British Association for Local History. 
#AATP25. 
24 September to 3 October 2025.
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Diahan Southard @yourdnaguide.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Feeling scattered with your DNA results? Skip random videos—join the DNA Study Group: ✔️ 2 live expert sessions/month ✔️ Supportive community ✔️ Core lessons + handouts Enroll by Sept 30 for bonus planner + welcome party! Make your research organized + supported—join today! hubs.la/Q03K2tvf0
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British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Join us on 15th October for a virtual lecture about the new book 'Drax of Drax Hall.' The work uses the story of the Drax family's history as enslavers in Barbados as a microcosm of Britain's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-d...
18th-century ships with full sails anchored near a shore where men unload barrels and greet each other by a cliffside fort. In the bottom right of the image, the purchase of an enslaved person can be seen.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 24/09/2025
New this week in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'. "Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography", by Alana Harris and Laura Mitchison bit.ly/4gH9e0f #Skystorians 1/2
First page of new TRHS article: 'Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography'

Abstract in full
‘Us and Them’ is a community history project and artistic collaboration exploring physical and intellectual disability and mental illness, in the past and present. It is part of a broader initiative to open out wider conversations about the history of psychiatric care in Epsom (Surrey, UK) and to explore ways in which medical histories, creative engagement strategies and oral history praxis can illuminate the instability of contemporary understandings of ‘healthy minds’ and ‘normative bodies’. This article charts our recent reuse of asylum photography and the restaging of wet-plate collodion portrait making, opening out key ethical questions about our complicity as consumers of historical sources, the role of re-enactment and empathy, and the place of the haptic and the ludic in exposing the porous and precarious boundaries between ableism and disability. Exploring our own vulnerabilities and solidarities in co-producing a public history project with our disabled artist collaborators, it offers insight into our evolving ‘micro ethics’, foregrounds lived experience perspectives, and offers some initial thoughts on ways to rethink critically some core tenets of oral history methodology.
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Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The report featured in the Guardian today on the inclusion of women in hustory lessons is really important - lets make women’s voices heard and their actions remembered. www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
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Report on Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum
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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
A celebratory evening marking the publication of the 250th Big Red Book of #local & #place based #history from @vch-home.bsky.social: Westmorland vol 1, from VCH Cumbria (Cumbria County History Trust). Many congratulations to Sarah Rose and her colleagues, and to all the local contributors involved.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 24/09/2025
We’re not just planning for a digital future: we’re living in a digital present. How do we make a sustainable cultural memory? @TJOwens.bsky.social & @ShannonMattern.bsky.social discuss in the #booktalk AFTER DISRUPTION. 🗓 Thurs Sept 25 🕖 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1633230118...
Promotional image for an online book talk titled 'After Disruption.' Left side shows portraits of Trevor Owens and Shannon Mattern with text: 'After Disruption Book Talk, with Trevor Owens & Shannon Mattern.' Center panel reads: 'September 25th, 10am PT / 1pm ET, Online. Join us for a book talk with Trevor Owens, author of After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory, in conversation with Shannon Mattern, as they explore how libraries, archives, and museums can reclaim their role in shaping a just and sustainable digital present.' Logos of Internet Archive and Authors Alliance appear at the bottom. Right side shows the book cover for 'After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory' by Trevor Owens, featuring a photo of a grand library entrance.
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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
On the #AATP25 Day 1 theme of introductions, welcomes, and getting started with #OnePlaceStudies and place-based #FamilyHistory, be sure to check out on our website: ✦ About us (the Society for One-Place Studies) ✦ What is a One-Place Study? ✦ A guide to one-place studies (PDF) #OnePlaceWednesday
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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
A course from the Society of Genealogists that may be of interest to #OnePlaceStudy people is Maps for Genealogists. Four 1-hour sessions over four weeks, on Monday evenings from 20th October. £50, with a discount for SoG members. #OnePlaceWednesday
A map, in colour, depicting a town with its streets and buildings, church, moated castle, rivers and surrounding field. Superimposed are the words "Maps for Genealogists, with expert speaker."
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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
We promised some new material from us for #AATP25, and the first video is now live on our #OnePlaceStudies YouTube channel! Check out Mini-AATP - Welcome and getting started presented by @willsmanonename.bsky.social Liz Craig on this wonderful #OnePlaceWednesday
All About That Place. 
Image: The title slide for a YouTube video presentation, "One-Place Studies" by Liz Craig. 
youtube.com/@oneplacestudies/videos 
Images: logos of the Society of Genealogists, the Society for One-Place Studies, Project Kin, and the British Association for Local History. 
#AATP25
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Bury Bach Choir @burybachchoir.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Exciting times! We have now sold 62% of our tickets for this concert & there’s still just over 7 weeks to go…so the message is: Don’t delay, get YOUR tickets today! We’d love you to experience this tribal-choral masterpiece encompassing a thrilling setting of the Latin Mass.
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🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @classicbritishtv.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Floella Benjamin is 76 today, Happy Birthday Floella, I hope you are having a wonderful day 🎁🎂
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Association of English Cathedrals @englishcathedrals.co.uk · 23/09/2025
On the Westerly point in Wales is St Davids Cathedral Originally a monastery founded by St David, in 1123 papal privilege was bestowed upon the cathedral and this made it a focus for pilgrims. Today pilgrims come in 1000s, still finding this one of the world’s ‘thin’ places More ⤵️ buff.ly/FwqrtZR
On the Westerly point in Wales is St Davids Cathedral
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🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @classicbritishtv.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Ceefax was first introduced on this day in 1974.
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Andrew Eales @pianodao.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Eugénie Rocherolle’s name and music remain too little known here in the UK, so this valedictory tribute to her genius offers both a superb introduction, and a glowing memorial to one of the true greats of the piano pedagogy literature… 👇
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The Eugénie Rocherolle Collection
Eugénie Rocherolle’s name and music remain too little known here in the UK; this beautifully presented valedictory tribute to her genius thus offers both a superb introduction, and a glowing memorial to one of the true greats of the piano pedagogy literature.
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
A new project is seeking volunteers to help record the heritage of South Yorkshire’s 250-year-old waterways. The Canal & River Trust is updating a survey last carried out in the early 1990s, charting changes to the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation. Volunteers will use
Ickles Lock - South Yorkshire Navigation Canal
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Liz @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
A thorough, & fascinating, investigation by @davidbartonmus.bsky.social into the origins of the name of his #OnePlaceStudy, #Longstock. I’ve been lucky enough to visit Longstock, so I was especially interested to read this #OnePlaceWednesday
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Dr David Barton @davidbartonmus.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I recently launched a new website and the first post on the blog is about my one-name study, so what better day to share it for the first time, than #OnePlaceWednesday! www.davidbartonresearch.co.uk/the-archive/... @oneplacestudies.bsky.social #OnePlaceStudy
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The Story in a Name: What Longstock Reveals About the Past — David Barton | Genealogist & Historical Researcher
Uncover the history of Longstock, Hampshire, its Anglo-Saxon roots, Viking past, and how its place-name reveals over 1,000 years of heritage.
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British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Join us on 15 October for a virtual lecture all about the Drax family's 500-year involvement in the sugar trade through newly published research. Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-d... #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
Sailors unloading barrels from boats onto a shore with several large sailing ships in the calm sea under a cloudy sky.
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The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
📢The Folklore Society President’s Prize 2025: deadline 30 Sept 2025📢 The Prize is awarded to a folklore studies essay by a student on a relevant undergraduate or post-graduate or equivalent course at a university/institution of HE or FE in the UK or Republic of Ireland. tinyurl.com/423xwexv
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Chris Paton @chrismpaton.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Starts tomorrow, still spaces available! 👇 #genealogy
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Bury Bach Choir @burybachchoir.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Calling all singers! You are invited to join us for a workshop of Part III of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. For more details and instructions on how to register, follow the link: burybachchoir.co.uk/come-and-sing ⏰ 10.00am - 2.00pm 📆 Saturday 18 October 2025 📍 King Edward VI School, BSE 🎟️ £5
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Pharos Tutors @pharostutors.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
If you are looking to get a good foundation in genealogy then check out our Intermediate Certificate. www.pharostutors.com/certificatec... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #DistanceLearning #OnlineCourses #GenealogyCourses
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Edition Peters @editionpeters.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Our brand-new edition brings Cécile Chaminade’s piano works back to life, many for the first time since their original publication. Hear them performed by @EvaMeitner, who curated the selection & wrote the foreword. 🎶 📍 Leipzig, Kulkwitzer See 📅 Sept 13, 2025 – 6 PM
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 11/09/2025
Royal Historical Society vacancy: Events and Academic Engagement Officer bit.ly/3V8q5PC We look to appoint an Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) to join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata. Closing date: Sunday 5 October #Skystorians
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Vacancy: the Society seeks to appoint an Events and Academic Engagement Officer - RHS
The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint an Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) to join its professional Office based at University College London. The post will help support and dev...
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 11/09/2025
The Royal Historical Society welcomes Fellowship applications from historians working in higher education and other sectors, as well as independent researchers. Fellows make original contributions to historical understanding via research, public history and heritage bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians 1/2
Image of badges 'Trust Me I'm a Historian' with the caption: Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society

We warmly welcome applications to join the Fellowship.

Fellowship recognizes the scholarly contribution of historians 
working in all sectors of professional history or as independent scholars.

Next closing dates: 13 October and 15 December 2025
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The UK Association for Music Education: Music Mark @musicmarkuk.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Our latest blog explains our redeveloped offer for schools 💡 Understand what the offer is, why we have changed it, and how Music Mark supports schools - if you work in a school, learn how you can get the Music Mark of Recognition! 👀 🔗Read more: www.musicmark.org.uk/news/introdu...
Abi Marrison, Schools Manager. "The Music Mark team are proud of what The Music Mark of Recognition signifies; a true exchange of aspiration, support and improvement. It provides an opportunity to recognise the hard work going on behind the scenes at a school with the core motivation being the musical lives of the students and the quality of their music education." A photo of Abi (white woman, shoulder length blonde hair, wearing a pink cardigan) is on the right. Underneath reads 'music should be at the heart of every school'. The Music Mark of Recognition for schools logo is top right.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 11/09/2025
Our Associate Fellowship category is for those at an earlier stage their research careers - for example, completion of a #History PhD - or History professionals (teachers, curators, archivists etc.) who make research possible. Applications are welcome at any time bit.ly/44r8NTg #Skystorians
Image of badges with logo: This is what a historian looks like with overlay text: Associate Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society

Associate Fellows are recognised for their contribution to historical research, including completion of a PhD in history or a related discipline. 
Many Associate Fellows are early career historians.

Associate Fellows also work in history: 
for example, as teachers, archivists or curators.

Applications to join are welcome at any time

Next closing dates: 13 October and 15 December 2025
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
FELLOWSHIP DEADLINE: As well as our public lectures, we host in-person and online meetings exploring Scotland's past exclusively for our Fellows. Want access to behind-the-scenes tours and invitation-only talks? Find out more about Fellowship and apply before 30 September: www.socantscot.org/join/
Photo of a hand holding a tiny book with an engraving
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Simon Lole @slole.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
There’s still time to think about coming down to St Mary’s Church in Swanage this coming Sunday 14th September for our next “Come and Sing” evensong, which will be led by the brilliant Dr Andrew Lumsden. Andy is currently running the music at New College, Oxford. 4pm Rehearsal.
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Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine @wdytyamagazine.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Do you have nonconformist family? Find out more about researching ancestors who defied the Church of England with our guide: www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...
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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
💥 C20 Society's definitive new book 'Cooling Towers: A celebration of sculptural beauty, industrial history and architectural legacy' (by @batsfordbooks.bsky.social) is published today! 🛒 Order your copy now: lnkd.in/ecKRAPMR
Cooling Towers: A celebration of sculptural beauty, industrial history and architectural legacy by Batsford Books, 2025Cooling Towers: A celebration of sculptural beauty, industrial history and architectural legacy by Batsford Books, 2025Cooling Towers: A celebration of sculptural beauty, industrial history and architectural legacy by Batsford Books, 2025
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Dr David Barton @davidbartonmus.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Definitely maternal!
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