Reposted by Caroline ShentonDr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Of all the stone birds and animals I have seen this week, I think this handsome and sacred baboon is my favourite. 0689
Reposted by Caroline ShentonMark Valladares @honladymark.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Just spent a fascinating hour listening to @dustshoveller.bsky.social describe the events of the day Parliament burned down in 1834. 111
Caroline Shenton @dustshoveller.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Tough choice this one. Roman road made of oreos or the little animals peering out atop the summit of Mount Ararat? 030
Reposted by Caroline ShentonMari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Today is my last day working in the Parliamentary Archives after nearly 25 years! I am v grateful to colleagues for many cards and gifts. I have a shiny new website to support next phase of life www.maritakayanagi.com 4523
Reposted by Caroline ShentonDr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Very pleased to encounter this very handsome fellow enjoying summer Cambridge. 0244
Reposted by Caroline ShentonVictorian Commons @victoriancommons.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Charles Barry, architect of the new Houses of Parliament, was born #OnThisDay 1795, a stone’s throne from the old Palace of Westminster. This guest post from @dustshoveller.bsky.social looks at his background and knowledge of Westminster: historyofparliament.com/2025/05/12/c...historyofparliament.comA Westminster Boy Made Good: Charles Barry (1795-1860) - The History of ParliamentOn the night of 16 October 1834, thirty-nine year old Charles Barry was travelling back to town from business in Brighton. As his stagecoach trundled over the top of the North Downs, and began its des... 073
Reposted by Caroline ShentonUniversity of Liverpool Library @livunilibrary.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Major news from our Special Collections and Archives! 📢 Our Head of Music, Prof Lisa Colton @lisacolton.bsky.social, identified that we hold the manuscript of Dame Ethel Smyth's Mass in D, which scholars thought was lost. It is now fully available on the Digital Heritage Lab: tinyurl.com/47ce8hkd 22310
Reposted by Caroline ShentonPhilippa Smith @philippajs.bsky.social · 10/05/2025And another one @dustshoveller.bsky.social , in the display associated with their excellent London in the Second World War exhibition @thelondonarchives.bsky.social 022
Reposted by Caroline ShentonPhilippa Smith @philippajs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025National Treasures by @dustshoveller.bsky.social featured in my local library’s VE display! 131
Caroline Shenton @dustshoveller.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Just in case you’re at a loose end, my book National Treasures explains how #London protected its national art, museums and archives in WWII, mostly returned to the capital from their hiding places by 1945 #VEDay80 #VEDay2025 073
Reposted by Caroline ShentonJMcN @jmcn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Ok #photofriday #histbookchat. @dustshoveller.bsky.social is the fascinating account of how we protected our art treasures from destruction. Morrin’s book is an account of the crash of a Silver City Wayfarer in 1958. Good books. 062
Reposted by Caroline ShentonDr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Happy 250th birthday to J M W Turner. Such a titan of British art, I had to give him his own chapter to end my book (focussing on his paintings of the burning of Parliament in 1834). One critic called him ‘the Fire King’, as an insult - but Turner had the last laugh! 721030
Reposted by Caroline ShentonWill Derham @willderham.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Devoured this, by the great @dustshoveller.bsky.social over two sittings in the last week. I would highly recommend 🤓 #History #Heritage #Books 082
Reposted by Caroline ShentonMari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 06/02/2025With perfect timing for the paperback publication of #NecessaryWomen today, why not read this splendid new review by @dustshoveller.bsky.social - herself a great Necessary Woman of Parliament previously of course! londonhistorians.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/a...londonhistorians.wordpress.comA House of Their OwnGuest Post by Caroline ShentonReview: Necessary Women: The Untold Story of Parliament’s Working Women by Dr Mari Takayanagi and Dr Elizabeth Hallam Smith. Who do you think of when you think of wome… 21811
Caroline Shenton @dustshoveller.bsky.social · 12/01/2025ICYMI, here I am on @bbcradio4.bsky.social talking about the St Stephen’s Chapel Westminster project and the new book which came out of it a month or two back www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukToday in Parliament - 10/01/2025 - BBC SoundsSean Curran with the news and interviews from Westminster. 140
Reposted by Caroline ShentonDr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Fascinating - part of the archive of the great medieval historian Eileen Power (1889-1940). This box is material relating to her ground-breaking book Medieval People (1924). Was delighted to attend the once-a-decade Power Feast @girtoncollege.bsky.social with @dustshoveller.bsky.social a while ago. 1498
Caroline Shenton @dustshoveller.bsky.social · 21/11/2024“Caroline is a very bossy little girl”. I was 5. Plus ça change… 000
Reposted by Caroline ShentonLiz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Maybe more a bit disappointed than grumpy but a lovely piece 041
Reposted by Caroline ShentonJacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 19/11/2024The cold snap justifies opening a bottle of Smoking Bishop. Amazing what a year can do to the flavour—needed to add a decent amount of extra sugar. I heated it with bergamot for that lovely perfumed aroma, although I did have to pull them quite quickly to stop it overpowering everything! 4201
Reposted by Caroline ShentonDr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Just recapping a few pictures of the unbelievably wonderful painter monasteries of Southern Bucovina, Romania - this summer with @dustshoveller.bsky.social and @davidatkinson.bsky.social. 35110
Reposted by Caroline ShentonTudorfp @tudorfp.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Gladly speaking at Gustav Holst: an archival legacy 20 Nov 1400-16.30 @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Experts from BL, Britten-Pears and Gustav’s birthplace talking about their archives, and performances of his Terzetto + Imogen’s suite for solo viola. Free tickets by emailing music-events@bl.uk 1126
Caroline Shenton @dustshoveller.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Nice pic too…the evacuated public records from Chancery Lane in storage at The Oxford Diocesan teacher training college, Culham in WW2! 120
Reposted by Caroline ShentonBrónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸🚴♀️ @beebsymca.eurosky.social · 18/11/2024Do you know of an archive at risk of being lost? The National Archives have grants available.nationalarchives.gov.ukRecords at Risk Grants - Archives sectorThe Records at Risk Grants programme is delivered in collaboration with the British Records Association and the Business Archives Council, to provide support for urgent interventions to save significa... 15655
Reposted by Caroline ShentonLucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Hello friends! Independent bookshops really appreciate it if you buy your Christmas presents from them. There's a week left to order your signed and dedicated copies of my books from my friends at Chorleywood Books for delivery in the UK before Christmas 😃 chilternbookshops.co.uk/product-cate... 656248
Caroline Shenton @dustshoveller.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Yup, it’s taken a year but here I am…ready to roll. 082