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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 22h

#31daysofgraves • Language 📚 'Codwch y meirw, Dowch i’r farn’ • ‘Awake, dead, come to the judgement’ 💀 Rev. Edward Wynne (d.1745) and his wife Jane (d.1730) 🪦 📍St Beuno's Churchyard • Gwyddelwern ⛪ #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 22h

#31daysofgraves • Brick 🧱 📍Salem Chapel • Pencoed ⛪️ #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 23h

#31daysofgraves • Unusual 🪦 I love this grave marker 🛌 📍St John the Baptist Church • Newton ⛪ #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 23h

#31daysofgraves • Ordinary 🪦 Many ordinary people were buried in pauper graves. Here is a beautiful pauper grave filled with daffodils 🪦 📍 St. Mabon's Church • Llanfabon ⛪ #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 23h

#31daysofgraves • Humorous 😃 📍St Gwendoline's Church • Talgarth ⛪ #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 23h

#31daysofgraves • Missing 🔎 A Seafaring Man 🌊 This is the resting place of one of many unknown men, women, and children whose bodies were washed up on the shores of the Glamorgan Coast 🌊 📍 St Curig's Church • Porthkerry ⛪️ #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 23h

#31daysofgraves • Lettering ✍️ "Stay, reader, stay, remove not from this stone. Before thou hast considered well thy doom. Prepare for death, improve thy precious time. The grave that next is open'd may be thine." 📍Cadoxton-juxta-Neath ⛪ #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

#OTD 1913 • An explosion at the Universal Colliery, Senghenydd, killed 439 miners and one rescuer ⛏️ www.library.wales/discover-lea... #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#31daysofgraves • Animal 🪦 Where there is a country house, there is usually a pet cemetery on the grounds 🐾 📍St Fagans Castle Pet Cemetery 🪦 #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#31daysofgraves • Home 🪦 The gravestones of paupers who called Lampeter Workhouse home 🪦 Each gravestone is inscribed with the initials and 'inmate' number of the person buried there. 📍St Peter's Church • Lampeter ⛪ #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#31daysofgraves • Weather ☃️ 📍St Mary's Church • Nant Ddu ⛪ #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#31daysofgraves • Vehicle 🪦 GOD SPEED THE PLOUGH 🐎 📍St Bartholomew's Church • Llanover ⛪ #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#31daysofgraves • Entrance 🪦 📍St Peter's Church • Lampeter ⛪️ #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#31daysofgraves • Flower 🌸 📍St Llonio's Church • Llandinam ⛪ #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's finally October and it's time for #31DaysofGraves 🪦💀 ⚰️ A huge thank you to @annaandthedead.bsky.social for putting this together 🪦 #History

An image of the New Jewish Cemetery, Kraków, overlaid with text:

#31 Days of Graves

Day 1: Flower
Day 2: Urn
Day 3: Glass
Day 4: Entrance
Day 5: Vehicle
Day 6: Weather
Day 7: Home
Day 8: Animal
Day 9: Lettering
Day 10: Missing
Day 11: Humorous
Day 12: Ordinary
Day 13: Unusual
Day 14: Brick
Day 15: Language
Day 16: Faith
Day 17: Music
Day 18: Earth
Day 19: Water
Day 20: Fire
Day 21: Air
Day 22: Mourning
Day 23: Wings
Day 24: Contrast
Day 25: Tree
Day 26: Accident
Day 27: Portrait
Day 28: Landscape
Day 29: Fruits/Vegetables
Day 30: Colour
Day 31: Memento Mori

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#NationalPoetryDay ✒️ Roses are red, Water comes in litres, Trebuchets can use a counterweight to launch a 90kg stone projectile over 300 metres. #Wales

A wooden replica siege engine, stands in front of a stone castle. A piece of purple fabric is wrapped around the tall central support beam.

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

As well as consoling the bereaved and working at Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum, he was one of the members of the clergy who organised and conducted the funerals of those killed in the disaster. #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

He recognised a young boy whose mother was recently widowed and had his body taken to her house on a plank of wood so she wouldn't have to identify him, and so he could console her. #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Rev Jones ✝️ When he arrived at the disaster scene, he went underground with Dr Twist and the rescue team to save the trapped men. He gave last rites to all those who were beyond help, and he was almost killed doing so when part of the workings collapsed. #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A second illuminated address was presented to Dr Twist for the medical help he gave during the Parc Slip Disaster in 1892 🏥 museum.wales/collections/... #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

An illuminated address presented to Dr Twist for the medical help he gave during the Parc Slip Disaster in 1892 🏥 Dr Twist was the first to go underground after the explosion. He tended to the injured and did not come back up to the surface until all miners were brought up. #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#OTD 1892 • 112 men and boys were killed in an explosion at Parc Slip Colliery near Tondu. The disaster left 60 women widowed and 153 children without fathers. nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/ac... #Wales #History

A black-and-white photograph showing a large crowd gathered around a stone-lined entrance leading underground to a mine.

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I keep thinking about this Lion I saw this weekend.

A detailed marble sculpture of a lion resting its chin on its paws, next to a carved portrait on a stone wall monument.

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#WorldPhotographyDay 📷 Like many doctors of the time, he documented the bodies of patients who had diseases, physical deformities, and marks of violence. #histmed #Wales

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#WorldPhotographyDay 📷 Staff of Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum • 1912 📷 Seated in the centre is thought to be Dr David Finlay. Dr David Finlay used photography as a tool to document the patients in what he described as "their natural habitat." #histmed #Wales

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Long-stay patients/re-admitted patients would usually have more than one photograph in their case file. This would chart their physical improvement and/or deterioration. #histmed #Wales

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#WorldPhotographyDay 📷 By 1890, patients at Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum needed to have their photograph taken (usually within one week of admission) to go in their case file. #histmed #Wales

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#BookLoversDay 📚 "She walks among the tombs" 🪦 'A Picture Book for Little Children' • 1812 📚 #History

The image is an old-style black-and-white illustration showing a woman walking near a balustrade. She reaches out towards a tree with one hand, while an urn on a pedestal stands nearby.

Below the image, the text reads:

"She walks among the tombs."

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I visited the Old Priory (Caldey Island), and a teenager shouted '6 7' at me 😭

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This photograph shows Anne (the above Anne's daughter) holding a very grumpy-looking cat and dog 🐈 @catsofyore.bsky.social #Wales #History

A Victorian photograph of a woman holding a cat, with a dog by her side.

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This photograph shows Anne Verity in the garden of the Verity family home. Anne seems to have been relaxing in the garden when this photograph was taken. You can see one of the family cats sunbathing at her feet 🐈 @catsofyore.bsky.social #Wales #History

A Victorian photograph of an elderly woman wearing a white cap and shawl seated outdoors in a garden, with a small tea table to her left, a beehive to her right and a cat at her feet.

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Belated #InternationalCatDay 🐈 This lovely photograph shows Anne Verity & her daughters in the garden of the Verity family home at Dunraven Place. If you look carefully, you can see Helen and Anne both holding the Verity family cats 🐈 I absolutely adore it ❤️ #Wales #History

A sepia photograph of four women gathered near a doorway outdoors, with two seated women holding cats in their laps.

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Oh, to be sitting inside a yew tree 🌳

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

#ThickTrunkTuesday 🌳 Much Marcle Yew 🌳 This yew is believed to be at least 1,500 years old. Its girth exceeds 30 feet, with benches within its hollow trunk. 📍St Bartholomew's Church • Much Marcle ⛪️ www.nationalchurchestrust.org/church/st-ba... #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My grandfather would've been 87 today ❤️

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

#WallsOnWednesday 🧱 I adore the walls of this church 😍 📍St Michael's Church • Myddfai ⛪️ #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

He had more photographs of his harp than of his family 🎶

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I spent this morning writing about John Thomas, the Royal Harpist. Never in my life did I think I'd be an 'expert' on a harpist 🎶 Here are a few pages from his scrapbook 📚 #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Following his death in 1791, the French National Assembly famously declared six days of national mourning in his honour 🇫🇷 hellohistoria.substack.com/p/a-friend-o... #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

During the dinner, Rev Dr Richard Price was presented with a French tricolour for his commitment to the liberty of France. He was a prominent supporter of the French Revolutionists and a member of the Revolution Society 📚 #Wales #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

#BastilleDay 🇫🇷 #OTD 1790 • Rev Dr Richard Price attended a dinner held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern to celebrate the first anniversary of the Revolution. #History

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

#StainedGlassSunday 🪟 Gorgeous reflection of the stained glass on the tomb of Bishop Thomas Hatfield (d.1381) 🌞 📍Durham Cathedral #Durham #History

An stone tomb set within a durham cathedral, with a Gothic archway and multicoloured light filtering through a stained-glass window.

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A terrible video of a crayfish from today. Spectacular 🦞

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I put my feet in a stream for the first time today, and then all of a sudden I met seven crayfish. Nature is gorgeous 🦞 #Wales

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