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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When it just takes forever to get served

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It’s not a tapestry, it’s a……..drawing. Newcastle’s copy of the Bayeux Tapestry @ GNM Hancock

A man (Harold) wearing a crown & seated on a throne. A man (Archbishop Stigant) stands to the right & two unidentified men to the left

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At spectacular new @culturehousecc.bsky.social Sunderland to see Audrey Amiss exhibition back in her native town @wellcomecollection.bsky.social

Building interior with colourful screens and a modern spiral staircase

Modern building interior with coloured panels in blue, pink and green

Pages from four sketchbooks, one showing a pencil drawing and the others watercolour paintings

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pornbot Julie seems to have grown an unfortunate beard @mariegardiner.bsky.social

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Visit to St George’s, Cullercoats for Heritage Open Day. Some imposing Victorian stained glass (by Kempe) but I was taken with these seaside themed windows

Painted glass memorial window with seaside themed panels - shells, ice cream, fishes etc

Painted glass memorial window with seaside themed panels - ice cream cones, a lighthouse

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I presume the John Fenwick who donated this is this one (from Biographical directory of SANT members, compiled by Barbara Harbottle - comment "nutty about all things Fenwick" very Barbara!)

Biographical info about John Fenwick Senior 1787-1867

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’ve got that one, & the 2nd series both complete - my mum collected them. She never smoked but worked in her aunt’s pub & was given the cards by customers (or rescued them from discarded packets)

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Well yeah, but the "sitter's personal level of achievement" can still range from excellent to dismal

Letter (from the Guardian) suggesting that exam pass concepts don't exist in GCSE

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Did someone say there was an eclipse? (No cheating. Post the last photo of the sky from your camera roll)

Sky with black clouds and a small rainbow

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

No visible eclipse #Newcastle but a nice little rainbow

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Mexico may have its problems but I’m not sure reinstating a Habsburg puppet emperor is the solution (cf Iranians demonstrating nearby) #Vienna

Sarcophagus (of the emperor Maximilian) with Mexican flag and messages of support in Spanish

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This is actually Maria Theresa - a younger model when crowned

A young woman in a white lace 18th century costume. She is also wearing a white wig and riding a brown horse. A man in a red tricorn hat is holding the horse

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Possibly Maria Theresa herself

Two women dressed in 18th century costume. The one on the left is wearing pink and gold, and the one on the right is, who is extending her left hand is wearing green and black. A crown with a cross on top is on a red cushion in front of them.

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

For some reason Bratislava is commemorating the coronation of Maria Theresa as “King” of Hungary this weekend even though it actually took place here on 25 June (not July) 1741, when I don’t think they still had knightly tournaments

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Cute animations of manuscripts too!

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

And some actual archives - most identified as facsimiles though they’re v good ones. This is an original 13thc lease of a mint & smelting works

Parchment document with pendant brown wax seal

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Surprisingly modern looking crown of St Wenceslas (actually 14th century)

Geometric gold crown set with large red and blue gems

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Excellent (& v popular) exhibition on the medieval Premyslyd rulers of Bohemia at the National Museum in Prague. Rare to see the period given a blockbuster!

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Not well displayed archives 101 Becherovka tour #KarlovyVary #Czechia

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

A little early for #ConfinedCocktails but I’m an hour ahead. Greetings all!

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Personally I’d have preferred to enjoy the view without staging or music

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This chap is also buried in there!

Stone plaque commemorating Ralph Sowerby of Newcastle upon Tyne, died 1765. Carving gives the impression of drawn back curtains

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Lovely #UnconfinedWalks this morning in Co. Durham. Shady route & much less hot anyway but still a bit muggy

A river running between very green banks. Leaves are reflected in the water.

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

A warm day to be wearing armour

The stone gateway to a historic building (Black Gate, Newcastle). There are two orange banners reading “We’re Open” and a man with a red flag wearing medieval style costume and a helmet

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Happy #Bloomsday - here's James Joyce in Trieste, where I was last year

A bronze statue of a man appearing to walk across a bridge. He's wearing a suit, bowtie and a brimmed hat.

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Let the record show it was 1998, and Roy Hattersley did speak though I’m pretty sure I wasn’t there

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

David Hockney managed to make art that was both critically acclaimed and popular. I was lucky enough to see the major exhibition in Paris last year

A painting showing two men seated with their backs to the viewer looking at a blue wall hung with paintings of flowers in vases

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

His birthplace at Wylam - @nationaltrust.org.uk but not generally open

A white-painted cottage with a tiled roof

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Anniversary of the death of Emily Davison in 1913. Here's her grave in Morpeth photographed by me in 2024

A stone memorial in the form of an open book with the name Emily Wilding Davison. Fresh blooms in front in green, white and purple, the suffragette colours

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I know mate. (Came up as my random screen pic earlier)

Two chess pieces (from the Lewis set) - the Bishop and the King

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Only just got round to reading this - excellent as usual

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Helping...or hindering? May interest those who were reading #Clash2026

Women "helping" during the General Strike (via North East Labour History Society & British Newspaper Archive)

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Panfilov Memorial, Almaty

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

#SadArchivistOnTour a continuing series. State Archives of Corfu (Sunday, so not open)

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

If you see this post something orange from your gallery

Notice with an orange crossed through and wording Reminder: no oranges allowed

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

10 years ago today was my last day at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums before formal retirement at the end of the month. Not sure where that time went! Cake made & decorated by colleague not on this space

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

As well as Eid, today is also the feast of St Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria. Stained glass, Chester Cathedral

Stained glass window showing a man in monk’s habit. He has a crozier in his right hand and a dog under his left arm. There is a duck at his feet.

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The Northern Lights on my recent trip to Norway

Green lights in the sky (the Aurora Borealis). Mountains and lights from buildings in the distance

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

One for @jtullock.bsky.social - a window in Harstad, Norway 🇳🇴

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

A negroni somewhere in the Arctic Circle (though the table map shows the Caribbean) #ConfinedCocktails

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Me in said garment in 2019

Woman wearing knitted garment with buttons, plum coloured

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Good to be out for #UnconfinedWalks today for the first time since I sprained my ankle at the start of January. Signs of Spring too

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight, JMW Turner, currently on loan @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social from National Gallery of Art, Washington

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Liz Rees @lizarees.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I did WJEC History O level in 1971 - it was England & Wales 1867-1951. This was the Welsh part of the curriculum. Sad if all this was abandoned later. (yes, I do still have my books - I’m an archivist)

List of historical topics relating to Wales

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