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Glamorgan Archives Archifau Morgannwg @glamarchives.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Open Doors at Glamorgan Archives Join us on Saturday 12 September for our annual Open Doors event Tours behind the scenes will be running at 10am, 11.30am, 12.30pm and 2pm. Contact us to book your FREE place.

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Glamorgan Family History Society @glamorganfhs.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

This week’s events: 7th October: Swansea branch AGM (Civic Centre, 1.45pm), followed by a talk at 2pm: Jeff Phillips - history of transport in Swansea 7th October: Cardiff branch AGM (online, 7pm), followed by a talk at 7.30pm: Dr Diane Brook - J Barry Davies, Glamorgan Genealogist

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Glamorgan Family History Society @glamorganfhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

We’ll be at Kempton Park this Saturday (4th October) for The Family History Show. Visit our stand to find out more about the society, ask our volunteers for help with your research, or just stop by to say hello! thefamilyhistoryshow.com/london/ #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Glamorgan

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About The Family History Show, London

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 03/09/2025

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

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Glamorgan Archives Archifau Morgannwg @glamarchives.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

It was great to welcome back members of the Cardiff and Vale Branch of Glamorgan Family History Society to the Archives today. This month we looked at records relating to shops and shopping.

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Christopher Evans @jervisevans.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

#OnThisDay in 1935 the heroic Welsh journalist Gareth Jones was murdered just a day before his 30th birthday. He exposed the atrocities of the Holodomor famine in the #Ukraine. How we could do with journalists like him today! A piece I wrote a while back: nation.cymru/culture/hitl...

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Hitler, Stalin, and Mr Jones - the story of a true Welsh hero

Christopher Evans There are many unsung heroes throughout Welsh history. People who have fought for human rights, struggled against oppression and repression, challenged those in power, and championed...

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Seriously, We Transfer has just said they'll scrape anything you send through them for AI.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

The Summer Solstice will soon be upon us, and here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century. #SummerSolstice British Library Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r

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Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

So amazing to be holding my book at last ❤️🥲❤️

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Linda Leal @lindaannleal.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

this is true at times

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Allie Nickell @alliethinks.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Found a fake record on Ancestry (AI strikes again?). It's based on an 1855 Scottish death register entry, but the "deceased" is actually one of the listed living children, and there seems to be a 'death record' for everyone mentioned on the original 😡 #genealogy #ScottishGenealogy #GenHour

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Absolutely brilliant news. It was so important that the govt organised British re-entry to Horizon: UK wins £500m in science grants from EU Horizon scheme after Brexit lockout www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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UK wins £500m in science grants from EU Horizon scheme after Brexit lockout

Exclusive: British scientists ‘over the moon’ with re-entry to funding scheme after losing out for three years

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 04/05/2025

Has it really been only ten years?

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

"This feature has become very popular among people who have no imagination" is perhaps one of the best and most damning things you can say about people who use gen-AI to regurgitate artbarf as if it's anything other than digital particleboard.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 10/04/2025

People pushing unwanted tech like AI on the public today really conveniently forget about and gloss over the times in history when forced tech pushes failed miserably

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 10/04/2025

In withering fairness to many of our modern ill-fitting technology pushers, they have an absolutely garbage knowledge of history, as it wasn't a subject they ever put any effort into, so there was nothing to forget, and no lessons learned to avoid. It's why crypto sped run scams from the 1800s.

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Glamorgan Family History Society @glamorganfhs.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Join us at the ARC in Bridgend on Saturday 5th April to celebrate our 50th anniversary. Short talks: History and Future of the Society, Glamorgan Archives Coal Mining Exhibition, Life in the Garw Valley. There will also be 50th anniversary cake! #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Glamorgan #Bridgend

Poster advertising event, text reads as follows:
GLAMORGAN FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
Cymdeithas Hanes Teuluol Morgannwg
50TH ANNIVERSARY 1974 - 2024
5th April 2025
An event to celebrate to 50th Anniversary of the Society
At Aberkenfig Resource Centre, Bridgend
11am - 1pm - ARC is open for Research
1pm - 3pm Afternoon Tea Event Celebration
To Include: Posters, Short talks, Refreshments,
& A chance to catch up with members, old & new
For information & Directions: www.glamfhs.org.uk

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Sue Hamer @suehamer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Thank you, dioch, to those members that attended this afternoon's AGM. Apologies that we had to postpone the talk due to the last minute unavailability of our speaker. #GlamorganFHS

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Sue Hamer @suehamer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We have been advising our volunteers about thus increase in Microsoft 365 Personal and Family Plans with no.optipn to opt out of AI Copilot add in together with additional monthly charges if you use Copilot more than a certain amount!

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Happy "Microsoft trying to force CoPilot subs" day in the UK for all who celebrate. (They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase). 1) Go to your account page 2) Hit cancel 3) Change sub back.

screenshot showing choice of plans between Microsoft 365 and "lower cost without AI" option.

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Continuing our recent time in #Wales: we're off to #Cardiff on Saturday 15 Feb, to talk to the Welsh Railways Research Circle: 'Asking for trouble’? The Railway Work, Life & Death project & railway employee accidents in Wales before 1939. All welcome: buff.ly/4ha283C

Posed staff safety photo, showing a railwayman riding on a brake stick, resting on a brake lever, at risk of falling off. 1 of 2 paired images.

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

And so the last site for this series of #diggingforbritain - our Rat Island. It’s a constant effort site as the remains of these poor people keep eroding. This man had an altogether darker tale we are still investigating #drawingdiggingforbritain #archaeology

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Sue Hamer @suehamer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Fascinating meeting at #GlamorganArchives yesterday, examples of Barry and Cardiff records #GlamorganFHS including 1622 Evans Mouse survey of Barry Manor which included cottage eventually tenanted by my 7x gt grandmother the notorious witch Anne Richmond Jenkins.

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Common sense has prevailed for once. Phew!

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The new series of #diggingforbritain starts tomorrow! So sharpen your pencils, get your needles threaded, charge your batteries and join us for #drawingdiggingforbritain let’s see what inspires you from the year’s #archaeology. @raretelevision.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social

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Paul Carney @paulcarneyarts.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

My offering for episode 1. The moment of discovery. The first light on a face for over a thousand years. Gives me goosebumps #drawingdiggingforbritain @richardosgood.bsky.social

Drawing of a skull unearthed by archaeologist

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Chaz Hutton @chazhutton.com · 11/12/2024

Googling Stuff: Then v Now.

This title if the comic is ‘Googling Stuff…’
The comic shows two columns: on the left is “Then” showing search results with one thing listed as “the thing you want”

On the right column is ‘Now’ - also showing search results but in this case it’s a whole bunch of stuff you don’t need:

AI TAKING A WILD STAB AT IT WITH SOME
BLATANT MISINFORMATION

SPONSORED RESULT

SPONSORED RESULT

SPONSORED RESULT

SPONSORED RESULT

PEOPLE ALSO ASK

VIEW PRODUCTS

And then right at the bottom just off screen is ‘the thing you want’

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

The 1921 England & Wales Census will be available on Ancestry during the first half of 2025.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The Somme Archives have digitized some wonderful civilian photo albums. This one belonged to Yvonne Lelong and Raymond Rameil of Amiens. It has many images of the Somme during the FWW, like this page of French and British soldiers arriving in Albert in August 1914 archives.somme.fr/ark:/58483/4...

page from a black and white photo album with nine photos of trains arriving in Albert, marked Août 1914

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Tonight, the Cold Moon rises. ❄️ Known too as the Long Night Moon or The Moon Before Yule, it rises during the darkest nights of the year, heralding the onset of winter’s chill. Its glow has guided ancient Yule traditions and marked the turning of the seasons. Moonrise: 15:09*

A luminous full moon rises high above the silhouette of bare winter trees, casting a serene glow over the landscape. The pale orb dominates the dusky sky, its craters and markings softly visible, radiating an ethereal light. Known as December's "Cold Moon," it marks the arrival of winter’s chill, illuminating the frost-bitten evenings with its quiet brilliance.

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

It took a little while, but all 70,000 enrolled charitable trust deeds on the Close Rolls (TNA C 54), taken from the calendars at Kew, are now searchable on Discovery. Search by place name, county, or even charitable purpose. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_a...

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Search results: Charitable | The National ArchivesThe National ArchivesThe National ArchivesOpen Government LicenceGOV.UK

The official archive of the UK government. Our vision is to lead and transform information management, guarantee the survival of today's information for tomorrow and bring history to life for everyone...

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Chris Drew @mesnilman.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The French national geographical institution have just released online the Cassini maps (done by triangulation?) started in 1756 and not finished until after the revolution. www.ign.fr/institut/esp...

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Une nouvelle version interactive de la carte de Cassini, première carte intégrale du royaume de France, mise en ligne sur le Géoportail

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Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Advance warning! Two op nightingale digs in this series - Rat Island and RAF Valley. More when i know! This always brightens winter months and don’t forget #drawingdiggingforbritain #archaeology @profaliceroberts.bsky.social

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Glamorgan Family History Society @glamorganfhs.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Next week - #Bridgend branch meeting on Monday 16th December, 7.30pm, Aberkenfig Resource Centre. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

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Sue Hamer @suehamer.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I didn't get a Red weather alert from the Govt but I did from Tesco who have cancelled my delivery tomorrow due to the hazardous conditions!

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

🧵 #DisabilityHistoryMonth 🧵 “The left leg and part of the thigh of Henry Hughes Cooper was cut off & interr’d here June 18th, 1756” 🦵 📍 Ystrad Fflur ⛪️ #Wales #History

A slate gravestone with a carving of a leg and thigh.

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

If you want to check surviving poll books for the eighteenth century, our ECPPEC project lists 1,929 surviving poll books for the period 1695-1832, corresponding to 11676 separate elections. Searchable polling data here: ecppec.ncl.ac.uk/data-explorer/ #c18th #skystorians 🗃️

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 24/11/2024

⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed. If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath. 👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...

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Storyville Books Bookshop UK

Nestled in the rolling hills of the South Wales valleys, we are the only independent bookshop in Pontypridd, selling new books and more.

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Jenni Phillips @jenniph.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Lovely afternoon at Green & Jenks, Wellfield Road, #Cardiff - local/family history exhibition curated and presented by owner Gilly Jenks, focused on her ancestors’ business Roath Park Dairy Company, followed by tea and excellent cake. Email hello@greenandjenks.com to arrange a visit if interested.

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Sue Hamer @suehamer.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Post from a different era: Early 1950s - with Mary Anne!

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Dai Davies of GenealCymru @genealcymru.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Seen some posts spreading the myth that you can't research your Welsh ancestors if they have a common surname like Jones. So I wanted to share my video on how people approach Welsh research wrong. It was originally aimed toward American viewers but useful for everyone #Genealogy youtu.be/YOLnlLLItv4

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American Struggles with Welsh Genealogy

YouTube video by GenealCymru

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Adam Crymble @adamcrymble.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This is happening today. Please consider joining remotely if you can't come in person. Registration available at the link to get Zoom access. #history #18thCentury

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Sue Hamer @suehamer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Dim eira yn Y Barri! ❄️

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Glamorgan Family History Society @glamorganfhs.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Meetings next week: Monday 18th November, 7.30pm - Bridgend branch (Aberkenfig Resource Centre) Tuesday 19th November, 7.00pm - Pontypridd & Rhondda branch (Pontypridd Museum) #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Bridgend #Pontypridd #Glamorgan

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Sue Hamer @suehamer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Our December journal has been uploaded to our website and is on its way in the post. Members need to log in to view www.glamfhs.org.uk/journal-archive

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Dave Annal Lifelines Research @davelifelines.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

First thing to check when you're looking at the service record of a man who served in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars... Was he awarded an additional two years' service towards his pension? In other words, did he serve at Waterloo? In this case, I'm delighted to say, the answer is 'yes'!

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Before and after... Great to see @thenmct.bsky.social here - the National Manuscripts Conservation Trust provided us with crucial funding to pay for conservation work on the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers. The huge NUM collection is now conserved & in the process of being catalogued.

Two photos side by side. The one on the left shows wooden shelves in a (non-archival) outstore filled with large ledgers, some have visible white mould on them. The one on the right shows acid-free cardboard boxes on shelves in an archival store - the boxes contain the dried and de-moulded volumes after they received conservation treatment to stabilise them and make them safe to view.

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𝟙𝟜𝟙𝟠𝕔𝕙𝕣𝕚𝕤 @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 13/11/2024

Pleased with this work. In 116 days covered by my analysis, 640 Ambulance Train loads took casualties from Third Battle of Ypres to the Base Hospitals. This equates to a total of somewhere in the region of 256000-384000 casualties. #WW1 #FWW #history #Ypres www.longlongtrail.co.uk/evacuation-o...

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Ambulance Train evacuation of casualties from the Third Battle of Ypres - The Long, Long Trail

This article is a summary of the activity of the evacuation by Ambulance Train of wounded, sick and injured casualties from the Ypres sector in the period 24 July to 17 November 1917. Valuable for any...

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