Dr Charlotte MacKenzie. Writing and researching Cornwall's history. More over at [email protected]
Cornwall, UK
Joined September 2015
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#ICYMI: Have your say in the Community Hub training needs survey!
This UK-wide programme supports community history and heritage, and wants to know what training and guidance you'd like to see in 2026.
Find out more: balh.org.uk/news-spaces-plac…
#WeAreLocalHistory
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We're closed on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
Open again from Saturday 27 December when our 'A Cornish Christmas' holiday activities continue, we look forward to welcoming you back! nmmc.co.uk/whats-on/christma…
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An interim version of the British Library's Archive & Manuscripts catalogue has now been launched searcharchives.bl.uk/
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The National Parks & Access to the Countryside Act became law #OTD 1949.
The Act:
- Created a commission which oversaw the establishment of national parks
- Made provision for setting up nature reserves
- Provided the basis for extending public access to the countryside
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The secret is out! The Sunday Times newspaper has named The Morrab Library as one of the most enchanting libraries in the UK. Of course, we all know this, but now a lot more people do too! Read the article here: shorturl.at/TSvUV
*photo-Ian Kingsnorth
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Yet Cambridge knew well enough how to define ‘those female at birth’ by denying them degrees until 1948.
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Nicholas Culpeper, botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer, was born #OTD 1616.
A radical republican who opposed the closed shop of medicine enforced by the College of Physicians, Culpeper published translations of medical texts in vernacular English for use by the poor.
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A title from our Cornish collection with this month’s focus on folklore:
- A hole must be left in one corner of the wall of a house for the piskies to come in and out. - ‘Cornish Sayings, Superstitions and Remedies’.
#Cornwall #superstition #sayings #proverb
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#OnThisDay in 1641, The #MerchantRoyal, carrying a treasure worth over a billion US dollars, is lost at sea off Land's End.⛵ The wreck is yet to be discovered.💰 Learn more: buff.ly/WaCEpq2 (@HistoryUK) #OTD #MaritimeHistory #Treasure #Shipwreck
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Across four categories, the shortlisted museums, projects and people are as follows:
Best Museums Change Lives Project 🤝
• Birmingham Museums Trust – Citizens’ Jury
• @Cornwall_Museum – Early Bird Explorer Breakfast Club
• @MansfieldMuseum – Green Power
ALT Two people sit and look at a notebook
ALT A family with two adults and two children look into a glass display case at an animal skeleton
ALT A group of people takes part in an arts activity around a table
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#OnThisDay in 1797 the radical philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft died after giving birth to her 2nd daughter (Mary Shelley). Her last book was a fictionalised account of a remarkable journey she undertook to Scandinavia in search of stolen treasure: publicdomainreview.org/colle… #OTD
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Women Money and Mining on Wednesday 3 September Falmouth Poly thepoly.org/whats-on/event/3…
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Phew! That's one big old transcription project finished. Fascinating. Time to put my feet up with a well-deserved cuppa 😃
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🧱 Happy 350th birthday to the Royal Observatory! The foundation stone was laid by the first Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed on 10 August 1675.
🧱 This was Britain’s first purpose-built scientific institution, established to help find a method of determining longitude at sea.
ALT Vintage painting of the Royal Observatory on a hill with surrounding landscape, celebrating its 350th birthday.
ALT Painting from 1600s depicting the view from another hill in Greenwich looking towards the site of the future Royal Observatory, on which Greenwich Castle sits
ALT An illustration showing an individual using a telescope pointed out of a tall window in the star room of the Observatory. Paintings of regents are on the wall and one wall is lined with clocks.
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A bibliography of Devon tinworking (archaeological and historical) 1512-2024 ; A book for your Dartmoor library ?
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This herbal illustrates the Doctrine of Signatures. This is the idea that plants which resemble particular parts of the body can be used to treat that body part. So plants which resemble eyes (like eyebright) treat problems with the eyes, toothwort cured toothaches and so on.
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In 1916, the American anthropologist Mabel Cook Cole published a collection of #folktales from the Philippines, including mischievous spirits, talking jars, and the antics of personified celestial beings, bickering suns and moons. Read it here: publicdomainreview.org/colle…
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The Board of Longitude by Dr Alexi Baker, et al.
The first full-length history of the Board of Longitude, bringing to life one of Georgian Britain's key scientific institutions.
📚 cup.org/4k3jjos
#histsci #histstm #histtech
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📣NEW EVENT!
🌱Unearthing Curious Cures
📅Saturday 12 July
📍Milton Road Library, Cambridge
🎟️Book your tickets: loom.ly/CgD1dRU
Explore the healing powers of plants, past and present, with a panel of medieval medicine experts and garden historians.
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Jude, my super assistant, made me take a break from London. Cornwall was amazing! ⛵ 🌊 🌞 🍃 @musecornishlife was so impressive!
