Ancestral Enquiries · @AncestralEnquiries
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RT @wyorksarchives@twitter.com

We can’t believe its almost December! If you’ve lost track of , Abraham Sharp designed this helpful perpetual table to keep track of the day of the month! Sharp was born in c1653 and was a successful mathematician & astronomer @explorearchives@twitter.com

🐦🔗: twitter.com/wyorksarchives/sta

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Barbara Barclay · @bbarclay
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RT @AmgueddfaCymru@twitter.com

⬛️ The day that time stood still ⬛️

📷The rescue effort at Aberfan in 1966
©David Hurn/Magnum photos

A small clock that stopped at 9.13am, the moment the Aberfan disaster struck. You can see this clock on display at @StFagans_Museum@twitter.com

🐦🔗: twitter.com/AmgueddfaCymru/sta

#ExploreYourArchive #eyatime

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Barbara Barclay · @bbarclay
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RT @OMARC_archive@twitter.com

Day 2: On 3 June 1782, Lady Louisa Conolly @opwcastletown@twitter.com in a letter to her sister Lady Sarah Napier, describes a watch she commissioned for her niece Louisa Staples, which will have 89 rose diamonds set in it and hair in the tassels of the chain!

🐦🔗: twitter.com/OMARC_archive/stat

#ExploreYourArchive #eyatime

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Barbara Barclay · @bbarclay
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RT @dri_ireland@twitter.com

To avoid extreme congestion in the few days before Christmas, the Post Office used to publish posters encouraging the public to ‘Post early for Christmas’. This 1957 vintage advertising poster was published in DRI by An Post Museum & Archive doi.org/10.7486/DRI.b277hk76m

🐦🔗: twitter.com/dri_ireland/status

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Today's theme is .

Lots of times in our free project database of pre-1939 British & Irish railway staff accidents - right around the clock, in fact, as railway work never ceased.

From 00:02 to 23:59, sadly they're all there.

railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk

#ExploreYourArchive #eyatime

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RT @LinneanSociety
Are you waiting on a text?
Has someone left you on "read"? So was William Cuming when he angrily wrote English physician & botanist Richard Pulteney for not making time to write to him. "What the deuce is the matter with you. Are you sick?"
For

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Kelly Cornwell · @Whoamiftr
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RT @MPSHeritage@twitter.com

On 15 August 1903 the @HamandHigh@twitter.com bore news of a retirement gift to Sub-Divisional Inspector William George Sly after 26 years' service in @MPSHampsteadTn@twitter.com and @MPSBelvedere@twitter.com. His father and four brothers had all also been in the Met.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/MPSHeritage/status

#policefamily #eyatime #ExploreYourArchive

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