Bexhill Museum

This week's #TwentiesTuesday garment is this gorgeous Chanel little black dress. Designed in 1924, it is made from black crêpe chiffon and silk satin and embellished with a metal and crystal buckle. LACMA collection. #fashionhistory

Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas was born #OnThisDay ✍️ Artists have been inspired by his features and poetry. Read more in this new story 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/dylan-thomas-the-poet-in-art 🧑‍🎨 Augustus Edwin John (1878–1961) © the artist's estate / Bridgeman. 📷 Amgueddfa Cymru

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Possibly a marriage stone, decorative tablet over a doorway in Heptonstall. It is inscribed F " 1 7 H E 3 6 " (Henry and Elizabeth Foster). It features a man and woman wearing contemporary dress. Marriage stones were still popular until Victorian times. Image Tim Green CC BY 2.0

Check out this event if you are in Oxford next Wednesday 4 Nov and have any interest in rock art. I will be presenting on an intriguing new rock art type from #Staffordshire

Who needs some cute? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiPo...

Did you know that pumpkins were brought over from the Americas in the 16th century? But before they became the Halloween stars we know and love, people carved jack-o’-lanterns from turnips and other root veg! 🥕

Opal is formed when a gloopy sand and water mixture is forced into a crack in the rock like toothpaste, or resin from a tube, and then hardens with pressure over time.

🎂 Happy Birthday, #NYCsubway! 📽️ Behold! The first-ever known footage of the subway, and we're sharing it today on the subway's 122nd birthday. #TodayInHistory: #OnThisDay in 1904, New York City’s first rapid transit subway, the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) opened.

Half term means one thing for us – our fun, free Families Trail! Collect a trail sheet from the front desk to discover the history of Redbridge through our exciting interactive displays! 📅 Until Saturday 31 October 🕚 11:00-16:00 (drop in) 📍 Redbridge Museum, 2nd floor, Redbridge Central Library

New blog post!🚨 Dead alien DNA tells the story of underground ecological interactions. In this blog post, authors introduce HGTScanner, a Python tool to characterize HGT across whole organellar genomes 🧬🌍 🧪 buff.ly/ZHeCUZL

There's still time to apply for the Career Development Fellowships, which provide talented early career scientists from underrepresented groups in STEM with research funding and training opportunities. Find out more and download the webinar slides for more on how to apply: bit.ly/47NlQiC

The School Library Association will celebrate 90 years in 2027, and we recently revealed our #anniversary campaign plans at an event at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Find out more about what's in store next year: bit.ly/4zNEMd4 #SchoolLibraries #SchoolLibrarians #CelebratingSchoolLibraries #90years

Time to turn the tables! Our Haliday pamphlet collection contains several 19th-century guides to hosting your own séance to communicate with spirits (HP/2139/11). Readers are advised to not try this at home! 👻🔮

Naturally occurring Australian opal, still in its iron nodule matrix. #Bexhill

751 years ago, on the 27th of October 1275, Amsterdam was first mentioned (as Amestelledamme) in a document exempting the inhabitants of the settlement from paying a bridge toll to Count Floris V of Holland. The name refers to the dam in the Amstel river. #otd #history 🗃️

I'm really into the much-overlooked subject of pigsties at the moment. In particular, I like Welsh beehive pigsties which are circular, corbelled, and found mostly in the south of the country between c11-13th & mid-19th centuries. 📸 Hendre’r Prosser Farm now @ St Fagans

"They Like The New Library. About 500 readers registered at the town's new library at the corner of Sackville Road and Western Road on Wednesday." Bexhill Observer 27.10.1951. #Bexhill #Sussex #Library #Book #History #1950s

Sunbeam #Trinidad 27.10.1883. "In the course of the night, the equatorial current to the northward not having been so strong as we had expected, we found that we had passed the south-west extremity of Tobago and were approaching Trinidad. At daybreak we were between the two islands." #Brassey #1880s

#TerracottaTuesday Two little baby feeders c. 320 BC, both made in Sicily, then Magna Graecia. One Gnathian (style from Apulia) w ivy chain decoration; one w hippocamp figures. And who wouldn't want to feed their baby through a mouse's tail?? #Ancient #Greek #Pottery 🏺 BM

""The Flood," Oct 27th 1909. Egerton Park, Bexhill-On-Sea." Postcard 27.10.1909. #Bexhill #Sussex #Weather #Flood #Park #History #1900s

This digitised glass plate #negative shows a series of# trenches in a mound near Sakje Geuzi (Sakçagözü, #Turkey). The #excavated structures and stones are clearly visible. The original #photograph was taken in 1911 by Garstang during his #survey of #Anatolia. JG/SG/238

Bronze Tools That May Be Medical Found in an Egyptian Tomb, 1,800 Years Before Hippocrates www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/10/b...

Keep an eye on the moon tonight, it’s the full Hunter’s moon and reached its peak in the early hours of this morning. 🌕 The name traditionally reflects the time of year when people prepared for winter by hunting and preserving food. Look towards the autumn sky to catch the moon glowing. ✨

Stormlight Bexhill-on-Sea

The allée couverte of Le Rocher in St-Jacut-du-Méné (Côtes-d’Armor) was about 14m long and 2m wide. It had been partly destroyed by 1897 but was sold to a stonemason c.1910 and was broken up; this card by Hamonic was issued shortly before its destruction. #TombTuesday.

Keep your eyes peeled folks, although not here in Sussex it could appear here, also, this shows the lengths criminals will go to with our heritage. #HeritageCrime www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Join us this Thursday (29th) for our spooky-themed #FolkloreThursday! Share your favourite terrifying folklore to the hashtag between the following times GMT: 9am-1pm 3.30-4.30pm 6.30-7.30pm 🎃👻🧙‍♀️🧹

#RodentOfTheDay Fawn-Footed Melomys (Melomys cervinipes) "While the tails of most mice and rats are covered in overlapping scales, the fawn-footed melomys’ tail is made up of tiny, interlinking scales that are arranged like mosaics..." Photo/Info: www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatu...

Don't miss this! Join Dr. Kelly Clarke-Neish of the British Museum to learn about the importance of late #Roman hoards & what they can tell us about Britain in the tumultuous 5th century. The lecture is FREE & online, but you need a ticket. Link in our post! ehas.org.uk/reassessing-... #archaeology

#MosaicMonday Part of the Roman mosaic found at Hinton St. Mary, Dorset 4th Century AD. Now at the British Museum. #History #artwork #Archaeology

The Monte Verde sites in Chile have been the source of arguments among archaeologists for decades. Columnist Michael Marshall finds the row is heating up again – and could change our understanding of the first peoples in the Americas

Bookish woodcut of the Paduan physician Pietro da Montagnana in his study. Medical books sit above (Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna) & in the cupboard below are books with clasps & bosses. In the Fasciculus medicinae (#Venice, 1500) of Johannes de Ketham. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.3.B.3.45[1519].

A life-size #Roman marble head found in #Sussex now in the British Museum (1961,1103.1) Our report identifying it as Agrippa Postumus, youngest grandson and adopted heir of Augustus, is open access thanks to @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Happy #StoneHeadSunday

There is a comforting weight to #1840s dress fabrics. This printed wool challis features swirls of Kashmiri buta against dark blue. The signs of wear around the underarm are especially poignant reminders of the life that once inhabited this garment. Sold via #AugustaAuction #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

An 18th-century treatise by coffee enthusiast Benjamin Moseley, arguing for the drink's multitude of benefits when it was still relatively new to Europe: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/moseley-coffee

German mycologist, Julius Schäffer (1882-1944), is said to be the only modern mycologist to die from consuming poisonous mushrooms. You can view his collection of 82 coloured drawings of Russula, which we have digitised. ⬆️ Use our bio link to the 'Digitised Collections' to view this & many others.

Scientists Create Most Detailed Simulation Yet of the Universe’s First 2 Billion Years — It Shows How the Universe Switched On www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/10/s...

Autoimmune conditions are much more common in women than men, which could be partly due to the frequent fluctuations in body temperature during the menstrual cycle and menopause. Read more: www.newscientist.com/articl...

Great line-up of speakers for the @cbalondon.bsky.social Autumn London Archaeological Forum - the LAF. And the winner of the biennial publication prize will be announced too! 17th November, 6pm UCL Institute of Arch, Gordon Square All welcome. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-autumn...

Rubin telescope should find more of Earth's mysterious 'mini-moons' www.space.com/space-explor...

These delivery vehicles were both used by local baker Henry Earl. The one on the left was horse drawn and the one on the right was pulled by shank’s pony! #Bexhill

'Mystery skeleton in Roman sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey likely belonged to a medieval abbot, study finds'🏺 archaeologymag.com/2026/10/skel...

"The Late Maharajah. Anniversary Of Death. Ceremonies at Cooch Behar. Bexhill Death Scene Reproduced." Bexhill Chronicle 26.10.1912. #Bexhill #Sussex #CoochBehar #India #Maharajah #History #1910s

Sunbeam #Santiago #Chile 26.10.1876. "We went first to the Compania, a large open square, planted with flowers, the site of the old Jesuit Church, which was burnt down on December 8th, 1863. Well know as the story is, I may here recall the tragic details, standing on the very spot..." #Brassey

My latest for National Geographic looks at the 131 new Hittite cuneiform tablets unearthed at Šamuḫa (c. 1400 BCE) & what they tell us about everything from augury to an epidemic that killed Hittite children. Thx to @digkabri.bsky.social, Theo van den Hout, @knpazuzu.bsky.social & ISAC for aid. 🪏

The Island That Gave Copper Its Name Had a 3,600-Year-Old Port City that Received Goods From Sardinia, the Baltic and India During the Bronze Age www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/10/t...