@hellohistoria
Award-winning Historian ✍️🏻 Death, Wales and Psychiatry 💀 Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠 Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠 🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚 📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her 🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
If you get this far, go back to the start and read the judge's summary of the case again. And ask yourself... who benefits from minimising violence against women?
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A newspaper clip. it reads "There is one case of wilful murder, the charge being made against Henry Calvert for the murder of his wife at Birstal. It would appear that the prison having some just cause of complain against his wife struck her with a clog a very violent blow as he was taking her home one night and from that blow she died.
Normally, for a Friday Murder, I just tell you the story and we go about our lives. But today, I am going to put my Teacher Hat on.
Read this first. It's the assize judge summarising the case for the grand jury. They decide if the trial goes ahead.
These lil shits were meowing at me through the window last night. I went to see what was wrong, but they were standing, staring at me, and then ran off.
Yuri the dictator 🐈⬛️
Yuri the dictator 🐈⬛️
These lil shits were meowing at me through the window last night. I went to see what was wrong, but they were standing, staring at me, and then ran off.
It went incredibly well.
Today we recorded the first oral history for our Birth Stories project. Mrs Phillpotts gave birth to twins in the 1960s at Ronkswood. She has allowed us to take a copy of the photograph of Robert and Suzanne outside the ward.
Share your story: medicalmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/202...
Thank you to Cathy for this write-up about Elizabeth Randle, a patient at the Worcestershire asylum three times between 1891 and 1896.
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Sandra has been looking into the life of Lydia Yarnall, who shortly after the birth of her first child, Daisy, was admitted at the asylum with acute puerperal mania (postpartum psychosis). Thank you, Sandra. @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social
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Tour at The Infirmary Museum @worcesteruni.bsky.social for #InternationalWomensDay 2026. "Women of the Infirmary", please email to register. See website for details.
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Someone I am researching has named their child different versions of their last name.
'Verity De Verite Verity'
Someone I am researching has named their child different versions of their last name.
'Verity De Verite Verity'
Printed recipe. Text reads ‘For melancholy. Rub the body all over with nettles’
Questionable 1700s treatment for melancholy... rubbing yourself all over with nettles
Handwritten text. Reads: Is affected with a praeternatural discharge of urine, passing it in the space of 24 hours to the extent of lb VI. It is of a greenish colour but is sweet to the smell & taste
Example of a physician diagnosing by tasting a patient's urine, 'greenish colour...sweet to the smell and taste', Edinburgh dispensary, 1783
A model of the upper part of a person’s face, showing their nose, closed eyes and forehead. There appear to be red dots around the eyebrows, possibly indicating a skin condition.
This wax moulage of William Caulfield, a patient at the Edinburgh Infirmary, shows the incredible detail that went into modelling individual eyelashes, freckles and wrinkles
The image is an old-style black-and-white illustration showing a woman walking near a balustrade. She reaches out towards a tree with one hand, while an urn on a pedestal stands nearby. Below the image, the text reads: "She walks among the tombs."
#WorldBookDay 📚
"She walks among the tombs" 🪦
'A Picture Book for Little Children' • 1812 📚
#History
The image is an old-style black-and-white illustration showing a woman walking near a balustrade. She reaches out towards a tree with one hand, while an urn on a pedestal stands nearby. Below the image, the text reads: "She walks among the tombs."
#WorldBookDay 📚
"She walks among the tombs" 🪦
'A Picture Book for Little Children' • 1812 📚
#History
Sarah Elizabeth Cox recherchierte die Lebensläufe legendärer Boxer, die vor 150 Jahren London unsicher machten. Der Disney-Konzern verarbeitete den Stoff zu einer Serie. Mit der die Historikerin nur bedingt einverstanden ist.
Thank you Louisa Mellor + @denofgeek.bsky.social! 🫶🏻🥊
The piece was from last year, just don't remember reading it at the time. So many of the [always male] writers who did #AThousandBlows true history pieces took research information from my website without crediting. This has made me very happy!
I have an incredibly important, possibly life-changing medical appointment tomorrow.
I'm going to spend today distracting myself by writing about Cholera, and reading old newspapers 📰
#WomensHistoryMonth 🎉
Bridgend & The Welsh Women's Peace Petition 🖊
"These women lived through the horrors of the First World War and lost loved ones.
They signed the petition in the hopes that it would never happen again."
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#Wales #History
#WomensHistoryMonth 🎉
Bridgend & The Welsh Women's Peace Petition 🖊
"These women lived through the horrors of the First World War and lost loved ones.
They signed the petition in the hopes that it would never happen again."
hellohistoria.substack.com/p/bridgend-a...
#Wales #History
#WomensHistoryMonth 🎉
The Swansea Cholera Searchers 🔎
"...That as soon as the Corpse is buried, they direct all noxious matter to be removed, the Room cleansed, white-washed and fumigated."
www.swansea.gov.uk/womencholera...
#Wales #History #histmed
#WomensHistoryMonth 🎉
The Swansea Cholera Searchers 🔎
"...That as soon as the Corpse is buried, they direct all noxious matter to be removed, the Room cleansed, white-washed and fumigated."
www.swansea.gov.uk/womencholera...
#Wales #History #histmed
the HPV vaccine is fucking incredible, period end of that's it
#WomensHistoryMonth 🎉
"Get up, you old sow, you are drunk."🍺
When Selina was found dead in her home, it was suspected that her death was caused by a series of falls.
The days that followed uncovered something much darker.
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#Wales #History
#WomensHistoryMonth 🎉
"Get up, you old sow, you are drunk."🍺
When Selina was found dead in her home, it was suspected that her death was caused by a series of falls.
The days that followed uncovered something much darker.
hellohistoria.substack.com/p/so-help-me...
#Wales #History
A Newhaven fishwife, a photograph taken in the late 19th century, with her basket just visible on the right.
That’s a story I know. My mother’s family came from Newhaven on Forth, and generations of them were fishermen and fishwives, selling fish door-to-door in Edinburgh.
This black-and-white photograph depicts two women walking along a street carrying large wicker baskets. They are dressed in late 19th-century attire, with long skirts and shawls. The street is lined with terraced houses featuring iron railings, and a gas street lamp is visible in the background.
It's #WomensHistoryMonth 🎉
As usual, I'll be sharing ordinary women's stories.
I like writing about these women. They didn't do anything the world would deem spectacular.
They were just everyday people going about their lives. Surviving the way they knew best.
#History