Colour photo showing a nurse behind a desk, she is on the phone, a man in green scrubs stands in front of the desk
We loved introducing Alice to our collections, but you don't need to be a Professor to come to the archives, anybody can visit and explore our collections!
Find out how by visiting our website - www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/barts-health...
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Photo taken in the archway of the Barts North Wing, with The Square visible behind a sign for Barts Hospital Museum
Me with the Barts nurse mannequin who used to keep me company at the front desk of Barts Hospital Museum. Taken on my last volunteering day, just before the Museum closed for restoration of the North Wing - now completed.
Photo of the Hogarth Staircase in the North Wing of Barts Hospital.
Really enjoying @profaliceroberts.bsky.social exploration of 900 years of Barts Hospital, London EC1.
I had the pleasure of volunteering with @bharchives.bsky.social a few years back.
Loved the chats w visitors to Barts Hospital Museum & in such a historic setting!
www.channel5.com/show/alice-r...
Isn't that letter a great read! Looks like a fascinating collection of letters
One for you @tharchives.bsky.social - extract from a letter written by the Irish painter and social campaigner Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863–1941) in the immediate aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising
Photo of one page of Sarah Cecilia Harrison's letter with the reference to Sylvia Pankhurst’s "Irish girl" highlighted Source: https://auctions.twgaze.co.uk/catalogue/lot/fe1eb361487e60992a95d08e3aa866ea/8a390ef7ce02b4a94fa666f3e767067e/books-ephemera-sale-lot-5268/
Slide from a talk written by Breda Corish: "500 Years of Irish Women in Tower Hamlets". It shows the opening paragraphs of the news report written in 1916 by Patricia Lynch for the newspaper of the East London Federation of Suffragettes, "The Women’s Dreadnought" Source: The Women’s Dreadnought via British Newspaper Archives
Cover of "The Turfcutter’s Donkey", one of many children's books written by Patricia Lynch
"Sylvia Pankhurst sent over an Irish girl to report on affairs here & sent her to see me. She returned this evening. I sent her to see various non political people who gave her their experiences"
She was Patricia Lynch (1894-1972), the future children's author, writing for The Women’s Dreadnought /3
Screenshot 1 of letter transcript available at https://auctions.twgaze.co.uk/catalogue/lot/fe1eb361487e60992a95d08e3aa866ea/8a390ef7ce02b4a94fa666f3e767067e/books-ephemera-sale-lot-5268/
Screenshot 2 of letter transcript available at https://auctions.twgaze.co.uk/catalogue/lot/fe1eb361487e60992a95d08e3aa866ea/8a390ef7ce02b4a94fa666f3e767067e/books-ephemera-sale-lot-5268/
Screenshot 3 of letter transcript available at https://auctions.twgaze.co.uk/catalogue/lot/fe1eb361487e60992a95d08e3aa866ea/8a390ef7ce02b4a94fa666f3e767067e/books-ephemera-sale-lot-5268/
Screenshot 4 of letter transcript available at https://auctions.twgaze.co.uk/catalogue/lot/fe1eb361487e60992a95d08e3aa866ea/8a390ef7ce02b4a94fa666f3e767067e/books-ephemera-sale-lot-5268/
Lot 5268 catalogue entry includes a transcript of a 4 page letter written by Sarah Cecilia Harrison to her sister Eliza Beatrix Chisholm (née Harrison) 7th May 1916, on 36 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin headed paper.
It describes the aftermath of the Easter Rising for individuals & Dublin city /2
📢 If you're interested in eyewitness accounts of Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising and/or Irish artist Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1853-1941) - the first woman elected a Dublin city councillor - check out Lot 5268 in the 10 Mar Books & Ephemera sale at TWGaze Auctions /1
auctions.twgaze.co.uk/catalogue/lo...
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Screenshot of paragraph from "Maria Edgeworth, letters from England 1813-1844" by Christina Colvin Source: Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/mariaedgeworthle0000chri/page/119/mode/1up?q=stoke+newington
B/W etching image of Maria Edgeworth seated at a table
15 October 1818: Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) writes from Hampstead to her stepmother in Ireland about her visit to the noted writer Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825).
Unfortunately Stoke Newington does not make a good impression - "What a dismal place!"
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Screenshot of a paragraph from "Gale force 10 : the life and legacy of Admiral Beaufort" by Nicholas Courtney, describing the 1834 burial of Alicia Beaufort nee Wilson in St John-at-Hackney. Source: Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/galeforce10lifel0000cour_n1e8/page/289/mode/1up?q=hackney
According to biographer Nicholas Courtenay, the Beaufort-Edgeworth connection with St John-at-Hackney began with the burial there of Sir Francis Beaufort's first wife Alicia Magdalena Wilson (1782-1834), daughter of Dublin-born Captain Lestock Wilson of the East India Co & Bonne (Boileau) Wilson /4
B/W photo of the memorial tablet to Frances Maria Wilson nèe Edgeworth which was erected in St John's Church, Edgeworthstown, Co. Ireland. It states "Her remains were deposited in the vault of her maternal uncle Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort KCB at Hackney in Middlesex"
Photo of the pictorial display in the Maria Edgeworth Centre in Co. Longford, Ireland which includes the b/w photo of the memorial tablet erected in memory of Frances Maria Wilson nèe Edgeworth
The Beaufort family tomb in Hackney contains the remains of Sir Francis Beaufort's 2nd wife Honora Edgeworth and his niece Frances Maria Edgeworth (1799-1848), both sisters of Maria Edgeworth via her father’s 2nd & 4th marriages.
Frances Maria is memorialised in St John's Church, Edgeworthstown. /3
Picture of Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort from the Maria Edgeworth Centre in Co. Longford, Ireland
Photo of the Beaufort family vault in the churchyard behind St John-at-Hackney
Photo of the information board on the railings surrounding the Beaufort family vault in the churchyard of St John-at-Hackney
Closeup of the plaque on the tomb of Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort KCB FRS in the churchyard of St John-at-Hackney
Maria's stepmother & close friend Frances Anne "Fanny" Beaufort (1769-1865) was an Irish botanical artist who counted amongst her siblings Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort KCB (1774-1857), hydrographer & inventor of the Beaufort Wind Scale. He is buried in the churchyard of St. John-at-Hackney /2
Photograph of the exterior of the Maria Edgeworth Centre in Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford, Ireland
Portrait of Maria Edgeworth, thought to have been based upon a pastel by the Irish artist Adam Buck (1759-1833)
Drawing of Frances Beaufort (1769-1865), fourth wife of Richard Edgeworth and stepmother to the adult Maria Edgeworth
Photo of an interior wall.of the Maria Edgeworth Centre showing a collection of pictures of people associated with the Edgeworth family. A red arrow annotation points to the picture of Rear Admiral Dir Francis Beaufort (1774-1857)
An unexpected Hackney connection found on a recent visit to the wonderful Maria Edgeworth Centre in Co. Longford, Ireland.
Maria Edgeworth (1768-1848) - "the Irish Jane Austen" - was connected via her father’s 4th marriage to the Beaufort family & the inventor of the Beaufort Wind Scale /1
What a night 🖤🖤🖤 The extraordinary sound of @thediamandagalas.com in the beautiful setting of Braga's Theatro Circo where we had our own mini-box. And excellent merch too 🖤
🖤 TONIGHT! 🖤 The divine, haunting, bone-shaking music of Diamanda Galás at Braga's Theatro Circo.
It's almost 9 years since her extraordinary voice had me pinned to my seat at the Barbican in London. Still can't quite believe we'll be hearing her again in just over 12 hours time 🖤🖤🖤
Photo of a hand holding a mermaid's purse egg case, some shells & stones on a stony part of Grattan Beach, Galway
A nice find on Galway's Grattan Beach this morning - a mermaid's purse, the leathery egg case produced by some sharks and rays.
Delighted to be able to record it with Marine Dimensions & Purse Search Ireland #CitizenScience
marinedimensions.ie/what-is-a-me...
In 1918, The Representation of the People Act received royal assent.
@emmapeplow.bsky.social explains how the Act gave the parliamentary vote to some women for the first time as well as millions of previously excluded working men.
'London' (commission for Great Western Railway, 1932) by Charles Pears
(National Railway Museum)
There's something very powerful about being in a space that, despite the surrounding trappings of modernity, still reflects the landscape experienced by those Famine migrants 💔
Photo of the Mutton Light Famine Memorial
Some of the emigrant ships of 1847-1850 listed on the Mutton Light Famine Memorial
"Galwegians waving off a steamship, with Mutton Island lighthouse and the Burren in the background" llustrated London News, 8 June 1850"
Inside Celia Griffin Memorial Park, the Mutton Light Famine memorial lists the names of ships which carried Famine migrants from the port of Galway over 1847-1850. Mutton Island Lighthouse in the distance would have been their last sight of home. 2/2
Photo taken on Grattan Beach, Galway with Celia Griffin Memorial Park in the distance
Photo of the text panel explaining the back story of the death of Celia Griffin in 1847, worst years of the Irish Famine
A very poignant memorial to Ireland's Great Famine at Grattan Beach, Galway. The park is named after Celia Griffin, a 7 year old child whose death from starvation was the subject of a Galway inquest in 1847.
Read more here:
galwaycitymuseum.ie/blog/nationa... 1/2
For a wonderful account of the life and musical career of Irish composer Michael William Balfe (1808-1870), see the website of Irish music historian Basil Walsh
www.britishandirishworld.com
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Title page of the 1843 score & libretto for "The Bohemian Girl", by the Irish 19th-century composer Michael William Balfe
Illustration of the Irish Famine from the Illustrated London News, Feb 1847, showing a woman with a baby in her arms and asking for aid.
"Marble Halls" came from Balfe's hugely successful opera "The Bohemian Girl" which premiered at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 1843.
Early in 1847, Balfe & London impresario Benjamin Lumley raised £2000 for Irish Famine victims through a fundraising concert.
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Nighttime photo of the exterior of Wilton's Music Hall, an original 18th century music hall building in London E1
Poster for an interpretation of James Joyce's short story "The Dead", performed by The Fourth Choir and narrated by Justine Mitchell.
More #IrishLondonHistory ☘️ prompted by a beautiful rendition of "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls" by @thefourthchoir.bsky.social for James Joyce's "The Dead" at Wiltons Music Hall.
Composed by Dublin-born Michael Balfe (1808-1870), famous across mid-19th century Britain, Ireland and Europe. 1/2
So many research rabbit holes, so little time!
Welcome! It's a fascinating topic. I took history of infectious diseas & epidemics as my specialist subject for final year of recent BA History. The combination of 19th century science + class, immigrants etc makes for a heady brew!
Another great read here
anthropology.columbia.edu/content/typh...
Typhus is easily transmitted in crowded, insanitary conditions - could be nothing to do w presence of a corpse.
History of disease shows how it is socially constructed, esp when disease biology is unknown.
This is a good read on typhus as 'Irish fever' 👇
repository.londonmet.ac.uk/4936/1/IHR%2...
The caveat is that we have to read those sanitary reports through the then understanding of how disease was transmitted. The 'miasma' theory that disease was caused by "bad air" - like smells from a corpse - was still dominant in 1870s.
It was 1909 before body lice were id'd as the vector for typhus
If you'd like to see more - you can search this 1843 Report about the Practice of Interment in Towns for the word "Irish". There's about 10 examples of reports by Poor Law Medical that specifically mention the Irish poor in Britain
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