FRIDAY FOSSICKING 22nd Jul 2022

 

Panning by S.T. Gill

* GENERAL INTEREST

GSQ Blog     ‘Out in the Weather’ by Sharyn Merkley 

National Archives UK newsletter incl. 

Step into the world of the 1920s

Ministry of Time Travel: The 1671 Crown Jewels Heist

Spotlight on: Domesday education video

Old Sydney Burial Ground | City of Sydney Archives

Trove Treasures newsletter incl. Coding Country    Knitting And Crochet vintage patterns        Search maps

Penfound Manor - the oldest inhabited manor house in Britain - The Cornish Bird thanks to Helen Connor

 Eltham District Historical Society Inc.      OTD: Rex ‘Young Pommy’ Whitworth won the Eltham Beer Barrel Drinking Contest, 19 July 1974

Claremorris records highest temperature in Mayo as heatwave ends - Midwest Radio

Revealed: The hottest places in Ireland today as 'multiple' temperature records smashed

Wanderlust Twins

The Writers Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland    Gwangju, South Korea

I just took this photo with my phone, this is how autumn looks like where I live :)

Medieval, Ashford Castle, Mayo, Ireland 

Tree Camping, Elk, California

by communiquel on Flickr.Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town, South Africa.

by EnDie1 on Flickr.The charming medieval city of Meersburg in the southwest of Germany at Lake Constance.

travelingcolors:“ Assos, Kefalonia Greece ”

Three Story Tree House, British Columbia, Canada

Outback Family History

Kundana – The town that never was!   

The Crown for the Queen of the Murchison

The Old Time Track by Darkie Wallace ‘The Axeman’  

Laverton Cemetery update –     The Water Buffaloes by Merv Kennedy

Atlas Obscura

China’s Newly Discovered Sinkhole   Ukrainian Coffee  

'Wall of Frogs'   Trails Traversing History East Broad Top Railroad

Vilcabamba podcast 'fountain of youth' Taupo McDonald's Airplane

Why Do We Use Blankets In Summer? The ‘Iron Lady’ of Kashmir

Devil's Throat  The First Brazilian Carnival Queen

Black Point Fissures by Mono Lake California Belhaven Bridge

A New Home For Vipers  Inside A Vault for Stolen Art

Ruins of King Zog's Estate The Menster Christmas Cookie Gravestone

Italy’s ‘Museum of Abandonment’   Supersized Giant Predators

Transparent Toilet A Pearl Necklace Both Elegant and a Little Evil

Bringing Wine Back to Venice The First Telephone in Las Vegas

The Fate of India’s Tigers  Stories That Unsettle    Tent Toilets

Bryant Park Escape Hatch  Cranes of the DMZ    

Uncommon Mailing Methods     Japanese Giant Spider Crab

JSTOR Daily

Don't Dress Your Whale in Galoshes  Tomatoes as Medicine

One Name, Two Writers: The Story of Michael Field 

Policing Abortion 

Smithsonian

When Authorities Dunked Outspoken Women in Water 

An Ancient Home Found Beneath the Baths of Caracalla Is Now on Display

Inside a Trailblazing Surgeon's Quest to Reconstruct WWI Soldiers' Disfigured Faces

Meet Diane Nash, the Civil Rights Icon Awarded the U.S.' Highest Civilian Honor

How Disney Propaganda Shaped Life on the Home Front During WWII

The Secrets of a Long-Overlooked Cipher Linked to Catherine of Aragon

How the Ghost Army of WWII Used Art to Deceive the Nazis

Why American Girl Dolls Are Starring in Viral History Memes 

The Oldest Footage of New Orleans Has Been Found 

Well-Preserved, 30,000-Year-Old Baby Woolly Mammoth Emerges From Yukon Permafrost 

Bradford Freeman, Last Surviving Member of WWII 'Band of Brothers,' Dies at 97

Archaeologists Begin First-Ever Excavation of Tomb Linked to King Arthur 

The Schoolteacher Who Saved Her Students From the Nazis 

Always Interesting

Violence against Women in Belfast, 1920-22 – Part 2  The Irish Story

The River Lee and the Republican Armoured Cars of the Irish Civil War

BAKERY BREAK-OUT AT PARRAMATTA GAOL Pauline Conolly

The Story of ... Ernest Thomas Stanley Cusack   Before Bernadette

#52Ancestorsin52Weeks Week 26/52 Margaret McLOUGHLIN (nee TAYLOR) – 1877 - 1957 Family Tree Frog

Earl Grey’s Irish Famine Orphans (88): the Bridget effect | trevo's Irish famine orphans

Life Of A Genie Update   Jennifer Jones

Cool Me Off  humoringthegoddess

The Disaster at The Nek  The Empire Called and I Answered

Armando Marino  Sunday Evening Art Gallery

Anniversary of the marriage of Philip Crespigny and Charlotte Dana 

“Pink Hats on Gentle Ladies” Second edition by Vida and Daniel Clift  Anne Young

#OTD in Irish History | 18 July: Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

Bad lighting on new bridge proves fatal     Tales from the Grave

Moritz Werner And Family, Part III: After The War Amy

Upcoming free events     Scottish Ancestral Research

Featured Podcast – He Said, She Said: the maid who jumped out the first-floor window (Nenagh 1899)   Tipperary's Hidden History

Irish Central

US genealogists return to Ireland for a magic trip and brought their family along for the ride 

Irish police launch photographic archive of 100 years online | IrishCentral.com 

Glasnevin Cemetery: history that shaped modern Ireland - IrishCentral 

Ireland secure historic series win in New Zealand after thrilling victory - IrishCentral 

Northern Ireland home to real-life Narnia - IrishCentral 

From dreaming of Ireland in prison to discovering strong Irish roots - IrishCentral 

Extras

Emigration Stories and Genealogical Sessions at Scariff festival - The Clare Herald

Meet the heir hunters who find long-lost relatives including the mystery son linked to ... 

American-based charity says Irish people can help identify woman murdered in 1992 

Penny Mordaunt's Irish roots traced back to Catholic family from Co Wexford 

The best athletes of Irish descent - Yardbarker.com 

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

Book Review: Young Women by Jessica Moor

Book Review: Elektra by Jennifer Saint

Better Reading

Book of the Week:The Brightest Star by Emma Harcourt     READ MORE

The Map of Night by Kimberley Starr     READ MORE

Kiss the Sky by Krista and Becca Ritchie     READ MORE

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas      READ MORE

Podcast: Michael Robotham on the Golden Age of Australian Crime Fiction

Podcast: Luke Mathers on Changing Curious Habits

Penguin Books

Denizen James Mckenzie Watson     CHECK IT OUT

With Love from Wish & Co  Minnie Darke      SNEAK A PEEK

The Plated Prisoner series - Glow Raven Kennedy

The Paper Palace  Miranda Cowley Heller  READ WITH FRIENDS.. Book Club?

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

Friday Fossicking 15th Jul 2022, Bohemian National Cemetery, Earl Grey's Irish Orphans, Fraud in Ireland, Boer War memorial, secret sounds of Notre Dame's bells, family history in India, Irish collections in Britain and beyond, dance activism?, sacred trees in Japan, eat like Jane Austen, great blogs, best actors of Irish descent, interesting book reviews, and the list goes on…

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FRIDAY FOSSICKING 15th Jul 2022

Headlines of Old

STRANGE HEADLINES  Trove Tuesday 19th Jul 2022.. A change this week..instead of convicts or great events, etc. just need a laugh or that ever effective raised eyebrow..?

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https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2022/07/strange-headlines-trove-tuesday-19th.html

Keep safe and well.
This will pass.