Blog entries tagged Wiltshire Swindon History Centre http://www.wshc.eu Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:55:45 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.wshc.eu/blog/archaeology-festival-.html <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;">The Festival of British Archaeology is a nationwide, annual event that aims to promote archaeology. It has been running for twenty years, and has evolved from a single day to two whole weeks. As in previous years the Wiltshire Archaeology Service are actively involved and this year we will be doing not one but two exciting days out. Both events are free!</p><br/><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justifyRead More... Blog Administrator Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:09:49 +0100 Wroughton Wiltshire County Archaeologist Wiltshire Archaeology Service Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre two the Ridgeway telephone talk Swindon Sunday 1st August SN15 3QN single day Saturday 31st July Roman Villa ramparts promote prehistoric features Orpheus mosaic nationwide Nancy Jane Danks Melanie Pomeroy-Kellinger Marlborough Downs Littlecote Roman Villa Iron Age Hillfort Hungerford http://festival.britarch.ac.uk/. guided walk guided tour free Festival of British Archaeology excavations event e-mail David Vaughan countryside Cocklebury Road Chippenham Britain Barbury Castle Assistant County Archaeologist archaeology@wiltshire.gov.uk archaeology annual actively involved 2pm 01249 705504 http://www.wshc.eu/blog/saving-the-skull.html <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"></p><br/><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">&nbsp;<img title="Wax visible inside the skull before treatment" src="http://www.wshc.eu/images//Image 1 wax skull before treatmentres.jpg" alt="Wax visible inside the skull before treatment" width="457" height="345" /><br />Wax visible inside the skull before treatment<br /><br />Background<br /><br />The 2009-2010 project to conserve 300 items for the new display at the Roman Baths Museum iRead More... Blog Administrator Fri, 07 May 2010 08:29:43 +0100 Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre Walcot Street treatment teeth St Swithuns' Yard skull skeleton Sellotape Roman earthenware ceramics Roman coffin Roman Baths Museum reinterpret redisplay reconstructed skull reconstructed Project physical features Osteoarchaeologist opaque wax Museum of London muscle tissue microscope Meet the Ancestors map mandible lower jaw lead piping Julian Richards Japanese tissue excavated display Death Conservators conservation collection bronze statuettes bones Blu-tack® BBC baths 5 year development plan 4th century 2009-2010 http://www.wshc.eu/blog/tudors-take-over-the-history-centre.html <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Wow, what a day! Over a thousand people came along to meet the Tudors at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, on Saturday 26th September. King Henry VIII and his courtiers were on hand to greet visitors as they joined in the fun, meeting the crew from the Mary Rose and looking at original artefacts from Henry&rsquo;s great naval ship; learning how to shoot arrows with a longbow and dress as a Tudor; and viewing some of the History Centre&rsqRead More... Blog Administrator Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:33:18 +0100 Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre waterlogged wood visitors Tudors Tudor badge making thousand people The Other Boleyn Girl technology strong rooms Stone Age hand axes signed letter from Elizabeth I shoot arrows Science Museum; giant interactive Tudor Quiz school recent events rarest documents quill pen original artefacts naval ship Mary Rose Mary Queen of Scots marriage deed of Henry VIII to Jane Seymour magnetic wall longbow King Henry VIII ideas. Great Chalfield Manor glass painting fun freeze dry film emergency car-park duty dressed as Tudors dress up crew craft activities courtiers Conservators conservation laboratories comment children celebrate 26th September 2010 Open Day http://www.wshc.eu/blog/crime-and-punishment-in-wiltshire.html <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">In 1849 a crowd of 30,000 people gathered outside the imposing gates of Devizes prison to watch the public execution of Rebecca Smith of Bratton for poisoning her baby. Rebecca spent the night before in the prison chapel with her open coffin for company. After her execution her body is taken for burial in unhallowed grounds within the prison wall. </p><br/><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><img title="Devizes Prison Gate, 1889" src="hRead More... Blog Administrator Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:22:55 +0100 Wiltshire College Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre Wiltshire unhallowed grounds thirty thousand people students Rebecca Smith public search room public execution prison diaries prison chapel poisoning her baby open coffin newspaper accounts letters appealing innocence investigating display Devizes prison December crowd Crime and Punishment creative writing court room scripts burial Bratton 1849 http://www.wshc.eu/blog/Wiltshire-and-Black-History.html <p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hello, I am Terry, Archives and Local Studies Manager. In my last blog I wrote about a document from the English Civil War, a particular interest of mine. Recently, a researcher at the History Centre gave me a reference to an entry in a parish register that relates to another interest of mine, that is British Black History. It was from the Calne Parish Register of burials and dated 10th December 1586 and notes the burial of &ldquo;Maria Mandula advenRead More... Blog Administrator Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:00:00 +0100 York Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre Wilts Rgt of Militia Wilton House Westminster West Africa trumpeter The Wiltshire Black History Project slave trade Shakespeare Septimus Severus SEE ME Sarum Salisbury Journal royal courts Roxburgh Roman Emperor Roman Robert Pearson privateers Pedro Negro parish register parish of St Paul oral testimonies African-Caribbean Numerus Maurorum Aurelianorum Moors mineral Ethiopia marriages Marlborough Maria Mandula Libya Leonora Casey Carr knighted John Hawkins John Blanke inter-generational Henry VIII Hadrian’s Wall Guinea coast Great Tournament Roll gravestone George Sydown Footman engraving Elizabeth I East Tytherton Moravian Graveyard Restoration Proj duke of Somerset Drummer community history project Catherine of Aragon Calne Parish Register burials British Black History Black History Antiguan ‘Mostee’ Africa aethiops advertisement adult baptisms http://www.wshc.eu/blog/Welcome-to-the-WSHC-Blog-.html <p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px">Dear Readers,</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px">On behalf of all of us at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre I'd like to welcome you to our new blog.&nbsp; We want to tell you more about what we do here and give you the opportunity to comment and ask questions.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px">Our&nbsp;big nRead More... Blog Administrator Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100 Wiltshire Treasures Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre blog