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Tweets from the Local Studies team at Central Library, Regent Circus, Swindon SN1 1QG (01793) 463238 [email protected]
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Joined June 2009
RT @calyxpictures: Calyx Archive; 20-1-1984 Swindon's last Spitfire being built in a unit on Techno Ind Est. @SwindonLocal @HeritageWSHC @…
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RT @SwindonLocal: Teenagers! Come and chat about your history options with folk from Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre, Historic England,…
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Teenagers! Come and chat about your history options with folk from Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre, Historic England, National Trust, Museum & Art Swindon, Foundations Archaeology, Swindon Heritage Preservation, New College, Cirencester College and Young Archaeologists’ Club!
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Our 11am Q&A panel will be with heritage professionals from Historic England, Foundations Archaeology and Museum & Art Swindon! Plus our amazing stallholders will include apprentices and student ambassadors who will happily chat about their experiences. Sat 8th Feb, 10am-1pm!
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RT @libraryshop: Well we do love Swindon 😉 why not share the love this Valentine’s Day with one of our vintage cards produced using images…
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This photo of the Belsen Jewish Memorial at the site of the Bergen-Belsen POW and concentration camp comes from a remarkable set of WW2 photographs by Swindonian Mr R. Partridge that were shared with us during our ‘Swindon at War’ weekend in 2010. #HMD2025
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@ljordanmusic @SHPreservation @PrimeTheatreUK @create_studios We really enjoyed it, you were fantastic!
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Calling all teenagers! We are thrilled to announce the amazing organisations who will be joining us for Choosing History II! Come along to Swindon Central Library to find out more about history and heritage related careers, courses and opportunities on Saturday 8th Feb, 10am-1pm.
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Choosing History: The Reckoning? Choosing History With A Vengeance? Choosing History 2: Electric Boogaloo? Whatever you want to call the sequel, Choosing History is BACK so save the date! More details to follow.
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Happy New Year! Our normal opening hours have resumed, so why not pop in and see us! Alternatively, you can email your queries to localstudies@swindon.gov.uk.
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Local Studies is now closed for the holidays, and will reopen at 10am on Saturday 4th January. We would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas, and we look forward to seeing you in 2025!
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Local Studies will be open 10am-2pm tomorrow, then will close for the holidays. You can still email your queries to localstudies@swindon.gov.uk, and we will look into them when we return on Saturday 4th January.
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RT @MuseumandArt: We’re so excited that our first @ace_national supported #UnlockingCollections exhibition is now open! ‘Art on Our Doorst…
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Please note Local Studies will close early on Christmas Eve.
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This colourful artwork is ‘Animal Fantasia’ by Claudine Dunger, and was displayed in the atrium of the Link Centre. #EYAAnimals
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This delightfully dapper little dog was brought to a professional photographer’s studio to have its portrait taken. It must have been a much loved member of an Edwardian family. #EYAFamily
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This is a c.1850 illustration of GWR Firefly Class Locomotive The Actaeon, named after the figure in Greek mythology. Actaeon caught sight of the goddess Artemis bathing while he was out hunting. She turned him into a stag and he was ripped apart by his own dogs. #EYAMythology
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Nothing says fashion like an alpaca umbrella! This fabulous advert is taken from an 1883 Astill’s Almanack of Swindon. #EYAFashion
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Good news everyone, McIlroys have received a huge delivery of twisted cocoa door mats, from the continent no less! This was part of a larger McIlroys advert placed in the North Wilts Herald in 1924. #EYAHuge
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