Joseph Priestley and Calne: A Season of Celebration
This summer and autumn there is a packed programme of events happening in Calne to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the isolation of oxygen by [...]
Stop-Lines and Seagulls
At the beginning of June, all the commemoration events for the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings got me thinking about how land-locked Wiltshire would have been involved in repelling a German invasion and what evidence was recorded in our Historic Environment Record.
Tame squirrels and campfires: A rare glimpse into the world of girl guiding 100 years ago
We were recently lucky to receive a fascinating hand-made nature logbook as a deposit from Wiltshire North Girlguiding. The book records the natural history observations of the Swindon Rangers (for girls aged 14 to 18) section of the Wiltshire Guides, and covers the period 16 March to 31 December 1924.
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