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Today's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #ArchivesAtSea
We have a range of records relating to Newport Docks, including these photographs of the various goods being loaded and unloaded at the Docks.
(Ref: Pictorial/Newport67-68, 70 and 74)
For #MysteriousArchives we have an intelligence file on suspected Irish Republican Brotherhood suspects compiled by the Chief Secretary’s Office, 1892-1893. It’s a mystery how they were secretly photographed in public places, perhaps using an early spy camera? @explorearchives
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@ourcriminalpast @channel5_tv @socialhistsoc @ResearchEssex #crime #historians may be interested in clips taken from the early 1900s film made about Charles Peace.
While we’re on the topic of Oliver Twist - Why don’t you take a look at Liverpool’s own workhouse, which stood on Brownlow Hill from 1834-1928.
The workhouse would be demolished in 1931, and replaced with, what is now, the Roman Catholic Church.
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Tracing gang members – the complicated case of Charles ‘Darby’ Sabini
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