Here's our Winifred Holtby's 'South Riding' among books about spinsters to be read by JacquiWine - "I was born to be a spinster, and by God, I'm going to spin" says her character feminist Sarah Burton. HullEnglish Hull Libraries

Happy 300th Birthday to the great English painter George Stubbs. Ferens Art Gallery holds an early portrait (George Fothergill c1746) but he is best known as an animal painter, these horses Wentworth Woodhouse former home of #Hull's C18th patrons the Fitzwilliam family. Dr. Bendor Grosvenor 🇺🇦

"Ravenspur, Ravensrodd, Ravenser Odd/ Salt-heavy bells heard only by God..." (Sean O'Brien). The Ravenser Odd exhibition is going on tour in the East Riding... Hull Libraries East Riding Archives East Riding Libraries @HullMa

On #WomensEqualityDay let's highlight #Hull-born Marion Greenwood Bidder (1862-1932), physiologist, biology lecturer Newnham College and Girton College, Cambridge University (pictured) and suffragist. One of the first women Cambridge University to do independent research. Hull Museums Hull Libraries

Did you see Burton Constable on Channel 4 #yorkshirebythesea last night? The Constable family archives are at East Riding Archives but we hold some archives including the diaries of Mary Constable (pictured) and her husband/cousin Charles Chichester. Hull Libraries Hull Maritime

We're delighted that Tony Collins will be helping us mark the centenary of Ebenezer Cobb Morley's death at our November lunchtime talk, 12 November. Hull Museums Hull Libraries Hull City Council

South Blockhouse, now being developed as a visitor attraction by Hull Maritime, was used as a prison for Royalists during the Civil War. Here's Alexander, Earl of Eglinton, a dashing cavalier known as 'Greysteel' imprisoned 1651. HFArchaeology Hull Libraries The Cromwell Museum

A great new walking guide from our friend Dr Charlotte Tomlinson about postwar #Hull. Some info and images from ourselves. Heartily recommended! Visit Hull Hull City Council Hull Libraries Hull Museums

Our feature this month in Anna Bond marks the 110th anniversary of the outbreak of WWI, and highlights some of the impacts it had on #Hull. The paper available free from the usual outlets! Hull City Council Hull Libraries Hull Maritime Hull Museums

It's Freedom Festival Arts Trust this weekend. One of the venues is Humber Street - here it is when the thriving Fruit Market, probably 1960s. Hull Maritime Hull Libraries

Hull History Centre Freedom Festival Arts Trust Hull Maritime Hull Libraries ...and how it looks now! This photo was taken from the upstairs window in our dinosaur museum; an almost identical angle to the original!

The work of botanist Eva Crackles, whose archive we hold, has inspired the discovery in East Yorks of the critically endangered Marsh Pea. Story here: Shoots of hope for critically endangered Marsh Pea - BBC News Hull Museums Hull Libraries

If you were on Humber St for Freedom Festival Arts Trust last weekend, here it is on a map of 1818 #MapMonday. The big building 81 is the Theatre Royal (1810), and Wellington and Nelson Streets on recently reclaimed land are still largely undeveloped. Hull Maritime Hull Libraries

For #MerchantNavyDay here's King George Dock, soon after it opened in 1914 and packed with shipping. Hull Maritime Hull Libraries

One of the signatories to the Treaty of Paris, in which Britain recognised USA, signed #OTD 1783, was David Hartley, and MP #Hull, notable for "earnestness, honesty, and naïvety" (History Of Parliament) - odd choice to send as envoy to the peace conference! Hull Museums Hull Libraries

This is a photo of Creek Bridge (taking its name from Lime Kiln Creek) at Humber Dock Basin in September 1969. You can see Victoria Pier and the funnel of a Humber ferry (PS Lincoln Castle?) in the distance on the right. Hull Maritime Hull Libraries

Our friends The Hull Story 🇺🇦 highlighting our contribution to this month's edition. Hull Libraries Hull Maritime Hull City Council

Schools go back this week and probably class photos will be taken soon. These boys at Lambert St School scrubbed up for their class photo in 1905. Hull Libraries Hull Museums

In 1643 #OTD a Royalist army was besieging the parliamentary garrison of #Hull which had strengthened the defences with temporary forts, one on the site of The Charterhouse Hull. Map Dave Evans formerly of HFArchaeology Hull Museums Hull Libraries

The History Centre's 'Toad in the Hull' has popped up on X. "It's a Thursday" I once said to the then University Archivist when she queried activity round him one day in the summer of 2010, "they always polish the toad on a Thursday." Hull Museums Hull Libraries