Louvain Rees ⚰️

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Award-winning Historian & Genealogist ✍️🏻 Death, Wales and Psychiatry 💀 Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠 Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠 🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚 📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her 🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees

An stone tomb set within a durham cathedral, with a Gothic archway and multicoloured light filtering through a stained-glass window.
A full photograph of the above gravestone covered in green moss. The top features a relief carving of Adam and Eve standing beside the Tree of Knowledge, with a serpent coiled around the trunk.
​A weathered gravestone covered in green moss. The top features a relief carving of Adam and Eve standing beside the Tree of Knowledge, with a serpent coiled around the trunk.
A small, moss-covered stone marker is pictured, inscribed with the words: "A SEAFARING MAN FOUND DROWNED 1866."
The image is a hot weather reminder emphasising the importance of staying cool for individuals taking antidepressants or antipsychotics, as these medications can impair the body’s ability to regulate heat. It advises: Stay cool Drink plenty of water Find shade if you can It ends with a call to share this message to help others stay safe.
The image is a hot weather reminder emphasising the importance of staying cool for individuals taking antidepressants or antipsychotics, as these medications can impair the body’s ability to regulate heat. It advises: Stay cool Drink plenty of water Find shade if you can It ends with a call to share this message to help others stay safe.
A grainy black-and-white photograph of a nurse comforting an infant.
A grainy black-and-white photograph of a nurse holding a baby.
A cadaver tomb featuring a skeletal effigy beneath a decorative arch.
White text with a grey background reading: "Think of the most vulnerable person you know and vote in their best interests."
A gravestone behind a wooden pew. The carvings depict a skull and crossbones, as well as heraldic shields.
A high-angle shot of an adder on cliffside grass, overlooking a coastline. The snake is facing the sea with white waves, misty cliffs and an overcast sky.
Portrait of Mrs William Williams, Caernarfon, showing the sitter holding a handkerchief, wearing a mourning dress, and a brooch with an image of a man - possibly her husband, Captain William Williams.