{"id":27176,"date":"2021-05-05T23:09:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T22:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27176"},"modified":"2021-05-05T23:09:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T22:09:46","slug":"displays-in-abingdon-library-for-local-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=27176","title":{"rendered":"Displays in Abingdon Library for Local History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21050601.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDaniel sent me some pictures of the exhibition which includes some of his aerial views of Abingdon, upstairs in the library. The display, put together by Elizabeth Drury, also has a board of Abingdon in the 1950s, and another of Victorian times.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21050602.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThen in the case are pictures of the River Thames at various times.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Elizabeth&#8217;s past and present books can also be seen.<\/p>\n<p>The library also has a local history display downstairs for May is\u00a0Local History Month. The aim of the month is to increase awareness of local history. The town council website has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/partners\/history\">local history portal <\/a> put together by the Abingdon Area Archaeological and Historical Society (AAAHS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel sent me some pictures of the exhibition which includes some of his aerial views of Abingdon, upstairs in the library. The display, put together by Elizabeth Drury, also has a board of Abingdon in the 1950s, and another of Victorian times. Then in the case are pictures of the River Thames at various times. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}