#book #history guys, please can you help me check the date of this page of black letterpress? It has 1674 pencilled on one side. I think it's from the Book of Common Prayer.

www.chesterstandard.co.uk/news/2612705... #chester

Flowers coming out on the Moroccan pineapple broom in our front garden. Three or four weeks of flowery fireworks every year. Late this year.

The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystorians

& because we can't have anything nice I'll point out that the research was done at the University of Nottingham which is currently implementing an enormous redundancy programme including in the school of biosciences where this work was done www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A unique replica of the legendary Spanish tall ship that sailed the world for three centuries is coming to Wales. nation.cymru/culture/lege...

The Life of Mary Anning, Fossil Collector of Lyme Regis: a Contemporary Biographical Memoir by George Roberts: www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10....

Anning pioneered the study of coprolites - or fossilized poo - recognizing their use to reconstruct the feeding habits of extinct animals. She also studied fossil mollusks arguing that some possessed ink sacks like some modern species 💩

Data centres are the new glue factories.

In quiet places #Dartmoor #Devon

The RSPCA plan to build a massive animal welfare and rehabilitation campus on farmland close to Pennington Flash in Leigh. The animal welfare charity said that if the plans proceed, up to 150 jobs would be based at the Mossley Hall site, which would be a ‘one-stop shop’ for animals most in need. Bri

Small increase in migrants today in Millcombe including 'new in' 3 Reed Warbler, 6 Sedge Warblers, and 7+ Spotted Flycatcher with a further 5 elsewhere.

Times are difficult but I feel we should take inspiration from this plucky spud

I don't often post about the Romans, but I found this beautiful and delicate glass mosaic whilst digging around in NMS's stores today. It's from Suffolk Street, London and was donated by C. Roach Smith in 1849.

OTD (338 years ago): Alexander Pope (1688-1744) born this day. Featured in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive: https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00012.shtml #c18th #poetry #DH #OTD

Took my students to the rare book room at the Library of Congress last Tuesday and among other books they saw this copy of Jefferson’s Summary View of the Rights of British America, presented by St George Tucker, a prominent justice, to George Cabell, who helped to. get leg. support for UVA

“We know that children in London are more likely to visit museums and we want children in all areas across the UK to have the opportunity to access a high-quality museum service near to where they live. 4/5

Mary Anning, ‘the greatest fossilist the world ever knew’, was born on Lyme Regis #OTD in 1799 buff.ly/2r5TFZO #womeninSTEM #histSTM 🧪⚒️

Nettle’s snack game is on point

The Renaissance Artist, Albrecht Dürer, who wrote a maths book the first to be printed and published in German, was born 21 May 1471 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/a...

On the tube

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #scotland

For #ThrowbackThursday our #MonumentoftheMonth in August 2012 told the bizarre story of Oliver Cromwell's coffin plate churchmonumentssociety.org/monument-of-...

6/10 potential Labour voters would have a settlement norm below 10 years, with 5 years most popular

Refuse to tax private wealth adequately to fund the public sphere. Underfunded public sphere forced to sell PUBLIC assets to meet obligations it can't otherwise fund. Private wealth acquires new assets, & leverages them to close down even more of the public sphere...

#OtD 21 May 1914 around 200 suffragettes descended on Buckingham Palace, London, to give a petition to the king demanding votes for women. They battled 2000 police. 60 women and 2 men were arrested, most of whom were later imprisoned. Commemorated here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Alderford Church, Norfolk

Writer friends! The AI-generated email scams targeting authors are getting more sophisticated. I got one today w/ a real editor's name on it, which could be very convincing to someone who doesn't know how actual editors communicate, so I annotated it to highlight red flags. Spread the word, ok?

Removing access to free live TV for those without a wi-fi connection means that many households could be left isolated. After all, five per cent of the UK population over the age of 16 does not have home internet access, with many citing affordability as a concern www.whathifi.com/streaming-en...

Blackbird in Undergrowth, Sophie Grandval.

Did you know that blue tits make their nest out of soft materials, including feathers they have found? The even pluck feathers from their own bodies to keep their young ones warm. See how the birds on the Longshaw Estate are getting on here: buff.ly/lwzZC5Q 📷 Zoe Frank

The alt theme for #BirdOfTheDay today is #Red, so here I have a Red Crested Pochard to share with you all from WWT Martin Mere #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography

This is a failure of journalism, on a really basic level, but it is also a failure of political leadership. It was going to fall simply in the basis of what the previous govt did. But Starmer somehow conspired to actively spread the impression it was rising.

OfSted fails to inspect, fails to prosecute. Every old scandal produced a cack-handed response that made it harder to do things well, especially with ever-less money. Somewhere in this system good people are tearing their hair out, & bad people are pocketing millions.

OK. Stop. Read this. What's detailed here is ILLEGAL, because it's wickedly cruel abuse. ILLEGAL CHILD CRUELTY. For profit, by "investors". Paid for by PUBLIC funds, because, well, why, WHY? Filthy country.

The astonishing C16 Babington tomb at Kingston on Soar, Notts. A truly remarkable piece of work made for a man who does not seem to have been buried there.

A very pretty custom - #welldressing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ella Pilcher, British pioneer #aviator & 1st woman to fly in a glider in UK. Co-created & flew in gliders designed by younger brother, aeronautical #engineer Percy Pilcher in 1890s. 1899 she was made an honorary member of @aerosociety.bsky.social d. #OTD 19 May 1939 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Pi...

Relief of a Roman period ‘horned god’ - possibly a fertility god native to the North East of England. Now part of the collections at Durham University's Museum of Archaeology. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain #DurhamUniversity

Sometimes the most unassuming artefacts are utterly incredible! Take this piece of wood … It is a spear point worked from yew about 420,000 years ago! 🤯 Known as the ‘Clacton Spear’ it is the world’s oldest known preserved wooden spear! Natural History Museum, London 📷 by me #Archaeology

The north county church tour returned for 2026 with a trip to the twelfth century St Bartholomew's Moreton Corbet. The National Churches Trust describes the building as "deliciously decorated", and it is hard to disagree. It's stunning! 😍 #Shropshire #Churches 💒

Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘Wren’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Joseph George Strutt's Sylva Britannica (1822), a 19th-century exploration in etchings and words of British trees “distinguished for their antiquity, magnitude, or beauty” — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sylva-britannica

A fine Late sider #Orchid up on the downs yesterday.

Reading about Basil Brown made me think of my own parents. One Sunday, dad took me down town to check on a site - & spotted some stone among the industrial sludge. I thought he was mad! It turned out to be the only surviving bit of Yeovil's early Anglo-Saxon minster church... #notsuttonhoobut

We had a wonderful day in Kilmartin on Saturday launching brand-new prehistoric rock art sections of the Future Thinking on Carved Stones framework, as well as five new case studies! You'll find more information and links to the new rock art chapters in our latest newsletter: bit.ly/4dFAkDH

Well, this is a wonderful find from the ancient lake edge at #Skipsea - a 1.3m worked wooden pole. A digging stick, possibly Mesolithic, is our best on-site guess, but we’ll know more when it’s back at the labs and reviewed by our wood expert. #WoodenWednesday #Prehistory #Peat

#HillfortsWednesday Dominating the level floor of the Dysynni valley in north Wales is the towering peak of Craig yr Aderyn or Bird's Rock inland promontory fort 🤩 The fort occupies the pointed summit 😮 with a second smaller defended crag behind One of the Top 10 forts in my book 🥳 📷 My own