🌿🌾 You like gardens? You like history? And games? Then rejoice, because LOBELIUS is here! Thanks to official partners, Museum Plantin-Moretus and the Meise Botanical Garden, the players can skim through the 1581 Kruydtboeck by Matthias de l´Obel. Can you make the most beautiful early modern garden?

Extracurricular. A plan of Mr. Pope's garden, as it was left at his death: with a plan and perspective view of the grotto. All taken by J. Serle, his gardener. London, England: printed for R. Dodsley, at Tully's Head in Pall-Mall, [1745] ECCO link-gale-com.eux.idm.oclc.org/apps/doc/CW0....

Excellent news for the field www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

A 500 year old church bell will be rung again soon at the Grade 1 listed Church of Our Lady, Seaton, Northumberland which was consecrated in 1102. 👇 BBC News - Northumberland church's 500-year-old bell to ring again - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The ‘old learned vicars’ who helped shape 19th-century Welsh literature ✍️Jerry Hunter wp.me/p8Mk4U-1iHB

A new national census of Nonconformist chapels across Wales has been launched, in a bid to build the most comprehensive picture in over a century of their condition, use and future wp.me/p8Mk4U-1iH4

New chicks, who dis? 🐣

A carpet of #bluebells in Whippendell Wood, ancient woodland in Watford, Hertfordshire. More still to bloom. #WildflowerHour

Goodnight. ‘O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant, The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters…all go into the dark.. And we all go with them… I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you’ ~ Eliot, East Coker

Bradford, 1978, photo by Don McCullin.

Aran Islands, west of Ireland, 1890s/1900s, photo by Jane Shackleton, pioneering Irish photographer (1843-1909).

I have been racking my memory trying to think if there were any foreign heads of state that the late queen refused to visit or was advised not to visit. Although I guess we might not have been told.

Ground ivy decorating the Leyburn Shawl this weekend #wildflowerhour

www.chesterstandard.co.uk/news/2598741... #cheshire

#OnThisDay - 5 April - in AD 59 the Arval Brethren held thanksgiving sacrifices for Nero's safety. The timing suggests a link with the murder of Agrippina, whom Nero accused of plots against him. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC Nero 16; British Museum (IOC.1216). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

Today is the anniversary of the Temple of Fortuna Publica, She was the Goddess of luck. At Vindolanda in Northen England there is a dedicated altar to her. Fortuna was honored with 3 temples on the Quirinal Hill in Rome in the neighborhood called tres Fortunae, "the 3 Fortunas".

Help RT please. If it's spring where you live & swans are nesting, the male cobs often go walkabout to patrol their territory. They may appear on roads or unsafe places. Best plan is to shepherd them gently into a garden & call your local waterbird or wildlife charity to rescue them. #swans #birds

"Now shout at some jars of marmalade!"

The General Strike map brings together stories, exhibitions, and events marking the strike and its impact on working people. #GeneralStrike100 🗃️ 📚 🇬🇧 #history #FamilyHistory generalstrike100.com#map=10.25/55...

A Selkie doing. What Selkies do. At Katie's Pow today. #Papay #selkie #Orkney

A Roman submerged port structure discovered off Asini in the Argolid, with foundations of several piers and docks www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/04/a...

I found you a bonnet for the Easter Sunday #GirlsOwnCC caption contest. Enjoy!

Tired of the old "elf on a shelf" nonsense? Canada GOTCHU.

After a hard day delivering chocolate eggs, this Romano-Easter bunny smashes some fat grapes. 🕰️C2nd AD

The shop front and staff of G. H. Sinclair & Co., grocer and provision merchant in Grantown-on-Spey, c1900 [photo from the collections at #Grantown Museum]

Judith Resnik was the 2nd American woman in space and 4th woman in space overall. Resnik (born #OTD in 1949) was an electrical engineer, software engineer, biomedical engineer, pilot, and NASA astronaut. She died at age 36 in the Space Shuttle 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 disaster in 1986. #WomenInSTEM

Pelisse https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/95538

The General Strike centenary exhibition at WCML opens in May: wcml.org.uk/news/general...

Well don’t we look just adorable. 🥰 Happy Easter to all who celebrate, and please remember it’s not just about chocolate. 🐣

And some poppies, Catalunya.

#OnThisDay in 1815, Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted: the most powerful in human recorded history. As well as killing 71,000, it led to Europe's "Year Without Summer", climate refugees, and the creation of Shelley's Frankenstein... publicdomainreview.org/essay/f... #otd

Easter egg (and yes, it is a painting) Artist: Harry Wingfield from First Picture Book, 1971) Happy Easter

@oldtrotter.bsky.social Is Hugo spooked by the wind or does he take it in his stride?

A good week for the #wildflowerhour #cowslipchallenge- flowering well at Bedford Purlieus NNR, Barnack Hills and Holes NNR and in our wild garden...plus one at Barnack with some Primrose genes in its pedigree @bsbibotany.bsky.social

The gales broke more rhubarb stems, so it's rhubarb crumble night again!

This is why the 25th Amendment exists. This is the purpose of having the 25th Amendment. To not use this power to remove the president is not a passive act, a mere option: it is a positive decision to misuse the constitution.

These are the deeds for a house in Queen Square, #Strathbungo, a particularly complete set, including wills and financial records. While not always easy to decipher, they provide a unique insight into the history of a house, and a neighbourhood. #deeds #househistory #glasgow #history #architecture

#Dandelion, published 1751, by #ElizabethBlackwell (British, 1707–1758). Published in A Curious Herbal, held by NYPL, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2f0422... #womenartists #artherstory #NationalDandelionDay #DandelionDay

It’s time for my favorite cartoon of the year.

shocking innit

A very old photo of Avebury that I found in the vaults for #StandingStoneSunday. I took this whilst on a circular walk from Marlborough, past Silbury Hill and West Kennet and back across Fyfield Down.

L’un des plus beaux œufs de Pâques conservé au Petit Palais 🐣 Manufactures du South Staffordshire, Etui en forme d'œuf à fond rose, 1770-1790 © Paris Musées / Petit Palais

Then there's Recorder Bunny. It likes to show off by playing two recorders at once with its nose. It angers Library Bunny with its playing, scares Costume Bunny with its noise, and is an ally of the ax-carrying Easter Bunny who sits nearby to make short work of hunters lured to its sound.

Pity http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-pity-n05062

#OtD 5 Apr 1913 suffragettes fighting for votes for women in the UK set fire to a grandstand at the Ayr racecourse, destroying other buildings including the stables. Copies of 'Votes for Women' and the 'Suffragette' were found in the debris stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1048...

The ceiling of the Choir in Chester Cathedral #ceilingsonsunday

The lane is named for dancemaster Daniel Burrell, who, in the mid-1700s, built his own dancing school/dancing hall on the site. The vertical expression of a horizontal desire, and some theatrics, didn't go down well with Glasgow's Holy Willies, who in 1754 burned it to the ground.

A cliff fall at Burniston Rocks, Yorkshire last month was 700 metres from the well pad site proposed by Europa Oil & Gas. Fracking in Lancashire in 2019, using lower volumes of fluid than planned at Burniston, caused multiple earth tremors. What could go wrong? drillordrop.com/2026/04/03/c...