"Oi!! You bloody vandals, whadoyouthinkyou'rebloodydoin?!"

All done at the Rijksmuseum... Now to kill time before the flight home

2 hours in to the Rijksmuseum and I'm thinking they may have too much medieval stuff...kidding.

Goddammit! Whose stupid idea was it to do a day trip to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam?! [Kicks own arse solidly]

Rochdale chippy owners Jimmy and Elsie Greenwood with their coal-fired fryer, May 1973.

www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/... Ideal 'fixer upper'! Historic Fort Darnet on island on the River Medway, near Hoo, on the market for £50,000

NEW PUBLICATION Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...

Archaeologists lift the lid on a 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus hidden beneath Budapest

Fascinating 🧵

tvpworld.com/90099468/pol... "Rare WWII-era V-2 rocket recovered at a former missile test site in southeastern Poland"

www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch... Ignore the image, the translated statement looks very interesting though. Now to work on getting a translation of the actual report

Pleasant morning drive past Stirling Castle

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Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3 📷 D. v. Recklinghausen 🏺

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

Busted!

London Lives has been, ngl, a bit broken for a while. It's not broken any more.

🎆 It's Bonfire Night🎆 To celebrate we're showing our copy of 'The second booke teaching most exactly, the composing of all manner of fire-works for tryumph and recreation' by John Bate, published in 1635 (shelf marl: S PAM 479).

Some of the better (less charred) soul cakes from today...tasty none the less

A Happy Halloween in the kitchens at Hampton Court Palace, looking at spooky traditions from history and around the country

Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...

Nothing to see here? Well, this is a slow moving 🧵 for #skystorians and others about #eyeglasses of the past, about how to read in the past, where to buy eyeglasses, and how to do with them in general. The hashtag is #HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast Let's roll.

What's that you say 'Clever Hans'? You have to spend how many years in hellfire and purgatory?? #NicheJoke

BIG ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS! 💫 A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩 Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?... #archaeology #history #Roman

Nobody could work up the nerve to be first into the ball pit, terrified that people would think they were just too old to play

Dave Ball, synth-pop hitmaker as one half of Soft Cell, dies aged 66

It is October 22....and the alpine strawberry plant outside the kitchen team offices is flowering?!?! WTH!

Manicule Musicule?

A serious outbreak of random pumpkins....must be heading to Halloween!

And we are delighted to be the Associate Partner with Historic Royal Palaces on the awards.

Apropos of nothing particular 😎

"No kings!" Count Palatine Otto VIII of Wittelsbach kills Philip of Swabia. Miniature from the Sächsische Weltchronik, Northern Germany, early 14th century, Berlin, Berlin State Library, Ms. germ. fol. 129, fol. 117v.

"No Kings!" Maciejowski Bible - Morgan Library & Museum MS M.638, fol. 11v

"Parking is such sweet sorrow"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "The National Trust is to take over the running of museums in the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, with the help of a £9m government grant. It will replace Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust, which has been operating the locations in Shropshire since 1967." Blimey!

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Info was scarce, does anyone know why Haddon Hall have so many medieval cupboards and hutches just sitting in a room off of the kitchens?? Never seen so many in one place

Another day, another busman's holiday...this time, up to Haddon Hall to see both their kitchen and their Halloween offer.

‘Which fonts do you want for the sale poster?’ ‘Yes’ #fonts #typography #museum #allthefonts @fontsinuse.com @themerl.bsky.social

Stupid me. I'd presumed that taking a week off work on annual leave meant I could do what *I* wanted/needed to do [insert all the jobs my wife wants done here] Clearly I forgot that a week off means a week playing as and when required by her majesty

Today's the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England] phys.org/news/2025-10...

Final batch of quince jelly for this year bottled. Really happy with the colour, just hope the set was right. Note to self...in future, avoid putting the tip of your middle finger into the jelly as it comes off the boil, it's painful and you'll regret it #idiot

As you dig out your chunky knitwear from the back of the draw, I know you are wondering: 'How did people prepare for winter 400 years ago?' Read today's post to find out (and whet your appetite for our new book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England) manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/07/t...

FFS!

Better test it I suppose 😎 Fantastic....quince jelly on a sharp cheddar. I think I might know what's for lunch now. Shame there's no crackers in the house

Now the washing up 😟

So just over 1300ml of jelly from about 1.5kg of quince (about 6 fruit). Not bad... Xmas gifts sorted!