Medieval floor tile from Eynsham Abbey in Oxfordshire. Now part of the collections at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #Ashmolean

From (long) Ship to Spire! ⛪️ Gilt copper-alloy weather vanes, like this Ringerike-style example from Söderala Church, were seemingly taken from the prows of elite drakkar ships and repurposed as vanes for church spires. My 📷 Ref. Historiska museet

St Bronagh's Graveyard (Kilbroney): St Bronagh's graveyard is just N of Rostrevor, Co. Down and stands on the site of a monastery or convent founded in the 5th century CE by St Brona, one of a small number of female followers of St Patrick that we know about.

Incredible footage out of Australia, confirmed by NEWS AU, of a brave bystander neutralizing one of the terrorists in the Bondi Beach attack which took place during a Hanukkah gathering. Australian authorities say multiple people have been killed. At least two suspects are in custody.

We should bring back scrolls, books are great but scrolls would be cool

Other work of the Ladybird artists Redwings in Winter Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

#ArtDD2025 Fossicking rook For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 12 @saocousins.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 11 ‘Mam Tor’ Artist: SR Badmin

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 12 ‘December’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt

Farewell to the great Stanley Baxter, one of the true comedy greats of the postwar era. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

One from today @dfgillie.bsky.social as I popped to the post office! Standard. 😉 #Peacocksofbluesky

BBC News - Photobook celebrates Staffordshire oatcake history and culture - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

⚠️ Stand-off in Sheringham: Local campaigners have spent the past three nights camping out overnight in an extraordinary bid to save a 1950s Streamline Moderne style bus shelter in Norfolk, thwarting council contractors who attempted to demolish the structure at 2am. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Two scenes by Richard Scarry to gladden the hearts of all introverts 🙂

ㅤ Snake Gate — Abaty Tyndyrn [Tintern Abbey], bank of the River Wye, Monmouthshire ㅤ

For anyone interested in vikings: a symposium on the impact of the viking Great Army, to be held at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge on 24 April 2026.

BBC News - Plaque for Scottish Holocaust victim to be unveiled in Edinburgh www.bbc.com/news/article...

Had a rather mixed experience yesterday with local history some of which Beryl and myself do not intend to repeat.

BBC News - Sutton Hoo ship name contest urges no 'Boaty McBoatface' suggestions - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Battered halloumi henge! Yes please! #Stonehenge

Here's an example of a #chiphenge, this one by food artist Prudence Stait who has also made a chips White Cliffs and a chips Angel of the North among other things, viewable at the link. #Stonehenge www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Blackston Cross on Dartmoor - thought to be a way-marker on the route between Tavistock Abbey and Plympton Priory. I liked the single tree echoing the cross. #Landscapephotography #Dartmoor

BBC News - Woman, 104, receives France's highest military honour for D-Day role www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC News - Staff wellbeing 'crisis' forcing teachers out of schools, charity says - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today is #WorldDiabetesDay. #Diabetes can affect anyone, at any stage of life. Support at home, school, work and during pregnancy makes a real difference. Listen, learn and show up for those living with diabetes. More info 🔗 bit.ly/4hUOjY0

It's World Diabetes Day - May Your Numbers Ever Be In Your Favor. Love & cupcakes to everyone touched by this bullshit disease that has no earthly business not being cured in 2025 except that we are cash cows for pharma execs. #Diabetes #T1D #T2D #LADA & others

Sir Frederick Banting. Co-discovered insulin and its therapeutic potential. Born 14/11/1891

What on earth has happened to the sizing on #Vinted??? You can now only search by bracket and those do not correlate at all to the stated UK sizes.

Beatrix Potter painted stunning watercolours of fungi as well as animals and we needed you to know that.

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

BBC News - Gold jar from Galloway Hoard on display for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Guðrøðr (Gothfrith), Norse king of Dublin, raided Armagh #OTD in 921. It was Martinmas Eve, and it would have been filled with people, food and drink. Guðrøðr was briefly king of York before Æthelstan, king of the Anglo-Saxons, drove him out in 927. #medievalsky

Honestly the weirdest thing about America is that you are actively encouraged to self-ID as "pro life" and "Christian" while actively advocating for state-mandated murder.

It is early in the morning, and there are few people about in this 1919 work by William Nicholson of the Cenotaph in London. It is the original white-painted wood and plaster structure designed by Edward Lutyens, it stands out in stark relief against the Foreign Office.

In November hares come to wood edge. Most say this is for cover, for food. Yet more than one old countryman has told me they come to pay tribute to the wood itself, to have one last dance with the Moss Maidens before their cold sleeping. At twilight they feed and mutter omens. - #CLNolan

Here's a thought experiment: if you could become the richest person who ever lived, but the price would be that you have no friends, nobody to love, no sense of humour, no human feelings a- no, wait, sorry it's not a thought experiment, it's actually been done by Elon Musk.

Fabulous Visigothic bronze belt buckles inlaid with cloisonné glass. AD 500s. Which is your favourite? From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain. Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia 📷 by me #Archaeology

*Brenda from Bristol GIF*

For #FindsFriday the Bredfield Brooch, solid silver weighing 36g, found in 2009. The Anglo-Scandinavian Urnes style of decoration dates it to the second half of the 11th century. It's on display in the newly refurbished Norwich Castle. 📸 My own.

BBC News - Solid silver Saxon cross found in Leeds field goes on show - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Two examples of a distinctively Romano-British artefact: the sinuously gorgeous dragonesque brooch for #FindsFriday 😍 These particular copper alloy beauties, inlaid with red and blue enamel, were found in Faversham #Kent c 1895 © Trustees of the British Museum #Roman #Archaeology

BBC News - Sandi Toksvig probes Iron Age Dorset murder for TV series - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain. Nobody with any sense or decency should be there. No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there. Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.