Very cool bit of scaffolding at Hampton Court! It depicts the palace’s iconic ‘Great Gatehouse’ as Wolsey would have known it, standing two storeys higher than the current structure today 🏰

you know you’ve been in the TNA too long when you shut your eyes and can still see your order locker

visited our oxford so had to revisit lyra’s oxford 🧭🐻‍❄️🌌

Oxford ⛈️🏛️👻📚

The legendary Sir Peter Scott at the WWT London Wetland Centre - full disclosure, I spotted him from a distance and thought “I’d know that (inherited) forehead anywhere!”

Stunning stuff! 🇦🇶

Sir John Ross (and the Boss!) #nationalportraitgallery

it’s not just the ravens who you’ve gotta watch out for #toweroflondon

Maybe the most beautiful possible description of what an essay can do, what I feel my job is. Of course it's from Patricia Lockwood. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

BBC News have carefully written up Dennis' story, including interviews with his brother, David. You can read that article here ⬇️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's August and there's only one question that matters. Are you Beechey Body Ready?

The most scandalous man in Elizabethan England? Forgot to share this little piece I wrote about Robert Dudley last month 🗡️🏰👑🥬 www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-lon...

nice little eBay find 🇦🇶

the sky was a paid actor

Jane, Lady Franklin died OTD in 1875, aged 83. She was interred in the catacombs of Kensal Green Cemetery, and I'm not kidding when I say that getting down there to pay my respects in person was one of the best days of my life. www.illuminator.blog/p/jane-catac...

looking through caricatures on the npg and william iv is giving big golden path energy

Had a fab time at the NMM listening to @sampopewriter.bsky.social and her wonderful talk on the life of Eleanor Anne Porden - thanks so much for a fascinating evening (and happy 230th birthday to EAP herself!)

“may have”

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #NationalSeashellDay Beautifully engraved memorial shell, Conwy, Wales, 1833 museum.wales/collections/...

city curators lured to countryside (thanks for having us #draytonhouse!)

unlikely highlight from awful doctor who finale - the other office got trampled by bone beasts :) #doctorwho #toweroflondon

#Caturday My cat at 4 a.m.

Caught myself browsing job listings again for McMurdo Station.

From bomb damage and barrage balloons to soldiers, prisoners and even a medal-winning pigeon - I had the incredible opportunity to research and retell the story of the Tower during WW2 ✌️🏰🌺 #VEday #towerpoppies #historicroyalpalaces youtu.be/jksXfXXCRYg?...

What a day ❤️ The Tower Remembers (6 May - 11 November 2025) #towerpoppies #historicroyalpalaces

It was wonderful to plant 3 of the nearly 30,000 ceramic poppies at the Tower today 🌺 The installation commemorates the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and will be on display 6 May- 11 Nov - come and see it if you can! (Also featuring baby’s first interp panels 😁) #towerpoppies

#WorldPenguinDay party time! www.bonhams.com/auction/2769...

On 25 April 1848, Captain Fitzjames wrote an addition to what is now known as the Victory Point Note. As per Captain Crozier's one-sentence contribution, they would start the next day for Back's Fish River. This is the last known written record of the Franklin Expedition. [RMG] #NavalHistory

I do quite like Greenwich actually 🏴‍☠️🇦🇶⚓️

great god this is a (historic royal) place 🇦🇶 Captain Scott is one of the many fabulous ‘palace pioneers’ exploring Hampton Court this Easter holiday - it was great chatting with our brilliant wardrobe manager Erin about Con’s polar wardrobe and seeing her handiwork in action 😁

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

may we all be as cheerful as the lovely chap who says hi to the queue at the british library each morning <3

*crosses out “planting flags” and replaces it with “putting tariffs”*

I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet

always nice to find a new window to peer through 🌤️ #hamptoncourtpalace

saw jared harris do hamlet that was also titanic yesterday and I might never recover

Always nice to be back on the HRP podcast - this time with my lovely colleagues for #womenshistorymonth Join me in my interregnum era to talk about Elizabeth Claypole - one of the lesser known ladies of Hampton Court 💕 open.spotify.com/episode/7Clq...

couple of interesting eBay finds #polarexploration

i swear con has never looked better 😅

Kensington Palace all lit up tonight for opening of the stunning new @historicroyalpalaces #DressCodes exhibition, brilliant work by a brilliant team 💃

roof with a view 🌅 #hamptoncourtpalace

heart rending and beautifully written - what a stunning article by @tchotchke.bsky.social 🇦🇶💕

Happy International Polar Bear day! In 1252, Henry III was gifted a white bear by the King of Norway. The bear joined the Tower Menagerie and was allowed to swim and fish in the Thames at the end of a collar and chord. This sculpture by artist Kendra Haste can be found near the Wakefield Tower 🐻‍❄️

On this day, 24 February 1815, James Fitzjames was baptised (born 27 July 1813). This is an extract from the baptismal register book that his adoptive father Robert Coningham kept. Another copy was sent to the Admiralty for Fitzjames' Lieutenant exam. [Private collection] #NavalHistory

The SS United States on her way out of Philadelphia yesterday - very eerie to see an elegant old lady like her moving against the grey. She’s on her way to be intentionally sunk and transformed into the world’s largest artificial reef 🚢⚓️ www.youtube.com/live/_0905U7...

Give me all your Arctic textile art

Making composite cyanotypes about Frank Worsley!

It’s his birthday :)

just missed Valentine’s Day but remembered this lovely 2006 Christie’s lot - probably a gift from Shackleton to Miss Emily Dorman before departing on Discovery ❤️