A couple with a child by the wonderful Gesina Ter Borch, she made this picture #otd 2 Dec 1652 (Rijksmuseum)

A magnificent hidden treasure of Welsh legal history- a beautifully illustrated manuscript of the Welsh text of the laws of Hywel Dda dating from the 14th century #medievalsky

Deadline approaching for the ISHMap Prize for Projects in Map History. In 2024 or 2025, did you participate in a neat map history project that wasn't a book or an article? Submit it for a shiny prize!! Nominations due 31 Dec 2025. #maps #maphistory #skystorians #GIS 🗃️

#ArtDD2025 Hare For #ArtAdventCalendar here's a grey hare from a 📷 by @SW_PhotoNature with thanks. @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social

Playing 6000-year-old conch shell trumpets for the first time reveals they were effective tools for long-distance communication and may have also been used as musical instruments 🐚 Read the research 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database. An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️

Appros of nothing, The Sussex mammoth Map www.google.com/maps/d/edit?... 🦣🏺

Graffitti on the walls of Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds. Not far from where the family of Lawrence Oates of the ill-fated Scott expedition owned property. Your guess is as good as mine whether the two things are related but it certainly stopped me in my tracks.

What he said: 💯 🎯

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts a Kp index of four out of nine Saturday night.

3-0. Bloody aliens.

View from the Plain Ham terraces

Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩 The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse! This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology

Just glanced out the back door to find an interdimensional rip has opened up in the sky.

Another #shipwreck uncovered by a storm, this time in Canada - interesting construction, the vessel was possibly flat-bottomed? #maritimehistory #maritimearchaeology #Canadianhistory #GreatLakeshistory www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Looking forward to seeing this in the redisplayed #PooleMuseum. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I just want to apologise to the Luddites whose name I’ve taken in vain all this time. My bad, you were right about everything.

NEW Have archaeologists identified the largest nucleated settlement in prehistoric Ireland and Britain? Survey at Brusselstown Ring, one of the largest hillforts in Ireland, found evidence for potentially hundreds of occupied roundhouses! Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Lots of great objects and archives to explore (one at random here, Leighton Dalrymple's sketch of John Blenkinsop's Steam Locomotive 'Salamanca', 1812), with themed virtual exhibitions #histSTM📜

Still full of cold bleurgh but just about well enough to don the frock and get a later train to London for tonight's talk. Who's in?

Very interesting announcement, if a bit frustrating... Watch that space, I suppose! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Candle moulds, c. 1600-1640 each carved with one of the symbols from the Stuart royal arms - the Tudor rose, the thistle, the harp and the fleur-de-lys. (V&A)

In the Swash Channel, Dorset, UK lies a 17th century shipwreck. Likely salvaged after it sank, few material remains survive. The researchers' detective work and protection efforts are now published and the book features in our #NewBookChronicle 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

American friends:

This afternoon's job is formatting the Bibliography for #gloucesterwreck co-edited book, soon to be sent for publication with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social ... I actually quite like doing this job (& stage of a project i.e. almost done!) 📝...

My latest commentary: how to populist-proof your democracy before it's too late… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Amazing maps indeed! The survey was carried out from around 1958 to 1974; coverage for England and Wales looks to be complete but coverage of Scotland much less so. I'm already checking what the maps show for my local #OnePlaceStudy to compare land use there now, with what this survey recorded.

This is extremely unfortunate to say the least. Not sure how I would have reacted to having my Reith lectures censored - the world has changed in an ill way in the two years since.

A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.

On this day in 1120, the White Ship sank en route from Barfleur to Southampton. William Ætheling, King Henry I’s only legitimate son and heir to the throne, drowned whilst trying to save his half-sister, Matilda of Perche, who also perished. 1/4

#RomanSiteSaturday I've posted these before, but they're maybe worth another outing. Nothing obviously Roman here at first sight, on the foreshore of #ChichesterHarbour. However, tangled up among the tree roots are lumps of Roman tile, from an adjacent tilery site.

The base of a 2,000 year old, Late Iron Age Durotrigian style Black Burnished Ware bowl from Winterborne Kingston #Dorset A series of squiggles were scored into the fabric prior to firing - decoration, doodle or pot-makers mark? 📷 during cleaning in June 2013 #FindsFriday

I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story. I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.

A Hunger-Games-style proposal for solving the Royal Navy's manning problems in 1813: evanmwilson.substack.com/p/a-plan-for...

One photo, two worlds — the Día de los Muertos parade at the gates of St. Roch Cemetery, New Orleans.

We 🧡 Autumn 📷 Katarzyna Kedziora 📍 Halnaker

Shifting sands at Maroubra Beach have revealed the wreck of the HEREWARD once again — a 19th-century iron clipper driven ashore during a fierce storm in May 1898. Though the crew survived, the ship never sailed again, slowly pulled apart by waves and weather. Object number 00002278

📢📢📢New book forthcoming in the 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800: Cultures of the Sea' book series! Material Culture in the Swedish Navy, c. 1450-1850, edited By Simon Ekström, Niklas Eriksson, Anna Maria Forssberg, Leos Müller will be published 28/4/26 ⚓️⚓️⚓️ routledge.com/Material-Cul...

Memorial to young musician Matthew Godwin in Exeter Cathedral. Only 17y and 5m old when he died in 1586. The main keys on the small organ are black, the reverse of modern keyboards, as was usual in the 16th century. #MonumentsMonday

St Mary’s Haddington 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 has some remarkable medieval oak timbers in the nave roof. My #dendrochronology work there dated them to the early 1400s and revealed them as Baltic baulks from the Gdansk region. #MedievalMonday

#ArtDD2025 St Mary's, Tal-y-Llyn, Anglesey Tal-y-Llyn has disappeared, but its church was saved by @friendlesschurches.bsky.social in 1999 & is open to all. Yes, I've done this one before😀 @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social

The MS of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-13.00 and 14.00-16.30 Monday - Friday. No appointment or reader’s ticket is required to view the MS of the Week.

Well preserved wooden shipwreck found 100m down in Lake Ontario - even the masts are standing. It is thought it may date the c 1800-1850 period: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🚨Our BBC is under attack 🚨 We can't let those that want to see it torn up & replaced by the likes of GBNews or Fox win. Sign the open letter now to demand the new BBC boss is someone that will protect the BBC, not let its enemies tear it down: 38d.gs/2sa8

Assistance requested: came across reference to 'English East Indian ship' brought 'a peice [sic] of Lywaet, which is very good' to Cormontine, 23 October 1658 (n.s.). 'Lywaet' (translator's spelling) is unknown to me. Many thanks in advance for any and all advice #earlymodern #maritimehistory

Lead ingot stamped with the name and titles of #Roman emperor Domitian, found in 1735 on Heyshaw Moor #NorthYorkshire and now in the excellent Craven Museum #Skipton Made in AD 81, *BRIG* on the side records it was mined and taken from the land of the #Brigantes 📷 Aug 2022 #FindsFriday

It looks like an ancient dance floor, aching for lights and .music, the swish of silk and perfume and flirting again