Wisteria looking good

Church of St. John with All Saints, Waterloo Road, London. 1823-24 by Francis Bedford. Greek revival style (1); Gate (2); Tomb. Early-mid C19 (3). Photos: 01.02.2025. #London #church #worship #religion #FrancisBedford

3/3 Its inscription barely there now, the last resting place in Dunfermline kirkyard of David Ferguson, 'first protestant minister of Dunfermline', who died in 1598. As well as fathering nine children, he translated the Book of Proverbs into Scots and rearranged them into alphabetical order!

2/3 Rev. Ralph Erskine. 'Ordained a parish minister of Dunfermline 7th August 1711, left the Established Church and joined the Secession 18th February 1737' Dunfermline parish kirkyard. The spires are the City Chambers and the Linen Exchange.

The Dunfermline dead. A cluster of 18th and 19th Century headstones in Dunfermline parish kirkyard, Fife. Meanwhile, over the wall... #MemorialsMonday

#MemorialMonday #IsaacNewton @westminsterabbey.bsky.social

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

🚨What you won't read in the British media: on X, journalist @twelves.bsky.social has looked at Matt Goodwin's new book, Suicide of a Nation, and found that is packed full of fake quotes and material that appears to have been made up by AI.

A passport tax would solve the problem of tax refugees www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03...

Utterly the wrong call. Step by step, this embroils us in an immoral, illegal, illogical war.

This should be put to a House of Commons vote.

First property research project at New Job & I'm activity losing my mind. Why is every son in this family named the same thing...and all married women with the Same Name?!? 😵‍💫😵‍💫 #heritage

Mouse sticking round #HolyTrinityBristol for a couple of days as she has more to share: Monument west of nave. An effigy raised up on an elbow is a common motif of tombs from the era. Seen as meaning 'resting rather than dead' though Mouse think of it as 'neither here nor there'

#ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social Richard II Act 5 Scene 2 Good mother, be content 📷 Icon of St Non, mother of Dewi Sant/St David in his shrine in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social

For #MotheringSunday my mother's reminiscences of her upbringing on a farm between Newport and Cardiff, her struggles to get an education and her time teaching in Chepstow during WW2 www.heritagetortoise.co.uk/2017/11/bett...

A 13th-century grave cover from the Church of St. Mary’s in Gateshead, near Newcastle. The shears carved beside the cross are thought to indicate that the grave belonged to a woman.

🗣 Colofn Huw Prys: Amddiffyn grym Senedd Cymru Bydd angen i Gymry gwlatgar o bob plaid gydweithio â’i gilydd yn erbyn bygythiad gwirioneddol i ddemocratiaeth y Gymru ddatganoledig #safbwynt #gwleidyddiaeth ✍️ Huw Prys Jones

PS - as it is, what few university collaborations remain (we've lost one in the last 12 months owing to redundancies) are at risk, for various reasons, so it's moot. The host institution (IHR) is outside the REF system, partly to allow us to escape the issues the writer describes.

Yes, that's reasonable (and nothing very new - it was a sticking point for @vch-home.bsky.social projects two REFs ago - the research wouldn't get accepted, though the engagement would and measuring it was tricky). But the label remains quite silly.

Join us on 31 March to learn about family history in late Medieval Brecon! This webinar is hosted in collaboration with the Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-f... #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

Only a small and comparatively recent element of UK archaeological research is purely academic. Today, the overwhelming majority is conducted within professional archaeology. Meanwhile UK avocational archaeology has 200+ years of national and regional associations, publications, and collections.

This is incredibly shit but also completely unsurprising. Every single large corporate in the UK is dropping everything useful or sustainable they might have been doing in favour of miraculous snake oil sold by grifters

Reform UK are too weird to win From Matthew Goodwin to Restore Britain, the online right aren’t radical – they’re cringe

“We all know it’s fracking, so treat it as such. It’s banned; therefore, it should not be approved" says Councillor Steve Mason. Fossil fuel firms claim a 'proppant squeeze' is different from fracking & therefore not banned in the UK. share.google/mIoqwLXTO3sX... 🧵 1/5

It's #WomensHistoryMonth 🎉 As usual, I'll be sharing ordinary women's stories. I like writing about these women. They didn't do anything the world would deem spectacular. They were just everyday people going about their lives. Surviving the way they knew best. #History

Not only are the daffs starting to open in the Necropolis, the bees are out as well. I know it's wrong so early in the year, but I will take wee brightnesses where I can.

Good day all.

#Books #Libraries #Reading

Celebrate St David’s Day with us! Our Welsh-language talks are now fully subtitled in a dedicated YouTube playlist. Explore Dinas Dinlle, St Teilo's Church & more — from Iron Age hillforts to chapel history. Start exploring: zurl.co/T7Okb

If you live in Flintshire and are interested in place names, come along to the Butcher's Arms, Nercwys at 19:45 on Monday 2nd March. Our Place Names Officer, Dr James January-McCann will be discussing local names, and our work recording them for future generations. The talk will be in English.

Sagging, deflected, and perilously close to collapse, the roof of St James’s, Llangua was in a dire state before our repair project. Now, thanks to the tireless efforts of Jones & Fraser, the roof has been brought back to a condition much closer to its original medieval form.

So MP @bromsgrovebradley.bsky.social wants to know about the CO2 impact of Chinese clean-tech manufacturing, having just asked a Q in parliament Which is lucky, cos we published detailed analysis on this last year: China’s clean-energy exports in 2024 alone will cut overseas CO2 by 1% (inc UK)

Next up in the AHSS Strathclyde Group Winter Lecture Series: Heritage with Purpose: Adaptive Reuse and Community-Centred Design, with Sarah Jane Storrie 🗓️ 19 March 2026 📍 St Andrews West Church & Renfield Centre, Glasgow ⏰️ 7:30 – 9:30pm 🎟️ £6 online/in-person | £2 students: buff.ly/va5EmB8

Hoping to show this in Manchester later in the year

Anyway at least the Commons now has someone actually qualified to lead the committee on repairing Westminster Palace.

@ystadaucymru.bsky.social Ystâd hanesyddol Glynllifon ar werth am y tro cyntaf ers canrifoedd newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/ysta...

After a decade as a de facto poop correspondent, it was great to see the sewage scandal brought together in Channel 4’s brilliant drama Dirty Business. Even if you think you know the story, watch it. I’ve tried to sum up the whole malodorous affair here: watershedinvestigations.com/a-decade-ins...

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

To celebrate the BNA reaching 100 million pages, my colleague Claire O'Halloran has written a blog sharing some of our highlights. A huge achievement-well done to everyone involved at @britishlibrary.bsky.social & @findmypast.bsky.social Here’s to the next 100 million! www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

#WorkingLives #Work

If anyone knows anything about this mysterious artist – please let us know in the comments!

Yeah, quite key: it's not £21 million that is going directly to those 6500 students... The only ones winning anything (other than maybe £2000 per student) are the firm raking in the £7 million and the people keen to crash universities. Grim day for #UKHE.

This is the guy Trump first wanted for the job so he could help bury the Epstein files.

I feel that the fact that by 1918 much of the French Army on the Western Front consisted of forcibly-enlisted West Africans ought to be better known by military historians.

I am intrigued by the French immigrants to Canada who chose not to volunteer for service in the First World War, but got conscripted and sent over anyway.

Abbey church of St. Michael, #Farnborough where Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie are buried. #Tombs #Abbeys #Churches

Do you need support in looking after a Welsh chapel building, want to connect with others, share experiences and learn more? Have you got stories, history or experiences – past or present - to share? Join us for our first #CapelCymru event in Holyhead on 24 February: zurl.co/Y1uXA