PhD Candidate Ivan Maiorov sent in pictures earlier this semester of his undergrad students wearing Bronze Age armor. They look ready for battle! #ClassicsGC #HumanitiesGC #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics CUNY Graduate Center

... Detail from an applique hanging showing 22 scenes from the Tristan legend, made in northern Germany 1370-1399 and now in the V & A. collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O86303/...

An embroidery with scenes from the legend of Tristan, with Middle Low German texts, & many heraldic shields. It was made c. 1300 by nuns at Wienhausen, Germany - from where there also survive another two such embroideries of the Tristan legend. #thingsilearnedtoday trc-leiden.nl/trc-needles/...

‘Several artefacts sent to Europe in this period appear to be the repurposed spoils of battle: helmets, cuirasses and whole suits reworked for diplomatic use.’ Ben Walker on the story behind a samurai suit. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I do hope there is a public institution/archive/library with deep pockets to buy this, but I am afraid it will remain in (other) private hands… www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

For #KentDay, we're returning to Knole for Powerhouse: 20 Historical Women who changed the World by Chinwe Russell www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/kent/k... Included as part of the exhibition, relating to the theme of domestic labour at Knole, are items from the collection – including a 1633 letter

Apply for a Dobson #Scholarship to attend this year’s Harlaxton #Medieval Symposium by Sunday! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

The Society for Court Studies offers an annual prize on the subject of court studies. The recipient of the prize will receive £500 and their essay will be considered for publication in The Court Historian. The essay, which can be up to 10,000 words including footnotes, can

‘We can stitch together our past’: the AI-generated time-travellers vlogging from history

Drone sent down to investigate #Sheffield Castle’s Well archaeologymag.com/2026/05/medi...

Group of 17th century cannon in Portuguese museum declared to be national treasures www.portugalresident.com/ha/arade-riv...

Feature on #CapeTown’s Noon-day gun www.glamour.co.za/lifestyle/tr...

French wreck with 27 cast-iron cannon found in #Cadiz harbour - drawings of all 27 guns at the end arkeonews.net/27-cannons-a...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly #Whitworth cannon turn up in Spanish museum www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

#ICYMI: The Kent Archaeological Society is inviting applications to the Allen Grove Local History Fund for 2026. Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/news-allen-g... #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

2/3 St Lawrence with his gridiron, St George dispatching a dragon and St Christopher carrying the Christchild. 15th Century glass in Great Malvern Priory, Worcestershire.

Would you like to read something FREE this Bank Holiday Sunday? Go with John Brackenbury, a Victorian shepherd, & his family to an outdoor excitement with a London visitor! A 'camp meeting'... The phone/computer/Kindle edition of 'Village' is FREE today! SEARCH FOR ALISON BRACKENBURY VILLAGE AMAZON

Mary Magdalen wooden sculpture in Musee Cluny #Paris #Sculpture

ICYMI I had a great time chatting to @garius.bsky.social about The Firearm Revolution for the Untitled History Podcast - find us here or wherever you get your podcasts

Are you interested in Scottish history? Or clothes/weapons. Then I have good news for you! www.helion.co.uk/military-his... www.helion.co.uk/military-his... 20% off both my books this weekend.

It is no exaggeration to say York's Centre for Lifelong Learning changed my life. A creative writing course led by @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social has resulted in novels published, new friends, and later this year, I very much hope, a PhD. It's such a loss.

The new edition of the National Trust Magazine is out now and includes an article by Giselle Király (@timeteam.bsky.social) on what it’s like to dig at Sutton Hoo. See if you can spot National Trust archaeologists Angus, Vivi and Shannon in the article! You can read it here: bit.ly/4uUjzvk

From the archives of All Things Georgian, 'The lady in green – A portrait within a portrait' - with some NEW information - wp.me/p3JTNy-51r #mondayblogs

Grade 1 listed, St. Patrick's Church in Patrington, E. Yorks known as the Queen of Holderness which dates from the 13th century trying to raise 100k to restore the historic church bells. 👇 BBC News - Church in Patrington hopes to be able to ring its bells again www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Saint Barbara https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/471897

Lovely appreciation of David Munrow, 50 years after his shockingly early death. How much he accomplished in less than a decade.

Arbuthnott Church in Kincardineshire, Scotland parts of which dates from 1200 & inspired the Lewis Grassic Gibbon, 1932 book, Sunset Song has been sold. 👇 BBC News - 'Sunset Song church' sold after community bid fails www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Liberal England: Leicestershire and Rutland's holy wells Leicestershire and Rutland once had over thirty documented wells called "holy well" or dedicated to saints. But few survive. In addition there are some wells that were probably once thought of as holy but aren't reliably documented as such.

Check out the original research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Investigating Sword of Saint Galgano foro3d.com/en/2026/mayo...

Norway appears to be awash with ancient swords this spring: Sword fittings for migration period sword found in Norway www.heritagedaily.com/2026/05/rare... And a Norwegian schoolboy picks up another Merovingian sword www.ancient-origins.net/news-history...

#Birmingham’s hidden WW2 heritage www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

Historic firearms stolen from US Museum www.wspa.com/news/local-n...

Recent finds, including cannon, on the Great Wall of China- Pictures and video here: dailygalaxy.com/2026/05/unde... No pictures: www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...

This is fascinating : reclassifying a batch of helmets found off the Spanish coast from ancient to medieval arkeonews.net/helmets-once...

Weekly Archaeodeath videos! Check out the latest!

inscriptions are still visible along its blade. The lettering, combining Roman and Lombardic capitals, forms no known words, leading archaeologists to believe it may represent a sacred or protective phrase intended to give its owner strength in battle. Dating from around 1100,

🧵The Cawood Sword is one of the rarest and best-preserved medieval swords ever discovered in Britain only the fifth example of its type to be found. Recovered from the River Ouse near Cawood Castle in the late 19th century, it remains in such remarkable condition that

The Seventh Crusade: New Research Reveals a Different Story www.medievalists.net/2025/05/seve... #history

The Traprain Law Treasure was discovered by George Pringle, foreman of excavations on the titular hill in East Lothian, #OTD in 1919. Buried around the mid-5thC, it is the largest collection of late Roman hacksilver ever found. 📸National Museums Scotland

The Swedish government is proposing to close the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities and Stockholm’s Museum of Mediterranean, Near Eastern and Egyptian Art (the Medelhavsmuseet) due to financial reasons. Please consider signing this petition against the closure: kampanj.skiftet.org/s/DMb7s0nO

Next in our Seminar Series is Stephen Barnaby. Stephen will be speaking on 26th May 2026 @ 7:00PM (GMT) and attendance is free!! Please join us end of the month.

Two new locally-produced films about the Shetland Bus will soon launch to coincide with Norway’s 17 May Constitution Day celebrations. The first film, Hearts Across the Sea, is a 30-minute documentary featuring three Shetland people with living memories of World War II shet.news/65n45

Catherine Howard's seal as queen. Using my extensive photoshop skills 😂, I've superimposed the two extant versions of her seal that I have been able to locate on top of each other. Both are very heavily damaged) #catherinehoward #katherinehoward #tudor #tudors

Election Day feast, Fishmongers' Hall, June 1600 'sowsed Conger' @greenleejw.bsky.social

Tom Gauld on Chaucer’s first unboxing video – cartoon

We're very pleased to announce that the Society's 2026 Prothero Lecture will be given by Prof Rebecca Earle (Warwick) on Weds 1 July bit.ly/4eF0DMp. Rebecca's lecture, ‘The Last Voyage of the Santiago: A Ship and its World in the Age of Revolution’, is now open for booking. All welcome #Skystorians

‘The design shows William Nicholson’s grasp of what Whistler called “the art of leaving out”. Recognition depends less on what the eye sees than on what the mind remembers of what it has seen.’ Rosemary Hill on the early 20th-century artist. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

‘It’s about recognising our role in history’: Bradford exhibition to revisit live Somali display