Shap, Cumbria. And something not seen for a while.

Only two more sleeps before Ben Saunders @wessexarchaeology.bsky.social introduces Maritime Mapping around the Firth of Forth. Book your free ticket here👉 www.mining-landscapes.org/news #MaritimeHeritage #Coal #MiningHeritage

‘Today in Parliament’

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.

There seems to be a problem with the bleedin’ obvious here.

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

Remember maybe ten years ago when both historians and socialists were warning about the rise of fascism, as the media class smirked and joked on TV. Next time, I say we just listen.

‘I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace.’

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Time to come off the cloud?

The Fens, once the UK's largest lowland wetland, are under threat from environmental change. Examining changes in landscape, habitat, and species from the Neolithic to today underscores the need for integrated heritage and environmental management. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem

Barbara Hepworth, Hollow Form (Penwith), 1955-56 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136123

This is one of the Royal Observer Corps posts where two or three observers would monitor blasts and fallout around the UK in the event of a nuclear war. Instead, we're all watching climate change unfold on our phones and TVs.

The rood screen and loft inside St Anno's, Llananno is a medieval gem that no visitor will forget in a hurry. Spanning the entire width of the building, this magnificent piece of medieval craftsmanship dates from the 15th century. 2/9

Hurrah for kind people who return lost stuff.

Great Yarmouth circa 1900, Scottish fisherwomen (herring girls) faced grueling, fast-paced work gutting, packing herring in cold, harsh conditions, suffering cuts, infections from their work with sharp knives, earning low pay, living in basic lodgings, wearing oilskins and boots, RADICAL NORFOLK

Welcome, new blueskiers, to a safer harbour.

St Cuthbert’s Church, Crayke, North #Yorkshire “St Cuthbert” window (2020) #HelenWhittaker The detail shows the Tale of the Affectionate Sea Otters who were reputed to have warmed & dried Cuthbert's feet after a night of him meditating & praying whilst standing in the sea. #StainedGlassSunday

Carlops, Scotland

“War is Peace”

Quick #lidar scan of one of the Holyhead Mountain Iron Age roundhouses using the iPhone 15 Pro lidar scanner

If, like me, you find yourself needing to step back for a moment and let the current fury of the world roll past, consider the architecture and workmanship of an English cathedral - Norwich, in this case. A sanctuary for 900 years...

Some 20th century heritage (disappearing fast) from recent fieldwork.

Nuclear Pictish heritage! A glass paperweight commemorating the closure of the Dounreay, Caithness Prototype Fast Reactor in 1994, with early medieval Pictish symbols. National Museums Scotland X.2024.249.1 www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c...

Official Notice: Form K. ‘Seats for Female Shop Assistants’ (For more information please re-read)

Some drone pictures from my Sunday stroll up the Lyne Water along the Cross Borders Drove Road. Lots going on in these hills.

😯 ✨St John’s Court in Malmesbury: a 17th-century almshouse wrapped around a stunning 12th-century doorway from a former chapel. One of the most characterful gables in the country.

Watching Grand Designs when someone is breaking a historic building.

The stained-glass rose window at Lincoln Cathedral dates from about 1325 and is known as the “Bishop’s Eye”, England.

14th Century Green Man capital at All Saints, Oakham, Rutland.

Irony

Habeas Corpus? Did she die in vain? www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

A poem by my best pal @drpennyshutt mslexia.co.uk/magazine/blo...

Betteridge’s Law of Headlines strikes again…

History doesn’t repeat, but it certainly echoes. #Ukraine

Not content with looking to secure peace in our time at a meeting in Munich it looks like they’ve been reading up on the Rescript of Honorious (410AD) too. Gonna bury me a hoard. news.sky.com/story/us-tro...

Handrail, mid 18th century, Suffolk (England)

A squall before the storm. Main runway RAF Davidstow Moor, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall this afternoon (sound on)

The four arseholes of the apocalypse.

Fuck me, this is like ‘The Producers’. #inauguration Dram time

Guess the place. #MapMonday surv1887 published 1887. Map cc-by National Library of Scotland. Description in alt text.

Smallholding homestead, mid 19th century, near Truro, Cornwall. Cottage, stable, pigsties, vegetable garden and, originally a small orchard. 📸 my own

The White Night, Central Park, New York City by Adolf Fassbender 1936 Photograph (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)

Looking up at Sothwell's Chapter House. I thought that it had a teasel look, less certain now.

Eating #apples are propagated by grafting, not by seed. So the only reason we can *still taste* ancient #Roman varieties is because one generation of farmer after another has gone out into their orchards every c70 yrs or so, in peace & war, across the last 1.5/2 millennia, to graft a new Decio tree

Chambered tomb, Buzza Hill, St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly. #TombTuesday. 🧵

Bronze Age ploughing was performed with the ard, consisting of a share, stilt, draft-pole & yoke. This was used to cross-plough at right angles to break up the soil & remove weeds. This ard from Dorney, Buckinghamshire is made from a half split log of Field Maple. From BAS-Newsletter-Autumn-2018.pdf

If you like a vault, you might like this project. www.tracingthepast.org.uk