Is this rage bait itself?

Another shed roof fox ! Have you spotted a fox atop a roof ? If so , please share it ! Thanks to @billiegee.bsky.social for today's #FoxOfTheDay

Somewhere in a Roman brickyard, around 1800 years ago, a fresh tile was drying ahead of firing - until a dog trotted straight across it. Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2 📷me

Typical blame early release of OBR on someone 'junior' Nope its collective responsibility of the whole team, their procedures, checklists etc. 'While it is no surprise to me that Mr Hughes took the honourable decision to resign for an error identified as the fault of a junior member of staff...'

✨Cave Canem✨ The dogs of ancient Roman were often deployed to guard homes. Mosaics of dogs in guarding roles can be found at the entrances of homes mimicking the guarding function AND potentially offering warning of the real life guard nearby. #MosaicMonday #AncientRome #History

Warmer days may feel far away now, but some of our fluttery friends may still make appearances when that winter sun shows itself in our gardens and green spaces 🦋❄️ #SaveButterflies #MothsMatter

Our Christmas countdown for nature lovers is back! 😍🎄 A little bit of wildlife magic every morning... Who's ready to open door 1 with us? #RSPBAdvent

Foreign pensioners dreaming of retiring under the sun in the French Riviera may have to rethink their plans if France moves to scrap their free health care.

i put the holiday house on top of the heated mat

Probably need to be clear what is actually gambling first. Lots of crypto and 'investment' ads on the tube which just sound like gambling... BBC News - Calls grow for ban on Tube gambling ads www.bbc.com/news/article...

Not as esoteric as it seems. BBC News - I have high levels of forever chemicals in my blood - what can I do about it? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The lads had been told off for pulling faces at the congregation before but couldn't resist it when Sunday came round again. Fabulous capitals at All Saints, Oakham. #SundayStonework

#StandingStoneSunday with a gorgeous stone row at Lakehead Hill, just north of Bellever Tor, Dartmoor While the Neolithic & Bronze age sites on Dartmoor are exceptional, there's a lack of Hillforts & Iron Age occupation We explore it in the new episode >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvmu...

BBC News - Are UK Christmas markets as good as German ones? Here's what we found Not very likely - have been to all the German ones mentioned. They are amazing. Going to Baden-Baden this year then the biggest in Europe in Strasburg which in France but very German. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Overhead in gym changing room. 'I am not around next week, I am in Cyprus' 'What's the weather like?' 'Well it was ok about 25 degrees but getting worse when I arrive, it will only be 22' ...

#OTD 1990 Margaret Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister. Her fall from power was one of the most dramatic moments in modern British history, and has been mentioned frequently in our #OralHistoryProject, as @EmmaPeplow explored for #HistParl in 2015.

Amazing artist. The show at Tate Britain a few years ago was immense and wide ranging. The word visionary does not do him justice.

A stunning late #Roman glass goblet Probably made in Egypt around AD 400 Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk 📷 May 2024 An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂 #FindsFriday #FridayFeeling

When is it Men's Black Friday?

❤️ Black Friday Offer 🚀 Join our Women in Tech Power Network today and get a copy of my book: 📕 Saving Bletchley Park: how #socialmedia saved the home of the code breakers - for FREE! Offer finishes at midnight tonight 👇🏽 www.skool.com/women-in-tec... #BlackFriday #savingbletchleypark #FreeBook

Ferdinand Magellan's expedition to circumnavigate the globe first passed through the Strait of Magellan #OnThisDay in AD 1520. The southernmost archaeological site in the world (an Indigenous hunting camp) is nearby, on the island of Isla Hornos. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

This Jacobean travelling library was commissioned for a gentleman to carry his own collection of miniature vellum-bound books inside a wooden case ~ contents are listed on the inside cover (1617). Possibly, the first of its kind (University of Leeds) www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News - The Blind Date couple who married in front of millions www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News - Parents threatened by authorities as 1,000 adopted children returned to care www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tonight we're celebrating 10 years of Rewilding Britain (@rewildingbritain.org.uk). I don't think I've ever come across an organisation which has shifted both public attitudes and tangible outcomes on an issue so fast. I'm proud to be associated.

Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

BBC News - 'Extraordinary discovery' at Orkney Neolithic site www.bbc.com/news/article...

Not my kind of thing but these are amazing from Crooked Dice Studio - wargaming etc. crooked-dice.co.uk/products/the...

Do you have a local fox ? Please share your photos in the comments , or using #FoxOfTheDay ! Thank you to @sarahvallance3 for today's #FoxOfTheDay .

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

Plenty of scope for improvement. Seems to be idea that everything has to be perfect - not sure that's what fans really want? Have the cards made any difference to way tackles are made? Why so many substitutes? Why stop for someone to put boot back on? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

What book would you recommend to someone learning about neurodiversity for the first time? We’re updating our Space for Reading at the Weston Library and this time, the theme is Neurodiversity. Share your book recommendations here: https://forms.office.com/e/bRHBxTXBSY

A cold night to come with a widespread frost ✨ However, temperatures will start rising in the west as cloud and rain approaches ☁️

UK friends who like notebooks - TKMaxx currently have half-price and even cheaper Moleskines, LAMYs, and Leuchtturms.

#OtD 25 Nov 1865 Mississippi passed a Black Code to reintroduce slavery post-civil war. They prevented Black people from renting land, required them to work for whites and barred them from changing jobs. Violators could be jailed & enslaved legally stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9774...

Books of the Year 2025: Our contributors choose their favourites

A new episode of Instant Classics Bookclub has dropped. We're reading the Odyssey & have reached Book 4. Helen 'of Troy' is back in Sparta with Menelaus whom she abandoned so causing the Trojan War. Domestic bliss? Join the Bookclub with access to back episodes too: instantclassics.supportingcast.fm

Yet another contributor to TLS books of year list mentioning Seamus Heaney 'Poems'. The collection of published and till now unpublished poems. I think that is the most times I have seen one book mentioned repeatedly.

Scare yourself read this and make the checks mentioned. BBC News - Scammers hacked her phone and stole thousands of pounds - how did they get her details? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One of the funniest books ever written.

Fresco of elegant barefoot woman, possibly the nymph Flora, treading lightly, carrying basket & turning to gather spring flowers. Recovered from Villa Arianna in Stabiae, just outside Pompeii, buried in volcanic ash (79AD, National Archaeological Museum, Naples)

Portraits on a 4th century #Roman mosaic from Hinton St Mary #Dorset Their air-blown hair suggests these are 2 of the 4 winds If so, these are possibly: Notus the South wind bringer of autumn Boreas the North wind bringer of winter © The Trustees of the British Museum Happy #MosaicMonday

Cambridge’s #Archaeology journals are publishing an increasing amount of #openaccess (OA) #research. Read the latest articles here: ▶️ https://cup.org/3We1oBR @antiquity.ac.uk @saa-aap.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social#Archaeology

Is Land-rover Defender advert #sexist ? Two women drive while two men go ice climbing or skydiving? Asking for a friend who thinks it is.

November 23, 57 BCE: Cicero writes to his friend Atticus to complain about Clodius. The wily former tribune ordered the house of Quintus, Cicero's brother to be set on fire by his henchmen. Clodius allegedly gathered supporters by saying he would free enslaved persons www.attalus.org/cicero/attic...

#OnThisDay - 23 November - in 1963 'An Unearthly Child', the first episode of Doctor Who, was broadcast on BBC television, ushering in a new epoch of adventures in time and space that all began at 76 Totter's Lane. #DoctorWho

23 November 1943 | A transport of 1,181 Jews arrived at #Auschwitz from Drancy in occupied France. The train departed with 1,200 Jews, but 19 escaped on the way. After the arrival selection, 895 people were murdered in a gas chamber. 9-year-old Francis Levin was among them.

Despite sounding modern AI is made up from purely Latin words. What else did the Romans do for us?

'Astonishing, amazing, changing American history' 'Not just the Tudors' episode on English 'lost' colony of Roanoake. pca.st/episode/0f64...