Amazing what you can grow in your garden in the middle of winter! Fantastic hellebores

🧵During the night of the 1/2 February 1829, a fire ripped through York Minster’s Quire. The blaze had been started deliberately by Jonathan Martin, a frequent visitor to the cathedral at the time, who had attended a service that afternoon and then hidden inside until 1/3

Some writers do use tarot cards to help shape their plots and ideas, so there is a precedent for this!

Amazing what you can grow in your garden in the middle of winter! Fantastic hellebores

1825: A beautiful morning took a walk in the fields saw some birch poles on the quick fencing & fancyd the bark of birch might make a good substitute for Paper it is easily parted in thin lairs & one shred of bark round the tree woud split into 10 or a dozen sheets I have tryd it & find it...

This turtle was eyeing the tongue that was poking out of the duck's beak. #birdoftheday #ducks #turtle #nature #wildlife #birds #marsh #protectnature #EastCoastKin

My local library is celebrating its 10th anniversary! My friend has put on a display of children’s books from 2016 and today. They’ve also got cake, a balloon modeller, face painting and a prize raffle! It’s mainly run by volunteers, which makes it extra special

👀 Church of St Margarets, Burnham Norton, #Norfolk A “Round Tower” church of flint. Small round headed windows, but with six larger windows at the belfry stage #SteepleSaturday #Medieval

450,000 artefacts from the HS2 excavations *alone*. So the next time detectorists tell you they find everything archaeologically important - they don't. 😝 #Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

View from the doctoral school! The undergrads were enthusiastic and engaged and my talk went well. Hopefully there will be some really interesting projects to see when I return in April with my colleagues

Off to Cambridge to inspire undergrads with facts and figures and tales of transatlantic lives at Norman Cross. I hope they’re hungry for knowledge! 😅

Youngest turns 18 today. For fun I wrapped the remote, and he is refusing to unwrap it, so this is adulting in our house 😂😂😂

Ever wanted to wander round Portchester Castle? Now you can thanks to this handy video

Apologies for the late repost, but some of us (*cough*Sophie*cough*) finished their PhD at Christmas and had a complete brain fart. PLEASE ENJOY THIS BELATED CHRISTMAS FARE

#OTD 1457, Margaret Beaufort gave birth to her son Henry, who would one day be Henry VII, the first Tudor king. She was just thirteen years old, and the birth almost killed her.

As it is both #InternationalLEGODay AND the publication anniversary of Pride & Prejudice, I give you: LEGO Pemberley (Currently under review with the LEGO people)

Today’s unexpected discovery was a couple of Dutch men on parole who went in to Norman Cross for a week. One of them was sick, so he went into the hospital with his friend (a surgeons mate) to get the best help. Was it for surgery, or drugs? We don’t know, but they returned to Holland in 1801

Caught up with The Graham Norton Show last night and was stunned to hear some Peterborough history from Ant and Dec! They mentioned appearing at Truckfest and how they were told to stop their act mid set to allow a farmer to lead his cows through the site. Knowing the site, I can believe it

Check out the window on that. 😘

Colombian artist Doris Salcedo, installation, Istanbul Biennial, 2003, over 1600 chairs, urban art project #WomensArt

What a fantastic finale for The Traitors! And the choice of Vivaldi at the end 👌🏻

Well I didn’t have armed siege on my bingo card for Friday, but there we go! Trying to work out if that’s the second or third time I’ve been locked down in my street 🤔

Sublime! (And exactly the same for Peterborough!)

I’ve gone from watching an historical slaughter in a K-drama straight to the Trump speech at Davos and there are definite parallels! Someone stop him!

I’ve got to the penultimate episode of a K-drama and most of the cast has just been brutally slaughtered! And there I was thinking it would be a food -related romance 😳😂

It’s nearly timeee! ❄️ #Winterwatch is back on our screens in just 15 minutes on BBC Two... Grab a cuppa and settle in. 😍 Who’s joining us?

Hello. We're new here. 👋 Wondering what devil's porridge is? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle coined the phrase to describe the explosive materials he saw munitions workers at H.M. Factory Gretna mixing in large pans. They were making cordite. Please don't eat devil's porridge. 💥 #DevilsPorridge #WW1history

That's me in the corner... ... looking stunning! Just a casually pretty peacock hanging out in the corner a medieval book on astronomy! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FITZ...

Nice and specific, cheers.

The stuff PhD nightmares are made of 😱

I broke down on a dark November evening near Chatteris with two small boys in my car. A Spanish lorry driver in the same lay-by who spoke no English gave me his yoghurts to feed my boys. I often remember his kindness

📢 We're looking for a PhD student to focus on habitat use of wintering Curlew in and around coastal SPAs. Apply now ➡️ bit.ly/CurlewPhD The student will be based at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social and BTO, starting in October 2026 for four years. 📆 Deadline to apply: Wednesday 18 February #Ornithology

Well this is going on the reading list! I have found men from Saint Domingue/Haiti at Norman Cross and want to learn everything I can about the experiences they might have been through, no matter which side of the conflicts they were on. Great timing, Paul! 👑

Just imagine how much worse this international debacle would be if a certain brown-nosed, euro-hating man was at the helm of our country! Diplomacy: what diplomacy?!

On the east wall of the Lady Chapel at St Guthlac Deeping.

A joyful trip to St Guthlac’s this afternoon. I was lucky enough to hear a local boy practising on the organ whilst I was there, before I wandered round by myself

Irises, 2012 by Scottish artist Elizabeth Blackadder #WomensArt

View of the Nene at 8am

Just a few days til we’re back on screens with #Winterwatch2026! 🥳❄️🐾 Coming LIVE from our new home at the beautiful Mount Stewart Estate on the shores of Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland! See you from Tues 20th to Fri 23rd of Jan, 7pm on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer #Winterwatch ❄️ 📸 Alastair Marsh

Spent a wonderful afternoon in Burghley park doing a swan count. Not a bad way to spend a birthday!

Spent a wonderful afternoon in Burghley park doing a swan count. Not a bad way to spend a birthday!

No sign of the Bear, but the Cock is it out… #StrawBear

The Grade I Moot Hall in Aldeburgh, #Suffolk, is a true #architectural treasure. Built in 1520, extended in 1654 and restored in 1854, its striking gables and historic staircase tell the story of a town shaped by centuries of change, and by the sea that has claimed much of #medieval Aldeburgh.

Clearly the Clateryngbrugge in Kingston is an excellent spot for eel fishing. Built around 1175 the bridge is thought to be one of the oldest intact bridges in England.

I’m still recovering today, so made the most of BBC iplayer and watched the absolute classics Dial M for Murder and The Sound of Music. Both brilliant films but there’s something rather more relevant about ‘Jane Eyre with Nazis’ as TSOM is sometimes known 😳

Lovely to be home after a night in hospital (sort of planned). Barely slept, so looking forward to a good night’s sleep in a comfy bed 🛌

How does the junk food advertising ban work? At lunch I saw an advert for McDonald’s with people eating chicken burgers on 4OD. Does the ban not apply to on demand services? Cause that’s a HUGE loophole!

Hello new followers! We are the longest-established and most ambitious Local History project yet devised. Established in 1899, and part of @ihr.bsky.social and @chppc.bsky.social, we aim to produce histories of every English place from the earliest time to the ever moving now.

If you need to find your smile this morning then I’d recommend this article! It is pure sunshine in archaeology form ☀️ and I love how excited everyone involved is www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...