✨Inside the porch: Cluny or Ravenna vibes at Malmesbury Abbey. Hard to believe that this (almost) life size C12th century sculpture of the apostles and a hovering angel is in England. I'm told that when the candlelight dances around them, these enigmatic figures stir to life.

& dusk of thin infrastructure - the primitivity of poles of wood hard against seasons, the taught promise of power & comms, the stick that brought you this, a fibre

What can we do with a #poem in under 15 minutes? Tune into #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems on Radio 4 tomorrow / BBC Sounds to discover the surprising story behind Auden's 'Funeral Blues'. This episode may interest English teachers, as well as anyone who loves #history. @englishassociation.bsky.social

I hope @cathamclarke.bsky.social is properly proud of an amazing collection that speaks of now but also of where we have come from. The pearl is possibly my favourite, raw, powerful, and completely unexpected speaking of love, loss and grief over the centuries www.ft.com/content/6948...

🌿🏰 #HillfortsWednesday: Bury Ditches in Shropshire is one of England’s best-preserved Iron Age hillforts. Dating to around 500 BC, it has up to four concentric ditches & ramparts, commanding stunning views over the Shropshire Hills. A perfect mix of history & scenery!  #IronAge #AncientBritain

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘September’ Shell Nature Studies, 1956 Artist: Rowland Hilder and Maurice Wilson

This 3.6m tall menhir was moved to the public gardens in Cholet (Maine-et-Loire) in 1888 after it fell onto the road at La Garde some 5km away. It was transported on a cart made in Nantes drawn by 16 oxen.

Clouds and blue sky reflected in a small tributary of the Afon Mawddach estuary at sunset and low tide this evening. Was pleased to see the reedy marsh hags in fine fettle.

I’m delighted to show off the cover of my second poetry collection, featuring art work by Helen Garrett - a painter of great clarity and depth. Poems from the past 8 years, about archaeology, myths, animals, art, the material of being, the living matter around us. Published on 1st November 😊

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bEv... For decades we've worked to enhance the Sheffield Zooarch Lab & to see years of dedication destroyed by corporate executives who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing is heart breaking @watchingbrief.bsky.social #savesheffieldarchaeology

Our woodland is in the High Weald, spanning the Kingdoms of Kent & South Saxons (Old English: Sūþseaxe) or Sussex as they now call themselves The most wooded landscape in England with 28% tree cover 🫤 ‘Weald’ is the Old English for Forest, or Wald in modern German

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

Nigel Farage claim: "We are not the world's food bank, it is not for us to provide welfare to people coming in from all over the world" Reality: The average migrant on the Skilled Worker visa had a net fiscal impact of +£16,300 in 2022/23. In contrast, the average UK-born adult had about +£800

bond girls but they’re also muppets: thread

Sunset on The Ridgeway this evening at Bury Down

Just reminded myself of my crazy lockdown project March to July 2020 - to produce a pollen microscope slide of every flowering plant that appeared within 2km of the house along the Montgomery Canal towpath. 104 days and as many pollen. I was hot on that slide prep by the end of it 🙂

#AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems on BBC Radio 4 next week! Tune in from Monday!

Ah, we're here at last. #Roman Roads having a bit of an explore in the new place. Just finding our way so help appreciated for good #history #archaeology feeds to follow and interact with

Ohh! 🤗 @romanroads.bsky.social have just landed on BlueSky! Bung them a follow. We can't vouch for the quality of their content, but we can guarantee one thing...

‘Cycling Home’, Simon Palmer, watercolour, ink and gouache, 1996. Available as a greetings card, jigsaw puzzle, board print and bookmark. www.rathergoodart.co.uk?post_type=pr... #simonpalmer #simonpalmerart #yorkshireart #yorkshireartist #cycling #watercolourpainting #watercolourart

Bore yma Llwydlo or as it's known in English, Ludlow - in Shropshire. Have a wonderful #PostboxSaturday wherever you are and whatever language you speak.

Liddington Camp, a 3 hectare hillfort above Swindon. The first occupation dates back to the 7th century BC, making it a late Bronze Age / early Iron Age hillfort.

This is a thread about traybakes, office staff, regionality, cultural diffusion, and how La tene derivative art kept on being derivative. I sing the praises of every university’s office staff. They get a raw deal of everyones deadlines and I for one appreciate them all.

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit. Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil. 1🧵 #PlaymobilÖtzi #PlaymobilInfestation

Just a reminder to the museums sector, UK national minimum wage for over 21 years old is £12.21 per hour, or at 40hrs per week, £25396...

BREAKING: Donald Trump requested London mayor Sadiq Khan be excluded from the state banquet because he is a “disaster on immigration”. As mayor, Khan has no powers over immigration, but what Trump meant to say was that Khan is brown and Muslim and he doesn’t like that x

It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day, so here are some things you didn’t* know about pirates (*unless you already did), and which I didn’t know until I read my niece’s Masters dissertation a while back. Firstly – remarkably – pirate ships were democracies with a pretty flat management structure

Have Disney pulled the Indiana Jones movies for being mean to nazis yet?

18/9/25 - nocturn

Here's another #cartoon that didn't make it... #NigelFarage #hypocrite #grifter #charlatan #bbcfavourite #politics

“Vindolanda!” says Sir Nortibear as he shares his Fort For The Day. #RomanFortThursday

An innovative scheme offering free music lessons and workshops to pupils has been expanded in Shropshire.

Do you have experience of driving a bus or a lorry but you'd rather carry books? Would you like a job driving around #Orkney, going to schools and delivering books to people? There's still time to apply for the job of driving #BookyMcBookface at: myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/ork...

Here it is. The newborn book. My thanks as always to #Trivent Publishing for a beautiful job. trivent-publishing.eu/home/214-404...

St. Ives Bridge, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, by William Fraser Garden, 1895.

Crystallised something for me about the cowardice of bigots. The reason they blame the powerless is because it satisfies their anger without requiring them to risk the harm that comes with challenging power. Those on the march last Sat felt strong & elated; went home with no fear or worry

Brexit is the toxic epicentre of the political shitshow we now have to endure. It promoted idiocy and deceit, endorsed racism, divided us, made us poorer, weaker, less safe and less sane. It’s belittled the country, killed the Tory party and given birth to Reform. A relentless klaxon of failure.

'The police said in a statement four adults were arrested on suspicion of malicious communications after an “unauthorised projection”' Malicious communications? So much for freedom of speech! 2025 the year of the Thought Police?

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘Mam Tor, Derbyshire’ Artist: SR Badmin

Oi!! @inkyvalhalla.bsky.social @danherb10.bsky.social 🤣

The Tanfield Tomb is a remarkable survival from 1628 showing the fashions and themes of the day. It belongs in the equally remarkable St. John the Baptist, Burford in Oxfordshire #thread

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

Fixed this article: Shocking news that one of the countries largest and richest landowners (Church of England) refuses to maintain the upkeep on nationally important heritage assets Herefordshire churches 'face ruin' unless new uses can be found - BBC News share.google/jNQGi5GwPH9P...

A gale caused six men of the community of Iona to drown #OTD in 691. The annals record a shipwreck 50 years earlier and a further drowning in 749. 📸August Schwerdfeger #medievalsky

Kudos to this woman at Saturday’s counter-protest against the far-right in London 👏

Afternoon Light The Garden St Margarets: acrylic on canvas

A thread of ingenious joy

Our livestock have a deep and lasting impact on our land and that a Good thing. This land has been grazed for a long time, Bronze Age and before the meat and milk roamed. A hoof that breaks the soil is the same hoof that pushes the seed home.