A church much loved by writer J B Priestly, St Michael and All Angels at Hubberholme in Wharfedale is worth visiting to see a rare surviving example of a Rood Loft. The loft and screen were installed as part of a reordering of the church in the 16th century.

I once asked a priest to bless a printer that I was in the middle of fighting with and he went "I only bless things when there's a chance it'll take" and then turned and walked out of the room.

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

Keep seeing stuff about AI in family history. Let me tell you a cautionary tale. Last week, a mate asked me to help her research a crime she'd heard about on social media. A 10 year old girl sentenced to transportation, a mudlarked memento found in the Thames close to Millbank.

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Robin Hood is a movie that reminds you of just how much attention to detail there is in Disney movies. Because while we don't know if King John sucked his thumb, we definitely know that Mummy did indeed like Richard best.

honestly, in bits here

"The Code tells organisations what the law permits. It does not tell us who we are as the Body of Christ." Church of Wales for the win.

Call me a historian who lives in Clacton, or whatever, but I'd like everyone to stop talking about Nigel Farage and instead focus on THE GREAT 1700S CLACTON 7ft 4 SMUGGLER CEMETERY GIANT 🙏🏻

The “Beats off” Chronicles day sixty-nine: NICE.

Today I had been painting our chikkinz… #chickens #painting #painter #hens #watercolour #sciart Bok bokkkkk

Honestly, the way the entire pub chants "wanker" any time Infantino appears on screen is truly heartwarming.

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

Remember to scream loudly out of the window at random moments to keep your iPlayer-watching neighbours on their toes.

"I'm not schismed! I'm not schismed!" I continue to insist as I slowly shrink and transform into a Protestant church

The Church of England knowingly invested in the trafficking of some 20,000 people, 3,000 of whom died on the way. Project Spire is an ambitious plan to invest £100 million over 9 years in measures for reparative racial justice on behalf of communities ‘which still bear the scars’ from slavery.

Is this a record? 3generations of #churchwardens @LittleMarkle

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

Does anyone here have a photo of the "Απήδαλος ναυς" in Corfu I could use in a piece of public scholarship?

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#StainedGlassSunday 🪟 Gorgeous reflection of the stained glass on the tomb of Bishop Thomas Hatfield (d.1381) 🌞 📍Durham Cathedral #Durham #History

Bluesky has a lovely side but it has a pious, policing side too: a type of person, a very *internet* person, who is resentful of artists working hard to get by in a tough world, & feels a bewildering ownership & entitlement over a painstakingly carved out space that has nothing to do with them.

Netsuke (Japan, 1701-1900). Hare grinding with a mortar and pestle. Refers to the ‘Hare in the Moon’, a messenger of the moon deity. The hare mixes the elixir of immortality with his mortar and pestle.

Lucy Walker (1836–1916) was a British mountaineer and the first woman to climb the Matterhorn (Walker, top left). #CelebratingWomen

July 12, 1776: Abigail Adams and her four children with John are inoculated for smallpox in Boston. They are part of a group of 17 who take the treatment together at her uncle’s house. “Our Little ones stood the opperation Manfully,” she writes.

Jarell Quansah has his red card ban extended to two matches. FIFA will consider an appeal, if the England defender can prove he’s either American or Argentinian or a brown envelope stuffed with cash

Just got back from M&S to find several people going "OMG that breaking news!" so of course I had to go check. Anyway, OMG that breaking news! 😱

I spotted this very simple headstone amongst many larger and elaborate ones in Alnwick churchyard. I researched Edwin. He was 3 months old when he died. Tragedy reflected in that tiny memorial.

How lovely is this church? Some places carry the whispers of people long after they are gone. All Saints', Billesley, Warwickshire once stood at the heart of a medieval village. Today, the village is gone and it stands alone in a copse.

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

Anyone who downplays the horror and significance of Dunblane has had their brain well and truly rotted by far right ideology and money.

Apropos of nothing I'm starting an occasional thread on the importance of Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, to the story of human evolution. Its one of the most important Palaeolithic landscapes in Europe and we should celebrate that fact a lot more. Look out for updates #ClactonPrehistory 🏺🦣

Screaming "WHO FUNDS YOU" at a man with a bin on his head, in a cool, non-rattled manner

Women also used to bean their asshole husbands over the heads with cast iron skillets, but no one seems to yearn for a return of those days. IT'S A MYSTERY!

What are your top Suffolk churches? Doing a little road trip weekend soon and although I’ve done a few churches there before, would love some top tips! If they have wall paintings, painted screens and lime finishes, then all the better 😀 Thanks!

We need your help to save two remarkable Victorian churches that are at risk of being lost forever.

In honor of her death anniversary today (July 8th, Flossie Wong-Staal, a Chinese-American woman, was a part of the team who discovered HIV and she was the first to clone HIV, fully genetically mapping it, enabling HIV tests to exist & large-scale screening of donated blood. She saved countless lives

Every lifelong football fan I've ever met is like "I think players are supposed to serve their suspension" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states handballs are mandatory."

To save my life I could not tell you if this is real or a parody

The nice things about books: once you own them, you own them, forever. No one will be eye tracking your reading habits. No one will make money of you reading the book as many times as you'd like. And the very same book can be read by generations to come. It can last centuries, literally. It's great.

Programme aired on 20 December 2025, but the initial legal letter was sent first to ITV, then inexplicably rerouted via Channel 4 before finally being dumped in the Costa outside BBC Broadcasting House.

Take Medieval Mr Blobby with you everywhere with this handy sticker pack. 12 themed stickers include: friar, knight, Queen Elizabeth, King Henry VIII, Shakespeare, Braveheart, Sutton Hoo, Bayeux Tapestry. tephraarts.etsy.com/listing/4532... #MrBlobby #BlobbyBlobbyBlobby #bayeuxtapestry #medieval

New Database #convicts #transportation #Lancashire #Australia #FamilyHistoruhttps://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/26248601.family-linked-convicts-sent-lancashire-australia/

new romantasy dedicated bookshop is opening in Oxford today and 10/10, no notes

"Shifting trends in consumer preference" is it? No, this is just companies deciding they don't want people to properly own anything

Book Review: “The Boleyn Secret” by Alison Weir adventuresofatudornerd.com/2026/07/01/b...

Those enslaved routinely had their names changed by their enslavers, so it's rather interesting - and touching - to see how this son chose to remember his father, focusing on the part of the name that probably had least to do with his enslaver.

This little mouse snacking on a nice Roman loaf is a charming detail on this tombstone from Rome. The buried man's name was Amphion Mus, or 'Mouse', and it was his nickname.