A joy of a sight for #ThrowbackThursday - A ghost gable 👻 - caught like a fly in amber at Wirksworth in Derbyshire

Mr Cait took a shower and then immediately afterwards Adonis commandeered his towel on the floor for sleeping

Love these two lads and their pets. 13th or 14th century art in the Westerwijtwerd church, Friesland. I'm sure someone tried very very hard, so we're going to be very respectful and not at all say it looks like a 10 year old made because that's how you get poltergeists.

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: a #Roman bracelet made of turquoise and dark blue glass beads. They are imitating beads made of the lapis lazuli and turquoise, semi-precious stones mined in Afghanistan and Egypt. Found in a burial in Augusta Raurica, Switzerland, 4th c. AD 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

Don't You Be Afraid Of Ghosts! They're Your Best Friends, Says Woman Freeport Journal-Standard, Illinois, 1923

A #Tudor lifetime in romaynes as featured on a C16 book cabinet.

One goal.

why are you stealing my cat

look at this heroic stance

Early with the ball.

It's Thursday. A good day to remind you that I have lots of things for sale through my Etsy shop. LoTR subway maps, landscape drawings, etc. AND this grumpy raven, who looks great on a coffee cup. www.etsy.com/shop/Surpris...

(Hey friends I am a little short on rent this month and need to ask for a little help. Please also consider grabbing some art or Paul merch from my site if you’d like! Thanks for loving Paul 🤍) blackspurgoods.com

Then Toad felt very tired, and he fell asleep.

folded

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He deserves ALL the video games. ♥️

he is a good boy. should i buy him the new Silent Hill video game he's been asking for?

Still lifes by Italian Carlo Magini are so different from Dutch. Better vegetables (as today). But knife at table edge is universal!

Spike’s ready for the weekend.

#OTD in 1586 Mary, Queen of Scots was moved for the final time. Mary had stayed in various accommodations throughout her imprisonment in England prior to being moved to Fotheringhay Castle. Mary would meet her fate at Fotheringhay. 1/2

Original botanical painting from an album of watercolour studies of "Flowers from Nature" attributed to Anne Elizabeth Nasmyth nèe Hartop (1817-1893). These are dated 1866-1868. I saw this when I visited the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. 🍂 #hernaturalhistory #sciart #botanicalart

I've been looking for moments like this ever since I read Gerda Lerner: moments when Renaissance women find other women writers and claim them. To that end, let me show you the best thing I've ever seen in an archive: a little note, in Mary Wroth's copy of Eusebius.

Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642, Francesco Boschi, c. 1640-75 (Musée du Louvre)

Isaac Oliver, c. 1565-1617. Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia (1596-1662) when Princess Elizabeth in 1613 (Royal Collection, HM CIII)

Please share to help two bonded wobbly kittens find a home! Meet Lucy and Ricky located at Greenwich CT animal shelter. They're a bonded pair, effectionate and sweet but need a special home that will adapt to their cerebellar hypoplasia (the "Wobbly Cat" syndrome). www.petfinder.com/cat/lucy-and...

this man fucking loves catnip

Portrait of a Woman aged 30 in 1544 Master of the 1540s Flemish, perhaps Antwerp (Art Institute Chicago)

23 Sept 1553: Stephen Gardiner, Chancellor of #Cambridge sends Thomas Watson, a favourite preacher of Mary I, avid restorer of Catholicism in #England, to restore the old religion & to survey the colleges of the university #otd (eebo)

📸 Leung Drum

#OnThisDay - 23 September - in AD 38 Drusilla, the sister of the emperor Gaius Caligula, was deified. She received the title 'Panthea' (Dio 59.11.2-3). #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC Gaius 33; Münzkabinett Berlin (18215927). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

I'm trying to raise a bit of money to send books to a new Mobile Library being set up specifically to support the homeless in London. It's being organised by the charity "PINT Giving". I'm donating £100 & if you can help too, i'd be so grateful. More info here. tinyurl.com/37yn63zu

As it's starting to get a little cooler these days, here's Arcimboldo's 'Fire' from 1566 (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

I'm excited to have @drjoannepaul.bsky.social on my YouTube channel this Thursday for a livestream chat about Thomas More. Join us at 11:00 a.m. ET!

Mary Magdalene holds her hair. Clockwise 1. (Medieval) St Peter's, Britford 2. (Medieval) All Souls College, Chapel Oxford 3. (Ninian Comper) All Saints Convent, Cowley 4. (Ninian Comper) St Mary Magdalene, Paddington

It's 1100. You're a peasant in Harmston, England. Congrats! It's a fine place to live. But at what cost? Eels. That's what. Each spring, the village owes Earl Hugh 75,000 eels in rent. So every fall your life becomes all about the eels.* Welcome to Harmston. Here's your net. 🗃️🧪

he can't sign autographs right now. he's busy. busy with important work.

Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar), late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE Class: Vases Culture: Greek, Attic Medium: Terracotta https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/745277

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The Queen's influence: how Henrietta Maria Stuart was so much more than a royal wife londonlifewithliz.com/2018/04/08/t... #Stuarts #History

"This is the librarian at my college."

What a Boleyn Dream Team this duo are - the legendary Kate McCaffrey and Owen Emmerson, two of the finest.

@lukeisamazing.bsky.social and @goingmedieval.bsky.social dive into the deep history of humans and the mythical dragons we love so much. we talk about why we always make them, dragons of East and West, name some folkloric dragons and much more! www.patreon.com/posts/139281...

Lil guy mentioned.

Bonus Ep 94 - Imagine Dragons is available now for all patrons

We are talking about dragons, and why humans long to imagine a lil (or big) guy. Check it out and support the pod. It's cool.

me faz fritas

Wherever I go, there too go the eel history facts. My relevance travels with me, man.

The least medieval, medieval detail in England. A fluted column, the flutes defined by ‘dying mouldings’ from a vault at St Mary Beverley. Looks like the designer had seen a Corinthian column. Photo and drawing.