#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Headstone for the three infant sons of John and Julia Zerbee, who died, aged 8 days old, on 8 July 1874. www.findagrave.com/memorial/111...

Hall and Oats: Early Medieval Hall and Cereal Farm Found 🌾 Part of the A66 project, Oxford Cotswold Archaeology have uncovered an important rural settlement dating to between the 7th and 10th centuries near Kirkby Thore, Cumbria. @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thearcha...

The Deesis Mosaic of Hagia Sophia (featuring Christ flanked by the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist) was probably part of a larger restoration project at Hagia Sophia made after the Byzantines recaptured Constantinople from the Latins in 1261.

A fantastic early 17th century memorial to Adlard Aprece. The colours and details are and great and the inscription is worth zooming in on and deciphering 😀 St. Peter’s Church, Lutton, Northamptonshire.

BREAKING: you can now buy a print of my beautiful son done in vibrant neons and moody jewel tones

An intramural passage at Gurness Broch on the west mainland of Orkney. The Iron Age broch was built around 200-100BC, and then abandoned around AD100. 📸 My own. #WallsOnWednesday #GurnessBroch #Prehistory #Orkney

3/3 Second version from 1615. Has not gotten noticeably nicer. Blood spurting. Artemisia Gentileschi has her reasons!

Women messing with men’s heads du jour: Judith slicing off head of Holofernes. No prettifying this story from Artemisia Gentileschi in 1611. Today is her day.

HELLO. I need some recommendations! Of medievalists and early modernists with recently-released books! Please anything before the 18th century, I beg!

Gorgeous, golden & gauzy, I am in awe of the 1820s approach to evening dress which so often includes not only fabulous fabrics but smart decorative details. Here the lovely silk rouleaux have been plaited across the bodice & arranged in waves around the skirt #FashionMuseumBath #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Collar https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/97823

Look, lady, it's what you ordered! Salome is exceedingly nonplussed by John the Baptist's head. Was this necessary, mom? By Artemisia Gentileschi, whose day is today.

Ancient pottery with personality!🏺 Face pots from Roman Britain some 2,000 years ago! Museum of London 📷 by me #Archaeology

If you’ve got nothing better to do in October… It’s free to attend and everyone’s welcome. Come for the medieval monks and manuscripts, stay for the refreshments—or vice versa! Book your space (in person or online) here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-...

for the past ten years, my creatures lived mostly online, so seeing these drawings leave the screen and find a place on a gallery wall feels a little surreal!!! if you’re in the area, I’d love for you to stop by! July 3rd to 19th, 2026 thearthousesocial.co.uk

i’m very excited to share that my work will be featured at The Art House Social in the UK from July 3rd to July 19th!! this is especially meaningful to me because it will be the very first time my original artwork is exhibited and available for purchase in a gallery setting 💅

for those who won’t be able to be there in person, you can also buy some original poorly drawn cats through here thearthousesocial.co.uk/collections/... 💅

It's Wed., & you need an eel. But you also deserve a stork. So enjoy this stork eating an eel from a 13th C. edition of Gerald of Wales' book on Ireland. (I know it doesn't look quite like a stork, but you can see a faded label below the bird. Sometimes that's what you get from monastic artists)

Hannah Chatterton Hyde's 1857 wedding dress was made with diagonal pleats across the bodice and with bright blue silk button-ornaments sewn over the hook-and-eye closure. You can also make out the meticulous hand-stitching along the upper edge of the waistband. #WeddingWednesday 🗃️🪡

Collar https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/96845

The Tiffany Problem but design. Is this 1970s? Nope. 1540s.

new open access publication - free for download! - on digital approaches to tracing the illicit trade in cultural objects: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

they were classmates with the Boston Red Sox at how not to hit with RISP

🍫 Happy World Chocolate Day!  🍫 A c. 1787 jasper stoneware cup and saucer for drinking chocolate produced by the Etruria factory of Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95). The central design shows Libya holding a cornucopia. Photo by the British Museum, London.  #WorldChocolateDay #Chocolate #History

Before Mass, a priest ran this through his hair. Ivory, made in England around 1200 to 1210. Carved into both faces: a king who ordered a murder, and the archbishop he had killed inside his own cathedral.

i'm CRYING

the boy in neons!!!

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.

A laser from Andruw!

2nd dinger of the inning!

new hand dropped. they’re calling it the most ever

It’s my 44th ancient site from each country in the #WorldCup It’s URUGUAY 🇺🇾This blurry image shows the wreck of the German battleship, the Graf Spee scuttled in Montevideo after the 1939 Battle of the River Plate with British cruisers, Exeter, Ajax & Achilles. It has defied all attempts to raise it

Somerville company among victims of Russian phishing campaign headed by man arrested in Thailand and now facing charges in Boston, FBI says www.universalhub.com/2026/somervi... #crime

10 seconds of Adonis purrs for you

Eel-rents in medieval England became less common over the centuries, but didn't completely disappear for a long time. In 1572, for example, Gilbert Attwell rented a water mill in Brambridge from the High Sheriff of Hampshire for 41s 6d each year, as well as 125 eels (5 sticks). 🗃️🧪

Great to see the newest releases in the @routledgehistory.bsky.social Lives of Royal Women series on the stand @imc-leeds.bsky.social 👸 @enortonhistory.bsky.social

Roman Anthony is set to get another opinion on his wrist tomorrow. Connelly Early will get his second opinion on Thursday. Nothing new on Crochet.

Tim Wakefield was just mentioned during the World Cup broadcast. ❤️

suspension reduced from 3 to 2 games

Haaland is going to smash that England squad like they are a 9th century Monastery

Fun new acquisition here at the Boston Public Library. This is a 1476 edition of Eusebius of Caesarea's church history, printed in Rome. We bought this book for basically one reason only -- a fantastic printing error that left an impression on one page from a single piece of "fallen type."

Admin reveal.

New Reply Guy™️ term just dropped this is ART thank you Jeff 😂 🤌🏻 10/10 no notes

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glad Antarctica has gotten rid of this problem