*Please don't let this bird intentionally poop on me*. Welcome to a reinterpretation of Reformation iconography by bringing in the very rapid digestive process of birds... #skystorians

Sigh. *puts head in hands* The Middle Ages was no more “superstitious” then almost any other premodern period. Greeks and Romans also consulted astrology, had demons, and believed in myth. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...

For today's #MosaicMonday a hilarious #Roman mosaic depicting a boisterous #dog knocking over a basket and pulling out the contents. Life without #dogs is possible but pointless! 😊🐶🐕 On display at the Archaeological Museum Irbid/Jordan. 📷 Alex Brey via www.flickr.com/photos/looki...

As I tell first year undergraduates in September, the Humanities are the key to understanding the human world we live in - and what could be more necessary to succeeding in that world than spending 3 years studying it?

17th May 2015. Two silver shillings. From the same hole in a small woodland, one of several pocket spills I've found there. George III 1817 & 1819

a mysterious cat head shaped hole has appeared in the free range cat grass - aliens maybe

James Raine opened the tomb of St Cuthbert at Durham Cathedral #OTD in 1827. The cathedral librarian found the saint's remains inside a series of coffins together with relics of other saints and treasures, including vestments, pictured, given by King Æthelstan. 📸Durham Cathedral

Good morning from the Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery. 📷 taken May 2025.

A little marginalia.

What’s your most-used emoji? 🙂 This little button brooch from the Anglo-Saxon period, resembles a smiley face. It was found not far from the Museum at Radley Barrow Hills, Radley - the site of an early Anglo-Saxon settlement.

The Devil’s Den: a lovely and folkloric dolmen that’s quite close to Avebury so doesn’t get visited as often as it otherwise might. #StandingStoneSunday

What do English grads do with their 'useless' degrees? Oh right! They become politicians, lawyers, execs in tech firms, civil servants, academics. They teach, write books, do journalism, work in advertising & communications, the Health Service and, oh yes, become top diplomats!

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

"The Obelisk of Cleopatra at Alexandria" from Forbin's Voyage dans le Levant (1819) Looking forward to visiting Alexandria next week

free him

Come and join us on a guided tour of Lister Lane Cemetery during our Open Day on Sunday 14th June 2026. This event is being held as part of the NFCF National Cemeteries Week, which runs from 6th to 14th June 2026. www.cemeteryfriends.com/ncw

Memories - the minotaur fresco from the Archaeological Museum in Heraklion,Crete.

"birth rates are declining" don't care I already got born

I’m gonna get you

The Queen of Heaven on a 13thC roof boss at St Faith, Overbury. #SundayStonework

🐈 Jimmy Pesto the cat 🛒 Aubuchon Hardware (Newmarket, NH)

#OTD 1536, George Boleyn, William Brereton, Francis Weston, Henry Norris, and Mark Smeaton were executed on Tower Hill.

Christ flanked by St Peter and the Blessed Virgin, on what looks like a pulpit but is actually a 15C jubé, a projecting reading desk above the roodscreen where the gospel would be read. Now on the floor at Hexham Abbey, it probably came from the roodloft at Ovingham, Northumberland. #SundaySermons

Plants on a Manuscript? It's more likely than you think!

anime images taken moments before someone gets mailed to Abu Dhabi

they can offer this to the people who actually live here they just don’t want to

We have to separate work from the author: books go in the paper bin and author in the organic waste bin.

unfortunate

will they be next to sweep the tigers

This isn't niche at all, sadly, it is typical of university management ignorance and recklessness that 'knows' the price of everything and the value of nothing.

who drove in the only run

This cause is close to my heart - genuinely, the amazing Salisbury Collection of Welsh history, language and literature was a major boon in completing my PhD: having this on open shelves was worth semi regular trips from Southampton, I’m forever in the library’s debt.

DAAAA JANKEEEES LOSEEEE

The Cadaver Synod: The Trial of a Dead Pope www.medievalists.net/2025/05/cada... #middleages

Sorry to bother you again so soon, but she’s still sleepy, but now somehow even more adorably. I’ll leave you alone now.

Breaking news! Dandy is sleepy. We now return you to your regularly scheduled doomscrolling.

Keeping an eye on the customers. 📸 dicky․ng․33

good morning