Morning early birds 👋 a day of sunshine and blue skies mid-week brought out the Red Kites #FlyDay #birds #ukbirding #birdphotography #naturephotography #EastCoastKin

Gunta Stölzl (1897-983) German textile artist fundamental to development of the Bauhaus weaving workshop #WomensArt

Noah and his longship ark BL Cotton MS Claudius B IV; Old English Hexateuch; f.14r

That Playmobil chicken looks suspicious…

How cool ist that – and absolutely up to date: the #Playmobil Advent Calendar “Museum Theft” 😀

25th of November was the feast of St Catherine of Alexandria, who is here depicted with sword and wheel, and foot firmly planted on the back of the foe. BL Add MS 54782; 'The Hastings Hours'; c.1480 CE; Ghent or Bruges; f.68v

Prints below right by printmaker Ellen Heck, one of the many artists featured in the womensart book REFRAMING WOMEN PRINTMAKERS Gift others 🧡 or Gift yourself!! 🎁 Via any bookstore, e.g. www.waterstones.com/book/reframi...

Today is Thanksgiving in the US, or National Day of Mourning/"Unthanksgiving Day" for some Native Americans. Wampanoag people shared food with pilgrims in 1621 but were repaid with centuries of genocide. More on Indigenous resistance: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

This is our kind of news headline! Archaeologists not baffled, surprised or shocked Merely keeping everything very (very) secret 😆 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#OTD AD450 Farewell to Galla Placidia, daughter of Theodosius I &a most influential women of the late #Roman Empire. She lived through the sack of Rome, married the Visigothic king Ataulf, & served as Regent of the West for her son Valentinian III. Her star-lit “Mausoleum” still amazes.

obsessed with the Roseisle pictish silly goose

Josy Luginbühl's new publication Grabfunde als Spiegel der Bildung uses artefacts found in burial contexts to explore female literacy in the Roman western provinces. 🏺 Her book is now available and free to read here: doi.org/10.30861/978...

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

"You better be careful with your urine bottle in the library, mate, my macbook is not insured against water damages of all sorts". #Academicchatter of the past.

"Let me get this straight. Your lab has bred a dragon?" "A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-" "Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?" "About as intelligent as a border collie." "So, intelligent. Why?" "You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."

Either way we are sad.

Leiden this Thursday/Friday www.materialculture.nl/en/events/re...

Bookmarks of yesteryear. A leaf between the leaves of this manuscript @magdalenoxford.bsky.social

Now for some sports news... (this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)

For the first time this winter, watch live pup-dates from a solar powered seal-cam inside England’s largest grey seal colony at Blakeney Point, Norfolk Coast. Watch live and find out more at buff.ly/xQkMSUP Thanks to @seamammalresearch for latest data. 📷 Hanne Siebers, Richard Steer

This unassuming #Roman ceramic floor tile from ancient Londinium (London) sports a sketch of a pharos, a lighthouse. It's very much like the two lighthouses that flanked ancient Dover harbor, where the Roman fleet was based. Those, in turn, were based on the pharos of Alexandria. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

Monday mood Baldwin of Ford (d. 1190) focused on writing his text On the sacrament of the altar (De sacramento altaris) CCCC MS 200, f. 1r (c. 1184-1190s) - fully digitised and online: tinyurl.com/4s9v9j9t

Lovely scene from the Tacuinum sanitatis from the 1440s showing a common household, they're making cheese and a poor person (no shoes, holes in hose) is tasting it. Lovely big but angry looking dog. Oh look, shock horror... COLOURFUL CLOTHES. Take note Hollywood.

Klára Hášová: První sněhové vločky včara přivítala Praha! ❄️ #cvideo #viafb #Czechia

Flying into Thanksgiving week like… ☀️🪶🌵

New favourite humanities quote 🎵📚

Freezing a hummingbird’s wings at 1/4000 of a second. (Anna’s hummingbird feeding on Creosote blossom)

Gorgeous iridescent clouds over the sea at Scarborough this afternoon 🥰 #birds #photography #nature

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I wonder what new species of hyper-aggressive sparrows that subsist entirely on macaron crumbs and duty free liquor are currently rapidly evolving in Charles de Gaulle airport terminals

Voor iedereen die morgen meeschrijft met het Groot Dictee: studiemateriaal.

The Pleiades, a.k.a. The Seven Sisters or M45. Pleiades is known for its bright, blue stars and the surrounding reflection nebulae. Recent work has shown that it is a part of a much larger stellar complex that spans over 2,000 light years. Exposure 6 hours, 11/19/25 #astronomy #astrophotography

Review copy just landed! "Becoming Arab: The Formation of Arab Identity in the Medieval Middle East" by Yossef Rapoport @princetonupress.bsky.social

it is estimated that by the end up to 80% of the contents of the great library of alexandria consisted of discourse between the latin- and greek-speaking halves of the empire over whose food was worse

Why hadn't I read this glorious paper earlier?! 'Merelsweinn the Sheriff, Tovi the Proud, the Godwinesons... men who served as royal councillors, oversaw the executions of criminals, bullied peasants, & fought & died at Hastings – hard, tough, serious individuals, dressed like peacocks...'

Taken this evening in Chesham Woods. We forget how beautiful trees are in the Winter, their branches etched into the skies.

Paul Helbronner was a French cartographer at the turn of the C19th and C20th century who specialized in maps of the Alps. He made a beautiful & long (over 620cm!) panoramic map of the view from Mont Blanc in 1921 and included his climb to the top, with his footprints in the snow @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

"Archaeologists in southern Turkey have uncovered the long-lost Zeus Temple in the ancient city of Limyra, ending a decades long effort to locate a sanctuary that was known from inscriptions but had remained missing since 1982." www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/zeus... #Archaeology #AncientBluesky 🏺

Announcing the J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award 2025! 🏆 We are looking for the best PhD thesis on any aspect of manuscript studies defended between 1 Sep 2024 and 31 Dec 2025. The award includes a prize of 5,000 EUR and a fellowship at the CSMC. Apply by 6 February 2026! uhh.de/csmc-jpga-2025

Image of a man fisheing from small boat, from a book of hours (Douce 62, fol. 76v Hours of the Virgin), c. 1400. Book of Hours, Use of Paris [Latin and Middle French]. Using a rod and line, fishing from small almost round boat. #coastalhistory #fisingheritage

The Lady’s Call to Adventure is not really the one she wanted. She knows that if she doesn’t choose to slay this dragon, then they are going to give This Call to some Hero who is 22, went to a fancy dragon-slaying school, and whose dad was a famous dragon slayer. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Made some nesting wooden owls!

Yuko Hosaka, contemporary Japanese illustrator and printmaker #WomensArt

#WorldToiletDay🚽 Isca: Near the barack buildings were communal toilets, and at one end of the complex you can see the remains of a bread oven.  You can also see remains of the fortress walls, a gate and corner turret, cookhouses, and latrine drains. #RomanBritain #Wales #Isca #Caerleon

Our call for Abstracts & ECR Funding Award submissions are OPEN for the OPI XI Conference! 📍 University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada 📅 15-19 June, 2026 Closing date for abstracts: 19 December 2025 See our website oceanspast.org/2026-opi-xi/ to explore conference sub-themes & submit!

Ablenkung, ich brauche Ablenkung. ‚Fuchs im Schnee‘ 15x15 cm Gouache #kleineKunstklasse

We are very pleased to announce the publication of Matthew Fittock's Fragile Gods: Pipeclay figurines and related objects in Roman Britain! 🏺 This book provides the first comprehensive catalogue and analysis of the nearly 1000 published and unpublished pipeclay objects now known from Britannia.

sorry america was doomed from the day they decided to call it 'south carolina' and not 'caroline minuscule'