Was great to see our old friend Patagotitan juxtaposed with the awesome Norman architecture of Peterborough Cathedral at the grand opening of the Titanosaur exhibition last night

The Best Place in the World. #BookSky

Just been talking to my publisher about the new book project. Cover images coming soon! In the meantime, I have been feasting my eyes on my magnolia tree. I bought the tree and they threw in the house for free...

Some folks collected lots of eels in rent. And some folks not so many. When John de Huntyngton died in 1350, an inquisition showed that he was owed (among other things) 1 & 1/2 sticks of eels annually from land he held in Ealdyng. That's about 37 eels every year for our man. 🗃️🧪

TOMORROW, I am doing a short talk on a MURDERER which has everything! Knives! Arsenic! Arson! Adultery! Exhumation! Toxicology! Transportation! Broadmoor! Trying to squidge it into 15 minutes has been a trial. But it's online, so come along... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-cabinet-...

Come and see us talking about our favourite women from Peterborough's history on Saturday! peterboroughwomenshistory.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/i...

How many eels is too many? Is 26k too many? In the 11th C., fishermen around Hilgay owed the Thorney Abbey monks 26,275 eels each year in rent. And that probably seems like a lot to you. But hey... you're not an abbot lookin' for eels to feed your monks throughout Lent. Are you? 🗃️🧪

You can visit the remains of the castle in beautiful Northamptonshire countryside, then pop up the road to Peterborough Museum to see the Tudor exhibition including images of MQoS. And if you still want more, pootle across the city centre to the cathedral where she was originally buried 👸

Niftier than the average discarded libary shelving. At a rather higher than the usual - please come and take me away - price point however 📚

In one of our archive strong rooms there is a shelf. The shelf does not contain the most exciting or interesting item in the archive but it does contain something amazing. Read this short thread to find out more. 🧵👇

In the moulding above the tomb of Bishop Blyth at Salisbury Cathedral is a possible mason's joke. We see rose after rose on a vine at the end of which there is a gardener in the act of cutting them down. A comment by the mason regarding the length of time he spent carving them?

For context, this is over 200 years old and was made by prisoners of war with scraps from their meals (and a bit of material). It’s incredible that it’s been made and even more incredible that it still exists #NormanCross

Next weekend there’s going to be a celebration of Patty Clare, the wife of poet John Clare, in Northborough near Peterborough. We’ve got some cracking speakers, food and music at the Packhorse, poetry, flowers and cake! Tickets are available on the door

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language. The results tell us a lot! Extracts below... 🧵

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Today is #worldmathsday so here is our Comptroller’s wife adding up the household accounts with a counting board, together with a brilliant blog explaining how you can add, subtract, multiply and divide just by moving counters around. #historysky #maths #medieval urchin.earth.li/~aendr/kentw...

Bonkers in a good way though right?

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Light in the darkness for today’s #windowsonwednesday picture of the Great #Kitchen at Kentwell. The #16thc style #lanterns are made of wood, with horn or parchment panes, and burn #beeswax #candles. #tudor #light #livinghistory

The 700 year old white rabbit in St Mary’s Church still wearing it’s pilgrims bag with its Scallop shell symbol #Beverley #Yorkshire

A very small #Tudor at one of our re-enactments, trying to open the door into our Tower of Babel tree. He won’t have much luck because everyone knows it only opens at midnight on Midsummer Eve at the full moon…. #adoorableThursday #gardens #woodcarving #sculpture #cedar #trees

#GreensleevesProject update: A short video showing work on the #embroidered smock sleeves. Underscored by Sam Brown playing #Greensleeves on the #lute. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1cQ... #earlymusic #historicaldress #blackwork #tudor #tudors #earlymodern Supported by @antiquaries.bsky.social

For #TudorTuesday here’s a spectacular photo of one of our Tudors at a firing of our #pottery kiln. NB one of the things in the picture might not be entirely Tudor…. #photography #deliberatemistake #anachronism

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#WindowsonWednesday Sunshine catches woodsmoke particles in the air in the Great Kitchen corridor at Kentwell Hall during a Tudor re-creation. #photography #tudors #historiccookery

For #textiletuesday, more beautiful work from the #Greensleevesproject #embroidery #textilehistory #blackwork #Elizabethan

The events take place at different times throughout the year, starting at Easter and for a whole fortnight in August. #tudor #history #daysout #suffolk www.kentwell.co.uk

Come to Kentwell and live as a Tudor! Beautiful place, lots of wonderful people, and lots and lots of history....

Lovely day of research at @britishlibrary.bsky.social which has turned up the wonderful news that in 1800 Fleet Street had a Nandos

I visited Hazel's exhibition at the Museum yesterday about Trades Unions and coordination and representation in and around Peterborough. Very interesting! Especially the final illustration....

Off to London to see the Medieval Women exhibition at the BL.

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Well, I seem to be here!