The bronze head of the goddess Sulis Minerva which was discovered in 1727 during the construction of sewer under Stall Street in Bath. Now part of the museum collections at The Roman Baths in Bath. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain #Bath

So, happy 31st anniversary to this diary entry in which 86-year-old writer and country house expert James Lees-Milne hears about a new-fangled thing called The Internet (from a gallery owner, jewellery dealer, Cartier expert, and all-round posh chap)

If only this could be published in English as it applies to the UK as much as The Netherlands. Excellent piece on freedom of speech at universities

I’ll go with the fairies 🤣 Kate Lister on a roll 🤩

Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum. This magnificent #Roman monochrome mosaic makes quite an impact! 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

Is there an English publication of all Cicero’s letters? This is about to be published in Dutch (am very tempted but it isn’t cheap) and just wondering if all his letters were ever published in English? Can’t imagine not! #AncientBluesky #Cicero #roman #Latin www.bruna.nl/boeken/ik-en...

Portrait of Dirck, Johannes or Jacobus Wallis https://botfrens.com/collections/216/contents/1003608

Always check the signage ...

Maybe I am not the only one.... stupid 'liquid glass' is not an improvement www.techradar.com/phones/ios/n...

Loch Voil

#ReliefWednesday A number of sculpted relief motifs from sarcophagi in the gardens of the Antalya Archaeological Museum. 📸My own. #ancientbluesky #art #artwork #Archaeology

MOST interesting: the bronze of the Lion of Venice was sampled by Padua Uni last year- and lead isotopes show it's Chinese, Yangtze River basin, probably a Tang dynasty 'zhènmùshòu' horned tomb guardian of more upright stature, c.600-900. Possibly imported by Niccolò and Maffeo Polo, then modified.

Definitely not your normal renaissance allegory. What's it all about? Suggestions welcome. Painted c. 1525 by Bernardino Licinio, whose day is today.

human remains up for sale at a Hampshire auction house — it’s time the trade in body parts is outlawed, as recommended by the All Party Parliamentary Group report Laying Ancestors to Rest www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2146051...

It brought me joy today to finally set up these goddesses, for whom I quested over three trips to four different nations.

Always amazed how few books that are standard classics in Europe were actually translated and known in the Anglo-world. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Love the podcast! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Happy anniversary of my one and only banger of a tweet.

Enough now BBC !

Free conference - 'Roman History in Carolingian Europe', 22-24 Sept in Edinburgh. Find out more and register: edin.ac/4noqMQB #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Romanhistory #Edinburgh

Born on this day in 1857, in Rotterdam, Dutch impressionist George Hendrik Breitner. Here, his self portrait w/ cat picture in the background. Nice touch.

Interesting article that goes a bit deeper into the forever-dilemma of buying on Amazon or elsewhere.... Despite their stamp system and student discount, Waterstones is still often much more expensive than Amazon. We all want to support physical bookshops... 1/3 societyofauthors.org/2023/10/18/b...

Every new PhD student (cough) needs to hear this (while frantically trying to read everything)

Conference - The Classical Association classicalassociation.org/conference/

(455) When Ancient Greece meets comedy | Full Disclosure - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ2s...

Have they lost their minds? Or do they mean to make the best quality education the cheapest so as to make sure it’s accessible to all? 🤯 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Review of Alice Roberts Domination, a book on my ljst. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

The fact that universities have been around for longer than capitalism gives an indication of who should be learning from whom

Fiona Sturges recommends as an excellent podcast to listen to (but not to watch, the video component adding little).

A house up for sale, including its content: around 150,000 books. Still available. 😆😍 youtu.be/RSAcB-9Mdek?...

This sort of reporting can be harmful when child is off for mental health reasons school won’t support it as they assume stats work the other way round and it will make child more likely to be absent later on. #schoolanxiety #autism www.bbc.com/news/article...

New for everyone on This Itch of Writing: my Twelve Tools (never Rules) of Writing: buff.ly/xqMMcB2

Ok so my half-sized Billy bookcase lasted about 6 months and then the shelves collapsed under the weight. pfff . Back to Ikea to get... what?

Ah my fav lace painter 🥰

This is a fantastic database of Dutch West India Company employees in the seventeenth century (1635-1664) - 168 entries for people from Hamburg alone 👇

Makes you feel old when the BBC feels they have to explain what a Punk is.

Ready for @classicsacademy.bsky.social ‘s #bookclub with these two coming up. Zuchtriegel’s book is a joy with a mix of historical info and musings on the craft of being an historian/archaeologist. Also practice for my rusty German. #zuchtriegel #Goldsworthy #ancientBluesky #ancientRome

Happy #InternationalDogDay! A Roman mosaic from the first century AD.

Just reading about Gavin Menzies, who "wrote" a book on how the Chinese discovered America first in 1421. The Wikipedia page is fascinating! He was Graham Hancock of the 80s it seems. Juicy stuff: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_M... #Pseudohistory

Tip: don’t listen to an audio book in English when the original is in your mother tongue and it has lots of place and street names in it. It is painful to hear the narrator murder ‘Keizersgracht’ or ‘Hoofdstraat’ 😱😲😲😜🤣 #Dutch #Nederland

New podcast from two women with a shared intellectual project: classics from the ancient world to now…theatre, architecture, history, film, you name it

Boscoreale near Pompeii is famous for its villas. Its fertile land was cultivating vines, olives and cereals. The frescos from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor are now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They date to around 40–30 BC, to the late Second Style. #RomanSiteSaturday

That feeling after A-level results are in….

“a chilling embodiment of male entitlement” 😱