Gold jar from Galloway Hoard on display for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Giving up [on 1.5C] would be a total betrayal. Defeatism never took a single of a fraction of a degree of global warming. It never created a single job.” Hear, hear, Ed Miliband. (But also: some of those defeatists appear to be in the Treasury currently) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🦇Bats in Churches research reveals ancient buildings as vital wildlife refuges: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/10... . New research from the Bats in Churches partnership project reveals that half of all Church of England churches are home to bats. In older churches that rises to nearly eight in ten.

As we spend this time of year reflecting on the nature of death and remembering the dead, Dover Museum looks to their collections that relate to this theme. Pictured are drawings of gravestones from around #Dover District and #Thanet by John Lewis Roget (1828–1908). #Halloween #Thesaurus

I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.

#OnThisDay, October 23 1905, Getrude ‘Trudy’ Ederle was born in New York. Trudy was a medal winning Olympic champion swimmer, who also became the first recorded woman to successfully swim the Channel on August 6th 1926.

On this day in 1905 Gertrude 'Trudy' Ederle was born in New York. Trudy was both an Olympic swimming champion and in 1926 became the first woman to swim the Channel. Trudy's story is one of many being explored in @dovermuseum.bsky.social newest exhibition, At the End of History. #illustration

Looking back on some art from a couple of years ago. #autumn #wellies #watercolour #ink

On this day in 1905 Gertrude 'Trudy' Ederle was born in New York. Trudy was both an Olympic swimming champion and in 1926 became the first woman to swim the Channel. Trudy's story is one of many being explored in @dovermuseum.bsky.social newest exhibition, At the End of History. #illustration

Looking back on some art from a couple of years ago. #autumn #wellies #watercolour #ink

🚴John Betjeman said that it was worth cycling 40 miles in a headwind to see them. 🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.

And now he crieth in the wilderness.

#OnThisDay, October 1st 2000, the last hovercraft arrived in Dover having made its final cross Channel journey. A hovercraft first landed in #Dover on 25th July 1959 after crossing the Channel in two hours.

Today is #WorldMaritimeDay. Pictured is a #watercolour of Granville Dock at #Dover Harbour in 1843 by S.J. Mackie (1823-1902) from Dover Museum's collection. Mackie’s work included a custom’s official, a civil engineer, an antiquarian, a fossil enthusiast and geological editor.

Illustration of St Mary of Charity, #Faversham #illustration #church #churchcrawling

Refugee Riots – Salience and Storytelling youtu.be/9F4OSDONAR4

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

Happy #BeardDay

Yesterday we spent the day with Aerial Imaging South East undertaking a drone survey of Lenham Church and Tithe Barn! Check out our previous models on our website: www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/models This is an ongoing project to make digital records of all of Kent's churches.

Hot Bovril, anyone? ☕ On this day, in 1911, Thomas William Burgess started his 18th attempt at #swimming the Channel. Burgess set off from South Foreland in #Dover at 11:15am. The following day he arrived in France at 9:50am to become the second person to successfully swim the English Channel.

Note from my notebook (2017).

#September A watercolour and ink sketch of #Sandwich from 1888 by John Lewis Roget (1828–1908).

Illustration of St Mary of Charity, #Faversham #illustration #church #churchcrawling

#OnThisDay, in 1875, Captain Matthew Webb started his Channel swim diving from the Admiralty Pier in #Dover just before 1pm. 21 hours and 45 minutes later he arrived in France. He was the first person recorded to successfully complete a solo swim of the English Channel. #CaptainMatthewWebb

We've been celebrating Captain Matthew Webb's 150th anniversary swim of the English Channel @dovermuseum.bsky.social #OnThisDay in 1875 Webb set off from Dover. 21 hours 45 minutes later he would arrive in France and become the first recorded person to successfully swim the English Channel.

The boat is cool in more ways than one

! Calling for #volunteers ! Production of our exciting Curating Visibility exhibition is now in full-swing. We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to facilitate the virtual reality experience. See link below to find out more ⬇️ www.dovermuseum.co.uk/Exhibitions/... @accentuateuk.bsky.social

Pictured are #sketches of the 12th century #church of St. James the Apostle in #Dover from a sketch book of sepia ink drawings in Dover Museum's #archive. The artist is unknown, but a note at the back dates the drawings to c.1830. Alongside the drawings are photos of the site today.

Illustration of St Cosmus and St Damian Church, Blean near #Canterbury #illustration #church #churchcrawling

Our latest acquisition is a ‘Disaster Box’ from our front of house team as it kept getting stuck where it was stored and had a tendency to spill the contents. Would anyone like to put any disasters in this box? Probable, possible, impending or actual disasters can all go in.

Small watercolour and ink drawing of St Martin's church Canterbury. #watercolour #ink #illustration #church #canterbury #heritage

National sunglasses day is a compulsory call to put sunglasses on museum collections, and frankly Deal Man rocks a pair of aviators. #NationalSunglassesDay #sunglassesday #sunglasses #museum #collections #Deal #Dover #beach

It's been quite a journey (cleaning, reconstructing, storing, transporting and a fair amount of paperwork) but the Bronze Age Boat replica safely arrived at Musée d'Archéologie nationale for their new exhibition: The Masters of Fire, the Bronze Age in France 2300-800 av. J.-C. #BronzeAge

Our Museum in Miniature exhibition is now open. Come and explore a variety of miniature versions of things from life, including the featured model of work at Dover Harbour created in 1815 by James Moon, Harbour Master and Engineer from 1792 to 1832. #Museum #Miniature #Exhibition #Dover

Open today! Museum in miniature. An exploration of miniature versions of things from life that people have produced and enjoyed. 📅Open June 10th 2025-April 2026 📍Special Exhibitions Gallery, #Dover #Museum #exhibition #miniature #seagull

I'm delighted to reveal the cover of my new book, Upon A White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland. It will be published by @headlinebooks.bsky.social on 11 September. Available to pre-order here: linktr.ee/UponAWhiteHo... If you are happy to share this post, please, I'd be grateful.

New #Exhibition coming soon: Museum in miniature. An exploration of #miniature versions of things from life that people have produced and enjoyed. 📅Open June 10th 2025-April 2026 📍Special Exhibitions Gallery, #Dover #Museum.

#seaside #watercolour #ink #illustration

Last chance to see: The Children of Hughes Minet (c.1773) by Joseph Highmore. The sons of Hughes and Marie Minet are depicted in this portrait with their dog. The Minet Family first arrived in #Dover in 1686 as French Huguenot refugees. They became bankers in Dover and London. #museum #exhibition

Very much enjoying my copy of Notebook, @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Re. Roget's Thesaurus, I've been working on his son's archive of illustrations @dovermuseum.bsky.social. I haven't come across any drawings of dinosaurs yet, but I'll keep looking...

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme by @artukdotorg.bsky.social is rural. Last week we reflected on the work of John Lewis Roget (1828–1908) and shared some of his #watercolour and ink illustrations from the museum's #archives. This #drawing is of Appleton Farm, Martin #Dover.

Earlier in the week, #Dover Museum posted a short reflection on the collection of J.L.Roget's sketches from the archive. For #Easter Sunday, here is a small #watercolour sketch of a serene pastoral scene near Cottington dated 7th August 1893.

Sketching ideas resulted in a grumpy looking seagull. #birds #drawing #sketches

#WorldArtDay celebrates artistic works and encourages artists to keep creating. John Lewis Roget (1828–1908) is described to have taken every opportunity in his free time to illustrate the places he visited with ink and #watercolour sketches, including the featured #Dover #Deal and #Walmer in #Kent.

Autistic Spectrum Church – TODAY 6 April 2025 At 2.30pm on Sunday 6 April, St Mary of Charity, Faversham will host a short service of words and music FOR autistic Christians LED BY autistic Christians. The theme will be that God made some of us autistic and that must be how he likes us. The…

With many time-keeping devices now capable of self-adjusting their hours for British Summer Time this weekend, we thought we would look back to an early 17th century pocket watch in Dover Museum that would have needed regularly adjusting anyway. #Britishsummertime #clocksgoforward #museum

#worldbearday celebrates the significance of this majestic animal while drawing attention to the continued threats they face. In #Dover Museum’s collection there are reminders of why the bear needs protecting, including this 18th century salt-glazed jug modelled on #bear baiting.

Inspired by Anne Pratt's writings in "Flowers and Their Associations", and the glorious #spring sunshine, our Curating Visibility Fellow and prize-winning poet Karl @karlantmercer.bsky.social put together a poem for #WorldPoetryDay Read by Collections Assistant @lizzysharpe.bsky.social Part 1:

There’s rarely a quiet moment for Dover Museum as we work across multiple #heritage sites, including the Maison Dieu in Dover. Here, the team are dusting, undertaking condition checks and updating inventories and catalogues of large portraits before they were rehung in the Stone Hall. #museum