The Norfolk Carnyx: a Playmobil story in 4 parts. 🧵 #DiggingForBritain #DrawingDiggingForBritain #PlaymobilInfestation @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social 1: Life

The government retreat over AI and copyright is the headline, but yesterday's evidence from Google was also... interesting. thecritic.co.uk/arti...

This is for anyone who runs their institutional social media accounts... You've got to use Carousels - they're basically like an #Instagram cheat code, combining the ease of images with the extraordinary reach of video. Doooo it! 📚 www.ned-potter.com/blog/posting...

If pushed, I'd probably have to say that my favourite Anglo-Saxon king is King Ethelbert since he is the only one whose name contains an entire middle-aged British couple from the 1960s.

St Martin's church in Canterbury on a starry night. #watercolour #illustration #church #churches #Canterbury #heritage

St Martin's church in Canterbury on a starry night. #watercolour #illustration #church #churches #Canterbury #heritage

The Denny windows at Tewkesbury Abbey aren’t just windows – they are emotion, filtered through light. I was lucky enough to photograph Tom Denny at work in his home studio. More here: www.digest.andymarsh...

Sometimes things work as a Bluesky Thread. Sometimes they don't. This didn't, and can be much more easily read here: www.tom-cox.com/a-deconstruc...

Last Christmas, I had an idea that I wanted to do the 12 Displays of Christmas in Dover's Galleries. After a difficult and eventful year, it didn't happen. This Christmas it did 👏Thanks to my talented friend and colleague @karlantmercer.bsky.social who put it to lyrics, performed and edited it all.

If you start listening to this recording of Orlando Gibbons' 'This is the Record of John' at 23:58.13 on New Year's Eve, midnight will strike as John says "NO". Start 2026 the right way. youtu.be/l7Rj1Z-fqaI?...

Today's the feast of St Thomas of Canterbury, 12th Century English archbishop and martyr. His martyrdom while celebrating Mass in Canterbury Cathedral is depicted in a wall painting in the chancel at South Burlingham, Norfolk. More: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/burlinghamst...

God’s First Tree: a painting by my dad. www.tom-cox.com/the-cat-who-...

No Christmas dinner should be without it.

St Mary of Charity in Faversham at night. #advent #winter #church #watercolour #ink #drawing

This door for #adoorablethursday is from the Maison Dieu. Above the door a carving of the word Museum in the stonework can still be seen marking a former entrance to Dover Museum. After bomb damage at its Market Square site in 1942 the museum temporarily moved to the ground floor of the Maison Dieu.

St Mary of Charity in Faversham at night. #advent #winter #church #watercolour #ink #drawing

Have you got your bingo cards ready?

Seeing @danherb10.bsky.social photograph of this beautiful church door in Barfreston reminded me of this pen drawing of the same door in a sketchbook dated c1830 from #Dover Museum's archives. #adoorable #AdoorableThursday #church

Magnificent Barfreston #Romanesque #AdoorableThursday

A detail from a John Lewis Roget (1828–1908) watercolour sketch for all the umbrella weather ☂️ #watercolour #wind #rain #weather #Dover #archives

A warning from the past: if there is anything you would like to preserve long-term in good condition, please don't stick tape on it! As tape deteriorates, it can discolour, become brittle, lose its adhesive strength, and leave a residue stain. Enough to give an archivist nightmares! 👻

The self-help market for writing is saturated with gurus and big promises, which might partly account for the lack of success of my own How To Write course, where I do nothing except tell you to fuck off for 20 years, read a shitload of books and write in whatever way you want to.

Oscar had been warned about the dangers of placing his tongue on his spear in minus 10° C weather, but he just couldn’t help himself - 8th/9th century,  Amiens. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 172, f. 5v

Bat linoprint by my mum, Jo. You can read about her artwork here: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...

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.