(1/5) This week behind the scenes, Dover Museum’s collections team were joined by their museum volunteers and Maison Dieu ambassadors to help with the annual condition check and gentle clean of furniture at the Maison Dieu in #Dover

After its voyage to Musée d'Archéologie Nationale in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in France the replica half-size Bronze Age Boat has returned to #Dover. Pictured are stages of the boat being moved from display and onto a trailer ready for its return journey. #BronzeAge

On the 99th day of the year we look to this Roman minted coin for the emperor, Pupienus Maximus (164-238AD), who, with his co-emperor, Balbinus, ruled for just 99 days. They were two of the six men who ruled as emperor of Rome in 238 AD in the politically turbulent Year of the Six Emperors

The story of the crypt under St. Margaret's church, Rainham, Kent. 👇 BBC News - Long-dead occupants of Medway church crypt have royal connections - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If walls could speak. Ghost gable with brick tumbled verge (triangular sections), captured, like a fly in amber, in a later building, in Sandwich, Kent.

The 'Bayeux Tapestry of England'. All Saints Church, Claverley, houses a remarkable 13th-century wall painting of over 15 metres. Its rare depiction of knights makes it unique in Britain. Thought to show the battle of Vices and Virtues, it is truly remarkable. #history #medieval #churchcrawling

We would like to send our condolences to KitKat on their recent robbery of 12 tons of their chocolate bars. On a completely unrelated note, please see our latest Stonehenge replica!

"AI is here, we can't put the toothpaste back in the tube." When I accidentally squeeze out too much toothpaste, I don't then shove it all in my mouth. I wash it down the plughole. #UKSG2026

On display in the in #Dover Museum is another #sketchbook containing pen sketches of recognisable scenes and buildings in Dover which have been attributed to Captain Thomas Hastings (1778–1854). Pictured is a drawing of a view of Dover Castle ‘from Folkestone Road, Dover’ where the book is open to.

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

Illustration of St Paul's without the Walls (picture one) to go with St Martin's (picture two) in the city and diocese of #Canterbury. The picture of St Paul's went a bit patchy after removing masking fluid made tears in the paper 😣 #watercolour #illustration #church #churches #heritage

Illustration of St Paul's without the Walls (picture one) to go with St Martin's (picture two) in the city and diocese of #Canterbury. The picture of St Paul's went a bit patchy after removing masking fluid made tears in the paper 😣 #watercolour #illustration #church #churches #heritage

Note from my notebook (2016). Nothing has changed.

As we as we gallop into #LunarNewYear, we thought we’d showcase this copper Roman horse brooch for Year of the Horse on display at Dover Museum #HorseYear #YearOfTheHorse #Dover #Museum

The Roman Pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! 🤩 It is the tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain, and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire! Dated 1st-2nd century AD. 📷 me #Archaeology

An arrow for Cupid’s bow? This early #BronzeAge flint arrowhead was made by pressure flaking, a process of applying pressure using a pointed tool to pry off small flakes to create a precise point. Found in River #Dover by Douglas Welby, and features in his book The Kentish Village of River (1977).

Another useful guide from your friends at Buckinghamshire Archives

I'm sure there was room for another #terriblepun somewhere...

Captain, customs officer, amateur painter, draughtsman, watercolourist and etcher: the many occupations held by Captain Thomas Hastings (1778–1854). The pictured sketchbook is attributed to him, and it contains drawings of recognisable scenes in #Dover, including St Nicholas' #church in Barfrestone.

This #FindsFriday we wanted to highlight a new acquisition: two axe head mould halves dated to Middle #BronzeAge (c 1500-1200BC). The moulds cast a type of axe head known as a palstave. Discovered by metal detectors and acquired by #Dover Museum through @findsorguk.bsky.social . PAS ID: KENT-CDA99E

Behind the scenes, Dover Museum’s Collections Team and volunteers have been condition checking collections and cleaning their cases in the Roman Painted House. The Roman Painted House remains closed for the Winter season, but we look forward to welcoming you back in the Spring #Roman #Dover #Museum

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/...