Graffito of a ship with three masts, rigging & flag. Quite small in relation to other graffiti surrounding it as seen in 2nd photo. Found in Beverley Minster. #BeverleyMinster #medievalmonday #graffiti

The beautifully painted 'Tree of Jesse' ceiling of the Lady Chapel at St Helen's #church Abingdon for #MedievalMonday

Viking-era, Celtic wheel-head cross, St Mungo’s Church, Dearham, Cumbria. #MedievalMonday

A carved face from the 12th-century Prior's Door at Ely Cathedral, which quite accurately reflects my Monday mood #MedievalMonday #MondayMood

Vicar’s Close in Wells, Somerset. The street was built in the 14th century for the Vicars Choral (Cathedral Choir) who sang daily worship at the Cathedral. The chimneys were added in the 15th century. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #Wells

3:30pm TODAY on #ITV3 From 2010, s1 Ep 1 of #PeriodDrama 📺 “DOWNTON ABBEY” directed by Brian Percival & written by Julian Fellowes 🌟Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Brown Findlay, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery, Phyllis Logan, Siobhan Finneran, Maggie Smith

gonna do #mallardmonday and #birdoftheday together, since he has a yellow beak #birds

Glenda the Gadwall. Pretty little ducks. #ukbirds #birds #MallardMonday #ducks #wildlife

It's Monday so it's mallard time #MallardMonday #ducks #birds #nature #photography #Nikon #ThePhotoHour

Happy #MallardMonday! #birds #photography Close-up of a preening female.

Here’s a dose of cuteness for #MallardMonday for you #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography

Here's a mallard in flight for #MallardMonday. #Birds #Ducks #Photography #EastCoastKin #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #BirdLife #Wildlife #BIF #BirdsInFlight

Mallard Monday 🦆 #MallardMonday #Duck #Mallard #Birds #Wildlife #Ireland #Nature #Photography

3:10pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social The 1958 #Crime film🎥”Mark of The Phoenix” directed by MacleanRogers from a screenplay by Norman Hudisand Based on Desmond Cory’s 1955 novel📖 “The Phoenix Sings” 🌟Julia Arnall, Sheldon Lawrence, Anton Diffring, Eric Pohlmann

Porcelain Fungus & Amethyst Deceivers for the win! 🍄📷 #FungiFriends #MushroomMonday

#MushroomMonday #FungiFriends

#MushroomMonday Beautiful perfect russala seen in #Lancashire last week. Look at those gills 😍 I really enjoy taking photos of mushrooms #fungi #mushrooms #vitaminN

Good morning and happy #MushroomMonday

Guten Morgen, happy day 🍄🌞 Tiny white mushrooms for #MushroomMonday 🍄 #FungiFriends #MacroMonday #mushrooms #moss #woodland #photography #nature

3pm TODAY on ⁦‪@BBCRadio4‬⁩ Elizabeth Day on Hatshepsut Great Lives Elizabeth Day chooses the great Egyptian female pharaoh Hatshepsut, with help in studio from Professor Joyce Tyldesley.

one for #MotteMonday & its Thurnham Castle in Kent, amazing views over the surrounding countryside & while quite overgrown with brambles, you can still see the motte & remains of the curtain wall

Shared for #MotteMonday Skipsea Castle #Driffield #EastYorkshire Built c.1086 #MedievalMonday

The small 11th or 12 century motte at Newcastle on Clun, on the east bank of the River Clun just west of the village. Sometimes known as 'The Crugyn', it is in poor condition and isn't scheduled. #Shropshire #MotteMonday #Castles 📷 my own, from isolated wandering in the late Covid Summer of 2020.

1:45pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4 Looking for No Man's Land Ep 1 of 5, All great quests start with a map Is there anywhere left on Earth that is unaffected by humans? Presenter Caroline Steel & producer Florian Bohr begin their mission to find No Man's Land... if it exists.

#OwlishMonday Town Owl by Laurie Lee

Shared for #MermaidMonday #OwlishMonday & #MedievalMonday Misericords (or ‘mercy seats’) from #StLaurencesChurch in #Ludlow #Shropshire The are carved ledges on the underside of folding choir stall seats so that weary clergymen – forced to stand for lengthy services – had something to rest upon.

Happy #OwlishMonday!

Barn Owl Robert Gillmor #owlishmonday

Hoot Owls, watercolor, ink, quick sketch these two live in hollow space where limb was removed from a old growth tree- a foot outside a second story window here. They have raised many families. #Owlishmonday #abstract #quicksketch #hidden #safe #eyes #hootowls #EastCoastKin #owls #nocturnal

1pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social The 1946 #Crime film🎥 “WANTED FOR MURDER” directed by Lawrence Huntington from a screenplay by Emeric Pressburger + Rodney Ackland Based on the 1946 play🎭 by Terence De Marney + Percy Robinson 🌟 Eric Portman, Dulcie Gray, DerekFarr, RolandCulver

Two weeks until Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto 2025 kicks off in the town of #Pordenone, #Italy! We’ll be there and looking forward to catching up with all our #SilentFilm friends. Let us know if you’re about! More info here: www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/

We were so pleased to welcome The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of Bristol, Cllr Henry Michallat & Cllr Stephen Williams, with children & families from our libraries 🏅🌳🌼 For our Summer Reading Challenge prize-giving 🌤🌞🐸 A BIG Well done to EVERYONE who has taken part! @readingagency.bsky.social

Residents are concerned about rising problematic driving on the historic green space

Horse drawn trams were first introduced to Bristol in 1875 and by 1895, Bristol became the first UK city to have a network of electric trams. The trams were a popular feature of the city up until WWII, when key parts of the network were destroyed in the blitz. 1/2

As autumn draws closer, so does the harvest of apples

Chew Cottage, Keynsham #photography #ChewCottage #Keynsham #hobbit

Student life in Bristol is more than nights out on the Triangle

This telephone box in the heart of Sea Mills is the Sea Mills Museum. Opened in 2019, it repurposed a disused 1936 K6 red telephone box (originally installed to celebrate the jubilee of George V). Inside are historic photographs, artefacts and information about the area’s history.

Docklands cranes #photography #docklands #cranes

📣 THIS TUESDAY 🔰 Thursday 23rd September 7pm (Doors open 6:45pm) 🔰 Renaissance Skin 🔰 A talk by Professor Evelyn Welch, Vice-Chancellor of Bristol University 🔰 Redland Library #Bristol 🔰 Admission £3 (Pay at the door - Cash only) #History

12noon TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social From 1967 s14 Ep 9 of #Police Drama📺 “DIXON OF DOCK GREEN” - “The Team” directed by David Askey & written by NJ Crisp 🌟 Jack Warner, Peter Byrne, Robert Arnold, Geoffrey Adams, Rosemarie Dunham, Vincent Ball, John Ringham, Ronald Govey, Frank Jarvis

Something different for #MosaicMonday a micromosaic! A copy of the mosaic of doves mentioned by Pliny but copied from the mosaic found in Hadrian’s villa, itself a copy. This micromosaic made of tiny glass tesserae, 56mm, in 1779 by Giacomo Rafaelli in Rome 📷 Trustees of British Museum

A duck swoops its head down into the water, on a mosaic that once decorated the edge of a pond or fountain in a wealthy Roman villa Found near the Seine in northern #France, ~3rd century AD #MosaicMonday 📸 Mine #archaeology #archaeobirds #arthistory #photooftheday🏺

The mosaic from the Stibbe site just north of Ratae's forum in Leicester. The fine townhouses the mosaic was found from dated to the later Roman period after AD 250. The floor showed complex multicolour geometric patterns. Now in the Jewry Wall Experience. #MosaicMonday

The central part of the 4th century AD ‘Hare Mosaic’ from Roman Cirencester (Corinium). The mosaic was discovered during 1971 at Beeches Road in Cirencester, and is now on display in the fabulous Corinium Museum. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #CoriniumMuseum

Church of St Mary, #Ware #Hertfordshire “Early 20th Century sanctuary steps and 1893 mosaic floor” - #HistoricEngland Much to appreciate. Such fine detail in the mosaic, but especially the beautiful “marbling” in the stonework of the steps. #MosaicMonday

It's not a peacock. It's a rocket-propelled goose. #MosaicMonday

11:45am TODAY on @BBCRadio4 A History of England in 25 Poems by Catherine Clarke, Ep 1 of 5, Vikings - 'The Battle of Maldon' Catherine Clarke reads her new and original history of England - told through poetry.