DO NOT celebrate #NationalCheeseLoversDay by stealing cheese. Our court records tell of cheese thefts in 1666, 1767 and 1818. In 1666 the guilty party was Anne Blazdell, wife of an Ilkeston carpenter, who stole a cheese and sold it in exchange for drink. #ArchiveOfTheWeek #17thCentury

Ñandutí, Paraguayan lace. The name means "spider web" in Guaraní, the official, indigenous language of the country. Due to Spanish colonialism, it is related to Tenerife lace #WomensArt

Ah we see your Blue Monday and raise you a Moo Blunday

"Murmuration over Lanhydrock Park", 2020 by Annie Ovenden, English painter #WomensArt

I feel like putting a cd in a laptop one more time would fix me

Wondering how I can come up with the money to pay for this because my insatiable thirst for the history of disease knows no bounds….

First stink eye of 2026

Today January 3rd marks 33 years since my favourite Star Trek show Deep Space Nine premiered. The pilot episode Emissary was absolutely brilliant. #StarTrekDeepSpaceNine

Happy New Year to all. 2025 has been a hard year for the world. I hope 2026 proves to be stepping stone towards something better, more peaceful and more kind.

My neighbours and I have spent all day trying to trace the owners of this very friendly cat who was lost. Turns out his name is Caesar and he has spent the last 24 hours roaming far and wide. ‘He came, he saw, he conquered’ and he was finally taken away in a carrier back to his home this evening! ❤️

'Tea and Books' by Leah Gardner, contemporary Chicago-based oil painter #WomensArt

Cats were domesticated about 10,000 years ago, when wild cats encountered the first human settlements and saw an opportunity to constantly be in the way

Merry Christmas everyone! ❤️

'Hyden Hill' by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #womensart ❄️

The work Christmas party was fun 🤣

Please take that dog home he just wants to finish his book

Inuk artist Pitseolak Ashoona, Girl chased by dog, 1961 #WomensArt #ArtAdvent

Filming training today with the best work colleagues. Every day we learn something new and we always have a good laugh. #workinginhistory

The bird battle on my local high street 🤣

I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.

New episode! @samwellpv.bsky.social & @bazgreenland.bsky.social continue their journey through #Middle-earth, and are joined by guest @clarajeanmc.bsky.social to talk the second film in Peter Jackson's #TheHobbit trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug #Tolkien #Podcast open.spotify.com/episode/2td4...

I can’t tell if this virus I have is making me delirious or if Trump is actually really dancing to Village People at the World Cup Draw live on TV….

No one has any idea how this works

Oh look! My Spotify Wrapped has a familiar show in the top 5! 👀 ❤️ @adreamgivenform.bsky.social

New episode. We reach the mid point in the dramatic third season of #Babylon5 with Ceremonies of Light and Dark. @clarajeanmc.bsky.social joins @bazgreenland.bsky.social & @lukewinch.bsky.social to discuss this episode and the debut of the sexy black uniforms! open.spotify.com/episode/0Vgf...

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

The winner of the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 is… Hannah Durkin for 'Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade'. @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social A big congratulations to Hannah!

Polishing the beans

New episode! @bazgreenland.bsky.social heads to Baltimore to talk #homicidelifeonthestreet s1 with @clarajeanmc.bsky.social, her history with the show, why it is a great season of #television and deep into episodes Three Men and Adena & And the Rockets' Dead Glare open.spotify.com/episode/5tpY...

Hoping for aliens/pirate treasure/ancient magical balls

What are you thankful for?! Simon's Cat and Kitten are thankful for their friends and treats. 🥧🦔😽

And next Monday, @bazgreenland.bsky.social is joined by @clarajeanmc.bsky.social to discuss why season 1 of #homicidelifeonthestreet is such a great season of #television and deep dive into episodes Three Men and Adena & And the Rockets Dead Glare

Community is a wonderful thing ❤️ #stanleyarts

On Monday 1st December, we talk season one of Homicide: Life on the Street with guest @clarajeanmc.bsky.social

"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes." Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.

I will be at the History Day at Senate House tomorrow running the @histassoc.bsky.social stand. Come by and say hi!

Mudlarking yesterday with colleagues from the @histassoc.bsky.social

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

Niki Bowers, contemporary UK printmaker based in Norfolk #WomensArt

Tech wythout heart ys harmful. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

🦇 Nocte Volamus = We Fly by Night 🦇 The best motto to have around #Halloween time for your heraldic bookplate. This particular bookplate comes from our Charles Hall Crouch collection of heraldic bookplates, which encompasses around 30-40,000 bookplates in 73 boxes!

Enjoyed this sign at the parish church in Whitby today…

Kimika Hara, contemporary embroiderer from Japan #WomensArt

Dog Sees the Spirits, 1960 by artist and printmaker of Inuit heritage Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt

Those fave topics align again in my essay for @reactorsff.bsky.social last month 1/2: reactormag.com/star-trek-tn...

'The transience of a flicker of fire [...] compels us to grapple with histories of the ephemeral and the impermanent, even within those places that seem built to last.' Lauren Working and Stephanie Pratt on Knole's connections to colonial history:

Autumn painting by US modern impressionist Erin Hanson #WomensArt

*makes first blanket in history* “Ooohhhh” *gets snuggly underneath it* “Oh wow” *sticks foot out but just a little* “yoooooo”