Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.

Owl of Athena! 🦉❤️ Silver tetradrachm coin minted in Athens c. 475-465 BC. Photo Getty Museum: www.getty.edu/art/collecti... #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

#MosaicMonday - Detail of a Roman floor mosaic with a glass bottle protected by a sheath of straw, and a glass cup. From Thysdrus (El Jem), dated to the 3rd century AD. National Museum of Bardo, Tunisia.

Here in the UK, it's cold, it's dark and it's wet, so for those of us running headlong into the darkest part of the winter, here's an ancient ceramic lamp from the Levant to light up your day. 📷 by me for @jennycromwell.bsky.social's 'Ancient History, Contemporary Belonging' project #FindsFriday

How is it reputational risk for someone to act out of conscience, but not for the CEO to completely blow it by firing them?! novaramedia.com/2025/12/04/d...

A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.” It’s almost as if there were signs!

#RomanSiteSaturday Stumps of columns in the sand, the sad forgotten remains of the Roman port city of Meninx 📍 Djerba island, Tunisia 📸 Mine #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

A rainbow at Foel Drygarn yesterday (25.11.25) for #HillfortWednesday #scape #LandscapePhotography #PhotographersofBluesky

this is mesmerizing

Fish plate - Southern Italy c. 2,350 years old Used to serve fish, with a depression to hold a dish for perhaps a sauce. Now in @rammuseum.bsky.social #FindsFriday

I saw a mouse! Where? There on the stair! Where on the stair? Right there! For #FindsFriday this lovely little Roman toy or joke mouse made from a scrap of leather at marvellous @vindolandatrust.bsky.social

A walk through the stone defences of Mither Tap, Bennachie in Aberdeenshire for #HillfortsWednesday I believe occupied in the early Middle Ages, don’t know how far it goes back? Whenever it was, I hope it was less windy than now.

And now, live from Orkney for #StandingStoneSunday, the Stenness 360.

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture join.greenparty.org.uk

Such happiness, to be a cat, warm and asleep

In Dublin the pedestrian crossings go Pyaowww when they turn green. This is very pleasing

I can’t wait for the articles—“Democrats won big Tuesday night. Here’s why that’s bad for Democrats.”

A 2,000 year-old blue glass wine cup inscribed in Greek ‘EYΦPAINOY EΦωПAPEI’ “Be glad that you are here” Roman drinking cups like this were used to welcome guests at social gatherings. 1st century AD 🍷 📷 Corning Museum of Glass #EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology

Hi. This is not how a ceasefire works. If you only abide by it in between massacring 100s of people, then that’s what’s know as genocide, not a ceasefire Can we please stop sane-washing this international pariah? www.npr.org/2025/10/29/g...

Vertical kite photo of Edin's Hall / Odin's Hall / Edinshall broch #ScottishBorders showing the full extent of the earlier bivallate hillfort and pre-broch roundhouses Proper lovely 😍 🪁 📷 © Hamish Fenton 2011 For more of Hamish's work see: archaeokap.hdf.me.uk/index.html #HillfortsWednesday

Who robbed the Louvre right answers only

My mom’s protest signs, as always, are a helluva thing.

🦉 Relief plaque of a beautiful owl with melancholic eyes in remarkably high relief & other exquisite details, Egypt, 400–30 B.C. 🏛️ Met 🏺 #archaeology #ReliefWednesday #Egypt #owl

The European Trade Justice Coalition (formerly the Seattle to Brussels Network or S2B) recently had its 25 year anniversary It's good to remind ourselves of our history - the shoulders we stand on and the struggle that has gone before

Sat crying reading this

I keep checking the #GlobalSumudFlotilla tracker to see if the Mikeno is moving

Gavrinis is the most amazing megalithic site I have been privileged to visit. Taking a boat to reach, you encounter a remarkable concentration of #Neolithic rock art at a single megalithic monument. A deeply powerful & inspiring place. @megalithic.bsky.social #rockart #archaeology #TombTuesday

When 150 far-right tried to march through Newcastle yesterday, 3000 Geordies stopped them. I’m proud of our city and its people. My article is a first-hand account of the day. www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

Scholars of the 50s and 60s, now’s your time to remind people of how the FBI infiltrates left-wing groups and foments violent action.

Today Newcastle stood united. ✊🏼 The far-right were in town trying to spread their hate and division. Only about 200 turned up. Over 3000 canny geordies, including dozens of Majority members stopped them marching and sent them packing! #TheyDidNotPass #NaePasaran

Anti-racist demonstrators blocking Tommy Robinson’s fascists from marching through the centre of Newcastle - successfully so far But being kettled and apparently the police are agreeing an alternative route for the far right

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Vibrant colour projected onto a 2,600 year-old wall panel offers a glimpse of the past lived in glorious technicolour! From the North Palace at Nineveh (present day Iraq), where the walls were decorated with brightly painted reliefs. 🎥 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

Timeless design! Incredibly, these beautiful fibre baskets are about 9,500 years old! 🤯 Look like they were made yesterday rather than by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers! From the Cueva de Los Murciélagos (Cave of Bats), Spain. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

A while since I posted a nice Iron Age #coin, so for #FindsFriday here's a silver quarter stater loosely attributed to the Baiocasses in Normandy. From the Le Câtillon hoard, #Jersey. Fine example of the human-headed horse on the reverse which dominates the coinage of this region. #numismatics 🏺

Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson. Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word. This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.

Our second test pit weekend in Hexham. More great enthusiasm from our test pit hosts and volunteers of all ages.

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

They tried to remove the latest Bansky art and, to me, it is better now.

In #Rochester, #NewYork, 100 marched to surround a house where roofers were being detained by ICE. While one person was taken, several others were left alone as the crowd "shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents...drove...away on four flat tires." www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...

Majority, the north east progressive political movement, is having its annual conference today and over and over again the message is that democracy is up to us

I am calm. I am breathing deeply through my nose. I am counting to ten. I… WHAT, ARE YOU AFRAID YOUR DOG WILL INFODUMP TO YOU ABOUT THE FUCKING BALL?!?

The medieval church porch at Corwen, #Denbighshire has been built round a little standing stone bearing the splendid name of Carreg y Big yn y Fach Rhewllyd (the pointy stone in the icy nook). #Folklore suggests this may have been true of earlier churches on this ancient site. #StandingStoneSunday

As wolf populations grow in Europe, Adam Ramsay argues that reintroducing the apex predator could help control deer populations and rescue Scotland's ecology.

This is great