Sign the petition to ban the utterly inhumane CO2 slaughter of pigs action.projectslingshot.com/petition-ban...

#FridayFeeling Some of the #hedgerow delights in rural #Worcestershire today: hawthorn, red dead-nettle, garlic mustard, white nettle

Thinking very much about Máire Ní Bhraonain today, her funeral day. Heartbroken 💔 My thoughts and prayers for her and her family, friends, and all who loved her.

New Absolute Units is out now! We're joined by the fantastic author and campaigner @guyshrubsole.bsky.social to explore the question: who owns England? We travel as far back as the Norman conquest, through to the Tudors, Brexit, and right up to the present day. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

Great talk last night @thehiveworcs.bsky.social given by Angie Butler tinyurl.com/fzmd6fjt on letterpress, embodied practice, collaboration: artists making & printing books

So shocked and saddened to hear this. Moya had such a magical voice and was a beautiful harpist. I saw Clannad in Bath on their farewell tour in 2021, although hooked since Robin of Sherwood & ‘Legend’. My prayers for her and her family at this sorrowful time. May she RIP. ☘️

Tickets now on sale for what will be a fascinating two-day conference in June! #ArtHouse #ritual #folklore #wellbeing @worcesteruni.bsky.social www.therapeutic-landscapes.org/events

Just found out Glen Baxter has died and am feeling very sad. Have loved his work since I was a student in the 1980s. What a genius he was. www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...

Really engaging afternoon in the #archaeology dept @exeter.ac.uk as part of the @UKRI #RICHeS programme #HeritageScience is a gateway to various understandings of material culture! Fascinating to hear about the @prizepapers.bsky.social, and all the science!

Had a fantastic time last night at the 1986-1989 Year Gaudy. So great to be back @lincoln.ox.ac.uk and meet up with old acquaintances!

Submissions are open for the 2026 Stephen Croad Prize, celebrating outstanding research and writing on the UK’s historic buildings. Contributions on building conservation and heritage crafts are also encouraged. 🔗 Full details hbap.org.uk/2026-stephen...

Is there a Labour Watch / Conservative Watch / Green Party Watch too? Accountability, openness, “discrepancies between so-called policies, promises, and things said” and what actually happens, applies to all parties. Frankly, I trust none of them.

I’m sure my library colleague, Tom Mandall, & Jasmine Kee from Explore the Past, have had a fab evening tonight delivering this talk. Wish I could’ve been there! #Worcester www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#MuseumOfCarpet #Kidderminster Come along & support this fabulous museum!

You'll find a truly mammoth list of other GenAI issues (with examples and links) on @skwinnicki.bsky.social's site, here: www.skwinnicki.com/single-post/...

#FolkloreSunday #Celtic: `Imbolc is associated with the onset of the lambing season, and the lactation of ewes; in fact, in Old Irish, #Imbolc actually comes from words meaning ‘in the belly’, which refers to the pregnancy of ewes.` Source: aliisaac.substack.com/

Love the amulet! #apotropaia

What a fascinating and thoughtful history of Merl and the University. So many things we didn’t know - all entertainingly discussed. Fascism and organic farming, who’d a thunk it! Never did get to dress up in printers’ aprons or artists’ smocks, though.

So pleased to see this! Martin Froy’s work is so fantastic. I’ve seen his murals @belgradetheatre.bsky.social #Coventry Just stunningly beautiful! @aaronjlaw.bsky.social

Church of SS Peter & Paul, Rock, Worcs #romanesque corbels on N side & also where main doorway is. Several paired corbels, a few animals & possibly some human representations. A few of those ‘not arrow-sharpening’ grooves on the lower walls, too.

Fascinating new book, available as OA: ulapland.fi/en/new-book-...

Great day yesterday setting up the new #basketball display cabinet @ #UniversityofWorcesterArena, ready for the #NationalBasketballHeritageCollection (NBHC) celebration event today! The main NBHC is held #TheHive #Worcester

Update! Alongside the exhibition @senatehouselib.bsky.social also seeks to appoint a Printer in Residence to produce a contemporary response to the exhibition and to be an important part of the public engagement programme for the project: www.london.ac.uk/senate-house... @ies-sas.bsky.social

#winniethepooh is 100 years old! As a child living in #Brixham in the 1960s/‘70s I used to frequent ‘Christopher Robin’s’ bookshop (The Harbour Bookshop) in Dartmouth. It felt very special. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

I've known and worked with Daisy Fancourt (Professor of Psychobiology and Epidemiology at UCL), for years, and she has just published a book called 'Art Cure'. Amongst other things she demonstrates just how good 'art' is for our mental AND physical health. Engaging regularly with the arts...

News | Culturally significant objects stolen from Bristol Archives Police release CCTV of suspects in robbery of more than 600 British Empire artefacts

To ease you into the weekend, here's a lovely film by Guy Schofield, one of two winners of this year's President’s Award. The film is about an interactive mural commissioned by York Museums Trust for the exhibition Star Carr: Life After The Ice. Enjoy! 😊 #Archaeology 🏺 youtu.be/xv_0yjWpK0s?...

Two vacancies have arisen on the editorial team of the Sport in History journal, and the Trustees of the BSSH are looking to make appointments that will begin in January 2026. See below for application details www.sportinhistory.org/articles/edi...

Fantastic walking tour of #Coventry last weekend with #DocomomoUK #ModernMovement #architecture

Only if you’re ‘measuring’ a certain way. Steiner kids don’t even start formal reading till they’re 7, and it’s not a problem (in fact, a benefit! More creativity & play). Same in Scandinavian countries. What’s more significant is the lack of contact with others that Covid restrictions caused.

Katsuhiko Masuda’s hands-on training in Japanese paper conservation in 1982 launched a legacy of cross-cultural learning – inspiring courses worldwide in mastering the techniques. 🔗 Learn more: iccrom.org/resources/re...

Delighted to share I’m starting a new role as #SpecialCollections & #Archives Librarian at the #UniversityofWorcester! Creating a new University archive will be both challenging & deeply rewarding. Looking forward to re/connecting with alumni old & new, hearing those stories, seeing the photos!

New to vernacular architecture and want to find out more? Why not come along to our training and study weekend at Sutton Courteney Abbey in Oxfordshire on 4-5 October 2025, and discover how we go about examining buildings? Further details at www.vag.org.uk/conferences.....

whereisheavenfilm.com 💚 Well heaven once was Devon for me, but now I find that rural Worcestershire is pretty fantastic, too. This is a fab film, wherever your off-grid heaven might be 💚

Just the best time at #Icepops2025! Such lovely people, all with a passion for copyright! Held at the wonderful #JohnRylandsResearchInstituteandLibrary @uomlibrary.bsky.social Thank you @jsecker.bsky.social & @cbowiemorrison.bsky.social for organising it all! @copyrightliteracy.bsky.social 😊

Not the only institutions to do this over the next couple of years, I’m sure. The idea of a ‘super-University’ is nonsense, stated in a bid to try and make this sound like a good thing. Oh dear … www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

Who could have predicted, etc.

Beautiful example of effectively an oral history and its archival significance www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My 8-year-old son and I are greatly saddened by the death of the wonderful Tom Lehrer, so good was he that even this gaming, digitally-savvy kid of mine loves his songs. RIP #TomLehrer & may the Vatican Rag be played on the other side www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In raptures finding this wall today - Castle Place, #Worcester

Very excited to discover this is on! (Just when I’ve popped down to Devon, too!) Will obviously have to go. www.theboxplymouth.com/events/exhib... Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes | The Box Plymouth

If I've been rather quiet of late, that's because there's not much to say now about the university crisis. We've passed beyond the stage at which warnings can do much good, and we're not looking at a planned reconstruction or new policies so much as individual rescue and salvage. (1/?)

Goodbye from #darts9! Thank you to all our amazing speakers and delegates - it’s been a superb conference!

Completely agree - research support should be for everyone! @lucywoolhouse.bsky.social & #FrankieMarsh #Darts9

@lucywoolhouse.bsky.social & #FrankieMarsh Workshop on making open research more inclusive. #TechniciansCommitment #darts9

@ducollections.bsky.social Special Collections are a key part of the research infrastructure #StuartHunt #darts9

#StuartHunt is our post-prandial speaker #darts9 ‘From Research Enabler to Researcher’ @durhamuniversity Flourish@Durham creates more ownership at institutional level for open scholarship

#StuartHunt is our post-prandial speaker. Stuart’s role encompasses #SpecialCollections @durhamuniversity.bsky.social