Tanaka Ryōhei was a Japanese artist who specialized in detailed etchings, a less common technique in Japan compared to traditional woodblock printing. His works often depicted landscapes, temples, and traditional thatched-roof farmhouses, showing both the beauty and the decay of these scenes.

La Roche Longue in Quintin (Côtes-d’Armor) is a 7m tall needle-like granite menhir. It was said that fairies and nains used to dance around it and that the menhir itself sometimes danced when midnight sounded. #StandingStoneSunday.

The ruins of Chaalis Abbey (in Fontaine-Chaalis, Oise, France, in the snow last year. #RuinedPrioryFriday

York's splendid and iconic medieval Guildhall #medievalsky

Map of London in the late Anglo-Saxon period. Sourse and more information here: londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...

Take a bow Budge! 🐈 Our resident Cathedral cat has been named one of The Guardian's 25 favourite European travel discoveries of 2025! Journalist Peter Ross writes that Budge 'makes a wonderful place even more wonderful'. Read the full article at www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Crusader Ghost (1916) illustration by Frank Dadd from the book ‘Old Christmas’ by Washington Irving (1783-1859) #PhantomsFriday

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

#Woodensday 1263-4 #AdventAngel originally decorated ceiling of Painted Chamber (King's state bedchamber) in Henry III's remodelled Westminster Palace with companion painting of prophet. Earliest surviving panel paintings in England, believed lost until rediscovered in 1994. @ BM

Hambye Abbey in Normandy. The abbey was founded in 1145 and dissolved during the French Revolution. The abbey is open to the public. #RuinedPrioryFriday

"over the mountains of Svalbard, the sky unfolded into something unbelievable — rare polar stratospheric clouds shimmered in neon colors, turning the frozen Arctic air into a living rainbow" – 📷 ?

Winter sunset over north London.

Bright and colourful fibre art for a chilly day #ArtAdventCalendar "True Colours", art quilt

A dragon showing off in life drawing class. #dragon #art

Much Wenlock Priory (Shropshire, UK) in the snow last week. The Priory was a Cluniac house, founded 1079 and dissolved in 1540. The former infirmary is still inhabited. #RuinedPrioryFriday

What a life! #ElephantonFriday Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 016II; Matthew Paris OSB, Chronica maiora II; 13th century; f.152v @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social

The mediaeval London Bridge in the context of the modern city. Art by Julian Hoffman Anton and David Fletcher.

Caxton invents predatory publishing practices.

Roman London and the modern (well, two years ago) city from a similar angle.

Rievaulx Abbey in autumn. #RuinedPrioryFriday

Sad news, the Chartreuse du Mont-Dieu in the Ardennes, France, suffered a disastrous fire on Sunday. The Carthusian priory was founded in 1132, largely rebuilt during the 17th century, and dissolved during the French Revolution. It is a protected historic monument. #RuinedPrioryFriday

Holbeche House, near Dudley, where the leaders of the Gunpowder Plot met their end in a shoot out with the Sheriff of Worcester's troops on 8th November 1605. This photo was taken around 1900.

In memory of all the beloved pets who are no longer with us. We will also meet them again someday...

November isn't a good time for pigs in the medieval calendar. #medievalcalendar BL Lansdowne 383; the 'Shaftesbury Psalter'; 12th century; England; f.8r

Tomorrow is the first night of our new show, Magic Lantern Call of Cthulhu, which will be on at the Old Red Lion in Islington, London, as part of the Grimfest Horror Festival. Deets are here: www.oldredliontheatre.co.uk/call-of-cthu... #cthulhu #horror #theatre #lovecraft

Really interesting article about the lost English Civil War defences of London. www.vauban.co.uk/the-ecw-defe...

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the former University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UMIST, which was hied off from the University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk and then rejoined it If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

A bit of silliness from 2021. Kong's first line is taken directly from the 2007 BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford.

dunno who needs to see this but medieval necromancy journal

A magnificient medieval treasure for a medieval Monday- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: (Cotton MS Nero A X/2, ff. 94v–95r)

The remains of Leiston Abbey in Suffolk. The ruined parts are open to the public (though not at the moment as it's being repaired), the non-ruined part is a music college. #RuinedPrioryFriday

The ruined church of Finchale Priory (near Durham, UK). The priory was the rest home for the monks of Durham Cathedral: they went there for holidays, when they were ill, or when the tedium of monastic life started to get to them. #RuinedPrioryFriday

Goodnight. 🖼️ Cats of the Louvre, Matsumoto Taiyo.

"O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant." ~ William Shakespeare

A window in the cloister of Kloster Maulbronn, a mediaeval Cistercian abbey in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The wonderfully preserved abbey is a UNESCO recognised monument, and open to the public. #WindowsOnWednesday

Le Vampire, a bronze statue done in 1902-1903 by French sculptor Léonard Agathon (1841-1923). The models were a lady called Augustine and Cléo de Mérode. The work was sufficiently popular that a number of copies were made in different sizes.

The 14th century tower of All Hallows Staining (near Fenchurch St Station in London) has been raised on stilts while construction work goes on.

The crossing tower of Sweetheart Abbey, near Dumfries in Scotland, is currently being repaired. #RuinedPrioryFriday

The chapterhouse entrance at Flaran Abbey (Gers, France). The abbey is now a museum and arts centre and is open to the public. #AdoorableThursday

The first known curry recipe in an English cookbook, from the ‘The Art of Cookery Made Plain & Easy’ by Hannah Glasse, published in 1747.

Windows in the Ca' d'Oro, an early 15th century palace in Venice. #WindowsOnWednesday

Three empty #gothic casements at Crowland Abbey in #Lincolnshire. [My pic] #WindowsOnWednesday #medieval #medievalsky

A cunning minotaur.

“On each bright side, the whale shed off enticings.” - Moby Dick Artist: Ken Shiozaki

#Castle #Liechtenstein #Lower #Austria

Dragon from the Kennicott Bible, a Hebrew Bible MS made in A Coruña, Spain, in 1476 by Moses ibn Zabarah (writer) and Joseph ibn Hayyim (artist). The MS is now cared for in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.