Hi all, Fancy helping keep beautiful #hampsteadcemetery open for longer hours? Course you do! 👇🏻 chng.it/bgJTDzq8FT

"Trusting to your prompt insertion of this answer to my foul calumniators and little enemies, I am, Sir, your obliged servant..." Samuel Sheen's panto-villain response to criticism of his revolting burial ground, 1846. Also, calumniators is a fabulous word.

🦇Today is #InternationalAppreciationBatDay 🦇 📚Pierpont Morgan Library MSS 0081 (circa 1185) and 175 (circa 1500): two hanging bats

@nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social Saw these, thought of you vm.tiktok.com/ZNdFHXmTW/ 🐦

"Some of the tombs even address the passerby directly, as if its occupant could speak again, and pass on what they’ve learned." www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Folklore is a Palimpsest, a physical reminder that the past holds space in the presence. A living, breathing continuum. It calls out from the ephemeral, 'we were here. We lived, and we loved. We weren't so different from you' #Folklore #Shropshire #History

New blog! deadgoodreading.com/a-stone-is-m...

#OTD 1912: Titanic sank. The next day, newspapers reported NO LIVES LOST. How did this happen? During wireless chatter, someone asked: "Are the Titanic passengers safe?” The answer came: "The ship is being towed to Halifax and everyone is ok." That 2nd transmission didnt refer to the Titanic.

Evening, This is my first post on @bsky.app, glad to be here. Hello! Formed on Halloween night of 2023, TFT currently offers guided walks featuring east London's plague pits and Georgian body snatching, as well as guided walks of #HampsteadCemetery. Watch this space for further details 👀