National Rejoin March 🙌

On the water meadow; You’ll have to take my word for it as neither photographs well, but there’s a barn owl hunting (it screeched when it spotted me hiding in the long grass), and a thin paperback of a mist. Look at it merging with the cow parsley. Swallows showing off trying to reach the moon.

Sending you some prehistoric sunshine - Neolithic and Early Bronze Age - from Ireland for #2026summersolstice

A nose round some other people's gardens on a local village garden trail today. Got eight-foot cardoon envy now #Cheshire

#HillfortsSaturday 🤔 Exploring the incredible tor enclosure at Creugiau Gwineu at Rhiw on the Llyn Peninsula this morning with Dr Kate Waddington A complex & unusual defended summit springing from a natural wall of rock 🤯 Incredible views this morning across Bardsey to the Wicklow Mountains 📷 TD

We would always have had to retrofit a lot of homes for climate change, but we're looking forward to having to retrofit millions of new homes that we wouldn't have had to, because... #R4Today

On Inner Farne yesterday, being admonished by a slightly annoyed Arctic tern. 📷Mrs Raw.

Morning reveille at #Durotriges26 Celtic style Courtesy of @hillfortian.bsky.social #Carnyx #Archaeology

The Ministry of Public Health updated the toll from the Israeli escalation on Friday which has killed 47 people and wounded 97 others, most of them in the villages of Nabatieh, specifically in villages where locals began returning over the past two days.

On the state of the Russo-Ukrainian war — very sound and in accord with what I see. By @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Solstice-aligned 5,000-year-old monument ‘once in a lifetime find’, say archaeologists www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Reform’s problem, and it is a very significant one, is that women vote open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

A die stamp, potentially for making foils akin to those on the Sutton Hoo helmet has been found in Kent. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The @findsorguk.bsky.social record is here: finds.org.uk/database/art...

This is a thoughtful thread, worthy of your time

No Equality Act. All new family rights in the Employment Rights Act scrapped. But, a “Women and Motherhood Protection Act” From a party of misogynists with links to MAGA christofascists and anti-abortionists. Just call it the Gilead Act and be done with it. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...

Everyone's sharing the Dialog leak. Good. Look harder. Nobody's connecting it to the thing Dialog's members have actually been BUILDING for 20 years: a worldwide network of free zones where elected government doesn't apply. substack.com/@europeanpow...

Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One of our favourite Iron Age hillforts in Dorset is the small but perfectly formed 2ha bivallate enclosure of Rawlsbury It encircles a chalk spur on Bulbarrow Hill overlooking the Blackmore Vale with a parish boundarry subdividing the interior © Jo and Sue Crane 2016 Happy #HillfortsWednesday!

📰 For the first time, objects from the Melsonby Hoards, Britain's largest Iron Age metalwork deposit, are on display in the Yorkshire Museum 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @currentarchaeology.bsky.social the-past.com/review/whats...

The beauty of ancient glass in the British Museum yesterday. Made in the eastern Mediterranean 250-200 BC, this collection of ten glass vessels was found together in a single tomb in Canusa, Italy. #archaeology #tombtuesday #ancientbluesky🏺

Quick visit to the BM yesterday and a whizz round the Greek galleries to marvel at the ancient gold. The workmanship, the beauty...makes the knees go quite weak. How marvellous would it be to wear those earrings. #archaeology #BritishMuseum #Greece

Saw a Roman aqueduct today..was quite impressed 😮😉 The astonishing C1st AD Pont du Gard in Provence, built to provide Roman Nimes with water as part of a 30 mile network. No mortar used - and still standing 1900 years later Incredible engineering 📷 My own, today

Bryn Celli Ddu is a remarkable Neolithic passage tomb built to align with midsummer sunrise some 5,000 years ago! On the longest day of the year, the rising sun lights up the inner burial chamber where a stone pillar keeps watch from the shadows. Anglesey, Wales 📷 by me #TombTuesday #Archaeology

Hope Not Hate: "The Direct Action channel [behind the arson attacks on Starmer's home] also amplified far right figure Stephen Lennon aka Tommy Robinson. "The group’s YouTube channel produced a series of professionally-edited propaganda videos promoting Lennon’s planned demonstration in Oct 2025."

Ok so all is forgiven...phoned the Friends hotline to find out what I'd done wrong and after holding for 55 mins they answered & booked me in manually for Oct. The website just couldn't cope with the demand...thank you @britishmuseum.bsky.social 😘

Someone getting ahead of the imminent #BayeuxTapestry bandwagon/juggernaut at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition yesterday 😁 'Bayeux Jaws' by Bronwyn Jones (nfs)

Omg I just waited two hours in queue for member's priority booking to see the @BritishMuseum Bayeux Tapestry exhib, logged into my BM account all ready but when it got to my turn after 4500 other people it asked me to log in again and my booking space disappeared 😫 ...I mean wtaf!! I give up 😢

A Viking encampment I happened to come across yesterday, as you do 😀 The excellent chaps from Wirral Vikings all ready to do a bit of marauding at Tarvin Village Fete 😍 #Vikings #Chester

💥 BREAKING NEWS: Hadrian’s Wall Discovery ⤵️ 📰 Roman Legion's Inscribed Marker Stone Found in Farm Wall next to Hadrian’s Wall 🧱 📰 Early Elite Roman Burial Found in Britain 📰 ‘Unique’ Romano-British Brooch Revealed 📰 Ancient Port Found Under French Navy Base open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

💥 BREAKING #VIKING NEWS! Hoards of Vikings! Islamic Silver Found in Earliest Viking Coins Read all about this sensational new research in a breaking-news special #Vikings edition of A Whole Lot of History ⤵️ open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

⚠️ Durotriges Big Dig OPEN DAY alert ⚠️ Sunday 28 June 10-4.30 Free Parking (on private land) at North West Farm Winterborne Kingston Dorset DT11 9AT The dig is a 20 min walk but minibuses are available Guided tours PLUS the Big Dig Brewhouse, cafe + chips!! Maybe see you there? #Durotriges26

The simple pleasures of being a trillionaire, hey?

Israel continues to violate Gaza ceasefire, killing 13 people in a single day mondoweiss.net/2026/06/isra...

EXCLUSIVE: @bylinetimes.bsky.social exposes the Russian neo-Nazi network – promoted by Tommy Robinson – pushing 'White Lives Matter' propaganda to sow division and race war across the UK and Europe. Founded by a sanctioned oligarch close to Putin bylinetimes.com/2026/06/10/r...

Excellent article by @nafeez.bsky.social (author of the must-read book, ‘Alt-Reich’) on the Russian neo-Nazi network pushing “White lives matter” division in Britain. Of course, Yaxely-Lennon is implicated.

Everyone should listen to this. #Palestine #Gaza #Israel

Some great photos in this nice 🧵 about the inauguration of the Jesus Tower of the Sagrada Família. Particularly enjoyed the clergy all photographing the Pope

Brexit: “It’s a tragic tale – a once-confident nation making such a fearful, self-harming decision. Our economy, our politics, our daily lives in 2026 – all of it bears the imprint of that calamitous error” @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dear Makerfield Reform Voters! 👋 Did you know that a Farage Reform govt intends to scrap the NHS? The private health care system he wants to introduce would cost you £10,000s, like the US, where getting ill can bankrupt you! #ReformUK #Labour #GreenParty #Makerfield #MUFC #MCFC

Sainsbury's boss eyes bumper £7.3m payday as shoppers reel from higher food prices. Up from £5.4m last year – 200 times average employee pay. Govts preach pay restraint to workers, silence on exec pay, shareholder returns. Let workers vote on exec pay.

A stunning photo of the Castlerigg Stone Circle, located near Keswick in the Lake District. It is a 5,000-year-old Neolithic monument. It comprises 38 standing stones framed by a 360-degree panorama of surrounding fells, including Skiddaw, Blencathra, and Helvellyn. #StandingStoneSunday

The beautiful Cevennes village of St Croix Vallee-Francais this morning - buildings piled upon buildings over the centuries 🥰 📷 My own

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum... In the final few weeks before the Makerfield by election, we re-visit Claire Jones' article on Reform's views about women -

Neonic pesticides have become nearly impossible to avoid. Beekeepers, advocates, and researchers are pushing for stronger protections for pollinators and people. (Sponsored by @nrdc.org)

Revealed series of paint layers on a door frame within an Oslo apartment building built in 1865, deconstructed in 1999, and reconstructed at the Norsk Folkemuseum. norskfolkemuseum.no/en/the-apart...

I'm getting a lovely warm feeling at how angry this must make Tony Blair and his fossil fuels funders.

Specifically: a moral failure.

Keir Starmer's response to Nigel Farage at PMQs just now was probably the most powerful and eloquent I have seen him in the Commons. The full answer is worth reading.

From my kitchen window, noticed one of the woodpeckers who live in the garden feeding its similar-sized young on the lawn. Parent hammers furiously at lawn for grubs while offspring just sits there doing nothing while waiting for food. That's parenthood, folks 😅🤣 #birds