A very unexpected surprise. Browsing the 17th Century Agarde indexes (as one does) and found these lovely illuminated pages. TNA IND 1/17089

#LesArmoiriesDuVendredi Armorial de la toison d'or.

Costume d'hiver de trois dames de Livonie 1521 Albrecht Dürer (Musée du Louvre)

Bowl with Hares, Iraq, possibly Baghdad or Basra, Abbasid Period (750-1258). Earthenware, luster-painted on opaque white glaze. Height: 10.2 cm; Rim (Diameter): 22.5 cm; Base (Diameter): 8.9 cm, 1941.22 © Toledo Museum of Art www.alaintruong.com/2026/01/bowl...

'A Cup Tie At Crystal Palace, Corinthians V Manchester City' (1926) by Charles Cundall (Private collection)

Thank you for supporting the FoFC in 2025 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us at the FoFC.

This book cushion has the arms of Sandys of Ombersley, Worcs, & of Esthwaite and Graythwaite Hall, Lancs. They may be those of Elizabeth, the sister of William, 4th Baron Sandys of The Vyne. She was Baroness in her own right from 1629. (V&A, London)

#LesArmoiriesDuVendredi sont prêtes pour le Saint Nicolas demain avec ce sceau de Nicolas Rulenderlin. On voit un écu parti Zorn-Müllenheim : au 1 coupé à une étoile 🌟en chef (Zorn) et au 2 une quintefeuille🏵️(Müllenheim). Quels beaux cadeaux ! ☺️ sigilla.irht.cnrs.fr/201602 #Medievalsky

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A whole pride of happy elephants on a coat of arms at St John the Baptist, Inglesham for #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi

The engaging crest and arms of Thomas Elkington (my 11th great-grandfather) from BL Harl Ms 5839 #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi

The arms and crest of John Leman, alderman of London. Granted 25 January 1615. The appropriate canting crest of a lemon tree and pelican in her piety. #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi BL Harl. Ms 5887

One of Sir Thomas Wriothesley "kitchen sink" armorial designs. The arms and crest of Norton from the Visitation of Suffolk 1561. In addition to the multiple charges we have a rare Sea-rabbit. Canting as their original name was Conyers, Cony being an old word for rabbit. #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi

🦇 Nocte Volamus = We Fly by Night 🦇 The best motto to have around #Halloween time for your heraldic bookplate. This particular bookplate comes from our Charles Hall Crouch collection of heraldic bookplates, which encompasses around 30-40,000 bookplates in 73 boxes!

#BibliotecaApostolicaVaticana #Coeur #Colombe #Mains Jürgen-Bartholphus Taulovio? (1636) DigiVatLib Chig.G.IV. 113, f°181r #Webaldic.com

In 1956, IBM shipped a 5MB hard drive that weighed over a ton. Back then it needed a forklift and a cargo plane—today, that’s less space than a single iPhone photo. © Historic Photographs #archaeohistories

Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".

#Woodensday The beauty of the wooden lectern in the chapel at Rodmarton Manor, Gloucs, prompts hyperbole. I will resist with difficulty. The label on the lectern says that it is by Peter Waals, Dutch cabinet maker & Arts & Crafts luminary. @notpodium.bsky.social @stroudstory.bsky.social

The 2026 Senedd Election is becoming a very direct battle between two identities, Welsh Wales and British Wales. This map nearly reflects exactly the general state of play 1081-1284, the division between the areas ruled by Welsh princes and those by conquering Anglo-Norman barons.

Please don't call them football hooligans just hooligans. Plenty of very good & very decent people attended football matches today so don't tar them with same brush!

Oh, hey, happy George Herriman's birthday!

'A Rain deers head'. Um, if you say so... (Funeral Entry of Col Hill, 1665, NLI)

Crystal Palace's last 10 games have included Arsenal away, Liverpool away, Chelsea away, Spurs away, FA Cup semi-final vs Villa, FA Cup final vs Man City, Community Shield vs Liverpool. They are unbeaten in all those 10 games and won 2 trophies. Oliver Glasner 📈👑

I had the feeling I'd caught the lion doing something he shouldn't be when I entered the porch at St Mary and All Saints, Fotheringhay. That's the guiltiest expression I've ever seen! #Caturday

This heraldic roll was made during the reign of Henry VIII, c.1529/30. The shields are emblazoned in their proper colours & the names of the families to whom they belong are written above. Shields are painted on the front & back – some 420 in total. The roll measures approximately 12ft in length.

Barry knows..

Early 18thC royal arms flanked by the Maynard/Grey arms at All Saints, Newtown Linford. Supported by a Satyr and ermine patterned unicorn they're on the chancel beam with rather attractive dangling coronets (I rather hoped one might conveniently drop off into my handbag) #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi

Over 50,000 locally made #medieval tiles once covered the floors at Great Malvern Priory, During restoration the Victorians lifted many of them from the floors and relocated them on a wall known as the “Benefactors Wall” #TilesOnTuesday #WallsOnWednesday

St. John’s, Duxford, Cambridgeshire…a fantastic church, with a special atmosphere 😍

Monument 👍

The arms of Leonhard von Keutschach, Archbishop of Salzburg, 1505. Not every day of the week that you see a heraldic turnip. (British Museum)

I should point out that in February 2026 we will be opening at National Museum Cardiff a huge solo show of Gwen John’s work, showcasing many of her watercolours and drawings alongside her better-known paintings: museum.wales/cardiff/what...

Un peu de soleil pour #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi ? Conrad, le trésorier de St. Thomas de Strasbourg a mare de la pluie ici en Alsace. Donc, il a mis le soleil sur son sceau ! Toute l’équipe vous souhaite de belles vacances estivales ! Rendez-vous à la rentrée pour la suite ! sigilla.irht.cnrs.fr/192806

“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.” John Dryden Bottom centre the arms of his grandfather Sir Erasmus Dryden Bt. From The Arms of Baronets 1611 - 40. (BL Harl Ms 1053) #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi #Dryden

South chapel #StPaulKewstoke #Somerset #StainedGlassSunday At first glance this heraldic glass could easily be a great survivor from the late medieval, but in reality was painted early C19. Loveliness #KewstokeChapelWindow (Part II of VI)

#ArtHéraldique #Allemagne #Lion #Webaldic.com #Stammbuch Armes de la famille von Erlighem. Stammbuch Paul Jenisch, später Joseph Jenisch, Augsburg, Tübingen, 1575-1647 bzw. 1648-1683 (Württembergische Landesbibliothek, WLB Cod.hist.qt.298, part.1, f°229)

"Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me –" Some lively 16th Century coats of arms including those of William Death (centre top) of Dartford in Kent. (BL Harl Ms 295) #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi

An old poem, perfectly relevant today. 🇮🇷 💔

Thought I'd seen everything, but innovative VD-cure advertisers keep on giving 😃 Mr Elmy, 'of known integrity' advertised his cures and "Pills for the French Disease" in gallows confessions and a pamphlet promoting William III's campaign in Ireland... Wing F2302B; E3562 #earlymodern #18thC

A big hi–five from Sir Hugh Middleton Bart. from Ruthin in Denbighshire. BL Harl. Ms 1053 #InternationalHeraldryDay

‘Born to a working-class family, Walt Whitman fashioned himself as a kind of American democratic Oversoul: the persona he presented was both representative of and coextensive with the often violently expanding republic.’ Maureen N. McLane on ‘Specimen Days’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"It’s having the best moments in your life with the people you love the most “It doesn’t get any better than that." That Tifo. The Wealleans. An amazing moment that so many can relate to. Another moment they can cherish Interview with them from 2021 #CPFC www.nytimes.com/athletic/297...

‘Born to a working-class family, Walt Whitman fashioned himself as a kind of American democratic Oversoul: the persona he presented was both representative of and coextensive with the often violently expanding republic.’ Maureen N. McLane on ‘Specimen Days’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The arms of Issack Sydley of Great Charde in Kent. He was made a baronet on 14 September 1621. These typically complex Tudor arms were later simplified to: Azure a fess wavy between three goat heads Argent. (BL Harl. MS 1053) #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi

Labour's base-punching strategy reminds of the Seinfeld episode where George is so obsessed with making Jerry's girlfriend like him (she clearly hates him) that he neglects his own girlfriend (who does like him) and she leaves him

With thanks @thamesandhudson.bsky.social, we have a copy of REPAST by @jennylinford.bsky.social to give away with one of our 9" sauteuse prospector casseroles, worth £118. Follow us, share this post and then find entry details here www.netherton-foundry.co.uk/competitions

oh guys, you're going to love this - over the past three years, a mysterious thief has been going around the French town of Pau and specifically stealing the Us from shop signs, no-one knows why:

The arms of eight heralds from Henry VII's chapel at Westminster Abbey #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi