Big fan of biscuits, so imagine my delight when I spotted this! youtu.be/Y3qvAI06vQc?...

These botanical illustrations are beautiful 😍 From Alberti von Haller Icones plantarum Helvetiae, 1795 #botany

Most insane thing I've read today was that Anne Lister was somehow into sheep. Horses, yes. Goats, absolutely. But sheep?!

Built from magnesium limestone with a slate roof, St. Helen's Church, St. Helen's Square, York has a connection to Wakefield. It dates from the 14th & 15th century when it was the guild church of glaziers & staniers, many of whom worked nearby in Stonegate. In 1548 the church was declared /1

Mill at Limetz,1888 by Claude Monet (French, 1840 - 1926). Location: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA. Oil on canvas | 92 x 73 cm. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Stage at the Lake, a four day open air festival will take place in Halifax on 13th to 16th August, will include music, comedy, theatre & a Gentleman Jack ballet in the grounds of Shibden Hall celebrating 100 years since it came into public ownership. 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#photography #unedited

A few views of the distinctive tracery in the east window at Spixworth, St Peter, Norfolk #norfolk #churches #windows #tracery #history #heritage #architecture #tracery #stainedglass #medieval #victorian

This year's Romancing the Gothic Online Conference is taking place on the 22nd/23rd August. We're celebrating the publication of Radcliffe's posthumous works with a conference dedicated to women and people of marginalised genders in horror and the Gothic romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...

This weekend taught me far too much about copyrights in the UK. I feel like I downloaded a manual into my head. 🙃

If you're a swordsmith who isn't advertising their work today, you're missing out. Everyone knows that a sword is the perfect Valentine's day gift!

💔 Introducing Anne Lister’s Broken Hearts Club, for anyone spending Valentine’s Day thinking “it’s complicated”… See more at www.packedwithpotential.org/community/an...

I should maybe strive to look for someone who looks at me the same way my dog looks at a treat bag. 😅 She knows what the treat bag looks like and loves those treats so much that she is left looking derpy. 😂

St. Giles’ Cathedral Edinburgh, Scotland #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed #PalacesandGardens #AllAglow

‘I used to be a mountain’ by Maarten Inghels onboards.be/nl/product/m... 📷 Maarten Inghels/Onboards Biennale #urbangeology

The Church of St. Michael in the West Yorkshire village of Mytholmroyd is situated next to the River Calder & dates from 1848. It was designed by James Mallinson & Thomas Healey. They went onto design about 35 churches as a partnership & were based in Bradford & Halifax. The church in Early /1

"This meant that the expanding middle class could now enjoy leisure tourism. But this technological revolution created a practical problem: many people didn't know they could travel for pleasure, much less how to do it." #history #travel www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

Went outside exactly once today (to go buy some essential groceries that I need for cooking tomorrow) and got pelted by (small) hail... Some days are just not incredible. 😔

I sometimes think that one of my most useful contributions to history would be to produce a Beacon Hill timeline. So many old photos of Halifax feature Beacon Hill as an ever-present backdrop, and the changing degree of vegetation on the hill could provide a useful timestamp in dating such photos.

📷 Taken with the tilt shift lens: The magnificent Romanesque nave at Norwich Cathedral is crowned with a later vaulted ceiling that has one of the most remarkable series of bosses depicting scenes from creation to the last judgement.

Gibson's Mill, Hardcastle Crags, west Yorkshire, photo by Elise Garland.

The corner of Gillygate & Bootham, York. Bootham Bar, on the site of one of the gates of the Roman fortress, contrasts with a lock up shop of 1908-9. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #drawings #ArtShare

Sun setting over St Davids Cathedral, Wales, photo by Jessica Wright.

💌 We’re sharing a few #AnneListersValentines because love, history, and bad puns are better when shared. See more: www.packedwithpotential.org/community/an...

Tbh I'm not one to be too bothered about rain or rainy weather but, after 3 or 4 storms back to back, I'm a little fed up... Especially since the house wasn't made for this weather either and there's water or damp in random places. 🙃

Shibden Dale has drawn visitors from Halifax since Victorian times, when it became a popular destination for countryside walks and fresh air. The Shibden Brook runs through the valley before becoming the Red Beck at Brookfoot downstream, its name reflecting the water’s

Celebratory pistachio snack before bed because I finished the paper I was writing and am finally free of fighting with weird reference styles and detailed plans of buildings! 🙌

Fountains Abbey. While drawing this I discovered a small watercourse which I had thought was a shadow from a tree. It makes more sense of the stonework on the right hand edge of the drawing. #FountainsAbbey #pencil #drawing #ArtYear

As a software engineer, nothing bothers me more than websites trying to trick me into signing up for spam emails. No, my session isn't expired, you're just trying to make me sign up for extra data gathering to sell ads. I'll just buy the dog food elsewhere then! 👋

Convincing myself to set the alarm for 7 am-ish, so I can go out and vote a little after 8 am looking as comfy as possible and also avoid the old ladies who dress up for Sunday mass. This is what I get for not voting early. I could be sleeping in and then gaming, but the car messed up my plans. 😞

"Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming." ~ Matthew Arnold The Isle of Wight (1866) 🎨 John Brett

It was hard to choose which painting I loved most of Richard Gerstl’s in Vienna. This one I hope brightens your day. #EastCoastKin #ForestFriday

Travelling through the Barbican! Loved that little shaft of light hitting the cyclist. #photography #filmphotography #blackandwhite #B&W #photo #bwphotography #bnwphotography #monochrome #mono

Blue sky winter light: Islington, St Mary, west Norfolk #norfolk #ruins #architecture #history #heritage #window #tracery #fenland #winter #light #bluesky

When The West With Evening Glows, 1901, painting by Joseph Farquharson, Scottish artist. Painted Deeside landscape in various weathers.

Close to The House in the Rock at Knaresborough & hidden away is the Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag. In 1408 court rolls show a licence granted to John the Mason to build a chapel. Folklore suggests the chapel was founded after John's young son had accompanied him to a quarry. /1

It's difficult to see but the house at the top in the left photo is The House in the Rock, Knaresborough, N. Yorks. Built on land owned by the Slingsby family, Thomas Hill, a linen weaver began construction of the house in 1770 & it was completed in 1791. It was made from rock cut /1

It's late, but never too late for the tour de force of fonts from the #ScamperDownTheSomersetCoast #EastQuantoxheadToDunster leg #StAndrewOldCleeve. Lovely C15 octagonal font and beautiful octagonal ogee cover (i.e. with eight ogee ribs separating enclosed panels) #FontsOnFriday

The north aisle of Holy Trinity, Goodramgate, York. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #drawing #ArtShare

It bothers me that the stork who has had their nest on the same telephone pole for the better part of 20 years is now homeless because the rain and wind from the storms we've been having were of such order that the pole is now sideways. Poor stork sits on the ground near the nest now. This sucks.

The weather here chose violence in the same week my car decided to visit the mechanic, so those waterproofs I usually wear in Yorkshire have come in handy. 😬

A drawing of Fountains Abbey progressing slowly. The view of the complex from the south will be framed by a pair of trees. #Pencil #drawing #ArchitecturalIllustration #ArtYear

Some shapes are instantly identifiable: the distant sweep of the moor-lined hills and the grand lines of a dye-works chimney that had ideas above its industrial station. The whole scene viewed from a promenade that, even after global warming has done its worst, will never see the sea. ....

Helmsley Castle by Samuel Bough (1822–1878). He was born in Carlisle to a poor family, but one who encouraged his interest in art. He is best known as a painter of maritime scenes. The castle offers a comprehensive chronicle of construction spanning from the 12th to the 16th centuries.

Looking for some reference shots from 2024 is making me realise that I had two good years (2023 and, especially, 2024) and then everyone went downhill in 2025... 🙃

The fine flint flushwork on the west face of the tower at Southwold, St Edmund, Suffolk #suffolk #churches #flint #flushwork #history #heritage #architecture #windows

Thick trunks in a landscape that inspired Wuthering Heights. #Thicktrunktuesday #WutheringHeights #TopWithens #Yorkshire #Bronte 📷 25/12/25

#photography #streetphotography #monochrome #bnw

Sun shimmer of a nave aisle window upon the parclose at Southwold, St Edmund, Suffolk #suffolk #churches #history #heritage #architecture #carpentry #woodcarving #sunlight #medieval

Such a rare survival - the nave ceiling at Peterborough Cathedral dates from the C13th - it has been overpainted twice but the original design remains - and original paint from the C13th has been found beneath the nail heads...