Here’s how I sometimes start a new project. First I buy a fancy new notebook. Second I write some very well-ordered notes in my best handwriting on the first page. Third I never look at it again.

The carved head of a Romano-Celtic deity, probably associated with Bertha Roman Fort in Perth. The head may be that of Cernunnos, the Celtic god beasts and wild places. Part of the collections at Perth Museum 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanScotland #PerthMuseum

Roman horse terracotta figurine found in Rottweil, dating 2nd or 3rd century AD. Horse figurines served as offerings in sanctuaries or domestic shrines and occasionally as grave goods. Their use and meaning shift depending on context but reflect associations ... 🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

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Publication day for The Story of Tudor Art! And you’re in the vicinity of David’s Bookshop in Letchworth Garden City (a short train ride from King’s Cross/-St Pancras) please join me this evening for a talk and discussion about weird and wonderful Tudor art!

When did the economy become 100% gambling and gambling adjacent activities?

Share (one of) your favourite black-and-white films.

Behold the New York City Street Tree Map: An Interactive Map That Catalogues the 700,000 Trees Shading the Streets of New York City

40 minutes of absolute fire www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1H8...

POLITICAL THEORISTS looking for a tenure-track JOB: University of South Florida is hiring! Apply by Oct. 31. Please share! fa-ewkd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Love reign o’er me.

A sperm whale gets a giant sized serving of calamari. It all seriousness this is a fantastic video of something not seen before.

Expert here: We were not, in fact, ever puzzled. It has been and always will be a writing tablet. www.indy100.com/news/ancient...

This little piggy… Just in case anyone needed a miniature Iron Age pig in their life this afternoon. (It’s ok to admit it, we all do sometimes). Bronze boar figurine from the Gower peninsula, on display in the Coins of the Iceni exhibition at the Ashmolean museum 2022. c. C1st BC/AD(?)

It’s Phil Hartman’s birthday. He would have been 77. youtu.be/uWA5AC3FpJA?...

If it’s Wednesday, it’s time to order a copy of Hogan’s Alley #24! www.hoganmag.com/stores/hogan...

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A *permanent* US history job! Goes without saying that this will be highly competitive, but the US history faculty at Cambridge are some of the most supportive colleagues you can ask for. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT902/a...

Bronson Pinchot that you?

Volunteers at Iron Age hillfort after vandalism #Shropshire 🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

Roman hair pins made of bone were widely used by women to secure and decorate their hair. These pins typically featured a tapered shaft and could be plain or ornately decorated with heads shaped like busts, animals, plants, or geometric forms. Hair pins are ... 🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology 📷 me

"I let my principles get in the way of things. I punched a bloke in the face once for saying Hawk the Slayer was rubbish." Channel 4 aired the first episode of 'Spaced' on this day in 1999.

Mornin x

The fourth door of the Crestwood House has just opened and it leads to our theater where @shawnrobare.com, @michaelmay.bsky.social & @paxholley.com are sitting in the audience for an over the top performance of Vincent Price’s Theater of Blood from 1973! cultfilmclub.com/crestwood-ho...

Phenomenal. In my 10 year update of A Brief History, I make the point that in the first edition, not one disease had been successfully treated using gene therapy. Today that number is at least 7.

The correct answer is "cheese"

File this under obvious but I never thought of it before. Lifting a 100 pound woman twenty to thirty times through the day is quite a workout.

a Muppet waiting for godot would be great

Claudia Cardinale has died Once upon a time we watched 8 1/2 and had thoughts. directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde...

Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart

Jeez Louise - it was 1956, not 1856!!

Cambridge is *hiring* in post-1920 US political history and/or history of the US in the world. Closing date October 27. Please spread the word or, if you're an early career scholar in those fields, TELL NO ONE but please apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...

Remember when I could podcast www.podash.com/podcast/5904....

I just saw Stop Making Sense on a big screen and it's so satisfying when massive weirdos are also really fucking talented

🧵 One of my favourite galleries is the Ateneum in Helsinki. It originated with the Finnish Art Society (1846) & opened to the public as the Ateneum In 1888. It is now the Finnish National Gallery & well worth visiting! [1]

One torc in the collection of the #BritishMuseum stands far above the others: the Snettisham Great Torc. Eight topes of twisted gold alloy threads are capped with large ornamented hollow terminals. Found by farmers in a field in Snettisham, Norfolk, in 1950. 🏺 1/ Iron Age, 150-50 BCE. 📸 me

The condition of fabrics from pile dwelling and wetland settlements is amazing. This charred ball of thread was found at the site of Marin-Epagnier/Préfargier. It was made of hemp or lime fibres, and dates about 3900 to 3300 BC. The thread measures a total of about 10 m in length. 📷 Laténium 🏺

Bologna is the site of an annual festival that resurrects “refound cinema”: films that have been forgotten, overlooked, truncated by studios, or damaged by time.

An unusual & ambiguous iron rod in the #Viking “Pagan Lady” grave on St. Patrick's Isle, Peel (IOM) has been interpreted as both a roasting spit & a sorcerer’s staff. A goose wing was laid over it. The woman's grave goods included an unusual bead necklace, knives & a down pillow. #Archaeobirds🏺

@cultfilmclub.com Re: A Night in Heaven +5 for bedazzled Wraith +5 for ‘space lasers’ -5 for recumbent bike hate (they’re the most efficient means of self propelled transport)

In this month's blogpost, Dr Emily Betz writes about anti-Quaker propaganda. Using the language of #medicine, opponents of #Quaker beliefs attempted to paint them as mentally unstable, their understandings of faith less spiritual revelations than medical complications. wp.me/p7o0HV-qm #medhist

Your astonishing artifact this week is a bronze statuette of a Roman actor pretending to fart. 🎭💨🏺

I'm going to be listing some more cheap sets of interesting older comics (from the '70s to the '10s) for sale soon, but if there's anything you might particularly want, drop me an email or PM. Lots of mutants, Vertigo, Morrison, Gillen, etc.

Anyone else noticing hobbyists really cutting back on their buying? Because of ‘things’ I’ve been liquidating most of my camera collection over the summer and it seems things either are not selling or selling at a lot lower prices. I’m ready just to send the remainder to mpb.

Surreal experience in church: not only did the pastor use a philosopher as a positive example (not the butt of a joke or a symbol of pride in our own understanding), but that philosopher was Diogenes!

🧵 This gold boat is my talisman. It’s Hiberno-Celtic & dates back over 2,000y ago. The shape & proportions are ones I use, when I draw; I first saw it over 50y ago. As you can see in the one-off drawings in this thread, I use Irish aesthetics to create them. See what you think? [1]

The 3,000-year-old gold Shropshire sun pendant was dicovered in 2018. Crafted with incredible skill and decorated with intricate geometric patterns, it symbolizes the importance of the sun in Bronze Age society. As scientific analysis has indicated, the pendant...🧵1/2 📷 me #archaeology 🏺

This should be encouraged, not banned.

Creevykeel court cairn, Sligo. Creevykeel is the largest in a chain of five megalithic buildings clustered together in the Cliffoney area www.carrowkeel.com/creevykeel/i... #SpéirGhorm #Sligeach

Ah life. Woke up this morning and I have pain all over the right side of my face from my ear to my front teeth.