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Soft light falls across a patchwork of fields in the Clun Valley, just an hour or so before sunset. I love this rolling countryside and its ancient footpaths, so it was a surprise when I realised that I hadn’t visited in more than a year. I decided to put that right over the weekend 1/4

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On my Reading List. I adore Jane's work, and I'm looking forward to this one especially.

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Vu que les vidéos pseudo-historiques générées par IA commencent à se diffuser et que ce n’est qu’un début, j’ai fait quelques recherches et je suis tombé sur un short sur Charles Martel. Attention, catastrophe en vue et fil à dérouler 1/

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Przewalski’s horses return to the wild in Kazakhstan, reviving a species and transforming ecosystems timesca.com/european-zoo... #PrzewalskisHorse #WildlifeConservation #Kazakhstan #EndangeredSpecies #EcoRestoration

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When faced with an ever expanding universe, it's hard for one person to believe they can make a difference. But if you just focus on one little mossy corner of the world, anything is possible.

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Love! I have the PB version, which included not only a message from Lanigan but a sweet note about romance readers and romancelandia by Michael Douglas, who produced the film & starred in it alongside Kathleen Turner. Posted a photo of the pages long ago at mariaslozak.tumblr.com/post/1535414...

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New Medieval Books: Discovered but Forgotten: The Maldives in Chinese History, c. 1100-1620, published by ‪@columbiaup.bsky.social‬ www.medievalists.net/2025/06/new-... #history #historybooks #GlobalMiddleAges

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Captain Alfred Dreyfus is up for posthumous promotion French lawmakers are voting to raise the army officer to the rank he could have aspired to had he not spent years in detention after being wrongfully convicted of espionage amid widespread antisemitism www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Fog rising over the mountains of Covadonga… Panorama captured at sunrise. #photography #landscape #nature #art

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Fine workmanship in these Byzantine gold bracelets with pearls from 6th century Constantinople (Varna Archaeological Museum, Bulgaria). The pearls are in bunches, resembling grapes on a winding vine colorsandstones.eu/2022/10/25/t...

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ICYMI: My May Unusual Historicals poste went live over the past holiday weekend wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/05/full... #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia

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She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. Carl Sagan

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Light over Loch Shiel, Glenfinnan #Scotland #GlenFinnan #Lochaber www.damianshields.com

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Roman about, visiting the reconstructed Roman city at Carnuntum.

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Spotting the mice at Ilmington church. Pews carved by Robert “ Mouseman” Thompson. The church was bedecked with flowers for a village wedding

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Thank you to the kind and knowledgeable employee at The Ripped Bodice for putting Scarlett Peckham's "The Rakess" in my hands, last month, after I asked for a #historicalromance in the vein of Meredith Duran and Sherry Thomas. I'd never have picked up that old-style clinch cover on my own.

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We only have so much time on this earth. Try to see as much of it as you can. (photo by Edmonds Scanner at Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park)

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Midway between May Eve, Walpurgis Night, and the Summer Solstice the Wonderful @hatchards.bsky.social held their annual highly celebrated gathering of stoytellers... amongst the partygoers of course was Joan Aiken, in this ghostly anthology thanks to @blpublishing.bsky.social and @johnnymains.co.uk

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Alright, premodern world teachers. Want to add a badass lady & her writing as a primary source to your fall syllabus? Let’s chat about Byzantine historian & princess Anna Commena (Ἄννα Κομνηνή, c. 1083–1148) & her history, the Alexiad (open access from Archive.org) archive.org/details/anna... 🧵

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#BlueSkyArtShow #green Old willow by the river. #photography #photographersofbluesky #landscape #river #countryside #willow #PhotographersUnited #ArtYear #thephotohour #EastCoastKin #sweden

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Nearing the end of my first read of Les Misérables. Did not expect that the two most affecting characters (as distinct from "favourite"), for me, would turn out to be Éponine and Monsieur Gillenormand.

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Outstanding piece by Dr Florence Scott on queenship in the June 2025 issue of History Today. @historytoday.com

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"My happy ending lies in understanding the innermost fears of the women in my family who love me and did not want me to end up as a poor professor wearing broken slippers..." Happy to share my new essay in @jprstudies.bsky.social www.jprstudies.org/2025/05/brok... #AcademicSky #romancelandia

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Five days of silence, surrounded by beauty, shared by kind, compassionate, joyful beings. Grateful. 🙏☮️❤️

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The involvement of #Armenian women in manuscript production is visible in decorated margins & closing colophons—where they appear as commissioners, sponsors, scribes, illuminators, commemorators, intercessors, teachers, & witnesses. Dr. Ani Shahinian shares some examples: hmml.org/stories/seri...

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Hidden corners of my village. Going to post a Cornish photo a day on the run-up to publication of SECRETS OF THE BEES because the setting for this novel is so important. Hope you too will fall in love with Ezra, and Cornwall. #Cornwall 💙📚

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And this morning the Shed is a tiny window in the trunk of an ancient tree; painted with stars and oak leaves; peering between the branches…

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Parkhouse Hill morning, Dove Valley, a warm memory from a good few years back. Not many clouds around on this beautiful morning but the boughs of the sycamores overhead filled the space nicely. #Derbyshire #England #PeakDistrict www.damianshields.com

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May 28, 1453: The last Vespers take place in Hagia Sophia, the night before the city falls to the Ottomans. For “Byzantine” history, I always suggest Anthony Kaldellis: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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In the end, don't we all want the same thing? A secret library filled with occult books, an enchanted skull who gives questionable advice, and singing mice that will sew us fabulous outfits for the ball?

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Books, Bestie, and Coffee: Analysing the Psychological Impact of Book Consumerism and Café Culture on Sustainable Friendships in Urban Centres [😅] #books #Coffee #friends

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Misty heather season is coming.

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