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hatchthedog.bsky.social
Former ratter on Henry VIII's Mary Rose, these days I live at the Mary Rose Museum. Doggy opinions my own. Woof.
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NEW Bear baiting (a blood-sport where dogs were pitted against bears for entertainment) was popular in Shakespearean England. Archaeologists have determined a way to identify this popular, if unpleasant, sport. #AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵 Learn more 🆓 https://buff.ly/431MWS2

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I keep saying that last bit, but it's always "we've got 19,000 object in the collection, we need to talk about them as well!" Never mind that nearly 4,000 of those objects are arrows, which to be honest, when you've talked about one you've talked about them all...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

About time they got round to me...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I did that.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

It's telling that, in the last ten years, nobody's bothered to complete the set and get the other wives made. How would you recognise a Catherine Parr duck anyway?

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

What's worse, they've put @romanpalace.bsky.social in Switzerland!!

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Merry Christmas to all my Hatchlings! Woof!

submitted 65 days ago • 2 comments

I'm just catching up on #WolfHall, Norfolk just said that you hang a dog at the end of the hunting season. Glad he wasn't in charge when I was on the Mary Rose...

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Huge thanks to @squigglethinks.bsky.social for my lovely Christmas card! I shall make a doggy wish for you!

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

My human saw this on #PokemonGo. I mean, I'm around 480 years old, so I hardly count as young any more, but I like to think I've picked up a bit of wisdom over the centuries...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Oh, another series set in the court of Henry VIII? How about one about, say, a small dog on one of his ships instead? Much more original... www.thesun.co.uk/tv/32070709/...

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Is that me at the bottom?

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Do my tail wagging gifs not work on here?

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

I would have caught them too! Probably shouldn't brag about that though...

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

FINALLY!

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

I'm 481 years old, so I'm half expecting Jake Paul is going to challenge me to a fight. I'm a lurcher, not a boxer, so I may have to turn him down...

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

Woof.

submitted 106 days ago • 4 comments