iwm21.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

@countbinface.bsky.social Love the podcast - everyone should love the podcast. Its real, it’s true, it’s all an Rnglishman may want in a polite-ician and you’re. It even from Earth! (Whatever that is nowadays?)

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

I develop my reconstructions using GIS and geospatial survey data. This is Brough Castle, Cumbria, in 1521, just before a devastating fire destroyed its eastern ranges. It was restored in the following century by the remarkable Lady Anne Clifford, www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histor...

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

Hello and thank you for your interest in my work. Check out my website and portfolio at bobmarshall.co.uk and at sai.org.uk/portfolio/bo.... I'm also on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/bobmarsha...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Beautiful work - stunning image and she’s wearing glasses!

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely gorgeous piece - stunning find of metalwork let alone a great idea! Could be an Etsy item

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Copper-alloy disks with openwork decoration, known as Zierscheiben (ornamental disks), often placed inside ivory rings, were typical accessories for women in the 6th and 7th centuries in south-west Germany. These disks were suspended from a belt by a strap and...🧵1/3 🏺 #archaeology 📷 taken by me

submitted 95 days ago • 3 comments

Beautiful thing.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

What a lovely man he was and he will be missed. Colin Renfrew is now his own archaeology.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

The so-called Alb-Hegau-Pottery, made between the 8th and the mid 7th century BC in southwestern Germany, is between the most fascinating prehistoric pottery styles. Is has complex stamped and incised tri-colour motifs. Plate from the Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart. #archaeology

submitted 95 days ago • 6 comments

November is nearly upon us and with it, a new #OnePlaceStudy blogging and social media prompt – #OnePlaceCharities! Looking a little further ahead, prompts for the first six months of 2025 have been finalised and will be announced in the not too distant future. #OnePlaceWednesday

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

When will they be sated?

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

3️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ 🆙️ 📚 Delighted that our book, The Viking Age in Scotland: Studies in Scottish Scandinavian Archaeology, is now in 300+ libraries across the world. It was a privilege to write for and co-edit this book, thanks to the contributors, my co-editors and Edinburgh University Press. Info from WorldCat.

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

@ccagworcester

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

In 18thC Worcestershire, turnips were used for carving ‘Hoberdy’s Lanterns’. Folklorist Jabez Allies recalled: "In my juvenile days I remember to have seen peasant boys make, what they called a "Hoberdy's Lantern," by hollowing out a turnip, and cutting eyes, nose, and mouth therein, 1/2

submitted 128 days ago • 1 comment

My research into Ann Morgan's life is very important to me, and I hope to rewrite her legacy. So it's very exciting to share that the wonderful Owen Stanton has recorded my article to share her story in another format! youtu.be/A1lnzqPZve4?si…

submitted 367 days ago • 0 comments

More logs for the fire human …

submitted 399 days ago • 0 comments

* NEW POST* My latest post discusses Shropshire's Christmas traditions and their importance to those who came before us. I really hope you enjoy this helping of Festive folklore 🎅 nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-ve...

submitted 455 days ago • 0 comments

The Guardian on working class heritage “heritage takes many forms in many places – and it comes to life through the minds and actions of the living”. I wonder, how much we want to remember, when we’ve never been so distanced in our daily lives from the travails of our forebears?

submitted 460 days ago • 1 comment

In the 19th century, Coalbrookdale was often described as ‘Hell On Earth’ due to the impact of industrialisation. Perhaps it was this environment that contributed to tragedy below. All I know is that William Maybury deserves to be remembered. nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2022/03/a-co...

submitted 460 days ago • 0 comments

An opportunity to hear me speak on 28 November about the archaeology of Op Nightingale to the Company of Makers (supporting veterans with life on Civvy Street). It’s free and I hope will be interesting too! #archaeology #veterans #wellbeing www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-pot...

submitted 470 days ago • 0 comments

#ArchInk 6: acoustics #inktober #inktober2023 #archaeology #medieval 🏺

submitted 509 days ago • 0 comments

On this, her feast day, an archive blog post about St Hild of Whitby and her kinswoman: anniewhitehead2.blogspot.com/2021/01/two-... medievalsky 🗃️🗓️

submitted 470 days ago • 0 comments

Incredible Lancet cover…

submitted 476 days ago • 13 comments

Read the cover …Shocker eh! What an incredible front cover of a professional and highly regarded journal! What IS the country going to do about the results? Our money being spent on why our money was staffed up the wall by people now exposed as liars …can we not sue them for Criminal a negligence?

submitted 474 days ago • 0 comments

Delighted to be featured on the blog of Helen Hollick today as she continues to highlight our new anthology, historical stories of Exile: ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2023/11/hist...

submitted 474 days ago • 0 comments

From its origins, through the reigns of great kings such as Penda and Offa, onwards to #Aethelflaed, and beyond to Godiva, up to the death of the last earl in 1071: mybook.to/MerciaRisean... #anglosaxon #earlymedieval #nonfiction

submitted 478 days ago • 1 comment

The first review is in, and it's lovely: terrytylerbookreviews.blogspot.com/2023/11/hist...

submitted 480 days ago • 0 comments

Dave Weldrake yesterday- fascinating look at cases of witchcraft accusations in Yorkshire, with a reminder that we can look back &laugh at ‘silly beliefs’, but it’s worth analysing how we still demonise poverty or minority groups, we are still susceptible to ‘moral panics’…

submitted 482 days ago • 0 comments

gosh this right here. I've been saying if a mobile is required to do my job correctly and to the security requirements of my employer, then my employer should provide the mobile

submitted 482 days ago • 2 comments

Rückenkomfort vor 6.000 Jahren! Das Tragegestell aus der Pfahlbausiedlung von Hornstaad-Hörnle (um 3900 v. Chr.) war aus Eschenholz gefertigt und mit Lindenbastfasern verknüpft. Mit einem Gewicht von lediglich 1 kg war es nicht nur sehr leicht, sondern auch rückenfreundlich. 🏺

submitted 484 days ago • 1 comment

Victorian estate (the Arbo) has great examples all over the place, of a lovely community that was all but self-contained with a butcher shop here then and now. At one time there were no fewer than 26 pubs and 5 corner shops in a 350 house estate.

submitted 485 days ago • 0 comments

@odaoutreach had a great time. See the Offa’s Dyke Association next newsletter…better still, become a member of the Offa’s Dyke Association.

submitted 489 days ago • 0 comments

#ArboMassive #TowPath @ccagworcester #ArboretumRA Beautiful moon rise in Worcester UK by the tow-path taking #Hamish for a walk So much #Archaeology around here

submitted 495 days ago • 0 comments

What a Autumnal day …feet still drying out

submitted 498 days ago • 0 comments