KAS online talk with James Dickinson — Thu 30 Apr, 7pm (Zoom). Free. Explore Canterbury from Roman times to the late Middle Ages, focusing on pilgrimage after Thomas Becket’s 1170 murder, Chaucer’s pilgrims and how visitors marked Becket’s shrine. Joining info sent later. #Canterbury #Heritage
And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion
🐈 New comic: You Have Cats?🐈
Coming to the National Portrait Gallery in September - and Penshurst is such a great place, too!
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Step into the Middle Ages! 🏰📜🗡️
Join the Canterbury Medieval Weekend (1–3 May) with 20 expert speakers & a pick-and-mix programme for historical delectation.
Plus, don’t miss the Cinque Ports
Conference (26–27 June, Dover).
Info on #KCHH blog👇
#medievalsky #skystorians
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Get ready for another term of amazing seminars! As always, free! Just remember to sign up here: bit.ly/londonmedieval
#medievalsky #skystorians
Brilliant review of Thomas Asbridge's 'magisterial' new book on the #BlackDeath. We'll hear from Thomas in this year's Derek Keene London Lecture - part of the 2026 @ihr.bsky.social Summer School on 'Sickness and Health'. Info: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
My entire adult life has been one "oops there's another once in a lifetime crisis, time to tighten your belt" after another and you don't need to be a genius to see whose wormed their way out of tightening their belt and for whom that's been mandatory at every turn.
are you in the clear??
Following our Spring 2025 exhibition—Unfolding Time: The medieval pocket calendar— @kresenkernow.bsky.social will be hosting free zigzag calendar events on 14 and 15 April!
See Kresen Kernow’s event page for more info and to book: kresenkernow.org/events/
Supported by @heritagefunduk.bsky.social
Applications close soon for an extraordinary PhD placement opportunity supporting the development and curation of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest.
Apply by Monday 6 April.
Find out more here: link.bl.uk/dnv
New on the #KCHH blog! ✨
A journey through pilgrimage in Canterbury, Eastbridge & Maison Dieu, Dover - history, place & practice 🏛️📜
Also a small bit on my KHP talk + some outreach fun with fellow PhDs 🎓
#medievalsky #PublicHistory
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We look forward to welcoming you all to tonight's free online zoom lecture with Canterbury Archaeological Trust's Andrew Macintosh talking about East Wear Bay!
7pm - us06web.zoom.us/j/83824836277
Meeting ID: 838 2483 6277
#Archaeology #RomanoBritish #Finds #KAS #KentArchaeologicalSociety
A page from an illuminated manuscript of Dante's Divine Comedy showing a historiated initial 'L'(a gloria) of Christ in a chariot with Evangelist symbols, and Adam and Eve; (below) miniature of Dante and Apollo before Parnassus.
A page from an illuminated manuscript of Dante's Divine Comedy showing a historiated initial 'N'(el) of Dante and Virgil in a dark wood, with four half-length figures representing Justice, Power, Peace and Temperance; (below) arms of Alphonso V, king of Aragon, Naples, and Sicily.
A page from an illuminated manuscript of Dante's Divine Comedy showing a historiated initial 'P'(Per) of Dante setting sail for Purgatory.
The Yates Thompson Divine Comedy has been returned online. Commissioned by Alfonso V, King of Aragon, Naples and Sicily, this copy of Dante's work has illuminations on every single page (Yates Thompson MS 36)
Consult the whole manuscript online now:
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modern mosaic from Westminster Cathedral London showing the city of Constantinople. Hagia Sofia in middle and harbour in foreground. Lot sof blue and gold @Shaun Tougher
Leeds IMS and @leedsclassics.bsky.social welcome Shaun Tougher for a public lecture: Sex and the City: the Eunuchs of Constantinople. Thursday 26 March at 5.30 pm. Hybrid. All welcome. To attend online register at forms.office.com/e/CcFcJyAnTZ #medievalsky #constantinople #byzantium #eastrome
Hamburg Bible, Copenhagen, Royal Danish Library, Gl.kgl.S. 4 2°, vol. 2, fol. 183r. Illustration of the parchment-maker.
Farmer with Icelandic calf that is several days old.
Diagram showing placement of different parts of the animal’s body.
Hamburg Bible, Gl.kgl.S. 4 2°, vol. 1. Diagram showing placements of necks (green) and rumps (yellow) in the quires of the text-block.
🧵 1/5: I'm THRILLED to see Jiří Vnouček's paper on the Hamburg Bible's parchment finally published with such stunning illustrations (73 in all)!
This research shows how a careful reading of parchment tells a rich story of its creation.
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Image of a section of the United Kingdom and Ireland with the text: 'The Royal Historical Society works closely with a number of other UK and Irish societies dedicated to the study, communication and promotion of historical knowledge and understanding. Once a year, the Society hosts a half-day meeting of heads of UK history societies to discuss subjects of shared interest, such as publishing, membership and advocacy for the discipline. The Society also holds regular online meetings with its equivalent national organisations worldwide.'
This week we released a select listing of 100 national history societies active in the UK & Ireland bit.ly/4rANJ52.
These subject specialist societies enable research and promote the value of historical knowledge. Many are membership organisations and invite historians to join them #Skystorians
No orchards left in the Garden of England are the lyrics of a song my son wrote, let's hope it's not true. www.wincheaporchards.org
Troublesome kings 👑, global trade 🌍, and fresh perspectives on the Middle Ages.
Latest #KCHH blog on the upcoming Canterbury Medieval Weekend and Dover at Night 2026.
Read all about it 👇: kchh.org/showcasing-m...
#skystorians #medievalsky #PublicHistory
A miniature of the construction of the Tower of Babel, from Boccaccio's Des cas de nobles hommes et femmes (Add MS 35321).
The British Library’s Medieval MSS team now have a presence on Bluesky @blmedieval.bsky.social
Follow for updates as we restore more of our digitised content online!
This appalling fat cat wants to shut the door on all my mature students, many of whom left school after GCSE and give up a lot to go to university. I can tell him that they’re the hungriest for education and far from being unable to graduate, they regularly get the highest grades. Hateful man.
Over 100 works of art being put up for auction by (cash strapped) Reform-run Kent County Council.
Kent Greens: "While the total financial value of the art is only around £35k, the historic and social value of the art, most of which depicts Kent, is far higher."
📢 Exciting stuff from #KCHH this week - with medieval shipbuilding (lots of great archaeology), Canterbury's Blackfriars, and coin hoards! 🛶📜🪙🪙🪙
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This has been a slog but I’m pleased to day that I’m currently checking the proofs, which means this book will soon be out in the wild!
Given that libraries elsewhere are bursting at the seams with students, I suspect there are other ways of explaining why this is happening.
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The Kent Archaeological Society has been working with KCAS to organise a series of archaeology workshops for KCAS members, students and the public. The series of workshops will take place on Wednesday's from 3pm - 5pm at University of Kent starting on the 11th March and running until the 27th May.
What's with all the ducks?
The @ihr.bsky.social has brought all its online resources - journals, @vch-home.bsky.social, OA book series, @bho.bsky.social, BBIH, @layersoflondon.bsky.social, and more - into one section of its website for easier access bit.ly/4cCrpUD.
Much of this content is free to use online #Skystorians
New on the #KCHH blog: a look back at the highly successful ‘Exploring Kent History’ day @kent.ac.uk Special Collections, plus details of two upcoming events this February! Don’t miss it! 📜
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Post a banger that isn't in English
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