Congratulations to the volume editors, contributors and series editors on the publication of -
Cultural Perceptions of Health, Illness and the Body in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Edited by Anni Hella, Anu Korhonen
Blurb and table of contents: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Per...
Here @nilsgilman.bsky.social, a historian who spent years working in Silicon Valley, makes the case that a liberal arts education will be ~more~ valuable in the near future www.noemamag.com/why-a-libera...
Info at https://www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/events/catherine-clarke
Honestly so excited for the Stratford Upon Avon Literary Festival next month, in one of my absolute favourite places in England. I'll be speaking about A History of England in 25 Poems, and will be interviewing Tom Service, Stephen Rutt & Rose George about their brilliant new books. Come & join us!
While Russia bombs Ukrainian culture, a Czech team is trying to save it - with 3D scanning technology.
Churches, museums, memory itself.
New piece:
robjcameron.substack.com/p/scanning-f...
It's not uncommon to find the big 'arse (as mus from the East End might call it) adjacent to the north or south side of a church with a door just for 'the nobs' to enter. Here it's 'The Grange' with a boundary wall hard on the church #StMaryBitton #WallsOnWednesday
My woodland temple wears its bluebell best. My woodland temple sings songs of memory, the persistence of return. Sometimes our role as witches is as witness, as listener to the land telling its truths. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
A hedgehog crawling through a hole in a brick wall at night, under a sign that reads 'Hedgehog highway.' Ivy and dead leaves surround the hedgehog
Small gaps that make a huge difference: this is a hedgehog highway 🦔
Hedgehogs can walk up to two miles a night looking for food or a mate, but their natural highways are blocked by fences and walls. Creating safe corridors from your garden to the one next door lends hedghogs a huge helping hand.
The eBook of Castle is only 99p right now.
Repost this for a chance to win a signed copy of the original hardback edition.
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Good luck!
Old #BabyJesus inside #VenusFlyTrap #churchcrawling #Highworth
In 2025 we awarded a grant to @crookston.bsky.social to carry out a community geophys survey of Crookston Castle supported by the geophys team of HES. We found not just some great archaeology but also a local area keen to learn more about "their" castle: castlestudiestrust.org/blog/2026/04...
Out today!
and I really need to thank @researchireland.ie without whose funding this project of metal and art analysis wouldnt ever have happened
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We in the news in Ireland for our funding of the Kilkenny "Finding Flemingstown" geophyical survey by @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social. Development of castle and town in early Anglo-Norman colonisation were entwined so it's a further boost to Irish castle studies: www.independent.ie/life/archaeo...
Exciting times for the study 11thC England: the 'lost' seal of Edward the Confessor has been rediscovered in the Archives nationales de France! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky
Folklore Matters logo: a green man image in the centre of a circle with the text folklore matters around the outside
We’re busy planning series two of our podcast, Folklore Matters, but @dianearodgers.bsky.social and Sophie found some time to do a quick ‘best bits’ of series one. You can listen here: folklore-matters.captivate.fm/episode/seri...
That complex - could only be 2026 - position, where you're an anti-authoritarian atheist, but you still find yourself cheering on Iran and the Pope... 😵💫
It would be nice had @theguardian.com linked to the listing so that we could make our own judgement (see next post), but that's undoubtedly an interesting building, worthy of listing and associated protection.
Oliver Postgate, producer of many children’s programs, was born 101 years ago today.
His shows are, for people of a certain age, a portal to one’s childhood.
Here’s Ivor the Engine. The adventures of Ivor, his driver Jones the Steam, and the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited.
#OnThisDay 1043 Edward the Confessor was crowned in Winchester Cathedral. All future English monarchs (if they lasted long enough for a coronation) were crowned in Westminster Abbey, which Edward built.
Against green and black fabric, two paperback copies of TERRIBLE WORLDS novella bind-ups by Adrian Tchaikovsky: REVOLUTIONS and DESTINATIONS.
Did you know that @aptshadow.bsky.social 's TERRIBLE WORLDS novellas are also available in handy paperback bindups?
The latest set of three (DESTINATIONS) is out in May! Inc. WALKING TO ALDEBARAN, ONE DAY ALL THIS WILL BE YOURS & AND PUT AWAY CHILDISH THINGS.
Preorder now https://geni.us/terrwdest
Which raises the question, whilst we *rightly* protect ancient monuments and provide listed status to centuries old buildings why don’t we afford our rivers that have formed how we have inhabited our world over millennia the same protection?
Read the latest blog post from @rialibrary.bsky.social about the new 'Ink & Innovation' exhibition, written by the curator, Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social📚
The amazing central tower at Fountains Abbey, near Ripon, North Yorkshire 🤩
Just look at the height of that arch (my friend Mel provides some scale)! Looking up within is this dizzying, but fantastic, view!
Callanish Stones, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, painting by Scott Naismith, Scottish artist.
The book Rhynie: A Powerful Place of Pictland, edited by Gordon Noble.
Thank you, Mr Postman 😍
St Bernard in stained glass, from the Upper Rhine, c. 1450
880 years ago, on the 31st of March 1146, Bernard of Clairvaux preached in support of a second Crusade at Vézelay. Among the audience was Louis VII who was convinced to join. The Crusade targeted both Iberia in the west and the Levant in the east. #otd #history 🗃️
Goblin sightings in caves - Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby from the @universityofky.bsky.social
takes us through the YouTube series, Hellier, to show us how these seemingly disparate legends are actually connected and part of a longstanding coherent narrative.
