Children coming from school near Inagh, County Clare, Ireland, 1954, photo by Dorothea Lange, American photojournalist Oakland Museum of California).

Whether or not you have been to the Kederminster Library at Langley Marish (now in the suburbs of Slough), do share this one abd consider visiting. It’s utterly spectacular and worth a long journey. langleymarish.com/stmary/keder... - hats off for them for seeing that is open to be visited.

Love the sensation of agreeing to write an academic paper, but apparently I have to then write it??

A place hard to beat most days but on a day like this…impossible
Glendalough, as beautiful as ever

Ethereal light over a steep, scooped bay with high, distant islands in the distance.

Talk about a bus man's holiday. From one Island to others! #Faroes

Book review: The First King of England: Æthelstan and the birth of a kingdom by David Woodman IN 927, Æthelstan, king of the English, who had taken control of the Viking kingdom of York, met the princes of Wales, the king of Scots, and the ruler of English Northumbria, at Eamont Bridge in Cumbria. All recognised him as their overlord. This...

"He has covered every aspect of the king and his reign in an admirable way and written a definitive account that will last for many decades."

📚 Nicholas Orme reviews an account of the reign of King Æthelstan

#books #bookreview

"Brittania oceani insula, cui quondam Albion nomen fuit..."

BL Cotton MS Tiberius C II; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; late 8th-early 9th century; England, S.; f.5v
@blmedieval.bsky.social

Seen tonight on Hannah’s bedtime walk tonight, a crescent moon with Venus (I think) shining overhead.

Wit, unker, git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy Tales of love and adventure from 1,000 years ago reveal a dazzling range of now-extinct English pronouns. They capture something unique about how people once thought about "two-ness".

Did some readings for this little BBC piece on extinct English pronouns www.bbc.com/future/artic...

This image shows St. Mary's Church and the adjacent Almshouses in the village of South Dalton, East Yorkshire. The Grade I listed St. Mary's Church was designed by architect J. L. Pearson and features a prominent spire that is over 200 feet high. The scene is located in the East Riding of Yorkshire, a rural area run by the Dalton Estate.

The South Dalton Estate Almshouses, on Main Street in the East Riding village, were built in 1873 by Beaumont Hotham, 3rd Baron Hotham. Designed in a Tudor style, they form a group of cottages with a stone chapel. They stand beside St Mary’s Church, also commissioned by Lord Hotham and

Community garden full of wildflowers in Cambridge, UK

How many people out there are giving wildflowers a chance by leaving areas of their gardens uncut this year? Please repost if you are offering a lifeline to pollinators like bees, butterflies, moths, hoverflies and bats by mowing less!

As a full time photographer for the last 50 years and while still shooting , I enjoy sharing my old work… West of Ireland in the 1970s #35mmfilm #documentary #photography #Galway #Ireland

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691210636/becoming-arab?srsltid=AfmBOopvSh5C7oCp6ujMCLqNZ4njkKb8FJ_UuSewOKCElD_1_kTTuZas

What a fascinating book.

White painted brick two-storey terrace council housing in green and wooded surrounds

White painted brick two-storey terrace council housing in green and wooded surrounds

White painted brick two-storey terrace council housing in green and wooded surrounds

Trojan's Plat, Winchelsea - designed by AH Neave for Battle Rural District Council. The scheme won a Ministry of Housing and Local Government award in 1954.
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/council-ho...

Ireland’s Easter Rising: archives reveal hardship faced by the families of those killed in 1916 Much historical focus was on those who died fighting for Irish independence but researchers now have tools to dissect the impact of this period on those who survived

Fascinating: the experiences of families of those killed fighting in Easter Rising 1916. By @earner.bsky.social

theconversation.com/irelands-eas...

Special day. Hunters, Co Wicklow

Call for ministers to curb ‘excessive risk-taking’ at universities - Research Professional News Former government adviser says Office for Students should be given “significant new powers”

Broken record here, but we cannot fix, save, improve, renew or whatever English universities if we only attend to taught students, DfE and OfS. Universities are major engines of research, innovation and civic good. Minimally DSIT must also be centrally in the frame.

They're not big schools.

A fresco showing a man in a white toga standing behind a counter piled with round loaves of bread, reaching out to hand bread to two adult men and a child in front of him.

Campaigning in Roman times: For #FrescoFriday a painting from Pompeii that was long believed to show the sale of bread. It's thought now to be the free distribution of bread ahead of an election by a politician in a white toga.

Photo: MANN Inv. No. 9071

🏺 #archaeology #romanarchaeology

Great! Can almost hear the conversation.

Hamlet of Thwaite, Swaledale, Yorkshire, photo by Maureen Platts.

Fair Day, Westport, County Mayo, c.1943, painting by Lilian Lucy Davidson (1879-1954), Irish artist.

Phonetic features in the interactional management of laughter Abstract This paper investigates the phonetic and social organisation of laughter in spoken conversation. Building on conversation analytic research that highlights laughter as a complex interactional...

Link to the paper, Phonetic features in the interactional management of laughter:

www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Coming soonish…

[Carte de l'Artois comprise entre St Omer, Hedin, Arras et Armentières. 1 : 170 000 environ] [Carte de l'Artois comprise entre St Omer, Hedin, Arras et Armentières. 1 : 170 000 environ] -- 1600 -- cartes

For instance, this map of Abbeville and it's surrounds: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

Then, of course, there are the bare bones pen-sketch maps, that I love for different reasons, even if they don't answer any questions I'm asking: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

The interior of the octagon tower of Ely Cathedral, with a forest of thick wooden beams and wood panelling.

Inside the incredible Octagon Tower of Ely Cathedral for #Woodensday. Constructed after the collapse of the cathedral's central tower in 1322, it took eighteen years to complete and is seen as a masterpiece of medieval engineering.

A great Easter break visit to Château d'Angers to see the incredible Apocalypse Tapestries depicting the events of the Book of Revelation! Originally commissioned by Louis I, Duke of Anjou, the tapestries were woven in Paris between 1377 and 1382! 😇😈🧵

One way or another, this country is going to learn that accommodating white supremacist ideology will destroy this country. It did so once before and is doing so again.

Is this country really prepared to allow our military to be DESTROYED by racism & sexism. Are we watching this like a TV show?

Learning Amharic is humbling. The last spoken language I worked on seriously was Norwegian and back then I started to get the sense I'd cracked this language-learning thing, but it turns out that was just because Norwegian (a language I love) is (no offence to Norwegians) the Duplo of languages

You see a handy paper plate offering access to all (!) Popes, Roman Emperors, Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, a lot of Christian kings, and more minor rulers. You need to move the paper pointer, find the correct ring, and read the information. #skystorians: it's an #earlymodern paper tool.

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Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.

The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.

Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...