Lost seal of Edward the Confessor found after being missing for 40 years An 11th-century Anglo-Saxon seal belonging to Edward the Confessor has been rediscovered more than 40 years after being declared lost. The wax impression of the ‘Saint-Denis seal’ disappeared without ...

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It had the advantage for me of being gluten-free (I can tolerate lower-gluten beers tho not wheat or hazy beers).

Next week I'm back in Manchester for a day so I'm going to pick up some zero alcohol/g-free beee from a great microbrewery near to where I used to live, Brightside. I'll report back.

Aha! I too like the Guinness and the Adnams Ghost Ship, both of which I tried recently and was surprised how good they were.

I also buy Corona Cero as it's refreshing, and on my hols I has Athletic Brewing's Upside Dawn, a pale ale, which I quite enjoyed.

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I didn't realise there's a white borage, too. ☺️

A black sawfly on a leaf, with a fallen blue flower.

Lichen on a twiggy shrub.

A hoverfly on the edge of a leaf.

White borage flowers.

Happy Sunday.

Love the bee and alkanet one in particular.

A hoverfly on a green leaf.

A hairy footed flower bee feeding on green alkanet.

A golden dung fly.

Cow parsley flowers.

Good morning.

Celebrating the early start to the English asparagus season, with a round from the Chinn family at Cobrey farm.
We cooked the asparagus from neighbouring Herefordshire, (not Kent, apologies) in our 9” chef’s prospector casserole, then liberally anointed it with a dulse beurre blanc.

They look so good! 😋

We have made our views on non-traditional hot cross buns very clear already - so here are our standard buns, made using @regulaysewijn.bsky.social recipe.

Pssst...have you heard that Season 10 of The British Food History Podcast is sponsored by the fantastic ‪@nethertonfoundry.bsky.social ??

I visited their workshop in Shropshire - episode coming soon, but in the meantime, check out their wonderful products here: www.netherton-foundry.co.uk

Smothered Parsnip & Apple At the end of winter, food reserves would be low in medieval times but you might be able to make a festive easter meal with a few left over apples and parsnips. I prefer to cook this meal in a...

An Early Medieval end of winter festive lunchmeal. Again I used @recipe.exchange to share my recipe.
#earlymedieval #medievalcook #medievalsky #carolingian #viking

Rabbit riding a dog with a snail on a leash on its hand like a hawk, the dog is white with a red collar.

Happy Easter Monday.
From Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390. Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 143, fol. 165r.

You're a squirrel 🐿️.

Whalebone plaque which formed part of the grave good assemblage from the Scar Viking boat burial which was found near Scar on Sanday in Orkney. Dating to between 875 to 950 AD, the plaque is part of the collections at the Orkney Museum in Kirkwall. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday

Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

Are you studying, researching or teaching a history topic and not sure where to start? Try a search using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

Love the ruby colour. They look a wee heady 😆. I'm living vicariously as I'm having to reduce my alcohol intake. Not great for my neuro stuff. Have you found any zero or low alcohol beers to enjoy. Or is that anathema? 🤣

Art Nouveau style painting featuring a standing stylised white woman facing forwards with crown wearing heart shaped gold gown and holding a red rose, with patterned border and dark blue background

Queen of Hearts, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of the Glasgow School Movement and Art Nouveau #WomensArt

I am pleased to share that I have signed a contract with Cambridge University Press to write “The End of Roman Britain and the Arrival of the Saxons,” which I have been approached to write by the editors of their series “Cambridge Elements in the Late Antique World”.

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My third book, LITTLE KINGDOMS: AN A-Z OF EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN, is now out

I couldn’t find a better way of explaining it than the old thread I made - so here it is preserved in amber! Happy reading! 🧵

Wondrous!

Wow!

We Låve Rock has just announced the forthcoming album by prog rock pioneer Clive Nolan, in which the story of the 13th-century king Håkon Håkonsson is retold. The choral lyrics are sung in Old Norse -- a little bird told me. Can't wait to listen.

@tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social Have you ever visited?

Ruins of Nine Days' Queen's home to reopen Visitors will be welcomed back to the historic site while a major conservation project continues.

I loved visiting this park in my younger days, when I lived nearby.

I remember seeing a little owl there on the wall.

Need to pay it another visit, now I'm back down in the East Midlands.

BBC News - Ruins of Nine Days' Queen's home to reopen - BBC News
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Erling Haaland: Manchester City striker donates rare £100k Viking book to home town in Norway Erling Haaland donates a rare 16th-century manuscript of Viking sagas, worth £100,000, to be displayed in the library in the Norwegian town of Bryne, where he grew up.

Great to see he's given this book of Old Norse stories to the public rather than keep it to himself.

Haaland donates £100,000 Viking book to home town - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

‘Gravy’ in England 700 years ago What exactly was gravy in England during the 1300s? Includes my new recipe, Chicken in Gravy.

What on earth do almonds, cubebs & mace have to do with British gravy?

Well, my latest blog post delves into gravy recipes from 1300s England to give you the answer.

And there's a new recipe for you to try! 😃😋

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