I went to university in the 1990s and they weren't using card catalogues then. This was obviously pre Google but there was JANET

Yes. It's amazing we have museums and roads and everything here.

So it's not the UK then is it?
Beamish ( which is brilliant) is only in the north if you mean the UK as a euphemism for England.

A man wearing a t shirt with a wolf in ( it's a box of delights one- if you know, you know). Polishing his 15th century replica armour.

Just a normal Sunday

Extremely.

Last time I was in Frankfurt I saw a mouse in the waiting area.

Old church with a kirkyard in front of it

Established on the grounds of an ancient church in the Highlands, surveys at the Tarbat Discovery Centre kirkyard have revealed a medieval cross slab, two Claymore slabs and a Green Man 🪦

Find out more at this Highland Family History Society event on 23 April: www.digitscotland.com/events/the-t...

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When it closed its doors in 2022 the Victoria School in Newhaven was by far the oldest in the city still in public use. But this wasn't an end, it…

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Moulded pot from Corbridge showing a smith (god?) at work

View of the site at Corbridge, with the museum building in the background

Durham and English Heritage are now recruiting for a fully-funded PhD on Roman Corbridge 🥳🥳🥳

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on one of our most important and understudied finds assemblages from Roman Britain. Deadline 1st June. Please share widely!

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Oh yes!

Well it's quite a youthful look

You've changed..

This is a great idea. I keep thinking this should also be mandatory on all new developments and tax breaks etc given for housing associations/ councils to put it in all suitable older developments.

Winifred Drinkwater stood in doorway in flying uniform, holding a cup of tea #WomenPilots

Winifred Drinkwater, 1st woman in world to hold a commercial #pilot's licence. Flew photographers over Loch Ness as they searched for Nessie, did air ambulance work on the Western Isles & flew an air search for a boat of kidnappers. b. #OTD 11 Apr 1913 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winifre...

Mor that old pill stuff of Mineralls is not to be be taken, the reason because that without correctives mineralls ar poysone and in tym correctives will decay Ergo then not to be taken befoir it be maid anew by being beaten upe with new correctives (Moray Papers)

Moray Papers 5:16, with attribution to Leonard Poe

Early modern 'pill stuff of minerals' was compounded with 'correctives' to reduce the risk of poisoning, and because the power of the correctives would decay, older medicines had to be made anew

I have it. Thank you!

My husband is reading a book about the fifteenth century Nevilles.
There's a lot of muttering - get more names.
And thank god for Towton ( which is not a common remark) it thins them out a bit.
I think I actually preferred the fishing videos.

Do I know anyone who has access to Nottingham Mediaeval Studies?
I am looking for The Nobility and the Wars of the Roses 1459-61

Sush. If we don't say anything it might last more than 15 mins

This week's #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek is the beautiful St Conan's Kirk in Argyll.

Built in stages between 1881 and 1930, this remarkable building has elements drawn from Pagan, Celtic, Norman, Romanesque, Saxon and Gothic architecture and influences.

It's a must-visit if you are in the area!

It is very depressing today to realise how many people seem to think child poverty is fine.

Including my books
I am Minded to Rise and The Men of Warre
I also wrote a chapter in The Rebellious Scots to crush.

It's really not nice.

Including my books
I am Minded to Rise and The Men of Warre
I also wrote a chapter in The Rebellious Scots to crush.

Well I am 6ft and until recently it was basically impossible to buy tights long enough so perhaps it was fortunate.

No. Fortunately.

Looking at the snow gate cams. Always pleasing to see that the Cockbridge to Tomitoul road doesn't disappoint
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