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Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 18m

www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 22h

You can read tweets by Prof Stephen Griffin on 6 Oct who explains different vaccines and eligibility on NHS for most recent Pfizer vaccine.

Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 23h

Good.

Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 23h

It’s all true, at least in south Birmingham where I got my jab. I saw the NHS vaccines in the pharmacy and the pharmacist told me. And I paid £90.

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Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 1d

The only upside is your £90 gets you a more up-to-date vaccine than the NHS one. Sad that anyone who wants a good vaccine has to pay.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 1d

Grab some wine! Some late antique communion bread 🥖 loaves from the 7th-8th centuries with Jesus upon them have been discovered in Anatolia. www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/10/c...

Charred Byzantine-Era Loaves of Bread with Greek Inscriptions Discovered in Anatolia

An archaeological excavation campaign carried out at the Topraktepe site, corresponding to the ancient city of Irenopolis, has yielded a discovery of extraordinary scientific significance: five charre...

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Archives & Collections, Library of Birmingham @theironroom.bsky.social · 2d

#PhotoFriday this week is of Mrs Mabel Harris’ establishment at 22 Weaman Street photographed c 1930. Purveyor of many delectables including tea, coffee and cocoa. A very fine window display there. Ref - MS 4557, Box 5 #LibraryofBham @Brumpic

A female figure stood in the doorway of a shop on the left of the photograph. She is wearing a full-length dress made of fabric from the late nineteenth century. Her hand is on her right hip and the other holding the window frame of her shop window. The shop window is packed with examples of sale goods. A sign in the middle window advertises coffee, tea and cocoa. Above the shop window are hoardings either side of a window advertising cigarettes.

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Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing to see that so close to the city centre. How would I find out more about MS4557 or photos of nearby streets? I’m not sure how to access catalogues these days. Thanks in advance.

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 3d

An astonishing story involving a great deal of impressive detective work to find the last known great auks. The story of their dispersal, literally in terms of organs and skins, and extinction is bleak.

Science Magazine @science.org · 3d

DNA and historical sleuthing have traced the extinct bird’s remains to a museum in Ohio. https://scim.ag/4791YqA

Fate of the last female great auk is finally solved

DNA and historical sleuthing have traced the extinct bird’s remains to a museum in Ohio

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · 3d

Are you a student at a UK university and looking for support to come to TAG York? Did you know the Royal Archaeological Institute Cheney Bursary is available to support you?

You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa...

@royalarchinst.bsky.social

Bursaries

Cheney Bursaries for StudentsAs a result of a bequest left by Frank Cheney, the Institute has a fund to enable students that attend a UK university to attend RAI Meetings and conferences. Individuals ...

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NorseMap @norsemap.bsky.social · 9d

NorseMap published a short piece in 'The Conversation' about the use of Valhalla in contemporary political discourse.

theconversation.com/see-you-in-v...

‘See you in Valhalla’: how the FBI director waded into the far-right’s obsession with the Vikings

Was the FBI chief sending a message to white supremacists? It’s more likely Patel’s Valhalla reference was a clumsy attempt to call Kirk a hero.

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 7d

BREAKING: Heroic police officers save public from this terrifying terrorist who was holding a sign the government doesn’t like x

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Nik Gunn @nikgunn.bsky.social · 8d

Why do people keep making the dullest looking adaptations of medieval stories imaginable. Just do yourself a favour and watch Robin of Sherwood on ITV player instead.

youtu.be/d5t-ouMMARc?...

Robin Hood - Official Trailer (2025) Jack Patten, Sean Bean, Lauren McQueen

YouTube video by IGN

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Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social · 9d

#Viking-Age tafl board game pieces from Birka grave Bj 523. Made from glass, the 'king' piece is the most prominent, and features prominent black eyes on its head.

My 📷 | Ref. Historiska museet

Glass tafl gaming pieces, with a larger 'king' piece.

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Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 8d

There’s still room to suggest they were Scandinavians who went shopping in Frisia?

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Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 8d

Amazing. Roughly how far apart were the find spots?

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Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 11d

This is very Sturlunga saga! Lots of elite deacons and priests knocking around.

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Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 11d

Me too. It will have been more useful than Auðun’s bear.

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Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 12d

This is from a beautifully succinct miracle story in the A version of Guðmundar saga. Guðmundr cures the ram that is ill by saying prayers and placing an effigy of Saint Jón on the ram.

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose @onp.ku.dk · 12d

dauðvána (adj.): 14 cits, e.g. expected to die, at the point of death // døden nær, dødsens ‘Kolbeinn atte rut eiɴ þann. er gersime var i. ok honum þotte goðr. Hrvtriɴ tok sott er køllut var kringlo sott. ok varð dauðuana’ (GBp in AM 399 4°) onp.ku.dk/o14181 #OldNorse

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Anglesey History @angleseyhistory.bsky.social · 12d

Help save local Welsh placenames on new digital map.
Helpu i achub enwau lleoedd lleol Cymru ar fap digidol newydd.
datamap.gov.wales/survey/wpnc/...

Record Welsh Place Names | DataMapWales

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 12d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 16d

Time for me to deploy my expertise from having worked with databases of individuals and their data in the public sector: whatever you might imagine will be happening behind the scenes of a digital ID card, the actual reality of that dataset is going to be an information governance nightmare.

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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 16d

This is a problem.

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Ny Björn Gustafsson @nybjorn.bsky.social · 16d

An older but nonetheless very nice Norwegian find for #FindsFriday:

An ornamented (and burnt) bone fragment from Reistad in Levanger, Trøndelag. Found 1935 in a burial mound. The pelleted body implies Mammen-style (c. ~1000 CE).

More here: www.unimus.no/portal/#/thi...

(📸: CC BY-SA 4.0)

Fragment of a burnt Viking-period ornamented bone plate with entwined animals in Mammen-esque style.

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 17d

Free book download of collected papers on Knowledge Commons ‘No Horns on their Helmets? essays on the Insular Viking Age’ #medievalsky #history #vikingsky #archaeology works.hcommons.org/records/xc6k...

No Horns on their Helmets? Essays on the Insular Viking Age

Collected papers, including 1 An imaginary viking-raid on Skye in 795? 2 Annals, armies, and artistry: 'The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle', 865–96 3 'Hiberno-Norwegians' and 'Anglo-Danes': anachronistic ethni...

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