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Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social · 6h

Homegrown madder pigment. It's wonderful to create medieval pigment from something grown in your garden #bookhistory #medievalpigments #medievalsky

Dried madder roots in a bowl on some scales

Madder pigment being mulled on a glass slab

Madder pigment surrounded by examples of dried paint on paper and parchment

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GlosBio @glosbio.bsky.social · 38m

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Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social · 6h

Homegrown madder pigment. It's wonderful to create medieval pigment from something grown in your garden #bookhistory #medievalpigments #medievalsky

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 1h

Merchant Adventurers' Hall by night

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Radical Online Archives @radonlinearchives.bsky.social · 14h

Hello BlueSky! Starting this account to showcase the ever growing list of radical online archives and collections. Nearly 1000 collections from the around the world are listed at the link below.

Please follow for updates and collection highlights!

hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

radical online collections and archives

I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…

hatfulofhistory.com

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Mark Over @markover74.bsky.social · 2h

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Norfolk Record Office @norfolkro.bsky.social · 5h

On this day nurse #EdithCavell and #PhilipeBaucq were shot at dawn for helping allied soldiers to escape Belgium during the First World War. This is a letter from one of those soldiers.

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Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton.bsky.social · 4h

Something that's so hard with reading history second-hand is to remember that no one knew what was going to come next. Which is archives magic.

Nobody at *this exact moment* knows that Nurse Cavell will become a tragedy and a cause celebre. They just know what she has done, and her family.

Norfolk Record Office @norfolkro.bsky.social · 5h

On this day nurse #EdithCavell and #PhilipeBaucq were shot at dawn for helping allied soldiers to escape Belgium during the First World War. This is a letter from one of those soldiers.

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 1h

Top marks for this diorama from The Fram Museum. it has a theodolite and huskies (two dogs are toppled, which merely hints at their fates).

diorama with a model of a ship stuck in ice with models of people and dogs, supplies, instruments etc around it.

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Bill Hall @artboy.bsky.social · 2h

Ivy berries just starting to ripen in the late afternoon sunshine today.
#WildflowerHour

Clusters of small green berries with reddening tips, with leathery green leaves in the background.

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Ian Senior @ians4ad.bsky.social · 2h

Ivy and ivy bee! @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 2h

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum @rcnlibraries.bsky.social · 3h

On this day 110 years ago, nursing hero Edith Cavell died tragically by firing squad.

Book one of our fantastic building tours (https://bit.ly/445J2I3) and you'll see her memorialised in our council room along with Florence Nightingale!

#OTD #OnThisDay #HistNursing

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 3h

Well, yes, but that's a different complaint what's being taken to me 'ha ha they don't know Stonehenge is in Wiltshire'.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 3h

I take your point but Cornwall has dozens of impressive stone circles already that are analogous to Stonehenge - actual henge or not. <Somewhere>’s Stonehenge is just such a cringeworthy cliche, we see it everywhere and drives me nuts.

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 3h

But isn't the point that they're looking for Cornwall's equivalent of Stonehenge? Hence the phrase.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 3h

Hello, I knew it couldn’t have been, I’m pointing the finger at a daft subeditor or Stephen Morris himself. Someone please bring back dear Maev Kennedy. Such a good project, looking forward to hearing more in due course.

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Olaf Bayer @olafbayer.bsky.social · 3h

For the record no it didn’t

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Sky Green 🦊⚧️✍️ @skycladfox.bsky.social · 3h

Classic UK media, only seeing the biggest, showiest bits & thus relating everything else to them.

See also how they invariably describe any new theme park project of reasonable scope in the UK as "Britain's Disneyland".

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 3h

Such a good project but I despair of the reporting. Who is the guilty party, a subeditor or Stephen Morris himself? Someone please bring back dear Maev Kennedy.#StandingStoneSunday www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘It would be wonderful’: the team hoping to unearth ‘Cornwall’s Stonehenge’

Experts and volunteers working at Castilly Henge have been trying determine if it is the county’s lost great stone circle

www.theguardian.com

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 3h

“Cornwall's Stonehenge?” in the Guardian. Seriously?
Altogether now: AAAAARRRGGH!!!
It’s in quotes but surely this didn’t come from the archaeologists? @olafbayer.bsky.social @cornwallarch.bsky.social /1

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 3h

A historic photograph of a hot potato vendor from early 20th Century. The vendor is standing next to a donkey-drawn cart that likely contained a stove for cooking and keeping potatoes warm.

Term "hokeypokey man" was a slang term for ice cream vendors, but was also used for other street vendors.

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 3h

Confused by gulls? 🤔 Join our online Gull ID training sessions in November ➡️ www.bto.org/training

Our two-part, online Gull ID course run by our expert team helps you build knowledge and confidence to make gull ID easier! #UKBirding #Ornithology

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The Cromwell Museum @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

Our October temporary exhibit showcases new acquisitions to our collections, including a 1660 account of the trial of the regicides, the Ireton family's Bible and this curious 1643 map of Huntingdonshire - complete with distances! More details at: www.cromwellmuseum.org/events/new-a...

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Dr. Michael von Forstner 🇪🇺🇨🇭 @epiguy.bsky.social · 9h

Ich lach mich kaputt!

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Restitution row: how Nigeria’s new home for the Benin bronzes ended up with clay replicas

The public display of artefacts looted by British colonial forces at the new Museum of West African Art was supposed to be the crowning glory of a decades-long restitution effort. What went wrong?

www.theguardian.com

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GlosBio @glosbio.bsky.social · 3h

👆👆@susannahwalker.bsky.social

SW: This enfolding saga of ex-ruling-class greed at the expense of the citizens of a country will not surprise you.

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