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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 6h

Alas poor Bild Noin. They will be missed.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 6h

It’s the 150th anniversary of the birth of Aleister Crowley, the man who – among *many* other things – once put an acrostic in an “apparently innocuous book of devotional verse” which spelt out ‘The Virgin Mary I desire but arseholes set my prick on fire’ www.weiserantiquarian.com/pages/books/...

A young Crowley, with a silly bow tie on, looking at camera with self-conscious intensity

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 1d

DUTCH AUCTION in support of salivaryglandcancer.uk

In my shop, this piece is priced at £165. At noon every day (BST) the price drops by £10, until it sells.

First DM gets it. UK shipping only.

Half of what you pay will go to SGC UK.

Please repost for widest coverage. Thank you :)

Hand carved #lettering on Hopton Wood limestone. I AM WHAT I AM.

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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 6h

I think these two should do - must leave room for books as well😃

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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you! I can’t find my small suitcase so I’ll have plenty of room for wool on the way home (such a shame…!)

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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 6h

Thankfully / sadly I can’t stand the smell of lanolin. Else it’d be spinning and who knows what else.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11h

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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Philip Amies @amiesphilip.bsky.social · 11h

"Loading a hay cart near Hunstanton" by a follower of Peter De Wint, perhaps at Heacham.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 11h

Eduroam is not working

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 13h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 14h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 12h

The older I get, the more I like yarn!

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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 12h

Excellent, that’s now in the list. Ta!

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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 1d

I’m off to Copenhagen for the ICAZ meeting this week. Any recommendations for wool/ craft shops?

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

Aren't country lanes brilliant?

www.tom-cox.com/once-upon-a-...

A country lane on the edge of the Quantocks.

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 1d

👀 "The current chair of Scotland’s Strategic Archaeology Committee (SSAC) is due to step down in December 2025. The SSAC is seeking a new chair to lead the committee as it launches Scotland’s next Archaeology Strategy in the Spring of 2026."

archaeologystrategy.scot/scotlands-ar...

Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy Committee Needs a New Chair! – Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy

archaeologystrategy.scot

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 1d

The first British Professional Boxing Association was formed in London in 1885 at the Blue Anchor, Shoreditch. Its founding members numbered around 60. I believe Hezekiah Moscow to be the first Black man to be elected, but the digitised Sporting Life in which they're all named is too faded to read!

Two photos of a nine and a half stone Black or Black mixed heritage Chinese man in his late 20s. On the left he is posing shirtless in white tights, fists raised against a painted backdrop of tropical plants in a studio portrait. On the right in the same studio he is wearing a typical late-Victorian working man's outfit, a dark velvet looking jacket, waistcoat, shirt, trousers.

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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 1d

Where I learned it’s important to stop battle for a cup of warm water.

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Paige Byerly, PhD @paigebyerly.bsky.social · 1d

gorgeous black chanterelles on my mushroom walk today (“trumpet of the dead”’ in both German and French if you want to get goth with it, which oc we do🖤🖤🖤)

#fungi #fungifriends

Two black trumpet-shaped mushrooms on a bed of moss on the forest floor

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 1d

Join us in four weeks, on the 8th November at Sussex University, for a day of talks from leading archaeologists and historians on the origins of the Kingdom of the South Saxons. 1/4

sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...

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The Sussex Archaeological Society Conference – Sūþseaxna: New Research from the Early Medieval Record. 8th Nov Sussex University

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 1d

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 2d

A slice is nice! #Fenland #FlagFenBasin #Dendrochronology

A slice through a bog oak from - clearly visible growth rings and preserved sap wood.

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Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to chairing this event in just over a week!

#envhist #envhum

Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · Sep 9

I'll be hosting an online event on encountering extinction in the archives with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social as part of The National Archives' Research Routes series.

Come along to hear about researching animal histories in the archive!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/extinction...

Extinction and hope: Navigating animal encounters in the archive

What hope can be found in encounters with animals in archival documents?

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 2d

Thomas Dugdale Cantrell's 'The Arrival of the Jarrow Marchers in London,' (1936) depicts the 200 unemployed men who completed a near 300 mile walk to London to protest against the poverty suffered in Jarrow following the closure of its shipyard; the juxtaposition of society.

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 2d

Tiny animals saved from the waves, along with a Playmobil zookeeper, also found on a beach. #beachcombing

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 2d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 3d

We found that the UK’s top scientific institutions, from the Met Office to the UK Health Security Agency, have inadequate institutional defences.

If an incoming government wanted to weaken the role of science and evidence in policy making, it could do so shockingly fast. 2/11

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