Shout-out for the first Hands on History Mudlarking exhibition of 2025, opening this Friday 28th February till Sunday 2nd March at the stunning Watermen’s Hall, 16-18 St Mary-At-Hill, in the City of London, 10-4pm, Free Entry. Come and meet the Mudlarks (I’ll be exhibiting on the Saturday only.)

I always hope to dig up something I've not found before; last week this little fella delivered. No portrait on this unusual coin, just crowned roses on both sides, it being a Charles I half groat 1625-42. Bent as a 'love token' was a bonus, my earliest example, but tricky to photograph.
#numismatics

Finding a tiny child's thimble today. These wonderful little objects always please me. This sweet little one is in perfect shape, it should clean up nicely.
#thimble #childhood #haberdashery #thimblecollection #metaldetecting #historyinmyhand #detectingfind #northnorfolk #thimbles #finds #myhobby

We've made a bottle vase wall in our kitchen. Having vases at head height is cool, can't wait for Sweetpea season, cos these will smell lovely when wafting past them.
#flowers #flowerdisplay #vases #vintagebottles #wallvases #oldbottles #recycle #recycling #upcycleproject #reuse

A fool on a horse smoking a pipe, one of many performers in the procession of Joanna of Castile's entry into Brussels, 1496.

Wait... a pipe?
In 1496?
Yes sometimes real history is also fake.
An 17th century doodler added the pipe.

I'm still angry.

"PITY THE NATION" (After Khalil Gibran)
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

This is who Elon Musk really is. Don’t buy a Tesla.

Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3v...

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin

(Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )

This moment from @mrjamesob.bsky.social has gone very viral on TikTok and YouTube since we published. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXF9...

I Stand With Her

The betrayal of Jess Phillips, the awfulness of Robert Jenrick, the reality of Keir Starmer’s time as DPP & the Tories’ gross abandonment of the last vestige of common decency.
When couples split up but still live together. www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...

"Hidden Landscapes" documents the evolution of former colliery lands in Northeast England, revealing layers of change in such post-industrial spaces.

Benjamin Zephaniah "If you didn't have troublemakers, most women wouldn't have the right to vote, a black person wouldn't be talking to a white person and I'd be back in slavery. We need troublemakers to challenge the establishment. I want to be one of those people."