Hannah Rigden
@hannahrigden.bsky.social
Nature lover, crafter, home bird
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‘Footprints in the snow’
What to look for in Winter, 1959
Artist: CFTunnicliffe
What to look for in Winter, 1959
Artist: CFTunnicliffe
January 18, 2026 at 8:21 AM
‘Footprints in the snow’
What to look for in Winter, 1959
Artist: CFTunnicliffe
What to look for in Winter, 1959
Artist: CFTunnicliffe
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#OTD in 1832, #CharlesDarwin tried his first banana! He didn't like it very much. As a side note, the HMS Beagle made its first stop on its 5 year survey voyage, making port at the islands of Cape Verde. But it's really all about the fruit adventure.
January 16, 2026 at 2:39 PM
#OTD in 1832, #CharlesDarwin tried his first banana! He didn't like it very much. As a side note, the HMS Beagle made its first stop on its 5 year survey voyage, making port at the islands of Cape Verde. But it's really all about the fruit adventure.
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Here’s my list of things the public doesn’t seem to know, but historians broadly agree upon 👇
I’ve got loads!
- Medieval people washed regularly, drank water, and didn’t have rotten teeth
- WW1 did not end in 1918
- Queen Victoria was a horndog
- Ancient Egyptians invented Egyptology by excavating their own ancient monuments
- We know more about Shakespeare than many other famous Tudors
- Medieval people washed regularly, drank water, and didn’t have rotten teeth
- WW1 did not end in 1918
- Queen Victoria was a horndog
- Ancient Egyptians invented Egyptology by excavating their own ancient monuments
- We know more about Shakespeare than many other famous Tudors
January 6, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Here’s my list of things the public doesn’t seem to know, but historians broadly agree upon 👇
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Made another scrappy, scruffy puffin based on Jill McDonald’s Puffin Post illustrations.
A lovely things about these not being “for” anything is that it allows them to be imperfect & hamfisted: there being no pressure on them means my sewing is actually slowly slightly improving a bit with each one
A lovely things about these not being “for” anything is that it allows them to be imperfect & hamfisted: there being no pressure on them means my sewing is actually slowly slightly improving a bit with each one
January 4, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Made another scrappy, scruffy puffin based on Jill McDonald’s Puffin Post illustrations.
A lovely things about these not being “for” anything is that it allows them to be imperfect & hamfisted: there being no pressure on them means my sewing is actually slowly slightly improving a bit with each one
A lovely things about these not being “for” anything is that it allows them to be imperfect & hamfisted: there being no pressure on them means my sewing is actually slowly slightly improving a bit with each one
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An old 19th-century Swiss name for the snowdrop was Amselblümli, meaning the “blackbird flower”. Folklore says it blooms just as the amsel fills the air with its most beautiful late-winter song, and together they herald winter’s retreat and the slow return of spring. #FolkloreSunday
January 4, 2026 at 12:01 AM
An old 19th-century Swiss name for the snowdrop was Amselblümli, meaning the “blackbird flower”. Folklore says it blooms just as the amsel fills the air with its most beautiful late-winter song, and together they herald winter’s retreat and the slow return of spring. #FolkloreSunday
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George Martin would have been 100 today. Here he is characteristically being both musical and stylish.
January 3, 2026 at 8:33 AM
George Martin would have been 100 today. Here he is characteristically being both musical and stylish.
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A picture is worth 1000 words...
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
January 2, 2026 at 4:53 PM
A picture is worth 1000 words...
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
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Timeless humour!
A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:
“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂
Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA.
📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA
#Archaeology
A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:
“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂
Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA.
📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA
#Archaeology
![The photo shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus pen, one below the other. The knib to the left. It has an inscription which runs along its length on four sides. The four images show the four lines of inscribed text which read:
‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi
gratum adf(e)ro
acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m)
rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem
largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’
‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift
with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give)
as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’
The pen was used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. Found in London (Roman ‘Londinium’) by MOLA. Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j56ydp325adovobhwpkzc6sp/bafkreifzhfymde7cyrv2i7fu7e2v33veporn5rsywwi2rqdgswkxpj6xre@jpeg)
September 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Timeless humour!
A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:
“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂
Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA.
📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA
#Archaeology
A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:
“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂
Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA.
📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA
#Archaeology
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The 12 Dales of Christmas continues. And on the ninth Dale it's... Littondale
📸 Andy Kay | #YorkshireDales #12DalesOfChristmas
📸 Andy Kay | #YorkshireDales #12DalesOfChristmas
January 2, 2026 at 6:00 AM
The 12 Dales of Christmas continues. And on the ninth Dale it's... Littondale
📸 Andy Kay | #YorkshireDales #12DalesOfChristmas
📸 Andy Kay | #YorkshireDales #12DalesOfChristmas
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Did medieval people buy each other Christmas gifts? New Year's Day was the main gifting day, but little is known about everyday people's present giving. Our project on London's customs records has uncovered a wealth of affordable items imported around this time: gloves and hats to toys and rattles🧵
Medieval Londoners’ cheaply imported mass-produced Christmas gifts look surprisingly familiar
We often imagine medieval life as dull, dirty and short, with little in the way of material comfort or decoration. However, medieval Londoners were importing toys, treats and trinkets by the boatload ...
theconversation.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Did medieval people buy each other Christmas gifts? New Year's Day was the main gifting day, but little is known about everyday people's present giving. Our project on London's customs records has uncovered a wealth of affordable items imported around this time: gloves and hats to toys and rattles🧵
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Botanical rainbow in December.
Pause for a ping of dopamine 🌿
Pause for a ping of dopamine 🌿
December 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Botanical rainbow in December.
Pause for a ping of dopamine 🌿
Pause for a ping of dopamine 🌿
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slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes
November 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes
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Two-day-old zebrafish larvae, as seen through a scanning electron microscope
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Two-day-old zebrafish larvae, as seen through a scanning electron microscope
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Great Coxwell barn in Oxfordshire was built in 1292. Dendrochronology has shown that some of its timbers were felled in 1256, whilst the majority were felled in the winter of 1291. It was part of a Cistercian abbey founded by King John.
July 1, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Great Coxwell barn in Oxfordshire was built in 1292. Dendrochronology has shown that some of its timbers were felled in 1256, whilst the majority were felled in the winter of 1291. It was part of a Cistercian abbey founded by King John.
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Happy Halloween to all those who celebrate. 🦇😘
And happy Cheeky-Lion-Butthole-Butterfly-Thing-Day to all those who don't.
📷 = @kbowgett.bsky.social
And happy Cheeky-Lion-Butthole-Butterfly-Thing-Day to all those who don't.
📷 = @kbowgett.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Happy Halloween to all those who celebrate. 🦇😘
And happy Cheeky-Lion-Butthole-Butterfly-Thing-Day to all those who don't.
📷 = @kbowgett.bsky.social
And happy Cheeky-Lion-Butthole-Butterfly-Thing-Day to all those who don't.
📷 = @kbowgett.bsky.social
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Wittenham Clumps Sunrise. (A little travel weary and so apologies for not posting a new edit).
October 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Wittenham Clumps Sunrise. (A little travel weary and so apologies for not posting a new edit).
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Have you ever seen a wren have a bath? No? Nor had I till just now. Filmed through a rain-spotted window & on my phone, so not perfect, but hope it brings you a spot of delight nonetheless 🪶
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Have you ever seen a wren have a bath? No? Nor had I till just now. Filmed through a rain-spotted window & on my phone, so not perfect, but hope it brings you a spot of delight nonetheless 🪶
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Bioabundance: A Tudor account of insects washed downstream by a winter flood on the River Severn, in such vast quantities that they jammed up water mills for four days and had to be dug out by the shovel load.
Source: Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, vol 1, 1812.
Source: Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, vol 1, 1812.
October 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Bioabundance: A Tudor account of insects washed downstream by a winter flood on the River Severn, in such vast quantities that they jammed up water mills for four days and had to be dug out by the shovel load.
Source: Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, vol 1, 1812.
Source: Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, vol 1, 1812.
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#NationalPoetryDay, Spike Milligan (1977ish)
Father Thames:
Let us look at the River Thames.
One of England's watery gems.
Oily brown, greasy, muddy.
Looking foul, and smells of cruddy.
The conservancey say they’re cleaning it,
so why is it the colour of sh*t?
Father Thames:
Let us look at the River Thames.
One of England's watery gems.
Oily brown, greasy, muddy.
Looking foul, and smells of cruddy.
The conservancey say they’re cleaning it,
so why is it the colour of sh*t?
October 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
#NationalPoetryDay, Spike Milligan (1977ish)
Father Thames:
Let us look at the River Thames.
One of England's watery gems.
Oily brown, greasy, muddy.
Looking foul, and smells of cruddy.
The conservancey say they’re cleaning it,
so why is it the colour of sh*t?
Father Thames:
Let us look at the River Thames.
One of England's watery gems.
Oily brown, greasy, muddy.
Looking foul, and smells of cruddy.
The conservancey say they’re cleaning it,
so why is it the colour of sh*t?
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There are millions of spiders’ webs in the Fenland countryside this morning. Zoom in for garlands of tiny diamond-ish water droplets.
September 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
There are millions of spiders’ webs in the Fenland countryside this morning. Zoom in for garlands of tiny diamond-ish water droplets.
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Yesterday I was lowered thro the tower boss at Beverley Minster, I saw the building as few ever will – the vast geometry of unfolding beneath me. Humbled to photograph this view, and grateful to DMPSurveying & Rope Rescue UK for their skill and care.
September 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Yesterday I was lowered thro the tower boss at Beverley Minster, I saw the building as few ever will – the vast geometry of unfolding beneath me. Humbled to photograph this view, and grateful to DMPSurveying & Rope Rescue UK for their skill and care.
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My Etsy shop's now open for my 5 sets of greetings cards:spring,summer,autumn,nature/botanical collections & tiny posies.I post to the US now too
I create each of my photos using recent neuroscientific research-looking at them shifts your brain away from fight or flight: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
I create each of my photos using recent neuroscientific research-looking at them shifts your brain away from fight or flight: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
September 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
My Etsy shop's now open for my 5 sets of greetings cards:spring,summer,autumn,nature/botanical collections & tiny posies.I post to the US now too
I create each of my photos using recent neuroscientific research-looking at them shifts your brain away from fight or flight: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
I create each of my photos using recent neuroscientific research-looking at them shifts your brain away from fight or flight: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
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Until I can get back into my @studioteabreak.bsky.social account:
Thursday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️
Girl with a cabbage, drawn in pastels by Firmin Baes in 1903
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmin_...
via @ahistoryinart.bsky.social
Thursday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️
Girl with a cabbage, drawn in pastels by Firmin Baes in 1903
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmin_...
via @ahistoryinart.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Until I can get back into my @studioteabreak.bsky.social account:
Thursday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️
Girl with a cabbage, drawn in pastels by Firmin Baes in 1903
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmin_...
via @ahistoryinart.bsky.social
Thursday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️
Girl with a cabbage, drawn in pastels by Firmin Baes in 1903
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmin_...
via @ahistoryinart.bsky.social
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Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum.
IG tatterbluelibrary
IG tatterbluelibrary
August 31, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum.
IG tatterbluelibrary
IG tatterbluelibrary