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Jonathan Foyle

@jonathanfoyle.bsky.social

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Lecturer at the University of Bath. Researcher of historic buildings, uses, design solutions: https://soloist.ai/jonathanfoyle Immersed in the arts of the late Middle Ages.

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 15m

Boot scraper!

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 5h

And heading for the UK unless it wakes up

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6h

This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks- fun to do. Pt II presumably coming up...

Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 1d

Well, cheers.

Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 1d

Younger me is on this evening at 9.00 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

BBC Four - Henry VIII: Patron or Plunderer?, Episode 1

Jonathan Foyle looks at the cultural artefacts created in King Henry VIII's name.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 1d

Been in the making for years. www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

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Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social · 2d

This is really bad… irreplaceable- and making it more likely that valuable archaeological items are kept in great big urban museums that local communities are separated from, instead of being kept where they originated…

Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 2d

Awful news! Following the theft of the Ely Bronze Age torc & a Bronze Age bracelet in 2024,now more Bronze Age gold has been stolen from St Fagans Museum in Cardiff. 😔

#Archaeology 🏺 #Gold #Torcs

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Bronze age gold jewellery stolen in raid on St Fagans museum in Cardiff

South Wales police issue public appeal for information after burglary at one of Wales’s most beloved museums

www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 2d

It’s all gone a bit Samuel Palmer

Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 2d

Heck of a moon this evening

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 2d

Pelican briefs…

Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 2d

Bath Abbey, ‘Peace Doves’, Peter Walker

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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 2d

Being accountable to an international court means our Government has to answer to them if it tries to undermine your human rights. Be very suspicious of any UK politician who wants to remove that check on their powers.

Share this and speak up for your freedoms.

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 3d

The shape and gouged incision reminds me of a negative of a Roman cameo. (Are there wax deposits- could it have been for resinous jewellery?) A Water Newton chi-rho not far off. Could be nonsense!

Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 3d

Somerset and New Hampshire would be pretty good bed-fellows.

Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 3d

Fascinating job for an experienced historic buildings manager... www.salisbury.anglican.org/vacancies/db...

Project Manager Anglican Heritage Salisbury (AHS) - The Diocese of Salisbury

We are looking for a project lead who will combine a love for historic churches and an understanding of their deep significance with the professional energy and expertise to start, progress and comple...

www.salisbury.anglican.org

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 4d

Limewash scheme similar to Selworthy, a joy.

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 4d

No they didn't! Thanks though.

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 4d

Royal Mail achieving consistency after the takeover

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 4d

We did; always mineral oiled or painted boards and wool rugs- I wouldn’t want carpets for toddlers. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Boards are easy to repair and maintain. That’s not to say she should be left to do it, just that I find many people are removing carpets. Each to their own.