11 Mar 1637: Archy Armstrong jester to James VI & I, then Charles I, taunts Archbishop Laud #otd with news of unrest in #Scotland: 'Whoe's foule now? Does not yr grace her the new from Striveling?' This got Armstrong banished from court. (British Museum)
Scientist, inventor, suffragette. In our new #WomenInSTEM film, Claudia Hammond meets up with Dame Polina Bayvel FRS to explore the phenomenal story of Hertha Ayrton, an electrical engineer, inventor and suffragette who helped shape the technological age. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahLt...
A black and white illustration with the words On the way to the Summit, showing the Donner Party traveling up a mountain pass to the summit of a mountain. Snow does not fall but is everywhere on the ground; centered is a man setting tennis racket-esque skiis on his feet. Artist is shown but I can't make it out.
The travel westward was never easy and always dangerous, but sometimes the danger came from within. The Donner Party faced a number of setbacks that forced them to stay in the Sierra Nevadas in winter 1846-47, relying on cannibalism to survive. #WyrdWednesday
News | Rising costs force local museum to cut opening hours and staffing
Museum of Cambridge says it will also reduce staff numbers to ensure its long-term future
This picture depicts a woman standing before a Roman general, who sits on a throne. She points toward a man covered in chains, and people around the captive weep.
In a world where female rulers were rare because political power was held by men, Cartimandua was a tactical ruler. This image depicts Cartimandua delivering a captive to a Roman general.
#herstory #womenhistorymonth #internationalwomensday #celticpeople #celtichistory #historical #ironage
Human Origins Today Topic:
Recent Fossil Discoveries at Drimolen Cave, South Africa 🏺🧪
Dr. David Strait
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXeJ...
Dating has been established and new fossil discoveries there shed light on origin of Homo and evolutionary change in australopiths Host @brianapobiner.bsky.social
Ancient Cypriot jug with a figurine on the shoulder
Horse or bull
What a thrill to see this unusual variation on an ancient Cypriot jug with a figurine on the shoulder at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social Originally interpreted as a bull, restoration makes him look more like a horse - a fantastical winged beast at any rate.
Visitor information board explaining Iron Age life with lron Age grass covered ramparts in the distance
One of the new visitor interpretation boards at Hengistbury Head explaining the significance of life within the great prehistoric port
Very nice they are too 😍
#HillfortsWednesday @bcpcouncil.bsky.social
Discover the history of the de Havilland company; from Geoffrey de Havilland's earliest flights in a home-made aeroplane, through to the development of the Comet - the world's first jet airliner, in our first evening talk of 2026.
📆 Wednesday 18 March, 7:15pm start
🎟 £6 per person
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The #StraitofHormuz became a fraught passage in the Tanker War between #Iran and #Iraq. Nevertheless, the oil continued to flow.
🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days
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Circular for new symposium on marine reptile palaeontology to be held at the Oxford Museum of Natural History between 7-8th October 2026. Abstract submission deadline: 1st June 2026.
🚨 Call for Abstracts 🚨
Abstract submission now open for a symposium meeting on #MarineReptile palaeontology hosted at @morethanadodo.bsky.social from 7-8th October 2026.
Abstract deadline: 1st June 2026
#Palaeontology #Science #SciComm
A mostly grey rodent that may be about three times the size of a guinea pig (my estimate). It has a band of black fur along its muzzle. It has a large, nearly-pointed ears. It is standing on greyish soil.
#RodentOfTheDay Argentine Plains Viscacha (Lagostomus maximus)
"[A] species of rodents in the family Chinchillidae. They are native to The Neotropics. They are nocturnal herbivores. Individuals are known to live for 112.8 months and can grow to 523.73 mm."
Ph/Inf: eol.org/pages/326930
The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1912.
#WyrdWednesday
River and Rowing Museum, Henley, Oxfordshire – David Chipperfield Architects, 1989-97 Image © Richard Bryant
NEWS: C20 has submitted a listing application for the River & Rowing Museum in Henley, Oxfordshire (1989-97), which closed in Sept 2025. The David Chipperfield-designed building is an exceptional example of late 20th century contextual Modernist architecture.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/listing...
The photo is taken looking over the shoulder of two students who are examining a tray of artefacts including bones, pottery and metal objects
A small bird skull sits on a wooden desk, ready for the students to start preparing it for a photo. The desk has some graffiti scratched into it.
Our graduate students were forced to choose an artefact to practice with for their 'photographing archaeological finds' workshop with our inhouse photographer, Ian. R. Cartwright. How to choose from this tray of delights? #archaeologyproblems 💀 #graduatestudy #studyhere
A lady and child viewed from behind stand in an art gallery looking at Norman Garstin’s 1889 painting The Rain It Raineth Every Day, a misty seaside promenade scene with figures, umbrellas, and wet pavement; promotional badge reads “Nominate Us! Muddy Stilettos Awards 2026 #InLoveWithLocal.”
Please nominate Penlee House Gallery & Museum in the Arts, Culture & Theatre category for the Muddy Stilettos Cornwall Awards 2026.
Every nomination counts — thank you for your support! 💛
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two people outside an airship working
'Three members of crew at work on the starboard engine gantry of a Royal Navy Air Service North Sea (N.S.) type non-rigid airship during an anti-submarine patrol off the British coast circa 1918.'
Painting of grass covered Iron Age earthworks topped with timber palisade with people congregating within the entrance way and, in the distance, dramatic white clouds in a grey sky
Happy #HillfortsWednesday!
Here's a recreation of the Iron Age double ramparts defining the west end of Hengistbury Head (once #Hampshire then #Dorset now @bcpcouncil.bsky.social)
Prehistoric trade centre and gateway to the world
A wonderful painting © Judith Dobie for the HH Visitor Centre
"Happy families in TV contest
Two happy families, the Evendens and the Murdochs, are pictured with compère Kenneth Horne after competing in Southern Television's recording of 'Happy Families' at the De La Warr Pavilion." Bexhill Observer 11.3.1967. #dlwp #Bexhill #Sussex #Television #History #1960s
Page and map from "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" by Annie Lady Brassey, published in 1878. South China Sea 11.3.1877.
Sunbeam, South #China Sea, 11.3.1877. "These waifs & strays always set me thinking & wondering, & speculating as to what they were originally, whence they came, & all about them, till Tom declares I weave a complete legend for every bit of wood we meet floating about." #Brassey #History #1870s
34 Samnite Tombs Discovered in Pontecagnano, 15 of Them Belonging to Children with Large Bronze Belts www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/03/3...
We are looking for paid project contributors and volunteers to help deliver the project, visit our website for more details: https://bit.ly/4d8JYQt Applications for project roles close 3 April 2026. A huge thanks to #NationalLottery players! #HeritageFund
An archaeological trench showing various gullys and ditches. Some of these contain runs of short orange ceramic water pipes that fit together not unlike lego to create continuous lengths of pipe.
We're sure all you can think about today is that it's World Plumbing Day. 👨🔧💦
So here's the Palace plumbing - ceramic pipes that carried water around the formal gardens and fed fountains and ornamental basins and the like.
(1960s excavation photo)
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The hat was made by Patterson. It is red velvet embroidered with gold and cream cross stitches. They make up a pattern of geometric flowers with borders. Matching tassel of red, beige and cream. It is displayed inside a clear glass case.
This Victorian smoking cap was part of our Hats! Hats! Hats! exhibition. (Not currently on display.) #Bexhill
It does look rather like a Doctor Who monster! 🤣
Woman Playing Gekin by Baron Raimund Von Stillfried This hand-colored photograph from the 1870s, captured by Baron Raimund Von Stillfried, provides a rare and delicate glimpse into Meiji-period Japan. The portrait features a young woman seated and holding a gekin (a moon-shaped lute), a traditional instrument that was popular during the Edo and early Meiji eras. She is dressed in a purple striped kimono with a floral-patterned under-collar, her hair meticulously styled in a traditional nihongami arrangement. The gekin is the central focus, its round, wooden body showing fine grain and decorative dark carvings. The woman’s expression is calm and poised, with the hand-coloring adding a soft, lifelike blush to her cheeks and a subtle vibrance to the fabric of her garment. The neutral, plain background emphasizes the subject’s silhouette and the intricate details of the instrument, reflecting Von Stillfried’s mastery in combining Western photographic techniques with Japanese aesthetic sensibilities to document the changing culture of the time.
Woman playing Gekin. Hand-colored photo, 1870’s, Japan. Photographer Baron Raimund Von Stillfried
"Marina. Bexhill-On-Sea." Postcard 1939. #Bexhill #Sussex #Seaside #History #1930s
Plant specimens in the bound herbarium collected by William Paine titled "Plants collected in ye County's of Hants, Sussex, Surrey, Bucks, Berks, Middlesex & Oxon Anno 1737". The specimen of Navelwort (modern Umbilicus rupestris) beside it also appears to be from the same location)
"Wild-sea Holley by ye passage as you goe from portsmouth into Cornwall" collected by William Paine, 1737, from @cuherb.bsky.social. Now, this is in fact from Plymouth, and in modern parlance it is Eryngium campestre
@jillwhitelock.bsky.social @timpurches.bsky.social
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A stone wall covered in spots of lichen with the grey, squat form of a castle tower in the background.
A lovely, licheny wall with Hermitage Castle in the background for #WallsonWednesday.
Dec 1986 Poster Map issued by the Greater Manchester Passanger Transport Executive and showing a diagram of the railway network in the County at that time. This includes the now Metrolink lines to Bury, Altrincham and the Oldham Loop. The upper section of the poster is dominated by a photo of a BR "Pacer" train, in the PTE's orange livery, along with an interior view. The title "Greater Manchester's Railways - settingt he pace in Greater Manchester' is a play on the Pacer name.
Greater Manchester's Railways - poster map issued in Dec. 1986 & making a play on the use of the BR Pacer trains as seen here in PTE livery. Soon we'll be seeing yellow Bee Network trains but possibly not a Pacer! #manchester #railways #trains #britishrail #map
