More medieval #copper alloys...
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More medieval #copper alloys...
Isn't this the one who might be a gunfounder?
Let them eat Greggs.
Form for the government evacuations scheme filled out by Sir Hubert Gough
You can almost hear the crotchety voice of this retired WWI general in his volunteer form to help with evacuating London in 1939.
"Previous experience: ??? - see books of reference
Available now for voluntary social work if required? I don't know what social work means"
Medieval #sword unveiled in #Poland www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/rare...
Fragment of medieval #handgun found in Germany arkeonews.net/possible-old...
The Monk’s Garden at Avebury Manor, Wiltshire in Spring, with stone walls enclosing smaller areas of planting and topiary bushes with the Manor behind. ©National Trust Images/James Dobson
On the theme of #MedievalMarch we’re exploring some of the gardens in the care of the National Trust with medieval features.
Original gardens dating from this period are rare, but some individual elements such as walls, dovecotes and fishponds, still remain.
Find out more here: bit.ly/40BMoj9
How likely is it that Alfred the Great sent two emissaries to India in the ninth century?
⌛️ Last chance to read this recent History Matters for free
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
Today is the 162nd anniversary of The Great Sheffield Flood of 1864.
Some of the victims are buried in Wardsend Cemetery.
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Image of the life raft, showing the triangular shape. It is a light brown colour.
Image showing the information printed on the raft: It says C2176, then D.R.Co. Jul 1940, and Mid/30.
#NavalHistory people! Help! Our local museum has a life raft we're trying to research. Does anyone know anything about it? It is triangular, and is stamped with a 1940 date.
There's now ONE MONTH to go until our Call for Papers closes!
If you're working on Yorkshire, we'd love to hear from you! Send your abstracts to ridingsofyorkshire@gmail.com
This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?
Are you a mid-career historian researching 17th & 18th-century British Protestant dissenting traditions? 🏛️ Apply for the Dr Williams's Trust Library Bursaries at the IHR! Three awards of £3,500 are available to support your research in London libraries and archives www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
To celebrate #InternationalWomensDay we've created a Library display to highlight the incredible lives and experiences of women in maritime. ✨
Between the 12th and 15th centuries, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the last pagan societies in northern Europe. Aleksander Pluskowski, author of The Black Cross: A History of the Baltic Crusades, shares some photographs from the region.
yalebooks.co.uk/the-baltic-c...
From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951
Button
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/98138
Oh dear- at sometime, we will coincide again...
Don't suppose you are in London next week- Wed- Sat?
Disaster of Delft: gunpowder store explodes in 1654, leveling nearly the entire city, & Egbert van der Poel records over and over the horror & shock of the survivors. Today is his explosive day.
Join our "Ships & Seafaring 1500–1800" series Monday 9 March, 1pm CET, for a book presentation by @csschmitt.bsky.social (Cornell): "The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean". Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
#earlymodern #History
This was one of our key objects in our core course for first yrs last semester - a personal favourite too!:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Photo from the early 1970s of a man on horseback negotiating the Birmingham inner ring road at Holloway Head
I’m searching for the original and/or rights owner of this fabulous picture of Birmingham in the early 1970s. It popped up on my Instagram feed, but I’ve been unable to track it down.
Any leads? I’m really hoping to use it in a book.
(And would much appreciate a RT please)
Counting down to the OA publication of Material Culture in the Swedish Navy, c. 1450-1850, edited by Simon Ekström, Niklas Eriksson, Anna Maria Forssberg, Leos Müller ... out 10 April 2026 from @routledgehistory.bsky.social #openaccess #maritimehistory
www.routledge.com/Material-Cul...
This 1840 view of the Falcon Glassworks, now Bankside Lofts, in London SE1, is the earliest known detailed painting of an interior of a London glasshouse. Built around 1820, Falcon Glassworks was the largest glassworks in the city during the early 19th century. The V&A has items produced here. 🗃️
We've just learned that the person at the MHRA whose letter caused Wes 'I follow the clinical evidence' Streeting to cancel the puberty blockers trial is Professor Jacob George, the GC who enjoyed mocking trans people on his social media account.
Why did Wes Streeting cover up his name?
You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of days we have had post this year. Things are just not being delivered. Could the public do a class action against them for theft?
Is this not treason? Can't we send him to the Tower?
My sister reports the Abbey at Pluscarden holds occasional services there; one of the old parishioners went along but found the incense too overpowering.
My email is smithbrown@basiliscoe.com