Historian (ret’d Univ of Hull, UK) working on late medieval military, maritime, soc & economic; & Napoleonic. MSS, prosopography, networks. Classical music, wildlife, cinema, coins, postal history, Dorset, France, Hungary. 🦋& #Shugborough Staffs pictures.
STOP PRESS: Queen of Spain seen near Wareham www.dorsetbutterflies.com/2026/07/quee...
Queen of Spain Fritillary near Wareham24/07/26 A very rare sighting seen in a private field near Wareham of a Queen of Spain Fritillary feeding on clover.www.dorsetbutterflies.com
2,500-year-old gold torque stolen in daylight museum raid! Thieves raided a museum in Châtillon-sur-Seine in broad daylight Friday, making off with a 2,500-year-old gold torque of the 'Lady of Vix'. 👉 www.lefigaro.fr/culture/patr...
Making reading plans for the summer? Crusader Storm offers a history of the Crusades from roughly ten different cultural perspectives.
More from Dorchester: the extraordinary Tree of Jesse window, c.1330-40. See how the tracery sprouts from the recumbent Jesse figure.
The British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences. Congratulations to all those elected today. Read the full announcement: https://bit.ly/4f64C4x
Is Alfred under a car park? Almost certainly no. Anything's possible, but if he is we'd likely never know. "The academics did the same with the Richard III bones. They don't like anyone other than themselves proving these theories correct" Well... 🧵 www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/king-al...
Researchers 'snubbed' in quest to find King Alfred's bones in Hampshire cityResearchers on a quest to uncover the bones of King Alfred the Great in Hampshire have run up againswww.portsmouth.co.uk
I mean credit where credit is due: "If he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won't stop him" is top tier posting
Don't miss Anning's own samples now on display at the Bristol Museum--rediscovered in their storage thanks to this very statue!
Jon TophamReally enjoyed finally seeing the new(ish) Mary Anning statue in Lyme Regis last week.
Reconnecting landscapes and joining up RSPB reserve land for the first time in 60 years - new opportunities for Celtic Rainforest species, wildflower-rich meadows, tempting in Hen Harriers to breed, and working with local farmers on sustainable and regenerative farming. Very #GoodGreenNews here!
Mark AveryRSPB acquires land in mid-Wales to help Atlantic oakwood species like Pied Flycatcher (pictured) and Wood Warbler and to protect blanket bogs. bit.ly/44hDARp
My first article is published today in the @haskinssociety.bsky.social Journal. I'm so pleased to finally see it out in the world. My article outlines the maritime dimension to William fitzOsbern's lordship in the southern Welsh March in the years after 1066. doi.org/10.2307/jj.4... #MedievalSky
Maybe this hasn’t sunk in for anyone who should care but the NHS was birthed when the UK *literally had negative money*. The USA had razed us of every penny to pay for weapons to defend ourselves against Germany, Germany had bombed all our industrial sites. We still did it in 6 months. 6.
Amnesty International UKThe NHS was founded 78 years ago today. It was built after the devastation of the Second World War when the country was bankrupt - but when the people demanded a society built on fairness and dignity for all. Today, we must defend the right to healthcare and rebuild our social security system.
Split, Croatia, Church of St Andrew de Fenestris. Little known 7th century church built in rooms formerly part of the 4th century Palace of Diocletian.
This is a brilliant story. Hooray for archives, and for their staff and volunteers. 📝📄🗄️🗃️ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘Vanishingly rare’ copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archivesOne of 11 surviving copies of ‘Exeter printing’ and only one known outside US was taken from American privateer shipwww.theguardian.com
📣📣 New book announcement! 📚📚 In 2027, the YHT will publish "Dynasty, Politics and Ceremonial in Late Medieval England and Europe: Essays in Honour of Livia Visser-Fuchs", eds Rowena E. Archer and Margaret M. Condon. More info here: yorkisthistorytrust.org/2026/07/01/d... #MedievalSky #Skystorians
Dynasty, Politics and Ceremonial in Late Medieval England and Europe: Essays in Honour of Livia Visser-FuchsThe Trust On…Dynasty, Politics and Ceremonial in Late Medieval England and Europe: Essays in Honour of Livia Visser-Fuchs Dr Livia Visser-Fuchs with the volume’s table of contents The Y…yorkisthistorytrust.org
It is with sadness that we note the passing of Professor John Hatcher (1942-2026), Life Fellow of our College and such an important figure for the successful delivery of Parker Library On the Web Just recently we had a chance to hear him remember the early days: www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/amb...
Ambition and AchievementProfessor John Hatcher thinks back to the obstacles that the large-scale manuscript digitisation project at the Parker Library encountered in the early yearswww.corpus.cam.ac.uk
We are very sad to announce the death of Professor John Hatcher, Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History and Life Fellow of @corpuscambridge.bsky.social (7 January 1942 - 13 June 2026). Colleagues and former students pay tribute to a brilliant scholar: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
Calling archival researchers working in any era! I'm seeking your stories of 'archival echoes'. These could be: ✅ the (re)discovery of a rare or once-lost manuscript 🗑️ a valuable text recovered from a bin or skip 🔥 a story of irreversible destruction (burning, etc.)
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I recently purchased at auction one of SR Badmin’s sketchbooks. I had to have it because I’d spotted that one of the pages contained a study for an illustration in the Ladybird book ‘Trees’. As close as I’ll probably ever come to owning original Nature series artwork 😊
