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Nick Langley @nicklangley.bsky.social · 2h

Up at 4.30 to finish Nick Hayes's new book about ways of belonging, & historic & current land (in)justice. The best book about English identity since David Matless's Landscape & Englishness. #NickHayes

Cover of The Medicine Tree by Nick Hayes.

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Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social · 13h

Buckden Beck, Upper Wharfedale.

An upland stream, small waterfalls surrounded by limestone cliffs and bare trees.

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Our books are well-constructed, good and useful things, and if you buy one, it will enable us to make more. Recent titles include Matthew Clegg's 'Have You Always Been Here?', Fay Musselwhite's 'The Gleaning', and Steve Ely's 'Eely'. You can order them here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, spines facing out.

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Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Edinburgh was almost overwhelming this weekend, surely the most photogenic of UK cities.

The spires of a gothic tower and the moon.

A red fire escape and a tall thin building.

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Tony Cole @yorktone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What happens when a football ground dies? FINAL yorktonebooks.bigcartel.com #ycfc #Archaeology #photography

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Beautiful picture of an older woman, 1654. Exactly the eyes of gentle old age. By Michael Sweerts, whose day has been today.

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Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Walked into the garden this afternoon and found myself surrounded by Long-Tailed Tits, and that's not something you can say everyday.

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Joe Scaramangaaaarrrggghhh!!! @joescaramanga.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Jesus Christ this is terrifying.

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Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the carved stones at Barcloddiad Y Gawres, Anglesey. #Tombtuesday

A brightly lit prehistoric carved stone, lined with a spiral, lozenges and layered chevrons.

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 28/09/2026

RAF Fairford latest: Organiser spotted.

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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ten years ago today, the first episode of Britain's Lost Masterpieces* was on BBC4. Here's a thread of all the pictures we featured, with the new attributions and before & after photos. (*internationally, Amazon Prime etc, as 'The Art Detectives')

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Did a couple of Brass Rubbings but we are still in love.

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Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nights are drawing in - so time for me to get back in the GIS Saddle. #CommunityArchaeology #GIS #Neolithic #Thornborough

A spectral GIS image of an old river channel, flowing through farmland

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Verypete Lambert @quiteamess.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I want a tiny 3D printed Tony Benn to climb up its outside Kong style. Or a kitten.

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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. #MedievalSky, grab a lifejacket and a seasickness bag, we’re casting off on a thread about the Norman invasion fleet in 1066! 960 years ago, the Normans landed at Pevensey and established a base at the Roman shore fort which was already succumbing to erosion from the sea on its south side. 1/20

Photograph of Pevensey Castle with an information board in the foreground showing an artists impression of how the view may have looked in 1066 when the sea came almost up to the walls.

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Tony Cole @yorktone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The recently recognised fourth Devil's Arrow and some flints I found today while fieldwalking nearby. #standingstonesunday

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fka all-bran @nubigprinz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

September is nearly over. October will fly. November is a short month. It's basically Christmas.

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Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hope you feel better soon Gillian.

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Spong @besidetheteesside.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@actualnames.bsky.social Petra Corr. I would imagine she smells lovely after it's rained.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Plate, c.1928 by Grete Marks (1899-1990), ceramic artist and a Bauhaus student #womensart

Plate in cream with thin black half circular lines and green circular motifs

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Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cromer seafront from 2014. A good moment.

A black and white image of an english seafront, sweeping waves, balustrades and old style street lights.

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Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A revisit to Long Meg and her Daughters for #StandingStoneSunday So much going on at this site with the setting, the geology, the carvings and the earlier monuments - just a fascinating glimpse at the Neolithic. 📷 October 2025 #AncientBluesky #Archaeology #Neolithic #Cumbria

A squat, white standing stone in a field. The stone is speckled with green lichen and is made of rhyolite and is a glacial erratic.

A tall block of red sandstone, known as 'Long Meg', in a field.

Another view of the tall red sandstone block of Long Meg, from this angle the stone appears tapered and long-necked. Other stones can be seen across the grassy field towarslds some deciduous trees.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We don’t want thunder; we want rum

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Spencer Carter @microburin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Unveiling Kirk Hammerton’s Prehistoric Landscape Near York, North Yorkshire, England A curvilinear feature identified beneath and around the village, examples of flint artefact finds #Archaeology thornboroughag.org/unveiling-ki...

Large circular feature between the red arrows, lying under the village. Finds are Neolithic to Bronze Age. The diameter is similar to those of henge monuments to the north.

LiDAR view of the circular feature beneath the village.

Flint arrowheads dating to the earlier Neolithic (top) and late Neolithic-to-Early Bronze Age (bottom). The barbed-and-tanged arrowhead is particularly fine.

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Anita Brookner, talking with typically beautiful clarity about writing (from the superb biography by Hermione Lee).

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Verypete Lambert @quiteamess.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"I just want to help you, Ro-land!"

All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again.
Arya Stark and Hot Pie in #GameOfThrones channeling #GrangeHill Janet and Roland energy.

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Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That was my experience in Rotherham, too. A big, regular anti-fascist and anti-racist presence from the community is urgently needed.

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Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Short of getting out on the street, for now, the only thing I can think of is to write to my MP. Suggest as many people as possible do the same.

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A beautiful #Roman glass bottle, in vivid shades of blue, green, & gold. It was probably originally used to hold perfume or some other cosmetic product, some 2000 years ago #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky

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Ian Walker @fenlandgent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m watching a 6 hour documentary about the politics of Chile in the early 70s. Learning all sorts of stuff. The oddest thing I’ve learnt is that amongst all the left-wing aspiration and right-wing murderous restraint in revolutionary & counter-revolutionary Chile, British Leyland built cars.

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trellick Tower from the train today - number 16 in my Bluesky series

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

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Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Have read two M John Harrison novels in quick succession - 'Sunken Land' and 'The End of Everything'. Critical analysis - they're pretty good really, aren't they?!

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Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One of the outliers at Gors Fawr, North Pembrokeshire. #Standingstonesunday

A large angular standing stone, mottled with lichen in a waterlogged field.

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Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

At my 89 year old Nan's, we've watched 'Laura' (1944) on BBC Iplayer, put the world to rights and now she has provided me with ice cold Stella and a wedge of mature cheddar. #Bostin

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The hubby and I are off to a posh restaurant (Michelin starred) for our wedding anniversary tonight. So, in the spirit of making BlueSky slightly more fun, what's the most embarrassing thing you've ever done in a posh restaurant?

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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Now here's something I think remarkable. Look very carefully. This isn't a high quality monochrome photo of a bygone street scene. It's a pencil drawing! By the artist Stuart Walton, born in Dewsbury in 1933. I love it!

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