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Welsh Bollocks @welshbollocks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's been 9 years since the Wales flag emoji was launched. Due to its complex design, a supercomputer at the Shirley Bassey Sinclair Spectrum Institute in Splott was used to miniaturise the flag. Here's what it looks like under an electron microscope.

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The reference to Jonah preaching to the erring people of Nineveh is obvious but a bit ominous.

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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A bit of a rarity, the brick south porch of St Edmunds Routh (Yorks ER). Pevsner & Neave say medieval. Early brick work in Hull and region is known so it is possible. But the similar brick porch at Millington proved datable to 1637 from parish warden’s accounts

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Here's an oddity which is difficult to account for, but maybe the font enthusiasts of Bsky can. The rather plain 13th-14th century font of Bubwith church (ER Yorks) has carved on 3 of its octagonal faces FONS DE BUBVID in a medieval script (maybe 15th century)

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Le Moyen Âge. Revue d'Histoire et de Philologie @lemoyenage.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Au sommaire du Moyen Âge, t. 132 (2025/3) figure un article de Frédérique Lachaud, « Louis VII vu par les historiens anglais du XIIe siècle ». Accès en ligne via @cairninfo.bsky.social : shs.cairn.info/revue-le-moy...

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Today I begin my not infrequent searches though Bodl Libr ms Top Yorks b 14, James Torre's notes on the fragmentary remains of the archive of monastic charters the Council of the North laudably stored in St Mary's Tower, which was then blown up by a mine on 16 June 1644

folio 215v compiled in Torre's economical 4 column format

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The perfectly bonkers estate church Lord Hotham built at South Dalton in and after 1861. A pocket cathedral to serve a village of around 400 souls

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Unsolicited blanket postal drop from local Tories. Sort of sad really. Beverley and Holderness stayed Tory (just) in 2024, and panic is clearly in the air. But the local branch has clearly not got the Kemi line (there is no climate change and the ECHR is a danger to our way of life).

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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Applause to whoever created this

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Here’s something unexpected. Cadw reckons the stone wall surrounding the old clas site of St Gybi above Holyhead is 4th century, the former circuit of a Saxon shore fort. Probably not the door, though. Glad I stayed the night

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Somehow it was a thing when I was a boy in Cardiff that we all had to be able to recite this piece of Victorian whimsy

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @uniofhull.bsky.social Famously, poet Philip Larkin was the Librarian at the University I've lots of Hull cards so this will be #HullWeek If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old colour picture postcard showing the University of Hull. The 1920s Venn Building on the left, and more modern buildings centre and right

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We'll be at the Festival of Nature in Bristol this weekend talking all things Ancient Woodland - we've updated the mapping for the West of England. Come and see us on Millennium Square.

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Coming to you all, histories of dozens of English places from prehistory to the present, sometime early in 2027. #Skystorians #LocalHistory

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The church of St James, Nunburnholme (East Riding) may look a bit on the ordinary side but it houses several symbolic mysteries, such as the imagery of its famous Anglo-Scandinavian cross pillar. But VCH East Riding Vol XI (in press) had to deal with another, its eccentric tower arch. 1/5

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This is the wonderful and little-known chapel at Harswell, a DMV in the East Riding, sometime manorial chapel of the Silvain family, built within the surviving banks and ditches of the manorial precinct. Rebuilt 1871 using original materials. Still has an incumbent!

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Why is this just so crazy to read from him. Explaining how the robots are not human. Just spelling it out

tangible benefits across many fields. Yet this power remans entirely tied to data
processing. So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate language, behavior and analytical skills, or even simulate empathy and understanding, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. Even when these tools are described as capable of
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Ian Waites @ianwaites.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

This isn't niche at all, sadly, it is typical of university management ignorance and recklessness that 'knows' the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Lovely sight. A pair of swans and a healthy brood of 5 cygnets, on the Barmston Drain south of Beverley Pastures

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Cartularies are for various reasons one of my enthusiasms. I must have read every English, Irish and Northern French example, and found one from the 15th century that had been lost. But the oddest of a very odd MS genre is right on my doorstep, the so-called Constable family cartulary.

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

What does Humberside mean to us? Well, without it, we would have no project in Yorkshire's East Riding. Bear with us. Simply, the prospect of the East Riding being amalgamated into a trans-Humber local authority was reckoned a bit much... #Skystorians 1/3

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

A familiar sigh for drivers heading south down the A614 towards Howden and the M62. All Saints Church on its hill above Holme-on-Spalding Moor. VCH has now commenced work on the beacon district to which it gives its name. The hill we've found had a medieval name, 'Arnesnest' (the eagle's nest) .

The Arnesnest hill above Holme-on-Spalding Moor, which dominated the wetlands of the Foulness valley around it, and maybe was once the stalking ground of hunting eagles. Image/INNES/2017

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Prof Ben Pohl @benpohl.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

A much-anticipated publication—I had the privilege to read it in draft form—that will be immensely useful for teaching!

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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Trump shenanigans contributing to Iceland decision to hold a referendum on joining the European Union. It will be the 11th non-EU country to apply to join. If this continues, Britain will be almost alone in Europe in being outside the EU, isolated, poorer and weaker.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Following the controversy over the edited Trump speech, the BBC has been lambasted for its negative and biased portrayal of the leader of a prominent right-wing government… An Evening with Private Eye 2025, out now on YouTube.

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The Guardian did not disappoint with its report of the Plaid Cyrmu (sic) victory in Caerphilly. In one thing constant ever Grauniad

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

On Thursday, the remarkable north porch door of Kilnwick Percy church. The dilapidated church was reconstructed in an elaborate neo-Romanesque style in 1864–5 to designs by J.B. & W. Atkinson for Arthur Duncombe, and this door was shifted from the south side to the new north porch facing the Hall.

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The core role of the university in society is the generational transmission of knowledge and rare skills. This has been already long forgotten by administrators who have prioritised rebranding universities as publicly-funded job-training centres in recent decades.

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Coming out this week, Lindy Grant's definitive revisionist biography of a Queen all too often obscured by literary and cultural myth.

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Coming out this week, Lindy Grant's definitive revisionist biography of a Queen all too often obscured by literary and cultural myth.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*

A news story: "Disney Reportedly Planning Full Reboot of the INDIANA JONES Franchise"

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

BREAKING: Citizens of Heard and McDonald islands have issued a statement after trump's 10% tariff. ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️ #canada #canadastrong #elbowsup #markcarneyforpm #cdnpoli #voteliberal #tariffs #tradewar #neverpoilievre #never51state #buycanadian #supportlocal

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Our open letter response to the #USCommerceDept and #POTUS

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

With its spotlight on the ‘manosphere’, Adolescence begs the question: how do we raise good men? Ours is not the first human generation to confront this dynamic. The Middle Ages constructed the ‘preudomme’ as the ideal to which a boy should aspire. Vide Ruth Karras’s marvellous *From Boys to Men*

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

😂 Joke outside a cafe in London.

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

St Peter’s church Woodmansey. Pass it most days and this weekend the door was open. Neat little church of around 1896 built by the local manorial lord. The font’s the surprise. Genuinely 14thC. Pevsner says ‘where is it from?’. Good question Sir Nikolas

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Medieval-blaming is so very Guardian. Always when leasehold is condemned, it is as a 'feudal era' system. I wish someone would call this out. I know that quitrents turn up in 12th-century (urban) London. But full on leasing of parcels of land with entry fines and annual rents is quite late

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

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No second state visit for Trump

This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...

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Ruth Karras @rmkarras.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

An old favorite: Roses are red Gender’s performative Valentine’s Day Is heteronormative.

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Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Bonus episode out now. @colinveach.bsky.social talks in more detail about the contemporary written sources justifying the 'Anglo-Norman Invasion' and we reflect on modern scholars' approaches to 12th century Irish history. Gerald of Wales, Laudabiliter & more! open.spotify.com/episode/5Zmp...

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Bonus episode: Interpreting the 'Anglo-Norman' Invasion with Dr Colin Veach

The Medieval Irish History Podcast · Episode

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Very sad news. The eminent French medievalist, Martin Aurell died last night unexpectedly. His students and colleagues at Poitiers are in shock, unsurprisingly. Martin's contributions to Anglo-French history were enormous, and his generosity with advice and sources unbounding.

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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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Adam Cook @adamcook.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

If you're working on Yorkshire's past (medieval or otherwise), please do consider submitting a paper for this year's @roysociety.bsky.social conference, held in the Concert Hall at Scarborough library on Friday 6th June. If you've got any questions, we're very happy to answer them!

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

For anyone who is interested in helping, there's a rare 6/7th c. garnet-inset gold dress accessory up for UK export very soon; if £4k is raised before the end of March, it will go to a burgeoning local museum in Pocklington, East Yorks. www.gofundme.com/f/save-a-poc...

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Donate to Save a Pocklington Anglo Saxon artefact from export, organised by Andrew Sefton

A temporary export bar has been placed on a rare Anglo-Saxon, Gold a… Andrew Sefton needs your support for Save a Pocklington Anglo Saxon artefact from export

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

One result of Methodism's great age in 19th-century Yorkshire was the number of Wesleyan schools founded in its towns. Methodist children could thus escape the compulsory catechism and church attendance enforced by Anglican National Society Schools. This is the Pocklington Wesleyan School (1852)

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David Crouch 🏳️‍🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Graham Loud's new biography of Frederick is published on 1 February by Reaktion, and at the bargain price of £16.95. It's designed as an accessible teaching book rather than an academic 'door-stopper' as he puts it, which sets it apart from previous volumes. reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/frederi...

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