Reposted by David Crouch 🏳️🌈Welsh Bollocks @welshbollocks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It'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. 1378
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026That was a lady ‘martyr’ overlooked by Foxe, I can guess why 010
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026That paper became certifiably unhinged in Thatcher’s days. I despair when I see people buying it. 130
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I wonder how it’ll compare with revelatory Romanesque exhibition of 1984. I still treasure the epic catalogue 100
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Should be in Latin, you’d think grammar school Tories would embrace that much 020
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The reference to Jonah preaching to the erring people of Nineveh is obvious but a bit ominous. 000
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026One of a few 18th century brick churches in the lower Derwent valley, see also Seaton Ross and East Cottingwith. Little jewels all. 020
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026From which you’ll learn he did not call himself Richard ‘de Clare’, an invention of early modern genealogists 000
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The freeze on university appointments she imposed killed so many potential careers. I think me and Graham Loud were the only medievalists of our generation to develop careers 111
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026That’s a Catch 22, yet a strangely compelling argument 000
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The secret to acquiring dates is to spend 8 years as a secondary school history teacher. The fear of humiliation in the eyes of the class when you hem and haw and fluff a date and have to look it up, is just too much to risk. 000
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It was my retirement project. I was dubious. But it worked out well, more Roger Livesey than Ted Lasso, or so I believe 000
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Er … wasn’t Argarol a seaweed extract used in 19th boarding schools as a bowel laxative? Poor Ms Turvil 010
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My granddaughter (4) went starry eyed over the baby goat in the snow. Though she thought maybe it was a lamb. Did not occur to her it was AI though 000
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The médiéval salmon tides up the Humber estuary and River Ouse attracted crowds of dolphins/porpoises in search of easy meals. This we know because the 15th century accounts of the bishop of Durham registered beached porpoises in the tide as his prerogative 010
Reposted by David Crouch 🏳️🌈AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊 493157923846
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Fellows are organised into sections on the basis of disciplines so I don’t quite follow. My reservations lie in the area of the over concentration of Fellows in the Golden Triangle. 020
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I went there on a jour de patrimoine when all museums are free entry. Worth checking the calendar. Vive la France 040
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026That describes my great granddad who landed in Cardiff from a tramp steamer in 1864 set up in Grangetown as an innkeeper and provisioner and made a mint selling soft drinks. His brother came too. He was a silversmith and jeweller. The name is still on city shops 010
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The woman’s a well known fantasist, it seems. I apologise on behalf of the UK for her attempt to posture on the back of your national day of mourning. 110
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A 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 010
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Well at least Domesday Book gives us some basis for calculation. 131
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I think the word ‘fuckwit’ is most appropriate in the circumstance 010
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I missed the green rosette. My point stands though. Private Eye’s cartoonist, a member of its weakest section, is saying he’s no better than the rest of them 100
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Sorry, but bollocks. It's distracting dishonest politicians that's the obvious target, if anything it's their casual homophobia which is being highlighted 210
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026On the narrow point of waking up and realising slavery was bad. He did, when he was a teenage pupil at Pocklington Free Grammar School, and was lauded by his contemporaries 030
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026But probably happier than the wardens and PCC of Givendale in the Hole 010
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Damn. That is so satisfying. For a moment all is well with the world 😀 020
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Not a question you’d ask if the CofE hadn’t decided to define clerical status on ‘leadership’. Not a problem in a church that has a more sacramental focus 010
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026By people who think Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe was genuine social history 120
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I was at breakfast with a party of trainee clergy in St George’s college in Jerusalem. The Palestinian staff were very anxious and solicitous for our expected emotional displays of grief, which did not manifest. Sadly. 010
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026And less convincingly, the herb Fennel (why name a street after that? Swaying fields of fennel nearby?) 110
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Thanks for that. I had the Pevsner with me. But York & E Riding is patchy even with the Neave upgrades. Misses out whole villages 000
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Here'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) 2127
Reposted by David Crouch 🏳️🌈Le Moyen Âge. Revue d'Histoire et de Philologie @lemoyenage.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Au 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... 1115
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026An archival disaster to be compared with the destruction of the Irish Public Record Office in the Four Courts of Dublin in 1922. Thankfully Torre and other antiquarian colleagues partly mitigated the disaster preserving much medieval material 021
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Today 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 152
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026And playing the victim in other ways. He wouldn't join the line up and give the traditional acceptance speech as the Essex Police had warned him he said of some sort of unspecified danger (they hadn't). The danger was in his mind the pictures of him with more conventional (establishment) loonies. 010
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026You may need more torturing. Awesomedude was one of the first gay story sites of any quality, unlike Nifty ffs. It's somehow kept going and has several quite accomplished writers these day, including several Welsh writers who take on Welsh subjects, which is how I got into it. 010
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Seriously, as long as it has a tortured gay hero. They even have stories about Wales, modern and my God medieval 110