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Paul Barrett @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Was great to see our old friend Patagotitan juxtaposed with the awesome Norman architecture of Peterborough Cathedral at the grand opening of the Titanosaur exhibition last night

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The Best Place in the World. #BookSky

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Dr Melita Thomas @melitat.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Just been talking to my publisher about the new book project. Cover images coming soon! In the meantime, I have been feasting my eyes on my magnolia tree. I bought the tree and they threw in the house for free...

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Some folks collected lots of eels in rent. And some folks not so many. When John de Huntyngton died in 1350, an inquisition showed that he was owed (among other things) 1 & 1/2 sticks of eels annually from land he held in Ealdyng. That's about 37 eels every year for our man. 🗃️🧪

Meme. Medieval painting of man, richly attired, siting in a throne or high chair and receiving payments from a line of lesser men. He seems like a lord, with his salmon-colored gown and his fussy black hat. We'll call him Afraidrich. He's got a scroll in his left hand, on his lap, and his right arm is leaning on the chair arm. He's holding a bag in that hand, and is also pointing. His face is white like death, and he looks menacing and mean. He kicks puppies.

There is a man half-kneeling in front of the throne, holding a bag in his right hand, and his hat is in his left hand. He's clearly offering the bag to Afraidrich. Behind him, next in line, is a man in a blue shirt with a small chest on his shoulder, like he's robbed an RPG dungeon.

Beside the throne stands a courtier, leaning on a staff w/ a feather in his cap. He's sassy at to his core. At the foot of the throne, is an attentive dog. Probably Afraidrich's kicking dog.

Meme text reads:
"There'd better be
37 eels in that bag"

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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

TOMORROW, I am doing a short talk on a MURDERER which has everything! Knives! Arsenic! Arson! Adultery! Exhumation! Toxicology! Transportation! Broadmoor! Trying to squidge it into 15 minutes has been a trial. But it's online, so come along... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-cabinet-...

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A Cabinet of Curiosities

Victorian murder, abandoned towns, and a very peculiar indulgence feature in our new venture: three short, but reliably odd, talks in one.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

How many eels is too many? Is 26k too many? In the 11th C., fishermen around Hilgay owed the Thorney Abbey monks 26,275 eels each year in rent. And that probably seems like a lot to you. But hey... you're not an abbot lookin' for eels to feed your monks throughout Lent. Are you? 🗃️🧪

Meme. Medieval paining of an abbot, standing in front of what looks to be a lovely tiled wall, and some sort of tapestry. The abbot is dressed in a black robe, and he is carrying a book under his right arm. He holds crozier in his left hand, and he's ready for some pastoral work. The abbot's tonsure is magnificent, and the dome of his head is a walking advertisement for sunscreen. There is a halo around his head, so you know he's the real deal.

The abbot is looking up slightly. His eyes are kind and questioning, and his eyebrows are raising towards the middle in a posture of supplication. He looks quietly hopeful, and if you replaced his book with a pillowcase then he might be mistaken for a well-costumed child at Halloween, asking for candy.

He is not the sort of abbot to suddenly drop his book and attack you with his staff. But he *is* the sort to hide a harlequin romance inside his book of hours.

Meme text reads:
"Got some Thorney monks?
Slip them some eel!"

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

You can visit the remains of the castle in beautiful Northamptonshire countryside, then pop up the road to Peterborough Museum to see the Tudor exhibition including images of MQoS. And if you still want more, pootle across the city centre to the cathedral where she was originally buried 👸

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AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Niftier than the average discarded libary shelving. At a rather higher than the usual - please come and take me away - price point however 📚

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

In one of our archive strong rooms there is a shelf. The shelf does not contain the most exciting or interesting item in the archive but it does contain something amazing. Read this short thread to find out more. 🧵👇

A row of Archive stacks with turning handles

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Steve @portaspeciosa.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

In the moulding above the tomb of Bishop Blyth at Salisbury Cathedral is a possible mason's joke. We see rose after rose on a vine at the end of which there is a gardener in the act of cutting them down. A comment by the mason regarding the length of time he spent carving them?

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

For context, this is over 200 years old and was made by prisoners of war with scraps from their meals (and a bit of material). It’s incredible that it’s been made and even more incredible that it still exists #NormanCross

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Next weekend there’s going to be a celebration of Patty Clare, the wife of poet John Clare, in Northborough near Peterborough. We’ve got some cracking speakers, food and music at the Packhorse, poetry, flowers and cake! Tickets are available on the door

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language. The results tell us a lot! Extracts below... 🧵

The front cover of a scientific journal titled Ornithologist, dated 1 April 2025. The main headline reads: “BIRDS: DECODED - Groundbreaking New Science.” Below that, a subheading says: “What are the UK’s birds really saying? Pioneering new research provides the answers.”

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Barnsley Museums @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

We need your help! We're still quite new to Bluesky and would love a few more followers. Please like and share this post. In return, reply with a colour or emoji and we'll find something from our collections. Thank you in advance 🙂

From our collections: A portrait of Peggy Airey in a red robe, a floral vase and a sooty songster xylophone

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Today is #worldmathsday so here is our Comptroller’s wife adding up the household accounts with a counting board, together with a brilliant blog explaining how you can add, subtract, multiply and divide just by moving counters around. #historysky #maths #medieval urchin.earth.li/~aendr/kentw...

A woman in Tudor dress sits at a table in a panelled room by lantern light doing a calculation with clay counters on a wooden board.

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Bonkers in a good way though right?

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Light in the darkness for today’s #windowsonwednesday picture of the Great #Kitchen at Kentwell. The #16thc style #lanterns are made of wood, with horn or parchment panes, and burn #beeswax #candles. #tudor #light #livinghistory

A dark room with lit lanterns and candles along a massive wooden table which stretches out towards a diamond paned window.

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Pete Savin @petesavin.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The 700 year old white rabbit in St Mary’s Church still wearing it’s pilgrims bag with its Scallop shell symbol #Beverley #Yorkshire

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

A very small #Tudor at one of our re-enactments, trying to open the door into our Tower of Babel tree. He won’t have much luck because everyone knows it only opens at midnight on Midsummer Eve at the full moon…. #adoorableThursday #gardens #woodcarving #sculpture #cedar #trees

A tree trunk with a door carved into it. A small boy in a red Tudor petticoat and a black hat is trying to open the door watched by a girl in a straw hat.

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

For #TudorTuesday here’s a spectacular photo of one of our Tudors at a firing of our #pottery kiln. NB one of the things in the picture might not be entirely Tudor…. #photography #deliberatemistake #anachronism

A nighttime photo of a man in Tudor dress standing watching a large beehive shaped clay kiln with flames billowing out of the top. In his hand he is holding a small vertical metal cylinder of about 3 inches diameter, but obviously we have no idea what this is.

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

#WindowsonWednesday Sunshine catches woodsmoke particles in the air in the Great Kitchen corridor at Kentwell Hall during a Tudor re-creation. #photography #tudors #historiccookery

View down a corridor in a Tudor house with beams in the walls and diamond panes.
Shafts of sunlight from the windows lay diagonally across the picture.

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Dr Katharine Edgar @katharineedgar.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

The events take place at different times throughout the year, starting at Easter and for a whole fortnight in August. #tudor #history #daysout #suffolk www.kentwell.co.uk

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Kentwell Hall

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Come to Kentwell and live as a Tudor! Beautiful place, lots of wonderful people, and lots and lots of history....

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Emma Mason @emmalrmason.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Lovely day of research at @britishlibrary.bsky.social which has turned up the wonderful news that in 1800 Fleet Street had a Nandos

Image of a book published in 1800. The page shown is an alphabetical list of coffee houses in London and their location. One line says "Nandoes, fleet-street"

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Dorothy Halfhide @dot8.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I visited Hazel's exhibition at the Museum yesterday about Trades Unions and coordination and representation in and around Peterborough. Very interesting! Especially the final illustration....

Pamphlet from 1971 - men who matter (and a lady or two as well)

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Dorothy Halfhide @dot8.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Off to London to see the Medieval Women exhibition at the BL.

Crumpets, butter, jam, tea, Huguenot Soc Journal on train table

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Dorothy Halfhide @dot8.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

@pborowomenshist.bsky.social I like this(didn't find it on B*****y to share?

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