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Elizabeth Trueman

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Cats, Anglo-Saxons & Vikings, Gardening & Nature. 🐈🪓🌱

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NorseMap @norsemap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Did you know that you can upload images to the iViking app from your gallery? 🌄 Easily share pics of Viking heritage from your photo archives... like this super pic of a modern runestone (the Vasastenen) taken by user Ingski and submitted this week. #iViking #MedievalSky #NorseMap #Norse #heritage
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/09/2026
I’m actually gonna pop this one out of the thread and tag her because @nigella.bsky.social this was really a beautiful moment! Thank you for saying it!
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Elizabeth Trueman @etrooms.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pruning trees today. What my arms are going to look like when I've finished!!
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Elizabeth Trueman @etrooms.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pruning trees. Will look like this by the time I've finished!! #gardening #gardens #pruning #trees
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NorseMap @norsemap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On this day, 28 September 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, arrived off the Sussex coast. The word “Norman” derives from “Northman,” a term used for the Scandinavian settlers who established themselves in northern France during the 10th century. Image provided by WikiCommons.
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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records a great sea-flood #OTD in 1014, the tide ‘reaching inland further than ever before, submerging many homesteads and drowning many people’. 📸Dave Fergusson
A river in spate as it passes through woodland.
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Elizabeth Trueman @etrooms.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A lovely series of to-whoos to lull me off to sleep, courtesy of Mr Tawny!
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Elizabeth Trueman @etrooms.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BBC News - Avebury stones painted with gold paint in 'heritage crime' - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Avebury stones painted with gold paint in 'heritage crime'
The National Trust says the Neolithic Avebury World Heritage Site was vandalised with gold paint.
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Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
👏👏👏 to the students of @jeffsharlet.bsky.social
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Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Err... education? Anyone??
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If this isn’t now your favourite Roman carving, you’re wrong. It is. I will not be discussing this further. Found Vindolanda; on display Chesters.
A really cute little running wild boar, looks like it could be from Shaun the Sheep.
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Elizabeth Trueman @etrooms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Rare Anglo-Saxon coin unearthed in Shetland
Archaeologists say the discovery suggests possible trading links between Viking and Anglo-Saxons.
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Elizabeth Trueman @etrooms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
BBC News - Dolly Parton free book scheme to expand in London www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dolly Parton free book scheme to expand in London
The late singer's Imagination Library posts children a free book every month until they turn five.
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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Haraldr Harðráði, king of Norway, and Tostig Godwineson, former earl of Northumbria, defeated the brothers Morcar and Edwin, earls of Northumbria and Mercia respectively, at the Battle of Fulford, near York, #OTD in 1066. Coin of Haraldr 📸Kulturhistorisk museum
The obverse of the coin bears a triquetra and the words HARALD REX NO; the reverse bears a cross and the coin maker’s name.
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Elizabeth Trueman @etrooms.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Einar Selvik joins University College Cork’s launch of new app to map global Viking fever
The five-year NorseMap project aims to provide a greater understanding of how the Viking Age is perceived in different locations around the world.
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Elizabeth Trueman @etrooms.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.paypal.com/gb/pools/c/9...
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Fundraiser for dormouse boxes
We are fundraising to buy dormouse boxes for released dormice, so they can have somewhere safe and secure while they adjust to their freedom, and to help them have safe places to breed and rear their ...
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The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Every Saturday since the end of October 2023 islanders in Orkney have come out and stood in vigil on the Kirk Green, Broad Street, from 1 to 2pm, in support of the people of Palestine and in condemnation of the #Gaza Genocide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t90I...
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'We do need to keep coming out' Orkney's Vigil for #Gaza
YouTube video by The Orkney News
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NorseMap @norsemap.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Nothing says midweek quite like a fish-head níðstöng (“scorn-pole”) and the continuing afterlife of the Viking Age. This gloriously strange find was submitted by one of our users to NorseMap. Spotted something Viking inspired in the wild? Add it to the map with the iViking app!
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Elizabeth Trueman @etrooms.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And a refusal to look you in the eye and smile at you. Just an automatic action for me. I guess a result of lockdowns but so rude!
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Elizabeth Trueman @etrooms.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Basic manners. Noticing a distinct lack of them among all age groups.
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Gravestone fragment showing a hound chasing a hare from Roman Bath (Aquae Sulis). Now part of the museum collections at The Roman Baths in Bath. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The ‘Winfarthing Pendant’ - a 7th century Anglo-Saxon disc brooch that was discovered by a metal detectorist in 2015 at Winfarthing, near Diss in South Norfolk. Now part of the collections at Norwich Castle. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Winfarthing #NorwichCastle
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wonderful ancient artistry! About 40,000 years ago, this small, graceful horse figurine was carved from mammoth ivory! Imagine the #IceAge artist at work, sitting by the warmth of a fire, creating what is the world’s oldest known figure of a horse! 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology
My photo shows a profile view of a small horse figurine with head to the left, displayed against a dark background. Sculpted from mammoth ivory, the surface is a mottled greyish-earthy-brown colour with a shiny patina. It was once likely off-white in colour. The head is gracefully lowered with a long and elegant curving neck, and a convex curved back. The four legs are incomplete. The top of the tail remains. The eyes, nostrils, and mouth are carved as indents. It measures a mere 2.5 cm in height, 4.8 cm width, and 0.7 cm depth. 

The 'Vogelherd Horse' was excavated in 1931, together with a number of other ivory animal figurines from the Vogelherd Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany. It is the oldest known sculpture of a horse. On display at the Museum of Ancient Cultures, at Hohentübingen Castle, Tübingen, Germany.
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The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Want to see stunning early medieval narrative art featuring mounted warriors, but can't get a ticket to the British Museum? We have just the thing at the Govan Stones, and it's free to see every day, 11am-4pm! 📷 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social
One side of the late 9th century carved stone Govan Sarcophagus, which features a mounted warrior on a hunt and a Lamb of God scene.
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Elizabeth Trueman @etrooms.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Shop workers are being secretly filmed at work through Meta's glasses, then having it shared online. I've just signed to demand it stops, add your too: the.organise.network/campaigns/ne...
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Elizabeth Trueman @etrooms.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Slavering morons. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
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Protesters outside Portsmouth hotel mistake Pakistan U19 cricket team for asylum seekers
A group of masked agitators gathered outside a four-star hotel in Portsmouth after reports a group of asylum seekers had been taken there, when it was in fact Pakistan’s under-19 cricket team on a tou...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's quite striking how annoyed Tory MPs are getting at Burnham for taking the time to listen and actually answer questions. But then I guess for part-time MPs with so many other lucrative engagements, brevity matters more than content. #PMQs
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Elizabeth Trueman @etrooms.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Donald Trump lies about being rescued from rubble on 9/11
Donald Trump has once again falsely claimed that he was at Ground Zero on 9/11, telling an event he was rescued from the rubble by firemen.
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Elizabeth Trueman @etrooms.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
BBC News - Actor Sarah Hadland adopts wobbly kitten after West End event - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Actor Sarah Hadland adopts wobbly kitten after West End event
The kitten, born with "wobbly cat syndrome", is adopted from a Peterborough charity.
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Elizabeth Trueman @etrooms.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You can always tell when an Argentine government is getting desperate. They pull out the Malvinas card.
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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“Earth’s flaunting flower of passion fadeth fair To ripening fruit in sunlit veils of the air…” #Fruits found for #WildflowerHour: rose hips, elderberries, white bryony berries, snowberries, crab apples, sloes, haws, blackberries, dogwood berries, holly berries, sweet chestnuts.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Farage, a man who was doing Cameo videos for £70 a pop as late as March 2026, apparently turned up to a meeting to discuss a half-million donation and "wasn't really listening". What utter contempt he has for the very democracy, country, and people that he claims to love.
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Proof of Delivery
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The Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Going to see the Bayeux Tapestry? Be sure to look out for the image that may well have been inspired by the 6thC Augustine Gospels (CCCC MS 286) parker.stanford.edu/parker/catal... The 11thC embroidery was probably made at Canterbury where the MS was then at St Augustine’s Abbey #bayeuxtapestry
A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry that resembles the scene of Last Supper in the St Augustine's Gospels (CCCC MS 286)

Feast scene from the Bayeux Tapestry:  "Et hic episcopus cibum et potum benedicit" (And here the bishop blesses the food and the drink) written above a scene of 6 people eating and drinking around a curved table; one person carrying more food to the table, and two red animals (dogs?) 
It is the scene depicting a feast with Bishop Odo of Bayeux and his nobles are arranged around a circular table, very similar to the Last Supper panel in the Augustine Gospels. Odo is also shown in a pose similar to the figure of Christ, blessing his wine just as Christ was shown blessing his food. Feast scene from the St Augustine's Gospels (CCCC MS 286):  "Cena domini" (Lord's Supper) written above a scene of 8 disciples and Christ eating and drinking around a curved table
A scene from scene of Lord's Supper resembles the one in the Bayeux Tapestry with Bishop Odo of Bayeux and nobles feasting around a curved table
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"We've done nothing wrong but the people who did it have been sacked for (not) doing it," is quite the defence. And is it just me or Does. Farage. Get. Even. More. Comically. Staccato when he's straining his own enormous capacity for lying?
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Maybe concentrate on turning up for more than two days a month yourself first…
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A small portable stone altar with a carved figure of a deity from Chedworth Roman villa #Gloucestershire Possibly Mars Lenus, whose name has been suggested from an inscription elsewhere on site The holes originally held glass marking out the eyes, nipples, navel and (ahem) genitalia #FindsFriday
Stone altar with the carved outline of a human figure, probably meant to represent a deity, with holes for decorative glass, now lost
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Canterbury, of course was famous for its paganism. Especially its nuns.
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Elizabeth Trueman @etrooms.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BBC News - Pupil who stabbed teacher in head given four-year detention order www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Milford Haven boy, 16, who stabbed teacher in head sentenced to four years
Vicki Williams feared she would die in the classroom attack at Milford Haven Comprehensive School.
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We all need to start writing emails with the same attitude Gregory the Great had when writing letters. Whenever someone fails to answer my email I will henceforth begin my message with "Greetings, Your Negligence".
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
All I want is a cottage in the forest, a vintage copy of Lord of the Rings, a pouring rain, a crackling fire, a whistling kettle on the stove, an emotional support owl, and a basket of freshly-baked cinnamon rolls.
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Elizabeth Trueman @etrooms.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BBC News - Emergency measures needed to stop #teachers quitting, say Lib Dems #teaching #education #burnout www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Urgent action needed to stop teachers quitting, says Liberal Democrats
A survey by the party suggested almost half of teachers reported considering quitting the classroom in the next five years.
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Elizabeth Trueman @etrooms.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis... #Vikings #archaeology #Swona
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Schoolkids discover '1,000-year-old Viking church' on uninhabited Scots island
The Gordonstoun pupils made the discovery on an archaeological field trip to Swona, a tiny Orkney island where only feral cattle live.
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 30/08/2026
This 1933 cartoon by Winsor McCay shouldn't still be so current. www.newspapers.com/article/the-...
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
After years of being curious about my lineage, I finally received my ancestry results. Apparently I'm 12% Scottish Highlands cottage, 16% used bookstore, 9% October, 13% cat rescue, 11% rainswept cobblestone side street, 7% dimly-lit café in Prague, 17% scone, and 15% Oxford comma.
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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton and Donald Trump were both born in 1946. Parton was born into poverty in a one-room cabin in Appalachia. Trump was born a millionaire in one of the most diverse places on Earth. One dedicated her life to love and joy and generosity. The other dedicated his to selfishness and cruelty.
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