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Dr Crystal Hollis @graffitiginger.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Very lovely looking scratch dial! They're often found on church exteriors.

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless. (Philip Larkin) Church windows in Southbourne this evening.

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tag26exeter.bsky.social @tag26exeter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Our call for papers is now open! Head to our website to check out the amazing 35 sessions that will be hosted during the conference. Deadline to submit abstracts is 5 pm BST, 7 September 2026.

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Dr Crystal Hollis @graffitiginger.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Almost done recovering from last week's heat wave and summer school, just in time to pack and get reaady for Leeds!!!

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Hopefully exciting news for anyone interested in medieval religious communities in general and in Devon in particular. Paging @lsangha.bsky.social, @westgarthdes.bsky.social, @graffitiginger.bsky.social, @balhnews.bsky.social. #Skystorians

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The famous @ihr.bsky.social 'Pub Quiz' held as part of our annual #London #SummerSchool! Yes, that's colleagues @graffitiginger.bsky.social and @justincolson.bsky.social sniffing medicinal herbs to identify them - plus the winning team and star MC @beccameriel.bsky.social.

The triumohant team with (chocolate) medals and prizes

Rebecca posing questions while a team confers

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Friends, especially in the UK/EU, this is a public service message: remove all bananas from your bags Now, I repeat remove all bananas from your bags now. (This message brought to you by the number of Chicagoans I've seen over the past week dig horrifying, decaying banana goo out of their bags.)

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Dr Crystal Hollis @graffitiginger.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Kicking off @ihr.bsky.social summer school today. Will be a toasty but interesting week!

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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

🗣️ Medievalists! 🏰 Check out this page, we’ve done a reconstruction the medieval chapel at Chester Castle! www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places... Please share widely! There’s loads of info and *lovely* images from the repertoire of medieval art - and also more reconstructions!

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The Chester Castle Chapel Wall Paintings

The walls of the medieval chapel in the Agricola Tower at Chester Castle were richly painted around 1240 with scenes including miracles of the Virgin Mary and St Edward the Confessor. From the fragmen...

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Dr Crystal Hollis @graffitiginger.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

So excited for next week! It's going to be a fantastic time!

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Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The incredible exhibition for the @ihr.bsky.social London Summer School 2026 (Sickness and Health) is ready! Creative direction by @beccameriel.bsky.social with additional brilliance from @graffitiginger.bsky.social. Check out the library mini exhibition too - all on the IHR lower-ground floor.

Photo of the exhibition featuring a range of historical sources, crocheted plague rats, and embroidered microbes

London maps, embroidered microbes, facsimile cuttings

Crocheted rat on sources relating to cholera, with herbs and 'medicine' bottles beyond

Crocheted rat and bar of soap, with information on the import of soap in the medieval London Custom Accounts behind

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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Built in the 14th century from ‘gingerbread’, St Mary’s, Fordham in Norfolk is a sweet little church. 1/11

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Dr Crystal Hollis @graffitiginger.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Leicester cathedral- It had been absolutely chucking down rain a few minutes before I took this, but hopefully a worthy addition to #SteepleSaturday. #LeicesterCathedral #ChurchCrawling

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Church of St Ruan, #RuanMinor #Cornwall A 15th Century tower of serpentine, covered in creeper. #SteepleSaturday 🧵1/2

Creeper of brown & green covering the tower.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 16/08/2025

Never mind if walls could talk… …felled in 1358 we wonder what this oak post had seen?

We are looking at an oak post with lscarred and pitted with age including some sooty marks from candles.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

#RomanSiteSaturday: the #Roman burial chamber of a wealthy family in Cologne-Weiden. The subterranean burial chamber (hypogaeum) dates back to the 2nd century AD. It's considered the best preserved of its kind north of the Alps. It was discovered... 🧵 1/2 #archaeology 🏺

A Roman burial chamber with stone walls and arched niches. Marble busts are placed in recessed alcoves on both sides, while a decorated sarcophagus stands in the center, carved with figures in relief. The room is dimly lit

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Pedro Pascal might be in everything right now but we can confirm that he is not currently in The Museum of English Rural Life

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Bethan Briggs-Miller @bbmiiler.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

We need your help! The East Anglian Folklore Centre is having a fundraiser. We desperately want to keep our space open and have achieved so much this last year. But for it to continue we need your support. As little as 50p and a share would mean the world. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Roman floor tile with a sketch of a lighthouse (or space rocket? 🚀😉) The sketch was scratched into the wet clay before firing. Two Roman lighthouses flanked the harbour at Dover, the main base of the Roman fleet ‘Classis Britannica’. British Museum 📷 by me #TilesonTuesday #Archaeology

My photo shows a square Roman floor tile made of red clay. Inscribed into the clay is a drawing of what appears to be a Roman lighthouse (faros). The lighthouse has four storeys, which are stepped inwards at each level. Tile width 20 cm. Two Roman lighthouses flanked the harbour at Dover, the main base of the Roman fleet ‘Classis Britannica’. On display at the British Museum.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

peace was never an option

The cover of a book titled 'MAKING THE DOVECOTE PAY' by Marion Cran

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Dr Crystal Hollis @graffitiginger.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Third bucket list church I've gotten to this year! Chesterfield sure is an interesting gem. #churchcrawling

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

A marvellous scene of daily life for #ReliefWednesday: A #Roman funerary relief depicting the transport of two (wine?) barrels on a four wheeled cart pulled by two oxen. A #dog, probably the driver's beloved companion, is sitting on the barrels. 🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

A detail of a stone relief depicting a barrel on cart, on top of which a dog is lying.

The image depicts a stone relief carving showing an ox-drawn cart. The cart has large wooden wheels and carries a barrel, on top of which a dog is lying. A person sits on the cart holding the reins and guiding the ox.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 29/07/2025

It's #internationaltigerday and we love jumping on a bandwagon. However we are a medieval Hall so...you know...we don't have much in our collections that is tiger related. Actually we have nothing tiger related. But we know they like tea as Judith Kerr told us. So here's a fancy silver tea pot.

We are looking at a silver tea pot with a wooden handle. There is an engraved Coat of Arms on the front. Imagine a tiger pouring himself a big cup of tea using it.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

nothing beats a Jet 2 holiday - but if it could, it would be The Museum of English Rural Life

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Ragged Robin @carolineirwin3.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

#TraceryTuesday from St Wilfrid's, Old Arley, Warwickshire.

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Laura Tompkins @aliceperrers.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

CFP: Leeds IMC 2026 The Society for Fourteenth-Century Studies invites papers on any aspect of the long 14thC across the Plantagenet estates. 📅 6–9 July 2026 📨 Title + abstract by 31 Aug 2025 ✉️ Laura.Tompkins@hrp.org.uk & dgreen@harlaxton.ac.uk

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Part of a building dedication to the Emperor Antoninus Pius by the Sixth Legion which was found at Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. Now on display in the site museum. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain #HadriansWall

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Lars S. Sørensen @handansken.eurosky.social · 29/07/2025

Just because you all need more archaeological sites and finds in your feed. The ship burial at Gokstad near Sandefjord, Southeastern Norway, was excavated in 1880. The ship had a length of 23 m and is dated to around 890 AD. The ship was in use for about 10 years before being used as a burial ship.

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Dr Crystal Hollis @graffitiginger.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Flying visit to St. Petrox in Dartmouth. Have to say the skylights were a bit of a surprise! #churchcrawling #churcharchaeology

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Dr Crystal Hollis @graffitiginger.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I can't believe Sandstorm has its own wiki....

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John Vigar FSA @johnevigar.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

For the Feast Day of St Christopher we find this 15c roundel at Denton Church, Norfolk.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Church of St Wulfram’s, #Grantham #Lincolnshire West tower, the main feature of which is the crocketed spire. 86 metres (282 feet tall in total. Lucarnes with ballflowers at lower level, plain on the level above. Peregrine falcons were circling. #SteepleSaturday

Tall tower, with angle buttresses & spire above.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 23/07/2025

#RockArt hints at the origin of Egyptian kings 🏺 Analysis of a rock engraving near Aswan, Egypt, indicates it may depict an elite individual from the First Dynasty, shedding light on the formation of the #AncientEgyptian state. A powerful #AntiquityThread 1/16 🧵

The rock art panel, engraved with a depiction of a boat supporting a human figure on a palanquin-like structure (credit: Dorian Vanhulle, AKAP).

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Association of English Cathedrals @englishcathedrals.co.uk · 23/07/2025

The only medieval Cathedral with three spires. @lichfieldcathedral.bsky.social has many treasures including the Lichfield Angel, discovered in 2003, a remarkable survival of Saxon sculpture. Dated to c800 it is thought to have formed part of a tomb presumably that of St Chad. > buff.ly/3iSV9OS

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Dr Crystal Hollis @graffitiginger.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Glad you enjoyed the talk Fiona! Thanks for coming!

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Fiona Chartres @chartresfi.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

After an excellent talk about graffiti on glass by @graffitiginger.bsky.social at Leicester Guildhall last night here's my favourite teeny skull in the very same building for #MementoMoriMonday

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Dr Crystal Hollis @graffitiginger.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Can't believe it's already Wednesday! Really looking forward to returning to Leicester.

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Dr Crystal Hollis @graffitiginger.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Join me in just over a week's time in Leicester! We'll be talking about graffiti and glazier's marks 😎 can't wait to see you all! #historicgraffiti #leicestermuseums #archaeology #graffiti www.leicestermuseums.org/event-detail...

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Event Details – Leicester Museums

Details for Leicester Museums & Galleries events and exhibitions programme.

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Curiously, the Roman roof tiles used to build the Saxon arch were brought from Leicester, over 40km from Brixworth, despite there being the ruins of a villa about a mile from the church. Brixworth was originally a Romanesque basilica, and the Saxon arch was internal and flanked the nave.

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Paul Timlett @timlettphotography.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Huge thank you to @graffitiginger.bsky.social and Tony Hack for showing me the medieval graffiti in the tower of St. Giles church, Imber today. A once in a lifetime experience. #photography

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

👀 St Malachy's Church, #Belfast A stuccoed fan vaulted ceiling in imitation of Henry VII Chapel, #WestminsterAbbey #SundayStonework #alwayslookup #CeilingsOnSunday #Tudor Revival #Architecture

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Dr Crystal Hollis @graffitiginger.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Taking advantage of the weather while it's still nice. Then it's back to churches for me! #springtime #woodland #wander

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

'The Monastery of Fountaynes in Yorkshire a Cell of Clareuale Founded in the yeare of Or. Lord MCXXXII ' Drawn and engraved by Daniel King, Published in William Dugdale's Monsaticon Anglicanum or The history of the ancient abbies, and other monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and

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Dr Crystal Hollis @graffitiginger.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Closing soon! Looking for submissions on communities, spaces, and structures. Feel free to get in touch! #CallForPapers #Cfp #Medieval trivent-publishing.eu/blog/post/33...

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 10/04/2025

pleased to announce my Collection now has an Ely. Now if I can just find good drone 360s of Lichfield, Chichester. Also St Asaph, Bangor, St Davids, Southwell and Ripon.

Blender screen of my main size order file. Ely is highlighted in orange next to Winchester, although arguably Winchester was the more ambitious initial build, Ely filled out more afterwards by actually having a west block built. Behind Ely is Salisbury, Canterbury, Durham, Westminster Abbey, Lincoln, York, New St Paul London and Old St Paul London.

The Ely model in my old working doc that was based on measured ground plans rather than new sourced measurements so some of these are wrong. Still I thought I would bring it in. It's upper of the bottom right three, with tiny Rochester and spired Norwich.

Overhead view of my original medieval English Cathedrals working doc. Missing are models of Lichfield and Chichester, also the Welsh Cathedrals (which were under Canterbury, sorry Wales) of St Davids, St Asaph and Bangor, and the two satellite collegiate churches of Ripon and Southwell.

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Lily Mars @lilymarswrites.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

OMG HOW COULD I HAVE MISSED ABSOLUTE UNIT DAY *sobs* @theantim.bsky.social @clairmail.bsky.social

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