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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 8h

... in their collections, with more videos being released throughout the rest of the anniversary year. Please visit the Society’s YouTube channel to watch the various videos in the series: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliogra...

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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 8h

2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliographical Society is hosting a series of videos from libraries in the UK and around the world introducing viewers to items printed by Caxton ...

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Caxton 550 - YouTube

2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliogra...

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 8h

My lovely colleagues @bibsoc.bsky.social have done great work to mark the 550th anniversary of William #Caxton's work in Westminster. Check out the first batch of videos with curators, librarians and others sharing their favourite Caxtons!

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 6h

A unicorn trampling a snail with the head of a man, a c1520 misericord in the Tunstall Chapel of Durham Castle for #Woodensday.

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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 5h

Biddlestone Roman Catholic Chapel in Northumberland will be open for visitors between 10am and 4pm on Saturday October 3rd

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 4h

I realise not everyone can get to my book tour dates, so I will be doing an online launch event on Wednesday 7 October at 7pm (UK time) 🙂 For more info & bookings, please visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-buildi...

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 4h

A red kite following the plough this afternoon.

A red kite (milvus milvus), in flight, wings spread, against a blue sky.

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 7h

The beautiful shrine to St. Tibba, in Peterborough Cathedral 🤩 Tibba is the patron saint of falconers and is thought to have lived in the area that is now Rutland, during the 7th century.

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 11h

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - Anglesey Abbey, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Rose (Lady of Shallott) - 📷 24.09.2026 #elevensestime #RoseWednesday

Pale orange rose. Tight petals in the centre, fanning outward.

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Fiona Chartres @chartresfi.bsky.social · 12h

A short sighted demon wearing pince-nez in the 15thC doom at St Andrew's, Chesterton, Cambridge. #WednesdayWallPaintings

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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · 12h

Excited to read Rachel Morley’s new book Church Crawling, and my haul of nuntastic goodies has just arrived from Sherlock & Pages bookshop! 📖🔔🎉

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Fiona Chartres @chartresfi.bsky.social · 12h

Such a happy, tubby little winged fish man.... A very cheery carving on a 15thC misericord at St Michael's, Cambridge. #Woodensday

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 13h

St Jerome on the 1490s rood screen at Ludham, Norfolk. Half a century later he was dealt with by the reformers, who tried to completely excise his cardinal’s hat for being a symbol of 'popery'. The same was done to St Gregory's papal crown.

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Ian Ebbage @ianebbage.bsky.social · 13h

A chest (c.1340) with its original painted decoration, belonging to Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham #woodensday, in Glasgow's Burrell Collection

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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 13h

“Oh ye who have your eyeballs vexed and tired, Feast them upon the wideness of the sea.” John Keats. #WindowsonWednesday View last month from the 19th C Round Tower at Watermouth, North Devon.

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Ian Ebbage @ianebbage.bsky.social · 14h

The handsome Romanesque-style Y Capel (1860) in Llangollen, built as a Baptist chapel, and now Tourist Information Centre/ Art Gallery/ Public Library #windowsonwednesday

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 14h

St Andrew’s Church, Isleham, Cambridgeshire. A #medieval angel roof “with a carved date of 1495, with the name of its donor, Christopher Peyton” - Pevsner guidebook @yalepress.bsky.social #Woodensday #WoodCarvingWednesday

A medieval wooden roof of alternating tie-beams & hammerbeams. The hammerbeams have carved angels.

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Ian G 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 @landscapeian.bsky.social · 15h

A quick throwback to another social media platform where we used to post about #tinylions in churches. I felt I should post this one for @horatioforever.bsky.social and others after finding it in Rochester Cathedral this weekend! 🦁

A tiny figure of a lion on a floor tile in Rochester Cathedral, England

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James D'Emilio @demiliopics2.bsky.social · 17h

Sunset Point on I 17 this afternoon as the clouds broke around...sunset #Arizona #Southwest

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 29/09/2026

There are a few European languages in which the word for 'world' comes from words and roots to do with light – the world being the place lit by the sun. Lithuanian pasaulis 'world' is especially etymologically nice, as literally the under-sun (pa-saulė).

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 29/09/2026

You just bought some hand carved lettering from my shop, here's how to light it so it pops: www.youtube.com/shorts/7Mx7h...

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Displaying carved lettering - It's all about the light!

YouTube video by Frank Raw

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It lives! 30 years in the making, a year of writing, and my life for the next year. The Buildings Archaeologist finally exists in print. The book tour starts on 5 October and the official release date is on 8 October. For more info, orders & tickets: triskeleheritage.com/the-building...

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today’s North Norfolk 🚶‍♀️ 🚶🏻‍♂️ Wells Next The Sea - Holkham Beach - Burnham Overy Staithe The beach was almost deserted !!!

White clouds over sandy beach & sea with breaking waves.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Medieval floor tile from Shaftesbury Abbey in Dorset. The tile is on display in the abbey museum. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #ShaftesburyAbbey #Dorset

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Statue base with a dedication to the spirit of the Emperor and the god Mercury which was discovered at Birrens Roman Fort (Blatobulgium) in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own #EpigraphyTuesday

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sedgeford, Norfolk A thread 🧵 - Cottage with interesting stone, brick & tile walls. • End gable with random flint nodules, carstone & brick wall. • Wall with row of terracotta tiles of 4 designs. • Detail of carstone, flint, brick & terracotta tiles. Tiny carstone galleting. #TilesOnTuesday

Cottage. End gable of random flint nodules, carstone & brick. Blocked windows & new brick window frame with drip mould.
Side wall of stone & brick with terracotta tiles frieze.

Upper part of wall of rows of brick & a terracotta tile freize. Lower course of wall with carstone, flint nodules & brick. Infilled with tiny carstone galleting.

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Ian Ebbage @ianebbage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An Ash Tree overtopping the remains of Valley Crucis Abbey #thicktrunktuesday

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CathyLoweBerkshire @cathylowe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Douglas Strachan's loyal canine in All Saints, Cambridge (left), puts me in mind of the fine canines portrayed by Tom Denny, here for instance in St Catherine's College chapel. Both dogs point to the emotional hearts of the scenes they participate in 💙 #TraceryTuesday @churchartnature.bsky.social

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Letter Exchange @letter-exchange.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We’re back! Our first event of the season is: Type Archived: Inside London’s extraordinary Type Archive. Join us for an evening with Richard Ardagh as he takes us on a visual journey through one of the world’s most remarkable collections of typographic history. Tickets: letterexchange.org/events

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Steve @portaspeciosa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Question to church crawlers. If you were to head to 'East Anglia' for 3 days visiting medieval churches (none of which have been seen before by the visitors) where would you base yourself and which churches would you see. Many thanks in anticipation of your replies.

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Kermit and Fozzie Bear on a Road Trip!

ALT: Kermit and Fozzie Bear on a Road Trip!

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just gonna leave this here. For reasons.

A poem and a drawing. The poem starts at the top left of the page, is titled "Humanities" and is made up of a set of 6 haikus. The first and last ones are on the left side of the page, but haikus 2-5 are increasingly indented, The text of the poem reads:

Who needs history?
Literature? Languages?
Art? Philosophy?

These can only help
you to better understand
our humanity.

Best to let machines
read your books. And write your books.
Do your art for you.

You will never need
to think. Never need to learn.
You’ll learn to like it.

And when the end comes
you’ll have never burdened your
soul with any growth.

Someone selling this
sees profit in destroying
your humanity.

-- John Wyatt Greenlee

The drawing is at the top right. It's a black and white ink pen drawing made of abstract shapes and lines. It might look like a tree made of bird heads.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.

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James D'Emilio @demiliopics2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The #Romanesque abbey church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe (Vienne) The barrel vault is painted with scenes from Genesis. Can you spot Noah's ark? The detail is of the building of the Tower of Babel. Great set of ornamental pillar capitals too. #Architecture

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Helsbels @helenus3.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Owls keeping watch over the steps of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History a couple of weeks ago (and since 1860) #OwlishMonday #stonecarving

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 28/09/2026

A couple of red kites mooching around over the farm opposite this afternoon. #birds #canonr5

A red kite, milvus milvus, in flight, soaring against a pale blue sky.

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Stonking sunset behind @theul.bsky.social!

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The stunning 15th century roof structure of the Church of All Saints, Saltfleetby, Lincolnshire 🤩

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cute beardy face doodled at the back of ‘The copies of certaine letters which have passed between Spaine and England in matter of religion’, edited by William Bedell (London, 1624). Part of Peterborough Cathedral Library, @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Pet.P.2.38.

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm thrilled that A History of England in 25 Poems has been chosen as one of the Waterstones Paperbacks of the Year! I'm so grateful for this support - and especially to the booksellers in shops across the country who've championed the book. It's on offer too: www.waterstones.com/campaign/pap...

Social media card reading 'Waterstones Paperbacks of the Year' with an image of the cover of A History of England in 25 Poems. Also reads 'Available from your local Waterestones or Waterstones.com'

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anyone working on English historic buildings or with any Historic England image resource might be wondering why it's all broken. Wonder no more. An IT screw up of the first order. #Skystorians

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Fiona Chartres @chartresfi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Poor little ratty! A plump owl with beautifully curved wings carries his prey off on a 15thC misericord at St Mary Magdalene, Newark, Nottinghamshire. #OwlishMonday

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They treat those who seek peace as a threat to the public realm, while throwing a defensive cordon around those engaged in genocide. They treat environmental protesters as if they were antisocial thugs, while the antisocial thugs of the fossil fuel industry get a free pass to trash our lives.

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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ben innovates on Bach’s Prelude using an arpeggiator on his synthesiser and completes his video with a full performance of Ave Maria. To hear that wonderful composition and learn more about St Mary’s chapel, please follow the link to Ben’s video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVRN...

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Bach’s most HEAVENLY keyboard piece... has no melody at all!

You can support my work here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BXVFTEXGXUFT6 Thank you! …or visit www.benmatonmusic.co.uk, for my mailing address!

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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The talented organist Ben Maton recently visited St Mary of the Angels', Brownshill, Gloucestershire and played JS Bach’s Prelude in C Major arranged for the analogue modelling synthesiser.

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Ian Ebbage @ianebbage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

State-of-the-art Victorian shower in Erddig Hall NT near Wrexham #AllmetalMonday

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of several mosaics from the Roman Town House at Dorchester in Dorset. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #Dorchester #Dorset

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

👀 Church of St Mary, Old Hunstanton, Norfolk Mosaic - c1850 The church guide suggests it is based on a design Henry le Strange (of Hunstanton Hall) had seen in Vienna. #MosaicMonday

A corner of the mosaic with swirling stems & white flowers. Bordered by a semi circle of small flowers & then a border of intertwined stems.

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