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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Crete! Home base for the next few days! Agii Apostolis, west of Chania, with the White Mountains as a backdrop. Also the location of the British hospital and then POW camp during WW2. Going to sit on that beach and not go on any silly adventures. Well, maybe one or two... #Greece #Travel #History

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Stained glass depicting Saint George at the Garden Museum, formerly St. Mary's Church, Lambeth. The church is medieval, though the stained glass was destroyed in WW2 and replaced in the 1950s.

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Fine additions to my collection! Not pictured is the magnet from the cheese museum, which I suspect fell out of my bag and is still stuck to the inside of a locker in the Louvre... #France #Travel

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

And that was France. You know what? I kinda like it.

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

He's also clearly wearing a mail shirt under his robes.

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

One final historic building before heading for home. The tower of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy. Built as his personal safe house in Paris during the bitter civil war between the Armagnac and Burgundian factions in the 15th century. #Medieval #History #France

A rectangular stone tower with arched windows.

A ceiling decorated with trailing vines and leaves

A medieval hall, the Duke sits at one end

The Duke of Burgundy is his fine robes and hat.

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

🎵They took all the cheese And put 'em in a cheese museum And they charged the people Three Euros to seem 'em🎵 Maison du Brie de Meaux, a small but perfectly formed museum of Brie cheese, showing how it was made, aged and sold. Plus cheese shaped hats! #Cheese #History #France

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I found it! I found the Greek cup showing Pasiphae holding the baby minotaur with a "the fuck is this?!" expression! #GreekMythology #History #Museum

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Historic church 6 : Basillica of Saint-Denis. Resting place of almost all the kings of France & filled with effigies. Their bodies were formally dug up and desecrated during the French Revolution but reburied on the orders of the restored Louis XVIII. #France #History #Medieval

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Historic church 5 : Church of Saint-Denys de la Chapelle, Paris. Joan of Arc stayed here the night before attempting to besiege English held Paris during the Hundred Years War. Next door is a later church dedicated to Joan herself following WW1. #Medieval #History #France

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Basilica of Saint-Seurin part 2.

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Historic church 4 of ?: Basillica of Saint-Seurin, just outside what would have been the city walls and modified throughout the middle ages, with beautiful 15th century statues and misericords. For centuries Roland's oliphant was kept here after the battle of Roncevaux. #Medievalsky #France #Travel

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The museum of Aquitaine. I may be some time...

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Museum 1 of ?: Musée du Vin et du Négoce de Bordeaux (Museum of Wine and Wine Merchants), housed in a cellar of an early 18th century merchants house where he stored his products. Covers the history of the wine trade in Bordeaux. #Medieval #History #France #Travel

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Historic church 3 of ? : Notre Dame de Bordeaux. 17th century baroque covered in statues and stained glass. #France #Travel

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Historic church 2 of ? : Saint-Pierre, Bordeaux. Built in the 14th-15th centuries as part of the pilgrim road to Santiago de Compostela, it is beautifully decorated with statues of angels and Saint James. #Medievalsky #France #Travel

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Historic church 1 of ? : Cathédrale Saint-André, Bordeaux. #Medievalsky #France #Travel

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

15th century stained glass in the candlelight. Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York. #MedievalSky

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A truly remarkable man. There's an amazing documentary about him on YouTube featuring interviews with him and people who knew him. youtu.be/c1JJqOXdg1A?...

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Mani Patrick Leigh Fermor SBS

YouTube video by Tom Sawford

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Facebook has reminded me it's been 2 years since I was in Crete "walking the ground" in the snow to find the spot where secret agent and travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor parachuted in and the cave where he hid while organising the kidnap of the islands German commandant. #WW2 #History #Travel ✈️🗺️

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Dr Kate Farrant Shaw @katefarrantshaw.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A foster kitten visiting the amazing “Paws on Parchment” exhibition which tracks how cats were depicted in the Middle Ages through texts and artworks from around the world www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a... #medievalsky

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Your semi-regular reminder that the British Library's Research Repository has stacks of open datasets from collections, and research by Library staff e.g. bl.iro.bl.uk/catalog?f[hu... #OpenAccess #OpenGLAM

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Dr Rory MacLellan @rorymaclellan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

It was great speaking to @mattlewishistory.bsky.social about my book on the Knights Hospitaller in Britain and their part in everything from the earliest witch trials to the Wars of the Roses #medievalsky shows.acast.com/gone-medieva...

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The Hospitallers: Warrior Monks | Gone Medieval

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Yf Christopher Nolan were trulye serious about makinge a filme of *The Odyssey* he wolde chaunge the L yn hys last name to M

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Dr Carolyn La Rocco 🏺🍃 @carrielarocco.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A 14th-century manuscript of the Romance of Alexander (the Great) that I saw in the Treasured exhibition at the Weston Library. [Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264; fols. 43v-44r].

A photo of one page of the manuscript (fol. 43v), which has illustrations of various scenes from the story. For me the point of the photo was not the scenes themselves, but the overall effect of the page, which is very intricately and elaborately decorated, with a lot of gold, elaborate patterns and borders, etc. The manuscript is lit so that the gold in particular catches your eye.

A photo of the manuscript open to the previous page (fol. 43v) and the page to the right of it (fol. 44r), which contains text of the story, as well as more illustrations bordering the text. The overall effect (to me) is very intricate and impressive.

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Nathen Amin ✒️📚 @nathenamin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Over on my newsletter 'Hiraeth - Longing for the Past', you can now watch my entire talk from this past weekend as well as read more than 100 history articles and interviews, all for free. Just give me a follow. If you enjoy history, there is no reason not to join in with a community of 5,000 people

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danniemcq @danniemcq.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

There's a reason his other book is "The Art of the Comeback".

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts #SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky

Cutting from 15th-century choirbook showing historiated initial O with red stylized flowers against blue background
V&A MS 990, 806-94

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Just a regular fox taking an #earlymodern Uber. Nothing to see here. #skystorians

A fox on the helmet of a human knight. The knight sits on a fabulous beast. The handdrawn image is part of a 1447 German manuscript (Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg, 2* Cod. 160).

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

If I bring my own hawk, can I get a look at the juicy manuscripts that need a letter of introduction?

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Ruralia Commoda by Pietro de' Crescenzi, in the British Library (specifically shelfmark IB.8650). I was short on time so grabbed photos of all the woodcuts showing people, but there's dozens more of plants and animals, like this Mandrake!

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

A printed version of the Ruralia Commoda by Pietro de' Crescenzi, in the British Library.

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Sometimes, you'll go to a library or archive full of hopes and come out empty handed. Other times you'll go in expecting nothing and find... well, WONDERFUL things! A late 15th century agricultural manual that turned out to be full of painted woodcuts illustrating the text! #MedievalSky

Pages of a medieval book showing painted woodcuts of plants.

A medieval woodcut showing a peasant treading grapes in a wine press.

A medieval woodcut showing peasants placing a fish trap in a river.

A medieval woodcut showing peasants mowing grass.

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Statue of Cretan hero Spiros Kayales overlooking the city of Chania. During the Cretan Revolt of 1897, the "Great Powers" bombarded the Cretan encampment. Seeing the Greek flag about to fall, Kayales grabbed it and used his own body as a flagpole, keeping it aloft. #Greece #Crete #History

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Could be a swan, could be Zeus in disguise. Either way, best steer clear... #Greece #Crete #GreekMythology

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Wearing #socks in sandals! This shroud from #Egypt, #Roman period, shows a woman wearing a tunic, jewellery and bright red socks in sandals. Socks were usually divided at the big toe, as they were designed to be worn with thonged sandals. Several examples of ... 🧵1/2 🏺

The lower part of a shroud depicting a woman. The feet of a woman can be seen below her garment. She is wearing red socks that are divided at the toe and sandals.

A shroud with a depiction of a woman. She is wearing a fringed tunic, a mantle is draped over her arms. The woman wears a great deal of jewelry; earrings, three necklaces, six twisted gold bracelets, and three rings can be seen. On her feet are red socks and black sandals.

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

More or less. The war pretty much broke him.

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A War of Shadows is a lot darker than Ill Met. A LOT darker.

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Statue of Nicolas Winton in Maidenhead railway station, the man who helped arrange the rescue hundreds of Jewish children from Nazi occupied Europe on the eve of the Second World War.

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Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

John Pendlebury urgently writes to his mother requesting vital supplies. From The Rash Adventurer by Imogen Grundon.

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