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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 26/07/2026

Introducing nature's jewel 🪲 Rose chafers are great for the ecosystem, with adult beetles helping to pollinate flowers, whilst their larvae break down decaying plant material in compost heaps and leaf litter, recycling valuable nutrients back into the soil. 📷️: Mike Wenham

A bright metallic dark green beetle against a furry, thorny stem

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Balloons, the Blitz and the Tower of London - a short piece I wrote for the HRP blog on Remembrance Day 🌺 www.hrp.org.uk/blog/barrage...

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat

Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pen and ink drawing of himself mourning his wombat, showing a man kneeling over the corpse of a rotund wombat, its toes turned up. They are in front of tomb bearing the date 6th November 1869, and a palm tree

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

“May you love this as much as we have. And may monsters inhabit your dreams and give you as much solace as they have given me. We are all creatures lost and found. For the journey is eternal, but so is the faith.”

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Sil Mari @panisil.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

🖋️ Inktober 19. Arctic Shaman mask inspired by Inuit goggles #inktober #art #украрт

Shaman mask made of bone, deer antler, bells, tassels and beads

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

dont usually post art on main but we saw del toro’s frankenstein and it was the most beautiful and devastating thing I’ve ever seen @realgdt.bsky.social

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · 16/10/2025

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

5 Palaces. 1 Walk. (+ 4 more palaces because why not) 🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰 @gabrielle-fields.bsky.social

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Oscar on set (honoring Wrightson)

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Very cool bit of scaffolding at Hampton Court! It depicts the palace’s iconic ‘Great Gatehouse’ as Wolsey would have known it, standing two storeys higher than the current structure today 🏰

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

you know you’ve been in the TNA too long when you shut your eyes and can still see your order locker

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

visited our oxford so had to revisit lyra’s oxford 🧭🐻‍❄️🌌

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The legendary Sir Peter Scott at the WWT London Wetland Centre - full disclosure, I spotted him from a distance and thought “I’d know that (inherited) forehead anywhere!”

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

it’s not just the ravens who you’ve gotta watch out for #toweroflondon

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 12/08/2025

Maybe the most beautiful possible description of what an essay can do, what I feel my job is. Of course it's from Patricia Lockwood. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tara overestimated my reading, as people often do. She gestured to one essay: so much information arrayed there. No, I said, look.
You can put things in an essay that you yourself do not know. There is a library all around you. You take a book off the shelf, find the fact or the sentence and put it where it fits. It never belonged to you, you never really had it. It comes from the library, it goes back to it. And it waits there for the next one who needs it.

Really it's choosing a lifetime of homework, I said. Did they ask you to write about the X-Files? someone piped up. No, I wanted to write about the X-Files.

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 11/08/2025

BBC News have carefully written up Dennis' story, including interviews with his brother, David. You can read that article here ⬇️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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British man who perished in Antarctic glacier found 65 years later

His brother tells BBC News that he had lost hope he would ever be found.

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 10/08/2025

It's August and there's only one question that matters. Are you Beechey Body Ready?

The 1850 sketch by George Frederick McDougall (of HMS Resolute) showing the three Franklin Expedition graves on Beechey Island, from ADM 7/190 at the National Archives.

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The most scandalous man in Elizabethan England? Forgot to share this little piece I wrote about Robert Dudley last month 🗡️🏰👑🥬 www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-lon...

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 18/07/2025

Jane, Lady Franklin died OTD in 1875, aged 83. She was interred in the catacombs of Kensal Green Cemetery, and I'm not kidding when I say that getting down there to pay my respects in person was one of the best days of my life. www.illuminator.blog/p/jane-catac...

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Vault 61: Jane Franklin in the Catacombs of Kensal Green Cemetery.

By Logan Zachary & Alison Freebairn. April 7th, 2024. { ▽ Jane Franklin, nameplate and coffin. } Jane Franklin’s final resting place ...

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

looking through caricatures on the npg and william iv is giving big golden path energy

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Had a fab time at the NMM listening to @sampopewriter.bsky.social and her wonderful talk on the life of Eleanor Anne Porden - thanks so much for a fascinating evening (and happy 230th birthday to EAP herself!)

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #NationalSeashellDay Beautifully engraved memorial shell, Conwy, Wales, 1833 museum.wales/collections/...

Engraved turban shell, text and a monument

turban shell engraved with palm trees, a tomb, and text

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

city curators lured to countryside (thanks for having us #draytonhouse!)

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

unlikely highlight from awful doctor who finale - the other office got trampled by bone beasts :) #doctorwho #toweroflondon

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Tatiana Fajardo @tatiana1979.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

#Caturday My cat at 4 a.m.

Monster next to a woman in her bed. She's pretty calm, btw.

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Nicholas @thekroog.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Caught myself browsing job listings again for McMurdo Station.

A black and white bumper sticker that reads: "Pardon my dreamy, melancholic driving, I'm... Imagining the icy vastness of ANTARCTICA"

It is from ARCANEBULLSHIT.COM

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

From bomb damage and barrage balloons to soldiers, prisoners and even a medal-winning pigeon - I had the incredible opportunity to research and retell the story of the Tower during WW2 ✌️🏰🌺 #VEday #towerpoppies #historicroyalpalaces youtu.be/jksXfXXCRYg?...

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How Close was the Tower of London to Destruction in the Blitz?

YouTube video by Historic Royal Palaces

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

What a day ❤️ The Tower Remembers (6 May - 11 November 2025) #towerpoppies #historicroyalpalaces

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

It was wonderful to plant 3 of the nearly 30,000 ceramic poppies at the Tower today 🌺 The installation commemorates the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and will be on display 6 May- 11 Nov - come and see it if you can! (Also featuring baby’s first interp panels 😁) #towerpoppies

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

#WorldPenguinDay party time! www.bonhams.com/auction/2769...

jaunty penguin waiter brooch holding tray with glass and bottle. Diamond bow tie and towel over his arm.

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James Fitzjames @captjamesfitzjames.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

On 25 April 1848, Captain Fitzjames wrote an addition to what is now known as the Victory Point Note. As per Captain Crozier's one-sentence contribution, they would start the next day for Back's Fish River. This is the last known written record of the Franklin Expedition. [RMG] #NavalHistory

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I do quite like Greenwich actually 🏴‍☠️🇦🇶⚓️

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

great god this is a (historic royal) place 🇦🇶 Captain Scott is one of the many fabulous ‘palace pioneers’ exploring Hampton Court this Easter holiday - it was great chatting with our brilliant wardrobe manager Erin about Con’s polar wardrobe and seeing her handiwork in action 😁

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

may we all be as cheerful as the lovely chap who says hi to the queue at the british library each morning <3

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Alexa Price, Ph.D. @downeast-alexa.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

*crosses out “planting flags” and replaces it with “putting tariffs”*

An embroidery hoop with five cross stitched penguins walking on ice across the bottom third of the fabric. Cross-stitch cursive script filling the rest of the space says “strange men planting flags on our land is no basis for a system of government”

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

always nice to find a new window to peer through 🌤️ #hamptoncourtpalace

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

saw jared harris do hamlet that was also titanic yesterday and I might never recover

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Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️ @minbutler.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Always nice to be back on the HRP podcast - this time with my lovely colleagues for #womenshistorymonth Join me in my interregnum era to talk about Elizabeth Claypole - one of the lesser known ladies of Hampton Court 💕 open.spotify.com/episode/7Clq...

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