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@morrismummer.bsky.social
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History, folklore, music, archaeology, books, Guardian reader. Castle botherer and humanist church crawler. Retired railwayman. Morris dancer and Mummers player. And trees. Lots of trees.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 5h
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1. #MedievalSky, grab a lifejacket and a seasickness bag, we’re casting off on a thread about the Norman invasion fleet in 1066! 960 years ago, the Normans landed at Pevensey and established a base at the Roman shore fort which was already succumbing to erosion from the sea on its south side. 1/20
Photograph of Pevensey Castle with an information board in the foreground showing an artists impression of how the view may have looked in 1066 when the sea came almost up to the walls.
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Storyteller Fran @storytellerfran.bsky.social · 21h
It’s Michaelmas, the feast of St Michael the Archangel. Here he is on the astonishing doom painting in Wenhaston church, weighing souls in competition with the Devil!
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's walk: sunlight through the leaves.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That incident at Fairford as it happened.
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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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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's *nothing progressive* about the current Labour Party.
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We should let people dream of something besides labor
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The bones of the dead, collected from the ground, have now at last been interred here. Chiesa di Santa Maria Incoronata, Milan. #MementoMoriMonday
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Best of luck to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social members going on strike for over a month. Nobody does this willingly - it’s a last resort, unlike that enormously rich university’s slash and burn tactics.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've seen two of these, both on DVD after the event. And, honestly, I don't feel like I've missed anything. (Friday Night Lights and Band of Brothers if anyone's interested.)
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From Pevsner's description of the chancel windows in St Edmund's, Southwold: up the jambs and round the arches. (Also, if I had a band, the title of our debut album.)
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In my area, the average daily high during June, July and August was 24C, according to provisional Met Office data. This is 3.9C above the long-term summer average between 1991 and 2020.
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John Angus Spencer-Barnes 🏳️‍🌈 @johnbarnes.org · 26/09/2026
It was wonderful to lead the Preston Pride parade today as the Town Crier and Bellman of the city and to make the opening proclamation. Love is love my friends.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
St Edmund's, Southwold. The flèche on the roof is from the 1867/8 restoration but is apparently a faithful copy of the original, which once held a Sanctus bell. A symphony in flint and stone. #SteepleSaturday
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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To the 'AI is out of the bottle' folks: so were cigarettes, so was opium, so was uranium in household goods, so was asbestos. It's perfectly possible to look at a financially successful product, decide it's dangerous and work to control it it
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Hugh Willmott @hugh-willmott.co.uk · 25/09/2026
A little late for #FindsFriday but I’ve finally started working through this year’s artefacts from #CerneAbbey At 22mm it's tiny but this fragment of Anglo-Saxon window glass is not only unusual but also really important for our interpretation of the site Just goes to show, size isn’t important
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Trivulzio Diatreta Cup, in the Archaeological Museum in Milan. Fourth century. Glass. The inscription is held clear of the bowl by filaments of glass, and reads: BIBE VIVAS MVLTIS ANNIS, 'Drink and live for many years'. #FindsFriday
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Also from today's walk. Lovely to see everything so green again. Not so long ago this was mostly yellow.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today's walk: the rainbow leaf. A couple of seconds later the light had moved, the leaf was no longer backlit and was a regular greeny brown. I was very lucky.
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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The gaudiest symbol of the upper class is out of fashion – I couldn’t be happier. If you need the whole world to know how rich you are, just print out your bank statement and tape it to your forehead inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...
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The gaudiest symbol of the upper class is out of fashion – I couldn't be happier
Kate Lister: If you need the whole world to know how rich you are, just print out your bank statement and tape it to your forehead
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 24/09/2026
I imagine the title "Newcastle University Professor of sustainability" will start appearing in all sorts of climate change/fossil fuel approval documents.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's all about history isn't it though. The men said they were disappointed the ring failed to meet its reserve bid of £8,500, but they would attempt to auction it again in the future... the men hoped it would auction for...somewhere between £25,000 and £30,000. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Medieval ring found by Suffolk detectorists fails to sell
Two detectorists hoped the 14th Century ring would sell for between £25,000 and £30,000.
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Woodbridge Tide Mill Museum UK @timimu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Dressing the stones yesterday down at #woodbridgetidemillmuseum so that we can mill again! Yeay!
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nice thread of interesting objects. (I'm never going to be a salesman am I?🤣)
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mahmood is a complete moral failure. As are the entire Labour Party.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Mort
The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
History and heritage don’t belong to nations, political ideologies or people who claim to be more “authentically” English than others. They belong to everyone, whether your family has been here for a thousand years or ten minutes. You are part of the story.
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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I grew up on stories of Henry Blogg. Henry Blogg was a lifeboatman at Cromer who couldn't FUCKING SWIM. His gallantry won him a BUNCH of medals (go look him up or read Cyril Jolly's biography). He went out to sea in a glorified rowboat. Over and over again.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Last night's walk. Beautiful evening. Good to see everything so green again after the summer heat.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.medievalists.net/2026/09/kore...
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Korea’s Oldest Firearm Discovered During Landmine Search - Medievalists.net
A small bronze firearm discovered during a landmine search in South Korea has been identified as the country’s oldest surviving gunpowder weapon.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just come across a great name, Maptid Violet, Lecturer at Aldeburgh church. He's also recorded as Mapted. He was ejected from Aldeburgh for being a scandalous minister (probably not Puritan enough). blog.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/...
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CCED: Person Display
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fantastic news Latest records show that #RNLI donations have increased by 5000% over the past couple of weeks after far-right backlash. The RNLI is on track to record its highest annual fundraising total in its almost 200-year history. Donate here rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sad to see
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Some snakes, however, are unable to multiply, as they are only adders.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
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Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
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Photo of Farage on Gb news
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nice addition to my little collection of railway tat. The Bristol & Exeter Railway was taken over by the GWR in 1876, and the line from Taunton to Barnstaple opened in 1873, so there's a narrow window for the printing of this luggage label. The line closed in 1966.
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 21/09/2026
One of the most influential voices of the American Revolution: Thomas Paine. Paine's incendiary critiques of tyranny, organised religion, slavery, and extreme inequality, have kept his work on humanist bookshelves for over two centuries. #HumanistBookshelf
‘Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.’
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On our recent sleeper journey we had our passports checked by the German Border Police at Singen (at 1am!) I at least practiced my German, wished them a good morning, and said, as I handed our passports over, said, 'Nur zwei Personen in diese Abteil,' intending it to mean:
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We really do have to stop this plundering of our history. I don't care if it's reported to a Finds Liaison Officer, once it's sold it's gone. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Fifteenth Century rings found by metal detectorist near Northallerton to be auctioned
A semi-retired architect finds two rings within a four-month period in a field near Northallerton.
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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Honestly FFS. All context, all organics, anything of any archaeological significance gone. Just like that. But hey, it's shiny, eh? This has to stop. 🤬 This is why: bigbookoftorcs.com/2024/09/11/d... #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Play of light A photograph The way I used to be Some half-forgotten stranger Doesn't mean that much to me Trick of light Moving picture Moments caught in flight Make the shadows darker Or the colours shine too bright Neil Peart/Rush 'Available Light'
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 18/09/2026
We'd like your help with something. The one hundredth anniversary of Ursula's birth will take place in 2029. This may seem a long time away, but we’re already starting to think about how to celebrate Ursula’s life and art. We’d love to add your ideas to the mix—there's a brief survey here:
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Centenary event planning
Please click the link to complete this form.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Totally agree and there's some great recommendations in the thread.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
At Wembley for Arizona State Sun Devils vs Kansas Jayhawks. Milan to the Mid West in 36 hours via Brussels and London. And by train all the way! 🏈🏈🏈
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Doctor: I've tested you're warts, pirate captain, and they're benign. Pirate captain: no, there be eight. #InternationalTalkLikeAPirateDay
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The empty stock for our sleeper adventure arrives at Milano Porta Garibaldi for a right time departure at 1515. We arrive Brussels Midi at 1124 tomorrow.
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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm not sure about this AI stuff, y'know...
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Roman tower, later part of a monastery (hence its survival) in the grounds of the Civico Museo Archaeologico in Milan. It's incredible. However, words cannot express my disappointment when, on our way in, we saw the notice that read, in Italian and English, 'The bookshop is temporarily closed'.
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morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In France. An underground chapel. With a possible hermit's cell. 😍
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