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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

In old England, an ale-pole or ale-stake, set like a flagpole or suspended outside an inn, marked that fresh ale was on sale. Often dressed with ivy, long linked to Bacchus, the Roman god of drink and revelry, it called passers-by to stop and share the cheer 🍺 #FolkloreSunday

A collage exploring the alepole tradition. At left and top right are 17th-century-style illustrations of alepoles and hanging ale signs, showing poles and suspended greenery used to signal ale for sale. At centre and bottom are close photographs of ivy, one climbing tree bark and one rimed with frost, linking the practice with evergreen plant lore. Illustrated sources from The History of Signboards by Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten (1866).

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

A small film of spring flowers from my garden because we recover from stress 60% more quickly when we look at plants & if we find them beautiful our brains release dopamine, lifting mood. Pause for a few moments to help your synaptic soup 🌿🧠:

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Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

‘‘Afraid?’ murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love. ‘Afraid! Of HIM? O, never, never! And yet — and yet — O, Mole, I am afraid!’’ — Kenneth Grahame, ‘The Wind in the Willows’ (1908) #WyrdWednesday 🎨Arthur Rackham, ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’ (1939)

The Piper (Pan) looks out at us while holding his pipes, a baby otter between his hooves.

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

And here is the river Acheron, if you were wondering about a trip to Hades! Episode 2 of Divine Fury is out tomorrow, if you want to join me…

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Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

In Robert Eggers’ 2015 film ‘The Witch,’ the goat named Black Phillip tempts Thomasin by asking, ‘Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?’ #WyrdWednesday

A black goat against a black background.

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The pwca is the black-furred Welsh version of the pooka - a forest goblin trickster. Sometimes a pwca uses a magic candle to lead travelers off the path, and other times a pwca transforms into a black animal, such a horse, and entices travelers to chase it. 🎨Tony DiTerlizzi #FairyTaleTuesday

A black-furred pwca in a tree. Illustration by Tony DiTerlizzi.

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Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Wyrdlings! "But I like animals better than the best people," said Doctor Dolittle & since it’s his creator Hugh Lofting's 140th birthday, falling on the Feast of the Ass – yes, that was a thing in the Middle Ages – it’s: “Talking Animals!” as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic. Heehaw!

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Jane Tomlinson - Artist 🌻⭐️ @janetomlinson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I’m making great progress on my latest #painting: a hand painted #map of the main #megalithic sites in #Oxfordshire. I have literally no idea why I didn’t paint this yeeeears ago. #workinprogress #standingstones #ancientstonebothering #StandingStoneSunday #stonecircles @megalithic.bsky.social

Work in progress of a hand painted map of ancient Oxfordshire

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Photos from Twelfth Night Wassailing on the Southbank, London, organised by The Lions Part theatre group. The Holly Man.

Colour portrait photo of a man dressed as The Green Man. Emerald green face paint, holly with red berries on his head and cover his shoulders, katkins dangle in front of his face. Ivy leaves are stuck to his face. The background is very dark and the head and shoulders of the figure are lit by direct sunlight.

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Uwe Edelheid feat. mariazielenbach @mariazielenbach.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Look at my baby! ☺️ I reedited Modole folk stories published 110 years ago Old journals and archives are full of story collections in underdocumented languages, often difficult or impossible to access for both linguists and the speaker community. Using legacy material is valuable and sustainable 🙌🏻

Photo of a book. The cover is green and reads in white script
Half silver, half gold
Modole folk stories and a first sketch grammar
Maria Zielenbach

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Rowdy Geirsson @rgeirsson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Fenrir wants to hold Tyr’s hand (courtesy of Gustave Doré).

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Markus Oehler @markusoehler.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The University of Vienna is offering 40 pre-doctoral positions in the humanities, social sciences, and cultural studies. Anyone interested can find more information here. Otherwise, please forward this post. careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 13/01/2026

View of Oudenaarde in Winter, Edmond Van de Vyvere (1880-1950).

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 13/01/2026

“The hard snow held me, save where now and then One foot went through. The view was all in lines Straight up and down of tall slim trees” (Robert Frost) 🎨 anihilova

Bleak winter landscape of a frozen, snow-covered field stretching toward two distant stands of bare trees. In the foreground, a shaggy black, dog-like creature crouches low in the snow, its glowing eyes fixed forward. Sparse grass blades and a trail of footprints mark the icy surface, heightening the sense of eerie solitude.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

“My colleagues are calling from downstairs, troopers are getting out from their tanks with guns and weapons, entering our building…” On 13 January 1991, Lithuanian TV presenter Eglė Bučelytė remains on air in a locked studio as Soviet troops storm the TV station

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Diocletian (284-305), the emperor who created the Tetrarchy (rule by four emperors). From Nicomedia (İzmit), now at Istanbul Archaeological Museums

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Part of the Neolithic stone circle at Castlerigg, near Keswick in Cumbria. Constructed in around 3000 BC, Castlerigg is one the earliest stone circles in Britain. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Cumbria #Castlerigg

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

St Cuthbert’s Church, Crayke, North #Yorkshire “St Cuthbert” window (2020) #HelenWhittaker The detail shows the Tale of the Affectionate Sea Otters who were reputed to have warmed & dried Cuthbert's feet after a night of him meditating & praying whilst standing in the sea. #StainedGlassSunday

The window drew inspiration from the book 'Cuthbert and the Animals 'by John Mc Manners & the Lindisfarne Gospels. So two otters link to “The Tale of the Affectionate Sea Otters” who were reputed to have warmed and dried Cuthbert's feet after a night of him meditating and praying whilst standing in the sea.
The Celtic knotwork border is influenced by designs in the Lindisfarne Gospels.

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Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Today in 1863 the world's first underground railway opened in London. Photos via Michael Rosen #Underground #London #Railways

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

For #StandingStoneSunday a #Neolithic human-shaped stela with a necklace and a belt, found in La Serre, Aveyron (#France). The lines on the cheeks are interpreted as facial #tattoos or scars. Dating 3000-2500 BC. In the late neolithic period several cultures living....🧵 1/2 🏺 #archaeology 📷 me

A stone sculpture displayed in a museum gallery, carved from rough brown rock.The figure is front-facing and stylized, with a rounded top, deeply incised facial features, and symmetrical patterns resembling eyes, nose, hands, and legs. Lines on the cheeks can be seen, as well as a pendant and a belt..
The surface is textured and weathered.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Something lovely for the weekend! Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo collage shows five cylindrical Minoan cups each with a single handle and a slightly flaring rim. Each cup is decorated with a different geometric polychrome motif as follows:

Top left: on a black background, a central band delineated by an upper and lower white line contains evenly-spaced dark-orange circles, each orange circle is outlined by a white line. Above and below the central band are swirling white vine-like lines.

Top right: on a black background, a large white spiral on the front of the cup and beside it a dark-orange oval with stylised white petals at each end which looks like a wrapped sweet!

Middle left: a central band of white and dark orange diagonal lines runs around the cup. Above and below the central band are alternating black and white diagonal shapes, the black ones look like shark fins

Bottom left: a central reddish-orange band delineated with a white line. Above the central band are swirling, spiralling white lines against a black background, and below the central band are alternating white and black diagonal lines.

Bottom right: all set against a black background. A central band delineated with white lines contains white ‘s’-shaped diagonal white stripes. Above the central band a row of red dots outlined with white circles. Below the central band a single white line on the black background.

This type of Minoan pottery is known as Kamares Ware, named after the Kamares Cave on Mount Ida on the Greek island of Crete where this kind of pottery was first discovered. Kamares Ware vessels were luxury items produced by palace workshops at Phaistos and Knossos on Crete. These five cups were excavated at Phaistos and are dated 1800-1700 BC.

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Brian Gallagher @bgallaghercoll.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

An Otter going about its business (swimming, diving, eating fish) on the River Clyde, east of Glasgow Green. If you watch to the end you'll get some other bonus fishing-beasts from the Clyde.

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Tales of Britain and Ireland @talesofbritireland.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Brit pop demon hunters where the barrier that prevents the demons coming through is called the wonderwall. And one of the Gallaghers and Damon Albarn fall in love. Is this a thing?

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

A hoard of 21 silver pennies, dating back to the mid-7th to 8th centuries, has been saved for Oxfordshire’s museums following a successful community fundraiser. Villagers from Stoke Row, together with local businesses, raised £1,300 to acquire the treasure. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/stoke-row-co...

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Stoke Row community unite to bring unique treasure to the Oxfordshire Museum

An early medieval treasure hoard is now in the hands of Oxfordshire County Council’s museum service to go on display following a successful fundraising campaign by residents in Stoke Row.Dating back t...

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Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Iran is seeing some of the most serious protests since 1979. Assessing what is actually happening is extremely difficult: internet and phones are down; Starlink is being jammed, thanks (presumably) to tools from allies 1/6

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 11/01/2026

Itämeri is the Finnish name for the Baltic Sea, literally translatable as 'east sea'. Yet keen-eyed geographers will know that the Baltic is in fact on the west side of Finland. So, Itämeri must be a calque of a Germanic word, likely Swedish Östersjön, coined with the Baltic to the speaker's east.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

In that hour when the sky moves from nursery pink and blue to a bruised half-light, spirits wake. They walk towards us down alleys made sodium orange. IA legion of invisible things making themselves known in footsteps, in rough bumpings. – Lou Kemp, Hookland artist, 1982

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

An incantation to soothe anger from nearly 4 millennia ago for those in need of one. It begins by telling us what anger is and does. “Anger goes like a wild bull, it continually leaps forth like a dog.” Anger is like a lion and a wolf. It is fierce. It runs. It tears at one’s face and stomach.

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Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Kick started the new work year with another installment of my 'research walk', retracing the parish boundaries of 17thC Portishead for my book on 'Everyday Life in the 17thC Village'. Got a taste of the 'Little Ice Age' - a period of colder temperatures that impacted the 17thC - by going out in -1!

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Waterstones Leicester Highcross @waterstoneslhx.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Perfect winter vibes and Christmas ghost stories. If the promised snow actually happens its the perfect book to curl up with

Picture of a collection of christmas themed ghost stories. Illusions of Presence

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Paul Wenlock Photography @pwphoto.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Best Friends 01, Denia, Spain. I spotted these two best friends looking down on the street below from their balcony whilst wandering the streets of Denia in 2025. www.instagram.com/paulw_photog... #dog #cat #balcony #friends #spain #denia #travel_photography #travelphotography #animals #pets

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Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

West Kennett Long Barrow, Wiltshire, July 2023. #TombTuesday

Raised barrow with an entrance surrounded by upright stones.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The intense gaze in 'Madame Canals,' (1905) is the most remarkable feature of Picasso’s markedly classical portrait - it is a composition inspired by traditional Spanish portraits and evokes the typology of figures in Picasso’s previous works, characterised by their slenderness.

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Tatiana Fajardo @tatiana1979.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Happy birthday to the great Gustave Doré, #BOTD in 1832. What's your favourite artwork by him?

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Classic Movie Hub @classicmoviehub.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I have to admit, I'm stumped... Movies about birds, other than The Birds? Happy #NationalBirdDay :)

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Nature Conservancy of Canada | Conservation de la nature Canada @ncccnc.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

It’s #NationalBirdDay! 🐦 Even in winter, birds are all around us.  What birds have you spotted so far this winter? Tell us below!   Discover how you can help our feathered friends get through the winter in your own backyard with Small Acts of Conservation: secure.natureconservancy.ca/site/SPageSe...

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #NationalBirdDay Artificial or stuffed doves were popular additions to funeral flowers . Seen here on Gates Ajar, pillow and sheaf-of-wheat arrangements.

Floral Gates Ajar funeral flowers with a young man's photograph inside the gates, with a stuffed dove atop the peak.

A flower pillow -- funeral flowers, topped by a stuffed dove. The Odd Fellows chain and the word Lavette are at the bottom of the pillow.

A carved stand and shelf hold funeral wreaths of flowers, as well as a sheaf of wheat topped with a stuffed dove, standing on an easel.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/01/2026

Birds lay eggs in a diverse array of colors, patterns, sizes, and shapes. After looking at nearly 50,000 eggs from more than 1400 bird species, researchers in Science found that egg shape is related to flight ability. Learn more on #NationalBirdDay: scim.ag/3YUZkQc

Birds lay eggs in a diverse array of colors, patterns, sizes, and shapes, as seen in this assortment from the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology collection.

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Today is National Bird Day! 🪶 One of our favourite items in the collections is a 19th century volume containing 76 watercolour illustrations by an unknown artist of birds local to Devon and Cornwall. 📷 EUL MS 23; digitised by @dhlabexeter.bsky.social #NationalBirdDay #BirdDay #Archives

Opened book, showing two small watercolour illustrations of birds mounted to the right-hand page. Each illustration is annotated with the name of bird. The top illustration features a sparrowhawk and the bottom illustration features a grey wagtail.

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lauraclassical.bsky.social @lauraclassical.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Good morning, my friend! It’s #NationalBirdDay! 2 pics of my nest-door neighbors from a weekend walk locally: “7 #swans a swimmin’” and too many ducks to count (but at least they’re all in a row!😉) Unbirdlievable how they all quacked me up! Happy Monday!

7 swans a swimmin’ (yes, 7- -look closer, one is just sticking out from behind another)…

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

#NationalBirdDay Hellenistic mosaic floor panel from Pergamon depicting an Alexandrine parakeet. 🦜 The Alexandrine parakeet species is named after Alexander the Great, who is said to have brought several birds back from India.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Hares, William De Morgan.

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

#NationalBirdDay - The colourful Bird Mosaic from Italica, Hadrian's patria (ancestral city), depicting 33 bird species. 🐦‍⬛🦆🪿🪿🦚🦜

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 05/01/2026

… and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.” (Kipling) 🎨 Pascal Campion #wintersky

A quiet, atmospheric illustration in cool grey-blue tones. Snow falls steadily over a city park, softening the outlines of bare trees and a gently arched stone bridge in the background. In the centre of the image stands a tall street lamp, its warm yellow light spilling onto the snow beneath it and catching the drifting flakes. Footprints curve along the path, where a small black cat moves across the scene with tail raised. The surrounding city buildings are only faintly visible through the mist and snow, giving the scene a hushed, solitary feeling — as if the cat truly owns the night.

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Another freezing day -5 this morning 🥶 Still lots of Lapwings heading south.

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Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

#WyrdWednesday falls on St Distaff’s Day this year, when in olden days spinning commenced again after the holidays. A great time for storytelling, so we give you: "Wyrd Women's Tales!" As this week’s topic – come and tell your story!

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The retention of vivid hues allows a window into the wearing of a garment that has survived more than 250 years. The #1750s caraco brocade bodice demonstrates the beauty of a supplementary weft allowing the flowers to float above the blue. Sold via #AugustaAuctions #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Back view of a bright blue brocade fitted bodice with multicoloured floral repeat. It has shaped elbow length sleeves and a peplum style hem

Side view detail of the blue brocade bodice that focuses on the shape of the sleeve and the fit of the body

A detail of the blue brocade silk fabric used for the 1750s bodice that shows the supplementary weft floral design

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