Dear wise ones, is there a way of saying 'first in, last out' in Latin?
06.03.2026 10:04
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Dear wise ones, is there a way of saying 'first in, last out' in Latin?
For the start of #BritishScienceWeek we are highlighting Marietta Pallis, ecologist, artist and author studied the #NorfolkBroads. Fraxinus pallisae is named after her. norfolkrecordofficeblog.org/marietta-pal...
'Author and researcher Dr Clare Sandford-Couch is part of a group of academics researching the history of women in the prison and co-wrote the book Newcastle Prison: A History, 1828-1925.'
This is fantastic! Letters from soldiers in #WW1 found in an old suitcase
mlfhs.uk/zion
The Bury Psalter was conserved thanks to a grant from @thenmct.bsky.social !
Want to feel ancient? You can search Find Case Law by emoji. What a brave new world [Find Case Law search for "😄"] caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search?query...
The first page of the translated saga, with floral motifs as decoration in the margins.
For #WorldBookDay we're highlighting one of William Morris’s calligraphic manuscripts on Icelandic sagas. Pictured here, unfinished, is his translation of Egil’s Saga. Egil's Saga is an Icelandic saga on the lives of the clan of Egil Skallagrímsson, an Icelandic farmer, viking and skald (poet).
Screen grab of a call for papers at Leeds IMC. The text reads: TIME FOR CHANGE: TEMPORALITIES & CASTLES Call for Papers - Leeds IMC 6-9 July 2026 - 'Temporalities' What is a castle in time? Is there a time of castles, for castles? Can castles be atemporal? What does a castle studies engaging with questions of temporality look like? Whose castle temporalities matter? Can we call time on the castle studies of yesterday, yesteryear? Can the lens of temporality challenge castle knowledges and interpretations? This panel welcomes proposals which examine temporalities and temporalities in castle studies as a field of inquiry at the intersection of (among others) medieval studies, architecture, archaeology, history, heritage and medievalism. Papers of between 15-20 minutes, by researchers at all career stages, discussing any aspects of castle studies research including but not limited to the following, are welcome: • Temporality in castle studies; • Remembering and memorializing in castle Obscured history, identities and heritages in spaces, communities, themes: past and castles past and present present; • Medieval temporalities and the heritage • Temporally situated antiquity, novelty and innovation in castles; • Planning, timing, scheduling, recording in • castle communities, lives, societies; • Ruined, lost and fictional castles in time Parallel and contradictory times; • Time and temporality in the reception of castles; Please send proposals (a title and abstract of no more than 200 words; short biography of 50 words or less), or any questions, to Dr William Wyeth (william.wyeth@english-heritage.org.uk) by 15 September 2025. This session is organised by Emma Fearon (Nottingham Trent University) and William Wyeth (English Heritage)
Please share: due to withdrawal I have a space on my castles panel for #LeedsIMC.
If you’ve an idea needs airing on time and temporalities in castles, give me a shout/submit via link! imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/pre... @imc-leeds.bsky.social @castlestudies.bsky.social
Original CfP below ⬇️
We can just imagine how useful this will be for late 15th c researchers!
This is St Peter's, Llancillo in Herefordshire. It sits on the Anglo-Welsh border deep in the Black Mountains and is only accessible by foot - being more than a mile from the nearest road.
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#WomensHistoryMonth 🎉
Bridgend & The Welsh Women's Peace Petition 🖊
"These women lived through the horrors of the First World War and lost loved ones.
They signed the petition in the hopes that it would never happen again."
hellohistoria.substack.com/p/bridgend-a...
#Wales #History
This image depicts a manuscript page from the "Guildbook of the Barber Surgeons of York" dated 1486. It illustrates the theory of the Four Humours, a medieval medical belief that temperament and health were dictated by the balance of bodily fluids: blood (sanguine), yellow bile (choleric), phlegm (phlegmatic), and black bile (melancholic). In the centre is a depiction of Christ, surrounded by figures representing these four temperaments. The manuscript is currently held at the British Library in London. Barber-surgeons used such manuscripts as part of their training for tasks ranging from bloodletting to surgery. Guildbook of the Barber-Surgeons of York (British Library Egerton MS 2572, folio 51v).
🧵The illustration “Personifications of the Four Humours” is a coloured image in the Guildbook of the Barber-Surgeons of York. Produced there, around 1486 with later additions, the the manuscript shows the 'Four Humours' bodily fluids which affected a person's health and
On Monday, at 1 PM, we welcome Casey Schmitt to our Ships & Seafaring Talk, where she will present her book "The Predatory Sea", a full-length study of the entangled history of captivity and colonialism using Spanish, French and English archives. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
Our featured testators include:
John Huggens (d. 1544) : A Gloucester cap-maker who made bequeathed many of his own hats to friends and family 🎩👒🎓
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On the seemingly endless quest for 'Scottish' manuscripts for the book project 'Scotland on Parchment', I am up bright and early and off to Durham. Cannot wait to see what awaits...
A photograph of an ornamental carved wooden swan, white with an orange beak, which is on a green ornamental wall bracket. The wall bracket is attached to the sandy coloured wall of a historic building, and flanked by two sash windows. The swan faces away from the wall, looking out towards the street. Image Credit: A Grade II Listed sixteenth-century swan. A carved wooden swan on an ornamental cast-iron bracket, 11 Sadler Street, Wells, Somerset. Image credit: Tony Cooper / Art UK, (CC BY-NC) https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/swan-281128
📢 In Case You Missed It: Our latest 'Will of the Month' post is live on our blog! 📢
📜 It explores the will of a Tudor landowner who left several interesting bequests, including of a nest of swans 🪹🦢🦢🦢
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🎉 The latest publication from the IMEMS Press with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social is this annotated diary, ed. & translated by Sara Ayres! 📚
Order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-gra...
You can read more about the scrapbooks on our blog glamarchives.wordpress.com/2019/08/21/t...
Years ago I found a note in the parish register of Glenfield in Leicestershire which instantly became one of my favourite Civil War commentaries:
'Churchwardens, not any; because
distractions many; & distructions mightie'.
I've returned to that document, explored other pages nearby, and found...
This is a great photo!
Cradley Heath women did a range of heavy industrial work in the early 20th century. Digitised sources about the Cradley Heath chainmakers and their fight for better conditions is at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... ⛓️
Pretty 14th-c fragment from a MS of Dominican author Nicholas of Gorran's Commentary on the Pauline epistles (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 1685)
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object100612/en/
Le remploi comme pratique de communication religieuse #infoclioevent
Roger Lowe's diary, March 1663
'When we came to Winwicke I went ... to Mr Barker's to heare Organes. I never heard any before, and we ware very mery'.
Two pages of a notebook filled with handwriting in black ink.
Noting down and passing on family recipes is nothing new: our latest #NewAccession is an 1816 notebook titled “Recipes", possibly by Phillip Hall from Swanwick Grange in Alfreton. It even contains recipes for natural remedies to treat things like coughs.
#19thCentury
🔖For the diary!
📢 Seminar Cyfraith Hywel
🗓️ 11 April 2026
🗣️Speakers: Gerald Morgan, Sara Elin Roberts & Sebastian Rider-Bezerra
📍Seminar Room @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social and online via Zoom
📧Email a.elias@cymru.ac.uk to register. Welcome to all!
New Project Explores the Craft of Writing in the Medieval Nordic World www.medievalists.net/2026/03/new-... #medieval
A sepia coloured page with two adult coots, one standing and one floating on the water. A coot chick is running towards the floating adult with its tiny wings flapping and beak open. Its parent is calm and sedate, floating on the water.
It's #worldwildlifeday and here are a group of beautiful coots, drawn by illustrator E. H. Shepard.
Shepard, best known for his illustrations for 'Winnie-the-Pooh', often made studies of wildlife in his sketchbooks.
Ref. ST/SB/7, (c) The Shepard Trust
#coots #ehshepard #eyawildlife
An amazing @bibsoc.bsky.social Winter Virtual Visit to the Vatican Library with a presentation by the Manuscript Department’s Stephen Metzger! So fun to see highlights like the Thomas Aquinas autograph ms! 📜🎉
'prolem facu nutriri'. LAO/Cj.4/fol.36v
Anyone out there dealing with C16 punishments of pregnant women? I have a record that says that the court ordered the child to be provided for by speech ('prolem facu nutriri'). Any idea what this means in practice? There are a couple of crossings out, but I'm sure 'facu' is the word written. TIA