Custom House & warehouses reflected in the waters of the Purfleet.
King’s Lynn Customs House, Norfolk. 1683.
"One of the finest late 17th Century public buildings in provincial England" - #Pevsner
@yalepress.bsky.social
Originally a Merchants' Exchange, becoming a Custom House in 1718.
#Reflections #LocalHistory
Two bishops travel to Rome to fulfill Edward the Confessor's promise to go on pilgrimage. There is a large boat with two bishops at the bow watching over the others on the boat. There are two rowers, one on each side, and a helmsman at the back steering the boat. The boat's sail is raised and it has a cross on it. In addition to the two bishops, two rowers and helmsman, there are at least nine other people on the boat. Beside the large boat is a smaller boat with one person rowing it. In front of them all, perched on land, is a bird, who is watching everything. The water is green and the boat is wooden. The people on the boat are wearing cloaks and tunics in a variety of colours, such as blue, green and orange. Reference: Vie de seint Aedward le Rei (c.1230x1240, Cambridge, University Library, MS Ee.3.59, f. 14r).
Traveling by sea in the Middle Ages!
Two bishops (under the watchful eye of a bird) sail to Rome to fulfill Edward the Confessor's oath to go on pilgrimage.
Nachricht von der Deutschlehrerin: Bitte Wolf von Saša Stanišić anschaffen (sogar richtig geschrieben!)
In der 5. Klasse darf meine Tochter @sasastanisic.bsky.social lesen. Sehr cool! Rosenkohl kommt hier trotzdem nicht auf den Teller, so.
Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social
Today I finished cataloguing the #Scoresby boxes at Whitby #Archives! I've measured, researched and recorded over 240 letters, prints, maps, scientific diagrams and bits of paper cut into the shape of whales. The last thing I catalogued? A massive map of the North-West Passage.
Gandalf lisant à la bibli avec trois chandelles nues, risque incendie maximal (Fellowship of the ring extended edition)
J’aurai un signalement à faire contre Gandalf au prochain comité hygiène et sécurité de la bibliothèque du Gondor
Next year Göttingen will celebrate his 250th birthday with a year full of exhibitions and events at the original sites where Gauß lived and worked. So 2027 may be a good year to consider a trip.
Schöne (und mutige) Idee.
Please support the petition against the planned #closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition
weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...
Konf: Gentes, nationes & andere Grossgruppen. Geschlechtergeschichte von Kollektivbezeichnungen in der Vormoderne
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-160733
Oldenburg, 19.03.2026-20.03.2026, Prof. Dr. Almut Höfert, Projekt «gentes und nationes. Geschlechtergeschichte von …
Komm her! wir setzen uns zu Tisch, Wen möchte solche Narrheit rühren!
Die Welt geht auseinander wie ein fauler Fisch, Wir wollen sie nicht balsamiren.
#Goethe
The roof timbers in Saint Mary’s Collegiate Church (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2021)
The roof timbers in Saint Mary’s Collegiate Church Youghal which have been carbon dated to 1170. Likely built by shipwrights so essentially an upside down boat. www.patrickcomerford.com/2021/08/sain... #speirgorm
alte Karte mit Grund im westlichen Harz - Goslar, Hildesheim
Ein Sammelpunkt der Harzschützen war die Bergstadt Grund (Bad Grund, Harz), weshalb Tilly am 10. Februar 1626 einen Vergeltungsschlag gegen Grund begann und die Stadt in den folgenden Tagen völlig zerstörte ... 1/2
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Just had to grade a bunch of students' tasks; the whole spectrum from 20 page essay via source description down to a session protocol was infested by these pompous-but-meaningless ai-phrases explaing to me in this pretentious tone how the medieval world was. I am between disgust and paranoia atm.
Y’all. I’m at wits end. The lack of reading (let alone being able to read for anything beyond content). How are you handling this? How do we do our jobs? Do we have to just teach … reading now? Literacy? Content comprehension?
“Cities and civilizations rise and fall, but the sea is always the sea.”
Philip Hoare “Leviathan, or The Whale”
photo by Kristians, 16
The #whales are back at the #IMC in Leeds! 🐳
Many thanks to our wonderful speakers for accepting the invitation! Details of our two panels are available here:
imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/pre...
#IMC2026 #medievalsky #oceanspast #histwhale
A medieval manuscript illustration from the British Library royal ms 20 a ii f3r. Image shows a medieval king in a green gown and wearing a crown. He is stood within a burning castle with arms in the air and a look of 'oh dear' on his face
"this is fine"
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
Die Geschichte lehrt, aber sie hat keine Schüler.
Man gibt Faschisten keine Bühne. Was hat sich die Redaktion von #CarenMiosga dabei gedacht? Fragt die Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg - Carl von Ossietzky.
Zur Diskussion über die Abschaffung des Lateinunterrichts: Ich habe im Lateinunterricht 2 wichtige Dinge gelernt: 1. einen kulturhistorischen Überblick über die Fundamente unserer europäischen Kultur, 2. eine analytische Betrachtungsweise von Sprache und Grammatik. Beides brauche ich täglich.
I know that these things generally make little difference, but I would advise medievalists to sign the petition to save Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Calgary. #medievalsky c.org/gGvyrHcwYt
mood aboard
They will learn to enjoy it, for sure. After I first heard about Brehon law and those peculiar cases from Dáibhí Ó Cróinín in Galway some 20 years ago, it stuck with me ever since. Never forgot the king-stinging bees.
The study of the environmental impact of hanseatic trade and is a truely novel approach. If only you feel just a tingle of interest, do it. Not only is Sander quite a sharp thinker, Ghent is a great place to be, too!
The part in the Harry Potter series where the Death Eaters take over the Ministry of Magic so that it does whatever Voldemort demands is very useful when I’m explaining to my young boys what’s currently happening in the United States Government.
Jack Kerouac’s 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
#books #literature
Great contributors all of them, opening a European perspective. Andya goid bit of #maritimehistory, too
