Yup. Every. Single. Time
Yup. Every. Single. Time
Phone screen now 100% dirtier
โA 15th-century recipe collection, open at a drawing of a swaddled baby in a rocking cradle, provides a wider context for the other proteins found on the birth scrollโs surface: honey, milk, egg and legumes.โ
@cjfaraday.bsky.social at the Wellcome Collection.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Pretty sure that @christhebarker.bsky.social has seen Musk's first draft already
Charlie Bighamโs claims to be first manufacturer to successfully eliminate all edible #foodwaste across its production process
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
Image showing the new interface for the 2003 Medieval Markets & Fairs dataset.
Medieval Markets & Fairs in England & Wales: remember the excellent dataset published back in 2003? I've given it a snazzy new interface, incorporating various updates which were made following publication.
Separately, I'm working on extending it to 1846...
ihr-digital.github.io/markets-and-...
"waddaya mean 'stacks not snacks'?"
Maybe the soup tureens exhibition was closed ๐ค seems like the sort of thing I'd have taken pics of...who knows, was 18 years ago now
#GodImOld
An eighteenth century table fish tank, Winterthur Collection
Though according to the images I took, or rather didn't, the soup tureens weren't the game changer I'd hoped for, as I have no other images....lots of this fish bowl though!
A sign saying "Campbell Collection of Soup Tureens"
My camera roll reminds me that 18 years ago today I visited this game changer ๐
My, how time has flown
1656 pairs according to Wikipedia
Is it my imagination, or is London not very busy today??
Kings cross station roof
Yes, equally as impressive....though been a few years since I last visited
The great court, British Museum
I don't think I'll ever not be impressed by the roof over the Great Court at the British Museum
Schism?
Add this to all the rain of late and it might as well be the fourteenth century ๐
screenshot of a comment on bbc good food david harris, 10th may 2019, five stars: This was really yummy and simple. Instead of pork I used lamb, and in place of the onions I used a few leeks. My kids don't like paprika so I used oven chips instead, and as I'm watching my weight I substituted the crรจme fraรฎche with low fat sausages.
found the person in charge of food delivery substitutions
I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?
Strong vibes
Timeline cleanse, and god knows it's needed!
Anyone for chess?
youtube.com/shorts/Gfjcg...
At least that has Tasmania as cat food and not 'furball'!
News | โOne for the agesโ: British Museum reveals when Bayeux Tapestry tickets will go on sale - the exhibition is expected to attract up to 7.5 million visitors when it opens in September
A mock Allister Heath article headline that says 'living fluffy kittens will lead to the irreversible decline of the west'
Fact!
Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.
Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. Itโs about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Hereโs a little thread of whatโs inside:
What. Wait. What!
Huge news for Ceredigion & west Wales.
Imperial #Roman lead mines on Cardigan Bay were under the control of Domitian by AD 87 as confirmed by the discovery of these lead pigs
Only the 5th & 6th ingots ever found in Wales ๐ฎ
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
"Shipwreck excavated from Studland beach" share.google/NU6NHOxQ8tW7...
"Archaeologists from Bournemouth University have safely recovered the section of a 17th century shipwreck which was unexpectedly discovered on the beach at Studland in Dorset"