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Ancient Egyptian pleasure boat found by archaeologists off Alexandria coast First-century luxury vessel matches description by the Greek historian Strabo, who visited city around 29-25BC

A fascinating discovery from ancient Alexandria > www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

If you're interested in #landscape #history and have a few hours tomorrow, do check out this free online conference run by the Society for Landscape Studies 👍

Have you booked a free place yet at our 2025 online AGM and Conference on 6 December? Only eight days to go. Please share widely!

Norwich Cathedral for #SteepleSaturday.

I think it's a single line, clockwise, spiralling out from the centre (dominant right hand?). But I'm going to have to have a go at drawing it later... 🤣

Whatever, it's confident, flowing.. one of those wonderful, very brief, moments in time that we rarely see...

#Archaeology 🏺

Walking in a woodland dell in Autumn.
#SurreyHills
#ForestFrday
#Trees
#Scape
#Treescape
#Landscape
#Photography

Ribblehead Viaduct, Yorkshire, photo by landscape photographer Paula Beaumont.

Everyone’s favourite - the ‘Wolf and Twins’ mosaic from Roman Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum) depicting the legend of Romulus and Remus. Dating to the 4th century AD, the mosaic is now part of the collections at Leeds City Museum. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain

Was feeling a little hard done by with the 5am start & the close to 2 hours of driving in the complete darkness 😫

...but wow did the Devon landscape come through 😳 I mean - absolutely incredible day to be out, despite the rather absurd round trip

#Autumn

If you're interested in landscapes and landscape history, this online conference should be right up your street...

The front page of the latest newsletter of the Society for Landscape Studies

Members of the Society for Landscape Studies will have received their latest twice-yearly newsletter this week 📰

To start receiving a copy, why not join the society? Full details can be found at www.landscapestudies.com/membership/.

Please share with anyone you think would be interested.

We're so excited to welcome our new cohort of History of the Book students! In Week 1, they will delve into artists' books, bookbinding, and textual scholarship

#historyofthebook #bookhistory

How can it be that we lost so many grand old houses in Norfolk? The landmark houses are gone but the memories live on in a very special book which has been republished in a revised edition with an additional 25…

I have the first edition and it is fascinating. Will definitely be picking up this updated version

www.edp24.co.uk/news/2545714...

🎨: Daryl V. Storrs, "Italian Landscape"

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The first McDonald's to open in England. This is in Woolwich

A descriptive plaque about this branch of McDonald's

In Woolwich for a couple of days. Here's a piece of local history in the form of the first McDonald's to open in England

Garden with large bronze geometric scultures amongst trees and flowering plants

UK sculptor Barbara Hepworth's garden, St.Ives, Cornwall, UK #WomensArt

‘We have to move’: historic village of Tempsford reels from plan to swell its 600 residents to 350,000 Bedfordshire village endured the Romans and the Danes – but can it survive housebuilders and a plan to turn it into a railway hub?

For those of you who know the history of Norfolk villages, Tempsford sounds like it's going to become the 21st-century version of Melton Constable > www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Google develops AI tool that fills missing words in Roman inscriptions Program Aeneas, which predicts where and when Latin texts were made, called ‘transformative’ by historians

Latin and AI. Two of my favorite subjects. What a fascinating article > www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

The stone circle

Scorhill stone circle is now the common name for Gidleigh or Steep Hill stone circle near the village of Gidleigh in the north east of Dartmoor. It dates to the Bronze Age and is 27 metres in diameter.eter. It has 23 standing and 11 recumbent stones. #StandingStoneSunday

Hey #Landscape fans. Do you have the latest copy of Landscape History yet? Mine dropped through the letterbox this morning. Weekend reading coming up!

A Hillfort from the air in a summer landscape of ripening fields

#HillfortsFriday Why can't every day be a Hillforts 🛖 day? 🤔🧐

Glorious Old Oswestry hillfort, #Shropshire, yesterday, seen on a return transit from north-east Wales during Royal Commission aerial survey.

Note 'responsive' fields showing geological cropmarks

📷 Mobile phone from the cockpit

The Saxon tower

View of All Saints' church

Couldn't drive through Northamptonshire without stopping to marvel at the phenomenal Saxon tower of All Saints' church in Earls Barton...

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Classic science fiction covers with a man escaping from a flying saucer on one and a space battle on the other

A couple more. Someone had left all four on the charity second hand book shelf at our local supermarket. Unfortunately I think I've found myself a rabbit hole to go down 🙄😆

Two classic science fiction novels with aliens on one cover and a robot on the other

Sometimes the cover art of a book just makes you want to read it! #classic #sciencefiction

Ocean with David Attenborough review – a passionate case against the ruination of the seas Released on his 99th birthday and presented in the context of his remarkable career, Sir David’s authority is matched only by nature’s grandeur in this visually stunning film

We saw "Ocean" yesterday. A very difficult watch but a very important one all the same. The destruction caused by deep trawling is unimaginable and should make people think twice. Luckily there is still some hope, if we could only agree to change our ways... www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

The flower fix: how nature could slash farm costs Planting wildflowers between apple trees could save UK farmers up to £3,000 per hectare per year

Wildflower strips in orchards attract insects that eat pests, reducing crop damage and cutting pesticide use. The savings can be significant, especially in bad aphid years. 🌸

A golden figure of Death cuts the thread of life

Death cuts the thread of life at the Asamkirche in Munich. An absolutely stunning #mementomori

Cornish tin was sold all over Europe 3,000 years ago, say archaeologists British team says new study ‘radically transforms’ understanding of bronze age trade networks

A direct quote from this fascinating article - "...the first commodity to be exported across the entire continent in British history." Well worth a read > www.theguardian.com/science/2025...