Dorothy Halfhide

Niftier than the average discarded libary shelving. At a rather higher than the usual - please come and take me away - price point however 📚

A row of Archive stacks with turning handles

In one of our archive strong rooms there is a shelf. The shelf does not contain the most exciting or interesting item in the archive but it does contain something amazing.

Read this short thread to find out more. 🧵👇

Thanks,Claire

In the moulding above the tomb of Bishop Blyth at Salisbury Cathedral is a possible mason's joke. We see rose after rose on a vine at the end of which there is a gardener in the act of cutting them down. A comment by the mason regarding the length of time he spent carving them?

We went to @wildkenhill.bsky.social today. The terrible weather forecast meant that the A47 to Heacham was remarkably clear and we arrived early for a very very interesting tour. Some significant rain in Thorney this afternoon but no thunder! (yet)

For context, this is over 200 years old and was made by prisoners of war with scraps from their meals (and a bit of material). It’s incredible that it’s been made and even more incredible that it still exists #NormanCross

... I can't "like" that....

@cromwellmuseum.bsky.social

I'd be interested...

I agree!

Next weekend there’s going to be a celebration of Patty Clare, the wife of poet John Clare, in Northborough near Peterborough. We’ve got some cracking speakers, food and music at the Packhorse, poetry, flowers and cake! Tickets are available on the door

We were a non-jelly family. But we had a "with" & a "without" sherry to cope with different parts of the families

The front cover of a scientific journal titled Ornithologist, dated 1 April 2025. The main headline reads: “BIRDS: DECODED - Groundbreaking New Science.” Below that, a subheading says: “What are the UK’s birds really saying? Pioneering new research provides the answers.”

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language.

The results tell us a lot!

Extracts below... 🧵

Cheese

From our collections: A portrait of Peggy Airey in a red robe, a floral vase and a sooty songster xylophone

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It was bad enough when she had to wear a seat belt. She said it was against her beliefs as a Christian Scientist....

But like my Grandma, born 1906, some didn't ever have to take a test...

A woman in Tudor dress sits at a table in a panelled room by lantern light doing a calculation with clay counters on a wooden board.

Today is #worldmathsday so here is our Comptroller’s wife adding up the household accounts with a counting board, together with a brilliant blog explaining how you can add, subtract, multiply and divide just by moving counters around.

#historysky #maths #medieval

urchin.earth.li/~aendr/kentw...

Bonkers in a good way though right?

Red enamel fondue pot with Swiss fondue, bottle of white wine, chunks of baguette and cooled Brussels sprouts...

Holiday lodge with "Treehouse" over a wooden bridge

Had a holiday with my sister, stayed in a "Treehouse" then enjoyed a first Swiss Fondue for years...

As recently noted @pborowomenshist.bsky.social

A dark room with lit lanterns and candles along a massive wooden table which stretches out towards a diamond paned window.

Light in the darkness for today’s #windowsonwednesday picture of the Great #Kitchen at Kentwell.

The #16thc style #lanterns are made of wood, with horn or parchment panes, and burn #beeswax #candles.
#tudor #light #livinghistory

The 700 year old white rabbit in St Mary’s Church still wearing it’s pilgrims bag with its Scallop shell symbol #Beverley #Yorkshire

A tree trunk with a door carved into it. A small boy in a red Tudor petticoat and a black hat is trying to open the door watched by a girl in a straw hat.

A very small #Tudor at one of our re-enactments, trying to open the door into our Tower of Babel tree.

He won’t have much luck because everyone knows it only opens at midnight on Midsummer Eve at the full moon….

#adoorableThursday
#gardens
#woodcarving
#sculpture
#cedar
#trees

YouTube video by Passamezzo Greensleeves - lute solo - Her smock "embroidered gorgeously"

#GreensleevesProject update:
A short video showing work on the #embroidered smock sleeves.
Underscored by Sam Brown playing #Greensleeves on the #lute.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1cQ...

#earlymusic #historicaldress #blackwork #tudor #tudors #earlymodern

Supported by @antiquaries.bsky.social

A nighttime photo of a man in Tudor dress standing watching a large beehive shaped clay kiln with flames billowing out of the top. In his hand he is holding a small vertical metal cylinder of about 3 inches diameter, but obviously we have no idea what this is.

For #TudorTuesday here’s a spectacular photo of one of our Tudors at a firing of our #pottery kiln.
NB one of the things in the picture might not be entirely Tudor….

#photography #deliberatemistake #anachronism

😂

View down a corridor in a Tudor house with beams in the walls and diamond panes. Shafts of sunlight from the windows lay diagonally across the picture.

#WindowsonWednesday

Sunshine catches woodsmoke particles in the air in the Great Kitchen corridor at Kentwell Hall during a Tudor re-creation.

#photography
#tudors
#historiccookery

For #textiletuesday, more beautiful work from the #Greensleevesproject

#embroidery
#textilehistory
#blackwork
#Elizabethan

See you there - a lovely day to travel over the Fens