11 Mar 1637: Archy Armstrong jester to James VI & I, then Charles I, taunts Archbishop Laud #otd with news of unrest in #Scotland: 'Whoe's foule now? Does not yr grace her the new from Striveling?' This got Armstrong banished from court. (British Museum)
Scientist, inventor, suffragette. In our new #WomenInSTEM film, Claudia Hammond meets up with Dame Polina Bayvel FRS to explore the phenomenal story of Hertha Ayrton, an electrical engineer, inventor and suffragette who helped shape the technological age. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahLt...
The travel westward was never easy and always dangerous, but sometimes the danger came from within. The Donner Party faced a number of setbacks that forced them to stay in the Sierra Nevadas in winter 1846-47, relying on cannibalism to survive. #WyrdWednesday
News | Rising costs force local museum to cut opening hours and staffing
Museum of Cambridge says it will also reduce staff numbers to ensure its long-term future
In a world where female rulers were rare because political power was held by men, Cartimandua was a tactical ruler. This image depicts Cartimandua delivering a captive to a Roman general.
#herstory #womenhistorymonth #internationalwomensday #celticpeople #celtichistory #historical #ironage
Human Origins Today Topic:
Recent Fossil Discoveries at Drimolen Cave, South Africa 🏺🧪
Dr. David Strait
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXeJ...
Dating has been established and new fossil discoveries there shed light on origin of Homo and evolutionary change in australopiths Host @brianapobiner.bsky.social
What a thrill to see this unusual variation on an ancient Cypriot jug with a figurine on the shoulder at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery @notjustabattle.bsky.social Originally interpreted as a bull, restoration makes him look more like a horse - a fantastical winged beast at any rate.
One of the new visitor interpretation boards at Hengistbury Head explaining the significance of life within the great prehistoric port
Very nice they are too 😍
#HillfortsWednesday @bcpcouncil.bsky.social
Discover the history of the de Havilland company; from Geoffrey de Havilland's earliest flights in a home-made aeroplane, through to the development of the Comet - the world's first jet airliner, in our first evening talk of 2026.
📆 Wednesday 18 March, 7:15pm start
🎟 £6 per person
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The #StraitofHormuz became a fraught passage in the Tanker War between #Iran and #Iraq. Nevertheless, the oil continued to flow.
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🚨 Call for Abstracts 🚨
Abstract submission now open for a symposium meeting on #MarineReptile palaeontology hosted at @morethanadodo.bsky.social from 7-8th October 2026.
Abstract deadline: 1st June 2026
#Palaeontology #Science #SciComm
#RodentOfTheDay Argentine Plains Viscacha (Lagostomus maximus)
"[A] species of rodents in the family Chinchillidae. They are native to The Neotropics. They are nocturnal herbivores. Individuals are known to live for 112.8 months and can grow to 523.73 mm."
Ph/Inf: eol.org/pages/326930
The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1912.
#WyrdWednesday
NEWS: C20 has submitted a listing application for the River & Rowing Museum in Henley, Oxfordshire (1989-97), which closed in Sept 2025. The David Chipperfield-designed building is an exceptional example of late 20th century contextual Modernist architecture.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/listing...
Our graduate students were forced to choose an artefact to practice with for their 'photographing archaeological finds' workshop with our inhouse photographer, Ian. R. Cartwright. How to choose from this tray of delights? #archaeologyproblems 💀 #graduatestudy #studyhere
Please nominate Penlee House Gallery & Museum in the Arts, Culture & Theatre category for the Muddy Stilettos Cornwall Awards 2026.
Every nomination counts — thank you for your support! 💛
cornwall.muddystilettos.co.uk/awards/nomin...
'Three members of crew at work on the starboard engine gantry of a Royal Navy Air Service North Sea (N.S.) type non-rigid airship during an anti-submarine patrol off the British coast circa 1918.'
Happy #HillfortsWednesday!
Here's a recreation of the Iron Age double ramparts defining the west end of Hengistbury Head (once #Hampshire then #Dorset now @bcpcouncil.bsky.social)
Prehistoric trade centre and gateway to the world
A wonderful painting © Judith Dobie for the HH Visitor Centre
"Happy families in TV contest
Two happy families, the Evendens and the Murdochs, are pictured with compère Kenneth Horne after competing in Southern Television's recording of 'Happy Families' at the De La Warr Pavilion." Bexhill Observer 11.3.1967. #dlwp #Bexhill #Sussex #Television #History #1960s
Sunbeam, South #China Sea, 11.3.1877. "These waifs & strays always set me thinking & wondering, & speculating as to what they were originally, whence they came, & all about them, till Tom declares I weave a complete legend for every bit of wood we meet floating about." #Brassey #History #1870s
34 Samnite Tombs Discovered in Pontecagnano, 15 of Them Belonging to Children with Large Bronze Belts www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/03/3...
We are looking for paid project contributors and volunteers to help deliver the project, visit our website for more details: https://bit.ly/4d8JYQt Applications for project roles close 3 April 2026. A huge thanks to #NationalLottery players! #HeritageFund
We're sure all you can think about today is that it's World Plumbing Day. 👨🔧💦
So here's the Palace plumbing - ceramic pipes that carried water around the formal gardens and fed fountains and ornamental basins and the like.
(1960s excavation photo)
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This Victorian smoking cap was part of our Hats! Hats! Hats! exhibition. (Not currently on display.) #Bexhill
It does look rather like a Doctor Who monster! 🤣
Woman playing Gekin. Hand-colored photo, 1870’s, Japan. Photographer Baron Raimund Von Stillfried
"Marina. Bexhill-On-Sea." Postcard 1939. #Bexhill #Sussex #Seaside #History #1930s
"Wild-sea Holley by ye passage as you goe from portsmouth into Cornwall" collected by William Paine, 1737, from @cuherb.bsky.social. Now, this is in fact from Plymouth, and in modern parlance it is Eryngium campestre
@jillwhitelock.bsky.social @timpurches.bsky.social
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A lovely, licheny wall with Hermitage Castle in the background for #WallsonWednesday.
Greater Manchester's Railways - poster map issued in Dec. 1986 & making a play on the use of the BR Pacer trains as seen here in PTE livery. Soon we'll be seeing yellow Bee Network trains but possibly not a Pacer! #manchester #railways #trains #britishrail #map
