Melita Thomas

Temple Newsam, first built by Lord Darcy of Templehurst, extended by Matthew Stuart, Earl of Lennox, and his wife, née Lady Margaret Douglas, and birthplace of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley and king of Scots.

Inside a church with a two large columns with ribbed spiral patterns, holding up several arches that lead up to the roof

#MedievalMonday Two ribbed spiral columns from the original Romanesque church that is now Norwich Cathedral, founded by the Normans in 1096

Together they mark the spot where the original Norman altar once stood

📸 Mine

#history #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.

On this day 27th January 1386 Joan of Kent buried in the chapel of Greyfriars at Stamford, near first husband Thomas Holland rather than with the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral.
Here Joan portrayed by Christopher Whall in the church at Ware which Joan is said to have rebuilt.

A stunning Bronze age axe heard made of an orangey stone with greenish flecks

A slice of blue cheese. It's orangey in colour with flecks of blue-green mould.

Is it about time that someone told @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social that their "Tourmaline stone axe" is actually made of cheese?

The world asks so much of him.

Great-horned Owl perched on a branch and looking at the photographer.

Owliver decided to fly to another branch and check things out. He can look in my window from this spot! #Birds #Raptors #Nature #Photography

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

#OTD 1606 the trial of Guy Fawkes & 7 others for attempting to blow up the Parliament House began. Attorney General Sir Edward Coke prosecuted in Westminster Hall, spectators paying 10s to watch. The background to the plot is explained in the masterly ‘God’s Traitors’ by Jessie Childs bit.ly/1BjGCTu

Things be a-happening...

Putting finishing touches to two book chapters based on Social Network Analysis related to Mary I. Why does new data always pop up after you think you have finished???

St. Mary’s, Berry Pomeroy. Wall monument to Rev. John Prince (1643-1723), vicar of Berry Pomeroy for over 40 years.

Author of "The Worthies of Devon" — biographies of Devon's many notable figures — probably finished in 1697.

#MonumentsMonday #devonhistory

⚔️ Power. Loyalty. Survival. Jasper – Book Two of the Tudor Trilogy takes you deep into the perilous world of 15th-century England, where every choice shapes a dynasty.

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#Tudors #HistoricalFiction #KindleUnlimited #Audiobook

Labour are wrong to say Farage is just "stuffing his party with failed Tories". Many of them are disgraced Tories.

THE DREAM Someone approaches to say his life is ruined and to fall down at your feet and pound his head upon the sidewalk. Blood spreads in a puddle. And you, in a weak voice, plead with those nearby for help; your life takes on his desperation. He keeps pounding his head. It is you who are fated; and you fall down beside him. It is then you are awakened, the body gone, the blood washed from the ground, the stores lit up with their goods. DAVID IGNATOW

From Forty Poems Touching on Recent American History (1970)

Take a moment, and read...

• Sheenagh Pugh •

Western Motel - Edward Hopper, 1957
Source : Yale University Art gallery, New Haven (Connecticut) 🇺🇸

26 Jan 1340: Edward III publicly assumes the arms & title of King of France #otd Fleur de Lys, anyone?

#OTD 1568 d. Lady Katherine Grey, who claimed to be the wife of Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, aged 27. According to Henry VIII's will K was heir to Elizabeth’s I throne. She had been under house arrest for 7 years for marrying without royal permission. bit.ly/1gzYe4V

The first catkins dancing in the breeze.

Yolande of France, Duchess of Savoy Makes Two Daring Escapes Yolande of France, Duchess of Savoy To celebrate the US and Canadian release of The Formidable Women Who Shaped Medieval Europe: Power and Patronage at the Burgundian Court, Here’s an article…

The Freelance History Writer: Yolande of France, Duchess of Savoy Makes Two Daring Escapes thefreelancehistorywriter.com/2026/01/24/y... @susanabernethy2.bsky.social #medieval #History

Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral on the 29th of December. A substantial martyrdom was instantly created. Here we see a painting Stoke Newington of his head being chopped into by one of his assailants.

Bronze Age urn goes on display in Newton Abbot The ceramic vessel is loaned from Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery.

Brilliant to see our local museum in Newton Abbot featured on BBC.

#museums #devon

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A photograph of a page in a book. It's a poem called "LITERARY LUNCHEON: IOWA CITY". The lines are mostly quite short except for the one about the river, which is part of the poem's punch. Text as follows: According to the windows that face the slow-spilling brown river we are sipping not our coffee but blizzard winds that surprise us rolling from the north. Still-bare trees are slowly colored white and the earth implies this is the source of the cold I feel. Not so. The great ones gather at the university buffet like cattle around alfalfa and barley. I maintain without willing it an Indian invisibility.

Feeling seen, maybe a little bit gently condemned 🫤

(From "Bone Dance" by Wendy Rose)

September 3rd 2024
Treasure flower

Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until
Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill
Shall come against him.
Macbeth IV i
#ShakespeareSunday

A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March. - Julius Caesar (A1, S2) #ShakespeareSunday

“O, therefore, love, be of thyself so wary” - Sonnet 22 #ShakespeareSunday #BringingUpBaby @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social
Theme: Danger & Warnings

Alas, what danger will it be to us,
Maids as we are, to travel forth so far!
AYLI 1.3
#ShakespeareSunday

a woman with long black hair and earrings is making a funny face while sitting at a table . ALT: a woman with long black hair and earrings is making a funny face while sitting at a table .

Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme: DANGER & WARNINGS! ⚠️