David Petts

Wonderful!!

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

Antifa

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

Groups stood in front of large stone features in an archaeological trench. Lindisfarne castle visible in the background

Day 4 of our post-excavation week and we have been out to visit our friends at Ad Gefrin and @davidpetts1.bsky.social on #Lindisfarne.

Lots of lovely early medieval goodness.
#northumberland #archaeology
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Fragment of Roman terra sigillata

Nice surprise - fragment of Roman terra sigillata from our excavations at Lindisfarne- that's our fourth bit!

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Early medieval namestone.- 8th century AD - from Lindisfarne

Early medieval namestone.- 8th century AD - from Lindisfarne

Early medieval namestone.- 8th century AD - from Lindisfarne

Three early medieval namestones in one morning in the @digventures.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social excavations at #Lindisfarne

Thanks for such a succinct overview of your recent project (and I'm always here for pictures of Breton evangelist miniatures)

Yesterday was the big day:
The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website.
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I'm doing oral history with fishermen on Holy Island - another place that saw a catastrophic loss of a fish stock (herring and salmon) - trying to capture the taskscapes they left behind

For over a millennium Holy Island has been known as the site of the creation of one of the masterpieces of world art, the Lindisfarne Gospels - but today, it has been witness to one of my students doing a karaoke version of "I've got a brand new combine harvester" by The Wurzels. O tempora, O mores!

aw shucks! good company there!

You obviously don't though

Skosh (if you fancy something pricey and foody) - Partisan is also really good.

A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean

I mainly remember that night because my girlfriend (now wife) got very very pissed and slowly slid down the window of a kebab shop on Cowley Road #truelove

loads of people do it

Reform leader bans engagement with Notts Live in unprecedented step All of Reform UK's Nottinghamshire county councillors will now refuse to speak to any of our journalists

Eesh. Notts Reform leadership blacklisting both the local paper and the local democracy scheme that covers the council for the BBC. Don’t like this at all

www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-op...

My problems with "King and Conqueror" are not born out of pedantry, but the fact that the whole thing is a total fucking car crash - and so so so lazy... Would far rather watch Asterix and the Normans

This is going to get a lot worse if media & politicians don’t start portraying it as vandalism & intimidation rather than patriotism

Two thirds arrested at protest involved in domestic abuse reports Avon and Somerset Police confirmed the statistics following an FOI request

"More than two thirds of the people arrested for disorder when an anti-immigration demonstration in Bristol turned violent last summer had previous contact with police over reports of domestic abuse."

#FarageRiots #ReformUK

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain The organic veg pioneer talks to the Guardian about being unemployable, his unconventional father and his recent autism diagnosis

Not many farmers would tell you that we need to eat less meat; that wealthy landowners shouldn’t moan about inheritance tax but should “pay the whole fucking lot”; & that Reform UK are “a load of rich rightwing toffs” 😂

But Devon farmer Guy Singh-Watson does:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thames barge - Victor

Thames barge - Victor

Thames barge - Victor

Thames barge

Thames barges - Ipswich - my grandpa remembered going up to London from Essex on these as a boy as his uncles were Thames bargemen running bricks up from the brickfields of Essex

Just pondering the bell-ends in Southwold last week making loud comments about 'refugee taxi services' whilst I was in the RNLI shop.... 😕

View of reconstruction of early medieval wooden boat based on the Sutton Hoo ship

Close up of clinker construction of reconstruction of the Sutton Hoo ship

Image of clinker fastened wooden strakes fastened by iron clench bolts

Prow of reconstruction of Sutton Hoo ship

For someone who spends a lot (too much?) time thing about early medieval seascape, a visit to the Sutton Hoo ship project in Woodbridge amounts to an afternoon well spent

View of reconstruction of early medieval wooden boat based on the Sutton Hoo ship

Close up of clinker construction of reconstruction of the Sutton Hoo ship

Image of clinker fastened wooden strakes fastened by iron clench bolts

Prow of reconstruction of Sutton Hoo ship

For someone who spends a lot (too much?) time thing about early medieval seascape, a visit to the Sutton Hoo ship project in Woodbridge amounts to an afternoon well spent

Dr Joanne Edge Historian and writer

I've got a new website! Thanks to Man Kit Lam for design, and @knifewitch.bsky.social and @soranasantos.bsky.social for photos and encouragement! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern

joanneedge.co.uk

Despite OP's valid point, credit to the reporters of the news article for explicitly making the point about the burial practices signalling community inclusion, an important retort of people's efforts to impose modern assumptions onto past behaviours.

Nurse! She's got out of bed again!