'Remember, remember the 5th of November!' 🔥

These are thought to be the earliest photographs of a bonfire.

These photographs were taken in 1853 by John Dillwyn Llewelyn at Penllergare in Swansea 📷

museum.wales/articles/972...

#Wales #BonfireNight #History

Came for the story, stayed for the dad jokes!

This is very powerful. #MentalHealth

Brilliant!

Here are four ways anyone can support and help their local library:

• Get a library card ⭐️
• Use your library card 🌟
•Visit the library 💫
•Tell everyone to get a library card and support their local library ✨

Business has never been a man's world - meet the women who bankrolled history A new history challenges the myth that business was “just for men” by uncovering the forgotten stories of powerful female entrepreneurs, bankers, and industrialists who have been crucial to building g...

Thrilled that my new book #Economica features in CityAM on publication day today: “Business has never been a man’s world – meet the women who bankrolled history” www.cityam.com/business-has... #womenwealthpower @headlinebooks.bsky.social with thanks to @alysdenby.bsky.social

Sunset picture showing pink and purple clouds with golden rays of light shining up from behind a bank of clouds. The tree line is silhouetted underneath.

This view put the Madonna song in my head!

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of language, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching

Graphic showing construction details for building a DIY air filter. Website with pdf instructions here: How to build your own Corsi-Rosenthal Box - https://corsirosenthalfoundation.org/instructions/

Clean air filter instructions

Sunset over a lake with the sun dipping into a notch between 2 hills and a beautiful dappled mackerel sky. Some leaves from a birch tree are in the foreground

Love this view!!

If your budget is a little restricted, you might also be able to get it through your local library online subscription service.

I move to the US and my favorite authors tour the UK. Is Philadelphia on the list?

"There never was a greater pretend gladiator"

Tabby kitten with ears on full radar detector mode

Dinky is alert and ready

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...

Reading a story about someone dying of rabies after being bitten by a stray dog
Peeps if you get bitten or scratched by a stray animal please go *straight* to a hospital and get your shots
Rabies is absolutely horrible and the only window of opportunity to prevent it is right after exposure

Really gorgeous bugs!!

There's a Tom Hardy CBeebies bedtime stories compilation on YouTube if that'll help?

I can't wait to see it all the way through for the first time - the cinema had a power cut when we were halfway through!

This is an accurate depiction of my day

And my bow.

Sparrows are psychopomps (Stephen King said so in thr Dark Half...). Are you now guiding souls to the afterlife as well?

A screenshot of the website shows a headshot photo of Steph beside this text: Fantasy workshop with Author Stephanie Burgis Tudor Street Centre, Monmouthshire, NP75DF Saturday 5 April 2025 3:00 P.M. - 4:00P.M.

Hey, if you're in south Wales, you can book now to attend a fantasy-writing workshop with me on April 5th! www.ticketsource.co.uk/the-gatherin...

It's part of a fundraising event for a local charity, and you can check out all of the different events that day: www.ticketsource.co.uk/the-gatherin...

The 2025 CHRISTMAS LECTURES Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock takes us on an epic voyage through time and space.

Every day should have some good news!

www.rigb.org/2025-christm...

AI is cool and all, but when you ask it a question and present the answer publicly as if you've done something useful, you have to understand you might as well be announcing what some guy in a bar told you.

Ukraine Charity Art Card - Etsy This Digital Prints item by DragonsofWales has 35 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from United Kingdom. Listed on Feb 19, 2025

A little reminder that this is still available. Because some of us haven’t forgotten which side we’re on.

dragonsofwales.etsy.com/listing/1197...

A man stands a beach with a wind stunted tree and dunes behind him. He wears a tan jacket, a dark grey scarf and light grey gloves, and has a duck on his head.

"What duck?"
Ah.

I made more pies yesterday?

Piano lesson painting in the Louvre - cat is looking pained!

Not the best photo of a painting, but no-one in this painting is having fun!