Heather Knight

Thanks Vic, glad you enjoyed it.

It’s for the Wandsworth Historical Society. wandsworthhistory.org.uk

The Merton Head, carved stone head with coronet with traces of gilt.

This stone head with coronet was found on the site of Merton Priory, Surrey, in 1797. The diplomat and collector Sir William Hamilton FSA presented the head on behalf of the Priory’s landowner to the Society in 1802.

Infographic, together with a photo of the speaker, that reads: Researching The Rose Monday evening online talks CALISTA LUCY Joan Alleyn – No Mouse 6.30pm online Mon 24 Nov 2025

Mon 24 Nov @ 6.30pm online

JOAN ALLEYN – NO MOUSE

Join Calista Lucy, former Keeper of the Archive at Dulwich College, as she pieces together the biography of Joan Alleyn, step-daughter of The Rose's owner, Philip Henslowe, & wife of Edward Alleyn, its star actor.

www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on

This image is part of a detailed account of King Edward VI’s procession in 1547 from the Tower of London to the Palace of Westminster on the day before his coronation. Unique to this scene is its recording of the City, especially Cheapside with its goldsmiths’ shops.

The next in a series of online talks hosted by the KAS, with Experimental Archaeologist Alexander Read. Alex will talk us through how he made an early Saxon sword based on one from Sarre.

Join Zoom Meeting: us06web.zoom.us/j/82181595224

#Archaeology #ExperimentalArchaeology

Detail from of wood cut from a ballad “ Man in the Moon Drinks Claret”. A man standing on a half moon with a jug in one hand and a wine glass in the other.

Thanks @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for “Pub Crawling Through Playhouses” - an excellent romp through playhouses and their drinking culture and cheers to @roseplayhouse.bsky.social for hosting! 🍻

Blame the change from BST to GMT - I was worried I wouldn’t be home from work in time, I would only have myself to blame for that.

Amputation: A Dramatic Act - Society of Antiquaries of London Dawn Kemp Director of Museums of the Royal College of Surgeons of England talks about her recent research into a long-lost painting of an 18th-century London amputation scene, with surprising connecti...

The weather may be dreary today, but tomorrow looks better, so why not drop by ours at 1pm for a free talk on a long-lost painting of an 18th-century London amputation scene. www.sal.org.uk/event/amputa...

Join us online this Monday evening as Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social – President of the Marlowe Society of America, and former President of the Australian & New Zealand Shakespeare Association  – uncovers the connections between ale houses and playhouses in early modern London.

TONIGHT at 6.30pm online

This should be a fascinating talk, so please do join us if you can!

Substantial damages awarded to academic over Steve Coogan Richard III film Richard Taylor sued Steve Coogan and two production companies over his portrayal in the movie.

This is REALLY good to see. Too many colleagues were utterly misrepresented in this awful film, & in narrative surrounding it

They deserve to have their names cleared.

BBC News - Substantial damages awarded to academic over Steve Coogan Richard III film - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Image of King Stephen from Matthew Paris’s Historia Anglorum.

King Stephen died on 25th October 1154 at Dover. He was buried in the choir at Faversham Abbey alongside Queen Matilda and their son, Eustace. The exact location of his remains is unknown but after the dissolution of the Abbey he may have been reburied in the church of St Mary of Charity, Faversham.

Congratulations Callan!!!

I'm delighted, grateful, and a little dazed to be among this year's Philip Leverhulme Prize winners @leverhulme.ac.uk, and among such excellent company.
A little more on my research hopes at the @unisouthampton.bsky.social press release: www.southampton.ac.uk/humanities/n...

Shakespeare family home damaged as car backs into it Hall's Croft in Stratford-upon-Avon is being assessed for repairs after the incident on Friday.

“Car rams into” would be more accurate than “car backs into” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A newspaper advert inviting people to attend the inaugural meeting of the Faversham Society that was to be held in the Guildhall. The top line reads “Cherish the Past: Adorn the Present: Create for the Future”

On Wednesday 17th October 1962, at 7.30pm, the inaugural meeting of the Faversham society was held at the Guildhall, chaired by the Mayor of Faversham, Cllr. Peter Lee-Roberts. James Doak was elected chairman and Arthur Percival, secretary. favershamsociety.org

Oak door in Wells Cathedral with decorative iron hinges and scroll work.

Detail of the iron scroll work.

View of the open door with a second door beyond.

A 13th-century oak door in Wells Cathedral for #ADoorableThursday

A jumble of stained glass fragments forming abstract patterns in a window in a side chapel at Wells Cathedral.

The window made from a jumble of salvaged stained glass fragments above the altar in a side chapel.

I do too. One of the side chapels at Wells Cathedral has a window entirely made from salvaged glass.

Colourful Victorian stained glass featuring a cute snail surrounded by bright green foliage and pink flowers.

Ay, of a snail, for though he
comes slowly, he carries his 
house on his head..

As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 1

Glass at St Mary Edstaston

#shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday #snailsonsunday

The Jesse window with vivid green, yellow, red and blue glass depicts a family tree, Jesse being the father of King David.

Four small fragments of orange glass reset in a plain glass diamond. The window looks out on to a lawn and the cathedral buildings.

The 14th century Jesse Window at Wells Cathedral and small fragments of broken glass salvaged and reused. #StainedGlassSunday

Gurney Manor, cream coloured render stone and timber building with a tiled roof.

Gurney Manor and its reflection in the mill stream.

My husband leaning over the gallery in one of the bedrooms.

The dining room with a long oak table and chairs, a sideboard along the back wall with two lamps, balloons and a happy birthday banner.

Back from a week staying at Gurney Manor in Somerset celebrating my husband’s birthday. The house belongs to Landmark Trust and it’s been on the wish list to stay there for a long time.

Dr Paul Wilkinson of SWAT (Swale and Thames Survey) Archaeology ‘Archaeology has suddenly exploded in the last few months because of the government’s drive to build more homes,’ says Dr Paul Wilkinson of SWAT (Swale and Thames Survey) Archaeology.

What an interesting & fabulous life described here about Dr Paul Wilkinson resident in #Faversham Lots to learn.

#Archaeology #Sailing #FavershamPort

favershamlife.org/dr-paul-wilk...

Archaeologists stunned 😲

Archaeologists stunned 😲

Archaeologists baffled 🤔

Archaeologists baffled 🤔

Betwixt being forever baffled and stunned

It's exhausting being an archaeologist

The deadline for the Archaeological Achievement Awards has been extended, which means there’s still time to nominate! 🏆

That colleague who’s smashing it? The TikTok creator sparking a conversation? The project changing lives? Don’t let them go unrecognised!

Closing noon 10/09👉 shorturl.at/6q5bx

@archaeobears.bsky.social this looks interesting. Roman #BoxOfficeBears

It is beyond belief to be fair - would construction industry leaders represent their profession this way?? I think definitely not!!!

This will be very useful and I have yet to read it fully but my first moan is about the front cover image 🙄

Why are the archaeologists sitting on mud, with only partial PPE? I see they’re ‘enjoying a tea break’ so why not in a clean cabin with full facilities? This looks hugely unprofessional 😩

Totally agree!!!

Hop bines decorating the front of a timber framed house in Faversham.

The cover of the Hop Festival programme

A black and white photo of the excavated remains of a sea going cargo boat.

The hops are up for the #Faversham Hop Festival.

Archeaeobotanical evidence of hops was found in the Graveney Boat, a sea going cargo boat dated c AD 900, uncovered in the estuary mud not far from Faversham in 1970.

mass.cultureelerfgoed.nl/graveney-boat