@lenamstrid.bsky.social
Zooarchaeologist, medievalist, re-enactor. PhD on parchment production in Scandinavia (in progress).
This is some excellent background for understanding the current fuckery (which fuckery? most of the fuckery)
31.10.2025 01:49 — 👍 122 🔁 28 💬 8 📌 0
Sean Bean resting on his arm while eating. His cloak is fastened with a horse bit!!
With huge thanks to my friend Patrick for spotting this.
The new MGM Robin Hood series.
Sean Bean as the Sheriff of Nottingham...
...wearing a horse-bit as a cloak fastener!!!!
Crying!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
#Archaeology 🏺
Happy Halloween to all those who celebrate. 🦇😘
And happy Cheeky-Lion-Butthole-Butterfly-Thing-Day to all those who don't.
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Nu är det dags för halloviinet.
31.10.2025 16:00 — 👍 40 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
A dark, ominously lit in blue, inside of a woven basket. It's filled with Halloween candy and in the centre in a tiny black coffin with purple velvet lining it and in the centre a potato rests.
Does everyone have their tiny potato coffins ready for tonight?
31.10.2025 14:03 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
Picture of a venerable naval tortoise with a sign tied to her shell
The last survivor of the Crimean War died in 2004.
"Timothy" spent 40 years in the Navy. After retirement, having moved in with the Earl of Devon, she revealed she was a girl.
She would wander round his garden wearing a sign that said. "My name is Timothy. I am very old. Pease do not pick me up".
A black dog staring at a toad who is trapped between her and a stone wall.
She’s never seen a toad before and she cannot figure out what he is 😂
31.10.2025 12:24 — 👍 107 🔁 6 💬 7 📌 0If passed, this would place most of the US in the same position that *all* of the UK has been in since 2021 or so.
This is why trans people don't listen to twerps who say 'vote Labour or else you'll get Reform'. We are already getting full Trump/Reform policies from a Labour government.
There is something consistent in the fact that these men don’t speak the visual language properly, and don’t want to. They want something that says “imaginary 1950s” along with a lot of flashy fashy modern personalisation, and perhaps it looking like a dog’s dinner is in and of itself the signifier?
31.10.2025 07:58 — 👍 95 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 0Genuinely such an interesting long thread on why these suits look crap and yet how a particular type of crap suit has become a cultural signifier for right-wing men.
31.10.2025 07:48 — 👍 304 🔁 73 💬 12 📌 4Sticking with the maritime theme! This time a Minoan octopus vase inspired design. I'm hoping to display this one coming out of water, so I tweaked the angle.
I have photographed this one, but I might wait and do it again tomorrow, because this is a very *wet* pumpkin (unintentional storytelling).
Illustration of a hare lighting candles on an Advent wreath by DD McInnes
❄️It's time for Old Fox to plan his Advent Calendar! Throughout December, I will be writing one frozen fragment each day, blown in by the North Wind. Join my patreon or buy me a chocolate on Ko-fi (ko-fi.com/annelouiseav...) & write Christmas in the message & I will add you to my list of 24 windows❄️
30.10.2025 18:47 — 👍 82 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 2Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
30.10.2025 08:21 — 👍 10516 🔁 1461 💬 139 📌 118
One of the original 15th century west doors of St. Albans Cathedral in Hertfordshire. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #StAlbansCathedral
30.10.2025 06:44 — 👍 77 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Perfect #Tudor #Dinner for two: Easy to follow Elizabethan recipe: To rost a Pullet
“When thou hast rosted him well, take the iuice of an Oringe, or else Vergice, with Rosewater, Suger, and Sinamon, and lay the Pullet in a dish with this sauce, and send it to the table.”
It's my birthday, so have a present. SLIPPERY CREATURES (Will Darling Adventures book 1) is going on cheap over the weekend. 1920s pulp adventure m/m romance with plots, spies, Bright Young People, and emotional support knife, all for 99p!
30.10.2025 08:38 — 👍 236 🔁 108 💬 39 📌 34
These terrifying bats are looking forward to #Halloween 🦇🦇🦇😱
Bodl. Library MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Are you based in London? Are you interested in the cool archaeology under the capitol? CBA London is hosting a series of talks on Noverber 18th including one by yours truely on the people of St. Botolphs graveyard
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/autumn-lon...
OR! If you don’t like donating, and would prefer to buy something from me, that would be amazingly helpful too! I have many knitted and stained glass pieces ready to ship, and some glass pieces that are in pre-order to ship by the end of November! www.aknitomy.com/shop
Please share if you can ❤️
Today's Knowledge Commons free download "Viking camps in Ninth-Century Ireland: Sources, Locations and Interactions" works.hcommons.org/records/ee0z... #medievalsky #history #archaeology #vikings #ireland #dublin
29.10.2025 16:56 — 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0A reminder to fellow NT members - the Restore Trust lot are at it again, trying to insert ideology into NT’s curation of our heritage.
Don’t forget to vote for historical accuracy over politicised nostalgic fantasy
Early medieval cemeteries in Ireland were places for all kinds of activities, including metal-working etc
29.10.2025 14:08 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0It would be great if the Wildlife Trusts can pull this off.
29.10.2025 15:13 — 👍 25 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0
Four brown hares running towards the camera across bright green grass with a few buttercups in flower
Quick! Today is the last day to sign the petition to protect brown hares from shooting during the breeding season & save their young from starvation. Please consider signing if you haven't already or pass on to friends & family if you have.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
#UKwildlife #mammals
The UK is among the most nature depleted counties in the world. A horrendous fact. Can you help reverse this by donating some cash to help the Wildlife Trusts buy the enormous Rothbury Estate so they can bring back wildlife? www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
29.10.2025 07:59 — 👍 158 🔁 103 💬 3 📌 5Now after the successful trip made by the Oseberg ship in September, it’s time for the Gokstad ship to move to its new spot within the Museum of the Viking Age. #VikingShips #Vikingtidsmuseet www.vikingtidsmuseet.no/english/relo...
29.10.2025 08:58 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
A local greengrocer has lots of bananas to give away. Collect them today Wednesday 29th October from 14 Robert Davies Court, CB4 1TP
Cambridge people: help save these bananas from the bin! Cambridge Fruit Company looking to give away 150kg of over-ripe nanas, address in alt. CFC does great work for the Red Hen Project too, all round great people so happy to advertise them. redhenproject.org www.cambridgefruitcompany.com/shop/
29.10.2025 09:03 — 👍 23 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 3Postdoc in the Faroes setur.totalview.cloud/recruitment/...
27.10.2025 20:46 — 👍 8 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
Ismantorp is a ringfort located on Öland, Sweden. It was constructed during the Migration Period. It was never permanently occupied, but used occasionally until abandoned around AD 650. Inside the ringfort are 95 houses arranged in 12 blocks. #HillfortsWednesday
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