Elizabeth Trueman
@etrooms.bsky.social
Cats, Anglo-Saxons & Vikings, Gardening & Nature. 🐈🪓🌱
Did you know that you can upload images to the iViking app from your gallery? 🌄 Easily share pics of Viking heritage from your photo archives... like this super pic of a modern runestone (the Vasastenen) taken by user Ingski and submitted this week. #iViking #MedievalSky #NorseMap #Norse #heritage
I’m actually gonna pop this one out of the thread and tag her because @nigella.bsky.social this was really a beautiful moment! Thank you for saying it!
👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻@oldenoughtosay.com · last wk.GOD BLESS NIGELLA “I don’t approve of talking about food as naughty” I have been needing bake off to say that for YEARS. Food is a pleasure, not a guilty pleasure!
Pruning trees today. What my arms are going to look like when I've finished!!
Strong Woman Flexing Biceps Muscles
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Pruning trees. Will look like this by the time I've finished!! #gardening #gardens #pruning #trees
Strong Woman Flexing Biceps Muscles
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On this day, 28 September 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, arrived off the Sussex coast. The word “Norman” derives from “Northman,” a term used for the Scandinavian settlers who established themselves in northern France during the 10th century. Image provided by WikiCommons.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records a great sea-flood #OTD in 1014, the tide ‘reaching inland further than ever before, submerging many homesteads and drowning many people’. 📸Dave Fergusson
A lovely series of to-whoos to lull me off to sleep, courtesy of Mr Tawny!
BBC News - Avebury stones painted with gold paint in 'heritage crime' - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Avebury stones painted with gold paint in 'heritage crime'
The National Trust says the Neolithic Avebury World Heritage Site was vandalised with gold paint.
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👏👏👏 to the students of @jeffsharlet.bsky.social
Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2w agoLast week all my students hand-wrote their own pledges, according to their terms, to write in my courses without AI. Some of them were quite moving—their anger at AI’s attempt to steal their educations, their determination to learn & create anyway.
Err... education? Anyone??
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 2w agoYouGov most important issues tracker, 19-21 September 2026 Immigration: 51% (+2 from 12-14 Sep) Economy: 48% (+2) Defence: 30% (-2) Health: 26% (-1) Welfare: 20% (-1) Crime: 19% (=) Environment: 19% (=) Tax: 15% (+1) Housing: 15% (-2) Brexit: 12% (=) yougov.com/en-gb/tracke...
If this isn’t now your favourite Roman carving, you’re wrong. It is. I will not be discussing this further. Found Vindolanda; on display Chesters.
BBC News - Dolly Parton free book scheme to expand in London www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dolly Parton free book scheme to expand in London
The late singer's Imagination Library posts children a free book every month until they turn five.
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Haraldr Harðráði, king of Norway, and Tostig Godwineson, former earl of Northumbria, defeated the brothers Morcar and Edwin, earls of Northumbria and Mercia respectively, at the Battle of Fulford, near York, #OTD in 1066. Coin of Haraldr 📸Kulturhistorisk museum
Every Saturday since the end of October 2023 islanders in Orkney have come out and stood in vigil on the Kirk Green, Broad Street, from 1 to 2pm, in support of the people of Palestine and in condemnation of the #Gaza Genocide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t90I...
'We do need to keep coming out' Orkney's Vigil for #Gaza
YouTube video by The Orkney News
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Nothing says midweek quite like a fish-head níðstöng (“scorn-pole”) and the continuing afterlife of the Viking Age. This gloriously strange find was submitted by one of our users to NorseMap. Spotted something Viking inspired in the wild? Add it to the map with the iViking app!
And a refusal to look you in the eye and smile at you. Just an automatic action for me. I guess a result of lockdowns but so rude!
Friendly Bear Waves Hello
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Basic manners. Noticing a distinct lack of them among all age groups.
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Gravestone fragment showing a hound chasing a hare from Roman Bath (Aquae Sulis). Now part of the museum collections at The Roman Baths in Bath. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain
The ‘Winfarthing Pendant’ - a 7th century Anglo-Saxon disc brooch that was discovered by a metal detectorist in 2015 at Winfarthing, near Diss in South Norfolk. Now part of the collections at Norwich Castle. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Winfarthing #NorwichCastle
Wonderful ancient artistry! About 40,000 years ago, this small, graceful horse figurine was carved from mammoth ivory! Imagine the #IceAge artist at work, sitting by the warmth of a fire, creating what is the world’s oldest known figure of a horse! 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology
Want to see stunning early medieval narrative art featuring mounted warriors, but can't get a ticket to the British Museum? We have just the thing at the Govan Stones, and it's free to see every day, 11am-4pm! 📷 @hornesupremacy.bsky.social
Shop workers are being secretly filmed at work through Meta's glasses, then having it shared online. I've just signed to demand it stops, add your too: the.organise.network/campaigns/ne...
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Slavering morons. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
Protesters outside Portsmouth hotel mistake Pakistan U19 cricket team for asylum seekers
A group of masked agitators gathered outside a four-star hotel in Portsmouth after reports a group of asylum seekers had been taken there, when it was in fact Pakistan’s under-19 cricket team on a tou...
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It's quite striking how annoyed Tory MPs are getting at Burnham for taking the time to listen and actually answer questions. But then I guess for part-time MPs with so many other lucrative engagements, brevity matters more than content. #PMQs
BBC News - Actor Sarah Hadland adopts wobbly kitten after West End event - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Actor Sarah Hadland adopts wobbly kitten after West End event
The kitten, born with "wobbly cat syndrome", is adopted from a Peterborough charity.
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