All this "we just got on with it in the 1976 heatwave" malarkey just makes me think of the Four Yorkshiremen skit - "luxury!"
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Are you a 15th century king? Do you want to show that you’re down with this humanism stuff that your scholars keep talking about, but you’re also terrified of your own people & the damn French? Ask your architect if Fancy Renaissance Gate Sandwiched Between Existing Medieval Towers is right for you.
Dear Thames Water, Thank you for your tips putting the onus on your customers to preserve water supplies during our heatwave(s). I might take them more seriously if you weren't wasting 592 million litres of water *per day* because you didn't want to invest in infrastructure. #thameswater
How annoyed do we think the craftsman was when a dog walked over his tiles? Didn't stop them from being laid in a church though and nearly 700 years later they are still there!
Reading convoluted accounts of manorial landownership and I am once again reminded that so much of history (certainly in England) is just about taxes - either collecting or avoiding them.
At this point bout 80% of my photos are of churches (the other 20% are castles and other historic sites). 13 years ago I was in Old Basing where they have this stained glass by John Hayward. #churchcrawling
Today's #fontsonfriday is the early-19th century font in the church of St Mary the Virgin/university church, Oxford. It's rather unassuming given the scale of the rest of the building but I do quite like the cover.
When you get the brief "we want giant Roman emperor busts but also make them creepy"
Proof of the medieval origins of the baseball cap? And of the French always being fashion forward? Illustration by Jean Pichore in the Octovien de Saint-Gelais translation of Ovid's Heroines held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (MS Français 873, f. 106v). images.bnf.fr#/detail/8325...
Went out to look for meteor showers. Came back mind-blown at the number of satellites we watched pass overhead 🛰️
Are off the shelf birthday party invites just not a thing anymore? Been to seven stationery shops/shops with a stationery section and nada.
With the amount of coverage the Tudors get in the UK, you would think even non-expert content writers would be able to establish that 17th century Bruges is not "Tudor", and those are late-19th century dresses (whatever Getty Images might say) #history
Which is more terrifying, these violent medieval rabbits (well except the hunting one who would only terrifying small rodents) or the Monty Python and the Holy Grail bunny? (Unfortunately I don't know the original source for this to credit but it's fab. If scary)
Sadly no Christmas lobsters in this year's nativity. However there were enough animals in the stable that I think the innkeeper may be industrial farming as a sideline... #christmas #nativity
An unusual font cover in Wantage. I can only assume the architect was inspired by the "fairytale" castles of European. It is quite literally a turret with dormer windows. Even the counterweights are painted turrets. #fontsonfriday #churchcrawling
So, is it an ADHD thing to get completely obsessed with something so it is all you think about/want to do for a while, and then a few weeks later you can't quite remember why you were that obsessed?
The realisation that you can make pancakes any day of the year not just Shrove Tuesday remains one of the greatest discoveries of my adult life.
A year since the first episode of the Mirror and the Light broadcast in the UK and the duke of Suffolk "marry a witch and your member will shrivel...and then you die" is still giving the PE teacher in Mean Girls vibes. #themirrorandthelight #meangirls
I normally try to avoid sweeping stereotypes but the Canadians are not helping with the news story. Or the Scottish bloke in short sleeves despite the cold.
Some rather nice passementerie to be seen here - sadly classed as an endangered heritage craft in the UK
Merchant Adventurers’ Hall@merchantshallyork.org · 9mo agoDo you fancy joining us on a right royal regal thread? We are going to be finding out about the crown in this painting of King George I. However firstly...look at his tassels!
One of the odder US fundamentalist tradwife takes I've come across: it is not contradictory to be a tradwife who works/has a social media presence because "historical female influencers" such as Florence Nightingale and Elizabeth Gaskell existed. #notatradwife
The font and suspended font cover at Wantage SS Peter and Paul. The shaft is medieval but the other elements are later additions. The cover is oddly eccentric resembling the roo of a "Princess castle" tower #fontsonfriday
Today the sewing had to come to swimming lessons. First attempts at handsewn buttonholes are proving interesting. #reenactment #sewing #handsewing #buttonholes #medievalclothing
Is the door straight and the floor and frame wonky? Or the floor and frame wonky and the door straight? The Mermaid Passage at Harvington Hall #adoorablethursday
Is it really the Royal Oak if the original tree got destroyed by tourists (the influencers of the 17th and 18th centuries I guess)? This tree is a "son" of the original having been grown from one of its acorns. #shipoftheseus
When you have a re-enactment event on Sunday but the child has football practice. #handsewing #reenactment
Looking back at October from November, and I realise that this year I saw nothing about Black History month - either online or real promotion of in person events. So were there a) fewer events this year or b) were the algorithms hiding posts from me. Or c) both? #history #blackhistorymonth
