Crete! Home base for the next few days! Agii Apostolis, west of Chania, with the White Mountains as a backdrop. Also the location of the British hospital and then POW camp during WW2. Going to sit on that beach and not go on any silly adventures. Well, maybe one or two... #Greece #Travel #History

Stained glass depicting Saint George at the Garden Museum, formerly St. Mary's Church, Lambeth. The church is medieval, though the stained glass was destroyed in WW2 and replaced in the 1950s.

Fine additions to my collection! Not pictured is the magnet from the cheese museum, which I suspect fell out of my bag and is still stuck to the inside of a locker in the Louvre... #France #Travel

And that was France. You know what? I kinda like it.

One final historic building before heading for home. The tower of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy. Built as his personal safe house in Paris during the bitter civil war between the Armagnac and Burgundian factions in the 15th century. #Medieval #History #France

🎵They took all the cheese And put 'em in a cheese museum And they charged the people Three Euros to seem 'em🎵 Maison du Brie de Meaux, a small but perfectly formed museum of Brie cheese, showing how it was made, aged and sold. Plus cheese shaped hats! #Cheese #History #France

I found it! I found the Greek cup showing Pasiphae holding the baby minotaur with a "the fuck is this?!" expression! #GreekMythology #History #Museum

The museum of Aquitaine. I may be some time...

Museum 1 of ?: Musée du Vin et du Négoce de Bordeaux (Museum of Wine and Wine Merchants), housed in a cellar of an early 18th century merchants house where he stored his products. Covers the history of the wine trade in Bordeaux. #Medieval #History #France #Travel

Historic church 1 of ? : Cathédrale Saint-André, Bordeaux. #Medievalsky #France #Travel

Adventure time!

15th century stained glass in the candlelight. Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York. #MedievalSky

Armour, archers, and ambition ⚔️🏰 Dive into the Hundred Years’ War and the clash that reshaped medieval Europe. medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/hund... #MedievalWarfare

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Facebook has reminded me it's been 2 years since I was in Crete "walking the ground" in the snow to find the spot where secret agent and travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor parachuted in and the cave where he hid while organising the kidnap of the islands German commandant. #WW2 #History #Travel ✈️🗺️

A foster kitten visiting the amazing “Paws on Parchment” exhibition which tracks how cats were depicted in the Middle Ages through texts and artworks from around the world www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a... #medievalsky

Your semi-regular reminder that the British Library's Research Repository has stacks of open datasets from collections, and research by Library staff e.g. bl.iro.bl.uk/catalog?f[hu... #OpenAccess #OpenGLAM

It was great speaking to @mattlewishistory.bsky.social about my book on the Knights Hospitaller in Britain and their part in everything from the earliest witch trials to the Wars of the Roses #medievalsky shows.acast.com/gone-medieva...

The Hospitallers: Warrior Monks | Gone Medieval

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A 14th-century manuscript of the Romance of Alexander (the Great) that I saw in the Treasured exhibition at the Weston Library. [Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264; fols. 43v-44r].

New Medieval Books: Joan of Arc: The Life of a French Cultural Icon, by Deborah McGrady published by @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2026/01/new-... #JoanofArc #medievalbooks

New Medieval Books: Joan of Arc - Medievalists.net

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Mosaic of the God Oceanus in Petra https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/mosaic-of-the-god-oceanus-in-petra-550

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Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts #SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky

Just a regular fox taking an #earlymodern Uber. Nothing to see here. #skystorians

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Legacy of The Knights Hospitaller - Food of Rhodes!

Podcast Episode · The Delicious Legacy · 14/01/2026 · 27m

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Sometimes, you'll go to a library or archive full of hopes and come out empty handed. Other times you'll go in expecting nothing and find... well, WONDERFUL things! A late 15th century agricultural manual that turned out to be full of painted woodcuts illustrating the text! #MedievalSky

Statue of Cretan hero Spiros Kayales overlooking the city of Chania. During the Cretan Revolt of 1897, the "Great Powers" bombarded the Cretan encampment. Seeing the Greek flag about to fall, Kayales grabbed it and used his own body as a flagpole, keeping it aloft. #Greece #Crete #History

Could be a swan, could be Zeus in disguise. Either way, best steer clear... #Greece #Crete #GreekMythology