I love the River Thames on a summer evening. Great view of Tower Bridge.

⚔️ Spies, secrets, and survival against the odds in the dangerous world of Elizabethan England. mybook.to/TheElizabeth... #Elizabethan #Tudors #HistoricalFiction #Audiobooks

Hálfdan II and Eowils, joint kings of York, died in battle against Edward the Elder's West Saxon-Mercian levies near Teotanheale (Tettenhall, Wolverhampton) #OTD in 910. The deaths seem to have signalled the end of the Anglo-Danish Scalding dynasty.

Yellow Bittern 36cm belongs to the heron family, it blends into its marshy and reed-filled habitats, making it a master of camouflage Live in the mashy rice paddies, reed beds across Asia, India and Japan, Indonesia Diet: small fish, frogs aquatic insects Large feet allows it to walk on plants

The excellent arrangement of chimneys at Shandy Hall, Coxwold, North Yorkshire. This 15th century building was later home to Laurence Sterne, the 18th century author of the groundbreaking book, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy 🤩

Excellent series on BBC Radio 4 presented by David Dimbleby which this week discusses the coup organised by the CIA in Iran to overthrow the popular President Mohamed Mossadegh. This became a template for future CIA covert activities. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The History Podcast - Invisible Hands: The American Century - 3. Operation Ajax - BBC Sounds

The story of America’s ultimate Invisible hand - the CIA.

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The hottest summer on record but Newport/Casnewydd station is still reliably cold and windy!

Episode 3 of Helen Castor’s ‘She Wolves: England’s Early Queens’ is on BBC4 tonight at 9pm. This episode features Jane, Mary and Elizabeth. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

My interview about Bess – Tudor Gentlewoman, the sixth and final novel in my Elizabethan Series: maryanneyarde.blogspot.com/2026/08/auth... @maryanneyarde.bsky.social #Elizabethan #Tudors #HistoricalFiction

⚠️ Want to see more Durotriges Big Dig Iron Age #archaeology? ⚠️ Of course you do !! Catch *Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders* with @rakshadigs.bsky.social and us on Channel 4 this Saturday 8 August 7pm 👍 Salamanda Media Bournemouth University 👇👇👇👇

"King David was a sorrowful man: No cause for his sorrow had he; And he called for the music of a hundred harps, To ease his melancholy." Walter De la Mare BL Add MS 37768; the 'Lothar Psalter'; c.840 CE-855 CE; Germany (Aachen) or Northern France (Tours); f.5r @blmedieval.bsky.social

Today's the feast of St Oswald, 7th Century Northumbrian king. Here on the right with St Aidan in glass of 1907 by Caroline Townshend in Newcastle Anglican Cathedral.

Æthelwald Moll succeeded Oswulf as king of the Northumbrians #OTD in 759. He was probably the ‘patrician’ Moll to whom King Eadberht and Archbishop Ecgberht had given the monasteries of Stonegrave, Coxwold and Donemutha. Stonegrave Minster 📸John Armagh

Felt like a good time to reshare my 2023 ideas for Moomin Odyssey casting… What do you think? 🌊 Moomintroll as Telemachus Sniff as Eumaeus Snufkin as Eurylochus

⚓Discover the story of Sir Francis Drake — sailor, privateer, survivor, in Drake – Tudor Corsair 🇺🇸 www.amazon.com/dp/B08FCTYQF4 🇬🇧 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08FCTYQF4 #Elizabethan #Tudors #HistFic #HistoricalFiction #Audiobooks

My new - and final - book comes out on January 14th, 2027

The impressive stone bay window in Gainsborough Old Hall’s timber- framed great hall was added in the 16th century. It may have been relocated from another building. #WindowsOnWednesday

Who says guys don't look good in pink and purple? Here's a male roseate skimmer (Orthemis ferruginea) in the Corrales Bosque on August 4, 2026. #nature #naturephotography #dragonfly

The fabulous door - and doorway - into the little gem that is St. Leonard’s Church, Old Warden, Bedfordshire. Just look at that detail! 🤩

I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider. Post Anything Here: interactink.vercel.app

Daughter 2: “Dad, how old are you?!” “Why?” “What’s with the stone Barbie?”

This is called a ‘hudd’ and was used in the 18th century for the priest to stand in when conducting graveside services in wet weather. The Wingfield hudd is one of just two in East Anglia. There's another at Walpole St Peter in Norfolk. #History #HistoryMatters

Wheelbarrows at dawn for #HillfortsWednesday during the first week back at Buckspool coastal promontory fort, Pembrokeshire. Excavations by @henebtwa.bsky.social & @richardosgood.bsky.social with Op Nightingale are focusing on two Romano-British houses on the fort summit 🛖 📷 This morning

Atop the Iron Age ramparts of Rawlsbury Camp looking south across the Blackmore Vale #Dorset One of our favourite spots to just stop, sit and contemplate the world 😍 📷 August 2018 #HillfortsWednesday

Aug 5: Feast of Oswald (†642), king of the Northumbrians. Came to power after a childhood spent in exile in Dál Riata. Slew British king Catguollaun in battle at Denisesburn (possibly Rowley Burn, Northumberland). Slain himself by Penda, pagan king of the Mercians. 📸Mike Quinn

The Japanese anemones have started to bloom just as the days are starting to draw in.

Another picture from #WestHorsleyPlace with the #TudorPlayers last weekend.

#vss365 #arrive #poetry #blueskypoets I seem to be a little stuck in stream of consciousness mode. It will pass 😄 here is a Ars Poetica #poem cleverly titled 'Ars Poetica'...

#Bloomscrolling I opted for a pollinator garden over grass.

Pictish king Onuist and Eadberht, king of the Northumbrians, led their respective armies to Dumbarton Rock #OTD in 756, where the Clyde Britons agreed to a treaty, perhaps involving the payment of tribute as a grudged but necessary alternative to violence. 📸Eddie Mackinnon