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Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉

@reblambert.bsky.social

Interdisciplinary Archaeologist; Wanderer, Ponderer. Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments - Manchester Metropolitan University & English Heritage. Surprised, but very proud #MDANT Neurodivergent person

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Morgan L Ventura (they/she)@morganvl.bsky.social · 3d ago

Fellow Belfast / UK & Ireland writers of the weird & wondrous - check out this call! The folks at the Seamus Heaney Centre are the absolute loveliest, you don’t want to miss this. (I would submit but am currently in manuscript hell 🫠)

Emma Devlin@theactualemma.bsky.social · 5d ago

Very excited to present UNDERTOW. This will be a showcase of new and emerging writers of weird and wonderful fiction. If you'd like to take part, please click here: www.seamusheaneycentre.com/news/Callfor...

Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 4d ago

So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.

The Fake History Hunter@fakehistoryhunter.net · 4d ago

I've turned an old thread into an article for easier reading. Let's check out a medieval book full of drawings of daily life on bridges! You can read it here; fakehistoryhunter.net/2026/08/02/m... or here; fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/medieval-l...

Medieval lives on medieval bridges

I was just randomly looking through some medieval books, as one does, when I discovered that a bunch of these French books for some reason had lots of pictures of bridges with people going over the…

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National Trust@nationaltrust.org.uk · 4d ago

The wisteria at Melford Hall in Suffolk is having a second flower! Whilst not unusual, the amount we are seeing this year could be due to the stress caused by the prolonged hot and very dry weather. 📸 Zoe Bridges

A lush garden scene filled with dense green foliage. A mature wisteria climbs across the top of the image, draping clusters of pale purple flowers over a thick canopy of leaves. Above, patches of blue sky and white clouds are visible.
Martyn Barber@martynjb.bsky.social · 4d ago

Another burst of OGS Crawford's doggerel for the weekend. Not clear who/what prompted this one. Obituaries After they are dead things may be said without misgiving that are best suppressed while they are living, allowing perhaps a decent lapse to pass for the growing of grass. (1/3)

Sussex Wildlife Trust@sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 4d ago

All jellyfish can sting alive or dead, so be cautious. If stung, remove stingers still attached (a credit card is good) & rinse with water. Over the counter painkillers or antihistamines can help. If reaction severe, seek medical attention.  📸 Barry Yates

Translucent purple jellyfish partly submerged in shallow water on wet sand
James Bailey@drjamesbailey.bsky.social · 4d ago

I’m in The Times today! I've written about Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat, obeying your own 'queer dictatorial sense’, and scaring yourself to death while writing. Scarier still, I've just taken off my cap to find I’ve been left with a hairstyle reminiscent of Dido in her early-00s heyday.

Me, holding a copy of The Times, featuring an article with the headline ‘Rereading: The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark’. My hair is flicking out to the side.
Fronteer@fronteer.bsky.social · 4d ago

This evening! 🥂 Join us at Fronteer Gallery at 4pm for the opening of our 'Hedgerow' and 'Fronteer x Well Dressed : Customs and Curiosities' exhibitions! Come along and immerse yourself in some fabulous art while meeting some of the artists involved.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall@merchantshallyork.org · last wk.

Everyone meet Henry Thompson and Michael Barstow. Harry and Mike (as no one ever called them) were Merchant Adventurers in the mid 17th century. Late last year they had a little clean and it gave us an opportunity to find out a bit about these gentlemen...

This is a head and shoulders portrait of Sir Henry Thomson of Middlethorpe, knight, wine-merchant and alderman of York. He is facing forward, with his body turned slightly to the right. In his left hand he holds a slim clasped volume bound in green leather with his index finger keeping a place. He wears a full grey wig, a large lace cravat and lace cuffs tied with black ribbon. Visible between the fur edging of his red gown (as worn by Governors and aldermen) is the Lord Mayor of York’s chain of office. On the little finger of his left hand he wears a ring with a stone or cameo. The inscription on the painted panel below the portrait reads: “Henry Thomson Knight Alderman and present Governor of this society did give fifty pounds for ye preaching of ye Sermons forever 1669”. This is a head and shoulders portrait of Michael Barstow, mercer (later merchant adventurer) and benefactor of the Company of Merchant Adventurers. He is facing front, his body turned slightly to the right, his left arm resting on a ledge with a book in his left hand. He wears a black skull cap, and a white collar of Puritan design. The broad cuffs of his brown coat can be seen through his black gown. The inscription below the portrait reads: “Michael Barstow of the city of York Gent. sometime Warden of the Company of Merchants there, did give and pay unto the Poor widows in their Hospital, Some years before his death, 102: at every quarter Court, and did so settle it to be paid for ever: An 1696”.
Martyn Barber@martynjb.bsky.social · last wk.

Another slice of OGS Crawford doggerel, once again on the subject of Mortimer Wheeler. For once we know when it was wrotten - 1955. [Untitled] (emphases as in original) The friends of SIR MORTIMER have always thought his a BAWDY OLD CROOK; but in hit latest book ("Still Digging") (1/4)