The Northampton Ghosts of Industry project is looking for more volunteers across Northamptonshire to record painted advertising signs. All the records will be added to the Historic Environment Record

Northampton volunteers record more than 60 shop 'ghost signs'

Recruits are now wanted to record more faded signs across Northamptonshire.

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'I wish I was pesto pasta'. Carved by my eldest www.instagram.com/greshdesign?...

Enjoying the column last April...

Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Happy birthday to the column of Trajan, dedicated on May 12, 113 CE. You may not have any paint on you anymore & Pope Sixtus V may have plopped an odd Saint Peter on top of you, but 1,913 years ain’t nothin’. If you have a Trajan’s column pic: quote post it. www.nationalgeographic.com/trajan-column/

Hitting all the middle age clichés, but the swifts have returned and I heard a nightingale for the very first time this morning and that is all I need to make this the best day.

"We have a handful of years until our carbon budget is exhausted. To waste what little bandwidth we have left – when 750 million people worldwide lack access to electricity – assisting some of the richest men ever to hone their plagiarism bots would be a historic idiocy...."

Officials hugely underestimated impact of AI datacentres on UK carbon emissions

Revised figures increase fears about energy-intensive datacentres worsening climate emergency

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Our cherry blossom giving 110% this spring

Mighty indeed!

Fishbourne Roman Palace@romanpalace.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Since everyone's sharing pics of their archives ATM... We visited the mighty Archaeological Resource Centre in Northamptonshire this week and saw their amazing archives, which are overseen by Ben: a slightly underripe #CuratorRob.

Day FOUR of #Glass-tonbury, our experiment @butserancientfarm.co.uk where we try to recreate Roman window glass. 🔥🍷 We have a parallel experiment running where we try to find out how many near-identical pictures of hot things we can post on Bluesky before we get complaints. 😬😳 Let's see.... 🧵👇

Back to #Glass-tonbury, our project to recreate Roman window glass today. We emptied 4 buckets of hot embers from yesterday's firing (in which we baked a couple of potatoes for an excellent lunch). The furnace still had 200 degrees worth of residual heat when we re-lit it.

St. Botolph's Church at Boston in Lincolnshire. The main body of the church dates to the C14th, while the magnificent west tower (the ‘Boston Stump) was largely constructed during the C15th. 📸 My own. #SteepleSaturday #Boston #Lincolnshire

Oh the indignity wrought by the Victorians! Cast off, hidden and ignored after the church was rebuilt, the original Romanesque font at All Saints, Braunston, Northamptonshire shows signs of a church of great antiquity now all but lost to the world. #FontsOnFriday

Will archaeological data ever be FAIR? 🌐💻 Nicholson et al. explore why so much data remains hard to find and reuse. They advocate for the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) to improve stewardship as open science becomes the standard. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Disregarding the fact that he's cos playing as some of home counties Tory, just caught my husband pouring melted chocolate over a pile of tennis balls....

"integrate AI into your workflow..." buddy, given half a chance I'd be scratching on vellum with oak gall ink in a nice dark clochán on Skellig Michael. I have no interest in generative AI at all, I wish they would stop trying to crowbar it into *everything*. Sometimes the effort is the point.

I hope I continue to always be amazed at the images a mere $500 telescope can capture from my backyard in just a few hours of time. Set up my Seestar sometime after 8:30 pm last night. Carefully levelled, aligned, etc. Aimed at M42. Let it capture 1.5 hrs of data. A few editing tweaks & "Voila!"

Using this as a start: what are your favorite examples of unconscious/unforced dad-or-mom shade about your musical tastes? Just something said immediately or off the cuff. Spill all your secrets!

Mad Bastard@madbastard-v2.bsky.social · 3y ago

I want to say, when I was a kid, shortly after we got cable, we were watching MTV (obviously back when they actually played music videos) and something by Aerosmith was playing. My father, walking through the room said, "Is that Mick Jagger? No, wait, not ugly enough. Can't be him."

#FingerpostFriday

#AdoorableThursday Canons Ashby

Did you know that there are over 80 Historic Environment Records (HERs) in England? Most of them are available online. Learn more on www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/chr/... #sharedhistory #historicenvirommentrecords #algao #sharedhistory #culturalheritage

This is absolutely brilliant. Instigated by Gordon Brown, delivered today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

World's longest coastal path opens in England to the public

The King Charles coastal path will allow walkers right of access to the entire coast for the first time.

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Two brand new films highlighting the work of Historic Environment Records will be released next week. We can't wait to share them with you! Have you ever looked really looked at where you live? Here's where you get started lnkd.in/ewYiJCPg #historicengland #historicenvironmentrecord

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess✅

My latest online offering presents the bloody history behind the word ‘shibboleth’, with the point to make that a story about death brings its people to life. Naturally, it accompanies that point with references to Monty Python, German accents, fossils, and Stalin. dannybate.com/2026/03/16/f...

Fatal Pronunciation: The Shibboleth Story

The Bible can make for a gruesome read. An effortless observation (which has led to much reasonable criticism) is that, for a collection of texts which many people take as foundational for life, it…

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Most of us walk across layers of history every day without realising it. Not just famous landmarks, but ordinary places. Fields. Streets. What stories do these places hold? Who or what was here before us? The answer is out there, sometimes all it takes is knowing where to look.

This is cool. The Government is set to allow plug-in solar, low cost solar panels that families can buy at supermarkets and put on their balconies or outdoor space. "In Germany over a million have been sold, helping households with energy costs and reducing dependence on fossil fuels."

Government to go “further and faster” in becoming energy secure

The Energy Secretary outlines measures to protect consumers and make Britain energy secure.

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In 1290, Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I & mother of his 14 kids, died in Nottinghamshire. The places where her body rested during the journey to its tomb in Westminster were marked by stone crosses. One of these still stands at Geddington, Northants, & I took these pics there this p.m.

My new needy sheep friends

The Saxon doorway from the south side of the tower of All Saints’ Church at Brixworth in Northamptonshire. Using recycled Roman tiles, the doorway was originally an internal door leading to a now demolished cell. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursdsy #Brixworth #Northamptonshire

I've been going down a bit of a rabbit hole regarding lead 'pigs' for a piece of work I'm doing on silver. Some were marked 'ex arg' ('of the silver mines') which suggests there may have been some de-silvering going on in Britain. A lead thread 🧵 😉 #Archaeology 🏺

Dr Toby Driver@drtobydriver.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Huge news for Ceredigion & west Wales. Imperial #Roman lead mines on Cardigan Bay were under the control of Domitian by AD 87 as confirmed by the discovery of these lead pigs Only the 5th & 6th ingots ever found in Wales 😮 www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...