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Sue Jones
@suejonze.bsky.social
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Usually lurking by the water. Knows some stuff about early modern piracy, among other things.

Thames or Humber
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hookland.bsky.social
Last year we saw an increase of graffiti depictions the Wicker King. This year colleagues in the Folklore department report an uptick in Wicker King sightings. This matter needs further study. – Sophie Morley of Woden College's Graffiti Research and Formalisation Team (GRAFT), 1983
January 30, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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jeremymillar.bsky.social
Brilliant thread but oh my word
kolektiv.xyncro.com Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 5d
I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
AI Skills Boost - AI Skills Hub
aiskillshub.org.uk
January 29, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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johnevigar.bsky.social
Book rest on the seventeenth century pulpit at Burgh le Marsh, Lincolnshire #woodensday
January 28, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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desdelboy.bsky.social
If you need your heart warmed today, this might do the trick
burrddoh.bsky.social Victoria @burrddoh.bsky.social · Sep 6
This woman will be protected by generations of crows

h/t: Autumn Buck / firstdatejunkie
January 28, 2026 at 12:06 PM
suejonze.bsky.social
Dawn getting her rosy fingerprints on Hampstead Heath this morning
A pond surrounded by trees. A dark blue sky with a pink tinge in the distance. The pond reflects the sky.
January 28, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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harikunzru.bsky.social
If you want a break from snow or ICE, I have a #longread in the current @harpers.bsky.social about a mystical drift through London. Includes Blake, Hawksmoor, the Sex Pistols, Derek Jarman, John Dee and conversations with Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair harpers.org/archive/2026...
Another London, by Hari Kunzru
Excavating the disenchanted city
harpers.org
January 25, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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rsmythfreelance.bsky.social
Would you like to read something about Greenland that isn't about geopolitics, but is instead about love, and grief, and gyrfalcon nests? Here's a story I wrote once for @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social. richarddsmyth.com/2021/10/01/s...
Short story: Hannah Rensenbrink’s Postcards From Qasigiannguit
A story first published in The Lonely Crowd.
richarddsmyth.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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mbarcia24.bsky.social
Pirate Imperialism is now officially published. Probably of interest to anyone who wants to understand, well, everything that is going on today. #bskyhistorians #skyhistorians
Here:

yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Pirate Imperialism - Yale University Press London
This first truly global history of the suppression of piracy links maritime raiding to empire building in the nineteenth century   In the middle decades...
yalebooks.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 8:53 AM
suejonze.bsky.social
Hampstead Heath 6.50am
Rus in urbe
A pond surrounded by trees. The sun is beginning to rise, the clouds are tinged with pink and the sky is reflected in the pond.
January 19, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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minimumlabyrinth.bsky.social
Happy new year to you all. Here's to walks in 2026 with warmer, drier weather, and cooler, wetter pints, with a salty packet of historical factlets:

Goe no more to Brainford (Sun 12 April)
By A Long Chalk (Mon 27 April)
Drury Lane (Sun 3 May)
Rendlesham (Tues 29 December) minimumlabyrinth.org
A man in a purple suit is surprised by the ghost of Nell Gwyn holding an orange.
January 16, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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carolinehack.bsky.social
Finally finished my contribution to #CorsetRevivalProject #upcycling contemporary corsets saved from landfill. I’ve highlighted the Arctic Whaling Trade where the whalebone/baleen came from. Working on a 3d base has been a real challenge!
A corset with three embroidered panels. One showing a chart of the Arctic whaling grounds, a panorama of Arctic whaling with ships, whale boats and whales. And a polar clear looks down on the scene.
January 12, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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maximpetergriff.bsky.social
12/1/26 - nocturn
small hours big time short flight from Humberside over trig point hill tumuli - blackness jet speed - Amsterdam in 38 minutes
January 12, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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radiolento.bsky.social
Timeline cleanse

Early morning walk through the medieval streets with housemartins roosting and someone playing a piano.

Sound ON.
Early Morning Housemartins with Piano
YouTube video by Radio Lento
youtu.be
January 8, 2026 at 12:37 PM
suejonze.bsky.social
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The red room recreated at the BFI David Lynch season
A room with red curtains, zigzag pattern flooring, an armchair, and a side table with a photo of Laura Palmer
January 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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garius.bsky.social
Since y'all asked nicely, here's my complete history of Robin of Sherwood. One of the finest TV shows ever made. Hugely influential. Most modern cinematic/TV Robin Hood tropes trace back to it.

As Herne would say:

"Nothing is forgotten. Nothing is ever forgotten."

authory.com/JohnBull/Not...
michael praed, all long black hair and smoochy sultry looks, as Robin. He is holding a sword in a way that is absolutely not subtle, laydeez.
January 6, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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sardonicus.eu
I Want A Dyke For President (1992)
By Zoe Leonard, artist, activist, member of Fierce Pussy
I want a dyke for president. I want a person with aids for president and I want a fag for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance and I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste that they didn’t have a choice about getting leukemia. I want a president that had an abortion at sixteen and I want a candidate who isn’t the lesser of two evils and I want a president who lost their last lover to aids, who still sees that in their eyes every time they lay down to rest, who held their lover in their arms and knew they were dying. I want a president with no airconditioning, a president who has stood on line at the clinic, at the dmv, at the welfare office and has been unemployed and layed off and sexually harrassed and gay-bashed and deported. I want someone who has spent the night in the tombs and had a cross burned on their lawn and survived rape. I want someone who has been in love and been hurt, who respects sex, who has made mistakes and learned from them. I want a black woman for president. I want someone with bad teeth and an attitude, someone who has eaten that nasty hospital food, someone who crossdresses and has done drugs and been in therapy. I want someone who has committed civil disobedience. And I want to know why this isn’t possible. I want to know why we started learning somewhere down the line that a president is always a clown: always a john and never a hooker. Always a boss and never a worker, always a liar, always a thief and never caught.
January 6, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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tinctureofmuseum.bsky.social
Facing a difficult funding landscape and the pressure on a small organisation, the London School of Mosaic closed this summer... A huge loss for so many reasons. artuk.org/discover/sto... @artukdotorg.bsky.social #Mosaics
Piecing it together: the work of London School of Mosaic
Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 750,000 artworks by over 70,000 artists.
artuk.org
December 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
suejonze.bsky.social
Proper winter swimming season now
Sign giving pool temperature as 1 degree and air temperature as 2 degrees
January 5, 2026 at 10:48 AM
suejonze.bsky.social
The plaque to one of my favourite early modern Londoners, Thomas Britton, the musical coalman
London Borough of Islington historic site plaque marking the former house of Thomas Britton, the musical coalman, 1644 -1714
January 4, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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maximpetergriff.bsky.social
3/1/26 - nocturn
small hours big time a back road - Lincolnshire snow on the ground - stars on chalk / flint / silent moon in the mirror
January 3, 2026 at 6:59 PM
suejonze.bsky.social
Sunrise on Hampstead Heath. I've had worse workplaces
Sunrise over a glade surrounded by trees and covered in a light dusting of snow
January 2, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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chowleen.bsky.social
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
Paintings of hammerhead sharks depicted in the "Oki National Products Illustration Notes". From Japan, Edo Period, ca 1735
December 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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maximpetergriff.bsky.social
23/12/25 - nocturn
small hours big time night shift - last one before Christmas 0456 - some lad outside, wrecked - vomit everywhere 17, maybe 18 - you alright mate? - here, have some water he looks up - a moment of clarity - can you call my mum?
December 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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drmirandafay.bsky.social
People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind

Actual academics:
bibliowingate.bsky.social Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · Dec 18
I have a weird question for the #bird people on here. Do you think someone could tell that a book was pooped on specifically by a sparrowhawk (or perhaps hawks generally) just from the feces? I'm looking at a 16th c. case where witnesses claim books were pooped on specifically by sparrowhawks!
December 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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bucksarchives.bsky.social
Don't steal pies this Christmas.
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM