Richard Fitch
@tudorcook.bsky.social
Historic Kitchens Manager at Hampton Court Palace, he/him, experimental historian, tiresome lay-about.
All views own, yada yada yada.
No expectation of mutual following.
All views own, yada yada yada.
No expectation of mutual following.
"Oi!! You bloody vandals, whadoyouthinkyou'rebloodydoin?!"
Kids and dogs alike enjoy desecrating columns in Delft's Oudekerk,1652. Church graffiti was a popular children's hobby, shown by many artists; here by Emanuel de Witte, whose day is today.
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"Oi!! You bloody vandals, whadoyouthinkyou'rebloodydoin?!"
All done at the Rijksmuseum... Now to kill time before the flight home
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
All done at the Rijksmuseum... Now to kill time before the flight home
2 hours in to the Rijksmuseum and I'm thinking they may have too much medieval stuff...kidding.
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
2 hours in to the Rijksmuseum and I'm thinking they may have too much medieval stuff...kidding.
Goddammit! Whose stupid idea was it to do a day trip to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam?!
[Kicks own arse solidly]
[Kicks own arse solidly]
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Goddammit! Whose stupid idea was it to do a day trip to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam?!
[Kicks own arse solidly]
[Kicks own arse solidly]
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Rochdale chippy owners Jimmy and Elsie Greenwood with their coal-fired fryer, May 1973.
November 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Rochdale chippy owners Jimmy and Elsie Greenwood with their coal-fired fryer, May 1973.
www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/...
Ideal 'fixer upper'!
Historic Fort Darnet on island on the River Medway, near Hoo, on the market for £50,000
Ideal 'fixer upper'!
Historic Fort Darnet on island on the River Medway, near Hoo, on the market for £50,000
Fancy a fort of your own? Rare military monument listed on market for £50k
A historic military fort constructed around 150 years ago to protest access to a nearby naval dockyard is going under the hammer.
www.kentonline.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/...
Ideal 'fixer upper'!
Historic Fort Darnet on island on the River Medway, near Hoo, on the market for £50,000
Ideal 'fixer upper'!
Historic Fort Darnet on island on the River Medway, near Hoo, on the market for £50,000
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NEW PUBLICATION
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes
doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes
doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance
Abstract. Collaborations between the humanities and sciences allow for novel insights into the material world of Renaissance recipe cultures, and in partic
doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
NEW PUBLICATION
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes
doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes
doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
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Archaeologists lift the lid on a 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus hidden beneath Budapest
Archaeologists lift the lid on a 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus hidden beneath Budapest
Archaeologists lift the lid on a 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus hidden beneath Budapest
www.independent.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Archaeologists lift the lid on a 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus hidden beneath Budapest
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Fascinating 🧵
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Fascinating 🧵
tvpworld.com/90099468/pol...
"Rare WWII-era V-2 rocket recovered at a former missile test site in southeastern Poland"
"Rare WWII-era V-2 rocket recovered at a former missile test site in southeastern Poland"
German Nazi V-2 rocket uncovered in Polish village
German V-2 rockets were tested in occupied Polish territory during World War II.
tvpworld.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
tvpworld.com/90099468/pol...
"Rare WWII-era V-2 rocket recovered at a former missile test site in southeastern Poland"
"Rare WWII-era V-2 rocket recovered at a former missile test site in southeastern Poland"
www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...
Ignore the image, the translated statement looks very interesting though.
Now to work on getting a translation of the actual report
Ignore the image, the translated statement looks very interesting though.
Now to work on getting a translation of the actual report
Construction Workers Discovered Not One, Not Two, But Six Centuries-Old Shipwrecks
The wrecks were dated from the 17th century to as old as the medieval era.
www.popularmechanics.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...
Ignore the image, the translated statement looks very interesting though.
Now to work on getting a translation of the actual report
Ignore the image, the translated statement looks very interesting though.
Now to work on getting a translation of the actual report
Pleasant morning drive past Stirling Castle
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Pleasant morning drive past Stirling Castle
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News | Historic England adds 138 new sites to its Heritage at Risk register – charity says that 129 sites have been 'saved' in 2025
Historic England adds 138 new sites to its Heritage at Risk register - Museums Association
Charity says that 129 sites have been 'saved' in 2025
www.museumsassociation.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
😢
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Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3
📷 D. v. Recklinghausen
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📷 D. v. Recklinghausen
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November 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3
📷 D. v. Recklinghausen
🏺
📷 D. v. Recklinghausen
🏺
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
Busted!
pachnelephalosaurus statue, public park, route 40, dinosaur, colorado, 1991
November 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Busted!
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London Lives has been, ngl, a bit broken for a while. It's not broken any more.
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
London Lives has been, ngl, a bit broken for a while. It's not broken any more.
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🎆 It's Bonfire Night🎆
To celebrate we're showing our copy of 'The second booke teaching most exactly, the composing of all manner of fire-works for tryumph and recreation' by John Bate, published in 1635 (shelf marl: S PAM 479).
To celebrate we're showing our copy of 'The second booke teaching most exactly, the composing of all manner of fire-works for tryumph and recreation' by John Bate, published in 1635 (shelf marl: S PAM 479).
November 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🎆 It's Bonfire Night🎆
To celebrate we're showing our copy of 'The second booke teaching most exactly, the composing of all manner of fire-works for tryumph and recreation' by John Bate, published in 1635 (shelf marl: S PAM 479).
To celebrate we're showing our copy of 'The second booke teaching most exactly, the composing of all manner of fire-works for tryumph and recreation' by John Bate, published in 1635 (shelf marl: S PAM 479).
Some of the better (less charred) soul cakes from today...tasty none the less
October 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Some of the better (less charred) soul cakes from today...tasty none the less
A Happy Halloween in the kitchens at Hampton Court Palace, looking at spooky traditions from history and around the country
October 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
A Happy Halloween in the kitchens at Hampton Court Palace, looking at spooky traditions from history and around the country
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Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...
Feeding Medieval England: A Long ‘Agricultural Revolution’, 700–1300
Abstract. As in the rest of Europe, the population of medieval England grew steeply, especially between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. This volume inv
academic.oup.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...
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Nothing to see here? Well, this is a slow moving 🧵 for #skystorians and others about #eyeglasses of the past, about how to read in the past, where to buy eyeglasses, and how to do with them in general. The hashtag is #HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast
Let's roll.
Let's roll.
October 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Nothing to see here? Well, this is a slow moving 🧵 for #skystorians and others about #eyeglasses of the past, about how to read in the past, where to buy eyeglasses, and how to do with them in general. The hashtag is #HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast
Let's roll.
Let's roll.
What's that you say 'Clever Hans'? You have to spend how many years in hellfire and purgatory??
#NicheJoke
#NicheJoke
October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
What's that you say 'Clever Hans'? You have to spend how many years in hellfire and purgatory??
#NicheJoke
#NicheJoke
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BIG ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS! 💫
A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩
Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?...
#archaeology #history #Roman
A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩
Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?...
#archaeology #history #Roman
October 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
BIG ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS! 💫
A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩
Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?...
#archaeology #history #Roman
A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩
Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?...
#archaeology #history #Roman
Nobody could work up the nerve to be first into the ball pit, terrified that people would think they were just too old to play
October 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Nobody could work up the nerve to be first into the ball pit, terrified that people would think they were just too old to play