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Hannah Okon

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A slightly different #ReliefWednesday. These beautiful relief panels are dedicated to a #LlandaffCathedral architect for his restoration work (1949-75) following the war.
#HistoryBlueSky #archaeology #Cathedrals #Wales

September 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM Everybody can reply

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Hannah Okon

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A collection for #HelmetThursday. Tiverton Castle is home to many #armour pieces, including a lovely range of helmets, some from the #Roundheads and #Cavaliers. The castle isn't open everyday, but is well priced and worth a visit for the armour (and gardens).
#HistoryBlueSky #archaeology #Tiverton

September 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM Everybody can reply

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Hannah Okon

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The Wellington reredos for #ReliefWednesday. It likely stood behind the high altar of St. John's church and was richly coloured. They were defaced at the Reformation (1540s), and later, it was taken down and used as paving around the altar.
Somerset Museum
#HistoryBlueSky #Archaeology

September 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM Everybody can reply

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365History

@365history.bsky.social

Sept 16, 1920: A horse-drawn wagon filled with dynamite exploded on Wall Street.
38 dead. 140+ injured.
No arrests. No accountability.
Still one of the deadliest terror attacks in US history.
#365History #WallStreetBombing #OnThisDay #USHistory #Historybluesky

September 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM Everybody can reply

Hannah Okon

@han-okon.bsky.social

A turban helmet with aventail for #HelmetThursday. The aventail is fixed with a lead seal stamped with the mark used in the #Ottoman arsenals, suggesting it passed into Turkish possession as booty.
📷Met Museum (50.87)
#HistoryBlueSky #armour #history #archaeology #metalwork

Turban helmet with aventail, late 15th-16th century, Turkish, in the style of Turkman armour.
Met Museum Information: The aventail is fixed with a lead seal stamped with the mark used in the Ottoman arsenals, an indication that this example, like the other turban helmets also in the Museum's collection (acc. nos. 04.3.209, .210, .214, .457, .462; 36.25.109), passed into Turkish possession as booty with the Ottoman conquest of Iran and the Caucasus.
At least one turban helmet decorated in a style comparable to this example bears the name of Farruhk-Siar (reigned 1464–1501), ruler of Shirvan in the Caucasus. Such evidence suggests that this helmet is also of Shirvan manufacture.
This helmet was siezed by the Nazis from the collection of Baron Alphonse Mayer Rothschild (1878–1942) in Vienna in 1938 and restituted by the government of Austria to his heirs in 1949.
Dimensions: H. including mail 22 in. (55.9 cm); H. excluding mail 13 5/8 in. (34.6 cm); Diam. 10 in. (25.4 cm); Wt. including mail 7 lb. 6.2 oz. (3350.9 g); Wt. excluding mail 3 lb. 9 oz. (1616 g)

September 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM Everybody can reply

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Hannah Okon

@han-okon.bsky.social

A Tibetan #HelmetThursday. An iron helmet with an iron bowl fitted with a gilded flattened finial and a supporting strap with pierced work designs. The front panel and attached viser features dragons and flaming jewels.
📷Liverpool Museums, World Museum (56.27.206)
#HistoryBlueSky #armour

17th-18th century iron helmet.
Overall: 210 mm x 170 mm x 270 mm

August 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM Everybody can reply

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Peter Farrelly

@pfarrelly2025.bsky.social

On This Day in History: July 16, 1377 – Richard II’s Coronation Launches a Turbulent Reign #onthisday #historybluesky

July 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM Everybody can reply

Hannah Okon

@han-okon.bsky.social

An electrotype #HelmetThursday. Part of a suit of armour belonging to Ascanio Sforza Pallavicino. His device is on either side in a floral diaper. #Italian #16thcentury copy of a Milanese helmet from Elkington and Co.
📷V&A Museum (30.11.18)
#ClassicsBlueSky #archaeology #HistoryBlueSky #armour

Gallery label taken from V&A Museum website: Electrotype of
Burgonet (helmet), 16th century
Elkington & Co., 1884
High on the Museum’s list of collections identified for copying were the treasures of the Kremlin, Tsarskoye-Selo and the Hermitage in Russia. This copy of a Milanese helmet, bearing the crest of the Sforza-Pallavicino family, replicates one of 29 pieces of armour moulded in March 1881 by Alexander Sarti, Elkington’s chief mould-maker. The gilding on the copy differs slightly from the original, giving it a uniqueness of its own.
Electroformed copper,
partly electrogilt and oxydised
London, England
Museum no. Repro.1884-56
Dimensions: Height: 29.3cm; Width: 21cm; Depth: 33cm

July 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM Everybody can reply

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Hannah Okon

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#HelmetThursday possibly Turkish from #Istanbul in the style of Turkman armour, ca. 1500-1525. One of the few conical helmets of the period to retain its original brim, nasal, cheeks, and nape defence.
📷Met Museum (36.25.126) #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #archaeology #Turkey #HistoryBlueSky

Helmet possibly Turkish, style of Turkman armour.
The brass trim is engraved with a zigzag motif, typical of the Mamluk and Ottoman helmets, around 1500.
Made from steel, iron, gold, copper alloy.
Dimensions: H. including cheek defense 15 1/2 in. (39.4 cm); H. including nasal 15 1/2 in. (39.4 cm); H. excluding cheek defense and nasal 10 in. (25.4 cm); W. 8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm); D. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm); Wt. 3 lb. 15.4 oz. (1797.4 g)

June 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM Everybody can reply

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The Maths Bazaar

@themathsbazaar.bsky.social

#HistoryBluesky it's good to know it's not just maths that is attempting to "game the system" (c) @ProfSmudge
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June 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM Everybody can reply

Antiquity Journal

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📕 #BookReview 🏺 #HistoryBluesky

Jane Webster's 'Materializing the Middle Passage' combines material culture and historical sources to "marry words and things" in the examination of the trafficking of enslaved Africans on British ships between AD 1680 and 1807. 1/2

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Cover of the book reviewed, with the text 'Book Review, Antiquity'.

May 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM Everybody can reply

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Madeleine

@empressofbyzantium.bsky.social

Plans to go to the library scuppered by the weather app claiming UV6 & 24 degrees…
In other news, I have my transfer of status this Friday & prep for that, as well as my other writing, is all-consuming!
But next week, #Sicily!
#Oxfordstudent #byzantium #classics #booksky #historian #historybluesky

April 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM Everybody can reply

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emilydebenham.bsky.social

@emilydebenham.bsky.social

My non-fiction rec this month is First Principles by Thomas E. Ricks. I loved reading about the Classical education available in Colonial American and how that impacted Madison, Washington, Jefferson, and John Adams. #classicsbluesky #historybluesky

March 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM Everybody can reply

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Sam Perrin

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These pictures are fabulous, what a find! #HistoryBluesky

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Rare Roman-Era Columbariums Discovered in Şanlıurfa | Ancientist

Rare Roman-Era Columbariums Discovered in Şanlıurfa. Şanlıurfa, located in southeastern Turkey, continues to host...

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March 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM Everybody can reply

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Madeleine

@empressofbyzantium.bsky.social

Currently preparing for a #podcast and getting to read some articles with really stunning titles including “Brothels, Baths and Babes: Prostitution in the #Byzantine Holy Land” (C Dauphine, 1996). #byzantinehistory #historybluesky 🧵 1/6

January 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM Everybody can reply

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Madeleine

@empressofbyzantium.bsky.social

I’ve finally bitten the bullet & started a #substack! I’ll write pieces related to Byzantine studies & history, reviews, tips+tricks, and art. This first essay is personal, outlining some feelings about Doing History. #historybluesky #byzantinebluesky
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Bad History

A short meditation on living the past.

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January 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM Everybody can reply

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Madeleine

@empressofbyzantium.bsky.social

All I can think about when I read about Porphyrios is the killer whales who go around sinking yachts. Seems that whale class solidarity is a surprisingly consistent historical trend?
Anyway excited to explore Porphyrios and more Byzantine animals in 2025! #byzantinebluesky #historybluesky

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Jan 4

mine will always be the sperm whale who reacted to a Roman soldier throwing a bottle at him off the Byzantine coast by sinking every ship he could off that coast for the next 60 years and had the emperor declare him an enemy of the state and name him after the Titan who attacked mount olympus

Ellie, 2.0 @ellieboren.bsky.social · Jan 4

About once a week I think fondly of my personal icon, the elephant who trampled a woman and then came back later to trample her some more at her funeral.

January 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM Everybody can reply

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Madeleine

@empressofbyzantium.bsky.social

Last few Umbrian days before I head up to the mountains!
Cortona in the sunshine / frescos in a small church in town / the Abbazia (10th century foundation) / view from a window, early morning sun.
#italia #medievalbluesky #historybluesky #travel #umbria #tuscany

December 27, 2024 at 9:09 AM Everybody can reply

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Madeleine

@empressofbyzantium.bsky.social

Buon Natale, Merry Christmas & please enjoy this wonderfully tacky Madonna & Child snow globe from Santa Maria Maggiore in Roma! #italia #christmas #historybluesky

December 25, 2024 at 1:45 PM Everybody can reply

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JR RO Thorp

@jrthorp.bsky.social

Mistletoe, with olive and an adorable snail, from the 'Tudor pattern book' produced in England sometime between 1520-30. Held in the Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 1504.

A safe and healthy Christmas to all who celebrate.

#Christmas #medievalillustration #HistoryBlueSky #manuscripts #textualhistory