I wrote a bit about this painting regarding my recent collaboration with @BRyderJones Domino Recording Co 'Texture & light, Crail' was painted as part of series of works I painted of the East Coast of Fife, Scotland. The area is more commonly known as the "East Neuk". The area

A view over the Severan period granaries and aqueduct built at the start of the 2nd century AD at Corbridge. Site 11 was never finished and would have been an impressive building if completed, it’s thought plague or conflict caused building to be ceased #HadriansWall #DereStreet

‼️“I mean you're a vice-chancellor" Listen to this BBC interviewer’s shock as university bosses defend zero-hours contracts. VCs will do whatever we allow them to get away with. When we stand together, we can stop them. Vote YES today! #ucuRISING

Here's this week's Endangered Alphabet Sudoku, in the Tifinagh script of the Amazigh or Berber people. DM me with the solution. Prizes to the first three received. Then back our campaign at kickstarter.com/projects/endan… for 23 more!

Æthelberht, bishop of Candida Casa / Hwit Aerne, ‘White House’, (Whithorn, Galloway) from 15 June 777-89 and bishop of Hagustaldes ham (Hexham) from 789 died #OTD in 797. He was succeeded at Whithorn by Badwulf and at Hexham by Heardred. ©AOC Archaeology

Another method for fixing an error in a medieval manuscript - This scribe employed the figure of a man using a rope to pull along the accidentally omitted portion of the text - 1st half of the 15th century, British Library, Arundel 38, f. 65r

"Are the books real?" This question is coming up more & more often on tours of Marsh's Library. Actual physical, in-person tours when people are 2 feet away from the books. It's as if some people are so used to living online that they can't quite understand physical reality.

Happy birthday, Reading Room! Born on this day in 2015, vhmml.org now provides access to 120,024 manuscripts and other materials. More than 90 languages are represented, with Latin, Arabic, and Syriac being the most prevalent. Pictured: vhmml.org/readingRoom/vi…

Gospels of Abba Garima, an illuminated gospel book in two volumes written on vellum in Ge'ez language and preserved in Abba Garima Monastery east of Adwa, in Mehakelegnaw Zone of Tigray Region of northern Ethiopia, were, according to legend, written and partly illuminated by

It’s like politicians have forgotten why on Earth we were ever in the EU in the first place. Do they not realise we want to travel/live/work/study/retire/buy from/sell to our closest neighbouring countries, cheaply, freely and without red tape?

The great AS Byatt has died. She wrote this, inspired by King Lear, about her little boy, who was killed by a drunk driver. I first saw it when my own yellow-haired little boy had cancer. Few writers can reach you when you are feeling unreachable. She was extraordinary.

The Council Royal Historical Society is deeply concerned by the extent, speed and very damaging impact of proposed cuts and closures announced yesterday across Arts & Humanities Oxford Brookes University. This affects colleagues in #History as well historians in depts such as Music at Brookes 1/2

Pretty simple.

The Tories are stealing the Trump playbook to rev up division Stop the boats =build the wall The invented fear about cancelling Xmas comes from the same place

Truly splendid observation. Coincidence? I think not.

The Fifth Window. Past nine o'clock on St Nicholas' Eve & a cold waning moon is rising over the village green. The Church of St. Thomas à Becket is unlit but for one solitary lamp, held by Old Fox, who stands & waits in the nave. For on this night each year, when Auriga, the

'Despite frequent remonstrations, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go".