Gold unite (£1) siege piece struck by the Royalist defenders of Pontefract Castle from February to March 1649. They held out for two months after the execution of Charles I, during which time they issued this coin in the name of Charles II. From the British Museum's collection.

Love the immensely crudely coloured #woodcuts in this copy of ‘The rosarye of our lady in englysshe, with many goodly petycions dyrect to her’ (probably printed in Antwerp by Willem Vorsterman c. 1525). The cuts are just a couple of inches tall. Cambridge UL Special Collections SSS.20.13(2).

This is a great work. I could spend hours looking at it.

Lithuania has got a brilliant mix of Knights, Axemen and Bears!

For me, nothing says hauntology quite like the sci-fi optimism of the Forton services, just outside Lancashire. As a kid this was a landmark that meant we were nearly home, its near-Thunderbirds vibe strangely comforting.

I think I’ve been in the Lake District too long now, all my dreams were of imaginary Ordnance Survey maps

Reasons to learn Latin at a young age, according to Jakob Wimpfeling ('Germania,' 1501) #medievaltwitter

- Talk to foreign envoys, bishops, cardinals, and the pope.

- Understand preaching, the Gospels, and liturgy, and cleanse them of French and Italian impurities. 1/4

My journeys in the Lake District ended here this evening, at the 9th-century Irton Cross.

‘And yet beneath that gold I began to see an ancient wretched struggle…’

I made it to England’s most inaccessible Roman fort!

Three and a half years, 490 pages, 91K words, seven (and a bit) languages studied, 500 (ish) glossed examples, 77 syntax trees, five long chapters, and my sincere apologies to my poor examiners.

Managed to get so far west in Cumbria that Vodafone has welcomed me to the Isle of Man

I’ve been using this book heavily this week and it’s excellent

I have the opportunity to go to Hardknott Fort today, but that’ll be a hard pass

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