Kathleen McCallum (@peripheralpal) 's Twitter Profile
Kathleen McCallum

@peripheralpal

That annoying speck in the corner of your eye

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Medieval Manuscripts (@blmedieval) 's Twitter Profile Photo

From killer bunny rabbits and griffin knights to jousting snails, the margins of medieval manuscripts are full of all sorts of fantastical creatures. Today's blogpost explores the ferocious fish that fill the pages of a 13th-century illuminated Psalter. blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

From killer bunny rabbits and griffin knights to jousting snails, the margins of medieval manuscripts are full of all sorts of fantastical creatures.

Today's blogpost explores the ferocious fish that fill the pages of a 13th-century illuminated Psalter. 

blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…
John McCafferty (@jdmccafferty) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Adoration of the Magi, Pieter Aertsen, c. 1560 (Rijksmuseum) I like especially Mary's copious supply of nappies - not a detail you often see in sacred art!

The Adoration of the Magi, Pieter Aertsen, c. 1560  (Rijksmuseum)  I like especially Mary's copious supply of nappies - not a detail you often see in sacred art!
ArchaeoHistories (@histories_arch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A glass bead with an eye dating to the Roman era. It was found on (31st October 2025) at the archaeological site at the Cricket Club in Carlisle, Cumbria, England. It was found by 11-year-old Verity Hetherington in the SPOIL HEAP. The eye was worn for protection against the evil

A glass bead with an eye dating to the Roman era. It was found on (31st October 2025) at the archaeological site at the Cricket Club in Carlisle, Cumbria, England. It was found by 11-year-old Verity Hetherington in the SPOIL HEAP.

The eye was worn for protection against the evil
Medieval History Buff (@medievalhtybuff) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Description of Bohemond of Taranto hearing about the beginning of the First Crusade; "In the meantime the mighty Bohemond, during his siege of Amalfi, heard that a great number of Franks had come, and he soon learned how they planned to seize the way to the Holy Sepulchre from

Description of Bohemond of Taranto hearing about the beginning of the First Crusade;

"In the meantime the mighty Bohemond, during his siege of Amalfi, heard that a great number of Franks had come, and he soon learned how they planned to seize the way to the Holy Sepulchre from
Marshall Julius (@marshalljulius) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The #MakingMonsters party continues in London this week at the mighty Prosthetics Event! Come for the fun Monster Kid chat, then stay to get a book filled with amazing autographs. Hit me up for free merch, while it lasts! #Monsters #MonsterKids #Signing

The #MakingMonsters party continues in London this week at the mighty Prosthetics Event! Come for the fun Monster Kid chat, then stay to get a book filled with amazing autographs. Hit me up for free merch, while it lasts!
#Monsters #MonsterKids #Signing
Kathleen McCallum (@peripheralpal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A bit of peer pressure Devil style Scenes from the Life of Job 1480-90 Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne via - Web Gallery of Art wga.hu/html_m/m/maste…

A bit of peer pressure Devil style 
Scenes from the Life of Job
1480-90
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne
via - Web Gallery of Art 
wga.hu/html_m/m/maste…
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD (@greenleejw) 's Twitter Profile Photo

You want to know how important eels were in early medieval Britain. I hear you. Bede says they were very important. And grave goods from a 7th C. burial site in Cambridge include a copper bowl w/ the skeletal remains of three complete eels. Who says you can't take it with you?

You want to know how important eels were in early medieval Britain. I hear you.

Bede says they were very important. And grave goods from a 7th C. burial site in Cambridge include a copper bowl w/ the skeletal remains of three complete eels.

Who says you can't take it with you?
Medieval Manuscripts (@blmedieval) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Remember, remember, the 28th of November. That's the deadline for applications to co-supervise a collaborative PhD on the dispersal of manuscripts from the Cotton collection. We would love to hear from you. bl.uk/stories/blogs/…

Remember, remember, the 28th of November.

That's the deadline for applications to co-supervise a collaborative PhD on the dispersal of manuscripts from the Cotton collection.

We would love to hear from you.
  
bl.uk/stories/blogs/…
Ordilot (@sirordilot) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hail, noble Marcell Fóti 🪨! I, Sir Ordilot, present a video of my stone, cast in a turtle mold. Alas, I drew it forth too soon, ere it dried, and the turtle’s head fell asunder! Next time, I shall wield patience to spare this innocent stone beast from decapitation. In chivalrous

Coffin Boffin (@drsamgeorge1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

THE #VAMPIRE RABBIT OF NEWCASTLE is a mysterious grotesque which has perched above the door of the historic Cathedral Buildings for over a hundred years; no one is quite sure why the fanged blood-sucking rabbit was created back in 1901

THE #VAMPIRE RABBIT OF NEWCASTLE is a mysterious grotesque which has perched above the door of the historic Cathedral Buildings for over a hundred years; no one is quite sure why the fanged blood-sucking rabbit was created back in 1901