A full-house event in Missolonghi to commemorate the 200 years since Lord Byron’s passing in that Greek town #OTD

The beautiful old road from Dunwich to Walberswick, #Suffolk 💚🤍💚
Swathes of stitchwort, bluebells & apple blossom & alive with birdsong.

'I was really very lucky, because my parents, having had so little education, had no reason to discourage a girl studying physics because they had never heard of it and did not know what it was or that girls weren't supposed to study it.'

Spring always reminds me of impressionism. So I've prepared a thread for you about amazing 🇺🇦 impressionist – Oleksandr Murashko. Enjoy, read, share 🌸🌷

'Sunday', 1911

A Roman who clearly forgot to put his sundial forward an hour as the inscription describes him as having to ‘run to dinner’ and in his haste he’s lost his sandal.
#DaylightSavingTime

'To rule as a Caesar was to stand as an actor upon the great stage of the world. Each of the emperors portrayed by Suetonius, in varying ways and to varying effect, understood this.' The great Tom Holland on Rome's greatest biographer antigonejournal.com/2021/03/caesar…

An eggy reminder of times past for Easter. I always feel that this is the new year - Spring, sunshine, a skip in your step! Good wishes to everyone🐣

Last chance to secure a free ticket for our event this week with Dr Shusma Malik Newnham College Classics@Cambridge visits us North Liverpool Academy - Tickets: ticketsource.co.uk/liverpool-clas… Grateful if friends could share the post mary beard The Reader World Museum 🌎 Neil Atkinson

Bronze Trophy (tropaeum) from Hippo Regius (Annaba, Algeria), a military monument that may commemorate Caesar's victory over Juba I at the battle of Tapsus in 46 BC. This trophy measures 2.44 meters high and weighs 240 kg. It represents a tree trunk on which is hung a cape and

Medieval Harp - Rehearsing for the Wirral Viking Festival' 2024.

An Excerpt from 'Baldr's Death'. #VBCUK

Timokleia! #Plutarch Mulierum virtutes

omg this is amazing

Sargent and Fashion at @tate. What feminist delight. So many of these stylish women were pioneers and lived lives of public service. This sitter who wrote a book on garment worker exploitation.

If you love this painting...

'On the open ground were whitening bones of men, as they had fled, or stood their ground, strewn everywhere or piled in heaps.' Charlotte Higgins on the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest & the new show British Museum #Legion
theguardian.com/culture/2024/j…

Women of the Day are the 15,000 women aged between 17 and 24 who left home for the first time in 1942 to heed a call to join the Women’s Timber Corps, solving Britain’s desperate need for timber after Germany occupied Norway, our main timber importer.

The Lumberjills - a name

My stone stile near Gategill, Blencathra is in #StileCup2024 semi-final and I would be happy to see it in the final
All votes and RTs welcome: vote in poll under Stiles' post
Nicola Pitchford GlamorousGrannySue Harriet Rycroft Pythika Llewelyn Morgan

The eleventh-century mosaic of the Virgin & Child from Torcello, #Venice , on this Christmas morning.

Panis angelicus fit panis hominum 🎶

Sarmatian 2015 throwback with a sadly very 2023 link.