Teacher finds stone with ancient ogham writing from Ireland in Coventry garden theguardian.com/science/articl…

Sadly, in the early hours of Tuesday 7 May, Ely Museum was broken into. Thieves stole the East Cambridgeshire gold torc and a gold bracelet, both dating from the Bronze Age.

The police are currently investigating the theft. We will be closed to the public on Wednesday 8 May.

BREAKING: Manchester Airport has confirmed the UK Border System is down as part of a nationwide outage

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Our Just Giving page is now live! If everyone who attends Barnsley Live donated just £1 each we would raise over £5000 every year for our chosen charity! Please donate what you can for the amazing Barnsley Carers Service!

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Ray bradbury Another site with fantastic #Archaeology in #Barnsley

Love this place. Monk Bretton Priory, founded 1150 by Cluniac monks has some of the best preserved monastic drains in Europe. What's not to love.
#medieval
#Archaeology

Peregrine found shot on RSPB nature reserve in Peak District National Park.

£10k reward for info that leads to a conviction.

Details ⬇️⬇️
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2024/05/02/per… #PeakDistrict

CJ Sansom, author of the Shardlake novels, dies aged 71 theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

'Britain's Pompeii': UK's largest Bronze Age find apple.news/AiuuReK7hTta4C…

3/3 so can anyone on here able to provide 15 tickets at a very lovely reduced rate for a matinee show in London. I love what we do to help young people attend theatre however our elders are not always able to afford live theatre either. Loneliness seems to be a real issue!

I am giving a talk on 3 May in Cambridge (open to all, free but please register: tinyurl.com/3bnyczrt). It includes one of my favourite cartoon ('Boy who breathed on the Glass in the BM'), but takes a different direction from other talks... to justifying humanities etc.

For anyone who has been interested in my lawsuit against the Sun, the news is that  I’ve had to settle my claim out of court before it gets to trial. A 🧵…

This edit...tears in my eyes🥲

We are thrilled to announce that supporters of the Fossil Festival, The Etches Collection, will be bringing ‘Pliosaurus – The Discovery of a Monster’ to this year’s Fossil Festival! For more information and to buy tickets, please see the link in our bio.

A door blows open in your mind when you learn about the suffix -le, it explains so much. People used to add it to verbs to mean ‘more than once’ or continuously—so originally, to ramble is to ‘roam’ on, to jostle is to joust repeatedly, and to sparkle is to emit lots of sparks.

#RoyalShame
After a secret hearing, a court said revealing 'prince' Philip's will would harm 'royal dignity'.
So even though UK law says all wills must be public, his will is sealed for 90 years.
Shame!
#whatsinphilipswill #EndRoyalSecrecy #EndRoyalExemptions #AbolishTheMonarchy

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Of course, now I want to know see his art especially seeing as no one said anything postive about it.

Stroud residents plan to raise money to buy beauty spot bbc.in/3VNhjIg

Accidental art - a thread 🧵

1. A rock-created bird shaped chip on a car windshield

The Holy Foreskin: The Story of Christianity’s Strangest Relic medievalists.net/2024/04/holy-f… #Christianity #medieval