An interesting article about the pilot study of forensic genetic genealogy in New Zealand. The journalist has obtained a copy of the police's Privacy Impact Assessment and there is a link to the document in the report. newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/02/ins… #Forensics #Genealogy

From Blackadder……..“Morris dancing is the most fatuous, tenth-rate entertainment ever devised by man. Forty effeminate blacksmiths waving bits of cloth they've just wiped their noses on. How it's still going on in this day and age I'll never know”………oh, hang on! 😂😂😂😂

Some of my school friends wanted to be astronauts or to play for Brighton and Hove Albion I however had a very different dream 😆 Fishbourne Roman Palace

The Unicorn Rests in a Garden, from a series known as the Unicorn Tapestries, 1495–1505 (Met Museum)

Left front and side of a woman's embroidered linen waistcoat, c. 1615, English Silk & metal threads in a pattern of strawberries. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

Based on my success to date of finding last-minute spare tickets to Sold Out gigs on Twitter. I thought I would chance my arm that the magic has not yet worn off. Any good folk out there looking to part with spare tickets to see Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane in EDINBURGH

Sun’s out in Church Stretton 😎😎

Amazingly!……people are watching! We’ll soon put a stop to that! 😂😂😂

#FindsFriday An exquisite Roman-era cobalt blue glass cup signed by the master glassmaker ‘Ennion’. AD 30-70. By incorporating his name into the mould’s design, Ennion was the first glassmaker to ‘brand’ his work. This luxury cup is one of a matching pair made from the same

Got trolled a few days ago for posting 'precious, middlebrow, feel-good twaddle'.👀 My tweets/photos are designed to lower stress hormone & lift mood. I'm told they work. I'd rather post an (arguably silly) tiny posy in a thimble & increase someone's dopamine than be a troll🌿

Predators routinely slaughtered so that rich toffs can spend over £10k for a day of sipping prosecco while blasting away at the hundreds of grouse that are driven right past them. Hardly sport. There is no place for this shite in a crowded world suffering a biodiversity crisis.

The remarkably rare and well-preserved York Helmet is one of only six surviving helmets from Anglo-Saxon England. Iron and copper alloy, AD 750-775. A spectacular example of Anglian artistry it is inscribed with the name of its owner, ‘Oshere’, who was probably a member of the

It’s exactly one month ago since we brought this street dog in. He was completely broken, in agony and very angry with the world. Nobody could touch him as he kept trying to bite. I called him Anthony Hopkins and things have changed dramatically for him… (1/8) 🧵

Gold Ruby Goblet, Johann Kunckel von Löwenstjern, c. 1685 - c. 1690 The red colour is due to the addition of tiny gold particles to the glass melt. This process was pioneered by German alchemist Johann Kunckel in the late 17th century. (Rijksmuseum)

#hushmorris………*whispering*……..Happy Thursday everyone!

A simple 12th Century AD, Norman church in a remote village of Kempley, Gloucestershire, has the oldest timber roof of any building in England. #archaeohistories

Beltie heifers at dawn in Ribblesdale

Good Morning everyone. We’re hoping you all had a super weekend and we’re wishing you all a very good new week. Be careful out there please. Loving you all xx💕😊👍🕺🪗💃

Belties overlooking Malham village

Calves keep coming 🖤 ❄️