Spectacular Bronze Age status symbol. The Shannongrove Gorget is an ancient collar exquisitely crafted from gold about 2,800 years ago. Light shimmers and radiates from its surface. It was found in a bog in Ireland sometime before 1783. #Archaeology

Children of the London slums, tend a fire in a battered tin brazier, used to heat buckets of water in which to scrub clothes, the clean garments would then be hung on lines across the streets. Photo taken 1912.

It is a great privilege to be a nut fairy, but one must deliver in all weathers

Peppadews, jalapenos, and cherry tomatoes in, with chilli powder as a pest deterrent. Bloody Sorrel and redskin potatoes relocated, and turnipzzz zeeeded. Arrrr. Turnipzzzz zey be. Turnipzzzz. Arrrrrr.

Sitting up at night, drinking on my own. But not in a bad way. Listening to Steve Earle's "Bonnie and Billy" on repeat in a sort of a bad way, though.

Rincewind. Double in Roundworld. Official

Two cider drinking friends outside an Inn , in Sommerset taken by amateur photographer Benjamin Stone c1900

Abby and Jack. Very much on my mind. Always so happy to see me. Abby even forgot his Great Dignity as Garden Patriarch and *ran* towards me

Ancient Greeks in the Arctic. In 325 BC the Greek geographer Pytheas made a voyage of exploration into the Arctic Circle, reaching the polar ice and witnessing the midnight sun. (Art by Mateusz Przeklasa)

Staff overhearing students attempt to reach a book from a high shelf, then... excitedly - "look, you can use this little dalek".

The finest piece of interwebz we've seen in a long time. Read comments and, importantly, OP's replies.

they can’t shoot all of us, boys

Fuuuuuuuuuq.... I knew they were deeply orthogonal to most other critters, but yhis I did not know.....

it’s always “I love you” and never “I bought you the entire penguin clothbound classics collection”

Those of my dear colleagues who have an imperfectly suppressed fascination for the Dark Arts have alerted me to this splendid site for Scottish witch trials, sortable by date, gender, social class witches.is.ed.ac.uk/timeline/

My experiment in chilli sauce, two batches, strained and chunky. It is not bad tbh. Fairly hot, but afterglow rather than afterburn. Slowly, I learn.

The latest chilli sauce experiment. Alive, and moving with slow menace in its jar.