Dr Melita Thomas

Wild garlic is putting in an appearance. In folklore it's often associated with strength and endurance. It's also useful for warding off vampires!

#1000TudorPeople C is for Humfray Cole. Goldsmith & engraver, in 1572 he created the copperplate engraving for the map of Palestine included in Bishops’ Bible. 26 of Cole’s scientific instruments are known, inc. compasses, sundials, theodolites, sundials, quadrants, surveyors’ rules. amzn.to/3X5KVBp

Macro photograph of a white jasmine flower surrounded by pink unopened buds

Not long until the scent of jasmine fills our neighborhood 😊
#flowers #photography #art

🔴 Built as the conventual Church for the Knights of St.John - St.John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta🇲🇹

📷 rudeiczarne_travelblog

#łovemalta #malta #visitmalta #valletta

19 happy, receptive course participants with great questions, some who had taken my earlier manuscript courses. Once again, they are *really* interested in paper!

#OTD 1536 the first bill was introduced into the English parliament to dissolve the monasteries. The act followed the eighteen month survey of monastic wealth & practice, commissioned in 1534, and known as Valor Ecclesiasticus. A contributing factor to the Pilgrimage of Grace. bit.ly/1EIrZtO

The page that bears the exquisitely illuminated chi-rho, a monogram used to symbolize the name of Christ.

Mar 6: Feast of Billfrith (Billfrid), 8thC hermit and goldsmith who adorned the binding on the Lindisfarne Gospels, as the inscription in it states, with gold, silver and gems. The book survives, but the precious binding is lost. #medievalsky

Welsh castle to feature in new Sky TV series Stephen Price A Welsh castle is set to feature in the first episode of Great British Castle Rescue which will hit TV screens this March. Hay Castle, which was originally constructed during the Norman ...

A Welsh castle is set to feature in the first episode of Great British Castle Rescue which will hit TV screens this March

Schools given new tools to teach Welsh history and local stories A new collection will provide learners in Wales with greater opportunities to learn about their local area and the country’s diverse history. Launched by Adnodd, the national body for educational reso...

A new collection will provide learners in Wales with greater opportunities to learn about their local area and the country's diverse history

Pyramidion of the royal scribe Ramose (Deir el-Medina, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II (1275-1240 BCE)) Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Pyramidion of the royal scribe Ramose (Deir el-Medina, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II (1275-1240 BCE))

Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Mar 6: Feast of Balthere (Baldred) (†756). Anchorite from Lindisfarne linked with Lothian sites Aldham (Auldhame), whose monastic community he may have founded; the Bass Rock, his likely retreat; and Tinangeham (Tyninghame), whose religious centre eclipsed Aldham by mid-10thC. #medievalsky

Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery Breeding is getting more competitive, suggesting the population is growing, a new study shows.

This is a marvelous change not only for the Humpback whale 🐋 population but for all of us. We need to keep our gentle giants from going extinct.
Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery | RNZ News share.google/X1HB3JFgaePK...

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

The cover has a light blue background tinge. Centered in the upper third is the title and underneath is the author. The illustrators name is centered in the lower one-sixth. In the middle is Stuart, dressed in a red shirt and yellow shorts. He's steering a canoe down a stream. There are various green plants in circled around the canoe, but Stuart and the canoe are center stage.

🎈BOOKS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU

Ch. 6: Stuart Little

#UrsulaNordstrom is honored to receive E. B. White’s first children’s book manuscript. Searching for the perfect artist, they agree on Garth Williams. The book is an instant bestseller. #nonfictionkidlit #abramsbooks

#Spring is in the air. We have made it through another winter. Warm air, birdsong and once again there is hope for better things to come. #escapeism

Read more about Ferdinando Stanley, Earl of Derby, one of Elizabeth I's potential successors, in a guest article by Isolde Martin. bit.ly/4slgdjY

#1000TudorPeople B is for Henry Bullock, whose
Oratio (1520) was the first book printed in Cambridge, and whose ranslation of Lucian’s Peri dipsadon was the first Greek book to be printed anywhere in England. amzn.to/3X5KVBp #worldbookday

A special day at St Edmundsbury Cathedral today as we formally receive the Bury Psalter; later today I’ll be at Evensong at @stedscath.bsky.social where the Psalter will be on display

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteriors
Westminster Abbey.
📷 #photography #history #architecture #church
#medieval #placeofworship #sacredspaces

Mary Stewart's trilogy, The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, and The Last Enchantment.

A couple things…

The “conflict“ in Iran *IS* a war.
It is a war of choice.
It is warfare without conscious.
It was unprovoked.

And I’m sick and tired of people suggesting & implying the only tragedies herein are that US Service Members have died. The people of Iran are innocents in this conflict!

An open area of grassy heath with a sign in the foreground

#RomanFortThursday A remote posting in Ordovician territory - the upland Roman fort at Tomen y mur in Eryri/Snowdonia is named after the great medieval summit motte ('tomen' or mound) which sits over the Roman fort ('mur' - wall)

The brilliant signs were unfortunately taken down in 2022😔

📷My own

On the seemingly endless quest for 'Scottish' manuscripts for the book project 'Scotland on Parchment', I am up bright and early and off to Durham. Cannot wait to see what awaits...

The remains of a 4th century centurion’s quarters or officer’s mess (schola) at Vindolanda Roman Fort in Northumberland.
📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Vindolanda #Northumberland

A man working a plow in a field - carried by a small elephant. This detail is from Sebastian Münster's Cosmographiae uniuersalis, vol. 6, 1550.

In 1550, one Elephant Power (EP) was the equivalent of 10 Horse Power (HP).

Constellation #Aries. Cicero’s Aratea with Hyginus’s Astronomica, Reims(?) ca. 820-850. British Library, Harley 647, fol. 2v. #medieval #MedievalArt

Constellation #Aries. Cicero’s Aratea with Hyginus’s Astronomica, Reims(?) ca. 820-850. British Library, Harley 647, fol. 2v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

Did ancient Greek priestesses brew a mind-bending potion drunk by Cicero and Marcus Aurelius? Researchers found the psychedelic elixir would have been possible to make using ingredients and techniques available in ancient Greece

i love science

"Still, just because the scenario could have happened doesn’t mean it did"

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#OTD 1496 Henry VII bit.ly/1RCUldq
gave full licence to the Cabots to sail to all ports of the eastern, western & northern seas to claim lands on behalf of the English Crown. Giovanni sailed in early May 1496 in the ‘Matthew’, 50 tons, 18 crew. After c. 50 days he landed on N. American coast.

Shakespeare doesn't mention crocus in his works, but he does refer to saffron. His focus is on the practical uses of the plant, mentioning saffron (from the stamens) as both a fabric dye and a culinary spice.