TIL that British intelligence was slowed down during the Falklands War by the fact that analysts in GCHQ had access to only one photocopier

Great Orme llandudno burial chamber
Cymru Wales, 1912

It works, people bbc.co.uk/news/uk-689064…

Top tip for Latin teachers: you can sound really cool and mysterious by describing yourself as 'a teacher of the unseen'

Just took me a while to work out that someone with the middle initial 'V.' was a person not a court case #indexerproblems

Not entirely an outlier - in medieval Lithuania there was not only religious diversity, but also no privileged position given to a dominant religion at all. Lithuania, not Umayyad Spain, was medieval Europe's genuine pluralist society

A strangely beautiful Lithuanian chocolate wrapper from 1933, depicting Rambynas Hill (via limis.lt)

Meet the Canons! We’re excited to introduce you, over the next few months, to our new Honorary, Lay and Ecumenical Canons. These are all people who are joining the Cathedral community and span a rich diversity of experience, skills and backgrounds from across Suffolk...

Ooh I want to try this!

Today's post is about the tradition of 'Rogation Day', 'Beating a Boy' and 'Gang Week'

Historically, the 25th of April was officially Rogation Day in the church calendar.  Rogation comes from the Latin word ‘rogare’ meaning to ask.

The realism of the gold work gives such a vivid sense of Scythian dress

For #AdoorableThursday - is there any more spectacular standing Romano-British house in Wales than the Din Lligwy hut group on Ynys Môn/Anglesey?

Visited recently for first time in years - the ultimate RB bling of orthostatic wall slabs, threshold steps & interior block walls 🥰

There should be international sanctions on France until the Académie française sorts out the numbers 70 to 99 and adopts the rational Belgian system, this has gone on long enough now

The annual Mere's Commemoration sermon took place today, given by Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft 🐦‍⬛. Head Porter Simon Harding led University Officers, the Vice Chancellor, the Master, and other attendees back to Corpus for Madeira and seedcake.

I remembered today that I never had a French penpal as a child (all the rage at the time); but I did have a penpal in Kent, which felt like it was almost France

This just popped up on fb from Westminster Abbey and those lions have SEEN SOME STUFF