All are invited to join the Ecumenical Guild of Our Lady of Grace of Ipswich annual pilgrimage walk through the town on Sunday September 8, which Bishop Peter Collins is due to attend. rcdea.org.uk/all-invited-to…

When Oxford Classical Texts first allowed the publication of a volume with a preface in English instead of the customary Latin (1990).

On Saturday 14 September, Bury St Edmunds Amateur Radio Society will base themselves at St Edmundsbury Cathedral for their annual Churches on the Air event. Pop along and see them on the Garth to learn more about amateur radio and see who they’ve made contact with!

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Pig sanctuaries exposed as opium dens for pigs:

This is a great thread on the 'oldest pub' question. But what we can be sure of is that the oldest built structure that's now a pub (or part of a pub) is the Neolithic megalith incorporated into the Oxenham Arms in Devon (the South Zeal menhir)

I absolutely love how the cover somehow evokes 80s geography textbooks!

Someone in my street has put up a ‘Hello Fall’ decoration, and I suppose it’s good to see people publicly acknowledging the reality of Original Sin

The East Frisian cream tea, a close cognate of other West Germanic cream teas

I love that Lithuanians never undersell their culture

Caught in the wall of a later building like a fly in amber - a ghost cloister at Hexham Abbey in Northumberland

Fragments of decorative wall plaster from Roman Lincoln (Lindum). The fragments came from the Greetwell villa site in Lincoln (sadly destroyed by quarrying during the C19th), and are now part of the collections Lincoln Museum and Usher Gallery #FrescoFriday #RomanBritain 📸 My own.

Hauntology has peaked:

Someone gave me this anthology of stories about country parsons

I'm grateful to Radvilė Racėnaitė for her thorough review of 'Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic' for Vilnius University's Tautosakos darbai: zurnalai.vu.lt/td/article/vie…