Richard Fitch
@tudorcook.bsky.social
Historic Kitchens Manager at Hampton Court Palace, he/him, experimental historian, tiresome lay-about.
All views own, yada yada yada.
No expectation of mutual following.
All views own, yada yada yada.
No expectation of mutual following.
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News | Historic England adds 138 new sites to its Heritage at Risk register – charity says that 129 sites have been 'saved' in 2025
Historic England adds 138 new sites to its Heritage at Risk register - Museums Association
Charity says that 129 sites have been 'saved' in 2025
www.museumsassociation.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3
📷 D. v. Recklinghausen
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📷 D. v. Recklinghausen
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November 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3
📷 D. v. Recklinghausen
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📷 D. v. Recklinghausen
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
Busted!
pachnelephalosaurus statue, public park, route 40, dinosaur, colorado, 1991
November 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Busted!
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London Lives has been, ngl, a bit broken for a while. It's not broken any more.
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
London Lives has been, ngl, a bit broken for a while. It's not broken any more.
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🎆 It's Bonfire Night🎆
To celebrate we're showing our copy of 'The second booke teaching most exactly, the composing of all manner of fire-works for tryumph and recreation' by John Bate, published in 1635 (shelf marl: S PAM 479).
To celebrate we're showing our copy of 'The second booke teaching most exactly, the composing of all manner of fire-works for tryumph and recreation' by John Bate, published in 1635 (shelf marl: S PAM 479).
November 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🎆 It's Bonfire Night🎆
To celebrate we're showing our copy of 'The second booke teaching most exactly, the composing of all manner of fire-works for tryumph and recreation' by John Bate, published in 1635 (shelf marl: S PAM 479).
To celebrate we're showing our copy of 'The second booke teaching most exactly, the composing of all manner of fire-works for tryumph and recreation' by John Bate, published in 1635 (shelf marl: S PAM 479).
Some of the better (less charred) soul cakes from today...tasty none the less
October 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Some of the better (less charred) soul cakes from today...tasty none the less
A Happy Halloween in the kitchens at Hampton Court Palace, looking at spooky traditions from history and around the country
October 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
A Happy Halloween in the kitchens at Hampton Court Palace, looking at spooky traditions from history and around the country
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Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...
Feeding Medieval England: A Long ‘Agricultural Revolution’, 700–1300
Abstract. As in the rest of Europe, the population of medieval England grew steeply, especially between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. This volume inv
academic.oup.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...
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Nothing to see here? Well, this is a slow moving 🧵 for #skystorians and others about #eyeglasses of the past, about how to read in the past, where to buy eyeglasses, and how to do with them in general. The hashtag is #HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast
Let's roll.
Let's roll.
October 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Nothing to see here? Well, this is a slow moving 🧵 for #skystorians and others about #eyeglasses of the past, about how to read in the past, where to buy eyeglasses, and how to do with them in general. The hashtag is #HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast
Let's roll.
Let's roll.
What's that you say 'Clever Hans'? You have to spend how many years in hellfire and purgatory??
#NicheJoke
#NicheJoke
October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
What's that you say 'Clever Hans'? You have to spend how many years in hellfire and purgatory??
#NicheJoke
#NicheJoke
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BIG ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS! 💫
A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩
Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?...
#archaeology #history #Roman
A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩
Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?...
#archaeology #history #Roman
October 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
BIG ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS! 💫
A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩
Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?...
#archaeology #history #Roman
A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩
Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?...
#archaeology #history #Roman
Nobody could work up the nerve to be first into the ball pit, terrified that people would think they were just too old to play
October 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Nobody could work up the nerve to be first into the ball pit, terrified that people would think they were just too old to play
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Dave Ball, synth-pop hitmaker as one half of Soft Cell, dies aged 66
Dave Ball, synth-pop hitmaker as one half of Soft Cell, dies aged 66
Synth player and producer had huge success with Tainted Love and other Soft Cell hits, and later returned to UK Top 10 with dance project the Grid
Dave Ball, who as one half of Soft Cell brought dark, cutting-edge synth-pop to the masses, has died aged 66.
Representatives for the musician said he “passed away peacefully in his sleep at his London home on Wednesday”. No cause of death was given. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Dave Ball, synth-pop hitmaker as one half of Soft Cell, dies aged 66
It is October 22....and the alpine strawberry plant outside the kitchen team offices is flowering?!?!
WTH!
WTH!
October 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
It is October 22....and the alpine strawberry plant outside the kitchen team offices is flowering?!?!
WTH!
WTH!
Manicule
Musicule?
Musicule?
Seems to be a tiny mouse (other suggestions gratefully received) hitching a ride on this fifteenth-century manicule. In a copy of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics, printed at Barcelona c. 1473. Now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.3.H.3.3[3472].
October 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Manicule
Musicule?
Musicule?
A serious outbreak of random pumpkins....must be heading to Halloween!
October 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
A serious outbreak of random pumpkins....must be heading to Halloween!
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And we are delighted to be the Associate Partner with Historic Royal Palaces on the awards.
Inspiring History Teaching Awards
Created by Historic Royal Palaces, these awards celebrate teachers who make history exciting, inclusive and meaningful. We want to recognise the impact that great teachers can make by bringing the pas...
bit.ly
October 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
And we are delighted to be the Associate Partner with Historic Royal Palaces on the awards.
Apropos of nothing particular 😎
a cartoon of a robot statue with the words " remember me " below it
Alt: a cartoon of a statue of the robot character Bender, from Futurama, with the words " remember me " below it
media.tenor.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Apropos of nothing particular 😎
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"No kings!"
Count Palatine Otto VIII of Wittelsbach kills Philip of Swabia. Miniature from the Sächsische Weltchronik, Northern Germany, early 14th century, Berlin, Berlin State Library, Ms. germ. fol. 129, fol. 117v.
Count Palatine Otto VIII of Wittelsbach kills Philip of Swabia. Miniature from the Sächsische Weltchronik, Northern Germany, early 14th century, Berlin, Berlin State Library, Ms. germ. fol. 129, fol. 117v.
June 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
"No kings!"
Count Palatine Otto VIII of Wittelsbach kills Philip of Swabia. Miniature from the Sächsische Weltchronik, Northern Germany, early 14th century, Berlin, Berlin State Library, Ms. germ. fol. 129, fol. 117v.
Count Palatine Otto VIII of Wittelsbach kills Philip of Swabia. Miniature from the Sächsische Weltchronik, Northern Germany, early 14th century, Berlin, Berlin State Library, Ms. germ. fol. 129, fol. 117v.
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"No Kings!"
Maciejowski Bible - Morgan Library & Museum MS M.638, fol. 11v
Maciejowski Bible - Morgan Library & Museum MS M.638, fol. 11v
June 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"No Kings!"
Maciejowski Bible - Morgan Library & Museum MS M.638, fol. 11v
Maciejowski Bible - Morgan Library & Museum MS M.638, fol. 11v
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"Parking is such sweet sorrow"
Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver
Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver
A 17th-century building that housed William Shakespeare's family has been left damaged after a driver reversed into it.
news.sky.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"Parking is such sweet sorrow"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"The National Trust is to take over the running of museums in the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, with the help of a £9m government grant.
It will replace Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust, which has been operating the locations in Shropshire since 1967."
Blimey!
"The National Trust is to take over the running of museums in the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, with the help of a £9m government grant.
It will replace Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust, which has been operating the locations in Shropshire since 1967."
Blimey!
National Trust gets £9m for Ironbridge Industrial Revolution museums takeover
The 10 museums and 35 listed buildings and scheduled monuments will be handed over in the spring.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"The National Trust is to take over the running of museums in the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, with the help of a £9m government grant.
It will replace Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust, which has been operating the locations in Shropshire since 1967."
Blimey!
"The National Trust is to take over the running of museums in the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, with the help of a £9m government grant.
It will replace Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust, which has been operating the locations in Shropshire since 1967."
Blimey!
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heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god