Amanda Todd

@Saint_Gav Just had hailstones in york

It’s just started snowing in Livingston. Crikey.

@80s_Kidz Strawberry Mivi

You go to the local corner shop and they are selling Lyons Maid ice creams. What are you picking out of the freezer?

@authenticWMN Yes he does 😊

@AradiaB Does he do the paw flick thing?

Cat 🌷

@sappholives83 Candace Robb does a series set in medieval York in the uk (where I live) and they’re great. It’s the Owen Archer series

Can anyone recommend me a good book either about or set in medieval Europe? Alternate history, non-fiction, and historical fiction are all welcome. I get these obsessions with different historical periods, and right now I’m stuck in the Middle Ages, having already explored WWII, the USSR under Stalin and into the Kruschev thaw, the American Civil War, and the Russian revolution. I know that’s not a long list, but I’ve read fairly exhaustively on each subject over the course of three or four years. I’d appreciate any suggestions, including books written in the medieval period, provided there’s an English translation.

@80s_Kidz Things from Kay’s catalog

So this pulled up outside your house as a kid. What was he delivering?

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@LaceyBonarHull @RosieKayK2CO These are fantastic. Thanks for sharing

We are slowly but surely making our way through this early 15th-century manuscript and I am so happy you all are enjoying these whimsical illustrations ✨ A few gems for your Monday Bodleian Library MS Douce 62 Book of Hours, France ca 1400-1410

"No woman or maiden shall be forced to marry a man whom she dislikes." That's not a modern law. That was written in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 over a thousand years ago. Anglo-Saxon women had more legal rights than your great-grandmother. On the same island. A thousand years earlier. 🔑 She could own land. In her own name. Buy it. Sell it. Leave it to whoever she chose. No permission needed. Not from her husband. Not from her father. Not from anyone. She could run a business. She could stand in an open-air court, raise her hand in oath, and the law would hear her the same as any man. ⚖️ On the morning after her wedding, her husband owed her a gift. Land. Money. Property. It was called the Morgengifu, the morning gift. It wasn't symbolic. It was legally binding. And it was hers. Not jointly owned. Not held in trust. Hers. Through everything. 💍 A woman called Wynflaed owned seven estates across four counties, her will still survives. Cynethryth, wife of King Offa, struck coins bearing her own name and face. The only Anglo-Saxon queen known to have done it. The coins are still in museum collections. 🪙 Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, built ten fortified towns and led armies in battle. In the tenth century. ⚔️ While most of Europe treated women as property, this island wrote their rights into law. 🇬🇧 Then the Normans came. 1066. And they took all of it away. Every. Single. Right. 🚫 A married woman's property became her husband's. She couldn't own land. Couldn't sign a contract. Couldn't keep her own wages. Under the doctrine of coverture, her legal identity was absorbed into his. Bracton wrote it plainly: "husband and wife are one person, being one flesh and one blood." In the eyes of the law, she didn't exist. For over eight hundred years. Let that satisfy. Eight. Hundred. Years. In 1882, the Married Women's Property Act gave a married woman the right to own property, keep her earnings, and exist as a separate legal person. 📜 But Britain didn't invent those rights in 1882. It restored them. Rights that Anglo-Saxon women had exercised a thousand years before. On the same island, under the same sky, in a language that became the one you're reading now. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 This island forgot once. We won't let it forget again. Happy Mother's Day ❤️ Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

Update : Punch now has a girlfriend. Aweeeeeee! ❤️❤️😂😂

I think that is the best advertisement I’ve ever seen.

Bonnie would love a retweet to help us gain more visibility ❤️

@ColinSpenc4257 Looks like the one we had in York

Who Remembers

she may be old, but she did herself proud 🐶😊

You've been here longer than you think. 🇬🇧 Not since the Romans. Not since Stonehenge. For over 11,000 years. 🦌 Star Carr. The edge of a lake in Yorkshire. They built a house. The oldest house in Britain. Posts in the ground. A hearth in the centre. They split timbers and laid a platform at the water's edge. The oldest carpentry in Europe. They carved deer skulls into headdresses. They engraved patterns into a pendant. The oldest art ever found in Britain. 🪨 6,500 years before the pyramids. 6,000 years before Stonehenge. Someone sat by a fire in Yorkshire. In a house they built. Wearing art they made. Surrounded by their people. This wasn't surviving. This was home. 🔥 That was 11,000 years ago. Same land. Same lineage. This is your land. You're still building. proudofus.co.uk 🇬🇧 Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪🇬🇧

@minkajane @Puppieslover Came here to say that

@Puppieslover Dwayne Dibley

What would you name him ?

@benonwine Judi Dench

Who is the most famous person from your where you live?

🥾 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 There's a road in England older than the pyramids. It's a public footpath. Anyone can walk it. Five thousand years ago, traders carried flint tools along a chalk ridge in southern England. They followed the high ground. Dry. Safe. Above the forests and the swamps. Eighty seven miles. Wiltshire to Buckinghamshire. They called it the Ridgeway. It passed a white horse carved into the chalk. Three thousand years old. Still there. It passed burial mounds where chieftains were laid to rest. Stone chambers older than Stonehenge. Bronze Age farmers walked it. Iron Age warriors built hillforts above it. Romans crossed it. Anglo-Saxons named the villages along it. Medieval drovers herded cattle down it to London. Five thousand years of feet on the same chalk. And it's still there. Not in a museum. Not behind a fence. A national trail. Free. You can drive to Wiltshire on a Saturday morning. Step onto the same chalk your ancestors walked. And follow their footsteps along the ridge. The oldest road in Britain. Still open. Still free. Still yours. You are the reason we can tell these stories. proudofus.co.uk/support 🙏 Be part of us. 🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

🦴 A skeleton in a cave. Nine thousand years old. They tested his DNA. 🧬 And matched it to a man living half a mile away. 🇬🇧 In 1903, workers were digging a drainage channel inside a gorge in Somerset. They hit bone. A body. Curled up. Deep inside the rock. He'd been there since before Stonehenge. Before the pyramids. They called him Cheddar Man. 🧀 He hunted deer through forests that covered this island. He fished rivers that still run through the same valley today. And then he died. Alone. In a cave. For a century, he sat behind glass. A museum piece. A curiosity. A name on a plaque. Then in 1997, a scientist from Oxford had an idea. He took DNA from one of Cheddar Man's teeth. Then he went into the village. Walked into the local school. Swabbed the cheeks of twenty residents. And ran the tests. 🧬 One matched. Adrian Targett. History teacher. Living half a mile from the cave. Three hundred generations. Same family. Same valley. Nine thousand years. And the line never left. He didn't know. The longest unbroken connection between a living person and an ancient ancestor. Anywhere in the world. Same hills. Same river. Same village. Half a mile from the cave. You are the reason we can tell these stories. proudofus.co.uk/support Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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