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Some medieval calendars for July, with people hard at work mowing grass in the meadows. One old English name for July was 'Mead-month', the month of the hay harvest. (British Library, Lansdowne MS. 383; Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. liturg. e. 14, Douce 49, and Add. A. 46)

Writing is difficult, and some would-be writers have always yearned for help from superior, otherworldly intelligences. My latest piece for History Today is about how three medieval poets got over writer's block before the aid of AI... historytoday.com/archive/out-ma…

Today we celebrate the feast day of St Peter, apostle and martyr. St Peter has been the patron of Westminster Abbey since its foundation in 960AD, making our formal title the Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster. If you're near the Abbey today, look out for St Peter's

For #StPetersDay, some depictions of our patron saint from around the Abbey, including: On the Westminster Retable holding the keys to the kingdom of Heaven. The Retable is England’s oldest altarpiece, made in the 13th century for the Abbey’s High Altar. Beside the High Altar,

Very sad to see River & Rowing Museum closing in September. Do go and visit the collections before they are dispersed, enjoy the café, take children to the Wind in the Willows while you can. OxTweets

This was a fun conversation! Learning from Anglo-Saxon riddles to find wonder in the everyday...

St Dunstan’s Canterbury (final church on PW): Wreath placed this evening on vault containing head of St Thomas More. 490th anniversary of martyrdom.

Happy feast of the translation of St Thomas of Canterbury! Here are some relevant pilgrimage badges. It is amazing to me to think that each of these represents a visit to the shrine at Canterbury — an individual's prayers — crucial moments in some now-forgotten life.

The C12th carvings of the apostles in the porch at Malmesbury Abbey are achingly beautiful with their Byzantine-esque swirling swags that feel like the ripples in a pond. They remind us that there are different ways of seeing - a kind of visual literacy.

Kind Edgar took an important part in the re-establishment and building of the abbey in c970, on the site of what is now Peterborough Cathedral. It was a Benedictine abbey. The previous abbey had been destroyed by Vikings c870.

Iridescence of a Shallow Stream, by John Ottis Adams, who was born in Amity, Indiana on this day in 1851.

The Little Girl was helping the Gardener water the flower beds before it became too hot. He always called her Little Maid & was very sweet to her. When they'd finished, they sat on the old Victorian lion bench in the sun & had what he called a Dewbit, a first breakfast partaken