These are #european bison rather than imports from the #us . Thirty years ago they were almost extinct - small populations in north east #romania and north east #poland They have since been introduced elsewhere - including the #netherlands and even the #english county of #kent - somewhere normally not at all keen on anything #european !
30 Apr 1538: Archbishop Thomas Cranmer gives his chaplain Nicholas Ridley - & future co-martyr - his first cure, the 'worshipful & wealthy' parish of Herne in #Kent#otd (NPG)
Hello Mastodon! We are a local archaeology and history society based in Ashford, Kent, UK and we'd love to follow anyone who shares our interests.
Our current season of talks comes to an end at 7.30pm on Monday 15 April, when the Society's Chairman Keith Dorman will talk about 'Defining the Hyksos - The Most Detested Enemy of Ancient Egypt'. Our next season of talks will begin this September #egypt#archaeology#history#ancientegypt#ashford#kent#talk#speaker#introductions
News: UK festivals being cancelled, why? ( Too many)
UK greasy spoon cafes disappearing, why ( Young people don't want that)
Common theme: moving into the future not staying in the past.
21 Feb 1395: Geoffrey Chaucer #poet acts as a witness to transfer of the manor of Spittlecombe #Kent from the Archbishop of #York to the Archbishop of #Canterbury#otd (Bodleian)
11 Jan 1614: b. Peter Gunning, future bishop of #Ely at Hoo St Werburgh, #Kent#otd (St John's College, #Cambridge/NastyTroll) Gunning defended kneeling at communion against Richard Baxter.
7 Jan 1652: Burial of Elizabeth Grey, Countess of #Kent [née Lady Elizabeth Talbot], literary patron & supposed author at Friary house, #Whitefriars#London#otd (eebo)
6 Jan 1565: Benjamin Carier, future chaplain to James VI & I, baptised #otd at Broughton Manchelsea #Kent. In 1613, Carier would become a very high profile convert to #Rome.
The #Irish Capuchin Francis Nugent was alleged to have had a hand in this move.
28 Dec 1553: At Addisham #Kent the #Protestant John Bland denounces the Mass as the invention of Antichrist #otd He is assaulted by the churchwardens, then arrested.
Half thinking of starting an #AcademicVenting hashtag here, about the dire, dire state of UK (global?) higher education. Sharing nuggets of senior management decisions, neoliberal language, and overall slow collapse.
Won’t work of course because most of us can’t risk honesty, but honestly: the everyday reality of what is happening deserves recording in all its depressing and damning detail. #Universities#AcademicChatter#neoliberalism
Here is a petition you can sign and share to try and save the anthropology department. Please do.
I really do think that anthropology has so much to offer for navigating our way out of the polycrisis. The world needs so much more anthroplogy, not less.