These have been in development for a while, but they’re probably okay to unfurl now. So, enjoy trawling through these links:

• Shoes
• Churns
• Acrobats
• Armorers

Something tells me there is one more that haven’t been properly introduced and posted on the sitemap & RSS feed yet, but I can’t recall what they were. Oh, well! They’ll probably turn up eventually.

An S4C programme based on Aberystwyth University research details references to 10th Century forms of the game.

The 13th century Black Book of Carmarthen, the earliest manuscript written in Welsh, also referred to versions of the sport.

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For those of you who like to keep in touch with the latest linkspages I’ve developed, I’ve set up a widget which you can download and use. Continue reading this post…

Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through September 21.

The relationship between brewing and Bury St Edmunds spans the centuries - but a new archaeological discovery has shed fresh light on the town’s relationship with the amber nectar.

The monks who inhabited the grounds of the town’s Abbey, once one of the richest Benedictine monasteries in the land, are known to have brewed their own beer.

But the unearthing of an expansive domed area and flue beyond the Abbey’s boundary shows there was at least one other large-scale brewer in the town at the time - and that the town had a precursor to Greene King.

The structure is thought to be a medieval malting, which was used to process and then heat soaked barley.

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Michael Lewis (in his soon-to-be-published “The Real World of the Bayeux Tapestry”) claims that the Bayeux Tapestry was made in England, and supports a campaign to bring the Bayeux Tapestry back to Britain. The Daily Mail created a tapestry reflecting British life in the 21st century.

Firenze e gli antichi Paesi Bassi (1430-1530) tra Jan van Eyck e Raffaello is at the Galleria Palatina through October 26.

Well, my summer break may be shorter than some, but I’m using the “extra” (hah!) time to update some webpages. I’ll be getting some more work in on the linkspages that have been languishing in development for the past few months. First new linkspage: schools and classrooms, including schoolmasters, teachers, etc. Two interesting items to look for in the images: tablets (presumably waxed tablets) on which the students take notes and write out their lessons, and various, er, implements which the schoolmasters use to get their students’ attention.

An exhibit on “Dracula: Prince of Transylvania and Vampire” will be on display at Ambras Palace through October 31.

Pointed out from Carnivalesque XL, a BBC News article on a painting thought to be a 17th century copy of a previously unknown portrait of Henry VIII with Will Somers, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I.

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