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people often use sheepish to mean embarrassed, but the confidence of this Lincoln Longwool says otherwise
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this morning, we received some very important mail
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if you like beans, and cows, then here's the thread of your dreams twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww…
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Though it might be hard to believe, this concrete silo, photographed in our collection, actually grew straight from the ground!
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sure the metaverse sounds interesting but have you considered meeting up at your local museum instead
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what we lack in Collecting and Selling Your Data we more than make up for with beautiful portraits of rectangular cows
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may we offer you a Very Rectangular Ox in this trying time
twitter.com/NeolithicSheep…
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Ok, but why do they call her the Queen Bee and not the B-Rex
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When Richard III offered his kingdom for a horse, he overlooked the fact that some horses are actually worth multiple kingdoms
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Birds are real and sometimes they even look like this twitter.com/AMNH/status/14…
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God rest ye merry gentlehen
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Please enjoy the greatest archive video to ever exist twitter.com/BBCArchive/sta…
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Friends, today is #PloughMonday: the first Monday after Twelfth Night, when traditionally farmers resumed their work after Christmas and the English agricultural year began!
It was celebrated in many different ways, including blessing, dancing with, and singing about ploughs.
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We see your #BlueMonday and raise it with a #MooBlunday
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The countryside is for everyone. But, historically, many people's stories have gone untold in our collections.
In a new series of weekly blogs, we heard from seven people of colour about their lives and work in the countryside.
To begin: please meet the brilliant @BirdgirlUK.
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Did you know that before people put Pokémon in their Poké Balls, they had to herd them around the countryside with the help of a Poké Dog?
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We briefly interrupt your scrolling to let this flock go by
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How about replacing your doomscrolling
with some broomscrolling
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What if the purpose of stone circles all this time was simply to provide sheep with a little shade
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Please can they be friends twitter.com/WeirdMedieval/…
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[checks website stats]
Wow it's great to see that so many people have been looking up tractors in the past few days
[zooms in on what they've been searching for]
oh no
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Hold up twitter.com/depthsofwiki/s…
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He's a 10 but only because this sheep is an 11
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Cat twitter meets 19th century agricultural portraiture. It's perfect. twitter.com/itslittletunny…
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it is a beautiful afternoon to take your sheep for a walk
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The MERL, @UniofReading. We explore the history of rural England, its communities, and its people. Chaotic Good.