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May the horse be with you
#StarWarsDay
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child: I'd like a treehouse
artisanal heritage gardener: say no more
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correct
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Next month, we're celebrating Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month (#GRTHM).
We will be exploring the contribution of travelling people to rural society, their community, and their heritage. Romany Gypsies, for instance, have been in Britain since at least 1515.
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WhatsApp might be down but photos of exquisite heritage sheep are only always on the up
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The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and we have found something wonderful in our archive that we want to share with you.
Like many of the best things in life, it is all about bees.
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it's a beautiful day to take your one hundred sheep for a walk
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on this longest of days, the longest of hogs
#SummerSolstice
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we, for one, welcome our new woolly overlords
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Birds are real and sometimes they even look like this twitter.com/AMNH/status/14…
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start your Friday right with this giant horse
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We briefly interrupt your scrolling to let this flock go by
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Hold up twitter.com/depthsofwiki/s…
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Cat twitter meets 19th century agricultural portraiture. It's perfect. twitter.com/itslittletunny…
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it's a beautiful day for English rural life
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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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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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This shepherd is checking that these verified sheep are actually not just cows with white ticks
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driving (your sheep) home for Christmas
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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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God rest ye merry gentlehen
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There are many reasons why museums and galleries matter, and on #InternationalCatDay, we bring you another: we have a cat that is 1cm small.
It makes a mew so exquisitely tiny that it is audible only to the night sky’s most brilliant bats, and possibly NASA.
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How about replacing your doomscrolling
with some broomscrolling
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Ok, but why do they call her the Queen Bee and not the B-Rex
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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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The MERL, @UniofReading. We explore the history of rural England, its communities, and its people. Chaotic Good.