@DrFrancisYoung Dr Francis Young
Dr Francis Young posts on X about lithuania, in the, poland, latvia the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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Social Influence
Social category influence countries 28.48% technology brands 4.64% travel destinations 3.97% social networks 2.65% finance 0.66% stocks 0.66%
Social topic influence lithuania #254, in the 3.97%, poland 2.65%, latvia 2.65%, books #1849, history 1.99%, london 1.99%, iron #699, tom #1191, twitter #2014
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @fhsdkjhfqwqwe @pricelaurence @nicholasoshaug1 @vmorkevicius @publius_libon @chozangnoyb @corncj @nassaujuan @andrewpconnell @davidwoolw38361 @stephencm98 @rokewood @bishbrit @annegoldgar @janevsw @antiokhose @hubertlepicki @kresysiberia @cakesniffe1 @_b_shelton
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"The Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich takes her seat in the House of Lords Bishop Joanne Grenfell from Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich is one of the new Lords Spiritual in the UK House of Lords: Bishop Joanne Grenfell from Diocese of St https://t.co/QyayOsG4X2 #BishopJoanneGrenfell #HouseOfLords #LordsSpiritual #ChurchOfEngland #NewBeginnings https://t.co/huwsNSDxN0 Bishop Joanne Grenfell from Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich is one of the new Lords Spiritual in the UK House of Lords: Bishop Joanne Grenfell from Diocese of St https://t.co/QyayOsG4X2 #BishopJoanneGrenfell"
X Link 2026-02-11T09:59Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"TV show pitch: Tome Team where a group of rare books librarians and book historians are sent to investigate an uncatalogued library for interesting incunabula marginalia and provenances - and they have just three days to do it"
X Link 2026-02-14T18:57Z 48.6K followers, 18.4K engagements
"This story is especially funny since Tom Licence is an Anglo-Saxonist yet has discovered an Iron Age hoard. Its like me accidentally discovering the body of St Oswald or finding an undiscovered Latvian poem Professor finds Iron Age coin hoard near Bury St Edmunds https://t.co/wdMm6v2VhB Professor finds Iron Age coin hoard near Bury St Edmunds https://t.co/wdMm6v2VhB"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:55Z 48.6K followers, 19.5K engagements
"Its testimony to how utterly awful some publishers marketing teams are when someone as terminally online and obsessive as I am doesnt hear about the publication of a book in my field until months after its come out"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:48Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Never mind giving up Twitter for Lent what about getting really serious with the digital equivalent of a hair shirt and cilice - taking up Bluesky for Lent"
X Link 2026-02-15T17:37Z 48.6K followers, 20.1K engagements
"The peculiarly English lily crucifix - Christ crucified on a lily @todbooklady @StroudStory A wall painting. Photo from the church website. https://t.co/VTtdhcWh3g @todbooklady @StroudStory A wall painting. Photo from the church website. https://t.co/VTtdhcWh3g"
X Link 2025-01-28T18:43Z 48.6K followers, 76K engagements
"@AlbertBikaj Tangentially Im soon embarking on a chapter that will need to touch on Christianity in medieval Albania (about which I currently know nothing) - is there anything in English youd recommend Im looking at Robert Elsie already"
X Link 2026-01-27T22:14Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Why is it that when moles and traitors are caught in MI6 theyre always working for Russia or China What about the double agents for smaller states - are they just never caught because no-one thinks to look for the deep cover agents of East Timor or So Tom and Prncipe"
X Link 2026-01-29T16:22Z 48.6K followers, 160.9K engagements
"I apologise for the disruption in service my account was hacked by crypto scammers 😩 and its taken a while to get it back but Ive now recovered it. Top tips: put 2-factor authentication on your account (or someone else will) and avoid open Wi-Fi networks in public places"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:20Z 48.6K followers, 15.3K engagements
"@ColinRuneckles Crypts and crypto-Catholicism yes cryptocurrency no"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:37Z 48.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@CornCJ Yes there are a couple of priories in Suffolk whose locations are debated because no-one knows for sure. Mind you thats also true of some synagogues in Belarus and Ukraine that stood until 1941"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:51Z 48.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Ooh Ive not come across this one Acquired a most interesting book published in [----] when occupying Soviet Union was compelled to recognise the restored independence of the Baltic nations just before crumbling itself. The book is written by British historians rediscovering as part of Europe. https://t.co/GwjnxsQl6m Acquired a most interesting book published in [----] when occupying Soviet Union was compelled to recognise the restored independence of the Baltic nations just before crumbling itself. The book is written by British historians rediscovering as part of Europe. https://t.co/GwjnxsQl6m"
X Link 2026-02-09T09:23Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@2D0XPS My feeling is that younger clergy are likely to have strong views on it but I suspect the split is about 50/50 on what those views actually are. Only among older clergy will you find woteva the PCC decides apathy however"
X Link 2026-02-09T09:26Z 48.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Its notable that this sort of thing only tends to happen with Belarus and Ukraine whose pre-Soviet and pre-Russian Empire history it seems to be OK to forget. No-one talks about Finnish or Polish cities as Russian in spite of those countries long years in the Russian Empire Please @ChristiesInc stop describing Vitebsk (Viciebsk) as a Russian city. #Belarus was once part of the Russian Empire but that does not make its cities Russian. This kind of framing echoes the Kremlin's "spheres of influence" narrative. This shouldn't be happening. https://t.co/O7H3s77bBe Please @ChristiesInc stop"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:02Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@DocBrush [--]. Edict of Milan [--]. Council of Nicaea [--]. Great Schism [--]. Conversion of Lithuania [--]. Reformation"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:24Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@nassaujuan @andrewpconnell Thanks Oh definitely Boomer"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:58Z 48.6K followers, [--] engagements
"Perhaps the clearest sign that the Anglo-Saxons perceived the world differently from us is that they thought days got longer in spring (hence lencten the lengthening of days gives us Lent) whereas for modern people its days in January that seem to go on forever"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:07Z 48.6K followers, 20.4K engagements
"Something that fascinates me (and possibly no-one else) is the way Vilnius Baroque provided a subtle site of resistance to Soviet occupation in c20th Lithuania - a lot of Postwar restoration took place in the city in spite of the incompatibility of Baroque with Soviet realism"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:29Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Listening to a c17th Polish mass that really lingers on the word Filioque in the Creed in much the same way Byrd repeats Catholicam in his Mass for Four Voices 😂"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:41Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@davidwoolw38361 Or perhaps commentary on the Union of Brest where a bone of contention was whether Eastern Rite Catholics should be allowed to omit the Filioque"
X Link 2026-02-11T11:33Z 48.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Roman altars news The altars were excavated at Inveresk in East Lothian and date to around 140AD https://t.co/HnPkW8cCSU The altars were excavated at Inveresk in East Lothian and date to around 140AD https://t.co/HnPkW8cCSU"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:11Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"I love these proper old-fashioned bonkers pilgrims. I once came across the same mendicant Lithuanian pilgrim three times in Troyes in Rome and in Vilnius A roadside pilgrimage: former electrician [--] on his journey of faith: https://t.co/57569VHWL8 A roadside pilgrimage: former electrician [--] on his journey of faith: https://t.co/57569VHWL8"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:54Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@PriceLaurence @F_B_G I dont know if its true but in the 80s there was a moral panic that McDonalds donated to the IRA"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:53Z 48.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@StephenCM98 @davidjn_ In the real world we dont have much of a choice tho especially if dioceses arent open to the idea of ordaining Readers to the diaconate; most benefices cant even function without their Readers performing quasi-sacramental functions and would collapse if they didnt"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:02Z 48.6K followers, [--] engagements
"Ooh a shiny publisher website that has no search option so you cant actually find the books they publish slow hand clap"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:45Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@Rokewood Of course"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:37Z 48.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@Rokewood The coverage of Lithuania in the handbook is a bit weak tho; I think Odeta Rudling is the only Lithuanianist who contributed"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:41Z 48.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@bishbrit @LancasterDioces It feels kinda wrong for any bishop to have no see; and annoying to me as an indexer as by convention bishops are always indexed by see as well as surname"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:15Z 48.6K followers, [--] engagements
"Just encountered an instance of a c18th English Jesuit who describes himself in an official (secular) legal document as a clerk - the first time Ive seen a Catholic priest of the penal era publicly admit (or imply) he was in holy orders"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:14Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@theo_nash Shakespeare was an unproductive slacker compared to a lot of medieval early modern and indeed c19th writers; its only modern writers who bleat about finding time to write and cant pull their finger out"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:03Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"I hadn't realised that Bindon Abbey in Dorset was the first English house to be returned to the Cistercian Order - in the 1790s when the Welds gave it to the refugee monks of La Trappe. Sounds like it was a fun place to be"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:25Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"I got weird Lithuanian snacks (+ some Latvian butter)"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:55Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Im reading a book of letters of genteel English Catholics from the c18th which covers several decades and its unbelievably dull until [----] when suddenly it turns into the Scarlet Pimpernel - all daring escapes from Sans Culottes and rescuing nuns and priests from France"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:03Z 48.6K followers, 16.7K engagements
"The Restoration Act of Uniformity made it legal to celebrate the BCP in Greek in schools and colleges (as well as Latin and Hebrew although Im not sure if a Hebrew BCP ever existed) I want this so bad https://t.co/FSHnEbJZYT I want this so bad https://t.co/FSHnEbJZYT"
X Link 2026-02-13T10:03Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The Carmelites mark [---] years in Vilnius https://www.vilnensis.lt/karmelis-ne-apie-karamele-400-metu-karmelitams-vilniuje/ https://www.vilnensis.lt/karmelis-ne-apie-karamele-400-metu-karmelitams-vilniuje/"
X Link 2026-02-13T11:54Z 48.6K followers, [---] engagements
"This is like asking if open carry is quietly reviving in Texas"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:56Z 48.6K followers, 14.8K engagements
"Its a mad world people seem to think collegiality is possible in an organisation without the precondition of having a chapel with collegiate facing pews"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:21Z 48.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Full jacket design for Fairies: A History coming early in [----] https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetailbook_slug=fairies-a-history--9781509566778 https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetailbook_slug=fairies-a-history--9781509566778"
X Link 2025-11-17T09:32Z 48.6K followers, 19.1K engagements
"#OTD in [----] the formal baptism of Lithuania took place in Vilnius - here's Archbishop Bodzanta of Gniezno (under whose jurisdiction Lithuania fell) with a massive font"
X Link 2026-02-14T10:49Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Roses are red Violets are blue Poland is Christian Now Lithuania is too. #ValentinesDay1387 #OTD in [----] the formal baptism of Lithuania took place in Vilnius - here's Archbishop Bodzanta of Gniezno (under whose jurisdiction Lithuania fell) with a massive font https://t.co/f9wxDFomBt #OTD in [----] the formal baptism of Lithuania took place in Vilnius - here's Archbishop Bodzanta of Gniezno (under whose jurisdiction Lithuania fell) with a massive font https://t.co/f9wxDFomBt"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:09Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"I've just finished indexing 'A Voice in the Wilderness: Why Should we Listen to the Church of England' edited by Joshua Hordern and Graham Tomlin https://scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9780334066989/voice-in-the-wilderness https://scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9780334066989/voice-in-the-wilderness"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:54Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Great chapters by @john_ritzema @WalkerMarcus @holland_tom and others"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:55Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Guys I literally waste hours of my life lurking online on multiple platforms waiting to hear about new books yet STILL somehow you failed to make me aware - so I dont think youll have much luck with the reading public at large 😆"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:50Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The medieval seal of Godmanchester and its modern incarnation (the traditional pronunciation of the towns name is Gumster)"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:27Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@anne_goldgar Yeah theyre both pretty awful in different ways tbh"
X Link 2026-02-15T21:16Z 48.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Over on All Old Strange Things Ive written about the affair of the Bury St Edmunds Hoard and what it may tell us about the Lark Valley in the Iron Age. Link in next tweet: A history professor with a passion for metal detecting uncovered a hoard of [--] Iron Age gold coins. 🪙 Read more here ➡ https://t.co/p22ukN4lzr (📸: Tom Licence) https://t.co/Jzj6tN4Re8 A history professor with a passion for metal detecting uncovered a hoard of [--] Iron Age gold coins. 🪙 Read more here ➡ https://t.co/p22ukN4lzr (📸: Tom Licence) https://t.co/Jzj6tN4Re8"
X Link 2026-02-16T09:11Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"https://open.substack.com/pub/drfrancisyoung/p/addedomaros-dreamingr=1f2ejo&utm_medium=ios https://open.substack.com/pub/drfrancisyoung/p/addedomaros-dreamingr=1f2ejo&utm_medium=ios"
X Link 2026-02-16T09:11Z 48.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@JaneVsw @anne_goldgar Ive had far worse experiences on Bluesky than here but its different for everybody of course"
X Link 2026-02-16T12:07Z 48.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@Dr_W_E_Bulmer @NicholasOShaug1 Perhaps although its worth noting that early Gothick literature is heavily preoccupied with the Continent. Its a sort of Eurosceptic horror genre"
X Link 2026-02-16T14:14Z 48.6K followers, [---] engagements
"The sacred lime tree of Visdievai (the name means 'all the gods' in Lithuanian) in 1999"
X Link 2026-02-16T15:18Z 48.6K followers, [----] engagements
"People are claiming Pancake Day wasnt originally a pagan festival when you only have to look at the name to know it was once a day when cakes were offered to Pan"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:29Z 48.6K followers, 39.6K engagements
"Brooke also had an Augustinian priory so badly run that it was in ruins even before the dissolution. This farmhouse incorporates some remains of it and impressive earthworks that protected its fisheries remain"
X Link 2025-09-16T14:10Z 46.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@NicholasOShaug1 I can't take seriously anyone who thinks Belgium shouldn't exist but doesn't think Belgium should consequently be part of Spain"
X Link 2025-09-16T22:41Z 46.9K followers, [---] engagements
"A personification of the Heavens holding the orbs of the Sun and Moon from Jan Skarbek's Mars Gloriosus (1674)"
X Link 2025-09-17T09:15Z 47K followers, [----] engagements
"Today at long last is publication day for @BloomsburyAcad's Cultural History of Magic. I contributed a chapter to the volume on the Enlightenment which features a case study on the prosecution and decriminalisation of magical acts in Lithuania 📚 https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-history-of-magic-9781350124073/ https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-history-of-magic-9781350124073/"
X Link 2025-09-18T16:21Z 47.2K followers, 42.9K engagements
"Only just noticed we made the US President watch redcoats in c18th uniforms #trolling"
X Link 2025-09-18T21:50Z 46.9K followers, [----] engagements
"And this is a diorama of the burning of the White House in 1812"
X Link 2025-09-18T21:51Z 47K followers, [----] engagements
"I worry that even my most hardened mutuals arent ready for the unbearable deluge of Lithuanian history megathreads thats coming next week as I actually VISIT VILNIUS"
X Link 2025-09-19T12:48Z 47K followers, [----] engagements
"De fluvio Memela Lituaniae ('On the River Nemunas of Lithuania') is a Latin poem of [----] in elegiac couplets by the Krakw scholar Adam Schrther about his friend's journey down the Nemunas (translated into Lithuanian in 2019)"
X Link 2025-09-19T16:04Z 47K followers, [----] engagements
"@jacobwtaylor It's doubtful whether Lord Carey should still be dressing as a bishop given that he resigned his Permission to Officiate in any clerical capacity in the CofE in [----] https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/20-december/news/uk/news-of-lord-carey-s-decision-to-cease-active-ministry-emerges https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/20-december/news/uk/news-of-lord-carey-s-decision-to-cease-active-ministry-emerges"
X Link 2025-09-19T16:47Z 47K followers, [----] engagements
"I am going to dedicate all of my previous and future work to Lithuania iurlionis declared in [----]. He simultaneously the founded both modern Lithuanias music and its visual art and is reputed the greatest in both - an achievement perhaps unparalleled for any European artist Today we celebrate [---] years since the birth of M. K. iurlionis a visionary who created timeless music paintings poetry and artistic photography ahead of his time. His endless love for #Lithuania lives on in [---] paintings [---] music compositions and many other art forms. https://t.co/r9WfpMJ9yD Today we celebrate [---] years"
X Link 2025-09-22T08:00Z 47.2K followers, 11.9K engagements
"Baltic Unity Day celebrates the joint victory of Balts from both Lithuania and Latvia at the Battle of Saule in [----] when Baltic warriors annihilated the Livonian Swordbrethren (the few survivors of that crusading order had to merge with the Teutonic Knights afterwards) From Lithuania to #Latvia: congratulations on Baltic Unity Day 🤝 Weve always been stronger together and today we celebrate the unbreakable bond between our brotherly nations. Vienoti ms esam stiprki 1/2 #TegyvuojaBaltVienyb #LaiDzvoBaltuVienba https://t.co/lxCFIEr13U From Lithuania to #Latvia: congratulations on Baltic Unity"
X Link 2025-09-22T08:28Z 47.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The Swordbrethren decided to send heavily armoured knights on horseback - the superweapon of the day - against lightly armed highly mobile Balts on boggy ground and found out the shortcomings of this strategy the hard way Baltic Unity Day celebrates the joint victory of Balts from both Lithuania and Latvia at the Battle of Saule in [----] when Baltic warriors annihilated the Livonian Swordbrethren (the few survivors of that crusading order had to merge with the Teutonic Knights afterwards) Baltic Unity Day celebrates the joint victory of Balts from both Lithuania and Latvia at the Battle of"
X Link 2025-09-22T10:19Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@CapelLofft @andrewpconnell Its always America why cant people develop a fixation on Lithuania instead"
X Link 2025-09-22T15:25Z 47.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Today is a good day to remember that Sofija Kymantait-iurlionien (wife and widow of M. K. iurlionis and every bit as amazing as her husband) was the translator of the Iliad into Lithuanian "In [----] Simone Weil assailed by headaches of unknown origin began to write an essay on Homer's Iliad the oldest western war poem. Weil was familiar with the work in Greek since she learnt on her own when she was 12." One of the great Homeric essays: https://t.co/bvqQYUiPzv "In [----] Simone Weil assailed by headaches of unknown origin began to write an essay on Homer's Iliad the oldest western war poem. Weil"
X Link 2025-09-22T16:00Z 47.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@Robin_C_Douglas @BijanOmrani We must at all costs hold the line against people referring to Prime Minister Truss"
X Link 2025-09-22T17:09Z 47.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@koutchoukalimar I resent the implication that other Baltic states arent equally dangerously aggressive why does Estonia get all the plaudits"
X Link 2025-09-22T17:55Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@michael_merrick I think it has a certain remorseless logic once you accept certain flawed premises but thats secondary to social reinforcement; like all elite belief systems it carries prestige and so people make themselves believe it because it carries social credit"
X Link 2025-09-22T19:06Z 47.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@Peter_Nimitz Independence for the old Dominion of Newfoundland and Labrador Its not like its been part of Canada for all that long"
X Link 2025-09-23T07:15Z 47.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@HazemAm55596440 @CambridgeUP There is an ebook but Im afraid I dont know what format it comes in"
X Link 2025-09-23T08:25Z 47.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Heading to Vilnius later today. My grammar is kind of OK my vocabulary truly abysmal"
X Link 2025-09-24T08:21Z 47.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Its a shame I cant travel further afield in Lithuania this time this sounds amazing:"
X Link 2025-09-24T16:44Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Eleonora Terleckien opens #BaroCon2025: Welcome to the beloved city and university of Sarbievius"
X Link 2025-09-25T07:10Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Todays return to Vilnius has been overwhelming. Early this morning I entered the old city by the Gate of Dawn; the citys last surviving ancient gateway protected by one of the most venerated miraculous images in Europe"
X Link 2025-09-25T18:23Z 47.2K followers, 13.4K engagements
"From the sublime to the ridiculous the sight of these old trolleybuses brought a tear to my eye 🚎"
X Link 2025-09-25T18:23Z 47.2K followers, [---] engagements
"The university church of St John luminous in the morning light"
X Link 2025-09-25T18:23Z 47.2K followers, [---] engagements
"To Vilnius Cathedral and Mass in the Chapel of St Casimir celebrated by the Bishop. The miracle paving stone marks where people began holding hands for the Baltic Way"
X Link 2025-09-25T18:23Z 47.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The shadow of Gediminas Castle on the Old Arsenal - which is the archaeological museum but sadly closed for repairs"
X Link 2025-09-26T12:38Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The Palace of the Grand Dukes is a very recent reconstruction but it does incorporate the foundations of the great Renaissance palace it attempts to replace"
X Link 2025-09-26T12:40Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements
"And some are not"
X Link 2025-09-26T12:45Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Tfw youve been crowned King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania but you jus chillin"
X Link 2025-09-26T12:48Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements
"A firm favourite the Historiae Lituaniae of Wojciech Wijuk Kojaowicz whose name I had to read in my paper yesterday and whose pronunciation I practised repeatedly"
X Link 2025-09-26T12:59Z 47.2K followers, [----] engagements
"And heres the Lyrica of the man himself Sarbievius the reason I am in Lithuania in the first place (his portrait also in St Johns Church)"
X Link 2025-09-26T13:01Z 47.2K followers, [----] engagements
"At this point I had the pleasure of meeting Twitter mutual @vmorkevicius irl"
X Link 2025-09-26T13:02Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@vmorkevicius We now move on to Baroque fever dream St Johns Church (the university church)"
X Link 2025-09-26T13:04Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Around about here was located (maybe theres debate about it) the open-roofed temple of Perknas before [----] which had itself (maybe) been built as a cathedral in 1251"
X Link 2025-09-26T13:11Z 47.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Another alleged pagan site (although Im sceptical) the so-called Altar of Ragutis outside the Orthodox Church of St Parasceve"
X Link 2025-09-26T13:13Z 47.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The 24-hour Shrine of the Divine Mercy houses the first image painted of St Faustinas [----] vision of Christ which she received in Vilnius"
X Link 2025-09-26T13:16Z 47.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@Prisikelimas I did explore parts of rural Lithuania many years ago - mainly around Anykiai"
X Link 2025-09-26T13:31Z 47.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Terrific distant views of the Baltic coast on the flight home. Here you can just about see the city of Kant About as close as Ill ever get probably"
X Link 2025-09-26T16:59Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@vmorkevicius Ha ha yes Im heartened that yet another mutual has assured themselves that Im not just an AI bot programmed to tweet about Lithuania 😆"
X Link 2025-09-26T17:26Z 47.1K followers, [--] engagements
"Outstanding conditions of visibility over Lithuania this afternoon - look at all that FOREST"
X Link 2025-09-26T17:41Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Imagine having the confidence of this author that Neolithic Lithuanians worshipped the female Moose of All Moose"
X Link 2025-09-26T17:57Z 47.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@gryn_a Maybe it can become the NAFO Ordensstaat with NAFO organised as a sort of military order dedicated to a digital crusade against ruzzia"
X Link 2025-09-26T18:21Z 47.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@McnamaraLuna I think it gets confusing because in lots of European languages theyre called elk (or similar) which is the name for a different animal in N. America iirc"
X Link 2025-09-26T18:25Z 47.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@shulgasser Apparently not as I was literally the only visitor to the Palace of the Grand Dukes"
X Link 2025-09-27T07:34Z 47.2K followers, [---] engagements
"I went a bit mad in the Vilnius souvenir shops but you dont know you need a chocolate map of the ethnographic regions of Lithuania until you see a chocolate map of the ethnographic regions of Lithuania"
X Link 2025-09-27T07:45Z 47.3K followers, 41.9K engagements
"A model of Vilnius Cathedral of course"
X Link 2025-09-27T09:55Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@Glen_Binnie If the szlachta elected me Grand Duke of Lithuania I wouldnt say no"
X Link 2025-09-27T19:01Z 47.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Sea buckthorn at Gibraltar Point near Skegness"
X Link 2025-09-27T19:11Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The College of St Mary Magdalen in Wainfleet founded by William Waynflete (founder of @magdalenoxford) as a chantry college and school in 1484"
X Link 2025-09-27T19:27Z 47.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Nominative determinism of the day: Lithuanias controversial new Minister of Culture who is alleged to know nothing about culture is called Ignotas Feeling ignored by President Gitanas Nausda several cultural institutions have either suspended cooperation with the presidential office or saw key members resign in protest. https://t.co/4DA3LbOjk1 Feeling ignored by President Gitanas Nausda several cultural institutions have either suspended cooperation with the presidential office or saw key members resign in protest. https://t.co/4DA3LbOjk1"
X Link 2025-09-28T06:50Z 47.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Update: my attempts to break it up along the boundaries of the ethnographic regions have not been all that successful but to my mind that reflects the essential fluidity and contingency of such boundaries and the overarching unity of Lithuanian national identity 🍫 I went a bit mad in the Vilnius souvenir shops but you dont know you need a chocolate map of the ethnographic regions of Lithuania until you see a chocolate map of the ethnographic regions of Lithuania https://t.co/tYaV4aOmbe I went a bit mad in the Vilnius souvenir shops but you dont know you need a chocolate map of the"
X Link 2025-09-28T12:08Z 47.2K followers, 12.9K engagements
"Another amazing thread from @AntiokhosE this time on Bolivia. I love it that in the c18th you could have been in Vilnius Bolivia or West Africa and found churches that spoke the same recognisable architectural language albeit with a local inflection #GlobalBaroque As per yesterdays 🧵 Sucres standout charm is its collection of churches dating back right to its foundation. In prime place on the central plaza is the Catedral Metropolitana - begun in [----] but only finished in its current form in the 18th century /1 https://t.co/PYNsBxgkt3 As per yesterdays 🧵 Sucres standout charm is its"
X Link 2025-09-29T13:36Z 47.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@Daractenus I wondered if he was using that term in order to avoid confusion with the region of Moldova inside Romania itself"
X Link 2025-09-29T14:07Z 47.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@ViljamsMauhuds I was intrigued to learn recently that in the c18th it was fashionable to speak English in Memel (as it then was) - not because it was necessary but because it was a very Anglophile city and there was a fad for afternoon tea and dressing in English clothes"
X Link 2025-09-29T17:39Z 47.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Kudos to Cardinal Zbigniew Olenicki for having obtained red hats simultaneously from Pope Eugene IV and Antipope Felix V top work"
X Link 2025-09-30T09:10Z 47.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@hubertlepicki @akoz33 I just hope President Nausda communes with the shade of Gediminas"
X Link 2025-09-30T18:51Z 47.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@Novalgin13 @AntiokhosE Indeed although the Baroque reached beyond the direct colonial outreach of European powers and was coterminous with the broader cultural influence of Baroque Catholicism - a bit like the ubiquity of US cultural power through Hollywood or Disney"
X Link 2025-10-01T08:05Z 47.2K followers, [--] engagements
"I the Lord of Sea and Sky 🎶 Which hymn/church song would you pay to ban for a year For me: I Sing A Song of the Saints of God (once a year is once too many) https://t.co/wxSDYgZaYr Which hymn/church song would you pay to ban for a year For me: I Sing A Song of the Saints of God (once a year is once too many) https://t.co/wxSDYgZaYr"
X Link 2025-10-02T08:39Z 47.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@hubertlepicki I have to write a chapter on the Christianisation of Poland in due course so I expect I will be reading it"
X Link 2025-10-02T09:26Z 47.2K followers, [--] engagements
"There's a lot of complaining about the long vacancy in the See of Canterbury (and indeed other episcopal interregnums) and there's a simple and straightforward solution to such gaps: the appointment of coadjutor bishops with right of succession"
X Link 2025-10-02T21:04Z 47.2K followers, [----] engagements
"It sucks all the fun from the nomination of the Archbishop of Canterbury that the nominee knows who they are in advance; the CNC should turn up at their front door and surprise them with cameras so we get the reaction shots"
X Link 2025-10-03T07:14Z 47.7K followers, 20K engagements
"Its all about to kick off in Canterbury Arriving in Canterbury for the announcement of the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury. The name is due to be revealed in half an hour. Keep your eye on the @ChurchTimes for full coverage. https://t.co/BI4VfEeQQJ Arriving in Canterbury for the announcement of the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury. The name is due to be revealed in half an hour. Keep your eye on the @ChurchTimes for full coverage. https://t.co/BI4VfEeQQJ"
X Link 2025-10-03T08:34Z 47.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@KingCrawa @Adrian_Hilton I think it's only the provinces of Melanesia Nigeria Pakistan Papua New Guinea Rwanda and SE Asia. The next Archbishop's stance on sexuality will be a much bigger deal than his or her gender"
X Link 2025-10-03T08:49Z 47.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Ooh the BBC live feed is up: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0r0201jgdlt https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0r0201jgdlt"
X Link 2025-10-03T08:50Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The 10th Archbishop of Canterbury since the Reformation to be translated from London - the last was Geoffrey Fisher"
X Link 2025-10-03T09:06Z 47.2K followers, [----] engagements
"TIL that Palemon the legendary founder of Lithuania has a profile on a genealogy site; I wonder if he's friended King Arthur yet"
X Link 2025-10-03T11:05Z 47.6K followers, [----] engagements
"I just sent off this chapter on origin myths of Lithuania for an exciting new edited collection on European origin myths - watch this space 📚"
X Link 2025-10-03T16:21Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Gosh I'd missed that there was a new Grand Duke of Luxembourg. The world's last remaining Grand Duchy. TheEmbassy in London and the Luxembourg community in the send their warmest congratulations to His Royal Highness Grand Duke Guillaume of Luxembourg. Vive le Grand-Duc. #Trounwiessel https://t.co/nvnlvl8sVN https://t.co/hgMjILIXoD TheEmbassy in London and the Luxembourg community in the send their warmest congratulations to His Royal Highness Grand Duke Guillaume of Luxembourg. Vive le Grand-Duc. #Trounwiessel https://t.co/nvnlvl8sVN https://t.co/hgMjILIXoD"
X Link 2025-10-03T20:32Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements
"On my name day heres St Francis of Assisi in a c18th depiction from the Church of the Annunciation in Valkininkai. Wishing a blessed feastday to all Francises and Franceses"
X Link 2025-10-04T06:58Z 47.7K followers, [----] engagements
"For some reason the 3rd volume of the [--] volumes of complete organ works of one of my favourite composers isn't available anywhere maybe it contains musicological secrets the world just isn't ready for yet and has been suppressed"
X Link 2025-10-05T18:39Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements
"A map of battles in Lithuania during the 'January Uprising' of 1863-64"
X Link 2025-10-06T10:50Z 47.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I'm kind of glad I stayed on Facebook because some serious beef is currently kicking off over there between Lithuanian historians over Vytas Jankauskas's claims about the earliest mention of Lithuania 🍿"
X Link 2025-10-06T17:39Z 47.7K followers, [----] engagements
"A good explainer of the simple and straightforward process by which the Bishop of London becomes Archbishop of Canterbury OK. So what happens now. Well right now Dame Sarah remains Lord Bishop of London 1) at some point the King will cause a Cong d'lire to pass the Great Seal authorising the College of Canons of Canterbury to elect new Lord Archbishop OK. So what happens now. Well right now Dame Sarah remains Lord Bishop of London 1) at some point the King will cause a Cong d'lire to pass the Great Seal authorising the College of Canons of Canterbury to elect new Lord Archbishop"
X Link 2025-10-06T18:36Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Lithuanians gathering under the trolleybus wires on Gedimino Prospektas to celebrate the restoration of Vilnius Cathedral as a place of worship [--] October [----] (the Soviets had turned it into an art gallery)"
X Link 2025-10-07T09:44Z 47.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The re-opening of the Cathedral made it possible to install this plaque slightly belatedly commemorating the 600th anniversary of the Baptism of Lithuania in 1987"
X Link 2025-10-07T09:49Z 47.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The first new music from Purcell in [---] years https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/07/experts-find-music-english-composer-henry-purcell https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/07/experts-find-music-english-composer-henry-purcell"
X Link 2025-10-07T11:38Z 47.7K followers, 37.9K engagements
"The Book of Common Prayer was the iPhone of its day - a single device you could hold in your pocket with apps for everything you could possibly need from comminating your neighbours for moving a land-mark to churching women or determining if you could marry your uncle's widow Common Worship broke away from the idea of a single volume containing practically everything that you might ever need in church https://t.co/CX0XqkHGeo Common Worship broke away from the idea of a single volume containing practically everything that you might ever need in church https://t.co/CX0XqkHGeo"
X Link 2025-10-07T15:46Z 47.8K followers, 18.5K engagements
"@parishrecluse I love Draghi - underrated composer"
X Link 2025-10-08T06:34Z 47.3K followers, [---] engagements
"I read that in the Soviet-run Lithuanian elections of July [----] (whose results were mistakenly released [--] hours before polls opened) up to 123% of voters voted for the Communist Party in some districts"
X Link 2025-10-08T15:19Z 47.3K followers, 14.4K engagements
"TIL there was a 6th-century Patriarch of Alexandria called Timothy Ailurus #meow"
X Link 2025-10-09T10:56Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Was it a nickname or was he called that because he was an actual cat who concealed his true identity (Pope Joan-style) and passed himself off as human"
X Link 2025-10-09T10:58Z 47.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@amaragraps I am indeed I'm currently reading Vladas Terleckas on this subject and I've previously investigated the story of Lithuania's battle with the Bank of England in the early 90s to get the gold back"
X Link 2025-10-09T11:57Z 47.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Great to see that a history of @GuildhallBSE is on its way England's oldest civic building"
X Link 2025-10-09T12:37Z 47.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Dievturba becomes a recognised religion in Latvia. Dievturba founded in [----] is the oldest of the modern Baltic native faith movements odien Liela diena - Latvija oficili atzst seno baltu reliiju (dievturbu) par vienu no valsts oficilajm reliijm. Senu ticba ka attiecbas ar Dievu ir jveido bez starpniekiem ka dzve ir jdzvo ar godu saska ar dabu un dabas ritiem tiek atzta pc tkstots gadu https://t.co/A4S3f9sAAv odien Liela diena - Latvija oficili atzst seno baltu reliiju (dievturbu) par vienu no valsts oficilajm reliijm. Senu ticba ka attiecbas ar Dievu ir jveido bez starpniekiem ka dzve ir"
X Link 2025-10-09T16:18Z 47.8K followers, [----] engagements
"You didnt think Belarusian sushi existed did you I have mistakenly ordered a "baked sushi" from a Belarusian owned restaurant. I present to you a sample. Every piece is topped up with mayo and cheese and baked and yes there's fermented cucumber in each one as well. https://t.co/DKhMCmDtHM I have mistakenly ordered a "baked sushi" from a Belarusian owned restaurant. I present to you a sample. Every piece is topped up with mayo and cheese and baked and yes there's fermented cucumber in each one as well. https://t.co/DKhMCmDtHM"
X Link 2025-10-09T18:51Z 47.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I wrote about Latvias state-sanctioned endorsement of a modern pagan religion - and what that may mean for Europes religious future https://drfrancisyoung.com/2025/10/10/pagan-dawn-europes-first-pagan-state-religion-in-638-years/ https://drfrancisyoung.com/2025/10/10/pagan-dawn-europes-first-pagan-state-religion-in-638-years/"
X Link 2025-10-10T12:00Z 47.7K followers, 12K engagements
"@Miss_Snuffy I think the saddest thing about this is the sheer cringe of a the cathedral thinking a carefully-curated collection of fake graffiti adhesive stickers is somehow edgy"
X Link 2025-10-11T11:07Z 47.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Why has no-one written a Latvian-set hardboiled detective novel called Riga Mortis"
X Link 2025-10-11T14:31Z 47.7K followers, 23K engagements
"People are giving Canterbury Cathedral a hard time but at this point cathedrals doing ridiculous things in a desperate bid to attract attention is as much a part of Englands national life as afternoon tea and cricket"
X Link 2025-10-11T14:54Z 47.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@Maj_Gen_Stanley I feel there should be an ethnographic documentary on Latvia entitled 'Liv and Lett Live'"
X Link 2025-10-12T08:05Z 47.6K followers, [--] engagements
"Somebody had to make the required joke 😆 Lithuania and Poland playing football tonight. The question is: against whom. I will show myself out the door Lithuania and Poland playing football tonight. The question is: against whom. I will show myself out the door"
X Link 2025-10-12T19:31Z 47.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@judithmknott This is the case with many scholars; the first time I produced a translation for a learned society they told me I was the youngest person to have done so for many decades"
X Link 2025-10-13T12:36Z 47.8K followers, [----] engagements
"#OTD in [----] the Polish submarine Orze (Eagle) rendezvoused with the Royal Navy and sailed into the port of Rosyth after escaping the Baltic Sea and spending nearly a month at sea evading German forces without navigational charts ⚓"
X Link 2025-10-14T06:15Z 47.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Yes but the similarities break down when you realise that Pisudski didnt die trying to retrieve a fur coat from a burning building You can take the summary interwar history ofor and censor the name of the country and the leader and it would remain 100% accurate. regained her independence after WW1 and entered a short lived period of unstable democracy. Responding to growing https://t.co/vftzt3mT21 You can take the summary interwar history ofor and censor the name of the country and the leader and it would remain 100% accurate. regained her independence after WW1 and entered a short lived"
X Link 2025-10-14T15:32Z 47.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The Jagiellonian realm from the Baltic to the Black Sea to the Adriatic The Lithuanian Jagellonian dynasty at its height. This map shows the countries that had a Jagiellonian ruler on the throne at the end of the 15th century. https://t.co/BL10DLwxVB The Lithuanian Jagellonian dynasty at its height. This map shows the countries that had a Jagiellonian ruler on the throne at the end of the 15th century. https://t.co/BL10DLwxVB"
X Link 2025-10-16T19:08Z 47.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Finally got to see the English Convent in Bruges last week: http://t.co/pLFv6WQXIN http://t.co/dYtciWSoSC http://wp.me/p2og7m-9t http://wp.me/p2og7m-9t"
X Link 2015-08-22T17:00Z 45.7K followers, [--] engagements
"Happy St Andrew's Day Here's King James VII's collar of the Order of the Thistle (1687) later passed on to James VIII Charles III and Henry I (Historic Environment Scotland)"
X Link 2017-11-30T07:24Z 45.7K followers, [--] engagements
"Today I paid my first visit to the Rollright Stones and encountered some slightly menacing locals with broad West Country accents who gave me that vague but essential sense of unease (+some ritual detritus) @AdamScovell @folk_horror"
X Link 2017-12-30T18:43Z 46.7K followers, [--] engagements
"@rmathematicus @MZiegler3 Indeed. You even have to consider the possibility that ancient objects are dropped by collectors at a later date - that seems to be the case with some exotic coins discovered in the UK. Without an archaeological context you just can't be sure"
X Link 2018-03-01T11:50Z 45.6K followers, [--] engagements
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