#OnThisDay in 1945, #Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by the US Army. They found only a few hundred surviving prisoners remaining in the camp, mostly the sick or dying

📷 An unknown survivor sits in front of the Boelcke barracks after liberation, Nordhausen, 1945

EXCL: Rishi Sunak spent £2m of taxpayers' money on focus groups & polling which helped craft messaging on 'eat out to help out' ahead of second Covid wave - despite keeping health chiefs in the dark on £850m scheme
theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Deadly Israeli attack on Hamas leader's family, Eid al-Fitr in Gaza & Israeli soldiers' views of the war. Plus warnings of Iranian attack on Israel. team is Kathy Long Oren Rosenfeld on insta you'll find cameraman @frederickbscott

youtu.be/8SepfTHRJ3U?si… via YouTube

Russia launched another massive attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure overnight

It targeted power plants in 5 regions from Lviv to Kharkiv, which is bearing the brunt

All the talk here is of the urgent need for air defence systems to protect these places, protect the power

Ecclesia sitting on a throne, holding a cross and an oil lamp

München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 16002; Passau Evangelistar; c.1170 CE - 1180 CE; Passau; f.39v
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

I discussed again today with Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba the EU efforts to accelerate military support to Ukraine, in particular air defence systems and ammunition.

I am reaching out to EU Member States to urge them to identify available equipment that Ukraine needs.

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Enthroned Virgin Mary holding Christ child

St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 376; Calendar, Computus, Tropary, Gradual, Sequentiary; middle of the 11th century; St. Gall; p.319
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Christ crucified, flanked by Mary and John

St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 376; Calendar, Computus, Tropary, Gradual, Sequentiary; middle of the 11th century; St. Gall; p.191
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Image of the risen Christ above whom is written:

'Hoc opus acceptum tibi sit pie Galle per aevum'

St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 376; Calendar, Computus, Tropary, Gradual, Sequentiary; middle of the 11th century; St. Gall; p.198
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A game of chess and a glass of something refreshing

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek,BSB Clm 4660; Carmina Burana; 13th century; Munich; f.92v Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

A game of chess

BL Add 12228; Guiron le Courtois; 14th century; Italy, S. (Naples?); f.23r Medieval Manuscripts

Piggyback wrestling and a game of chess!

BL Add MS 62925; 'The Rutland Psalter'; c.1260 CE; London; ff.70v, 78v Medieval Manuscripts

🚨 NEW: Rwanda's state-owned airline RwandAir has turned down Rishi Sunak's proposal to fly migrants there because it feared damaging its brand

[Financial Times]

'My interest in the ancient world goes back almost as far as I can remember. The first eye-opening moment was visiting the British Museum aged five with my mother: I wanted to see, in the Egyptian Galleries, a piece of carbonised bread or cake.'mary beard
antigonejournal.com/2022/01/vision…

Introduction of the Mishneh Torah

BL Harley 5698; Maimonides, Lisbon Mishneh Torah, Volume 1; 1471 CE-1472 CE; Portugal (Lisbon); ff.11v-12r
BL Asian and African BL_HebrewMSS

An angel showing John the new Jerusalem descending from heaven

BnF NAL 1132; Apocalypse of John, & Fables of Avianus; 9th-10th c.(around 900 CE); France (North East/North West?); f.33r Gallica BnF

We must not forget Ukraine which is fighting so bravely to expel Putin's invasion forces. In this excellent episode of #Ukrainecast Vitaly Shevchenko Sarah Rainsford Victoria Derbyshire and guests try to understand why Russia is targeting Kharkiv.
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

Portrait of Gregory the Great above whom it is written:

'Auferat hunc Gallo librum per saecula nemo'

St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 376; Calendar, Computus, Tropary, Gradual, Sequentiary; middle of the 11th century; St. Gall; f.82r
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Thurifer in the margin

BnF MS Latin 14267; Petrus Lombardus, in epistolis s. Pauli ; 12th century; Abbaye de Saint-Victor de Paris; f.103r Gallica BnF

A bimah in 14th century Barcelona

BL Oriental 2884; the 'Sister Haggadah'; 14th century; Spain NE, Catalonia (Barcelona); f.17v BL_HebrewMSS BL Asian and African