Top marks to @paullay.bsky.social for suggesting putting Bede on a bank note.
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Great idea. This medievalist still has an Isaac Newton £1 note among my foreign currencies. I’d gladly add a Bede to my small collection.
jul 14, 2025, 12:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Do we know what he looked like?
jul 14, 2025, 7:29 am • 1 0 • view
No, but there are reasonably early images, eg this from 12th c. (Only 4 centuries late ;)
jul 14, 2025, 8:11 am • 1 0 • view
Any pasty Englishman from the north after a couple of pints can work as a model then…;)
jul 14, 2025, 9:50 am • 1 0 • view
😂
jul 14, 2025, 9:56 am • 1 0 • view