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Jonathan Foyle

@jonathanfoyle.bsky.social

Lecturer at the University of Bath. Researcher of historic buildings, uses, design solutions: https://soloist.ai/jonathanfoyle Immersed in the arts of the late Middle Ages.

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A noted specialist in good order and discipline.

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The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen

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A cynic might suggest they were made by one hand.

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Both paintings are currently emerging through English auction houses, one purporting to be by Edward Seago as signed, the other Ivan Taylor. Both bear closely similar misunderstandings of the architecture of Lincoln Cathedral.

24.11.2025 10:50 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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"The humanities really are a resource β€” a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

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Stunning development: Senators now confirm the Trump admin’s 28-point β€œpeace plan” for Ukraine wasn’t a U.S. plan at all. It was a Russian wish list. Follow along. This is crazy. 1/

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In the UK, you could demolish a church VAT-free, but if you wanted to repair that church, you would have to pay VAT.

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Newspaper headlines: 'Trump turns the screw' and 'Farage's pal betrays Britain' Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's response to a US-backed plan to end the war with Russia leads Saturday's papers.

Traitors in our midst: no competition for... Fergie and - oh, what's that over there? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

22.11.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kirkstall Abbey

22.11.2025 08:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

That's a hot mess of reassembled salvage, but @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social knows Notts better than me and may have the revised Pevsner edition.

22.11.2025 08:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

AI should be CA: Cognitive Abdication

22.11.2025 06:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Apologies- Jiminy Cricket/ Chimney-Cricket... I'll fetch my coat

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If it were Birmingham Cricket Club it could be Chimney Cricket

21.11.2025 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Inside Pugin’s St Giles: The Gothic Revival Church That Stunned Victorian Britain | HENI Talks Step inside St Giles, Cheadle – Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin’s dazzling Gothic Revival Catholic church that stunned Victorian Britain. Completed in 1846, this β€œjewel box” interior is one of the most...

A new film, on Pugin's wondrous St Giles, Cheadle. heni.com/talks/inside...

21.11.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

The Duets album cover- the Barbra and Aretha songs are πŸ‘Œ

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She said, with a Rye grin

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That's a great phrase. Hope it's not copyrighted.

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Brumbelievable

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Ouch. Football chimneys.

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WHAT a doorway

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Mermaid Street, Rye

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I'm so sorry to hear it. Recall exasperation at the delayed response. Hope you're improving.

20.11.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Took the UK five years to conclude that not taking action to stem the spread of viral disease, after watching mass casualties spreading from China to North Italy, had consequences.

20.11.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Publow!

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Crepuscularity, Somerset

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What if they confirm it?

20.11.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Joyous

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Lady Macbeth

20.11.2025 06:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Da Tonino on Via del Governo Vecchio for a homely and good value lunch

20.11.2025 06:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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