Barker Culture

Isabella riding to meet her brother, Charles IV, in 1325. 15th-century illustration from Froissart's Chronicles.

On This Day, 8th October 1328, Malmesbury Abbey accommodated the boy King Edward III, together with his mother Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer, in the abbey guest house (now the Old Bell Hotel). They stayed until the 10th October.
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Waiting near Belleek while the clouds out a lid on things.

Brugmann 1849 to 1919.

And I paused after Brugmann's Law: the lengthening of Proto-Indo-European *o in open syllables in Sanskrit.

Am rereading and extending PIE notes this month.

Word that kept coming up today: ablaut.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’ A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

Fianna Fáil in crisis as Gavin exits presidential race Jim Gavin's departure from this election left many in Fianna Fáil stunned last night but tellingly the party leader said it was the correct decision.

Walking in Dublin last week, the Gavin posters were the most common. www.rte.ie/news/analysi...

Tipu Sultan talk by @eicathomefinn.bsky.social at IHR (well some of us are virtual). Great perspectives.

Interpretative plaque on Saint Jerome Translating the Gospels.

Detail of a monk and a lion.

The plaque picks up,as I did, on the lion having a thorn removed from its paw.

A shot of St Jerome, translating away, at NGI.

New month, new device backgrounds. The theme is culture 2020-21. One will be from V&A Dundee - Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk.

... the Doom over the rood screen.

From family graves to a great banner. But a star is...

Church information sign for Saint Mary the Virgin at Great Shelford.

Then on a very short distance to St Mary at Great Shelford, where even more ancestors and their relatives are. Great homes opposite. Well many buildings all around are notable.

Friday's unscheduled stop in S Cambs took me to All Saints, Little Shelford churchyard where some of the ancestors are. www.allsaintslittleshelford.org/Groups/30619...

Better exhibition than I had presumed. Worth the visit.

The Iron Foundry by Luce has impact.

Planning.

Time for an art morning. National Gallery.

One observation: in German media, a celebration of the culture of conversation in UK academia and what flows from that.

So two versions, almost back to back.

All the stage is... A world.

Globe afternoon, having watched the BBC Shakespeare version.

Only afterwards did I realise that Alan Bennet was in the cast. Justice Shallow.

Watched the 1982 BBC Shakespeare 'Merry Wives of Windsor' in three chunks. Life was too busy to catch these when they first came out.

Costume design from The Canterbury Prologue. Edward Burra exhibition at Tate Britain.

The British Library cyberattack continues to deliver 🙄 The 10,000s of images of pre-20C Indian paintings, manuscripts & photographs have been 404'd 🤬

If anyone happens to know the page number for the entry on Qadam Sharif in Thomas Metcalfe's Reminiscences of Imperial Dehlie I'll love you forever*

Am always noticing the WW2 damage going in.

Some Tate to start the day

Enjoying Paston letters delving but am never too sure how far from shore to go. They lead to so many destinations.