Mark Kirby

I agree. The Gresham portrait is both astonishingly realistic, almost photographic, and deeply psychological.

Beautiful photos. I had long wondered what the interior looked like.

It's just like the decision to sell the land which had been acquired for HS2. Pure scorched earth tactics designed to make things as bad as possible for the next government. An irresponsible party which is still not learned its lesson.

Love the detail about the messenger. Classic Charles X.

Spooky!

Great photos of a marvellous cathedral. Clifton will feature in Andrew Derrick's paper at the @ecclsoc.bsky.social conference on C20 cathedrals on 4 October. Full details here: www.ecclsoc.org.uk/events/annua.... Do come.

Loving this series of "live" tweets of the 1830 French Revolution.

Post 1830 became name of a gunnery school on Whale Island. Judging from the topic, handwriting and type of paper, I'm guessing it is original to Excellent's time pre-1830. But what is it? Seems too finely executed for a gunnery manual. Thoughts gratefully received.

Came across this fascinating piece among my great grandfather's papers; he was a RN Chief Gunner in early C20 & WW1. HMS Excellent was in service 1787-1835 during the French Revolutionary/Napoleonic wars and fought in Nelson’s fleet at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797.

Congratulations, Simon. Quite the debut.

And 6,340 photos of stained glass!

Very grateful to Christopher Howse for his review of @ecclsoc.bsky.social Stained Glass Revivals in today's @telegraphnews.bsky.social. "Learned & beautifully illustrated". Also grateful to all the authors for sharing their expertise. Copies available to buy here: www.ecclsoc.org.uk/news/stained...

McFester's photographs on Flickr are outstanding.

Isn't it a bit more complicated than that? EOs can be backed by delegated authority in statute. The problem is discerning which are and which aren't.

This is going to be so good.

They are depicted in one of the stained glass windows in the spectacular Sint Janskerk, Gouda. Astonishing that it survived the Dutch Revolt.

The operative word in "trickle-down economics" is "trickle".

Is that a self portrait, do you think?

It is a horrific, menacing document.

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Lovely. An uncharacteristic Dutch Renaissance flavour for Comper in the heraldry.

Fab new buses around where I live. Love the Fritz Lang vibe.

Excellent. Reminds me of this similarly witty book title.

I am going to keep screaming this EVERY time:

do you know how fucking many hoops animal behaviorists have to jump through to get research alleging that animals feel happiness or sadness published

and the WALL STREET JOURNAL prints that LINES OF CODE WITH NO BRAIN STEM can SELF REFLECT

I love the way Microsoft Outlook is now asking me for dual factor authentication to log off.

I do not understand how it is lawful to borrow money to pay dividends. This is simply not right.

Hedgeland is interesting and one day I would like to research his work. I don't know whether he resisted the Gothic Revival or just approached it in a different way, keeping techniques, stylistic elements & the colour pallete of the previous century.

An astonishing expanse of glass for such a tall, stone structure.

Bad history has a long & glorious pedigree. Thus William of Malmesbury (1120s): Joseph of Arimathea brought Christianity to England before it reached Rome. Revived by Foxe (1563: helps to show CofE predates RC). Peter Heylyn (1642): England had its own Patriarch. Rarely edifying though.

Annual Conference: The Twentieth-Century Cathedral - Saturday, 4 October, 2025 - Abstract 2
Coventry Cathedral: Prof Louise Campbell, University of Warwick; expert in architecture from late C19 and author of books on Coventry and Basil Spence
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