Dr Naomi

Sunshine through vertical window blinds falling on a miniature palm tree houseplant

Chamaedorea elegans, the 'parlour palm' of the first great victorian houseplant craze. I don't have a parlour I have a 'front room' 😆🌱🪴🌿

The Big Split: Overground Line Names - London Reconnections The leading source for independent news and analysis about transport in London and beyond. Award-winning coverage of transport infrastructure and politics alongside stories about the history of the Ca...

The names and colours for the separated Overground lines are out.

No doubt lots of people will moan about them. So here's my piece on how Tube names happen, collective memory, and why visibility matters www.londonreconnections.com/2024/the-big...

Magnificent illuminated celtic Book of Kells www.visittrinity.ie/book-of-kell...

A lovely medieval owl bookmark
(medieval owl from the Ashmole Bestiary, a 13th century manuscript held in the Bodleian libraries MA Ashmole 1522 fol. 62 r)

ATTENTION EVERYONE! Tomorrow is the winter solstice and you know what means!

That's right, we gather at dawn so the women can hunt the Year King through the woods and tear him apart to ensure the return of the sun!

The bells, they rattle on the wind,
The beer is getting cold.
What's come before will come again,
Or so it has been told...

For soon will come the longest night,
The lovely solstice tide,
When for your treats you'll have to fight:
For soon, the Mari rides.

A Mari Lwyd, which is a horse skeleton head decorated with ribbons and fabric ears, and a long trailing white train to suggest the rest of a ghostly body. Listen man it's Wales, this is just how it is.

Meanwhile if you are Welsh it is the time of year when a skeleton horse might show up at your door and challenge you to a rap battle. If you lose the horse comes into your house and drinks your booze.

Happy Christmas from Mari Lwyd!

The Getty Villa and the Book of the Dead.

The exposed structure of an early modern book @stanford Special Collections.

Quote with a picture of water that you took

went to a graveyard for my birthday

A small window with a slim green canopy, in a varied green tiled wall is covered with clear plastic sheeting serving as replacement glass. In front of a simple grill, rigid plastic pieces in yellow, red & green overlap to make a Mondrian type pattern.

Chen Wei
Temporary Sculpture / New Window
2021.

Revealed: plan to brand anyone ‘undermining’ UK as extremist Leaked documents spark furious backlash from groups who fear freedom of expression could be suppressed

The implications for freedom of speech are chilling.

'Government officials have drawn up deeply controversial proposals to broaden the definition of extremism to include anyone who “undermines” the country’s institutions and its values, according to documents seen by the Observer.'

#halloween

Ghosts This month, we're rounding off the year with a series of talks dedicated to ghosts and folklore. Come join us!

Our December talks are bringing you ghosts and folklore

Check out our talks on

Inhuman ghosts!
Medieval ghosts!
Eastern European Folklore

Free and online and different times for different time zones!

www.eventbrite.com/cc/ghosts-28...

Good evening 😊

Foto

"Buildings and structures aren't just bricks and mortar; they're the echoes of dreams, the canvases of innovation, and the foundations of progress in the world." 🏗️🏛️

Exeter Cathedral
The rather splendid monument to Sir Walter Raleigh’s half brother,Sir John Gilbert of Greenway Court and Compton and his wife Elizabeth Chudleigh.

#MonumentsMonday #elizabethan #history #devon ⛪️

I shared some of my favourite North Shropshire ghosts with the borders advertiser. You can read about them below!

bordercountiesadvertizer.co.uk/news/23885023.…

This is a lovely, touching little statuette. It is Boeotian from Tanagra and dates from c300BCE.

It shows an elderly, stooped nurse carrying an infant. Although she seems to grimace, you can imagine she did the same for the baby’s mother or father.

🏛️📷Kunsthistoriches
🏺 AncientBlueSky

This Roman opus sectile (left) was found at Fishbourne Palace. It’s a wonderful decorative art. It ranges from simple but elegant designs like this to monumental artistic gems like this mid-C4th CE tigress attacking a calf now in the Capitoline museums.

🏛️Fishbourne palace
📷mine
🏺 AncientBlueSky

Robert’s CWGC tombstone in Cement House Cemetery.

My distant relative, 2Lt Robert McAllister, Post Office Rifles, 8th City of London Regiment, was killed 106 years ago #OTD. My grandson visited his grave in Cement House Cemetery in 2017 and paid his respects. I would love to find Robert’s photo.

This glassware was, incredibly, pulled from the wreck of a Roman ship at the end of July. It is in near perfect condition. The wreck lies 350m below the surface between Italy’s Capraia Island & NE Corsica, and robot vehicles were used to retrieve the pieces. Astonishing

📷Manuel Anó
🏺AncientBlueSky

A small green wooden house sitting in the scrub of the desert. The mountains in the distance & a big pale blue sky. Low sunlight illuminates the side of the house.

John Divola.
N34°11.642’ W116°06.663’
1995-98.

#BlueMonday
📸🙋🏻

Trees & blue sky reflections in a puddle.

Morning folks🍂