Born on this day in 1611, in Antwerp, Jan Fyt. Painter of animals, dead and alive. Here, his amazing study of a dog (v. alive) from the 1640s.
Saturday plans:
Sleeping grey cat and a rat, Adolf von Becker, 1864. #Caturday
I need the opposite of this: a feed that will pick out the key highlights from people whose ideas I like but who DON'T KNOW WHEN TO STOP.
what a surprise
Medieval Markets & Fairs in England & Wales: remember the excellent dataset published back in 2003? I've given it a snazzy new interface, incorporating various updates which were made following publication.
Separately, I'm working on extending it to 1846...
ihr-digital.github.io/markets-and-...
Nice!
On Harriet Tubman Day, one of my all-time favorite images by Jacob Lawrence: the joyful & ebullient screenprint "Play," based on panel #4 from the 1940 "Life of Harriet Tubman" series. The series, thirty-one paintings in all, was one of Lawrence's first major bodies of work
The distribution of letters in English words.
Meet the Forgotten Women of the Flemish Golden Age
At the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, a new exhibition uncovers a long-forgotten 17th-century creative economy.
by Jo Lawson-Tancred
news.artnet.com/art-world/me...
warm from move make more hot
Reposting for the sensible crowd who do other things at the weekend, my latest interactive thing. Quite pleased with this map.
Thank you! I'm really pleased with this one.
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?
They look so cool!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
The Sarashina Diary: a woman's life in 11th-century Japan, by Takasue no Musume, ed/trans by Sonja Arntzen and Ito Moriyuki (2018)
web.english.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-l…
cupblog.org/2018/04/03/qa-…
#InternationalWomensDay
The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (1857, online at A Celebration of Women Writers)
digital.library.upenn.edu/women/seacole/…
#InternationalWomensDay
The 18th-century petitions of Belinda Sutton, an ex-slave, for reparations: earlymodernnotes.wordpress.com/2017/03/29/wom… #PowerOfPetitioning #InternationalWomensDay
Some posts for #InternationalWomensDay ...
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself (1831; electronic edition by Documenting the American South, 2000)
docsouth.unc.edu/neh/prince/pri…
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I haven't even tried to look at this one on a phone. The software is supposed to be mobile friendly but some things are... a bit much.
I've used my London Lives datasets of 18th-century St Clement Danes pauper removal orders and settlement exams to make a new interactive map mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/cdr… #18thc
If you want your campaign to be remembered in 100 years time, don't worry that contemporaries hate you and that other respectable crowd is much more popular, and remember: crime pays. Set fire to things, assault a few police officers, chuck some acid around. The future will love you.
I've known this painting for quite a long time (I 😍 the series of WW2 paintings Dunbar made) but I didn't know any of that!
Oh, I remember them well. I *think* I originally suggested the idea, but Ralph was the one who made them happen.
He was on a panel at a conference; it was probably like a 30 second comment or answer to a question. I mean, I'm not wild about VCs airing their pet peeves in public, but it's a non-story being bigged up by the G, not something that's a real issue or getting anywhere near policy any time soon.
Reminds me of Swift’s Modest Proposal.
The best records.
As it's the start of #WomensHistoryMonth today, your reminder that there are LOADS of women who were active in archaeology, history and heritage @beyondnotables.bsky.social database! beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page
Celebrate Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant the way it was supposed to be - reading about medieval Welsh and Irish legal manuscripts and the people who used them 🏴 #medievalsky #skystorians #epoch23
Out now @epoch-history.bsky.social issue 23
www.epoch-magazine.com/post/a-begin...
As it always is throughout the month of March, Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is freed from its usual paywall and available for all to explore.
If you liked this, Wikimedia Commons has a Welsh People With Sheep category. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...
