Dr Sarah Flew

As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️

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Photography Unique gifts, jewellery and books inspired by London and the museum's collections.

Just fallen down a rabbit hole. London Museum sells prints of old photos of London… shop.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/...

His work on philanthropy was so important to my PhD. And I was lucky enough to be on a pub quiz team with Frank at a conference - the quiz was obviously about the history of philanthropy!

Painting of a young child with curly hair, wearing a red cape and white dress, set against a muted background. The expression is calm, evoking innocence.

Work of the Week!
Ruby, c.1908-9 by Thomas Cooper Gotch

This may be a portrait of Ruby Bone, a Newlyn girl, who was aged four in the 1911 census. However, the title could quite easily be symbolic, referring to the girl’s striking
red hair, rosy cheeks and red cape.

Autumn

Autumn https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-atkinson-grimshaw/autumn

Just booked my tickets for the Julia Margaret Cameron lecture on Tuesday www.britishinindia.org.uk/zoom-lecture...

The front page of the Daily Graphic newspaper published Saturday 25 August, 1917, featuring portraits of 'Women in the Order of the British Empire', including Lady Byron, the honourable Mrs Alfred Lyttelton, Her Majesty the Queen.

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Black and white image showing a person helping another put on a glove. The glove is open, filled with water, as one hand slides in.

We are delighted to be partnering with @hunterianmuseum.bsky.social at The Royal College of Surgeons of England in our research on hands, craft and haptic skill in the nineteenth century!

Stay tuned for news about our collaboration and how to get involved!

Illustration by William Morris from The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, London, 1895. #booksky #artsky

Very much a legacy of empire. The Pattles' wealth, influence and complex family formation were rooted in and sustained by the East India Company and its extractions.

Vue du canal Saint-Martin, 1870, by Alfred Sisley, British landscape artist, died #OTD 1899; a founding figure of French Impressionism, he painted en plein air with Monet & Renoir.
Musée d’Orsay

Episode 79. Charitable Giving in Victorian Britain — Red Heaven Oral History Archive Dr Simon Machin in conversation with Dr Sarah Flew about her 2025 book Charitable Giving in Victorian Britain : The Legacy of Samuel Loyd Jones which provides an unusually deep insight into mid-Vi...

Delighted to have the opportunity to talk about C19th philanthropy in the Red Heaven history podcast - www.redheavenproject.com/episodes/vic...
See www.redheavenproject.com for all 81 episodes

Well this looks very interesting!

An Artist Visits Stonehenge in 1573 and Paints a Charming Watercolor Painting of the Ancient Ruins The purpose of the monumental druidical structure known as Stonehenge has been lost to us, but many theories abound, “from the rational to the irrational to the magical.” On the magical end of the sca...

An Artist Visits Stonehenge in 1573 and Paints a Charming Watercolor Painting of the Ancient Ruins

Colin Ford obituary Historian, broadcaster and museum director who was the founding head of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford

Fascinating obit for Julia Margaret Cameron expert
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I'm talking online about Lord Overstone's philanthropy to international causes (famine, conflict and extreme weather events) in the late C19th

Two children in white dresses stand in a grassy garden holding paper lanterns. White flowers and other glowing lanterns surround them

John Singer Sargent was born #OnThisDay in 1856 🎈

He worked on one of his most famous works for a few minutes each evening when the light was right. He started it in 1885 and continued in summer 1886.

'Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose' by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) 📷 Tate

Print in black and white featuring a line of dark figures working shoveling snow under skyscraper buildings

British-US printmaker Clare Leighton, #Snow Shovellers, #NewYork, 1929 #WomensArt

Christmas jigsaw completed! Blimey that was tricky because of the mirror imaging…

Six arch shaped stained glass artworks, each featuring a different image of a bird, plant or animal in individual colours

UK based stained glass artist Harriet Love #Womensart.

The Boxing Day jigsaw has commenced 🎄

A Victorian Christmas card of various birds in a tree together with some lovely golden lace framing it. Some holly is visible at the bottom of the tree. One of the birds is a robin who absolutely wouldn't tolerate all these other birds getting into its territory, but maybe they've put their burning hatred for the rest of birdkind aside for the season.

Merry Christmas from all of us at Buckinghamshire Archives!

We hope your day is full of joy, laughter, and several mysterious birds appearing in your Christmas tree, no doubt eager to learn more about local history.

The 12 films of Christmas: filmmakers on their festive favourites It’s a time for sharing, so in a spirit of goodwill to all cinephiles, a dozen directors, including Guillermo del Toro, Wes Anderson, Alice Rohrwacher, Luna Carmoon and Steven Soderbergh, choose their favourite Christmas films.

It’s a time for sharing, so in a spirit of goodwill to all cinephiles, a dozen directors, including Guillermo del Toro, Wes Anderson, Alice Rohrwacher, Luna Carmoon and Steven Soderbergh, choose their favourite Christmas films

A collage of papers colored with watercolor and bodycolor depicting a sprig of holly against an ink black ground.

Mary Delany, Ilex Aquifolium - Holly with berries, 1775, British Museum #merrymerry

Christmas Eve by Stanhope Forbes was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1897. This large painting (1.8m high) shows a band playing outside the Dock Inn in Dock Street, at the foot of Chapel Street in Penzance, with the parish church of St Mary's in the background.

Clerkenwell explosion - Wikipedia

#OTD Christmas Eve 1867 Lord Overstone donated £20 to the Clerkenwell Explosion Fund - following an explosion on 13 December 1867 to aid a prisoner escape from Clerkenwell Prison which killed 12 and wounded 120 in neighbouring houses en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerken...

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

A painting of a reindeer pulling a person through the ice on a sledge. Based on a stuffed reindeer and sleigh given to King Charles XI of Sweden in 1694.

David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl, Reindeer with sleigh (ackja), 1671, Oil on canvas, 224 x 348 cm (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm) #earlymodern #snow 🗃️

A view through trees to the city of Durham in the distance under light snow. The trees frame the distant centre point, which is the cathedral

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 22
Durham Cathedral
Artist: SRBadmin

A Dickens Christmas
”God bless us, everyone!”
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, published #OTD 1843.
British Library