Allison MacDuffee

In Liverpool, UK.

I hope the results for "best artist" will appear soon.

Can’t get enough of Lord Burlington, William Kent and Chiswick House? Well I think I have the solution!
Come and join me as I give an in-depth tour of Lord Burlington’s Villa and Garden (March 10)

www.dilettanti-art.co.uk/events

Detail from Arabic MS 6, a copy of the Qur'an, with gilt and coloured rulings.

A selection of Arabic manuscripts from the John Rylands Library are now available online via Manchester Digital Collections, including early Qurʿanic manuscripts, richly illuminated muṣḥafs, and rare translated texts.

Learn more about the collection in a new blog post: https://ow.ly/askj50Y65fj

Enjoy!

✨ Opening in just 4 days…
Step into the world of Un/Common People: Folk Culture in Wessex.
From historic folk art to contemporary voices, discover 100+ objects, stories, songs and films that reimagine what it means to be a “commoner” — and how folk culture continues to shape Wessex today.

Italy was very good at architecture in 30s.

Caravaggio’s masterpiece has been installed in our new exhibition Metamorphoses. The story of Narcissus tells of a man who fell in love with his own reflection, a fatal illusion that led to his transformation into a flower.

👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/metamorphoses

snow covered bike lane in Toronto Toronto Bike Lanes So Snow Covered Drivers Not Even Parking In Them.

Toronto Bike Lanes So Snow Covered Drivers Not Even Parking In Them.

c/o @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

My next talk is all about the #Victorian drinking fountain movement. Sounds niche now but it captured the nation from the 1850s and saved thousands of lives by the provision of free, filtered water.
Online THIS Saturday 7 FEB, book via the link
@thevicsoc.bsky.social

The Tuileries Gardens Winter Afternoon

The Tuileries Gardens Winter Afternoon
https://botfrens.com/collections/49/contents/16878

Farm at Montfoucault 2

Farm at Montfoucault 2
https://botfrens.com/collections/49/contents/15552

As the old sing, so the young pipe: bad habits passed from generation to generation in the uproar of a Jan Steen household, 1665. Today is Steen's day.

Took me a moment, but ooof. Latest New Yorker cover.

Happy Black History month! To commemorate I am doing talks at a private New England prep school today and at an independent black book store in Alabama next week. It's like the old abolitionist alliance that gave us emancipation and the Reconstruction Constitution. May we revive that again!

Toronto's oldest Black institution celebrates 200 years | CBC News The small brick church was founded by slaves who fled to Toronto though the Underground Railroad. As the church celebrates its 200th anniversary, Pastor Wendell Gibbs says they hope to continue honour...

Fascinating look at 200-year-old First Baptist Church, Toronto's oldest Black institution: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Geez .... it might trigger an unethical migraine?! One for the books, indeed..... 🙃

At Queen's U Fine Art Library, there was a shelf of giant books called "The Elephants."

Gardens of Italy and atlas of pelvic operations

The oversized book area in uni libraries is always such a potpourri

(Gerstein science library at u of t)

USA folks?

If you take each grandparent and go up the paternal line until you hit an immigrant:
1. Emigr fr small New Hampshire town to Saint John, NB, 19c, econ reasn
2. Emigr fr Orkney UK to Saint John, NB 19c
3. Emigr Yorkshire UK to Toronto, "broken heart."
4. Emigr Hampshire UK to Peru, econ opportunity

Happy #GroundhogDay

#Spike #DogHumor #Winter

Basket of tater tots accompanied by a glass of beer enjoyed during the Tater Tot festivities of 2025

Happy Tater Tot Day!!
(a sadly under-observed sacred Oregon state tradition)

Most of the people who say their ancestors immigrated "the right way" are describing an era when you could basically just show up at the dock

A selection of birds seen in the Dominican Republic

Been on a cheeky holiday. Sun. Sea. #Birds!
Top: vervain #hummingbird - 2nd tiniest bird in the world, 6cm long! WOW!
Mid: Hispaniolan 'pecker, narrow-billed #tody, prairie warb
Bottom: Palm tanager, Antillian bullfinch, Hisp' lizard-cuckoo.
#dominicanrepublic #birding #EastCoastKin #BlueskyMonday

Research Assistant for Humanities, Arts, & Culture The American Academy of Arts and Sciences seek a detail-oriented undergraduate history student to support award-winning historian Jacqueline Jones with research for a 250th anniversary history of the ...

I am looking for a part-time research assistant in the Cambridge (Mass.) area to help with a history of the Academy. Details at bit.ly/4asu0Pr and feel free to DM or email me with questions.

This is horrible.

A beer, a basket of tots: nirvana

Walking the talk. Happy National Tater Tots Day

Humankind was capable of anything, back when we could all talk to one another! But Nimrod's vaulting ambition ruined it all. Tower of Babel by Lucas van Valckenborch, 1594.

My mother-in-law Shirley Campbell Spragge worked on the archival research team for the reconstruction of Ste Marie among the Hurons, located near Midland, Ontario.