Some amazing rag rugs many designed by Winnifred Nicholson on display at the Hub at Sleaford nice trip yesterday with @isochesh.bsky.social @leahww.bsky.social @goldfinch.design
08.08.2025 08:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@jimchesh.bsky.social
Associate Prof. Gothic Revival, Tennyson, stained glass ; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2371-2142; Co-Director http://www.lincolnconservation.co.uk; Honorary Secretary, Tennyson Society https://tennysonsociety.com/
Some amazing rag rugs many designed by Winnifred Nicholson on display at the Hub at Sleaford nice trip yesterday with @isochesh.bsky.social @leahww.bsky.social @goldfinch.design
08.08.2025 08:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Conference Announcement: Tennyson 2026: Ecology, Landscape, Environment - cfp and details attached. Victorians scholars please circulate @lindakhughes.bsky.social @victorianreview.bsky.social @victorianpoetry.bsky.social @thevicsoc.bsky.social @victorianmasc.bsky.social @jofvictculture.bsky.social
07.08.2025 14:40 β π 12 π 10 π¬ 0 π 1My first no dig allotment bed all made with recycled topsoil / deck boards thanks to folk in the village @isochesh.bsky.social @leahww.bsky.social @lyndaskipper.bsky.social
04.08.2025 13:35 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Annual leave + making plum jam + Test Match Special = Jim happy - hope you are all having a good day tooβ¦ @isochesh.bsky.social @uolconservation.bsky.social @leahww.bsky.social @lin-conservation.bsky.social
31.07.2025 13:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Nope relax - was just wonderingβ¦
09.07.2025 14:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yup thatβs right Lynda got it ( via Phillip) as wellβ¦ when are you back?
09.07.2025 13:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Canβt see it xxx but Lynda knew- hummingbird hawk moth good name xxxxxx
09.07.2025 08:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Aaah spot on thanks Lynda aptly named as hummingbird thing is definitely thereβ¦
09.07.2025 08:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@isochesh.bsky.social @leahww.bsky.social @lyndaskipper.bsky.social
09.07.2025 06:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Can anyone identify our interesting visitor? Only clue is they like verbenaβ¦
09.07.2025 05:59 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Looking good Leah - wish I had some leeks going love veg that go right into winter β¦.
08.07.2025 17:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Very smart i think @leahww.bsky.social
06.07.2025 07:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I have only had my allotment a few weeks and my beans will be delighted ( can just about see them from the bedroom) we also donβt have a tapβ¦
06.07.2025 07:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0When you have not had any rain for months a water butt is a beautiful thingβ¦ @isochesh.bsky.social @lyndaskipper.bsky.social @lin-conservation.bsky.social
06.07.2025 07:03 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0Fantastic exhibition by our third year Conservation students still on if you can get to Lincoln otherwise here con3057-2425-ba3conservationexhibition2025.coursework.lincoln.ac.uk
10.06.2025 08:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Back at Doddington Hall today, for the first time since passing my #PhD viva, to give our @uolconservation.bsky.social postgraduate students a personalised, end of year tour of this very special country house β€οΈ
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Behind the Glass: a Conservation Exhibition by final year BA(Hons) Conservation of Cultural Heritage students
ποΈ 2-13 June
π University of Lincoln
ποΈ No booking necessary
π· Free entry
π lncn.ac/behindglass
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Recovering at the excellent White Horse in Lincolnβ¦.
05.05.2025 11:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks for coming @garydrawnsley.bsky.social good subject matter for a Lincoln talk @lin-conservation.bsky.social @lincolngothic1.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social @isochesh.bsky.social @uolconservation.bsky.social
05.05.2025 10:46 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0With @isochesh.bsky.social visiting Tinasheβs excellent exhibition lincolnartscentre.co.uk/event/commun... take a look if youβre in Lincoln @uolconservation.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social @leahww.bsky.social @lincolncons.bsky.social @laurafg.bsky.social @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social
16.04.2025 10:57 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 2 π 1On 5 May, Jim Cheshire, LSHH cultural historian and Associate Professor will give a lecture on Alfred Tennysonβs fluctuating relationship with the Pre-Raphaelites as part of this year's Festival of History. Reserve seats here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tennyson-a... @jimchesh.bsky.social
10.04.2025 10:24 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tennyson-a... Free lecture on May Bank Holiday Monday for anyone interested in Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelites @lincolngothic1.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social @lin-conservation.bsky.social
10.04.2025 09:29 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025
University of Huddersfield #skystorians ποΈwww.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMO953/m...
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Award - Disruption and Diversity: Understanding the Impact of Alexander the Great Through the Material Culture of the Hellenistic World- University of Leeds - School of Languages, Cultures and Societies #skystorians ποΈwww.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP216/a...
05.04.2025 07:00 β π 4 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1PhD studentship: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Award β The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage
University of Leeds - School of Philosophy, Religion & History of Science #skystorians ποΈwww.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP178/p...
A screenshot from Microsoft Word, showing hundreds of pages of text and images neatly aligned, at 20% magnification.
And just like that, 9.5 years of research and writing was over.
Onto the Viva!
#PhD #PhDLife #AcademicSky #SkyStorians
Figure in the large green cloak holding a glass with green liquid in it. To the top left the word Mephisto
Happy birthday to Irish artist Harry Clarke, born #onthisday in Dublin in 1889 (on #StPatricksDay no less). Here he is in a self-portrait as an absinthe drinking Mephistopheles from Goethe's Faust.
More in our essay "Harry Clarkeβs Looking Glass" - publicdomainreview.org/essay/harry-... #OTD
A Reform UK official, who described Hitler's leadership style as "brilliant" and said Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine was "legitimate", is now in charge of vetting the party's candidates www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
16.03.2025 14:15 β π 445 π 217 π¬ 41 π 20Purchased as part of the OppΓ© Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund 1996
John Flaxman, The Lovers Surprised, 1807
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1132559
Purchased 1988
Peter De Wint, Scene on the Beach at Ventnor, 1816
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1127308