Claribella

PLEASE DO NOT ASK STAFF WHERE DRACULA’S GRAVE IS THERE ISN’T ONE.

Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.

Bit late this time, but Wedding Present for me

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Sisters & Kylie

Neneh Cherry & Ofra Haza

Front view of a black Victorian mourning dress with a high collar and long sleeves, fitted closely through the bodice and flaring into a floor-length skirt. The bodice fastens with a row of large, shiny black buttons and features a pointed waistline. Beaded embellishments adorn the sleeve cuffs and the hem of the bodice, from which hang black beaded tassels. The skirt is gathered and full, with a wide pleated section at the hem. Displayed on a mannequin against a grey gradient background, the dress appears to be made of a lustrous fabric, possibly silk or satin.

This silk mourning dress, c.1876, was designed for the strict rituals of Victorian grief. Made of black silk, it has beaded cuffs, tassel trim, and a pleated skirt. Decoration was permitted, but only in black.

The Charlottes & Cud

Sonic Youth only

Stone Roses & Tracy Chapman

A Mind of My Own Check out this great listen on Audible.com. 'This is a book about being raised as a feral, motherless child; starting work at 17; immortalising several of this country’s most endearing catchphrases; t...

As a treat to myself after a difficult week, I've been listening to the autobiography of the talented @kathyburke.bsky.social. Witty, perceptive, funny and honest. Love it ❤️

Listen to A Mind of My Own by Kathy Burke on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0F449MVN...

House of Love & 14 Iced Bears

My flatmate in Croydon called them Cheese Eaters

Morrissey & Bananarama

The same thought has crossed my mind. Nursing elderly parents jointly with my brother: late 70s/early 80s. Dad has advanced Alzheimers, Mum is his prime carer. Old age can be heartbreaking 💔

Aztec Camera & Voice of the Beehive

Fear no more: #1925Club Virginia Woolf in 1927, aged 45. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf: The Definitive Edition, edited by G Patton Wright, introduction by Angelica Garnett. Vintage Books, 1992 (1925). Oh! thought Cl…

'Mrs Dalloway' by Virginia Woolf, reviewed for the #1925Club. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-mrs

Untypical Girls

Phillis Wheatley, the first Black nature poet | The Observer Enslaved as a child, the 18th-century writer became the first published Black woman – and a pioneer of nature poetry whose legacy still inspires

'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'

Tracy Chapman & Jane Wiedlin

The Sugarcubes & Tanita Tikaram

31 years ago today

Manic Street Preachers at Cardiff Astoria, 20th October 1994

Photos by Owen Davies

#manicstreetpreachers #astoria #caerdydd #cymru #cardiff #wales #cardiffmusichistory

English embroiderer and Pre-Raphaelite artist's model Jane Morris was born #OnThisDay in 1849. It is believed that the embroidery of intertwined floral sprays for this c. 1878 blue silk bag with a metal mount was designed and worked by Morris. V&A collection. #fashionhistory

Illustration by Mervyn Peake from an edition of the tales of the Brothers Grimm. It shows a child in a creepy, gnarly wood and she is looking back over her shoulder as if she has realised something is following her.

"[Kipling] told me that in his own part of Sussex he had noticed a sharp division between benevolent lands and tracts of the countryside which seemed maleficent. 'There is a wood, he told me, 'which is full of a sense of ferocity and evil, secretive and menacing.'"
- R T Hopkins
#Hookland #Kipling

The Associates

Soft Cell

A few new gothic-y pieces for October 🖤🖤🖤

#mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #beautifulbizarre

Yazoo

Culture Club

Front full length view of a pale green silk sleeveless dress with a sheer gold overlay. It is embellished with ribbon work flowers and gold lace

A detail of the pale green dress showing the three dimensional ribbon work embellishments and gold lace

I grew up with Cicely Mary Barker’s flower fairies books and used to attempt to fashion wardrobes for wooden peg dolls out of leaves. This is a true wood nymph’s dress, c1918 Lucile, ethereal layers and embellishments @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social #kelvingroveartgallery #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

The Stranglers