St Teilo’s church, Llandeilo. Memorial to Cecil, Baroness Dynevor
Women’s History Month in Visual Arts~
Judith Leyster (1609-1660)
Dutch Golden Age painter
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Two Children with a Cat / 1629 / Oil on canvas / 24”x20”
#womenshistorymonth #5womenartists #womeninthearts #womenartists
Vasily Kandinsky, Small Worlds II (Kleine Welten II) from Small Worlds (Kleine Welten), 1922 #museumarchive #vasilykandinsky
He’s utterly repugnant.
A one ‘man’ plague.
#Alphabetchallenge #WeekJForJuxtoposition
From new to old at The John Rylands Library
Newly restored online: Leonardo da Vinci's Notebook, also known as the Codex Arundel (Arundel MS 263), written in his characteristic mirror-writing with diagrams, drawings, brief texts, and personal notes.
You can consult the entire manuscript online now: searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...
Hey look, some real journalism about AI datacentres
"But a Guardian investigation has shown the money isn’t necessarily real, the datacentres may not be new, the jobs are unaccounted for – and the supercomputer site 12 miles north of London is still a scaffolding yard."
Welsh conservatives? 😂😂😂😂
Prof. #JohnMearsheimer: Between 1971 and 2021, the US murdered 38 million people.
I thought Americans killing kids in schools was normal behaviour…
Have a war…enhance profits….isn’t that the way with capitalism?
In the 1790s a London woman named Eliza Denyer developed a modest reputation as a restorer of medieval manuscripts. She was forgotten by scholars and, in one case, her restorations were deliberately replaced by a man’s. I recovered her story & tracked all her known work here: tinyurl.com/2ktztx2e
Our cat has resigned until an apology has been issued
St. Margaret of #Antioch 1634 Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664) A very popular female saint in the middle ages.
Joan of Arc believed Margaret spoke to her. (National Gallery, London)
Sophie Magdalena Scholl, a German heroine against the Nazi regime.
This International Women’s Day, we remember the sacrifices made by Sophie Scholl and the White Rose, as a statement against fascism.
#IWD #History #WWII
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Today is International Women's Day and we're celebrating Mary Buckland! Buckland was a naturalist and illustrator who's work is being celebrated in our current special exhibition, Breaking Ground.
This photo is one of our most recent acquisitions and was donated by a descendant of the Bucklands.
@zarahsultana.bsky.social : "American planes are leaving from UK soil to bomb Iranians. We are involved, [Starmer] is gaslighting the nation & he has not learnt the lessons from 2003, that when we get involved in the USs illegal wars, there are consequences for the rest of the world to pay"
Not at all surprising
I never watch Question Time or the BBC if i can help it, but im so sorry i missed this episode!!
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The bastard is making life end in Iran
My wife accused me of having an affair with someone from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
I said 'How could you say such a thing?'
And killing people
That really is sick
Room full of a traveler’s prizes — maps, globes, books, textiles, & A+ suspended armadillo. By Jan van der Heyden, who had many strings to his bow, and whose day is today.
Luxemburg and Eleanor Marx…two great women
The beautifully carved south transept doorway of St. Mary’s Church at Beverley in Yorkshire. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Beverley #Yorkshire
Dam in Amsterdam with focus on the glorious new Town Hall, practically glowing in the sunlight. Painted in 1668 by Jan van der Heyden, born OTD 1637.
