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Independent scholar. Eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Currently researching the life of Charles Francis Greville. ‘The Changing Fortunes of a British Aristocratic Family, the Campbells of Cawdor and their Welsh Estates’ pub. Boydell, 2019.
Medieval tomb chest with figure of a woman painted in yellow and red colours of the family.
Delightful Ricardian tomb to Maud, wife of Sir Thomas Harcourt, dated to ca. 1394 at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire. I wonder what poetry she listened to and what music she enjoyed in those far off troubled days? #TombTuesday
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"The actors Michael Palin, Stephen Fry and Joanna Lumley are among 21 well-known figures calling on Keir Starmer to drop plans to weaken human rights law and instead “take a principled stand” for torture victims, on the eve of a crucial European summit."
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
BREAKING NEWS: Sheringham Town Council have just voted 6-5 to withdraw support for the planned demolition of their now nationally famous Bus Shelter!
A crucial victory for the local protesters who’ve staged a remarkable 8 day occupation of the shelter.
People power for modern heritage ✊🏻
Israel 🇮🇱 seizes UN territory in the illegally occupied East Jerusalem 🇵🇸
Under the pretext of ‘unpaid taxes’ when the UN is exempt from taxes
‘Soldiers’ remove the UN flag & replace it with an 🇮🇱 flag
The compound now an 🇮🇱 settlement
An act of war
Expel 🇮🇱 from the UN now.
Color photograph of a blue jay perched on a branch in amongst brush, surrounded by twigs and branches, with sunlit greenery blurred behind
Looking a couple of weeks back into William Kain State Park for this #BirdOfTheDay shot, along the theme of #SideViews, a blue jay sitting in the hedgerow, watching the world go by 🦉🐦
#Photography #Birds #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin #ColorADay #BlueTue
Gemma Frisius, influential Dutch mathematician, cartographer, born #OTD 1508; acclaimed maker of mathematical instruments, astrolabes, astronomical rings & globes; pioneer of triangulation in surveying.
Portrait by Maarten van Keemskerck, c. 1540
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Annunciation, in a charming Flemish domestic-ecclesiastical interior, 1480. By Aelbrecht Bouts, whose day is today.
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Terracotta group depicting the goddess of love Aphrodite and her son, the child Eros. Aphrodite is standing, her left elbow leaning on a pillar to her left, her right hand lying by her side, both hands grasping folds of her himation (cloak) which has been pulled up over her head as a veil. She's wearing a low polos (hat) on her head, and her centrally parted wavy hair falls loose to her shoulders. The diminutive winged Eros is standing with crossed legs on top of the pillar, leaning against his mother's shoulder, naked apart from a low polos (hat). Composed of coarse light brown clay with a white slip coating; pigments include red on the hair of Aphrodite and Eros, rose-madder on Aphrodite's himation, blue on her right shoe and Eros' wings, and yellow on Aphrodite's polos.
This really lovely molded polychrome terracotta depicts the goddess Aphrodite and her winged little son, Eros. Her himation (cloak) is pulled over her head in a veil, covering her polos hat (Eros has a tiny polos as well). 🏺 1/
Abt. 300-100 BCE, from Boeotia, East Greece, or Asia Minor. 🤷♂️ 📸 me
“Airgraph Christmas Greetings sent to R.W.G. by servicemen from Aber-erch (?) on active service in the Middle East”
"From the papers of the Rev. Richard Wynne-Griffith B.A. of Llangybi (1873-1954)."
BMSS/32368-32372 1943-1944
#TombTuesday 🥳 At the majestic Coetan Arthur #Neolithic chambered tomb on St David's Head, #Pembrokeshire in October 2022, among springs & outcrops.
Looking forward to returning this week. 📷 October 2022
Neat hand!
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Page from the parish register of Leyton, St Mary showing the earliest baptism entries recorded for the parish, from 1575/76.
From 450 years ago, the earliest baptism entries recorded in the parish register of Leyton St Mary, beginning in 1575/76. #ArchiveAdventCalendar #Nativity @arascot.bsky.social
09.12.2025 08:22 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Johann Winckelmann, pioneer German art historian, archaeologist, Hellenist, born #OTD 1717; author of landmark work on History of Ancient Art (1764); led Enlightenment Neoclassicism & influenced Goethe, Lessing, Robert Adam.
Portrait by Anton von Maron 1768
Schlossmuseum, Klassik Stiftung Weimar
This is just stupendous...
08.12.2025 21:46 — 👍 67 🔁 19 💬 6 📌 2
Acicular crystals of light green wavellite forming intergrown balls on a dark grey matrix. The balls to wavellite resemble limes.
Happy #MineralMonday y'all! Today I got a piece of Wavellite from Arkansas. It is sadly not lime flavored...
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Wall Clock, so-called Plate Clock c. 1661 Gilded silver, amethyst, jasper, turquoises, wax (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
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Here’s a rarity in the Roman world: a mosaic portrait. Made of extremely small tesserae - opus vermiculatum - it depicts a staid young woman, almost matronly. Her dark hair is parted in the middle and we can see a complicated braided bun at the back of her head, since this image is in 3/4 view. She’s wearing a pearl necklace, and pearl and gold earrings, identifying this as from the Julio-Claudian period. She was found in the floor of a cubiculum (bedroom) of the Casa della Matrona Ignota, Pompeii. Julian-Claudian era (27 BC - 68 CE). Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Napoli (MANN inv. 124666)
This mosaic portrait of a Roman woman from #Pompeii is a real rarity. The tesserae are quite small, allowing for a painterly effect - we can even see that her pearl necklace and pearl and gold earrings are Julio-Claudian in design. 🏺 1/
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN)
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On this day in 1880 a French Jewish woman was born. Arrested with her sister on the 6 Jan 1944, they were deported to Drancy transit camp and then on the 9 Jan 1944 to Auschwitz where they were murdered on the 16 Feb 1944. Her name was Cécile d'Hondt
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Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
The remains of Gresham castle photographed with a regular camera and how it looks with a LiDar drone camera.
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Day 1257 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and asking for a friend
How many is too many, when sharing photos of robins? 🤗❤️🤔 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
Very soft porn ad 1911
07.12.2025 22:08 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A manuscript depicting St Nicholas standing over a tub with three young boys inside who he has resurrected, set within the letter B on a page.
St Nicholas, shown here resurrecting three boys from a pickling tub, became known for genorosity and protecting children.
Such stories shaped Europe’s Sinterklaas, which evolved into Santa Claus and eventually, Father Christmas. 🎅
MS. Douce 51 fol. 069v
#MedievalMonday
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1607- 1669)
The Girl in the Hat (The Jewish Bride) (The Girl within the Picture) 1641
Aerial view of the Acropolis of Athens, situated on a rocky hill overlooking the city. The Parthenon, with its partially preserved columns and ruins, stands at the center. Other classical structures, including the Erechtheion and the Propylaea, are visible nearby. Below the Acropolis, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, a semicircular stone theater, is nestled into the hillside. The surrounding area is a mix of greenery and densely packed modern buildings, showing the contrast between ancient history and contemporary Athens.
For #AncientSiteSunday this fabulous aerial photo of the Acropolis at #Athens - a site I would love to be right now!
📷 Christos Kapoulas
#Greece
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Cambridgeshire Archives has bought The Terrier of John Chettoe's Property in Chesterton from a private owner in South Africa. The document offers a snapshot of life in an 18th century village which is now a suburb of Cambridge. 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Gangster diplomacy from country run by ZioNazi mafia.
06.12.2025 20:15 — 👍 23 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 5Welcome to Itiner-e – The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads- the most detailed open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire ... Itiner-e allows you to view, query and download roads. itiner-e.org #skystorians 🗃️#roman
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On this day in 1884, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 7 May 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt and then on the 9 May 1942 to Sobibór where she was murdered. Her name was Irena Guttmannová
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