Mark Baxter

What is the story of The Beatles really about? The Beatles changed our understanding of the world – a new episode of their Anthology documentary sheds new light on their story.

"To revisit Anthology today is to ask not only what The Beatles mean to the world, but what the world now means to The Beatles. Perhaps that is the secret to their lasting power."
What is the story of The Beatles really about?
www.bigissue.com/culture/musi...

The 100 best female footballers in the world 2025 Aitana Bonmatí has been voted the best female player on the planet by our panel of 127 experts ahead of Mariona Caldentey and Alessia Russo

The 100 best women's footballers in the world 2025
Aitana Bonmatí has been voted the best women's player on the planet, with Hannah Hampton and Leah Williamson in the top 10 www.theguardian.com/football/ng-...

Jamilla Okubo (b. 1993, North Carolina, U.S.), Untitled II, 2022
Mixed media and acrylic on canvas

Jane Clatworthy (b. 1966, Lancashire, England), The Last Echo of Feeling, 2020
Oil on linen

Karen Offutt (b. 1967, Texas, U.S.), Yes, No, Maybe?, 2021
Oil on canvas

Louise Bourgeois’s Life Was as Monumental as Her Art Writing the first comprehensive biography of a major artist could prove daunting, but taking on Bourgeois's long life in art might be called heroic.

“My credo is that I hope I will live long enough to say most of the things I want to say. That’s it.”
Louise Bourgeois’s Life Was as Monumental as Her Art hyperallergic.com/louise-bourg...

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

Painted portrait of a young Black woman, head and shoulders facing left with hair tied back and wearing a silky striped top, all against a green background

Portrait of Frances Eaton
(mid 19th c) by British painter Joanna Boyce. The sitter was a Jamaican-born Londoner & artists´ model for the Pre-Raphaelites who moved to England as a child, and appeared in a number of paintings #womensart

Leonardo da Vinci’s Largest Collection of Drawings and Writings is Now Completely Digitized Want to tap into some of da Vinci's genius? Now you can—online.

Leonardo da Vinci’s largest collection of drawings and writings is now completely digitized. Bookmark this - you'll want to return to this again and again.
Story: mymodernmet.com/leonardo-da-...
The Codex Atlanticus archive:
codex-atlanticus.ambrosiana.it#/Overview

Pearly kings and queens of London in their 150th year – photo essay Photographer Owen Harvey explores belonging and identity in his work, and as the pearlies reach a major milestone, he decided to capture their traditions and discuss their future

“...an enduring working-class tradition that I would never want to disappear, it was born out of community and the responsibility of looking after those around you who need help.”
Pearly kings and queens of London in their 150th year – photo essay www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review – dark tales with a sting This collection of macabre stories set across England explores class, hierarchy and the enduring nature of inequality

"The writers and their protagonists are in conversation with the past, with the land, with the polarising and sometimes toxic nature of national identity."
Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review – dark tales with a sting www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Step into Christmas…with @moseleyb13mag.bsky.social! The December/January edition is out this weekend and available at Saturday’s Moseley Farmers’ Market, with local shops to follow. ❄️🎄

Vintage trader at Birmingham's Rag Market retires after 60 years Paul Canning, who sold vintage clothing, says he only missed two days of work in 60 years.

I bought a lot of vintage clothes from this gentlemen's stall starting in my late teens and was glad to find he was still at the Rag Market in recent years. Bostin to know he served The Slits and Alice Cooper as well. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Mind-blowing' response to Stourbridge bands' murals Miles Hunt and other musicians welcome murals by Cal that have brought music fans to Stourbridge.

This is excellent. Stourbridge is such a great music town. Stuffies, Neds, PWEI... I hope Robert Plant gets a mural too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ada Lovelace died #OTD 1852. Recognized as a pioneering computer programmer, Ada wrote the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine. Hear her story in our Women and Science Podcast: tinyurl.com/4fh5tpe8 #history #science #women #computers #computing

£15,000 prize launched for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds The Footnote x Counterpoints prize is intended to uncover new literary voices whose work reflects the experiences of migration

£15,000 prize launched for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds
The Footnote x Counterpoints prize is intended to uncover new literary voices whose work reflects the experiences of migration www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

The long and winding road: Stuart Maconie on why our opinions about the Beatles keep changing Fans and historians have spent 60 years debating what the band means – and which member is greatest. Will the returning Anthology project and Sam Mendes’s planned biopics create new arguments?

"...these projects may encourage us to see the Beatles not as fixed historical figures but as subjects whose meaning continues to evolve with each retelling."
The long and winding road: Stuart Maconie on why our opinions about the Beatles keep changing www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

YouTube video by Nick Drake - Topic Day Is Done

We lost Nick Drake 51 years ago today 🍂
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VNf...

Official NASA portrait of Col. Nicole Aunapu Mann, USMC. She is wearing a full white Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit with red and blue accents, American flag patch on her left shoulder, and NASA meatball logo on her right. She smiles confidently at the camera, one gloved hand resting on her gold-visored helmet, with the U.S. flag as backdrop.

Col. Nicole Mann (USMC) is a pilot & NASA astronaut. She is the first #NativeAmerican woman to go into space & to go on a spacewalk.

US Naval Academy & Stanford grad (engineering), she is of Wailaki heritage (Round Valley Indian Tribes).

#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #WomenInSTEM #AstronautEnvy🚀

Amy Sherald (b. 1973, Columbus, Georgia, U.S.), fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like, 2015
Oil on canvas

Monochrome photograph of a white woman standing over a desk with reel to reel recording equipment

Delia Derbyshire (1937- 2001) UK musician/composer, pioneer of electronic music, working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1960s, she created the arrangement of the theme music for UK science-fiction TV series #DoctorWho
#WomensArt

Sounds lovely, to capture that joy. I think I’ve got one photo of me on my old bike, a silver Grifter.

This is…brilliant.

Sure! Go for it.

I love the sound of the tidal pipes and the uni astro nerds!

The first episode of 'Doctor Who' – “An Unearthly Child” – premiered on this day 62 years ago! (November 23, 1963)

#OTD #OnThisDay #DoctorWhoDay #DoctorWho #AnUnearthlyChild

Krush get SOTN, with PSB as runner-uppers. Thanks for another top show. Hope to see you all again soon. #forgotten80s

Yeah, the freedom of being out on your bike or board - free - and just searching for a good time. Beautiful.

Sounds like you had it all! I loved my skateboards! Still have the one I got for my 16th birthday!

I know! Empty decaying factories and the canal were the choice places to hang out!