Katherine Ibbett

I have never seen this! Going in every lecture thank you

I am sitting in the NG contemplating Philippe de Champaigne’s Richelieu as hordes of French people walk past without the merest glance at him.

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A sign indicating two directions: paintings or toilets

Choose your own adventure

Largely applies to academic books too

Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.

👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.

An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon Reality check …

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The Fish Doorbell — The Fish Doorbell Did you spot a fish? Press the Fish Doorbell! This alerts our lock operator to let the fish through. The Fish Doorbell is in Utrecht, NL.

*bursts in, sweating, out of breath*

“Drop everything, fish doorbell’s back”

visdeurbel.nl/en/

amazing cover for a fascinating moment in time. the advent of containerisation famously ended the London Docklands as actual docks (because container ships are incredibly big and wouldn't be able to travel up the Thames)

“We thought we were living in a politically neutral slave state.”

exactly! not good for you, but good for others. it's a sacrifice!

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/La_Sorbonne._Conf%C3%A9rence_de_M._le_professeur_Bloch._RBA_3%3D_163-1._Pi%C3%A8ce_79.jpg Carte postale / Gustave Bloch (wikipedia)

Le père de Marc Bloch donnant un cours d’histoire romaine à la Sorbonne vers 1910. On remarque les trois jeunes femmes dans l’assistance fort studieuse pré-ordis portables.

(On adore l’idée qu’un éditeur de cartes postales se dise que c’est un bon sujet, à quand un revival)

The Frenchman has been reading about the Khomeini-Khamenei transition. “Il avait même pas fini sa thèse de doctorat! Vous finissez la thèse, ça vous évite d’être dictateur.” In case anyone needs to encourage students over the finish line.

Delphine Seyrig surrounded by feathers

Went to see that great baroque film L’année dernière à Marienbad and now I’m dreaming of a swan feather gown

More cat signal than bat signal, maybe, but definitely superpowered

I have a WhatsApp group of friends from college: one of them just video butt-dialed us and we all answered instantly, an emergency summit of six middle aged women, reading glasses on and ready to go 💕

The little-known commodity fuelling Sudan’s civil war Dependence on gum arabic — the sap from acacia trees — is helping to prolong the world’s worst humanitarian disaster

Once a key ingredient in iron gall ink, too

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The little-known commodity fuelling Sudan’s civil war

so key in early modern interest in Africa

@greenpartyhan.bsky.social

Traversées de la Manche : 119 migrants secourus en mer, au large de la mer du Nord Deux groupes de personnes tentaient de rejoindre l’Angleterre sur des taxi-boats, un mode opératoire qui consiste à mettre à l’eau des embarcations à l’abri des regards – souvent, sur des cours d’eau à l’intérieur des terres – pour échapper à la surveillance des forces de l’ordre près des principales plages de départ.

Traversées de la Manche : 119 migrants secourus en mer, au large de la mer du Nord

I forget I can just go say hi, but it was a joy!

A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England

this astounding object is rightly getting a lot of attention - if you're interested in what Indigenous American objects are doing in England, @laurenworking.bsky.social's forthcoming book is for you uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...

It’s about time it crossed the Atlantic again I think…

Large deer hide with shell beadwork, made in early 1600s by Algonquian speaking peoples, named for Wahunsenacawh known to the English as Powhatan; first recorded in England in 1638 and now in the Ashmolean museum

On the way to the library I made a little detour for a peek at Powhatan’s mantle - always feels like I should bow

I speak as an ancient

here's to the most elegant and endearing aging process ever seen in an Oxford meeting room

Happy birthday, dear Ozzy! He has brought joy to Bluesky.

Phantasmagoric figure showing a scary demonic bearded face with bat ears and open mouth

Teaching about phantasmagoria this week, so I dug up this 1817 print of a phantasmagoric chimera from my Douce files. Tabs can be pulled to create "extravagant changes of countenance truly diverting"