Flynn Allott

Thank you, Peter!

Yes! My other half picked the quinces, and later that day I knelt!

Vodka and membrillo at ours!

Poster: detail from Lincoln's Inn stained glass window showing palatial buildings, with a forest covered landscape beyond. In the foreground are two men in hats and cloaks having a little chat. A dog runs towards them from the right. In the centre of the poster is a black circle containing the following text TEXT: Call for Papers on John Donne and Architecture 13th January 2026 Lincoln College, Oxford Keynote Speaker: Professor Peter McCullough Please send abstract of up to 250 words to Leah Veronese-Clucas (leah.veronese-clucas@univ.ox.ac.uk) & Paul Norris (paul.norris@bnc.ox.ac.uk) by 14th November 2025

Call for Papers John Donne’s Architecture Submission Deadline: 14th November 2025 Event Date: 13th January 2026, Lincoln College, Oxford Keynote Speaker: Professor Peter McCullough. We welcome 150–250 word abstracts for twenty-minute papers relating to any aspect of Donne and architecture from critics and historians of literature, architecture and related fields. Potential topics include (but are not limited to): The use of buildings in rhetoric or the arts of memory. Donne’s metaphorical use of architecture, as well as related disciplines such as geometry, cartography, and visual art. The buildings in which Donne lived, worked and preached (e.g. the Chapel Royal, York House, St Paul’s Cathedral, Lincoln’s Inn Chapel, St Dunstan’s in the West, etc.) and their influence on his life and work. Donne’s encounters with buildings on his travels through Europe. The relationship of literary to architectural form. Please send proposals or enquiries to Leah Veronese-Clucas (leah.veronese-clucas@univ.ox.ac.uk) and Paul Norris (paul.norris@bnc.ox.ac.uk).

Very excited to be running this conference with Paul Norris. Delighted to have @mcculloughp.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. We can't wait to hear your ideas! Please share widely

A good weekend as weekends go

Would that all chatGPT accounts became ‘impacted’

Maybe if we /continue/ to plunge the dagger into our own viscera, perhaps with more vigour, it’ll all be ok

Call for applications - The J.B. Harley Research Fellowships in the History of Cartography

Awards range up to £2000. The closing date for applications is 1st NOVEMBER. 
Apply here:  www.maphistory.info/harley.html

Please forward to others who might be interested.

isn't this a four non blondes lyric?

isn't this a four non blondes lyric?

Learning Greek optatives at the minute and it's mainly consisting of me grinningly mouthing oyoyoyoyoyoyoyoy or eyeyeyeyeyeyey

Eclectic spines from today’s accidentally-two-days-early trip to the book sale at St Mary Magdalene, Oxford

Brilliant selection of quotations here

I have norovirus in Florence; I am consoled for not seeing any of it by sipping water from a The Simpsons Movie Spanish promotional cup

Author's creed

please please please no

yes, quid

Several months in the finishing; many others started and finished since first opening it. To be fair: 👍👍👍👍👍

Significant chance that this fella thinks that the KJV was written by KJ

You have to say: great, great opinions being opined back on Twitter

Beginning to know things…

At the Bode-Museum: 1) a stonework piece by Hans Daucher showing Dürer wrestling with Apelles; 2) evidence that Dürer had a good claim

Me for the next few months: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/pro...

It’s here! Issue 76.2 of #ImagoMundi in print at last! Especially exited about the Forum on machine reading of maps—a great chance to learn the latest on the topic! #maphist

Congrats to Imago Mundi Assistant Editors Tony Cui and @flynnoallott.bsky.social for organising, chairing and presenting a panel on #maphistory at #RSA2025. Just one of many #mappy panels and events happening at the conference this year.

I'll be presenting this on Thomas Fuller from the thesis at RSA in Boston this Thursday at 9am — if you'll be there, and there's space in your program, do come down!

Now all confirmed — I'm v happy to be joining the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (@mpwig.bsky.social) as a Postdoctoral research fellow for the summer — any Berlin friends please shout! I'll be there May-August :)

⚔️🗡️⚔️🗡️ defended him 🗡️⚔️🗡️⚔️🗡️⚔️

Happy bookplate on a book bought from an Austrian Antiquariat

First 4 pages scattered with underlinings and N.Bs, the rest unmarked - bang on!