Richard Barton

#TodayInQueerHistory
Feb 11 (1987)
Mark Ashton, a tireless campaigner for LGBTQ rights and social change, who co-founded Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, volunteered at Switchboard and supported the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, died #OTD.
Here's Mark and others with their iconic banner.

Conrad Felixmüller.

The Agitator (Otto Rühle Speaks).
1920.

Otto Ruhle was a German Marxist in opposition to both the First and Second World Wars, and a founder with along with Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Mehring and others of the group and magazine Internationale.

Honest repair?

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Things that should never be extinguished A prose poem from Umm al-Khair.

Six months since the murder of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen, Vashti publishes a prose poem by his widow Hanady Hathaleen, translated by Kate Greenberg. www.vashtimedia.com/things-that-...

Carpenter Daryl Haines talks about his experience of working with Jones & Fraser on the repair programme at St Mary's, Kenderchurch as a part of The King’s Foundation Buildings Craft Programme.

Stained glass of St Michael holding a spear. He has red, very upright, wings, a green halo and is dressed in silver armour wearing red underneath. His wearing a silver helmet under which his golden hair peeks out.

Was lucky enough to have access into the newly conserved
@friendlesschurches.bsky.social church of St Mary and All Angels, Brownshill, #Gloucestershire, a couple of weeks ago. I was v. pleased with this detail shot of the tricky to photograph west window by Douglas Strachan! #StainedGlassSunday

Cathedral of St Mary, Newcastle Industrial Heritage 2006 Joseph A Nuttgens Ship building - the vessel towering over the worker’s terraced housing as they leave work.

Cathedral of St Mary, Newcastle

Industrial Heritage 2006
Joseph A Nuttgens

Ship building - the vessel towering over the worker’s terraced housing as they leave work.

#StainedGlassSunday

Thanks Heidi. I used to be a curate at St George’s Taunton where Tom carved the stations of the cross. Your stuff on Bluesky is amazing!

HiHeidi, I think the rood group is C20th, carved by Tom Preator.

stained glass window detail showing the full frontal face of a female saint dressed a blue robe that covers her head and a wimple. She carries a sprig of oak and a lamp, and there's Celtic knotwork beneath her.

It's #February! Endless January is done, and Spring is, maybe, just around the corner! It's also #StBrigidsday, and here she is by the Irish master, Harry Clarke, in Castletownsend, #Ireland, with St Brigid's fire and an oak sprig from the tree where she founded her church in Kildare.

Two heads on Gold

Two heads on Gold, 1982
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A red squirrel on the ground. It almost looks like it is in superhero pose with one front paw and one back paw on the ground. The other front and back paws are raised in the air, its head is forward ready to run towards the camera.

What we all need to see is a red squirrel in a power pose.
You're welcome.

Wondrous fox from Maria Strutz.

Three journalists among 11 Palestinians killed in Israel's attacks on Gaza The three journalists worked for a committee supervising Egyptian aid in Gaza and were documenting a newly set-up camp.

The three journalists worked for a committee supervising Egyptian aid in Gaza and were documenting a newly set-up camp.

The McTigue Pyx

Edmundus Thadaeus sacerdos, me fieri fecit 1636

Edmund McTigue priest had me made in 1636.

(Hunt Museum Limerick)

As it's been a kind of porcine day, what with St Anthony of Egypt having his feast, a few more pigs. Here's a sow feeding piglets, a c1900 bench end carving at Beighton, Norfolk.

Beighton: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/beighton/bei...

A black and white illustration. A cat walks by himself through the wet, wild woods.

#WyrdWednesday
“But still I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.”
Rudyard Kipling. The Cat Who Walks by Himself.

Gresham Palace's wrought iron peacock gates, Budapest, Hungary (1901)

Gresham Palace's wrought iron peacock gates, Budapest, Hungary (1901)

11 Jan 1642: Lucius Cary 2nd Viscount Falkland defends himself to House of #Commons against accusations of popery #otd (NPG) Cary’s mother Elizabeth Tanfield Cary #writer had been a prominent convert to #Rome & she’d been disinherited in his favour by her father.

Under a leaden sky, ducks are huddled together on a partially frozen silvery lake surrounded by reeds and bull rushes

‘At the edge of the mere’

Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Winter, 1959)

Our Director, Rachel Morley, talks to Lee (bil) Bilson, head of conservation at Recclesia, about the repairs to St Deiniol's, Worthenbury, Wrexham.

After being called up to serve with the Royal Engineers in WW2, Carel Weight was sent to Italy and had a free hand in choosing his subjects; a time he said was a 'scholarship from the army.' This (1945) depicts a classroom in the University of Perugia.

Print featuring a lighthouse over a stone sea wall under a cloudy sky

'East Pier, Dun Laoghaire (Dublin) - West Pier' by Susan Early, contemporary Architect and Printmaker, currently based in Graphic Studio Dublin #Womensart

"The first fruits unto God". This lovely stained glass panel depicting St Cecilia can be found at St Michael & All Angels, Waterford (Herts). Designed by Harry Clarke in 1921 and made by Karl Parsons in 1929. Its location, directly opposite the main door, makes for a dramatic entrance to the church.

Ratty and mole in underground tunnel holding lanterns in front of a green door. Snowy night. Full moon. Illustration.

Goodnight.
🖼️ The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, illustr. Beverley Gooding.

Brockhampton by Ross, Herefordshire

Fincham, Norfolk, St Martin. The three magi on the eleventh century font. Posted on the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6th.

'The Granary at Charleston,' was painted by Vanessa Bell in 1940, one of the coldest and most severe winters in nearly 50 years.

Section of a stained glass window featuring an image of four birds standing on grass with daisies at by the foot of a person only visible by the bottom of a long gold coloured gown

Florence Camm (1874-1960), UK stained glass artist who was one of the most successful designers her age #WomensArt