Hundred-year reveal: Catalonian chalet confirmed as Gaudí work in centenary year

There's a tiny bit more ice again today.

Toilet Spoon with Bowl in Shape of a Cartouche https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4062

"Serving up history one spoonful at a time" Here's one of ours from Experience Barnsley which was sold by Benjamin Gaunt & Sons Jewelers who were based on May Day Green from 1863 to 1929

10thC Viking longhouse underneath streets of Reykjavik, excavated 2001. Adalstraeti Settlement Exhibition built around it. Earliest preserved house in Iceland, which - according to sagas - first settled from Norway in 874 CE #adalstræti #adalstraeti #settlementexhibitionreykjavík #reykjavik #viking

Bruno Ganz and Peter Falk, Berlin, 1987. Photo by Walter Yablonsky

Bee Hive Hotel, Newcastle, Tyne & Wear. A public house of 1902 by J. Oswald and Sons. Wonderful tiled faience work to ground floor. (Shame about the unfortunate position of the No Entry ⛔️ sign) A Historic England Grade II listed building. #TilesOnTuesday

No light quite like that produced against gathering clouds after a day of sunshine. The pinky-hues drenching the road paving and walls of Pompeii are magical.

🖤 Boo Radley is gone 🖤🖤🖤

Nice article about my book in the latest The Journalist mag. Thanks @markffisher.bsky.social @mschrisbuckley.bsky.social If you can't read the image, the mag is downloadable from the @nujofficial.bsky.social website at www.nuj.org.uk/resource/the....

Frank Auerbach at the LCC Open Air Exhibition, July 1948, Embankment Gardens, London. Photo - Dan Farson.

Backstage at Lindsay Kemp. 1974. Patrick Cargill, Larry Parnes, Lindsay, Danny La Rue, Peter Wyngarde. Photo by Mick Rock

#MosaicMonday takes us into the women's section of the Central Baths of #Herculaneum. This is the changeroom or #apodyterium with a splendid ribbed vault (for her pleasure) and a black and white #mosaic depicting a tentacled #triton and some marine life, all from the early C1 CE. #AncientBluesky 🏺

I've observed this in Focus Groups too, even with a good Moderator, which is why I find it so disappointing that the Govt is so heavily reliant on Focus Groups. (I was a Quantitative Research Exec who often observed/undertook Qualitative Research for particular studies)

If I understand correctly... the word "taboo" is the wrong term to describe discussing "their learning process" and mass executions of the elderly.

I set up a paywalled database of Boolean-searchable legal information in 1995! These kids know nothing! AND we had a relational database driving the customer service! 😎

Exactly this. I'm 65+ and have been using the internet since it looked like this, ran an online, fully manipulable, international database in the late 90s, and was an early adopter of MySpace, Facebook etc. So let's say I feel somewhat indignant being lumped into a group thought to be clueless.

Fun fact. Back in the last century the government, worried about people getting in and damaging stones, buried motion sensors in a ring around Stonehenge (damaging unrecorded archaeology in the process). But the system was never used, because tunnelling moles kept setting it off

From last week mudlarking on the Thames Foreshore, a Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) green heart trade bead, red exterior with a dark green core. Made on the island of Murano, Venice, 17th-19thC, these were used as currency by Europeans to trade with Indigenous & First Nation communities in America 1/

Just had an utterly baffling leaflet through the door - for one, I've never heard of the Council's Right to Build Register, and secondly, the closing date for expressing an interest is October 2025. So it's a good thing I wasn't interested.

Today was about letting the light in. Anna Ancher at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. The perfect antidote to February.

David Young Cameron, Nightfall, Luxor 1910

Arthur Melville (1855–1904) An Egyptian Interior 1881

A delightful (re)visit to Made in Ancient Egypt today at the Fitzwilliam Museum to find some artefacts on display discovered during excavations by @theees.bsky.social at Deir el-Bahari 🤩 Go visit if you can!

So gorgeous - satisfies something within me, in the absence of new Cocteau Twins material.

Perhaps the most spectacular pub room I’ve been in.

zeppelin spas sadly never came to pass.

Two immigrants top relevant Sunday Times list for most UK tax paid, as "patriot" multi-billionaire Ratcliffe lives as an immigrant in Monaco, to protect wealth so vast it is unspendable, while whining about immigrant UK care workers and NHS cleaners not pulling their weight. FUCK RIGHT OFF, "SIR".

How rude to kick off before the end of YNWA #LFC

Have you ever seen a Roman plumbing device that is both genius and gorgeous? Just look at this bronze drain strainer, found in the Roman baths at Weißenburg, Germany, dating2nd/3rd century AD! 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology #findsfriday

A rock shelter with paintings up to ten thousand years old discovered in southern Sinai www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/02/a...

There’s a lot of chat about the latest screen adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Did you know we care for a place that has started in THREE previous versions? 📷Arnhel de Serra

I absolutely loved his collaboration with Gorillaz, on Aries. It's unmistakably Hookie and it's sublime.

Love among the Heretics! This piece of carnelian has been carved in the shape of Akhenaten (the 'heretic pharaoh') kissing his wife Nefertiti c.1340BC, Ancient Egypt 📍In the Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition, Cambridge 📸 Mine 🏺 #FindsFriday #archaeology #vday #valentinesday #photooftheday

Our next online talk is 'The Janette Rosing Collection' on Tuesday 24th February 2026 (1800 GMT) rescheduled from last December. The collection comprises over 8,000 historical photographs collected by Janette Rosing (1942–2021). Book via the link in our bio.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

A 1972 photo of 7 Water Street in Liverpool showing the National Westminster Bank originally The National and Provincial plus recent detail shots of the Lions on the doors, this is now the Gaucho Restaurant @yoliverpool.bsky.social @daveyph.bsky.social

In our February episode of #AwayWithThePharaohs, @edwardscrivens.bsky.social provides an overview of religion in ancient Egypt, before exploring the complex, fluid nature of its gods and goddesses and the rituals that empowered them. 🎧 buff.ly/3X6FHHF #AncientEgypt #Gods #Goddess #Mythology

🐦🪶 Now on view: BIRDS – Curated by The Goldfinch & Simon Schama BIRDS explores our relationship with birds through artworks by Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Pablo Picasso, Iris van Herpen and many others.  https://tickets.mauritshuis.nl/en/tickets

Looking down Matthew street in the evening light from Eric’s in the summer of 78.

Yep "What began as an experiment in courage has become an obligation; and, worse, what was once optional is now compulsory. Commercialism did what it always does: it widened the brief, raised the stakes and attached a price tag. Valentine’s Day is no longer about saying “I fancy you”"

... as if all the birds left at the same moment ... [or just a worn out wall by the sea front]

The spreadsheet on this clay tablet, which is almost 4,000 years old, is organised into columns for furrowed area, grain produced, land not sown, and the field’s name. The first field is called “Of the soldiers who stood in for their fathers”. It’s ancient Excel, but I find that incredibly moving

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Incredible sunset from my office @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Corsham is hilarious. They broke out of the stately home and went feral…

Only 27 days to have your say over the future of the BBC! Don’t leave it to other people - take part!. You love it? You think it could be better? There’s something special you don’t want to lose? Tell the government! Closes Tuesday 10th March. www.gov.uk/government/n...

I love how wearable her designs were (and still are). And those 3 buttons on the cuffs are a lovely detail. Me and my mate when pre-teens would go every weekend to Chelsea Girl in Liverpool, to eye up dresses like this, and maybe once a year be treated to one, if we could find any to fit.

#WallsonWednesday Tudor mural from Fittleworth displayed at the Weald & Downland museum.

"Playing to the Crowd: Royal Ritual Performance in Context" Speaker: Prof Katja Goebs, U of Toronto 26 Feb 6:30 pm Eastern In person & online [For zoom link, contact [email protected] ] Free & open to all #ancientEgypt #freelecture