And you thought Liverpool didn’t win anything this season.

This document is the secret 1849 order for the arrest of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Authorities ordered his arrest at 4 a.m. and the seizure of all his papers and books. Later sentenced to death, he endured a mock execution before being sent to Siberia. #Dostoevsky #RussianHistory #Literature

Seen during recent London visit. This must have been a fine club.

JOB : CHARGÉ DES COLLECTIONS ARMES (F/H), Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Saint-Étienne. www.saint-etienne.fr/offres-dempl...

My granddaughter had a great view today. I can't help it if she's a Gunner 🤷🏻

It’s the highlight of the two-gallery exhibition and all the works are form the museum’s impressive Dodge Collection of non-conformist Soviet art.

Made me giggle. Especially the opening of the packaging. I bought a pack of ready-threaded sewing needles, with 10 different shades of cotton which I thought were a godsend, until I needed to use one this morning to sew a button back on. Took me about 20 minutes to get the fecking packaging off

May 31, 62 BCE: Birth of Tanuat. In the 1857, Rhind’s excavators unearthed her & her husband’s tomb at Luxor. The couple died in 9 BCE, having survived the transition of Egypt from Cleopatra VII’s reign to Roman rule—& left behind these extensive illustrated papyri www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...

Walked 4 hours to get to this church of the Saint- Esprit, architect Paul Tournon (dad of the architect of the nursery school i mentioned earlier) Wow As moving as Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Raw concrete. Dome representing the holy spirit

Today's offerings from the foreshore 🥰

My town house, 24 Park Lane, London. Seen here in 1957. The Lady Brassey Museum was once here. #Brassey

Walter Sickert was born #OnThisDay in 1860 🎈 Read about the Camden Town Group in this story 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/the-camden-town-group-modernity-and-misogyny#OnThisDay 'Saint Rémy' by Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942) 📷 Jerwood Collection

Any excuse to post the Pet Shop Boys and the Miners choir singing Go West ❤️

Durham County Council, run by Reform, pulled £2,500 from Durham Pride. But the Durham Miners Association, mindful of the support from LGBT communities during the miners strike, stepped in and, along with other Unions made contributions to make this year’s Durham Pride bigger than ever before. 🏳️‍🌈💪❤️

Peregrine falcon behind Gaudí's trencadís mosiac and chicks this month in the Sagrada Familia. Kindly sent to by Eduard Durany of Galanthus. A total of 318 chicks have hatched in the Barcelona metropolitan area since Eduard started the reintroduction programme with the council in 2003.

Went on holiday. Ran out of books. Found a Donnie Darko-esque Wittgenstein duck-rabbit on the beach. Family didn't give a shit.

In Lower Bockhampton #signsonsunday

Hands down, this one

Painting Zucks megayacht on Lake Union last night 🔥

Fox just turned up and he's not limping!!! Huge relief🦊

The jacaranda trees are coming into their own right now. These are in a square down in Menton.

The tower was also built on a Gallo-Roman site; this area pre-dates Saint-Malo proper by many centuries.

I mean, neither have technically left yet. Neither has Ibou.

I was already in a good mood today after hearing this oldie on BBC RadMac this morning. It never fails.

Can Mo Salah and Andy Robbo come back for next season now please? #Slot

… anyway, cheers Arne. You gave me one of the best days of my life. I’ll never forget Sunday, 27 April 2025. Good luck for the future and, honestly, you’re better off out of it. Next season threatened to turn really toxic. You didn’t need that. We didn’t need that. This is the best end for everyone.

Großes Schauspielhaus, Hans Poelzig, Berlin, Germany, 1919.

How did Akhenaten tear apart Egypt’s ancient religion to worship the sun disc, Aten? Join @anitaanand.bsky.social , Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones & I to find out share.google/6HyKjObOwetX...

'The Terrace of the Trafalgar Tavern, Greenwich, London' (1878) by James Tissot (Private collection)

'It’s impossible to do any sort of season review without it being front and centre. Not as an excuse or mitigation, but because it was always going to be the single biggest defining factor of 2025/26.' ✍️ Dan Morgan’s column… 📲 Read here: bit.ly/4dWdmIB

Stunning Iberian sculpture of a wolf head from El Pajarillo, Jaén, Andalucía, early 4th BCE. The ears pinned back and wrinkled muzzle suggest a threatening posture. It forms part of a large sculpture telling story of a hero who frees a youth from the wild animal. Museo de Jaén.

NEW Marilyn Monroe, the Hollywood system, and the law of contract How Marilyn Monroe took on Twentieth Century Fox and defeated a major studio By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk, on Monroe's centenary www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7367...

The Hanging Gardens of London, Selfridges Water Gardens Looking West. The roof of the Oxford Street department store had gardens and cafes during the 1920s and 30s, from my post on London Postcards at alondoninheritance.com/london-photo...

See it, it's free. The old neon Astoria sign is on display but they can't plug it in because, as the curator told me, "We've got Shakespeare's first folio in the next gallery."

What a talent, what a loss at 25, and what a life! Well worth clicking through to the story (and images) at the link in the original post below

What a lovely thread/tribute

Me and Jeanette Landray recorded a cover of this version at Open Eye studios '78 (when we also recorded 194 Radio City, that was included on the Street to Street compliation). I only had a copy of it on cassette which is now long lost, sadly. Photos by Francesco Mellina

#OTD 30th May 1561 Hew Draper, a Bristol inn keeper signed and dated this extraordinary astrological carving on the wall of the Salt Tower (at The Tower of London) where he was imprisoned, accused of sorcery. #HewDraper #AstrologicalCarving #SaltTower #Tudors #History

There is soooo much to see on this photo. The date on the back says 12/4/39 but it is a few years before that - I would say 1931 or 1932.

Watching "Listed Britain" and Mr McCloud is giving us a tour of The Phil in Liverpool...what a building!! 😍

I hadn't seen the fox for the last 3 nights and it's it's just turned up and is limping badly ☹️

🎶 oh what a feelin’ when there’s Rubens on the ceiling 🎶

Statue identified as Osiris the Time Lord (Osiris Chronocrator), possibly from the Janiculum Sanctuary in Rome. Late 2nd century CE, now in Palazzo Massimo. The friendly snake, wrapped around the god, may symbolise the endless cycle of death and rebirth. 🏺 #AncientBluesky #Egyptology #snakes

Wonder it it's haunted...

Cornices, Eaves and Sills are NOT simply architectural fluff. Note the effect of vortices on the first photo

My Edinburgh-based short story, from tomorrow, on BBC4Extra www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... 16.45pm

'Residents of the Homes for Working Girls in London' on a trip out to Dollis Hill in 1887 Wide array of hats on display (plus one particularly vexed looking daytripper with her arms folded) More about the Homes for Working Girls (and 'healthful recreation') at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/HBG

If you’re going to hobnail the shoe, then bloody hobnail the shoe, that’s what I say. 1st/2nd C AD, @vindolandatrust.bsky.social #FindsFriday

#ToulouseLautrec, The Cartwheel (1893)

Tom Gray is amazing at this sort of thing. An impassioned speech to the Ivors Academy. Inspiring stuff.