Sharon Howard
@sharonhoward.bsky.social
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History, data, art, food. Still lazing about.
http://sharonhoward.org/
ORCID: 0000-0002-6051-6274
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#WomensHistoryMonth
#LostInABook
(a thread) Ethel Léontine Gabain, "Reading" (before 1946)
artuk.org/discover/art...
about 1 year ago
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that's nice and how much of it do they need to counterbalance the 4 million barrels of oil they pump out every day?
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2 days ago
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🍿🍿🍿🍿
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5 days ago
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Jesse Locker
6 days ago
Plate with man eating pasta (Mangiamaccheroni), Laterza, last quarter of the 17th century, Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza
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It's very odd, I keep getting something in my eye when I see this piece of news. 😍
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6 days ago
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In a fit of
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whimsy several years ago, I named my internet router menocchio. Ginzburg was one of the three historians (with NZD and EPT) who transformed my understanding of early modern history as an undergrad.
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The hill I want to die on is that newspapers should make people read at least one thing about linguistics before paying them to write shit about language.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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The hill I will die on: I really don’t like ‘like’ – or other imprecise and redundant speech | Louis de Bernières
Junk speak, like junk food, encourages verbal littering. It has to be one of the worst things about life in Britain, says author Louis de Bernières
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/13/the-hill-i-will-die-on-like-imprecise-redundant-speech-junk-food-britain?CMP=share_btn_url
11 days ago
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one for
@stronglang.bsky.social
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11 days ago
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This looks like a great CFP!
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Janine Gibson
12 days ago
Gift link has run out but we've intervened at god level and made it free to read as it's a year old.
www.ft.com/content/3862...
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Simon Schama on the pleasure-giving, life-affirming art of David Hockney
Britain’s most popular living painter has maintained an unfashionable commitment to optical delight
https://www.ft.com/content/3862cf23-855b-443e-ab38-7579527a4f60?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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What a lovely thing.
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Julia M. Rohrer
15 days ago
There are pointlessly gendered products, and then there’s this 1737 book on Newtonianism for Ladies by Francesco Algarotti about which I learned today 👌🏼
old.maa.org/press/period...
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James Tauber
16 days ago
Initial comparison of Readers' vs Critics' top 100 novels:
jtauber.github.io/guardian-nov...
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Readers’ poll vs critics’ list — Guardian 100 Best Novels (2026)
https://jtauber.github.io/guardian-novels/readers.html
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Looks like Guardian readers are a lot more into SF/fantasy/speculative fiction/whatever it's called than Guardian staff. (I'm not arguing with a list that has both Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Piranesi anyway.)
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-inter…
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Top 100 reader novels
After authors and critics chose their top 100 novels, we asked for your favourites. From Uruguay to the Isle of Skye, 3,000 readers cast their votes. Here are the titles that made your list – topped by a new entry at number 1
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/jun/06/readers-top-100-novels-of-all-time
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omgisme
20 days ago
Never give up . 😍
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This week's @artukdotorg
#OnlineArtExchange
is about Murals to celebrate Art UK's murals digitisation project Not strictly speaking a mural, but The Bookseller of Stromness by Calum Morrison (b.1956) at the Stromness Library is a large scale painting capturing a unique piece of social history
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Barnsley Museums
20 days ago
Today's
#OnlineArtExchange
celebrates the
@artukdotorg.bsky.social
murals digitisation project Fox Valley Mural by Pete Mckee
@petemckee.bsky.social
#Art
#Mural
#BlueskyArt
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Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
21 days ago
everything is on fire but today you can take 2 minutes to vote for the hedgehog 🦔 and the bumblebee 🐝 to be on English money!
www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he...
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Help us celebrate the UK’s wildlife
Tell us which animals you would like to see on our next series of banknotes by 3 July 2026
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/help-us-design-our-next-series-of-banknotes
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens
22 days ago
2/2 Boy pushing baby in a wheelbarrow. As captured in water-color by Isaac van Ostade of Haarlem.
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Dr Rory MacLellan
22 days ago
A happy horse in the Liber ordinationum of the medieval City of London, next to some regulations for riding. The London Archives, COL/CS/01/005.
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rev. howard arson
22 days ago
really he's just going to coffee with friends. excel mistakes everything for a date
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli
23 days ago
As requested, here are day old ducklings jumping off a ledge onto a lake set to "Ride of The Valkyries" 🐣 🪶
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Michael Lobel
25 days ago
For
#caturday
, a thread of Chinese cat night-lights, porcelain figures made since the Ming period, often for the export market. A candle was placed inside with the light shining through the cat's eyes, reportedly intended for children afraid of the dark & perhaps also to scare off rats
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Rachel Deering
about 1 month ago
Still life with a cat, Sebastiano Lazzari, 1760.
#Caturday
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about 1 month ago
Agreed; but in this case, George Godfrey Cunningham - "His retiring habits and fastidious taste made him shrink from publicity, and, except in the instance referred to, he withheld his name from his productions", per ref 2 on
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
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They were probably a woman and the society got anxious about its reputation. [I am *half* joking.]
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about 1 month ago
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Alexander Huber
about 1 month ago
Pleased to report the availability of 16 of the 18 surviving editions of Harris’s List of
#CoventGardenLadies
in the
#HarrissListDigitalArchive
(IIIF/full-text), with over 2,200 entries, an interactive map, network analysis, and a visualizations page:
harrisslist.prisms.digital
#c18th
#HarrissList
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What could possibly go wrong
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about 1 month ago
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Art UK
about 1 month ago
🪰 Today's #OnlineArtExchange is bees and insects for #WorldBeeDay (which was yesterday) 🐝 Discover some insects in art 👉
https://artuk.org/discover/topics/insects
#OnlineArtExchange
#WorldBeeDay
🧑🎨 Jan van Kessel the elder (1626–1679) 📷 Ashmolean Museum
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Enjoying the fun people are having with the data from the Guardian's List of Big Books.
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about 1 month ago
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Pew Research Center
about 1 month ago
The recent removal of FiveThirtyEight's archive is a reminder of how fleeting digital content can be. Our research found 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer accessible a decade later.
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James Tauber
about 1 month ago
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Guardian 100 Best Novels (2026) — Voting Data
Voting data extracted from the Guardian's interactive list. 172 writers, critics, and academics each submitted a ranked top 10.
https://jtauber.github.io/guardian-novels/
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Chris Warren
about 1 month ago
The Guardian published a list of top 100 novels as voted on by various authors and critics. I turned it into a network to foreground literary tastes and tastemakers.
chriswarren.info/novels-worth...
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684 Novels Worth Arguing About
The Guardian called it a Top 100. But 172 voters named 684 books. Explore the full list and the communities of readers behind it.
https://chriswarren.info/novels-worth-arguing-about.html
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Would love to go to this
www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhib…
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about 1 month ago
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What I'm thinking is that this is a ridiculous waste of everyone's time and energy. People don't need to be able to edit social media posts. If you see a mistakes and it really makes you sad, delete the post and do it again. Or just learn to live with your mistakes.
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about 1 month ago
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vrunt
about 1 month ago
this is the last photo on my parents' video birdfeeder before it was mysteriously destroyed we may never know what happened
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Gonna be some partying in the NHS tonight.
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about 1 month ago
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Praisegod Bathtubs Georg.
about 1 month ago
Yes, but it's not even the best answer to that. SEWER TESTING.
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What is an anagram of SEE WET STRING?
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about 1 month ago
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We're going to have a leadership contest between Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting? 😵💫
about 1 month ago
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As I was saying... MED is the kind of thing that's a major resource in its own field but virtually unknown anywhere else, and its future will be dependent on the health of one retired academic. A lot of early 21st-century digital resources are or soon will be in that bracket.
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about 1 month ago
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You had one job...
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about 1 month ago
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Pondering a Venn diagram of followers who get *both* of the last two RPs.
about 1 month ago
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Rosamundi
about 1 month ago
caught bowled leg before wicket run out
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come back spring
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about 1 month ago
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Michael Lobel
about 2 months ago
And since it's
#caturday
, one of my favorite artists-with-animals photos: Lois Mailou Jones in her Paris studio in 1938 with the most adorable studio assistant ever
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Michael Lobel
about 2 months ago
Lois Mailou Jones, The Musician, c. 1940
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Things that seem completely wrong or is it just me: David Jason is older than Paul McCartney.
about 2 months ago
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This is great news.
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