"Still life with a cat and a mackerel on a table top", by Giovanni Rivalta (1756–1832)

Embarrassing headline

Amazing.

A fun project! I need to make more maps.

A new interactive map for @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social in #WomensHistoryMonth - I mapped all the places mentioned by Alice in Event narratives. thornton-play-books.github.io/play-books/eve…

2/2 Bird with its shells & nuts. And some bugs. As studied by Georg Flegel on 26 October 1629.

Local gambolling den.

Find someone who looks at you like etc etc

Michael Portillo as Easter Eggs A thread 🧵

I may be some time...

This is such sad news. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

A lot of British place names were originally named after people. But usually, just like geography based names, with a local connection. So it'd make more sense to decide on locations first and then come up with names. But that'd involve more effort and less fucking crass populism wouldn't it.

A familiar tale of initials and husbands' names!

These 21 women artists names were lost, but are now found! #WomensHistoryMonth Discover the women artists we've uncovered 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/21-women-artists-weve-uncovered-in-uk-museums-and-galleries#WomensHistoryMonth 👩‍🎨 (Frances) Maud Porter (1863–1942) 📷 Hastings Museum and Art Gallery

Metamorphosis of a Frog and Blue Flower, c. 1701–1705, attr to #MariaSibyllaMerian, (German-born, 1647-1717). Held by Minneapolis Institute of Art, collections.artsmia.org/art/10445/me... #WorldFrogDay #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory

Lovely interview with Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy on hacking, history and generosity. lab.slv.vic.gov.au/experiments/... #DigitalHistory

Bluesky. It's "Strait", not "Straight". Get it straight please.

A lovely little hedgehog in a basket carved by an Egyptian artisan some 4,300 years ago! 🦔❤️ Detail from a wall relief in the Tomb of Mereruka at Saqqara. 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

‘Old masters too’: Ghent exhibition celebrates female artists of the baroque by Jennifer Rankin for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

For #WomensHistoryMonth we are resharing some of our past posts on Alice Thornton. Next up is @sharonhoward.bsky.social on her first encounter with Thornton in 1999. #EarlyModern 🗃️ thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...

I love this. It's exactly how the sun makes me feel too. At least for the few minutes before I get overheated and have to retreat into the shade. Hannah Frank, "Sun" (1943) artuk.org/discover/art...

Maeda Masao (Japanese, 1904–1974), detail of "Black Cat in Tree" (Shōwa era, 1940), woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Anyone interested in #18thC Quakers or alternatives to swearing on oath in testimony? A couple of them "affirming" in LL Pauper exams www.londonlives.org/record/GLBAEP1… and www.londonlives.org/record/GLBAEP1…

Grime's Graves. (which are actually Neolithic flint mines, not graves)

Tap the edge of the lid a few times on a worktop. Works every time with jars of stuff so I'm sure it'll fix this.

Including the Addressing Authority symposium which is unbelievably almost a decade old! (and I'm still doing stuff with petitions god help me) manyheadedmonster.com/2016/11/01/add…

Done some spring cleaning for my London Lives Petitions Project webpages. Dataviz should no longer be broken, checked links, added a few updates. london.sharonhoward.org/llpp/

Academics wives have also shaped their work academicswives.co.uk

Hello Monday. ‘Jane Small’, Hans Holbein.

Born on this day in 1611, in Antwerp, Jan Fyt. Painter of animals, dead and alive. Here, his amazing study of a dog (v. alive) from the 1640s.

Saturday plans: Sleeping grey cat and a rat, Adolf von Becker, 1864. #Caturday

I need the opposite of this: a feed that will pick out the key highlights from people whose ideas I like but who DON'T KNOW WHEN TO STOP.

what a surprise

Medieval Markets & Fairs in England & Wales: remember the excellent dataset published back in 2003? I've given it a snazzy new interface, incorporating various updates which were made following publication. Separately, I'm working on extending it to 1846... ihr-digital.github.io/markets-and-...

On Harriet Tubman Day, one of my all-time favorite images by Jacob Lawrence: the joyful & ebullient screenprint "Play," based on panel #4 from the 1940 "Life of Harriet Tubman" series. The series, thirty-one paintings in all, was one of Lawrence's first major bodies of work

The distribution of letters in English words.

Meet the Forgotten Women of the Flemish Golden Age At the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, a new exhibition uncovers a long-forgotten 17th-century creative economy. by Jo Lawson-Tancred news.artnet.com/art-world/me...

warm from move make more hot

Reposting for the sensible crowd who do other things at the weekend, my latest interactive thing. Quite pleased with this map.

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit? They look so cool! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Some posts for #InternationalWomensDay ... The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself (1831; electronic edition by Documenting the American South, 2000) docsouth.unc.edu/neh/prince/pri…

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I've used my London Lives datasets of 18th-century St Clement Danes pauper removal orders and settlement exams to make a new interactive map mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/cdr… #18thc

If you want your campaign to be remembered in 100 years time, don't worry that contemporaries hate you and that other respectable crowd is much more popular, and remember: crime pays. Set fire to things, assault a few police officers, chuck some acid around. The future will love you.

Reminds me of Swift’s Modest Proposal.

The best records.

As it's the start of #WomensHistoryMonth today, your reminder that there are LOADS of women who were active in archaeology, history and heritage @beyondnotables.bsky.social database! beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page

Celebrate Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant the way it was supposed to be - reading about medieval Welsh and Irish legal manuscripts and the people who used them 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #medievalsky #skystorians #epoch23 Out now @epoch-history.bsky.social issue 23 www.epoch-magazine.com/post/a-begin...

As it always is throughout the month of March, Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is freed from its usual paywall and available for all to explore.

And here's my favourite Welsh beard for #StDavidsDay. William Williams (Ap Caledfryn), 'Dewi Haran' c.1870. artuk.org/discover/art...