It's time for #Caturday and a timeline cleanse! A terracotta figurine of a #cat playing the harp. From #Egypt, #Roman period, late 1st century AD. On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover. Have a lovely #weekend! 📷 me 🏺

What is your favourite bird? These little sparrows are a detail of a two-fold painted and embroidered screen by Takeuchi Seihō.

Clara the rhinoceros, put on display (to a lot of masked people) in Venice in 1751 and immortalized by Pietro Longhi, born on this day 1701.

Apart from all the bells and whistles on the site itself, some users may like to know that the London Lives bibliography has been Zoterified (so it's searchable etc): www.zotero.org/groups/45875...

A question for #EarlyModern #skystorians: What does 'exped' mean as a response to a petition, in this case to the 17th-century House of Lords? I'd assumed 'expedite', but that doesn't quite make sense in some contexts. 🗃️ Examples here: www.british-history.ac.uk/petitions/ho...

London Lives has been, ngl, a bit broken for a while. It's not broken any more.

African woman holding a wonderful gold table-clock. Painted in the 1580s by Annibale Carracci, whose day is today.

It was probably a Pinky & Perky album.

Sheffield station doesn't even have ticket barriers because there's a public right of way through the station and no one was (so far) prepared to pay for a new footbridge. (There are redevelopment plans in the air; it'll happen one day, I expect.)

Fujita Tsuguharu (Léonard Tsugouharu Foujita), Self-portrait with Cat, c. 1920s, Color woodblock print, 38.8 × 28.5 cm (15 1/8 × 11 3/16 in.) (Art Institute of Chicago)

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For #NationalCatDay please admire this absolute masterpiece: Gertrude Abercrombie (USA, 1909-1977) #Black Cat on Pink, 1952 Oil on Hardboard, 4.5 x 4 cm (1 3/4 x 1 5/8 in.) www.artcurial.com/en/sales/608... #CatsInArt #WomenArtists

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As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that. So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more. Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort! bit.ly/ach-anthology

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Continuing #PowerOfPetitioning adventures and ObservableJS experiments: I made an interactive dashboard with my Cheshire petitions data. mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/p...

'What's for pudding today?' (1943) Margaret Gere was a painter who turned her sharp eye on to the homely, humdrum life of the household and the tavern; her interiors are populated with believable characters and believable scenes.

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Continuing #PowerOfPetitioning adventures and ObservableJS experiments: I made an interactive dashboard with my Cheshire petitions data. mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/p...

🎓 Calling all MA students in women's history! Our MA Dissertation Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. Celebrate outstanding scholarship & share your work with the wider community. Deadline: 16 January 2026 womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-ma-disse... #WomensHistory #MAHistory #GenderHist

2/2 Dance of the witch-cats. Now you know what they get up to when you are not at home!

Local legislator displays the importance of kerning

1965 so I would have been 12. The most shocking thing (still) was how instantaneously the sick jokes started circulating in school. Where on earth had they come from? Felt as though they'd come from outside, somehow? Brrr. PS not one NCB bastard ever faced charges, a scandal that simply faded away.

I remember this. I was 7 and we were still in the UK for another 6 months or so. It is the first Bad Thing® that I remember.

I was eight years old. Two hundred miles from Aberfan, I remember my Mum standing in the kitchen, the radio on, crying and crying and crying.

I've posted this before; I expect I'll post it again. #aberfan aberfan.walesonline.co.uk

Today, people across the world remember one of the greatest tragedies in Welsh history - the 1966 Aberfan disaster - which left a small mining village robbed of an entire generation

Three children with their puppy. And their sheep. And their cow. Insanely Dutch and very cute. Early work by Aelbert Cuyp, born on this day in 1620.

The sun has come out for the first time in a week. Of course it's also pissing down with rain... 🌈

Bullfrog of the day! Sunday, 19 Oct 2025

A *happy* frog!

#SundayPixStack Squash stack, from September 2013.

Today's artist wout a known birthday Hans Hoffmann of Nuremberg, Munich, & Prague. Painted after nature & after Durer. Here, hedgehog.

Coming up Oct 23 - Hidden histories of the museum Women transforming art collections National Gallery, London The conf asks how women’s work around museums has been recorded–or overlooked–within dominant narratives of art & institutional history. www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/hidde...

This adorably lazy dog, painted by an unnamed 17th-century Genoese artist, seen today at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum

'Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne.' Alice Bailly became attuned to many vital European art movements of the early 20thC. Although this work is cubist in technique, she did not identify with any particular movement; her painting style is an amalgam of many approaches.

Portrait of a very contented two-year-old boy with an apple, and his little goldfinch. Painted by Caesar van Everdingen, whose day is today.

Magpie just landed on my windowsill and gave me some dirty looks before flying off. Is that lucky or unlucky?

😻 Cat studies by Elizabeth Blackadder (recent Bonham's auction www.bonhams.com/auction/3071...). #caturday

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉 Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e... news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

I mentioned that it's 30 years and a bit since I went to university. That also means it's 30 years and a bit since I first saw this bloke on a stage. He has got no less bonkers and no less wonderful since then. 😍

I've laughed a lot.

THIS is a fabulous website The #Chester Consistory Court Archive of cause papers from the oldest complete ecclesiastical courtroom in #England Find out more about this amazing free database 👉 www.chestercausepapers.org.uk To search 👉 www.chestercausepapers.org.uk/directory #Cheshire

Wonder if choco-leibniz dark will restore that 9th biscuit.

Shiiiiit, I've just realised that it's 30 years (+ a few weeks) since I went to university.

'Maiko' (舞妓), showing an apprentice geiko (芸子), from 'Selection of Customs of Japanese Women' (日本女俗選 Nihon jozoku sen), by Maekawa Senpan (前川千帆, 5 October, 1888 - 17 November, 1960)

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads! Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession. From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio #Archaeology

Enjoyable read on how Darling Nikki got us parental advisory stickers and all that. (After all, how else would we know how to find the good stuff?) www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

"Michael Howard spoke of the British dream—people choosing this country because of its tolerance and its opportunity. It is a land where a girl from Nigeria can move, aged 16, be accepted as British and have the great honour of representing Saffron Walden." www.kemibadenoch.org.uk/news/kemi-ba...

Also very fond of this study in black and white floof. Bet the laundress enjoyed getting the black hairs out of that. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...