The 2026 #WomensPrize for Non-Fiction longlist is here💜 Which book will you be picking up first? #WomensPrizeforNonFiction

It’s time to reveal the 2026 #WomensPrize for Non-Fiction longlist! A hopeful list, these are 16 books that reflect the belief that every woman’s voice has the power to elicit and inspire change: youtu.be/ScHiI1saMCY

We are delighted to be working with Visual Arts Scotland & the Pier Arts Centre again to fund a residency offering a VAS member the opportunity to spend a month at Linkshouse Residency space, Orkney, in May 2026 to develop their ideas & practice. For full details see VAS website -

A ridiculous way for BBC ‘News’ to headline an article in which it’s clear that the Wildlife Trusts’ plans are overwhelmingly popular. But it has spurred me into making a donation towards this brilliant project—if you would like to chip in too, here’s the link 👇🏻 #Northumberland #Wildlife #Rewilding

Now my growing year has begun! Potato fairs are a great way to buy seed #potatoes, plus onions & shallots #plasticfree. Dozens of varieties inc blight resistant & heritage, sold by the tuber in paper bags. This one in Frome also had seed swaps, withy weavers, fruit trees & good cake 🎂 #gardening 🌱

My kind of content... Deep fen cockle shell horizon at base of marine silt at -3m OD (pre Bronze Age). Near Thorney

Leaving the ECHR will not allow you to deport all Asylum Seekers, you can't deport a person without the other country accepting them. But it will allow the State Pension, Minimum Wage, Paid Holiday, Max Working Hours, Maternity Leave and much more to be cancelled.

Bearing Witness #monoprint Acrylic on Paper #art #printmaking

Sketchbook snippet. Warm Sunday wishes to all.😊 #drawing #sketchbook #monoprint #daisies

The utterly magnificent Lisa O'Neill has a brilliant song about Mother Jones on her new album 'The Wind Doesn't Blow This Far Right' www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpFx...

Thoroughly enjoyed this immersion in Olga Tokarczuk’s Silesian world. Fascinating stories, related engagements and passages of great beauty. So great have her work and views from nearly thirty years ago translated and available. Many thanks @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

Playing with shapes and placement in still life drawing. This one is inspired by a Chardin painting. Neocolor pastels.

"Data not available"? How many centuries ago did we establish that it's a good idea to have accurate, timely data on factors that can contribute to major infectious disease outbreaks?

WCK’s #ChefsForGaza teams reached the milestone of 1 million hot meals daily yesterday, but our work doesn’t stop there. We’re doing everything we can to reach as many communities as possible with warm meals. Yesterday, that looked like delivering meals on donkey-drawn carts in displacement camps.

This matters because London has among the lowest vaccination rates for measles in England - there are many pockets of unvaccinated communities that could be at significant risk from a runaway outbreak:

If in #Nottingham do go and see this brilliant exhibition about the River Leen. It's fascinating. Allow plenty of time as there's a drone footage video following the course of the river. www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsa...

The splendid website London Pavement Geology (www.londonpavementgeology.co.uk) has been extended across the UK and tells you where to find treasures hidden in plain sight. Here are some London fossils from the LSE and Somerset House.

‘I used to be a mountain’ by Maarten Inghels onboards.be/nl/product/m... 📷 Maarten Inghels/Onboards Biennale #urbangeology

This week on the podcast; what made John Constable great? I discuss with Susan Owens, author of the excellent new book, ‘Constable’s Seasons’. *(Waldy and Bendy’s Adventures in Art, on all the usual platforms.)

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Low cloud at Fourwinds Merrivale yesterday, the damp fogged the lens (camera is fine just on the skylight filter), I liked the effect…. #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #landscapephotography #fog

The initiative will provide €325 (£283) a week to 2,000 eligible artists based in the Republic of Ireland. This follows a pilot (for which 2,000 artists were randomly selected from 8,000 applicants). ‘The scheme recouped more than its net cost of €72m’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Fabulous drawings.

Just joined Bluesky and excited to see how I’ll enjoy this platform A little mushroom I painted to start with my first post! 🍄 #mushrooms #watercolour #scientificillustration #mushroomart #mycology

We've announced another Q&A for UNDERLAND! Adapted from @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social’s bestselling book, #UnderlandFilm is a mesmerising cinematic journey into the depths of the earth. 📍Rheged Cinema, Penrith Tickets at rheged.com/event/underl...

⭐ Immigration is vital to the UK. ♥️ Immigrants are friends, family, and integral parts to our community. ❌ We must reject a politics that derives a persons value from the place where they were born.

#GoSeeArt ! 🧡

The Women's Prize for Non-Fiction longlist is out! Explore this extraordinary collection and support independent bookshops. @womensprize.bsky.social 🏆 uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-20...

#watercolour #coastalPath #somerset #clevedon #art #WatercolorOnPaper

With the Winter Olympics in full swing, it's a good time to re-post this image of Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean in 1979 before a grant from Nottingham City Council enabled them to give up their day jobs and train fulltime. They won the figure skating gold at Sarajevo in 1984.

Self Portrait with a Cat, 1928 by Lotte Laserstein, German-Swedish painter #WomensArt

Very much looking forward to having a table for Essence Press at the Artists' Bookmarket this coming weekend 14-15 Feb @fruitmarket.bsky.social #ArtistsBookMarket Do drop by to say hello if you are nearby... Over 60 book artist and publisher tables to browse. www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/artist...

This is really useful. Clear non tech speak. Ethical.

💡Feeling inspired by Guy Martin's #HouseWithoutBills? Head over to our #Passivhaus #Retrofit web page for brilliant next step advice for homeowners, construction professionals & policymakers: https://www.passivhaustrust.org.uk/passivhaus_awards/passivhaus-retrofit/#HouseWithoutBills?#Passivhaus#Retrofit#GuyMartin

v1.116 is rolling out now! For all the overthinkers and perfectionists out there, we're launching Drafts.

Here are some still life composition studies, that being the focus for February with #JoBlaker. Very calm, very meditative. Calm being in short supply.

A reminder that our February #VaughanForum is this Thursday at 6.15pm. Dr Miriam Gill will be talking about using fragments of stained glass to piece together Coventry's lost Mystery Play. Free and online. www.tickettailor.com/events/leice...

Heard the first curlew this morning & a mass of lapwings this afternoon. It’s probably the earliest return I’ve known on the Pennines but it’s so beautiful to see & hear them again. (Tea toned Cyanotype on Japanese paper)

Lots of crocuses around our poor Surrey soils, this one from "old Surrey", a Richmond cemetery for #WildflowerHour ... Has a somewhat Spencer'esque "Resurrection at Cookham" feel to it?

Andre Ventura of Chega (change) running on anti-immigratiom slogans like "this isn't Bangladesh" and "Portugal is ours" has lost the Portugal presidential election in a landslide. He was second on 23% to 31% in the first round but losing about 30-70 in the run-off to socialist António José Seguro

Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.

Blimey. Never seen that. Brilliant.

I’m an Ambassador for this brilliant charity, Bookbanks, giving away books with food parcels at food banks. There are two part-time jobs going for Regional Leads in London and East Anglia. Link below. Please share far and wide :)

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

“Common Wealth has termed this the ‘privatisation premium’. Their ‘Who Owns Britain?’ project shows the UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation.” Our work featured in @neweconomybrief.bsky.social 👇 www.neweconomybrief.net/the-digest/e...

If you live in or near #Manchester and are keen to improve your pruning or planting skills in a great community space, check out our upcoming events! 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-orchar... #CommunityOrchards

At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!? Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.

Pamet River Road - 1934 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104311