dog-cart in Covent Garden, sketched by Scharf www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

Has science gone too far? #GoneTooFar

“The Night Scotsman Leaves King’s Cross nightly at 10.25”, by Alexandre Alexeieff, prior to 1932.

Rétro cars voiture 🚘 la Citroën DS21 bleue de Gendarmerie 🇫🇷

HEROIC POSE

this may have to go in the book www.maryevans.com/contributors...

"London, August 1973. A model in a bikini walks through London's Covent Garden market, during a scientific experiment to study the reactions of truck drivers and unloaders."

hmm.

the 1960 proposal for a new Covent Garden Market and Helipad at King's Cross

remarkably 1950s feel to this 1850s poster collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O115452...

wasn't even sure this was technically possible

Covent Garden protest - is that Brian Anson (looks like him?) with dog and Christina Smith next to him (not sure what she looked like in 1972 tbh)?

Girl Power 1966 "Beat Girls Dance Troupe who regularly on BBC2 programme, The Beat Room, Photocall on the cobbled streets of Covent Garden market ... Babs Lord, Lorelly Harris, Felicity Colby, Dee Dee Wilde and Penny Fergusson."

a Vauxhall Cresta Friary Estate, so I'm told

archetypal WW2 covent garden photo

strong 1980/90s vibe from the unwaved hair lady in this 1930s promo shot

No-one was more surprised than Cecil to discover that Beryl had a secret double-life playing imaginary tennis.

"I am sorry to tell you, Mrs Fothergill, that your suspicions were well-founded. Your husband is actually a dog."

is the King Street service tunnel 'subway' still there, I wonder?

Covent Garden watch-house looking like a desirable 1 bed holiday let here

a good example of early pub music hall ... Getty miscatalogues it as c.1830, when it's clearly 1840s - virtually Dickens in the background there - and its not "a bar at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London" but the Old Drury Coffee House and Wine Vaults

Wassily Kandinsky (1925)

Raincoat, late Edo Period, 1790–1800

The Shrine of Anubis (c. 1323 BC), as discovered within Tutankhamun’s tomb, with original linen wrappings & garlands still present. #Photography by Harry Burton, 1926.

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

No ideas but in whatevers

'Scaredy Cat' by Cornish artist Kirsty Elson who trawls the beaches of her home collecting driftwood as the raw materials for her artworks #WomensArt

Many thanks to Paul Lewis for making available the unannotated texts of all of the letters included in the magisterial Pilgrim edition of Dickens's correspondence. As that edition is paywalled, this will be very handy for scholars everywhere: victorianresearch.org/Dickens%20le... #Victorian

fierce binding strip in the archives today

visions of the twilight zone episode when the ventriloquist becomes the dummy and vice versa.

"Wait, hang on, what if we can make thing even more dystopian ..."

"Collusion" Art by Sarah Yeoman 2018 #CorvidCrew

'Bristol Night II' by contemporary UK painter Cath Read #WomensArt

My 6-wk course ‘Unreal City: the History of London Through Literature, c.1780 to Today’ starts Tue 22 April, 6.30pm @MaryWardCentre Stratford, E London We'll examine c.250 years of London through the eyes of authors from William Blake to Zadie Smith, Ainsworth to Zephaniah To book shorturl.at/72fIY

Please don't be angry.

Extraordinarily delicate Art Nouveau hair comb with two jewelled dragonflies competing for honey in the form of an orange citrine gem (Lucien Gaillard, 1904, Rijkmuseum)

watching the very good Billy Joel doc from 2025

working on the ms. gone done from 176 "howevers" to 75. glorious achievement.

Clemence Dane (Winifred Ashton), writing in 1963, consoles herself that any sixties concrete redeveloment of Covent Garden will decay beford its found by aliens ... also, "Winston Caesar"!

This #ootd is a little unusual, but for me is very spring-like. It's an 1836 dress from England. It is made of cotton with alternating blue and a geometrical floral strips. The flowers however are highly abstract and look to be influenced by folkart. #Fashionhistory

fruit auction in the Floral Hall

working through my footnotes before final submission. best so far: "For cats as missiles, see Weekly Journal 13 August 1726."

publishing folk and people generally --- I cannot express how desperately we need to hold onto bookshops, traditional publishers who work with bookshops, and print copies that people want to hold in their hands; because AI is designed to smash everything else to pieces.

revising sad MS (yes, already) and, not for the first time, I realise that I am less of a writer, more of a worrier at words.