let your words define who you are in your heart

still wearing white long after summer’s end wild jasmine #haiku #senryu #poetry #micropoetry #3lines

Lovely to see this painted 1770s dress and compare it to this one from our collection that was re-modelled in the 1840s: www.thejohnbrightcollection.co.uk/costume/dres...

Our historic collection team has interrupted its usual work to help mount star pieces for ‘Costume Couture -Sixty Years of Cosprop’ at the Fashion and Textile Museum’ #costumecouture #fashionandtextilemuseum #costumemounting #filmcostume #fashionexhibition #costumeexhibition #costumedesign

Autumn is such an inspiring season for #lanterns

Robert-Adam-appreciation tweet

the perfect refuge #booklovers #library

A butterfly for you. #InsectThursday

Candy coloured and fresh, it almost looks like a Bridgerton-esque pastiche of a late #1770s gown but is in fact completely original. I am imagining the accessories that went with #museodeltraje #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

roses of September

For anyone who is #teaching #18thcentury politics and/or electoral culture, or is doing #localhistory or #familyhistory, do check out our ECPPEC web resource : it's chock-full of short informative essays, polling data, and artefacts #skystorians ecppec.ncl.ac.uk

Fan https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/95831

Today we are celebrating #Railway200, as 200 years ago, #OTD 1825, the Stockton & Darlington Railway opened. To mark this milestone, we thought we’d look at some of the ways Parliament and the railways have intersected in the last 200 years: (🧵 1/6) @victoriancommons.bsky.social

1837 is the year gigot sleeves collapsed -- or at least their top halves did. The giant balloon sleeves of the earlier 1830s abruptly tightened on the upper arms in 1837, leaving big puffs on the lower arms for a little longer before the demure 1840s. bsky.app/profile/achr...

Thrilled to share this beautiful Viceroy butterfly for #InsectThursday. I find that the Viceroy’s appearance is a bellwether that the Monarchs are coming.🧡🖤🤍 #Photography99 📷🌱 #Butterflies 🦋

How splendid! 🌺 #royalcrescent #georgian

Winter scene at Tyresö Palace outside Stockholm. #Lanterns theme for #palacesandgardens

Look forward to October! Here is a list of new #nonfiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for next month: regency-explorer.net/new-releases/ #Regency #Napoleon #history #JaneAusten #read

Lichtspiele, Marienseide und (ganz klein im Hintergrund) eine Niströhre für den Steinkauz

"Phantom-of-the-library"-style 🙃 #lanterns

Redingote https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/100508

Manuscript notes and character sketches written by Maria Edgeworth in planning her novels; some pages are extended by sewn-on scraps of paper. Amazing to see these, and the original case she stored them in!

Street lamp at Hampton Court Palace - Hampton Court, London #streetlamp #hamptonCourt #palace #PalacesAndGardens #lanterns #classicMono

Huge golden Lanterns outside Schloss Nymphenburg. #Munich. Germany #PalacesandGardens #Lanterns #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #ArtYear

Hogwarts vs Downton for #PalacesAndGardens theme of #lanterns #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #photography #AlnwickCastle #filmlocation #Northumberland #castle #blackandwhite #monochrome (Android phone camera)

lantern in the entrance hall of Castle Howard #PalacesandGardens #lanterns

Garden lantern in the park of Somerleyton Hall #PalacesandGardens #lanterns

enjoy September

Sixty Years of Cosprop opens at the Fashion and Textile Museum, London. Explore some of the most famous costumes from film and television (26.9.2025 - 8.3.26) fashiontextilemuseum.org/exhibitionsd... Any lucky ones around here going to the exhibition and sharing photos?

open me, whispered the gate

When you leave dragons in the garden too long...

Doll's coat of wool lined with silk, made in #London, 1690-1700. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

How are we all doing? Cotton dress, American, 1856. Via The Met here: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Laura Secord became a hero of the War of 1812 when she warned the British of an American attack. But it took decades for her to receive recognition for her actions. This is the story of one of Canada's most famous historical figures. 🧵 1/12

The Kilburn Album of chintz designs, William Kilburn, c.1788-92

Goethea cauliflora 🌺

Dirk Schulte Postcard to Maire 2025

"Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.” - Vincent Van Gogh (art: Stephanie Lambourne)

Evening at Argenteuil by Claude Monet 1876 Oil on Canvas (Private Collection)

Golden hour ✨️

Join our #PalacesandGardens feed on 25 September! Share your photos and stories of #lanterns, path lights, illuminated buildings, and garden features. Let’s celebrate the enchanting glow that brings historic gardens and palaces to life. #EastCoastKin

Schöner Wohnen

Hotari. Ukiyo-e woodblock print. About 1800, Japan, by artist Chobunsai Eishi

A Dahlia glowing with the warm hues of the setting sun to wish you all a good evening. #DailyBotanicalBeauty

In addition to Greg's podcast, I also recommend @vulgarhistory.bsky.social who recently finished up Marie Antoinette history month. Our cultural image of her is so ... stained? Especially by things other people did that I always feel the need to push back when she's held as a frivolity standard+

She's out. She's here. It's official. My biography of Marie Antoinette is available from all the usual places that you can buy books, but if you'd like a signed copy then you can still order directly from me! ⚜️ www.marcburrows.co.uk/product/pre-...

Jane Austen Festival has begun in beautiful city of Bath,where I lived and studied.Some profound memories of my time in the city are still vivid 🤎 Bath is celebrating life,works,and legacy of author with promenades and theatrical performances to mark her 250th birthday. #JaneAusten #weekendvibes

bit.ly/AustenHayley in bit.ly/HayleyEssays wasn’t author & academic Diana Barsham’s first take on Jane Austen & William Hayley's relationship. Read her earlier piece here – buff.ly/uzWPgfS #lifewriting #biography #18thC #c18th #romance #JaneAusten #romanticism #19thc #womenswriting #womenshistory