May the smiley bearded man bring you joy on this Monday.

Women curators, designers, and collectors have played a huge part throughout our history at The Museum of English Rural Life. For #InternationalWomensDay 2026, read about the stories of three women from our earlier years in our new blogpost. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Sarah C. Andersen (born June 15, 1992) US cartoonist and illustrator #Womensart

The inside of a violin looks like the most peaceful modern house or the bowels of a ship…

The big Birb is back. 🐦 We’ve named him Jeff. #woodpigeon #londonwildlife

Happy World Book Day! I would dress up as Odysseus or Irene Adler. Two very different characters! 😂 #worldbookday

I feel like these guys are hopelessly lost and have stumbled upon a cursed church 😂

Happy International Wildlife Day! These little critters live in the garden of the office of @histassoc.bsky.social Beautiful urban wildlife in London ❤️🌳🏙️

Took part in a seasonally late wassail today to celebrate and wake up the fruit trees in the local orchard.

Rock climbers Lucy Smith and Pauline Rankin of the Ladies’ Scottish Climbing Club, 1908, Salisbury Crags, Scotland #WomensArt Welcome to #WomensHistoryMonth

'Crocus & Daffodils' by UK contemporary painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt #spring #March

St David's Day Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Artist: H Woolley (1954)

They had a deal: buy a book and get a free coffee. So of course I bought two books. 😉

Olympic ceremony costumes do not disappoint

The BAFTA film awards are being broadcast at the same time as the Winter Olympics closing ceremony, but since I prefer brightly coloured and sometimes confusing international cultural events to award ceremonies full of celebrities, I’m watching the latter….

Annie Rie, contemporary stained glass artist inspired by the UK countryside #womensart

Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

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RIP Robert Duvall. The first time I ever saw him on screen was as Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley in To Kill a Mocking Bird (1962)

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘February’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt 1958

iconic profile .. Milvus milvus aka Red Kite perched high in an ash tree today calling for attention .. north Hampshire, England 17/02/2026

New Mexico based, contemporary photographer Natalie Christensen creates minimalist photography #WomensArt

👍 #oilpainting #sketchbook

'Storm light' by UK contemporary printmaker Mikki Bowers #WomensArt

Saw ‘Wuthering Heights’ today and I found it a pretty hilarious and hysterical movie, but I loved the crazy costumes.

It must feel so good gliding down that curling lane like a little Canadian pair of scissors through Olympic wrapping paper

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

🎶 Thou needest not have wealthe To be my love Thou needest not be coole To rule above Ther nys no especial signe Ich have affinitee wyth Ich nede naught but thyne extra tyme and thy [lute riffe] kysse 🎶

Zinaida Serebriakova's 'Self-Portrait at the Dressing-Table', 1909, reflects a candid depiction of daily life, highlighting a modern, confident, autonomous young woman #WomensArt

Me when I saw Pedro Pascal during the halftime show

There are some great threads going about how awful sugar plantations were. I just want to add something as a historical romance author: every time you see someone adding a sugar cube to tea in a historical romance, think of those threads and the blood-soaked cost of the sugar.

Today's #photooftheday #birdphotography is old photo taken at #Hammersmith of all places! #birding #birdwatching #photographer #NaturePhotography #NatureIsMagic

Babs Pease, contemporary artist and printmaker living in rural Scotland #WomensArt

Tlingit weaver Anna Brown Ehlers of the Tlingit Chilkat tribe, Pacific Northwest Coast #WomensArt

Saw Hamnet tonight and despite all the rave reviews, I actually did not like it that much at all. Jacobi Jupe, however, was an excellent little star. In my opinion he out-acted all the adults in the film.

Angela Harding is a fine art painter and illustrator based in the UK specialising in lino prints #WomensArt

Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘Cat among ferns’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Also this week: "On Holocaust Memorial Day we need more history, not just more memory" bit.ly/4t6wPx6 Dr Andy Pearce, Director of @uclholocaust.bsky.social, on the Society's blog. Andy's article introduces new work on Holocaust knowledge among UK secondary school pupils #Skystorians

OH BOY, AM I EVER www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Master and Commander is one of the best films ever ever made

Morning! #MosaicMonday

Thanks to the East Pointers (who came to London all the way from Prince Edward Island in Canada) I had way too much fun last night and working on Monday morning is proving difficult 😅

Monday.. 1/3

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” - Terry Pratchett, “I Shall Wear Midnight”

A nurse. A researcher. A helper.

@veganjenny.bsky.social I thought you might appreciate my new earrings. Sadly one fell out of my ear and was lost, so I have had to transform the other one into a pendant…

'January Thaw' by contemporary US printmaker Jeanne Amato #WomensArt

Today I took a day off work and went to the local cinema. We saw a film called Rental Family which was really interesting and really made me miss Japan. I hope someday I can go back ❤️