#Carving #WoodCarving

Definitely 🌋 would recommend the new documentary on Pompeii: “Pompei: Below the Clouds.” It looks at the everyday lives of modern people like firefighters, port workers, & archaeologists on the Bay of Naples—as well as the ancient fear of living below Vesuvius (now on MUBI) youtu.be/XB0kyzY81PU?...

New podcast! We talk to Harriet & Rob Fraser, environmental artist working collectively as SOMEWHERE NOWHERE about their place-based walking practices in #Cumbria #LakeDistrict shorturl.at/NHHjI #Poetry #Photography #Walking #Art #Placemaking @fellranger.bsky.social

Roll of Honour of Hazlehurst Mission Ashton under Lyne. Now housed in the Albion church in Ashton #MementoMori #MondayMemorials

#Siena Palazzo Pubblico and Torre Del Mangia #Italy #Architecture

#Siena #Italy Piazza Del Campo

A Lutyens building in Piccadilly, easy to miss.

Flying fish, John White, 1585-1593 (British Museum)

Church of St Lawrence, Castle Rising, Kings Lynn Norfolk Norman central tower - c. 1140 “Late 19th C tower raised by 1 stage in limestone ashlar with blank arcading” - Historic England “Saddleback top #Victorian by G E Street” - Pevsner @yalepress.bsky.social #SteepleSaturday

Anyone else dry orange peel for firefighters? Our Simon thinks I am getting weirder by the day.

Joseph Southall (1861-1944) Detail from Beauty receiving the White Rose from her Father 1899 at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. #caturday

Apple Blossom The Garden St Margarets: acrylic on canvas

#Libraries #Books #Reading

@portaspeciosa.bsky.social Hello, Steve! These two little birds have told me that there might be a delivery for you tomorrow afternoon. 🐦

However, there is one last treat just inside the west door on the south side: another mosaic of fragments removed during various restorations & assembled here at eye level where you can look at them up close & see the glaziers' skill & technique. Here's the ensemble.

An intensely crafted Lutyens detail at Tigbourne Court, Surrey (1899-1901)

If you can, join us in DC on 18 April at the Folger for Shakespeare’s birthday lecture: www.folger.edu/whats-on/sha...

#EpigraphyTuesday this week offers us a painted #inscription now in the #VaticanMuseums, a property document bequeathing an apartment building, the #Insula Sertoriana, to the writer's daughter, Aurelia Cyriaca, c. 100-150 CE. The text is written in beautiful rustic capitals. #AncientBluesky 🏺

A Henry VIII door, leading to one of the side chapels in the incredible Kings College Chapel, Cambridge 😀

#StainedGlassSunday Two years ago, I went on a terrific tour of City of London stained glass, organised by the Stained Glass Museum at Ely. Amidst the dazzling cavalcade of creatures that I saw, I picked these three sheep as among my favourites, the tiny seated ram not being the least of them!

One of the astonishing corners of Victorian art in Britain. This pulpit sits inside St Martin-on-the-Hill in Scarborough, a church described as a “hidden Pre-Raphaelite gem.” The entire interior is a collaboration between some of the most important members of the

In the garden today. Some pale blue and cream "whiskery wonders", just the ticket for #Caturday. I like the variation in markings between the individual plants. @3leggedcat.bsky.social

Please view images in full for best effect. These churchyard primroses in a lovely violet shade seen on the same visit.

"I’m very worried about what is being destroyed. We’re all extremely worried, because what we’re seeing is the ad hoc closure and drastic cutting of many, many departments across the country." Historian Lyndal Roper in today's THE: bit.ly/4sqsfJ2 #Skystorians 1/2

Slowly increasing the scale and detail of this model…. nearly ready for the final version 1:250 1:200 1:150 Not sure if I need to take it to 1:100….

St Barbara's church, Ashton under Hill. #adoorablethursday #dailydoor

If you pre-order my new "Talking Classics" book (in UK) before 16 April (pub. date) from Waterstones, you can enter a prize draw for a free trip for 2 to Pompeii (+ a guided tour from me). waterstones.com/win/talking-... (If you've ordered already & didnt enter, you can cancel & reorder)

A fabric tester panel from a bed of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn- he the acorn, she the honeysuckle; headboard of a marital bed for Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves, 1539 with cheekily suggestive characters. At the Burrell Collection Glasgow.

Highbury Hall Birmingham. #windowsonwednesday

Same quad, opposite windows 🔁 📍Clarendon Quadrangle

Peppermint🍃🍵 is adorned with chaffinch and his family 🪽🐦🐥

📢 SGSAH is hiring! Two paid roles for Scotland-based Arts & Hums PhD researchers: 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 + 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 💻 5 hrs/week for 6 months. Build skills in writing & digital curation. ⏰ Closing: 30 March 2026 🔗 Full details: www.sgsah.ac.uk/about/news/h...

Two more details from John Hayward's great West window at Sherborne Abbey. On the left, Saint John with a golden image of an eagle. He strikes me as serious and measured, but not harsh. I like the gold band that forms a frame around him. Right, Hayward's signature, a work of art in itself.

#StainedGlassSunday Celestial detail from John Hayward's sublime West window in Sherborne Abbey.

#TraceryTuesday in Merton College chapel, Oxford. The East window is outstanding late C13th work, with 7 lights all pointed-trefoil-cusped; the roundel has 12 spokes, with handsome intersecting tracery to the sides. Beneath, elements of miniature architecture, in sumptuous Decorated style.

For @limefinishes.bsky.social Photos posted @donna8star.bsky.social on Twitter

📢 New podcast! Our guest today is Dr Florence Gaub, Director of the Research Division at the NATO Defense College in Rome. We discuss current threats, 'future shock', and the role of speculative fiction in futures thinking: www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...

782 years ago today, over 200 Cathar “heretics” were burned at the foot of Montségur in southern France, days after they had surrendered their mountain-top stronghold. This effectively wiped out the Cathar faith. I’ve only visited once – on September 11, 2001.

New podcast! Talking with Caroline Schaumann about Humboldtian science in the mountains - feeling, failure, and queer sensibilities + 19th C. mountaineering in print, archive and film #EnvHist #Mountaineering #Alps #Andes shorturl.at/tVj9T @mbrescius.bsky.social @lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social

#MonumentsMonday A classic example of 2 medieval effigy tombs that ‘speak to each other’. The pairing of bishops' tombs in the walls of the Lady Chapel at Exeter Cathedral brings together Bishop Branscombe (d 1290) & Bishop Stafford (d 1419). Added later, the canopies are glorious confections!

Plato, Phaedrus, 275a/b

Went for an explore near Droitwich today and saw Westwood House for the first time and wow: simply stunning. An early adoption of the Butterfly plan which makes perfect sense when you see it in situ, with set piece views to every point of the compass. What a building!!

2/2 Polychrome grandeur, crumbling before our eyes. The architect was William Slater, the mausoleum richly and delicately ornamented. With @stroudstory.bsky.social.

Our next #Shakespeare webinar will take place on 6 April at 6pm. This time we'll be exploring HENRY VI, PART 1 with Emma Smith and Amy Lidster. They will discuss the play & how we might approach it in the 21st century, followed by a Q&A. All welcome! #HenryVI #BookSky