Thank you #palaeography Sky for all the ❤️ Sharpie - the training game for Secretary hand - now has heaps of improvements you suggested: - letters in context of whole word - 24char alphabet default - show baselines - choose which hands to practice - share game settings gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/

Thank you #palaeography Sky for all the ❤️ Sharpie - the training game for Secretary hand - now has heaps of improvements you suggested: - letters in context of whole word - 24char alphabet default - show baselines - choose which hands to practice - share game settings gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/

"In contrast with the others’ luxuriant, undulating & fashionable feathers, the older cardsharp’s is thin & pointed. It comes from a domestic bird, perhaps a raven or the black sickle feathers of a cockerel, suggesting it might have been scavenged from a hedge or byway" 11/10. Delicious.

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+++ It's beginning to look a lot like Krampus! This coming weekend, the 5th-7th Dec 2025, you can see the annual Whitby Krampus Run, organised by those very naughty but nice folks at Decadent Drawing +++ #krampus #krampusrun #whitby #northyorkshire #yorkshire #folklore #folkhorror #whitbykrampusrun

This is powerful. An Autobiographical Essay by Caroline Walker Bynum. 'That very summer, with unpacked boxes all around me, I wrote the article that became the title essay of Jesus as Mother and I filed papers to adopt a child as a single parent.' www.ias.edu/sites/defaul...

An entire generation raised on Time Team breathlessly await to tomorrow's followup story in which Stuart says it's a septic tank and the real feature is a mile down the road.

👀 Gritti, J., (2024) "Ceremonies Performed in Public Spaces: Ephemeral Architecture and Urban Itineraries in Sforza Milan", Architectural Histories 11(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/ah.... Gritti - also of milanosforzesca.it - pretty much single handedly reclaiming Sforza Milan from undeserved neglect.

Met Theater Kwast richt ik me vooral op Nederlands Renaissance- en baroktheater, zoals Vondels Gijsbreght van Aemstel, die we sinds 2018 iedere nieuwjaarsweek spelen op de plek waar het in 1638 in première ging. Kester Freriks beschreef het treffend @theaterkrant www.theaterkrant.nl/recensie/gij...

Final MSc essay of term submitted a week early. Alea iacta etc. Could have used that week to revise but needed to de-monkey my back. In shades of undergraduate days it's a first draft written overnight in 12 hrs. Then again when you've done the reading & organised your argument why bugger about?

What I wouldn't give for one more learned FaceTime seminar about some obscure female silversmith of the early c19th. In the background: his FGA and NAG: Smart guy. Not bad for a lad from Rodney St. And some toy monkeys from Gibraltar: sweet guy too. Miss you, JD ❤️

This image is part of a detailed account of King Edward VI’s procession in 1547 from the Tower of London to the Palace of Westminster on the day before his coronation. Unique to this scene is its recording of the City, especially Cheapside with its goldsmiths’ shops.

I'm not any kind of Italianist but surely 'gl'immascherati' / 'li ma(scher)ati' ought to be translated 'masquers' (ie and not 'masks')? Leonardo. The Literary Works of Leonardo Da Vinci: Compiled and Edited from the Original Manuscripts. Edited by Jean Paul Richter. Phaidon, 1970. Vol II § 748A

✍ Introducing ✍ Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/ AKA What I Did Over Reading Week. #skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing. Love g 🗃️

Curse you, autocorrect, why do you not understand 'palaeography'? Make a damn fool of me go right ahead! Sorry, folks no dinosaurs.

✍ Introducing ✍ Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeontology gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/ AKA What I Did Over Reading Week. #skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing. Love g 🗃️

The reference is Irving Penn's portrait of Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen & his wife, Dagmar. www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

✍ Introducing ✍ Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeontology gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/ AKA What I Did Over Reading Week. #skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing. Love g 🗃️

"Of all the sets and all the set pieces - a Frankenstein movie I think the key piece is the lab. That's the one obligatory scene." - @realgdt.bsky.social Set tour: m.youtube.com/watch?v=JRiL... (Also, the set I wanted so much to design it's <cough> how I furnished the bottom floor of my house…)

Instagram is an absolute close stool of a website but this post from the legendary Ivan Day on the serving of early modern pies is totally essential www.instagram.com/p/DQxpkIpDIG8/ (All images are his and are fully described in his post - read more there!)

Kate Hawley on gothtuming @realgdt.bsky.social Frankenstein. www.phantasmag.com/articles/gui... Irresistible the way this references Vera West's costume for the 1935 Bride - those sleeves!

Pair of truly gorgeous Austin Osman Spare watercolours with Bellmans next month. Would part with a kidney in a heartbeat to finance, heck both kidneys if you insist. The £1000 estimate is the living definition of a put up 'come by me' job unfortunately. www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...

1586. George French of Kingsbridge, Devon had the model Elizabethan garden: formal knot garden, parterres, arbour... BIG SURROUNDING WALL. (Pretty much mouthwatering) detail from a map with Forum Auctions next month. www.forumauctions.co.uk/157131/Devon...

As far as I can tell this hasn't been noticed until I showed my amazing mum - who's spent 2 years working with the Frank Meadow Sutcliffe archive at #Whitby Museum - George du Maurier's Whitby Vikings cartoon from Punch. The FMS picture is "c1885", the cartoon 1881 but that "circa" could be critical

Extracurricular obsession with (a) blue food (b) imaginary flavours continues to be a hurdle to e.g. sleep, reintegration into polite society etc. This via Mr Tee www.instagram.com/mrtee_offici...

[Terry Thomas voice] Well hel-lo.

In which a throwaway trailing modifier phrase opens up so many more questions than it resolves... Cressy, David. “Death and the Social Order: The Funerary Preferences of Elizabethan Gentlemen.” Continuity and Change 5, no. 1 (1990): 99–119. doi.org/10.1017/S026....

Another day, another post shamelessly fanboying Tamara Deverell, production designer of @realgdt.bsky.social's Frankenstein: Deverell dumped some juicy reference imagery on Instagram last week - the cropping / reframing she chose lets you follow her eye at work 🧵 www.instagram.com/p/DPqPKrajUGh

Problem: You've got a webpage containing an embedded IIIF but what you want is a nice old-fashioned max resolution PNG. Solution: github.com/gjhilton/Rip... No warranties, no support. Most of all: people who digitise manuscripts deserve LOVE, not this sort of thing - please don't use for evil.

Bidding now open for the sale of the Jim Henson company's archive: I am being unfairly personally targeted by the lavish selection of dishes and tableware from the show-stealing Skeksis banquet scene in Dark Crystal. www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/...

Google Books captcha generator has a low opinion of vol 2 of the records of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the North Riding of the County of York (1612-1620).

Were any of my organs so tradeable - if only! - I would hock the dripping lot to Satan in a moment to write a single paragraph like Angela Carter.

Here's that diagram showing the Hindi naming of the components of elephant caparison you didn't know you needed. (From the highly-recommended www.sahapedia.org/elephant-reg... )

Astonishingly gorgeous nef (lower left).

Historians of science: any thoughts on this? I'm intrigued by a "recipe" in a 1505 manuscript, which describes what appears to be the Leidenfrost effect, named after Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, who supposedly was the first to describe the effect in the 18th century 🗃️ #HistSTM #HistSci #EarlyModern 🧪

This concept art for @realgdt.bsky.social 's Frankenstein - and now, my home office - has been hiding in plain sight as part of a Hollywood Reporter preview of the 'Art of…' book. No artist credit unfortunately but Tamara Deverell production designer. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Seasonally appropriate BTS from Berton Pierce on the models (and sets) of Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. "… a skeleton ribcage skull head sitting on a throne. And yet it was to look like a castle. Like you've ever seen a castle like that." m.youtube.com/watch?v=LCqw...

Perhaps I mistook it for abandoned, perhaps I came to despise how effortlessly the author pushes at an idea and keeps pushing and pushing: in any case, somehow I forgot BLDGBLOG. In an overnighter tonight I remembered it and fell head & heels hook & line back in love. bldgblog.com/2022/01/molt...

Jason Ardizzone-West's work may tbh not be my cup of tea but his process documentation is truly outstanding and fascinating. www.jawstudiony.com/design-proce...

Exhausted by the continual effort to resist buying this well-provenanced (thoroughbred?) 1920s-vintage pantomime horse. Might be prudent to yield to it.

How can it be possible that this never-read three volume boxed set of The Memoirs of the Duc de Saint Simon in the Norton translation (abridged but this is recreational reading) can be sold and delivered to me for less than the price of a chip barm and small portion of mushy peas?

As much as that, Internet Archive?

ABSTRACT In this skeet I argue that the avant garde in contemporary food creativity is not to be found in the Guide Michelin but on MN State Fair's 'New Foods' page. Keywords: Cockaigne, Gargantua, Wonka DEMONSTRATION www.mnstatefair.org/new/food/

Goodnight. Concept drawings by Hermann Warm for The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920).

We have a winner. Chapeau, Dr Keegan, this is inspired. And brava, too to @annegoldgar.bsky.social who helped get us there! Bluesky, look how brilliant and how generous your people are.

#palaeography #skystorians can you help with this c18th Scottish headscratcher that's got me stumped? "…to come of ? ? that…" Eany = any? Needless to say, the meaning of the whole folio which is almost all bureaucratic boilerplate turns on these, the only two indecipherable words! 🗃️

Needed precisely zero seconds to decide to sign up for this banger. Also: extra marks for the banner image of Studley: altogether rightly the poster landscape of designed landscapes.

Extremely à la mode baroque tableside carving / fruit sculpture performance from Mattia Giegher's Tre Trattati (1639) gallica.bnf.fr/view3if/ga/a...

Best. Parcel. Ever. Thanks to the gorgeous people at METh, a bulk shipping order of mint classic back issues of my all-time favourite journal, free, gratis and for nothing. Chances of accomplishing actual as-calendared work this week now laughably slight.

"That was my key to the whole set. We took big elements of Venetian architecture, and then we just painted them literally onto these big canvas arches.” If Wednesday S2.2 goes full Farinelli, you're going to need to use the maxi-dose bull elephant dart on me. variety.com/2025/artisan...