Tulips!

Spring springing

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

everyone’s discussing how financially stupid this is and they’re right but it’s also logistically stupid. zero way to charge foreigners and not locals without a hell of a lot of racism coming out in the wash

"integrate AI into your workflow..." buddy, given half a chance I'd be scratching on vellum with oak gall ink in a nice dark clochán on Skellig Michael. I have no interest in generative AI at all, I wish they would stop trying to crowbar it into *everything*. Sometimes the effort is the point.

To mark the 125th anniversary of the Schwebebahn in Wuppertal this month, here's a 1950s tourism poster designed by Harald Gutschow.

Father Purdon developed the text [Luke 16: 8-9] with resonant assurance. It was a text for business men and professional men setting before then as exemplars in the religious life those very worshippers of Mammon who were of all men the least solicitous in matters religious.

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.

Golden winter sun #trees #woodland #treeclub

Bowl, made in #Persia, c. 1630-1600 16cm x 39.4cm I would love one. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

When I move into a house I am just like anybody else: I like to immediately get settled in and orientate myself by drawing a map of the immediate area, themed entirely around the habits of squirrels.

Frits Thaulow’s Paris, 1893

Save Modern Languages and Music @ Uni of Nottingham! 💛💚💙 www.change.org/p/stop-the-r... www.change.org/p/stop-the-s...

Such a key point about cutting back on language provision - it’s not good for science and it’s not good for growth www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The University of Nottingham has announced the suspension of all Modern Languages and Cultures (MLC) programmes from September 2026. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘Autumn scene’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

This isn't just any fox ... it's a fox created out of the remains of a Cornish Red rhododendron tree. Standing 6 metres tall in the Lost Gardens of Heligan, it is made up of 600 pieces of wood, all from a tree that predated WW1 and was blown down during a recent winter storm.

'My Garden...' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary artist and printmaker #WomensArt

You can still dine at Restaurant Fournaise, on the banks of the Seine, the setting for Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party 140 years ago. Incidentally, that’s Aline, Renoir’s future wife, at lower L, & fellow artist Gustave Caillebotte at lower R www.artinsociety.com/floating-ple...

I HAVE NOW RESTORED THE ROMAN EMPIRE. THERE IS A BEAUTIFUL CEASEFIRE IN ITALY THERE IS NO WAR WITH THE GOTHS AND THERE IS UNIVERSAL PROSPERITY, ANYBODY SPREADING RUMOURS ABOUT A plague IS WRONG, THER IS ALSO NO HERESY ANYMORE ALL IS ORTHODOX THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER, YOUR EMPEROR

Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University - Sign the Petition! chng.it/9vtymFBVFh

Yorkshire May evening

Cherry blossom time

Hey chat is it bad when the gov tells you you’re not allowed to question their decree on who is and is not deserving of human rights and consideration in their ability to participate in society

Alfred Eisenstaedt working in a cathedral on assignment, Lourdes, france, 1958

"they hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak" our beef:

You know what's more disturbing than starting a trade war with penguins? The very real likelihood that the penguins are going to win.

A little more about THE WOLF AND HIS KING, my Bisclavret retelling coming this November from Gollancz. Please enjoy the manicules, I am very pleased with them. Pre-order links here: finnlongman.com/books/the-wo...

We are now recruiting to three Career Development Fellowships (in French, History, and Italian) and PhD studentships made possible by the generous support of Joanna and Graham Barker. Please spread the news. Interested candidates can read more here www.durham.ac.uk/IMEMS/InventingFutures

Woman & monkey attending to a unicorn, because of course. From Hours of Engelbert of Nassau by the Master of Mary of Burgundy. Today is Mary's day.

Please help us to save Modern Languages at Cardiff University: chng.it/Hmtvvdtptg

Doing a giveaway!! ✨ You could win this very fashionable and highly desirable DUCK BOWL!! Just repost this skeet to enter* If you wanna guarantee getting a bowl they are also in my website along with my other fowl friends 🪿🦆 Richardmoonstreet.com

now that DeepSeek has completed AI, we hope that Silicon Valley will turn its attention to the next best thing: investing in rural history museums

Northumberland

Peak District looking stunning

Yorkshire sunrise

Still getting over that I actually did see a Dalek sing Fairy Tale of New York last night and it wasn’t done kinda of fever dream

I wrote a little journalism piece on giant pig pics among other things www.theopenartfair.com/magazine/pri...

Autumn

New crab apple tree planted