one for the 🗃️feed (and seeing it reminded me to go take my vitamin D, lol) #histSTM

Badhuis Diamantbuurt (1926) door architect Arend Jan Westerman in opdracht van de Gemeente Amsterdam.

🎨 Ottoman Ladies at a Turkish Bath, Istanbul, c. 1750

♟️ 👨‍🎨 Marcel Duchamp was a notorious chess fanatic who repeatedly threatened to quit art for chess and coined the phrase: 💬 “While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.” Read more: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/sofonisbas... 🗃️ #arthistory #chess #art #skystorians

#onthisday, 3 Oct 1870, Dr Richard Barter died aged 68. An Irish physician, he built the 1st experimental Victorian #TurkishBaths at his St Ann's Hydro, realising David Urquhart's 30 yr dream of reintroducing the bath to the Br Isles. Barter associated with 9+ Tbs in Ireland, & 1 in London. 🗃️ #C19th

#onthisday, 3 October 1863, Dr Charles H Shepard added Victorian #TurkishBaths to his hydropathic 'sanitorium' at No.63 Columbia Street, #Brooklyn Heights, #NewYork &, in doing so, opened the first Turkish bath in the USA. www.victorianturkishbath.org/_2HISTORY/At.... The baths closed 1913. 🗃️ #C19th

#onthisday, 1 October 1860, Dr Barter opened #TurkishBaths for the Working Classes at 43 Little Donegal St, #Belfast. They were actually 2nd Class baths attached to the 1st Class baths opening on 1 November, but entered from 112 Donegal St. www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/... +ALT 🗃️ #C19th

Happy birthday to Historic Pools of Britain, 10 years old today, also Sporting Heritage Day @sportingheritage historicpools.org.uk We're happy to be part of Historic Pools and sorry we couldn't make it to today's event at City Baths Newcastle. Have a great day! #NSHD #SwimmingHistory #SportHistory

#onthisday, 30 September 1868, James Bryning opened the #Surrey #TurkishBaths at 191 Blackfriars Road, London. More about the image (with link to more about the baths) at www.victorianturkishbath.org/6DIRECTORY/A... The baths closed in 1888, becoming site 4 the New Surrey Chapel & Schools. 🗃️ #C19th

The Society is deeply concerned by a growing pattern of the Secretary of State refusing to add important historic buildings to the National Heritage List for England, even when formally recommended to do so by Historic England. Read more: bit.ly/4pQKFSI 📷 Hotspur Press by Alan Davies #heritage

‪The 200th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway reminds us that if the railway companies didn't provide #TurkishBaths for their passengers, two of them did so for their staff. For info & pix: www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/... and www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/...

The 200th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway brings back memories of the Euston to Liverpool overnight sleepers. They weren't bad—though they never provided #TurkishBaths, as suggested in 1890 in the 'Railway Press'. However, some Russian trains included vapour baths for the wounded.

#Fox by Helen Ahpornsiri, who creates intricate collage artworks created with real pressed flowers and leaves. #WomensArt #Autumn #Fall

#onthisday, 25 September 1859, Frederick S Rawnsley, Sec. of the St Peter's Foreign Affairs Committee in #Leeds, and Mgr of #TurkishBaths in St Peter's Square, opened his own establishment in Wade Lane. Surviving under several owners for almost 60 years, this early bath closed in 1916. +ALT 🗃️ #C19th

#onthisday, 24 September 1927, #Bermondsey opened its £150,000 Grange Road Baths. Some papers lammed the council for providing 'luxurious' #TurkishBaths on the rates as they were well fitted out for a local authority facility. Gay friendly. Closed 1973—"structural defects". Demolished 1975. 🗃️ #C19th

Water fountain in the main hall at the Russell-Cotes Museum. #TilesOnTuesday

Fritz Spiegl would have appreciated this image since ear damage appears to have played a part in his exit from professional flute playing. In later years he would occasionally refer to having been "invalided out by the brass section". His Liverpool April Fool concerts were copied by Gerard Hoffnung.

Still life with aubergines, 1911 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/15866

Morning Tea, 1920 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16521

Fascinating website, and one of the earliest individually compiled history websites around. Beware of addictive serendipity!

A century ago, a new wellness trend captivated people around the world. Just a small dose of newly discovered supplement could cure almost anything — from gout to headaches to “lack of bodily vigor.” 🧵🗃️

Amazing exhibition about Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social a sadly declining rarity.

Delighted to be welcoming visitors for @Glasgowdodf to the Arlington Baths Club! Especially to show off our new exhibition about 150 years of our Turkish bath, along with info panels from @victurk.bsky.social telling the story of #Turkish #baths in the UK and Ireland. #DoorsOpen

Were the “plunge” rooms basically pools, like an indoor pool these days?

#onthisday, 20 September 1909, #Carlisle quietly opened #TurkishBaths in James Street. Designed by City Surveyor Percy Dalton, erected by local builder Wm Johnstone, the building is now Grade II Listed. Closed 2022, but active campaign to reopen. www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/... 🗃️ #C19th

This article mentions the Victorian #TurkishBaths in Frederick Street. If you want to know more about them, you'll find an illustrated article at www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/...

#onthisday, 16 September 1868, the #Hobart Town Turkish Bath Co Ltd, encouraged by John Le Gay Brereton who introduced the bath in Australia, opened #TurkishBaths on the corner of Collins & Harrington Streets. Scene of an unusual incident in 1870 www.victorianturkishbath.org/_7CHARIVARI/... 🗃️ #C19th

#onthisday, 16 September 1868, the #Hobart Town Turkish Bath Co Ltd, encouraged by John Le Gay Brereton who introduced the bath in Australia, opened #TurkishBaths on the corner of Collins & Harrington Streets. Scene of an unusual incident in 1870 www.victorianturkishbath.org/_7CHARIVARI/... 🗃️ #C19th

#onthisday, 16 September 1886, #TurkishBaths were opened at the St Petersgate Public Baths in #Stockport. Hot rooms 135°, 175°, & 260° F, shampooing room, & cooling-room. Stained glass windows and gas-lit by night. JC Prestwich of Leigh beat 90 other architects in competition. Closed 1993. 🗃️ #C19th

If you are interested in the history of #Crewe, #railways, or Victorian #TurkishBaths, you may like to know that the L&NWR Company Baths page on the Victorian Turkish Baths web has been revised, & a new page added at www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/... about its long-time manager. 🗃️ #C19th

#onthisday, 11 Sept 1860, Foreign Affairs Committeeman Roger Evans—who'd earlier that yr opened London's 1st Victorian #TurkishBaths in Bell St—had to open larger one in Golden Square. www.victorianturkishbath.org/_2HISTORY/At... Closed 1866—bldg to be Hosp for Throat Diseases extn (RNENT). 🗃️ #C19th

#onthisday, 10 September 1927, the London borough of #Woolwich opened Public baths including #TurkishBaths in Plumstead High Street. Hot rooms at 150°, 180° & 220°F, steam rm, shampooing rm with 2 Sicilian marble slabs, plunge, needle & shower baths, & oak-panelled cooling-rm. Closure date? 🗃️ #C19th

#onthisday, 7 Sep 1906, #Manchester Corporation opened Victoria baths, incl one of the corp's 5 Victorian or Victorian-style #TurkishBaths. Closed in 1993. Now a community centre run by victoriabaths.org.uk. Hist: www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/AtoZEstab/England/ManHiS/1MHSEng.htm 🗃️ #C19th

I've recycled all my brown paper bags, so what am I going to do when the alarm sounds this afternoon?

If you are interested in Isaac Ironside, #Sheffield, #Walkley, or Victorian #TurkishBaths, I've just added a v. brief article about the Turkish bath he built at his home in Carr Road. It was the first house in England to have a domestic Turkish bath. See: www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/...

#onthisday, 5 Sept 1884, #Whitehaven #TurkishBaths opened—the 1st in the world to be lit by electricity using Swan's Incandescent Lamps as in Armstrong's nearby #Cragside. 3 hot rooms, salt water plunge, needle douche, shampooing & cooling-room. www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/... 🗃️ #C19th

#onthisday, 5 Sept 1884, #Whitehaven #TurkishBaths opened—the 1st in the world to be lit by electricity using Swan's Incandescent Lamps as in Armstrong's nearby #Cragside. 3 hot rooms, salt water plunge, needle douche, shampooing & cooling-room. www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/... 🗃️ #C19th

So don't forget me!

We’ve launched a new collection of openly accessible videos, Interviews with Historians, in which prominent 20th century historians reflect on their lives and professional practices. Access the collection here: www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...

Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

Apparently, it's #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay! Here is my favourite #owl, depicted on a #Roman mosaic found in Uzès southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC. 📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap

#onthisday, 4 Sept 1891, #Gloucester Corporation opened Public Baths including #TurkishBaths which closed in 1998. Superintendent John Maxfield (the Younger). In 1857, his Dad, a David Urquhart Foreign Affairs Committeeman, designed the heater for Isaac Ironside's domestic Tb—England's 1st. 🗃️ #C19th

This version of House of the Rising Sun is brilliant! Do yourself a favour and spare the 8 minutes. youtu.be/jxwQXkA_te4?...

There's something (almost) symbolic, but certainly elegant, in the photographer's name being Möbius.

💕 ♟️ As a prestigious pastime, chess gave aristocratic men & women the freedom to meet in a way not otherwise permitted. 🎥 Watch THROUGH THE MIRROR OF CHESS exploring the remarkable social & cultural impact of #chess: ideasroadshow.com/chess/ 🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky #skystorians #boardgames

The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill opened at Berlin's Theater am Schiffbauerdamm on the 31/08/1928. #BertoltBrecht #KurtWeill #Theater #Frühtweet @blnensemble

The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill opened at Berlin's Theater am Schiffbauerdamm on the 31/08/1928. #BertoltBrecht #KurtWeill #Theater #Frühtweet @blnensemble

#onthisday, 2 September 1891, #Bolton #TurkishBaths Co Ltd opened the Ladies' section of their Great Moor Street baths. The Gentlemen's section opened the next day. Galleried cooling-room and three hot rooms. Taken over by Bolton Corporation in 1899, they remained open till 31 March 1980. 🗃️ #C19th

Absolutely delighted that Dan Briggs, son of the BBC's first official historian Asa Briggs, has written to The Observer supporting the need for on-request vetting to re-instated at the BBC Written Archives Centre (p.29; not I think online). Letter's wording is in the .alt element. #waccampaign

#onthisday, 1 September 1909, Adolph S Lundin opened women's #TurkishBaths at 42-44 St Botolph Street, #Boston, Mass. Located just below street level, with a gym and offices on upper floors. Italian marble pool, cooling-room, hot rooms, & shampooing. Also hair-dressing, nails & chiropody. 🗃️ #C19th