We're launching a BRAND NEW COURSE! 🎉 Designed to support graduates without a background in Conservation, the MCons Conservation of Cultural Heritage is a new two-year masters. 🔗 Course info: lncn.ac/mcons2026 🔗 Webinar: lncn.ac/mconswebinar @uolhumanities.bsky.social @jimchesh.bsky.social

The deadline for the first ever Ecocriticsm / Tennyson Conference is Saturday: all details below... @thevicsoc.bsky.social @tennysonsociety.bsky.social @victorianpoetry.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk @profjt.bsky.social @eecocriticism.bsky.social @gothicstudies.bsky.social

Come and speak at first ever Tennyson and Ecocriticism Conference: CFP deadline this Saturday - all information below @tennysonsociety.bsky.social @lindakhughes.bsky.social @victorianweb.bsky.social @victorianreview.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @jofvictculture.bsky.social @victstudies.bsky.social

Fantastic dog walk sunrise this morning in rural Lincolnshire - Happy New Year to you all… @isochesh.bsky.social @lin-conservation.bsky.social @lindakhughes.bsky.social @leahww.bsky.social @lyndaskipper.bsky.social @tennysonsociety.bsky.social @jasmine-allen.bsky.social @drcathydaly.bsky.social

Join me for this brand new webinar on 10th December 2025, where I'll be talking about how historic interiors can be used to tell new stories of houses, and the people who lived in them. 🔗 www.lincolnconservation.co.uk/training/onl... @jimchesh.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social

Come to the Tennyson Talk: 6/11 at 7.30pm - Professor Patrick Scott: 'Tennyson and Contemporary Science: Herschel's Preliminary Discourse, A Book That Got Away', free online - [email protected] for joining details @lindakhughes.bsky.social @tennysonsociety.bsky.social @victorianweb.bsky.social

Who would have thought that the Daily Mail would publish this article? Nice to see the work of @lin-conservation.bsky.social appreciated. @c19-lincoln.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social @uolconservation.bsky.social @nationalarmymuseum.bsky.social www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Saw the Lee Miller show @tate.bsky.social yesterday with @isochesh.bsky.social amazing range of images and feelings - surrealism beauty and horror linked by an extraordinary career

Students' work to conserve 2300-year-old Egyptian mummy Pa-sheri featured on BBC Look North news this evening. #conservation #culturalheritage #heritage #museums @uolhumanities.bsky.social @jimchesh.bsky.social @lyndaskipper.bsky.social @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social

Great work in hand at our conservation labs @thevicsoc.bsky.social @uolconservation.bsky.social @lin-conservation.bsky.social … www.bbc.com/news/article...

A statement in support of our colleagues in National Trust properties and conservation studios around the country. #conservation #culturalheritage #heritage #objectconservation #conservator #textileconservation #textileconservator #objectsconservation #nationaltrust @jimchesh.bsky.social

Tennyson Talks start up again next week - we have a great line up of speakers all talks free details below @tennysonsociety.bsky.social @lindakhughes.bsky.social @jofvictculture.bsky.social @thevicsoc.bsky.social @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social

SAVE THE DATE for the 2025-26 Tennyson Talks on Zoom. To sign up for links to each talk contact Prof. Valerie Purton at [email protected]

2026 Tennyson Conference: Call for Papers tennysonsociety.com/tennyson-202...

So today Betty is helping me put up a trellis for the new potting area hmmm… @isochesh.bsky.social

Some amazing rag rugs many designed by Winnifred Nicholson on display at the Hub at Sleaford nice trip yesterday with @isochesh.bsky.social @leahww.bsky.social @goldfinch.design

Conference Announcement: Tennyson 2026: Ecology, Landscape, Environment - cfp and details attached. Victorians scholars please circulate @lindakhughes.bsky.social @victorianreview.bsky.social @victorianpoetry.bsky.social @thevicsoc.bsky.social @victorianmasc.bsky.social @jofvictculture.bsky.social

My first no dig allotment bed all made with recycled topsoil / deck boards thanks to folk in the village @isochesh.bsky.social @leahww.bsky.social @lyndaskipper.bsky.social

Annual leave + making plum jam + Test Match Special = Jim happy - hope you are all having a good day too… @isochesh.bsky.social @uolconservation.bsky.social @leahww.bsky.social @lin-conservation.bsky.social

Can anyone identify our interesting visitor? Only clue is they like verbena…

When you have not had any rain for months a water butt is a beautiful thing… @isochesh.bsky.social @lyndaskipper.bsky.social @lin-conservation.bsky.social

Fantastic exhibition by our third year Conservation students still on if you can get to Lincoln otherwise here con3057-2425-ba3conservationexhibition2025.coursework.lincoln.ac.uk

Back at Doddington Hall today, for the first time since passing my #PhD viva, to give our @uolconservation.bsky.social postgraduate students a personalised, end of year tour of this very special country house ❤️ @jimchesh.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social

Behind the Glass: a Conservation Exhibition by final year BA(Hons) Conservation of Cultural Heritage students 🗓️ 2-13 June 📍 University of Lincoln 🎟️ No booking necessary 💷 Free entry 🔗 lncn.ac/behindglass @jimchesh.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social

Recovering at the excellent White Horse in Lincoln….

Thanks for coming @garydrawnsley.bsky.social good subject matter for a Lincoln talk @lin-conservation.bsky.social @lincolngothic1.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social @isochesh.bsky.social @uolconservation.bsky.social

With @isochesh.bsky.social visiting Tinashe’s excellent exhibition lincolnartscentre.co.uk/event/commun... take a look if you’re in Lincoln @uolconservation.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social @leahww.bsky.social @lincolncons.bsky.social @laurafg.bsky.social @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social

On 5 May, Jim Cheshire, LSHH cultural historian and Associate Professor will give a lecture on Alfred Tennyson’s fluctuating relationship with the Pre-Raphaelites as part of this year's Festival of History. Reserve seats here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tennyson-a... @jimchesh.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tennyson-a... Free lecture on May Bank Holiday Monday for anyone interested in Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelites @lincolngothic1.bsky.social @uolhumanities.bsky.social @lin-conservation.bsky.social

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 University of Huddersfield #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMO953/m...

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Award - Disruption and Diversity: Understanding the Impact of Alexander the Great Through the Material Culture of the Hellenistic World- University of Leeds - School of Languages, Cultures and Societies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP216/a...

PhD studentship: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Award – The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage University of Leeds - School of Philosophy, Religion & History of Science #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP178/p...

And just like that, 9.5 years of research and writing was over. Onto the Viva! #PhD #PhDLife #AcademicSky #SkyStorians

Happy birthday to Irish artist Harry Clarke, born #onthisday in Dublin in 1889 (on #StPatricksDay no less). Here he is in a self-portrait as an absinthe drinking Mephistopheles from Goethe's Faust. More in our essay "Harry Clarke’s Looking Glass" - publicdomainreview.org/essay/harry-... #OTD

A Reform UK official, who described Hitler's leadership style as "brilliant" and said Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine was "legitimate", is now in charge of vetting the party's candidates www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

John Flaxman, The Lovers Surprised, 1807 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1132559

Peter De Wint, Scene on the Beach at Ventnor, 1816 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1127308

#Climateheritage #adaptation often refers to learning from the past and cultural solutions, this great story from Athens provides one more answer to the question 'what did the Romans ever do for us?' www.rte.ie/news/newslen...

Thanks to @isochesh.bsky.social - my first bonsai …

Beautiful in rural Lincolnshire this morning…. @isochesh.bsky.social

■ Interior of a House in Yemen, 19th Century [Historia, Ottoman History]

It's Christmas Eve. 'As the aungelis passiden awei fro hem in to hevene, the scheephirdis spaken togider, and seiden, Go we over to Bethleem, and se we this word that is maad, which the Lord hath maad, and schewide to us' Shepherds by Robert Anning Bell, 1911 at Hethersett, Norfolk.

Mr Pickwick under the mistletoe (Phiz) farm8.staticflickr.com/7390/1128770...

Annunciation to the Shepherds: Henry Holiday 1901, Burlison & Ghylls 1891, Wiliam Wailes 1865, Ward and Hughes 1876 @thevicsoc.bsky.social @jofvictculture.bsky.social @vsawc.bsky.social @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social @lindakhughes.bsky.social @luciejones83.bsky.social @friendlesschurches.bsky.social

Job Opportunity: Want to run a famous Tennyson Archive (includes proofs of images below by Hunt, Rossetti and Millais), please repost... jobs.lincolnshire.gov.uk/vacancy/seni... @thevicsoc.bsky.social @jofvictculture.bsky.social @lincolnshirecc.bsky.social @medievalfemina.bsky.social

Detail of mural by Phoebe Traquair, 1905, Clayworth, Nottinghamshire

Annunciation by Edward Burne-Jones, Coddington, Lincolnshire, 1865

Today the #lectionary remembers Ignatius, the Bishop of Rome who was martyred around 107AD. Here he is, along with Timothy and Barnabas, in the #stainedglass east window of Fowlmere church, Cambridgeshire. Glass by Clayton & Bell.

One of the first Gothic Revival churches in Wales, St Michael’s, Tremain was designed by John Jones whose career as both an architect and a poet sadly ended prematurely due to ill-health.

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