This is a real plum pudding of a dress. It demonstrates beautifully how the mid #1880s dolman style cape/coat/cloak sat neatly above the very obvious bustle of the period, cut shorter at the back with longer lines at the front #TSarrou #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Released on this day in 1971: Hunky Dory #DavidBowie youtu.be/rn4cG_XaGFA?si…

The faraway Thrice-Ninth Tsardom is a magical place cut off from the world of man. Home to firebirds, great dragons, and myriad other mystical beasts, this other-world can be accessed by a number of means. Some find a path to it in an underground cave whilst others find it at the bottom of a lake.

Happy 268th birthday William Blake.

The Ancient of Days: Frontispiece to Europe a Prophecy, 1794, colour relief etching with added hand-colouring by William Blake, English poet, artist & visionary; born #OTD 1757. British Museum

Not whistling while I work, but listening to just the most BRILLIANT music, including The Cure, Cocteau Twins, Modern English, Dead Can Dance, Talk Talk, Simple Minds (2nd album), and although some of these bands are still around, God, the late 70s and early 80s were so, so *brilliant* musically.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

44 years ago today Prince Charming is the third album by Adam and the Ants, released on this day in 1981, featuring the singles "Stand and Deliver" and "Prince Charming" as well as "Ant Rap" #punkrock #postpunk #newwave #adamandtheants #history #otd

Bewitched and enchanted by the new Florence + the Machine album 'Everybody Scream'. Every song is so good. Artistic reference points abound but I hear P J Harvey resonances. #florence+themachine #everybodyscream youtu.be/wRfet_VLbzU?...

PLEASE DO NOT ASK STAFF WHERE DRACULA’S GRAVE IS THERE ISN’T ONE. Iconic sign from St Mary’s Church next to Whitby Abbey. I love that people think Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a real person/vampire who lived and died in Whitby.

This silk mourning dress, c.1876, was designed for the strict rituals of Victorian grief. Made of black silk, it has beaded cuffs, tassel trim, and a pleated skirt. Decoration was permitted, but only in black.

As a treat to myself after a difficult week, I've been listening to the autobiography of the talented @kathyburke.bsky.social. Witty, perceptive, funny and honest. Love it ❤️ Listen to A Mind of My Own by Kathy Burke on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0F449MVN...

'Mrs Dalloway' by Virginia Woolf, reviewed for the #1925Club. #Booksky wp.me/sezD85-mrs

'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'

31 years ago today Manic Street Preachers at Cardiff Astoria, 20th October 1994 Photos by Owen Davies #manicstreetpreachers #astoria #caerdydd #cymru #cardiff #wales #cardiffmusichistory

English embroiderer and Pre-Raphaelite artist's model Jane Morris was born #OnThisDay in 1849. It is believed that the embroidery of intertwined floral sprays for this c. 1878 blue silk bag with a metal mount was designed and worked by Morris. V&A collection. #fashionhistory

"[Kipling] told me that in his own part of Sussex he had noticed a sharp division between benevolent lands and tracts of the countryside which seemed maleficent. 'There is a wood, he told me, 'which is full of a sense of ferocity and evil, secretive and menacing.'" - R T Hopkins #Hookland #Kipling

A few new gothic-y pieces for October 🖤🖤🖤 #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #beautifulbizarre

I grew up with Cicely Mary Barker’s flower fairies books and used to attempt to fashion wardrobes for wooden peg dolls out of leaves. This is a true wood nymph’s dress, c1918 Lucile, ethereal layers and embellishments @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social #kelvingroveartgallery #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Entries 1 to 43 of an ongoing project reimagining Beatles songs as old, mid century design inspired film posters.

This will be forever one of my favourite garments in the V&A. It is a late #1890s coat from Marshall & Snelgrove, featuring hand embroidered sweet cicely flowers with white felt petals that float on top of blue velvet, V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Morning all. Photograph from Lee Shulman’s Anonymous Project. www.instagram.com/the.anonymou...

MSP hidden gem. Beautiful melancholy. Door to the River - Manic Street Preachers, 2002 #manics #foreverdelayed youtu.be/cg31h83yGTA?...

This is the last of the Croydon postcards.

“A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH” (1946) dirs. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Marius Goring 🎬 Eagle-Lion Films

Still Life, Bouquet of Dahlias and White Book, 1923 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16664

In the October 1953 issue of of Harper’s Bazaar, this sparkling Sophie Gimbel cocktail gown was described as the Dress of a Thousand Lights. It does resemble the clearest of night skies with every constellation glittering #museumatfit #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

This was the end of the news at 10. Drone footage from travel blogger Vadim Makhorov has captured a group of polar bears living inside an abandoned research station on Russia's Kolyuchin Island #Incroyable

JAMES // Sometimes Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes I swear I can see your soul #james #laid

Fur and Purr (2024) by Véronique Desbrosses. Mixed media on paper. #Caturday

🧵 Today we might share what we create online. But in the 17th century, some accomplished women showcased their talent on treasure boxes. This embroidered box from around 1665 is an impressive example. Created in England, it features scenes from the life of Abraham, stitched with incredible skill.

Ouida was one of the most popular novelists of the late 19th century. Though she was much criticized for her excesses, Oscar Wilde wrote of a typical Ouida novel, "With all its faults, which are great, and its absurdities, which are greater, it is still a book to be read.” neglectedbooks.com?p=3559

Edith Schiele's evening shoes with"Osterglocken" Wiener Werkstätte fabric. 1912. Image: Albertina Museum.

Elizabeth Taylor

Marilyn Monroe

In Intriguing Furniture news: yesterday I visited Lichfield Cathedral and found a new 13 metre long table made from a 5000-year-old oak log discovered perfectly preserved in a peat bog in 2016. The cut planks took 9 months to dry out, losing 2 tonnes of weight in the process. Definitely haunted...

Grace Kelly

Wordsworth: welcome to the meeting of Romantic Poets. We need to set our agenda, and I am recommending clouds, flowers, or possibly clouds shaped like flowers Percy Shelley: or the severed head of a tyrant William Blake: or thicc Satan Wordsworth: or what??? Blake: I have produced a sketch-

David Bowie, 1995, by Frank Ockenfels III.

Yes, this is real. That really is a medieval tower on stilts while builders built around and under it. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Daughter starts university today, so this really does hit home

"Don't you think it's time we were introduced?" Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) and Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint) become better acquainted in North by Northwest (1959)

IF YOU TOLERATE THIS THEN YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE NEXT

Andrea Kowch's newest/latest work : "Nightfall" (2025) 10" x 10" Acrylic on canvas

Marlene Dietrich by Louise Dahl-Wolfe.

David Bowie, Scary Monsters photo session, 1980, by Brian Duffy.

A new piece for a made-up theatre poster for a made-up gothic play 🖤 #theatreposter #theatreposters #theatre #theater #theaterposter #theaterposters 🐈‍⬛