Gutted I couldn’t be in Paris for the launch of our Colonial Networks collaboration with Miranda Spieler. Drinking a toast from London! 🥂

Picnic with a whippet

Oh my word, YES!

I’m always seduced by views through Louvre windows

Two views of a whippet: elevation and aerial
#dailywhippet

A glorious quick research trip to Rome. Went to solve one question; came back with a zillion ‘new project’ ideas.

The Counter-Reformation was the best art movement ever! Fight me but it’s true.

Absolutely! And Rome as a global city too.

Global Baroque exhibition at Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome. Really interesting show and some incredible objects on display #globalbaroque

Live: View of chimney on day of conclave as cardinals set to select new pope YouTube video by The Independent

For anyone who would like a live view of the Sistine Chapel’s chimney cam, without pundits commentating constantly on nothing www.youtube.com/live/qP9npN1... #conclave

eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

I’m not the only one on tenterhooks, right!?

So happy for Australia and so proud!! Sad not to be there but we’re having democracy sausages in London and cheering for Albo!

Sunday morning essay marking companion #dailywhippet

Stylised artwork with an image of a woman in a hijab merging into a series of neat coloured squares and rectangles

Lebanese artist Helen Zughaib aims to mix familiar Western/Islamic motifs #WomensArt

Skillz

Academic support whippet. Such a great resource! #dailywhippet

Just out!

Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France

mitpress.mit.edu/978026204918...

Mornings with Scout. Energise, energise, energise! #dailywhippet

Just came across a little stash of Assignats in a box of French revolutionary papers.

Found myself on my mum’s bookshelves between Oscar Wilde and Raymond Williams. How delightful

But, ooh yeah, coffee in a mug!

New Year, new mug. This semester’s syllabi brought to you by Denby Pottery.

Operation Anthropoid: Tangmere and the assassination Heydrich – Tangmere On the night of 28 December 1941, a significant mission took off from the runway of RAF Tangmere: Operation Anthropoid. With America’s entry into World War II a

With the anniversary approaching (28/12) I wrote up a blog post on Operation Anthropoid for the heritage campaign I'm involved with to Save Tangmere Tower: savetangmeretower.com/operation-an...

#skystorians 🗃

Helping the boring industrious desk-dwellers by modelling ‘rest and relaxation’ #dailywhippet

Eat, run, fleece, repeat #dailywhippet

Wonderful conference yesterday for @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social new exhibition on Versailles: Science and Splendour. Great talks. Forgot to take any photos so here is one of the programme

Busy busy, so much to do #dailywhippet

Bounding into the weekend like… #dailywhippet

Today's the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and it's the perfect day to announce the second event in the Gender Forum series with the brilliant @jecfree.bsky.social and Isadora Cruxên. Join us if you can!