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Balloons, the Blitz and the Tower of London - a short piece I wrote for the HRP blog on Remembrance Day 🌺
www.hrp.org.uk/blog/barrage...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pen and ink drawing of himself mourning his wombat, showing a man kneeling over the corpse of a rotund wombat, its toes turned up. They are in front of tomb bearing the date 6th November 1869, and a palm tree

It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat

“May you love this as much as we have. And may monsters inhabit your dreams and give you as much solace as they have given me. We are all creatures lost and found. For the journey is eternal, but so is the faith.”

Shaman mask made of bone, deer antler, bells, tassels and beads

🖋️ Inktober 19. Arctic
Shaman mask inspired by Inuit goggles

#inktober #art #украрт

We did - at the barbican in London 💕

dont usually post art on main but we saw del toro’s frankenstein and it was the most beautiful and devastating thing I’ve ever seen @realgdt.bsky.social

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

vroom vroom 🏎️ 🏁✈️

5 Palaces. 1 Walk.
(+ 4 more palaces because why not)
🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰🏰
@gabrielle-fields.bsky.social

Oscar on set (honoring Wrightson)

Very cool bit of scaffolding at Hampton Court!

It depicts the palace’s iconic ‘Great Gatehouse’ as Wolsey would have known it, standing two storeys higher than the current structure today 🏰

True!!!

you know you’ve been in the TNA too long when you shut your eyes and can still see your order locker

visited our oxford so had to revisit lyra’s oxford 🧭🐻‍❄️🌌

Oxford ⛈️🏛️👻📚

The legendary Sir Peter Scott at the WWT London Wetland Centre - full disclosure, I spotted him from a distance and thought “I’d know that (inherited) forehead anywhere!”

Stunning stuff! 🇦🇶

Sir John Ross (and the Boss!)

#nationalportraitgallery

it’s not just the ravens who you’ve gotta watch out for

#toweroflondon

Tara overestimated my reading, as people often do. She gestured to one essay: so much information arrayed there. No, I said, look. You can put things in an essay that you yourself do not know. There is a library all around you. You take a book off the shelf, find the fact or the sentence and put it where it fits. It never belonged to you, you never really had it. It comes from the library, it goes back to it. And it waits there for the next one who needs it.

Really it's choosing a lifetime of homework, I said. Did they ask you to write about the X-Files? someone piped up. No, I wanted to write about the X-Files.

Maybe the most beautiful possible description of what an essay can do, what I feel my job is. Of course it's from Patricia Lockwood.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

British man who perished in Antarctic glacier found 65 years later His brother tells BBC News that he had lost hope he would ever be found.

BBC News have carefully written up Dennis' story, including interviews with his brother, David.

You can read that article here ⬇️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The 1850 sketch by George Frederick McDougall (of HMS Resolute) showing the three Franklin Expedition graves on Beechey Island, from ADM 7/190 at the National Archives.

It's August and there's only one question that matters.

Are you Beechey Body Ready?

The most scandalous man in Elizabethan England? Forgot to share this little piece I wrote about Robert Dudley last month 🗡️🏰👑🥬

www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-lon...

nice little eBay find 🇦🇶

the sky was a paid actor

Vault 61: Jane Franklin in the Catacombs of Kensal Green Cemetery. By Logan Zachary & Alison Freebairn.  April 7th, 2024. { ▽ Jane Franklin, nameplate and coffin. }    Jane Franklin’s final resting place ...

Jane, Lady Franklin died OTD in 1875, aged 83. She was interred in the catacombs of Kensal Green Cemetery, and I'm not kidding when I say that getting down there to pay my respects in person was one of the best days of my life.
www.illuminator.blog/p/jane-catac...

looking through caricatures on the npg and william iv is giving big golden path energy

Nothing to apologise for! We had a great time - really enjoyed all the wonderful excerpts from William, Eleanor and Franklin’s letters (and this slide was a particular highlight 😁)

Had a fab time at the NMM listening to @sampopewriter.bsky.social and her wonderful talk on the life of Eleanor Anne Porden - thanks so much for a fascinating evening (and happy 230th birthday to EAP herself!)