🌅One for the early birds: 'I am relieved at how unInstagrammable it is; and so I do the most unInstagrammable thing of all: I set my device aside, pull up a chair, and take out my watercolours.' 📖👉 www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshal... #allsaintsbillesley
Weathered medieval timber frame set into a patchwork wall of brick and stone at Wirksworth, Derbyshire, showing ghostly remnants of a lost building frontage.
A joy of a sight for #ThrowbackThursday - A ghost gable 👻 - caught like a fly in amber at Wirksworth in Derbyshire
A tile with well-preserved surface impressions: three distinct outline of shoes with hobnail patterns in the center, a animal paw prints nearby, and a rectangular maker's stamp with worn lettering and an imprint of a foot. And finger lines. The tile surface shows additional small impressions and chips.
Like a time capsule: a #Roman tile marked with #finger lines, hobnail #shoe prints, #dog's paw prints, and a #stamp of the LEG(io) XIIII G(emina). Tiles with imprints are very common, since tiles were laid out to dry in the open air ahead of firing, where...🧵1/2
#TilesOnTuesday 🏺
A must-read: A veteran journalist reflects on the hidden traumas he has witnessed over a quarter of a century of hosting refugees in his Bristol home
thebristolcable.org/2025/10/at-h...
The engraved frontispiece of De re diplomatica.
A foldout showing Merovingian scripts.
A plate from De re diplomatica showing diplomatic scripts.
A plate from De re diplomatica showing the different Tironian notes.
Enjoying some time with Jean Mabillon and his extremely approachable transcriptions of Merovingian scripts, in addition to the other joys of De re diplomatica (1681)—the work first establishing the science of paleography.
Glad you are here as I've just been locked out of facebook!
Locked out of FB so here I am again
Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.
I've decided to make sandcastles on the beach and sell them for a living.
We don't see English papers so I hope all is well with the Stock Market.
At 3.00 A.M on Sunday the girls were dancing the hokey pokey so we have not had much sleep.
Researchers discovered the facial fragments in a cave in northern Spain. National Research Center for Human Evolution
Researchers Unearth Oldest Known Human Facial Bones Ever Found in Western Europe 🏺🧪
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...
The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious, unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years ago.
I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
Painting: "The Library" by Elizabeth Shippen Green. The image shows a red-haired woman in a long, loose, golden dress sitting in a wicker chair. She has a large illustrated book in her lap. Other volumes are strewn around her and fill the bookcases behind her. The artist studied under Howard Pyle, and then forged a successful career illustrating magazines and children's books. The fourth member of the Red Rose household was Henrietta Cozens, whose management of the house allowed the others to focus on art. (I wish I had a Henrietta in my own life.)
"The Library" by American illustrator Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871-1954), who shared a communal household in Pennsylvania with fellow artists Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith. See Alice A. Carter's book The Red Rose Girls for more information on these remarkable women. #SomethingBeautiful
Smallpox inoculation certificates for the Brown family, 1776. The long history of inoculation and vaccination and the clear understanding of why/ how this innovation in healthcare was so important. @jcblibrary.bsky.social ofc.
Just cancelled my midjourney sub to SAVE ELECTRICITY.
What is the point in covering all our farmland with solar panels and wind farms JUST TO PROVIDE ALL THE EXTRA ELECTRICITY THAT AI USES. Not to replace oil but to provide vast amounts of electricity JUST for AI?
Scary Place
Tomorrow Yanis Varousfakis and Michael Hudson will be giving the David Graeber Institute a talk.
They will be joined by Ann Pettifor and it will be streamed live on our YouTube page.
Here is the link to the page: www.youtube.com/live/JmAeVwC...
Graeber, Varoufakis, Pettifor, and Hudson’s argument: lasting change requires not just debt relief, but a radical redefinition of economic systems—one that prioritizes collective well-being over creditor demands.
coroner's record for William Mariano, died in Waterbury, Conn, October 3, 1924 from tetanus following a lacerated wound of little finger of left hand
Ever since looking up the medical examiner's record for my great-grandfather, I've been reading through the volume of 1920s coroner's records. Should be mandatory reading for the "doing my own research" crowd. This kid was 16 years old and died of tetanus after scraping his little finger on a rock.
OTD in 1848, some 150,000 Chartists met on Kennington Common to present their third petition to Parliament.
Mark Crail on how tracing Chartists, a working-class movement for political and economic reform, became a point of connection between family and academic historians:
http://www.historywo
The EU has issued an alert for everyone to stock up a 72 hour supply of food (and presumably flock to the nearest fortified castle) in case of invasion.
My nearest castle (Castellar) as we await the mystery invasion.
We Are Duped Into Blaming Our Problems On Everyone Except Our Rulers
Your enemies are not in Moscow, Beijing and Tehran. Your enemies are in Washington, Virginia, New York and Los Angeles. Your enemies are in London, Paris, Brussels and Tel Aviv.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/we-are-dup...
right?
what could possibly go wrong? Resembles what USA is doing now much?
