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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In the journals of Cumbrian shipbuilder Kelsick Wood (1771-1840), details of his shipyard contracts and inventories share the pages with his own idiosyncratic watercolour paintings. Here’s just a few, including his self-portrait simonfrancisbrown.com/kelsick-wood...

bird and light foliage on page with written ship's records

portraits of woman and upset man on page with written ship's records

drawing of ship's prow with detail of exotic chieftain on page with written ship's records

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Very much enjoyed this from the FT letters section.

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Chris Rycroft @chrisrycroft.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

To the Study Centre at V&A East Storehouse for the first time today (looking at fascinating E.W.Godwin papers) - nice to see an old friend in a fairly prominent position www.vandaimages.com/2006BB2716-A...

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Chris Rycroft @chrisrycroft.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

New Year’s Eve sunshine for our Adlestrop to Chastleton circuit

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Exciting book in today’s post. Tallis’s Street Views - basically Google Street View for London in 1840. Here’s a page

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Chris Rycroft @chrisrycroft.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Very impressed with the Picton Garden (Colwall), its collection of Michaelmas daisies on top form at the moment

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

1/ My latest blog post looks at the Gidea Park House and Cottage Exhibition of 1911, showcasing ‘the infinite variety that will be possible in house building when skilful architects are employed to build the new town-planned suburbs of London’ .... municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/g...

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Gidea Park: the House and Cottage Exhibition, 1911

Romford might be an unsung part of London but in Gidea Park, as host of two housing exhibitions – a competition in 1911 founding what was then known as Romford Garden Suburb and a Modern Homes Exhi…

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Chris Rycroft @chrisrycroft.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

This item by Mehdi Zannad from the latest Drawing Matters, providing a method for sketching an urban scene (including time lapse of how it works in practice) is rather wonderful drawingmatter.org/urban-landsc...

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Urban Landscape

The following method for drawing urban landscapes was sent to us by Mehdi Zannad after his recent visit to Drawing Matter. It was first published by éditions Parenthèses in Topo-graphies in 2020. The ...

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Chris Rycroft @chrisrycroft.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Glorious weather for our annual bluebell walk

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

That is the spirit. Bravo WilmerHale.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The @jrct.bsky.social - a relatively radical York based grant making foundation - is looking for new trustees micro.green-park.co.uk/jrct-trustees/

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Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Brilliant front page

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 19/02/2025

Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn. It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.

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Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Oxford Faculties of English & History are delighted to host the 25th anniversary conference of the British Association for #Victorian Studies on 23–25 July. Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC

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British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference

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The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

A proposal to deregulate the disposal process for church buildings is on the Church of England Synod agenda this week. Here is our joint statement on the new Mission and Pastoral Measure and Regulations to be debated at this week's #GeneralSynod. bit.ly/4hUurmu

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 02/02/2025

Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks: "We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

VICTORY! In late 2023 I (among many others) wrote about the reckless plan to destroy the historic probate records after digitising them. My column from the time is here inews.co.uk/opinion/gove... Today the government has confirmed it has had a rethink and dropped the plan. Good sense prevails

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Astonishing 55 years of diaries from 1839 over 5,000 pages by John White of Parsonage Farm, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire being digitised & some will go on display at The Three Rivers Museum, Rickmansworth 👇 Rickmansworth farmer's diaries could take 20 years to analyse www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Rickmansworth farmer's diaries could take 20 years to analyse

The 5,000-page diaries are a

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Chris Rycroft @chrisrycroft.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

A bijou Philip Webb property on the market for c.£500,000 - 2 bed central section with clocktower of “Goldenfields” built for Mrs Mary Anne Robb in Liphook, near Haslemere, Surrey (d.1890-1; e.1891-2) www.henryadams.co.uk/property/chi...

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Richard Simcock @breastdocuk.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Seeing the King’s speech from the Fitzrovia chapel reminded me on when they saved it after demolishing the old Middlesex Hospital

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Harriet Rycroft @harrietrycroft.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Day 24 of my Advent calendar. Happy Christmas to you all from me and my tiny garden angel

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Harriet Rycroft @harrietrycroft.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Day 21 of my Advent calendar. Rejoice! The shortest day is over and before you know it the freshly-clothed oaks will be ankle deep in cow parsley.

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Harriet Rycroft @harrietrycroft.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Day 7 of my Advent calendar. Another one from Cornwall. I have a million pics of tree ferns from those gardens but I particularly love the underside of the silver fern, Cyathea dealbata embroidered with double rows of French knot sporangia.

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Harriet Rycroft @harrietrycroft.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Day 4 of my Advent Calendar. It has been quite a birdy year, including a trip to Staffa to fulfil a long-held ambition to see puffins. Flittering onto the cliff edge in front of us they strolled about with their hands clasped behind their backs, saying “maaaaawww” and looking wistfully out to sea.

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Chris Rycroft @chrisrycroft.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Guy Dawber’s Coldicote near Moreton-in-Marsh glowing on our afternoon circuit www.archiseek.com/1905-coldico...

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Harriet Rycroft @harrietrycroft.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Time to start my fourteenth #adventcalendar and to me it’s obvious that I must start with “my” robin. I first met him in January this year, when this photo was taken, and could see he was BOLD. He soon started coming to my hand for mealworms. He may feature more than once in this advent calendar…

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Chris Rycroft @chrisrycroft.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Sadly now long-closed (and converted into apartments), a Hook Norton pub the Wellington Inn stood on the corner of our road (Evenlode Rd)

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Chris Rycroft @chrisrycroft.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Back to St Barnabas, Oxford last night for our performance of Stanford’s Requiem (unjustly now largely forgotten)

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Chris Rycroft @chrisrycroft.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

To St Barnabas for a day of rehearsing Stanford’s Requiem

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Chris Rycroft @chrisrycroft.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Interior of St Mary the Virgin, Holmbury St Mary (G.E.Street, completed 1879)

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Chris Rycroft @chrisrycroft.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

To Holmbury St Mary with @thevicsoc.bsky.social to see G.E.Street’s lovely stone church (completed 1879) set on the hillside between the Hurtwood Forest and Pasture Woods

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Chris Rycroft @chrisrycroft.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Enjoyable brickwork from the Oxford office window yesterday #JamFactory

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Harriet Rycroft @harrietrycroft.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

Et maintenant, en français! A mysterious package arrived today and I was very excited to find it contained the French version of my book. So please tell your francophone friends (of course the English version is still available..) #jardin #jardiner #pots #jardinière #potées #potéesfleuries

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Chris Rycroft @chrisrycroft.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Webb was rarely satisfied with his own work. It is nice to think that there was at least one project that he was happy with. Of Forthampton Court he wrote to Mrs J.R. Yorke in 1891: “It is THE house, of all I have had to deal with professionally, which it is a pleasure to me to think of.”

Photo (2023) of laundry block at Forthampton Court, to which Webb added a three-gabled extension as part of his work there 1890-91.

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