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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm trying to stay away from here to write ... BUT I had to share this sumptuous (and free) online catalogue for 'Elizabeth I: Queen & Court 14th (May - 10th July 2026)' Essays by @cjfaraday.bsky.social and Elizabeth Goldring [click on the landing-page link] philipmould.com/exhibitions/...

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Elizabeth I | Queen & Court | An exhibition exploring how portraiture shaped one of Britain’s most iconic reigns

Upcoming and past exhibition at Philip Mould & Co.

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"I believe that most people are continually harmed by their daily lives, as most people’s daily lives are on the computer or their smartphones, and those lives have been stripped of dignity." www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think about this essay a lot. About the low-level stress & aggravation literally everything is now designed to incite & maintain. What this constant emotional histamine response to our digital-logistical environment does to us, how it degrades our days. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

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Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

enjoying the BBC live feed on the Renoir thefts. Police updates interspersed with postcritical musings on the impact of Renoir on the reporters' own lives(!)

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Did you know our Linda Parry Textile Research and Conservation Grants make awards of £500-£5,000 to churches, chapels & other places of UK worship for the research & conservation of textiles?! Next deadline is 31 August, apply now! www.sal.org.uk/what-we-do/g...

Before conversation on 20th century church banner depicting the Virgin Mary

After conversation on 20th century church banner depicting the Virgin Mary

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Anyway, some seventeenth-century academics would probably be right at home in the modern university, like John Ellys aka The Devil of Caius (incidentally a friend of Newton).

Portrait of louche-looking man in academic robes, John Ellys 'the devil of Caius'.

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Later life
As Master of Caius Ellys tried, from 1709, to exercise a veto in college business, causing the Visitor to intervene in 1714. His ongoing conflicts in old age with the Fellows earned him the nickname "Devil of Caius" He was quite isolated, his only ally in the college being his nephew John Ellys.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

However you're watching the eclipse, spare a thought for Taddeo Gaddi, author of the first real 'night scene' in Western art. Gaddi's obsession with light & celestial effects apparently caused him to stare too long at the 1330 eclipse, causing permanent sight damage. A warning from art history!

Taddeo Gaddi's Annunciation to the Shepherds Fresco from Cappella Baroncelli, Santa Croce, Florence, c.1330. Two shepherds are woken by a glow from an angel against a golden cloud in an otherwise dark sky. Around them in the rocky landscape are sleeping rams and a suspicious-looking dog.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A rare and fragile survival from Viking-age York! A delicate silk cap made of hand-spun, undyed silk, c. AD 875-950 Silk was an exotic material imported via a vast network of Viking trade routes. Found during excavations at Coppergate in 1980. Yorkshire Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

My photo shows a hood-shaped silk cap from Viking Age York displayed on a thin metal stand against a dark display case background at the Yorkshire Museum. It is made from a rectangle of hand-spun, undyed silk, and shaped at the back by a centre seam. The pale silk is yellowy-gold in colour with a shiny lustre. The edges have been neatened with fine hems. According to the museum, it was probably worn with ties to fasten it to the head, as it includes the remains of two groups of stitches with which to attach ties.

The museum says that the silk cap was likely worn by a female Anglo-Scandinavian resident of York. Also that “Silk was incredibly rare in the Viking North because it was not made locally. Silk-weaving is a Chinese technology, but by the 10th-century, the practice had reached the Arabian Peninsula, the Byzantine Empire, and parts of North Africa and Spain. Silk used to make the cap was imported from one of these places. The fine, pale-toned material would have been recognised in the town as a highly expensive and exotic fashion item”.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

And that one was for Harold Godwinson!

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A timeless Cambridge scene, one that Rupert Brooke would recognise: "Oh! there the chestnuts, summer through, / Beside the river make for you / A tunnel of green gloom, and sleep / Deeply above; and green and deep / The robot lawnmower glides beneath."

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

✨ Out today! ✨ Happy publication day to #AGoldenWorld @faberbooks.bsky.social 🎉🎉 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...

Book cover for A Golden World by Lauren Working, embossed with gold and containing a still life painting overrun with global goods.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Eng v SA and the batter’s names are Luus Brits…

Hastily snapped photo of women’s cricket match on tv

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Val @v4673.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Recently finished “Dead Weight” by @hildur.bsky.social -so good! Now reading “The Story of Tudor Art“ by @cjfaraday.bsky.social and I am enjoying it very much.

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

and what better example of the confluence of voyaging & pearl earrings in 1590s portraiture than this fabulous painting of Robert Dudley (the younger), currently on rare public display at the Philip Mould Gallery in London 🦪

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Thrilled to review two terrific books in this week’s @newstatesman1913.bsky.social: A Golden World by @laurenworking.bsky.social and This Little World by @rentravailer.bsky.social - both expanding our ideas about “insular” Tudor England in fascinating ways.

This week’s New Statesman, with a pink cover showing a hand around the neck of a lion wearing a crown, and two books, A Golden World by Lauren Working and This Little World by Nandini Das, on a white garden table against a backdrop of raspberry plants.

An open page of The New Statesman, at the book review ‘This sceptred but porous isle: Tudor and Stuart England was shaped by the people who left its shores and the objects that arrived here from afar by Christina J Faraday”

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

'Working demonstrates that, in fact, much of what we imagine to be the typical Renaissance and baroque aesthetic can be linked to influences emerging from the Americas.' The New Statesman reviews A Golden World by @laurenworking.bsky.social ✨

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Thank you @cjfaraday.bsky.social for this New Statesman review of #AGoldenWorld alongside Nandini Das’ This Little World! #earlymodern 🦜

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Sadly damaged frescoes in Hall of the Liberal Arts & Planets, Palazzo Trinci, Foligno. Must have been amazing when Gentile da Fabriano first painted them! Today is his day.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

PSA for anyone looking to live their best Eleanor Vance fantasy life fineart.cheffins.co.uk/auction/lot/...

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Lot 639 - Reconstituted stone garden statue modelled

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Anyone else want to do a creative writing workshop with me, focusing on writing scintillating historical fiction? #CreativeWriting #HistFic #BookSky #WritingWorkshop

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Feeling very seen and supported by the fact that my dynamic wallpaper regards 9am as dawn.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Listen as I probe the depths of Robert Dudley’s beard with @cathyfitzg.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4’s Moving Pictures at 4pm today or anytime afterwards on BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Moving Pictures, Portrait Miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard

A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Last few days to see Tudor Contemporary @heong-gallery.bsky.social at @downingcollege.bsky.social Cambridge! I'm running a Curator's Tour tomorrow lunchtime 12:30-1:15pm, and the show is open 12-5pm every day until Sunday. Don't miss it!

Mat Collishaw's Mask of Youth (2018), a realistic face of Elizabeth I at the age of 55, without hair, ears or neck, mounted on a robotic armature affixed to the wall.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I’m having a day off which means I’m sitting on the sofa eating Easter chocolate and reading my new etymological dictionary.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Tudor Contemporary recommended on BBC Radio 4 Front Row! Described by @katemaltby.bsky.social: "the best time I've had in an art gallery recently ... a wonderful collection of contemporary & cutting edge works of art that take their inspiration from Tudor art" www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... at 40:17

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Front Row - Review: Is it ok to film theatre curtain calls on your phone? - BBC Sounds

Reviewing new work from Francois Ozon, Amitav Ghosh and Jim Jarmusch.

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Rosemary Griggs @ragriggsauthor.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Magnificent cloth of gold and red silk damask velvet cope commissioned by Henry VII late 15th century, likely worn by Wolsey in France in 1521 📷2021 the Stonyhurst vestments at Hampton Court ‘Gold and Glory’ exhibition #textiletuesday #Tudortuesday

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

This is so cool and I can’t wait to see it on display at the National Portrait Gallery. Really fascinating to see this kind of rare double portrait with male figures. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Rare painting sparks identity quest by National Portrait Gallery

Research is underway to uncover the identity of two teenagers in 17th Century portrait.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Extremely proud to share my brother @nearlyoscar.bsky.social’s brilliant, haunting book Fragile July, just out with award-winning indie @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social. The book is a prose-poem w/photos; it captures a time we both remember when things were weird. It might strike a chord with you too.

A book laid on a brightly patterned red and orange table runner, in bright sunshine. The book has a dark brown cover of the corner of an empty room. Bare floorboards and bare brick walls and a large sash window to the right. Light streams in but nothing can be seen outside. The title Fragile July appears in a light orange serif font in the top left, Oscar Nearly in white below.

The book held open at a spread with text only partially visible on the left, a photograph on its side on the right, the photograph in black and white showing a window with curtains, a radiator and the tops of some kitchen chairs. A wooden door into another room to the left. Beyond the window the silhouettes of trees.

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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

One giant leap for Christinas everywhere.

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RIP Galen you would have loved the astronauts reaching the 'sphere of lunar influence'

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Looking for something to do this afternoon in Cambridge with little people? Try the @heong-gallery.bsky.social Tudor Contemporary Family Trail! Open 12-5pm!

Advert for free family event for Tudor Contemporary, title in gold frame surrounded by cutout images including a portrait of Elizabeth I by The Singh Twins, Chan Hyo Bae as Henry VIII, Serena Korda’s Bartmann jug.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I'm a phillistine when it comes to art but went to a gallery with wife to keep her happy. Turned a corner saw a stunning painting all spotlit, and spontaneously burst into tears. Guess I'm a convert.

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

On Friday evening I'll be leading a Curator's Roundtable about my exhibition Tudor Contemporary @heong-gallery.bsky.social at Downing College, Cambridge. Tickets and more information here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tudor-cont...

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Tudor Contemporary: Curator's Roundtable

Hear from the Curator of our Tudor Contemporary exhibition!

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 22/03/2026

‘A 15th-century recipe collection, open at a drawing of a swaddled baby in a rocking cradle, provides a wider context for the other proteins found on the birth scroll’s surface: honey, milk, egg and legumes.’ @cjfaraday.bsky.social at the Wellcome Collection. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Christina Faraday · At the Wellcome Collection: ‘Expecting’

There is much room for improvement in today’s maternity care, but few in Britain would choose to give birth in 1506...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/03/2026

‘The scroll could be wrapped around the stomach and perhaps also between the legs in a cross-like formation, literally “girding the loins”, and bringing the inscriptions and images into direct contact with the woman’s skin.’ @cjfaraday.bsky.social on birth scrolls. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Christina Faraday · At the Wellcome Collection: ‘Expecting’

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Check out this British Museum exhibition on the Asante Ewer – one of the finest examples of late medieval English bronze casting. It is based on research we’ve funded to trace the story of its journey to Ghana, and its status and significance in West Africa www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

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The Asante Ewer

From 14th-century England to a royal palace in West Africa, discover the Asante Ewer's extraordinary journey across continents.

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