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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Paul Signac, Setting Sun. Sardine Fishing. Adagio. Opus 221 from the series The Sea, The Boats, Concarneau, 1891 #artbots #moma botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…

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Vulture @vulture.com · 06/05/2025

Alexander Siddig answered all our questions about ‘Kingdom of Heaven,’ the rare Hollywood blockbuster to humanize Muslims so soon after 9/11.

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Alexander Siddig Answers Every Question We Have About Kingdom of Heaven

Alexander Siddig answered all our questions about ‘Kingdom of Heaven,’ the rare Hollywood blockbuster to humanize Muslims so soon after 9/11.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/05/2025

It can be a challenge to make an impression on the Met Gala’s red carpet, but André 3000 did just that when he arrived to the festivities wearing a grand piano strapped to his back. Here's what the miniature Steinway represented. nyti.ms/3SnIg25

André 3000 wearing a navy jumpsuit, red beret and a miniature piano strapped to his back.

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Studying, researching or teaching in the histories of Britain or Ireland? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), it contains 650,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH

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Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers

For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Who did this? 😂

A Classical take on the Distracted Boyfriend meme with the man having turned to stone as Medusa in a red dress walks by.

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 06/05/2025

'Please forgive me!' This note and three overdue library books were delivered to the Lady Margaret Hall librarian last week. Better late than never 📚 📷 | Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford

A handwritten letter of apology for returning library books 29 years overdue, placed on top of three old books on a wooden desk. The letter reads:

Dear Librarian,

Upon sorting through some books and boxes, I discovered that I have inadvertently been in possession of these three books since I was an undergraduate 20 years ago.

Please forgive me!

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I don’t refuse to use artificial intelligence, I just haven’t yet run out of real intelligence

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250 Years Ago News @250yearsagonews.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

April 27, 1775: A special committee of the South Carolina Assembly reports it has no information on last week’s disappearance of the province’s gunpowder and arms, but hazards a guess that it was removed by inhabitants because "of late alarming news from Great Britain."

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JSTOR @jstor.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

In 1995, JSTOR was incorporated as a non-profit to digitize academic journals, relieving pressure on library shelves and preserving scholarship for the long haul. Explore the origins, breakthroughs, and enduring vision behind the archive in our anniversary blog post: bit.ly/42DDHpc

A stylized vintage illustration features a hand reaching into a circular world of knowledge and discovery. Inside the circle are interconnected orbs, each containing symbolic representations of academic and cultural fields—books, classical sculptures, buildings, maps, musical notes, data grids, scientific tools, and more. Radiating lines connect these orbs, forming a complex web over a map-like background with parts of Europe and Africa visible. The top of the image reads: “JSTOR: Access to yesterday. Preserved for tomorrow.”

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

'Early Morning, Muswell Hill' (2017) by Nessie Ramm nessieramm.co.uk

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Æthelred I, king of the Northumbrians, was assassinated by a group of conspirators which included the ealdormen Ealdred and Wada #OTD in 796. Æthelred’s queen was Ælfflæd, a daughter of Offa, king of the Mercians. Bamburgh Castle 📸Clive Hicks #medievalsky

Bamburgh Castle in the background on the right, with some coastal rocks in the foreground on the left and the sea in between.

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Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Want to learn something new this summer? This 2-day course on writing in the Early Frankish World could be for you! 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social ies.sas.ac.uk/london-inter...

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Writing in the early Frankish world

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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

House on the Shore - 1924 botfrens.com/collections/173/conten…

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AaronM @aaronm.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

A rare example of a 12th C (catalogue calls it, I think a bit earlier) punctus interrogativus, or question mark. The clause starts 2 lines from the bottom, on the right "Petre amas me?" #Vatican Barb.lat.541 f.2v #MedievalSky

a crop of f.2v from Barb.lat.541. There is a single column of late Ottonian/Caroline minuscule with three words underlined in purple. Many words are abbreviated

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Searching for rest, relaxation, and reading? Why not treat yourself (or someone else) to a stay at the UK's only residential library? Come and stay with us between the 1st April and the 31st May 2025, and enjoy 20% discount on our accommodation rates! 🛏️ 1/2

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The Entry into Jerusalem #PalmSunday BLCotton MS Nero C IV; the Winchester Psalter; f.19r

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 13/04/2025

‘It’s easy to imagine not only watching one of these crowds of rebels marching along the highway but throwing down hoes and sickles to join it. There were friends to be made and songs to be sung.’ @malcolmgaskill.bsky.social on the German Peasants’ War: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Malcolm Gaskill · We’re eating goose! When Peasants Made War

The German Peasants’ War was an expression of a novel political sensibility and has informed every major European...

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The world may be quite turbulent at the moment, but we can take at least some solace in the fact that bakeries, libraries, cafés, bookstores, and museums exist.

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John Constable RA @johnconstablera.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Good Day! Loggia on Procida by Martinus Rørbye 1835 Oil on Paper Mounted on Canvas (Nationalmuseum)

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This is what a critically endangered Red Wolf looks like. If we work together, we can save them 🐺 nywolf.org

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

And once more, for the evening crowd!

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Monique Ligtenberg @moniqueligtenberg.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

PhD Opportunity in Global History Join our team at ETH Zurich for the SNSF-funded project Engineering Empire. 4 years, fully funded. Applicants from marginalized groups are particularly welcome. More details:

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PhD Position in Global History

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Chris Cantwell @cdc29.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The National Humanities Alliance is collecting information on canceled NEH grants to share with congressional leaders. This is legit fact finding in support of competent lobbying. If you've had your grant canceled, do let them know. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Notify NHA about grant terminations!

We are collecting information about current grants that have been canceled since March 31st, 2025. If you are looking to share a story about the impact of NEH funding on your work please use this for...

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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Sultry Day - 1928

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Dana Celeste Robinson @dana-c-robinson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

His Doc Holliday will always be the definitive portrayal for me. Saddened at this news.

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Radiohead @radiohead.wastehq.social · 02/04/2025

Tickets are on sale now for This Is What You Get: Stanley Donwood, Radiohead, Thom Yorke at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum waste.lnk.to/ashmolean.on...

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The first editions of each of the Ladybird ‘What to Look for’ 4 seasons books had different colour vignettes under their dustwappers. (So something else to look for) Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

The full covers of the 4 books showing, respectively,vignettes coloured brown, red, green and blue

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

#MosaicMonday - The masterful 'Aion Mosaic' from Arles. Surrounded by Tritons, Nereids, and Erotes, Aion - holding a zodiacal wheel - dominates the central panel of this triclinium floor: ca. Early 3rd Century. #Archaeology #Art 🏺 Image: Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques

A Roma mosaic divided into nine figured panels. Aion with his zodiac-wheel dominates the primary emblema, with sea deities accompanied by hippocamps and other fantastical marine creatures surround it. The four corner portraits are idiosyncratic variants of the Four Seasons, with Erotes playing the roles of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 01/04/2025

Ayont the linn; ayont the linn, Whaur gowdan wags the gorse, A gowk gaed cryin’: “Come ye in: I’ve fairins in my purse…” —William Soutar, “The Gowk” in Collected Published Poetry, @tippermuirbooks.bsky.social 2024 April Fool’s Day is Huntigowk Day in Scotland tippermuirbooks.co.uk/product/will...

The Gowk
William Soutar

Ayont the linn; ayont the linn,
Whaur gowdan wags the gorse,
A gowk gaed cryin’: “Come ye in:
I’ve fairins in my purse.

My bield is o’ the diamond stane
Wi’ emerant atween:
My bonnie een are yours alane,
An’ rubies are my een.”

My faither brak a sauchy stick;
My mither wal’d a stane:
An’ weel l set it for the trick
Tae mak the gowk my ain.

The stane was set; the shot was shot;
The flichterin’ burd was fund:
But nocht aboot that lanely spot
O’ gowd or diamond.

It had nae siller for a croun;
Nae rubies for its een:
But a the crammasy ran doun
Whaur aince its breist had been.

I look’t; an’ there was nane tae see
The fairin I had taen:
I hung it on a roden-tree
An’ left it a’ alane.

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Lester Black @leddder.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

So many gems in this Paula Mejia story so instead of quoting it I'm just going to implore any other Garden State fans to read it. For 30-somethings, LA’s 'Garden State' reunion concert was a brief reprieve from back pain www.sfgate.com/la/article/g...

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LA’s ‘Garden State’ reunion concert was a frenzy of elder millennial nostalgia

In Los Angeles, Zach Braff hosted a 'Garden State' reunion concert for charity at the Greek Theatre, which offered millennials lots of nostalgia.

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

'When Day Gives Place To Night On London River' by George Ayling (1887-1960) (Private collection)

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

For all of you pirate lovers out there, here is a podcast interview I did with @wrkclasshistory.bsky.social about the history of piracy as seen from below. I hope you enjoy it!

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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Solitude - 1944

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Anna Garnett @beketaten.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

"The museum held an estimated 100,000 artefacts from thousands of years of the country’s history, including the Nubian kingdom, the Kushite empire and through to the Christian and Islamic eras." A desperate tragedy & shameful indictment #KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures

Only a few statues remain, with thousands of priceless artefacts from Nubian and Kushite kingdoms missing

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Colin Greenwood @colingreenwood.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

It's an honour and a delight to be able to accompany Nick Cave on his run of solo dates this year. Here is the full list of shows - check waste.lnk.to/CGscheduleBS for local on-sale dates.

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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 31/03/2025

PUBLISHING JOB! We're recruiting a savvy managing editor, based out of Edinburgh. It's a full-time position for an experienced publishing person with meticulous attention to detail, ideal for a confident team player (Salary & benefits in ad!) Apply by 10/4: canongate.co.uk/about/jobs/

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Jobs at Canongate

Current vacancies at Canongate – the award-winning independent book publisher based in Edinburgh and London.

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Sharon Bennett Connolly @thehistorybits.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Scotland's Medieval Queens is now out in the US and Canada - and everywhere! Get a copy wherever you buy your books and discover some truly amazing women. #ScottishQueens #womenshistorymonth mybook.to/ScottishQueens

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Vittorio Matteo Corcos, Sogni (Dreams), 1896 (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome). A portrait of Elena Vecchi, daughter of the writer Augusto Vecchi, a friend of the artist. A sensation at the time for candid and direct portrayal of a modern, independent young woman. #arthistory #ottocento

"Corcos not only portrays the young woman with great naturalness and adherence to reality, but also makes her assume a very unusual pose, which denotes confidence with the painter and which aims to strike the observer. The girl is sitting with extreme ease on a bench, on which she has placed her wide-brimmed straw hat, three books and her walking umbrella. Resting her head on her hand, she looks straight into the observer's eyes, with confidence. Her legs are crossed, in a position that, at the time, was not considered decorous." https://www.finestresullarte.info/operadelgiorno/2017/644-vittorio-corcos-sogni.php

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

✨The 12th-century Romanesque nave at Ely Cathedral rarely steals the spotlight (thanks to that lantern tower), but it’s absolutely jaw-dropping – so I put my tilt-shift lens to work... 📸 #throwbackthursday

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘The Canal at Islington’ (1977) Artist: SR Badmin

Finely-detailed, mixed-media illustration of the canal, towpath and bridge. It is early spring and only the daffodils and earliest trees are out.

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Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

It is publication day for the paperback of House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France ⚜️ Readers and reviewers alike have called it scintillating, gloriously entertaining, splendid as well as learned and informative. A snip at £12. #medievalsky #booksky📚💙 www.penguin.co.uk/books/447110...

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House of Lilies

One of the great epics of Europe's history, the story of the rise and rise of the Capetian dynasty dominates the Middle Ages. Starting in the tenth century from an insecure foothold around Paris, the ...

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Studying, researching or teaching histories of the British Empire or Commonwealth? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), it contains 650,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH

bit.ly

Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers

For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

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