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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.

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The Aesthetic of the Ordinary @aofoto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

AO Magazine is finally here! AO = the aesthetic of the ordinary. Yet the ordinary can be special! Access and read for free. Let us know what you think! #aofoto #ECK #CityScape #Landscape #Photography #UrbanGaze #Scape #magazine #zine #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited #ArtYear #art

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AO Autumn 2026 - Issue No 1

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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Secret Intelligence Service's Scottish HQ, Perth #SundayShadows

Sandstone garage with a black painted wooden door within a pair of white painted wooden doors. A letterbox in the woodwork has a black M made of gaffer tape stuck above it.
(South William Street, Perth)

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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Accidental collage (Panmure Street, Dundee)

Poster frame on a wall in Panmure Street, Dundee. Multiple layers of partially removed posters, flyers and tape make a very pleasing composition.

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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Two ladies are sitting opposite each other in a cafe, so deep in conversation they don't appear to notice when their food arrives. Without breaking eye contact the woman telling the juicy story slides her plate towards her wide-eyed friend, who, without breaking eye contact, takes a chip and eats it

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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Grace and Peace (The Fair Maid's House, Perth) #AdoorableThursday

A doorway in a sandstone building with an iron-studded door and window shutters. The stone lintel is carved with the words "Grace and Peace"

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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Overhead behind a shop counter: Man: Sad about Dolly Parton. Woman: Why, has she died? Man: Where have you been? It's all over everything! (long pause) Woman: I tell you who else has died. Tim Curry. Man: What, Tim Curry? From Blue Peter?

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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Free hard hat for Builder Barbie with every purchase

Tub of "The Pink Stuff" laundry cleaner with dosing scoop

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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I watch a woman in a floaty dress and floppy sun hat make her way down the aisle of a busy clothes shop. She is carrying a guitar in a case horizontally across her back and manages to poke every single person with it as she passes

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Dough Ray Mears Fat Solar Tito. Our book trolleys are alive with the sound of music.

A book trolley with books on it called Dough Craft, Ray Mears, Fat, Solar, Tito.

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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It suddenly starts raining so hard I can't get out of the car. I watch a woman dash out of the hardware shop across the street to take in the display goods on the pavement. She picks up the handles of a wheelbarrow, pours the water out of it into the gutter and wheels it inside.

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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Just unpacked my shopping. For a minute there I thought I was going to have to call the apostrophe police

Two packets of Ryvita, one side says "FEELING FRUITY?". The N in FEELING has a broken top corner (the designer's way of emphasising the crunchiness?) which looks rather like an apostrophe.

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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Overhead two teenage lads looking at a big bag of golf clubs in a charity shop. 1st lad: I don't understand why you need so many? 2nd lad: Well, because they're all different weights and stuff 1st lad: That's rubbish. All I'd need is one baseball bat

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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Always sad to see some fresh air in captivity

A square of protective barriers in a park surrounding absolutely nothing

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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Overheard two women chatting behind the counter in a shop. 1st woman: Oh well, that's life I suppose 2nd woman: Yeah. (*big sigh*) Sally vee, Sally vee

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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Caption update Caution: Tartan Army Ahead

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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Excuse me Mr Otter, could you direct me to the North Sea? Aye, it's that way hen

A bollard on St Andrews Pier, which looks a bit like an otter, and its shadow, which makes it look a bit like he's pointing

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Hanger Upper @hangerupper.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Rest and be thankful Bellies Brae, Kirriemuir #SundayCones

A bench and three cones on a raised concrete platform.
Bellies Brae, Kirriemuir

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