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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

You have reminded me of one of my favourite bits of tailoring, a Lancer's jacket worn in Afghanistan, in the 1880s, which manages to combine style and warmth.

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The picture section is *marvellous*

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Love this cover. The book is great as well.

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Interesting Kurdish ?sofreh (a kilim you lay the food out on)

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Plate by James Campbell, dated 1998. Up for auction in Edinburgh.

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Down an interesting rabbit hole this evening.

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The hill I am ready to die on is that a donut is not for breakfast.

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why didn’t they dress her in white?

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Reading this, it feels like her choice of restaurant rather underlines Parker’s point.

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is the book: borrowed it after visiting last month - wish I had read it beforehand now.

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One minute you’re listening to some music, the next you’re this

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The book argues that the juxtaposition of some of the corbels implies it is warning of the consequences of listening to music.

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There’s this one, of someone fending off a groper.

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

From The Times’s books email

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Compare these two pictures, one from the early C20th, the other from 2023. Via @alpineclub.bsky.social and this article www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/news/alpine-...

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And from a personal perspective this one, because many years ago I climbed the Dom and the Alphubel, on the skyline.

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Alpine Club have an exhibition of some marvellous photos. This one perhaps my favourite.

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The castle, built iirc by the Portuguese.

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gondar: as seen from the incredibly Eastern Bloc hotel overlooking the town.

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somewhere near Axum: the debris of an earlier war

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On the way to Gondar, Ethiopia 2006

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You remind me of the magnificent quote in Healey’s biography, which I used in my last book:

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From a 2019 Janan Ganesh piece on the wonders of the Premier League

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Securing Guinea’s support for a new UNSC resolution, early 2003. (Robert Draper / To Start A War)

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Interesting twisting of history here (from Robert Draper/To Start A War again) Churchill didn’t share FDR’s view of De Gaulle, much as he found him a pain in the arse.