Reposted by Dr John DaviesJohn McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 13hSelf-portrait, Michaelina Wautier, 1649/50. ( Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) 12610
Reposted by Dr John DaviesDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 14hWoman sews. Artist paints. Antique sculpture is there in the middle. Which matters more, life or art, asks Michael Sweerts. And it's his day. 1646
Reposted by Dr John DaviesAncestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 22hArchaeological funds unearthed in the A66 project in Cumbria including rare Roman shoes, decorative jewellery, prehistoric stone tools & a Roman statuette to be displayed in a tour of Cumbria. 👇 BBC News - Archaeological finds unearthed in A66 project go on Cumbria tour www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukArchaeological finds unearthed in A66 project go on Cumbria tourRare Roman shoes, jewellery, tools and a statuette are among the finds uncovered in Cumbria. 021
Reposted by Dr John DaviesDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Fruit basket. Just being there. By Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, born on this day, in Milan, in 1571. 212614
Reposted by Dr John DaviesShroppiemon @shroppiemon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Bridgnorth diary 29/9/1866 064
Reposted by Dr John DaviesJohn Cocker @joecocker.bsky.social · 20hOn this day in 1896, a Czechoslovak Jewish woman was born. On the 7 May 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt with her husband and son (16) and on the 9 May 1942 to Sobibór where she perished. Her name was Viktoria Ehrlichová Support @sobibor.org 32451173
Reposted by Dr John DaviesBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Maximum monthly State Pension. Luxembourg £5,426 Norway £1,839 Switzerland £1,657 Denmark £1,486 Sweden £1,373 Belgium £1,338 Netherlands £1,322 France £1,254 Spain £1,238 UK £997 Guess which is unaffordable? 1313773
Reposted by Dr John DaviesHistory and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Nick Hedges' images of life in Bradford and throughout the country, taken between 1969-72, remains an outstanding piece of photo-journalism. He was engaged by the housing charity Shelter to record the lives of families living in poverty. See link below flashbak.com/photos-of-sl...flashbak.comPhotos Of Slum Life Bradford 1969-72 - FlashbakPhotos Of Slum Life Bradford 1969-72 25811
Reposted by Dr John DaviesNicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026‘The Dance Track’ Helene Shelda, a young Russian dancer who was inspired by the Hindus in British India, reaped great success in #Paris. #Photography (1931). 1263
Reposted by Dr John Davieswomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Artemesia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1620 #UnlockingWomensArt 261971428
Reposted by Dr John DaviesBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Children, Laugharne, south-west Wales, 1952, photo by Philip Jones Griffiths, Magnum agency photographer, 1936-2008 (Amgueddfa Cymru/Museum Wales). 113624
Reposted by Dr John Davieswomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The work of Rathika Ramasamy, India's first internationally celebrated female wildlife photographer #womensart 113182471
Reposted by Dr John DaviesBertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Gwen John. Lady Reading. 1909-11. 0204
Reposted by Dr John DaviesShroppiemon @shroppiemon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Bridgnorth diary 26/9/1866 065
Reposted by Dr John Davieswomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Art Nouveau jewllery designed by Glasgow School artist and Frances Macdonald (1873 –1921) #WomensArt 5882135
Reposted by Dr John DaviesDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Commedia del arte or quack doctor? Hard to tell, but audience and dog are having a good time. Big question: what is the horse wearing? Painted 1657 by Karel Dujardin. 38212
Reposted by Dr John Davieswomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026At the age of 90 year old, Czech former agricultural worker Agnes Kasparkova continued her 13 year project to decorate her small village with hand-painting traditional Moravian motifs on the local houses #womensart 204574775
Reposted by Dr John DaviesAncestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Totnes Castle, Devon wrapped in a 492ft rainbow flag as part the towns Pride celebrations. 👇 BBC News - Rainbow flag wrapped around castle for Pride event www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukRainbow flag wrapped around Totnes Castle as part of Pride eventTotnes Castle is wrapped in a rainbow flag as part of the Devon town's Pride celebrations. 0132
Reposted by Dr John DaviesProf Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 27/09/2026PHOTO OF THE DAY. A crowd gathers around a tram in Woolwich, London that crashed into a building (1946). 📷 John Topham 14112
Reposted by Dr John DaviesBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I just want to point out even Nazi Germany never levelled a City as completely as this. 1916683
Reposted by Dr John DaviesEdward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The Jonathan Swift of Weimar art. Otto Dix (German, 1891-1969) The Saloon I, 1921 081
Reposted by Dr John DaviesDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026All the ingredients for soup, waiting for somebody to cook it. All Carlo Magini could do was paint them. 410816
Reposted by Dr John DaviesLuca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Originally recorded in archives in 1595, the Kirbister Farmhouse, located in Birsay, Orkney is the last un-restored traditional 'firehoose' (firehouse) in Northern Europe. #medieval #scotland #history IG: @graenwulf www.instagram.com/graenwulf?st... 671219253
Reposted by Dr John DaviesBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Jewish MP Gerald Kaufmann in Parliament in 2009. "My Grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her town, a German soldier shot her dead." "My Grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israel to murder Palestinian Grandmothers in Gaza." 7659249
Reposted by Dr John DaviesKate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A revisit to my all-time favourite church, today - St. Margaret of Antioch, Knotting, Bedfordshire. It’s just a perfect little place and I love it ❤️ 212013
Reposted by Dr John Davieswomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yorkshire-based artist and printmaker Pippa Dyrlaga who creates intricate paper cut artworks #womensart 41687250
Reposted by Dr John DaviesDr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A beautiful evening in Tyddewi/St David's last night. The extraordinary cathedral never disappoints..🤩 📷 My own 1958
Reposted by Dr John DaviesDr Gul Sen @guel-sen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Admiral John Elphinstone's (d. 1785) first-person account of serving in the Russian navy at the Battle of Chesma (Çeşme) 1770. 1/2 #maritimehistory #admiral 283
Reposted by Dr John Davies🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"The Wind" 1988 By Pang Maokun Chinese Realist Painter of international reputation #Art 012513
Reposted by Dr John DaviesShroppiemon @shroppiemon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Bridgnorth diary 25/9/1866 373
Reposted by Dr John DaviesDr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Tulip Mania: Semper Augustus, watercolour drawing of rare flamed carmine & white tulip; most expensive tulip sold during tulip mania 1634-37. Six Collection, Tulip Book, p. 59. With note recording sale price of ƒ3000 (~€38.000 in 2024). Rijksmuseum 07918
Reposted by Dr John DaviesDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Table Still lifes by Italian Carlo Magini are so different from Dutch ones! Better vegetables (as today). But the knife at the table's edge is universal! 212116
Reposted by Dr John DaviesShroppiemon @shroppiemon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Bridgnorth diary 24/9/1866 055
Reposted by Dr John DaviesArt Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The Museum of Fine Arts Houston has announced its acquisition of Tamara de Lempicka's 1923 painting "Her Sadness"! Until this year, the work had remained in the same family for 90 years. 16564115
Reposted by Dr John DaviesKristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Wake up, babe. New Vulci tomb just dropped! 🧪🏺 (Sadly, there don't appear to be many pics of the artifacts.)livescience.comArchaeologists discover 'tomb of the very highest rank' in 2,700-year-old Etruscan cemeteryArchaeologists have discovered a massive Etruscan burial mound with a vast assortment of grave goods north of Rome. 0548
Reposted by Dr John DaviesJohn Cocker @joecocker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026On this day in 1943, a 27 year old Dutch Jewish man perished in Auschwitz. His wife perished in Belsen in Jun 1945. His mother and three siblings perished in the Shoah - his father and one sibling survived. His name was Barend Cohen Support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social 58722
Reposted by Dr John Davieswomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Blessed are the Cracked, 2018 by UK anarcho-craftivist artist Carrie Reichardt #WomensArt #FridayFeeling 151299283
Reposted by Dr John DaviesMedieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026Little Bear. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣūfī, Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita, Samarkand ca. 1430-1440. BnF, Arabe 5036, fol. 23r. #medieval #MedievalArt 03514
Reposted by Dr John DaviesDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Crime reporting in my time: murder of the jeweler Jan van Wely in 1603, as vividly laid out (featuring eventual execution before large crowd!) by W. Buytewech and Esaias van de Velde. 1406
Reposted by Dr John Davieswomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Italian illustrator Annalisa Bollini creates her mixed media scenes with a combination of embroidery, appliqué and paper #womensart 1767126
Reposted by Dr John DaviesNicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026’The sleeping shepherd Endymion.’ #Sculpture by Antonio Corradini (c. 1723) #art 07411
Reposted by Dr John DaviesDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026How we traveled in my day. Gorgeous drawing of a carriage by Willem Buytewech of Rotterdam and Haarlem, who died (alas!) on this day in 1624. 112330
Reposted by Dr John DaviesAncestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 23/09/2026🧵17 Bishophill Senior, York, a mid 18th century house, built for William Carr, extended in the 19th century & restored by Derek Edmund Thornton in 1985. Built from variegate pink brick in Flemish bond, with painted doorcase, stone copings & brick stack to pantile roof it has two storeys & an attic. 174
Reposted by Dr John DaviesAncestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The last few photos from the Banqueting Hall at Glasgow City Chambers. 092
Reposted by Dr John DaviesJohn McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Glove, probably made for the coronation of Frederick II in 1220. With some 14thC additions. (Kaiserliche Schatzkammer Wien) 03811
Reposted by Dr John DaviesShroppiemon @shroppiemon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Bridgnorth diary 23/9/1866 064
Dr John Davies @jed1848.bsky.social · 22/09/2026No Nation but Imagination – Alexander Hawkins Review | All About Jazz www.allaboutjazz.com/no-nation-bu...allaboutjazz.comNo Nation but Imagination – Alexander Hawkins Review | All About JazzRead the All About Jazz review of No Nation but Imagination by Alexander Hawkins (2026). Expert analysis, ratings, and insight into one of jazz's finest recordings. 000