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Dr John Davies

@jed1848.bsky.social
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FRHistS. Independent scholar.Eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Archivist. Currently researching the life of Charles Francis Greville (1749-1809).

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 13h
Self-portrait, Michaelina Wautier, 1649/50. ( Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 14h
Woman sews. Artist paints. Antique sculpture is there in the middle. Which matters more, life or art, asks Michael Sweerts. And it's his day.
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 22h
Archaeological 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...
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Archaeological finds unearthed in A66 project go on Cumbria tour
Rare Roman shoes, jewellery, tools and a statuette are among the finds uncovered in Cumbria.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fruit basket. Just being there. By Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, born on this day, in Milan, in 1571.
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Shroppiemon @shroppiemon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bridgnorth diary 29/9/1866
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John Cocker @joecocker.bsky.social · 20h
On 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
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maximum 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?
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nick 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...
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Photos Of Slum Life Bradford 1969-72 - Flashbak
Photos Of Slum Life Bradford 1969-72
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Nicolas 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).
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Artemesia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1620 #UnlockingWomensArt
Painting of a dramic scene reflecting two women in the process of beheading a prone man
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Children, Laugharne, south-west Wales, 1952, photo by Philip Jones Griffiths, Magnum agency photographer, 1936-2008 (Amgueddfa Cymru/Museum Wales).
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The work of Rathika Ramasamy, India's first internationally celebrated female wildlife photographer #womensart
Photograph of an owl peeping out from a hole in a tree trunk
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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Gwen John. Lady Reading. 1909-11.
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Shroppiemon @shroppiemon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bridgnorth diary 26/9/1866
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Art Nouveau jewllery designed by Glasgow School artist and Frances Macdonald (1873 –1921) #WomensArt
Four photos of brooches created in silver and enamel in an Art Nouveau style
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Commedia 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.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
At 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
Three images, one of a window surrounded by blue floral patterns on a white exterior wall, two other images of an elderly womam painting the designs
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Totnes 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...
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Rainbow flag wrapped around Totnes Castle as part of Pride event
Totnes Castle is wrapped in a rainbow flag as part of the Devon town's Pride celebrations.
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
PHOTO OF THE DAY. A crowd gathers around a tram in Woolwich, London that crashed into a building (1946). 📷 John Topham
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I just want to point out even Nazi Germany never levelled a City as completely as this.
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Jonathan Swift of Weimar art. Otto Dix (German, 1891-1969) The Saloon I, 1921
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Dr John Davies @jed1848.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mrs Graham - Gainsborough
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All the ingredients for soup, waiting for somebody to cook it. All Carlo Magini could do was paint them.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Originally 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...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jewish 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."
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Matriarchy Now @matriarchy.now · 26/09/2026
Menopause, a pause while you reconsider men. Margaret Atwood
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A 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 ❤️
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yorkshire-based artist and printmaker Pippa Dyrlaga who creates intricate paper cut artworks #womensart
Photo of seven three dimensional paper cut red flowers on green stems
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A beautiful evening in Tyddewi/St David's last night. The extraordinary cathedral never disappoints..🤩 📷 My own
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Dr Gul Sen @guel-sen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Admiral 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
Russian Faith, Honour, & Courage Displayed in a Faithfull Narrative of the Russian Expedition by Sea (1769 & 1770)
by Rear Admiral John Elphinstone late Commander in Chief of a Squadron of Her Imperial Majesty’s Ships
& Captain in His Majesty’s Royal Navy compiled from Original Letters, Papers & Journals. Edited by Julia Leikin and and Elena Smilianskaia (Hakluyt Society, 2024)
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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The Wind" 1988 By Pang Maokun Chinese Realist Painter of international reputation #Art
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Shroppiemon @shroppiemon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bridgnorth diary 25/9/1866
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tulip 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
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Table 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!
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Shroppiemon @shroppiemon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bridgnorth diary 24/9/1866
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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The 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.
A long, narrow painting of an unsmiling, white-skinned woman with straight red hair (cut off at about ear length) wearing dark clothing and a tan winter scarf, against an outdoor background with a leafless tree, and a tumble of buildings. She stands sideways such that the viewer sees one hand almost entirely within the pocket of the woman's skirt or pants. She turns toward the viewer so as to offer a 3/4 view of her face.
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wake up, babe. New Vulci tomb just dropped! 🧪🏺 (Sadly, there don't appear to be many pics of the artifacts.)
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Archaeologists discover 'tomb of the very highest rank' in 2,700-year-old Etruscan cemetery
Archaeologists have discovered a massive Etruscan burial mound with a vast assortment of grave goods north of Rome.
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John Cocker @joecocker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On 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
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Blessed are the Cracked, 2018 by UK anarcho-craftivist artist Carrie Reichardt #WomensArt #FridayFeeling
Plate with patterned floral border and central motif of a woman holding up a sign with text ' Blessed are the cracked for they let in the light'
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Little 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
Little 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
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Crime 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.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Italian illustrator Annalisa Bollini creates her mixed media scenes with a combination of embroidery, appliqué and paper #womensart
Mixed media artwork with a dog-like creature with wings and on wheels facing left
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
’The sleeping shepherd Endymion.’ #Sculpture by Antonio Corradini (c. 1723) #art
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How 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.
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Ancestral 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.
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The last few photos from the Banqueting Hall at Glasgow City Chambers.
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Glove, probably made for the coronation of Frederick II in 1220. With some 14thC additions. (Kaiserliche Schatzkammer Wien)
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Shroppiemon @shroppiemon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bridgnorth diary 23/9/1866
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Dr John Davies @jed1848.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
No Nation but Imagination – Alexander Hawkins Review | All About Jazz www.allaboutjazz.com/no-nation-bu...
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No Nation but Imagination – Alexander Hawkins Review | All About Jazz
Read 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.
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