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@johnpmcloughlin.bsky.social
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London.Irish.Historian.Fun discovering #linguistics at QMUL.Interests too diverse: 17 cent.fundraising, hist/philanthropy, learning French, eccles. hist. In past: 12 century, amicitia, John of Salisbury.Career of major-gift fundraising, alumni relations.

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davisqmw.bsky.social @davisqmw.bsky.social · 4h
Brilliant!
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 9h
"Often the process of hypothesis formation receives short shrift in methods education, but we would argue that it is one of the most critical stages of research design." Open Access: doi.org/10.1177/0959... #Methodology #AcademicSky
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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 14h
OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳
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Michael Chesnut @michaelchesnut.bsky.social · 16h
WIENER PIZZA SANDWICH This looks like a pretty phenomenal sandwich and a pretty neat English and Korean addition to the restaurant #LinguisticLandscape!
Sign for a sandwich
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
CLAUDE MONET in his Giverny garden.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A great shot of JOAN FONTAINE at the 1942 Academy Awards gazing at her Best Actress Oscar for her performance in ‘Suspicion’ — an achievement that made her, incredibly, the only actor or actress ever to win an Oscar for a performance in an Alfred Hitchcock film.
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Annie Duprat @annieduprat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Art déco
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
'Chinese lantern' by Oda Krohg (1860 – 1935), Norwegian painter #Womensart
Painting featuring a paper lantern hanging from a thin tree above a green field
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sunset Ballybunion
Sunset Ballybunion
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Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lot 1020. Property from The Art Institute of Chicago. A peachbloom-glazed three-string vase, laifu zun, Kangxi mark and period (1662-1722); 19.5 cm high. Price realised USD 332,800 (Estimate USD 100,000 – USD 150,000) © Christie's Images Ltd 2026 www.alaintruong.com/2026/09/chin...
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ornate Saxon copper disc brooch decorated with gold and garnets, AD 650-670. It must have been a treasured possession! From Floral Street, Covent Garden, once the heart of ‘Lundenwic’, the early Saxon town of London. Museum of London 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology
My photo shows a circular Saxon brooch made of copper, the front of which is ornately embellished with gold and garnets. There are five raised, circular, gold bosses which are outlined with inlaid garnet slabs, and each set with a central, round garnet. Four of the gold bosses are arranged around a fifth, larger, gold boss in the centre of the brooch. The central boss sits within a star-like, four-pointed geometric shape composed of a mosaic of inlaid garnet slabs. The outer edge of the brooch is decorated with two rows of tiny inlaid polished garnets. The eight gold sections at either side of the four smaller bosses are decorated with raised gold filigree which looks like looped, braided cord. Parts of the brooch are worn, with some chipped edges, and missing garnet stones. The brooch measures approximately 7 cm in diameter. It is displayed on a clear glass surface. It was excavated from a woman's grave by AOC Archaeology in 2000 ahead of development construction works. This type of brooch was a fashionable status piece amongst wealthy aristocratic Anglo-Saxon women in the AD 600s. The woman's grave also contained glass beads and silver rings.
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
It is lovely that the Art Gallery of Ontario can now name the Black woman in the gorgeous #18thc portrait they acquired 6 yrs ago & also date the painting. It's from 1775. She is Eleonora Susette, enslaved by the Dutch governor of Guyana, accompanying his widow on her return to the Netherlands.
Young black woman in turquoise silk gown, with lace sleeves, lace cap, and fichu, double strands of pearls around her neck and her wrists. She is holding a white flower. in one hand, and a ribbon in the other. A tropical looking tree is behind her. She looks right at the viewer with an assessing look.
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This looks fantastic: “Dr Mara Nicosia will explore the education of Syriac Christian intellectuals in Abbasid Iraq, and the role they played in carrying Greek science and philosophy into Arabic” 🗃️
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History of Syriac Intellectuals in Abbasid Iraq | The Institute of Ismaili Studies
Join IIS on 7 October 2026 for an online IHTLS lecture about history of Syriac intellectuals in Abbasid Iraq were educated and rose to prominence.
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Tides of History @tidesofhistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#OTD 1963. In Scarborough, Harold Wilson delivers first leaders speech to party conference. "The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or out of date methods, on either side of industry"
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Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
La porte Chokushi-mon (porte du messager impérial) du temple Bishamon-dō (毘沙門堂), Kyoto © DR ALT ➡️
Situé à l'écart du centre-ville, dans l'arrondissement de Yamashina, ce temple bouddhiste de la secte Tendai est particulièrement célèbre pour sa beauté automnale (kōyō). 

Il est célèbre pour son tapis de feuilles d'érable (Shiki Momiji). À la fin du mois de novembre et au début du mois de décembre, les feuilles des nombreux érables qui bordent les marches de pierre se parent d'un rouge écarlate flamboyant avant de tomber au sol, recouvrant entièrement le chemin d'un velours pourpre naturel.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A Gay Day in Donegal, 1915, painting by Estella Frances Solomons, Irish artist (1882-1968).
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Exciting new finds on the English immigrants living in early 10th-c. Rome.
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Eelaware @eelaware.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
49). Charlie Christian, the lead guitarist who changed the world
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SWING TO BOP (1941) by Charlie Christian
YouTube video by wilson mcphert
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Such a cool project and collaboration www.bu.edu/articles/202...
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Fragile Manuscripts Hold Hundreds of Years of African and Islamic History
Boston University researchers have digitally preserved more than 52,000 pages of Arabic and Ajami West African literature
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The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The Rose Playhouse is a small London treasure" A lovely blog post worth your time reading, with an overview of The Rose then and now, the experience of performing in last week's Rose-a-thon, an insight into the Elizabethan explosion in professional acting, and a bunch of links to online resources.
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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Medieval Norse Church Discovered in Greenland www.medievalists.net/2026/09/medi... #Greenland #archaeology
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Medieval Norse Church Discovered in Greenland - Medievalists.net
The archaeologists were overjoyed when the grave and thus the church were finally confirmed on the second-to-last day of the excavation. In the middle is Christian Edelfelt Koch Madsen. Photo: Ellen…
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 24/09/2026
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Paying a visit to Valentines Mansion and Gardens
Some 330 years ago, an Archbishop’s widow built a manor house in the countryside a day's ride from London, but today it’s a few minutes' walk from a tube station, and open to visit twice a week.
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of my favourite doorways…complete with mermaid! The Church of St. Botolph, Stow Longa, Cambridgeshire 🤩
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Dr Sarah Flew @c19thphilanthropy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Handwriting help please! "I had 5 doz xxxxxxxxxxxxxx & brown bread & butter ad lib & 3 bottles of chablis"
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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
David Olusoga's new series Finding Britain's Slave Traders airs tonight at 9pm. In anticipation, we are resharing an article from Dr Michael Taylor on the West India Interest, the pro-slavery lobby in Parliament, where many members had a vested interest in the continuation of slavery.
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The West India Interest and the Parliamentary Defence of Slavery, 1823-33
This blog, which explores the parliamentary context of the abolition of slavery, is based on Michael’s full-length seminar paper, ‘The West India Interest and Colonial Slavery in Parliament,…
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Paul Nash @paul-nash.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Landscape from a Dream www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/nash-l…
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1946
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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 17/09/2026
Greetings from inside Perugia's vast 3rd-century BC Etruscan well – called a pozzo in Italian, from puteus in Latin. Puteus passed at an early point into the emerging Germanic languges, becoming pytt in Old English, which gives us the word 'pit' today.
The interior of a large and deep stone well, with a short glass bridge across it
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘September’ Shell Nature Studies, 1956 Artist: Rowland Hilder and Maurice Wilson
A rather bleak view across windswept moorland to low seacliffs. In the foreground are brown brambles and damp corn stooks. In the mid ground, a small white, low crofters cottage. 
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Jean-Dominique Delle Luche @jddelleluche.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
1593: ce bon Lorrain, fait le travail qu'aucun Allemand ne veut faire (il est celui qui abat les bêtes à la grande Boucherie), travaille quel que soit l'horaire, il est là depuis six ans, mais le conseil de Strasbourg refuse quand même de lui accorder le droit de bourgeoisie.
Thietrich Wagner aussi Lottringen Mitt beystand Niclaus Hansen des Kuttlers vbergibt per Bittelbronn ein supplication, vermeldt dz bey 6 Jahren er hie gedient von seinen Meistern ein gut zeugnuss, wollte sich auch zu ein Schläger im Schlaghaus gebrauchen lassen, Bitt im dz Burgrecht werden zulassen. Rhattherr zur Blumen Bericht wie sie keinen Deutschen finden können, der sich dazu will gebrauchen lassen, sei ein arbeytsamer gesell, der frühe und statt arbeytt. Erkannt: Man soll im sein begeren abschlagen.
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It’s incredible to have ‘Silence of the Gods’ shortlisted for @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social, and I’m so pleased that the largely forgotten history of northern and eastern Europe’s last pre-Christian religious traditions is finally receiving the attention it deserves 📚
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
'Evening, Killarney.' (1941) Speaking to an art critic in the 1930s, Paul Henry said: 'What always strikes me about the Irish landscape is its otherworldliness. There's an air of mystery about it ... you feel that anything may happen round the corner.'
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Mollie Brotherton, contemporary artist who creates ceramics inspired by the landscape and wild flowers of her base in SW France #Womensart
Vase with flat front decorated with dried flower design and green and yellow colours
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Dr Gillian Kenny @medievalgill.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
New on Unruly Ireland: "The Washer at the Ford" — the supernatural woman who scrubs bloodstained clothes and foretells doom. Read the full piece on Substack - medievalgill.substack.com/p/the-washer... and if supernatural women intrigue you...
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The Washer at the Ford
The supernatural woman whose warnings go unheeded time after time...(the ones who ignore her don’t live long enough to regret it btw)
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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
#ArtDD2026 Salt marsh Sketch from a lovely 📷 by @philolithia.bsky.social with thanks. @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @indikon.eurosky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social
Ink and wash sketch of flat yellow-green saltmarsh extending out to a horizon. To the right on the horizon is a dark green hill running down to the flat marsh, and at its edge the suggestion of houses etc. A pool reflecting the blue sky is in the foreground of the marsh.
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Steve Cobbin 'Cobbart' @stevecobbin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Illustration of the Strawberry line excavation at Stumps Cross Bridge nr #SheptonMallet. A brilliant of Trias/Juassic strat! @drrjwarren.bsky.social @saocousins.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @indikon.eurosky.social @jayjewels70.bsky.social
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JenHenders @jenhenders.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
How are we all, had a good day? I had an amazing walk today in Torridon up to Coire Mhic Fhearchair a big hike up & so worth it...💜 xx
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🧵8 Posts. On 6 September 1836, John Atkinson Grimshaw was born in a back-to-back house in Park Street, Leeds. Today, 190 years later, his name remains inseparable from the city he transformed into one of the most evocative subjects in Victorian art. Grimshaw was largely self-taught. As
John Atkinson Grimshaw’s 1881 masterpiece, Boar Lane, Leeds, perfectly captures the moody romance of a Victorian evening. The painting showcases a damp street glistening with reflections of warm gaslight from bustling shop windows. Renowned for his nocturnal urban landscapes, Grimshaw masterfully contrasts the eerie, twilight sky with the inviting glow of civilisation. This atmospheric piece remains an enduring tribute to industrial Leeds Image: Boar Lane, Leeds, 1881, Leeds Art Gallery
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"Þjóðríkr the bold, chief of sea-warriors, ruled over the shores of the Hreiðsea. Now he sits armed on his Goth(ic horse), his shield strapped, the prince of the Mærings."
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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Waterloo (station) sunset
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The empire of Segu (1712-1861) www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-empire...
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The empire of Segu (1712-1861): ethnic ambiguity in a pre-colonial African state
In the wake of Songhai's collapse, the market town of Segu in Mali was established as the capital of an eponymous empire at the turn of the 18th century.
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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 20/08/2026
A lovely day's fieldwork visiting medieval monuments along the Blackwater River, Waterford. This is Lismore Castle. The first castle was constructed here in the late 12th century by Prince (later King) John. It was later home to the Earls of Desmond, Earls of Cork, and now the Duke of Devonshire
A large castle perched on a tree lined bank above the River Blackwater
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Some more snippets from my recent holiday in Austria. We visited the mighty Benedictine monastery of St Paul im Lavanttal (Carinthia), world-famous for keeping the only copy of the poem of the Irish scholar and his cat Pangur Bán (lower part of the left page). Above Messe ocus Pangur Bán,... /1
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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I very much enjoyed listening to this excellent episode of the Early Medieval Europe podcast, in which @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social interviews @ana0dias.bsky.social on medieval relics! #medievalsky rss.com/podcasts/ear...
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Whose bones are these? Labelling relics in early medieval Francia | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Everyone knows the importance of relics for early medieval Christianity. But a relic is only valuable if it's identifiable, otherwise it's just a fragment of bone, cloth or stone. In other words, ever...
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michaelajaneruth.bsky.social @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I feel very proud to release the programme of a conference I have co-organised with @yanivfox.bsky.social and @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social funded by the @dfg.de on the intersection between Narratology and Temporality on 29-31 July in Tübingen. We have an incredible lineup - I can't wait!
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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
On the way home after a brilliant week at the Viking Congress in Oslo. So inspiring to hear of all the exciting new research, and great to meet everyone! We also shared the latest news about Woodstown with our poster, pictured here with excavation co-directors Dr Susan Curran & Dr Håkon Reiersen
Dr Håkon Reiersen, Dr Susan Curran, and I, stand in front of our poster detailing the Woodstown Viking Site at the Viking Congress in Oslo
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Some of the Cursus barrows - a linear arrangement of Early Bronze Age burial mounds, situated close to Stonehenge. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Wiltshire
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Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A selection of worn Purple Hairstreaks from the last week in our Staffs garden. During hot weather they are more likely to come down from canopy of oaks that lie along the eastern boundary of the garden. 19 species in the garden so far this yr. #butterflies #Shugborough @savebutterflies.bsky.social
Faded purplish butterfly with torn wings resting on green leaf in sunshine.A further specimen - faded and battered; bluish tinge to body more evident. On green leaf of different shrub.A third battered Purple Hairstreak, a shadow of its former glory - the papery thinness of the wings highlighted by light and shadow.
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Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Our latest emerging scholar blog is now online. Thanks to @susancurleymeyer.bsky.social for a fascinating glimpse into her research. womenshistoryassociation.com/whai-emergin...
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Market women in Dublin: A snippet of my PhD research (Dr Susan Curley Meyer’s)
Documentary textual sources that signify the presence of market women and their role in Dublin’s secondary economies are scant, yet a wide range of visual media confirms their presence and place in…
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Glorious main altarpiece in cathedral of Palencia, with sculpture by Felipe Vigarny and painted panels by Juan de Flandes, Flemish painter in Spain, whose day is today. Overwhelming!
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