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Lucinda Menaul

@lhmenaul.bsky.social
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Classics and English Lit PhD student funded by the AHRC, Kings College London. Interested in Victorian classical and medieval reception + literary representation of horses I shoot on pretentious retro cameras…

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Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Onwards to the Lincoln Centre for the Jerome Robbins special collection, part of the New York Public Library…🫡
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Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Princeton - absolutely breathtaking. Really enjoying my time researching in Special Collections here!
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Representation of the Pagan (Muslim) Corflambo (burning heart), Stories from The Faerie Queene (1922), by Mary Macleod. See Spenser Book 4, Canto 8, 38.
At length they spide, where towards them with speed
A Squire came gallopping, as he would flie,
Bearing a litle Dwarfe before his steed,
That all the way full loud for aide did crie,
That seem’d his shrikes would rend the brasen skie:
Whom after did a mightie man pursew,
Ryding upon a Dromedare1 on hie,
Of stature huge, and horrible of hew,2
That would have maz’d a man his dreadfull face to vew.

For from his fearefull eyes two fierie beames,
More sharpe then points of needles did proceede,
Shooting forth farre away two flaming streames,
Full of sad powre, that poysonous bale did breede
To all, that on him lookt without good heed,
And secretly his enemies did slay:
Like as the Basiliske of serpents seede,
From powrefull eyes close venim doth convay
Into the lookers hart, and killeth farre away
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Stories from The Faerie Queene (1897, 1900), by Mary Macleod. Introduction: John W. Hales. #archaic #prose #poetry
"THE object of this volume is to excite interest in one of the greatest poems of English literature, which for all its greatness is but little read and known to excite this interest not only in young persons who are not yet able to read "The Faerie Queene," with its archaisms of language, its distant ways and habits of life and thought, its exquisite melodies that only a cultivated ear can catch and appreciate, but also in adults, who, not from the lack of ability, but because they shrink from a little effort, suffer the loss of such high and refined literary pleasure as the perusal of Spenser's masterpiece can certainly give." 
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Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I’ve wanted to visit @pennmuseum.bsky.social since I was a young teenager and was ridiculously excited to finally see Queen Puabi’s headdress in real life — somehow I never thought I would! Also very taken with these beautiful ornamental horse bits c.1000BC, Iran… I want one for my handsome Flint🥹🐴
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Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I am in Philadelphia for exciting archival research for PhD chapter 3! UPenn Special Collections and Historical Society of Pennsylvania awaits… and how beautiful are the apartments round Rittenhouse Square?
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Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Happy Pride! As I couldn’t watch the central parade, we had our own little horsie parade. Passers-by were delighted!
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Charlotte Bowyer @charlottebowyer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Excited to see @lhmenaul.bsky.social’s article ‘Once upon a Homer: classical epic as folklore-fairytale in nineteenth-century literature’ is finally out (I was lucky enough to get an early look, and it’s fascinating!) 🥂 doi.org/10.1093/crj/...
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Once upon a Homer: classical epic as folklore-fairytale in nineteenth-century literature
Abstract. This article explores the recasting of Homeric narratives as folklore-fairytale in the latter half of the nineteenth century in Britain, taking W
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Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I am so excited to share that my very first academic article has been published by the Classical Receptions Journal! ‘Once Upon a Homer: classical epic as folklore-fairytale in nineteenth-century literature’ is open access, so do please give it a read! doi.org/10.1093/crj/...
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Once upon a Homer: classical epic as folklore-fairytale in nineteenth-century literature
Abstract. This article explores the recasting of Homeric narratives as folklore-fairytale in the latter half of the nineteenth century in Britain, taking W
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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Routledge Companion to Video Games and History should be out in November. Exciting news! My chapter "Historical Games in Class: An Introduction for Educators" was my, if you will, culminating overview on the topic before I dove into analog & Twine for the new book. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
Cover for Routledge COmpanion to Video Games and History -- Screen from ??? Civ Revolutions
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Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
We're very grateful for the wonderful suggestions we received last week - please keep them coming!
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I love to start the day with a good 404 error, and this one is *really* good.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
#Skyhistorians ££££ for MA and PhD students and ECRs working on women's and gender history. Spread the word (repost: liking is nice, but it won't reach an audience beyond yourself).
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Newcastle Uni Special Collections & Archives @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
New exhibition open: When Britain Stood Still: The General Strike at 100 Explore how workers, politicians & trade unionists responded to the 1926 General Strike & how opposition was organised against it www.ncl.ac.uk/library/special-collections/exhibitions/when-britain-stood-still #GeneralStrike100
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/05/2026
Minority groups brace for surge in racism after Reform UK election gains
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Minority groups brace for surge in racism after Reform UK election gains
Many members of minority communities fear results in Birmingham and elsewhere could lead to rise in hostile rhetoric
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Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The Erechtheion, shot on Kodak Gold 35mm by me… Bring back film photography 🫶🏻
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Paleolithic art: A wild #horse head engraved on slate. The realistic rendering of the drawing is amazing! Wild horses were important hunting prey in the #IceAge. Was it about capturing memories of a successful hunt? Found in Saaleck, dating 19.000-12.000 BC. 🧵1/2 📷 me
A piece of slate with an engraved head of a horse on a beige background in a museum setting.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This is now what passes for “science” from the BBC. Hackneyed cliches, faux mystery, factually incorrect statements. 1. Archaeologists are, once again, “baffled” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Mystery of Welsh medieval cemetery deepens
Skeletons and artefacts unearthed from the site near Cardiff Airport are baffling archaeologists.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 05/05/2026
David Attenborough, 'the voice for nature,' turns 100 reut.rs/3P0iwuM
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David Attenborough, 'the voice for nature,' turns 100
Britain's David Attenborough, who has for decades been the world's most authoritative voice on the natural world and whose documentaries have been watched by hundreds ​of millions, will on Friday celebrate his 100th birthday.
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
"The window depicts “angeli ministrantes” and “angeli laudantes” – ministering and praising angels. Burne-Jones designed the angels, Morris the decorative leaf design." #architecture #restoration #church #cathedral www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Close-up of before and after details of a praising angel. Photograph: Cassie Dalby
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Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
My favourite artefact I saw at the Ackland Museum, Chapel Hill, was this 3rd century statue — the sculptor had even gone to the trouble of chiselling in the horseshoe and frog onto the sole of the horse’s foot 🥹
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Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Landed safely back from Chapel Hill at Heathrow at 10am. By 2pm galloping over fields strewn with wild deer and thinking about the classical horses I spotted at the Ackland Museum. I really do have highly enjoyable jobs.
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Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
My obsession with finding Pegasus in unusual places was warmly rewarded at the Wilson Library’s Special Collections at Chapel Hill. Thanks @esing.bsky.social for organising such a great opportunity for us visiting from King’s College London!
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Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
From the Sword of Democles, 1812. Ackland Museum Chapel Hill.
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Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
First time travelling internationally for my PhD and my first time in the US — Chapel Hill University looking beautiful!
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Tom Peyer @tompeyer.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The gigantic, reanimated, prehistoric, reptilian Gorgo smashes a forepaw all the way through a central section of the Empire State Building. Fire and thick orange smoke rage in the background. A jagged electronic word balloon says, DO NOT PANIC, THE AUTHORITIES ARE IN COMPLETE CONTROL! GORGO #2, 1961. Script: Joe Gill. Art: Steve Ditko.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
From 21 May, Tate Britain will host the first major European exhibition of Whistler’s work in 30 years. The show will include portraits, drawings, prints, and designs, from his teens in St. Petersburg to the enigmatic late self-portraits. The show ends 27 September.
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Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Conference paper delivered 🫡
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Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Classical Equid #5. Possibly an Amazonomachy scene. 4th-3rd C BC. Heraklion Archaelogical Museum.
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Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Classical Equid #4. Bronze Pegasos figurine. National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
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Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Classical equid #3 Bellerophon and Pegasus. National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
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Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Classical equid #2 The Riding Goddess. 13th-12th BC. Heraklion Archaeological Museum
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Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Jockey of Artemision, 150–140 BC. Classical equid #1. Trying to find as many horsey artefacts from antiquity as I can on my trip round Greece… National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 13/04/2026
This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)
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Paul Chamberlain @paulchamberlain.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Callanish #StandingStoneSunday
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Opens 16 April and runs until 20 September 2026. #Skystorians
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You  know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
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Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org · 04/04/2026
Coming to our Reading Room gallery, April 9 to 26: Tristram Shandy, The First Modern Book, curated by @debbiemillman.bsky.social. Learn more and plan your visit: letterformarchive.org/visit/#on-view
A graphic with a title at the top and a photo of a book below. The title reads, “Tristram Shandy / The First Modern Book”. The photo shows an interior spread of an old book. The text appears typical of 18th-century books until it gets to an illustration of squiggly lines on the lefthand page. On the right, another drawing of a wandering line is labeled with letters. The text describes the line as an illustration of a character’s travels.
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
With humans now pushing beyond earth orbit in #ArtemisII it's worth looking back 5000 years to another extraordinary celestial endeavour The megalithic builders of Bryn Celli Ddu passage grave on Ynys Môn/Anglesey carefully aligned the entrance with the rising summer solstice sun ☀️ 📷 My own, 2024
A dark stone-lined passage way of a Neolithic tomb
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Download my Castle book for 99p. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
"In the Elizabethan era controls on the size, shape and price of bread sold meant that London bakers could only make ‘spice cakes, buns, biscuits, or other spice bread’ for burials, Christmas or on the Friday before Easter." #Christianity #religion www.english-heritage.org.uk/easter/a-his...
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Holy or heretical? A history of hot cross buns
Dr Eleanor Barnett delves into the history of this Easter staple to discover its association with magic, superstition and religion
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Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This goldfish breaking the fourth wall from its bowl with a reflection of a window to the outside world (in James Cadenhead’s 1886 ‘Lady with a Japanese Screen’ at the wonderful Edinburgh City Art Centre) is like a whole modernist novel in one morose fishy gaze.
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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Must be weird to know for sure what the opening line of your obituary will be. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform housing spokesperson sacked after Grenfell ‘everyone dies’ remarks
Simon Dudley fired after his comments were condemned by prime minister and families of fire victims
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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Blank pages invite use. In this 1578 print album by Philip Galle, published in collaboration with the Officina Plantiniana, a later reader used the flyleaves and leftover white space to sketch contemporary faces and figures. #bookhistory #rarebooks #earlymodern 💙📚📜
Title page of the book, reading 'Principes Hollandiae et Zelandiae domini Frisiae'Sketch of a woman in early modern attire carrying a childSketch of a woman carrying stuff on her head, on the right a person on a horse.Sketch of a man with his arms crossed looking a woman who has her back to the viewer.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/04/2026
‘Epstein had been both buying from and selling through Christie’s since at least 2004. He had also been the point person for sales of some hugely valuable modern masterpieces from the collection of Leon Black.’ Erin L. Thompson (@artcrimeprof.bsky.social) on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
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Erin L. Thompson | The Epstein Marbles
On 20 April 2018, bidders gathered at Christie’s showrooms in Rockefeller Plaza for the auction house’s annual ‘...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 12/03/2026
‘A 15th-century recipe collection, open at a drawing of a swaddled baby in a rocking cradle, provides a wider context for the other proteins found on the birth scroll’s surface: honey, milk, egg and legumes.’ @cjfaraday.bsky.social at the Wellcome Collection. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Christina Faraday · At the Wellcome Collection: ‘Expecting’
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This marvellous head of a drunken old woman is associated with the cult of Dionysus, god of wine, indicated by the ivy wreath on her head. 🍷 Dating to the Hellenistic period. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden 📷 me 🏺 #Archaeology
Marble head of a drunken old woman, her mouth slightly open as if mid-speech or laughter, with wrinkled features and hair bound by an ivy wreath; displayed on a dark stone pedestal against a black background.Profile view of a marble head of a drunken old woman, her mouth slightly open as if mid-speech or laughter, with wrinkled features and hair bound by an ivy wreath; displayed on a dark stone pedestal against a black background.
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Dan Conway @magisterconway.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The more I think about the AP Latin Pliny backlash, the more I believe it stems from a core misconception that Latin prose is supposed to be easier than Latin poetry. Poetry isn't easier or harder than prose, it just takes a different set of skills
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