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Alan Godfrey Maps (3,900+ publications and counting!) @alangodfreymaps.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The model of a very British coastal town; Penzance 1877. The Godfrey Edition maps have turned me into an unapologetic railway nut. The main reason for this can be seen in our text sample. This new technology spread so quickly, changing the way we all live our lives & where we live them! -Andrew.

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

'Wasteground with Houses, Paddington' (1970–72) by Lucian Freud (Garden Museum)

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In this work from 1912, Édouard Vuillard depicts his mother reading the morning newspaper, at one with her surroundings, it constitutes a demonstration of Stéphane Mallarmé's notion that 'one must express the effect something produces rather than the thing itself.'

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Alan Godfrey Maps (3,900+ publications and counting!) @alangodfreymaps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's Sunday! As is becoming traditional, it's the day I remind you all that our £2 sale refreshes after Monday! If you haven't had a look yet, or you're thinking about buying something else, get in there now and bag a bargain! Don't forget our free postage option over £30!

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Greg Healey @omero.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Another of those marvellous Bluesky accounts I could happily while away an hour or two looking at.

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Alan Godfrey Maps (3,900+ publications and counting!) @alangodfreymaps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also included with this map is a detailed and engrossing list of local residents and their trades from around the time this map was first published, and an extract from Kelly’s Directory of West Yorkshire 1889. A wonderful step back in time!

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I scanned a lot of my dad's old WW2 photos and had the chance to go through them with him and take notes on the when and where and other details of them, but I don't THINK the negatives themselves are anywhere to be found

Dad and his older brother Larry standing in front of the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp in late February or early March of 1945. Larry was part pf a 9th AF AA battalion protecting Antwerp from buzz bombs and raids, and dad's bomb group was stationed just inside France at Denain/Prouvy, near Valenciennes.

The wreckage of an ME-109 which was decorating the airfield at Laon-Athies in France when the 323rd Bomb Group took over in October of 1944.

Dad, in captured German garb, being held "prisoner" at swordpoint by one of his tentmates, the semi-legendary Stanley C. Farr, who ended the war with an astounding 267 discharge points. Sgt. Farr flew 160 combat missions over five tours, earning seven battle stars and 32 air medals.

Sometime in the spring of 1945, my father flew into Trier to help retrieve a B-26 Marauder which had made an emergency landing at the airfield there. At the same time, an 8th Air Force crew was there rescuing a similarly stranded B-17.

During some down time that day, he took the opportunity to do some "ground truth" damage assessment (i.e., "sightseeing") in the recently-captured city of Trier, which had been one of his Bomb Group's targets not that long before.

There's no way of knowing, of course, whether this particular building on Saarstraße was damaged by his bombs, those of some other Bomb Group on some other mission, or even by artillery, I suppose.

By universal law, any building bombed into cutaway view must have a clawfoot bathtub perched precariously on the edge of the destruction, and this one is no exception.

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RayGun @yakimaabogado.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I did this a few years ago with all my grandpa’s film. So fun.

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murphmm73.bsky.social @murphmm73.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Thank you. I have considered this as his story is remarkable and well documented. Here’s his humorous 2 cents on sleeping in the same tent as Hemingway. No one in my family had any idea until I read these letters in 2015. If you know of a publisher who might be interested, I’d love to know!

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murphmm73.bsky.social @murphmm73.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My grandfather was a civilian photographer in WWII. I discovered a box of his letters he wrote to my grandmother that she saved immaculately. I was floored! One letter was written about V-E Day and photographing Hermann Goring and the other about photographing the liberation of Dachau.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2026

i have been given a bunch of world war ii era film and i have been scanning it for the last few weeks. it's very cool!

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

During WW2, Olga Lehmann's decorative murals enlivened the dour interiors of the nationwide chain of state-run 'British restaurants,' requisitioned hotels, the ministry of aircraft production and the government censorship department in Holborn. This work is from 1940.

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Greg Healey @omero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great dust jacket image. Any indication of who the illustrator was?

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm close to the end of writing my book on forgotten British artists; it's made me realise how many very good painters have been forgotten. This work is by the late Norfolk artist Geoffrey Burrows. It measures 21.5 cm x 28.5cm and is for sale at £900 richard@richardmorris.org

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Brian Frink @bfrink.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Corot Study, Island Lake. One of a group of landscapes that begin with Corot—not as subject, but as a point of departure. I’m interested in what happens when that history of landscape painting is pulled apart, layered, and rebuilt through my own experience of place.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/09/2026

A new mega poll by YouGov reveals that an overwhelming majority of constituencies want to rejoin the EU. Only 4 constituencies were not sure. It’s time to put EU membership on the table. bestforbritain.org/uk-membership-mo…

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Greg Healey @omero.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Leeds. Morning. January 2026. Down by the market.

A wavy lined black and white pedestrian area with grand ornate red brick and sandstone buildings. All very smart beneath a crisp winter sky. A woman walks towards a big pink Churros cabin. It’s all amber sunlight and blue shadows.

That pedestrian area is treacherous when it has been raining or it’s covered in still wet Saturday night sick.

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Don't know who made this. But we love you for making it ❤️

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Because I love this stuff: the original Coyote Vs Acme article from the New Yorker, upon which the excellent movie was based: archive.md/UTgus

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Greg Healey @omero.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Apologies. My (elderly) parents died fairly recently and it’s made me prone to stuff like.

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Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The magnificent door - and doorway at St Helen’s Stillingfleet Featuring Adam and Eve, and a (?) viking longship

Large wooden medieval church door, with decorative ironwork

Grand Norman doorway with five orders, decorated with human heads, beasts, and beak-heads

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

'Road to the Farm.' (1944) I find it difficult to think of any British landscape painter of Rowland Hilder's generation (he was born in 1905) whose work is as widely known but whose name is not. His work touched a strain of nostalgia for an unchanged and unchanging landscape.

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Drunk Keith! @drunkkeith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My wife has her latest novel published in paperback in October. Please do check it out! She’s also the backing vocalist and plays Theremin in Drunk Keith! @oliviaisaachenry.bsky.social

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Olivia Isaac-Henry @oliviaisaachenry.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Sorrow Spring: Chilling and uncanny folk suspense in a novel of twisted sisterhood and dark secrets. An instant folk horror classic' Erin Kelly 'Clever and chilling' Susi Holliday 'An atmospheric, creeping tale' Syd Moore smarturl.it/SorrowSpring...

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Greg Healey @omero.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It’s idyllic on that side. I love the coast path walk beyond, towards Carbis Bay with the hazel tree tunnel.

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Arches-on-arches and a great bit of colour, at the wonderful Church of All Saints, Saltfleetby, Lincolnshire 😍

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sarahhealeyeditor.bsky.social @sarahhealeyeditor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Reginald Brill had an indefatigable interest in the everyday lives of people, and they're often captured off-guard as in this work of an orange seller at Sudbury, Suffolk from around the mid-1950s.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

George-Daniel de Monfreid experimented with many artistic styles but consolidated his ideas around Impressionism. A close friend of Paul Gauguin, he was his only link to Europe during his Tahitian and the Marquesas years. This still-life is from around 1905

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sarahhealeyeditor.bsky.social @sarahhealeyeditor.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Holidaying here in #Cornwall? My novel, Having Fun, is out on New Haven Publishing… download the ebook instantly from Amazon. #booksky #kindle

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Greg Healey @omero.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And you’re a Healey too.

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Greg Healey @omero.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It is. Enjoyable piece it is too.

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Greg Healey @omero.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I’ve not heard her before. Lovely voice.

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Greg Healey @omero.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Is that photo taken quite near Lelant Salting? We moved down about 23 years ago. Although I did spend the last ten or more years shuttling back and forth to Leeds every six weeks to look after my mum. Most of these journeys were on trains not much more comfortable than the one in the photo. 😂

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Greg Healey @omero.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ten minutes up the road from me.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Spencer Gore's painting depicts his wife Mollie seated at her sewing table in a vividly coloured room at 6 Cambrian Road in Richmond, London in 1914; similar to Bonnard and Vuillard's interiors and a dash or two of Sickert.

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Greg Healey @omero.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

* I meant to type joy, warmth and humour. Thanks for sharing them. I’ll look out for Jason’s book. Do you have a website or somewhere online your work is collected together?

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Greg Healey @omero.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Your photos are really something. Beautiful. Lovely moments of joy, wit and humour.

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Greg Healey @omero.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I love that. What a great photo.

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