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Peter Stewart

@petercnstewart.bsky.social
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Professor of Ancient Art. Director of the Classical Art Research Centre at Oxford University @carcoxford.bsky.social. Chair of Trustees at The Brooking @thebrooking.bsky.social. Antiquity, modernism, arts. Mainly on Instagram @petercnstewart

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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Xi Jinping at the White House: A sign of the times peterfrankopan.substack.com/p/xi-jinping...
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Xi Jinping at the White House: A sign of the times
The first thing I did this morning as I put the coffee on and let the dog out was to pull up the transcripts of the speeches at last night’s White House dinner where President Trump (and Melania) host...
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
اب اردو ترجمے میں دستیاب ہے Now out in Urdu translation! Gandharan Art and the Classical World by Peter Stewart (translated by Manahil Raza). Free download from CARC; download or hard copy purchase from @archaeopress www.carc.ox.ac.uk/carc/publica... www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Now available free open access - the Urdu translation of Gandharan Art and the Classical World! Free download from @carcoxford.bsky.social or download/purchase from @archaeopress.bsky.social #Gandhara #Pakistanarchaeology #Urdu www.carc.ox.ac.uk/carc/publica.... www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress....
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Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Chair of Art History at Oxford advert is now live, and the important bit is this: "We welcome applications from candidates with expertise in any area of the History of Art". You've got till October 19 to apply or tell somebody else to. A wonderful job, go for it. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Peter has written a guest post which you can read here peterfrankopan.substack.com/p/how-did-he...
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How Did Hermes Reach China? A Silk Road Detective Story
Peter Stewart is an outstanding scholar with a remarkable breadth of interests.
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’m hugely grateful to @peterfrankopan.bsky.social for highlighting my work on this extraordinary ancient textile - the Loulan Hermes.
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Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Loulan Hermes is one of the most famous objects of the ancient #SilkRoads - and yet remarkably under-studied. My Oxford colleague @petercnstewart.bsky.social has now taken a fresh look - following clues scattered from Xinjiang to Roman Egypt 2/5
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I've started using Give as you Live Online to generate free donations for The Brooking @thebrooking.bsky.social when I shop online! Please consider joining me, to support Britain's largest collection of historic architectural details - free and very easy. www.giveasyoulive.com/refer/R9UrZw...
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Join Peter to generate free donations for charity!
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CARC @carcoxford.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Today we celebrated Dr Thomas Mannack's 40th anniversary of starting work here as a researcher on our #BeazleyArchive Pottery Database – an extraordinary milestone on the Database's extraordinary journey!
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The Brooking – breathing life into architecture @thebrooking.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Hidden for a century in the Godalming Institute attic, this c.1903 wooden round louvered vent was never meant for a building. It is actually a joiner's apprentice piece. Made for City & Guilds exams, it perfectly showcases a young woodworker's mastery of Edwardian craftsmanship.
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The Brooking – breathing life into architecture @thebrooking.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
A fine example of Henry Woodyer's hand: these Gothic Revival entrance doors, dated 1864–65, come from the original buildings of Cranleigh School, Surrey. A closer look reveals internal matchboarding, criss-cross bracing, and incised wrought-iron hinges—all characteristic of Woodyer's work.
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Ironic if it takes the paralysis caused by the Labour coup to show us how much the government was actually doing.
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Gaia Jane @gaiajane.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
#booksky
Page from a book. Text reads: 
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MARY W. SHELLEY

He sprang from the cabin window as he said this, upon the ice raft which lay close to the vessel. He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

[handwritten in pen]
As he drifted away I could just make out his final words.
"It's okay if you just call me' Frankenstein' instead of 'Frankenstein's Monster.
I really don't mind."

The end
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Polymarket is giving 86% odds that Trump will order the Strait of Hormuz to be whipped and branded by noon tomorrow.
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
And of course, Trump has smeared himself over NASA and the extraordinary courage of the astronauts.
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Very lucid encapsulation from Jeremy Bowen www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump is waging war based on instinct and it isn't working
One month into the conflict in Iran, Trump's gut-instinct approach is not proving effective.
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Through the Round Window... Just over four months since @thebrooking.bsky.social launched on Instagram and Facebook – even as a trustee of the collection I'm learning so much from these posts! www.instagram.com/p/DUS_F7DDok...
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The Brooking – breathing life into architecture @thebrooking.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Earlier this month, we welcomed BA Interior Architecture & Design students from the University of Portsmouth to our warehouse. Among doors, windows, and fittings, they traced the language of making through sketches, rubbings, and plasticine impressions. We can’t wait to see where these studies lead!
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The Brooking – breathing life into architecture @thebrooking.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
A survivor from Orient House on London’s New Broad Street, this c.1907–08 baluster features crisp uprights, framed circles, and wrought-iron scrolls that project from the newel almost like a signature. It was sectioned and saved in 1987–88 when the building was demolished. The façade remains today.
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The Brooking – breathing life into architecture @thebrooking.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
A salvaged survivor, this seventeenth‑century paneled door retains Tudor‑leaning scratch mouldings, chamfered edges, and a latch that still wants to click. Once bare oak, it was later painted and raised with one (perhaps two) planks at the top. Today it’s wearing St Patrick’s Day green! 🍀
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Now this is a job opportunity!
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Marbling is quite a boring job, so you can forgive the painter who gets carried away… 📸 from Aphrodisias 2025 field season report.
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The age-old cycle of flooding in the @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social water meadows.
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Through the Round Window... Just over four months since @thebrooking.bsky.social launched on Instagram and Facebook – even as a trustee of the collection I'm learning so much from these posts! www.instagram.com/p/DUS_F7DDok...
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Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We are looking for a new trustee to join the board of the Brooking Museum of Architectural Detail, @thebrooking.bsky.social. It’s an exciting time as we shape the future of the charity - find out more and apply app.nurole.com/roles/6964e1...
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Nurole | The Brooking - Trustees
<p class="mb-2" dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Brooking is seeking to appoint two committed and dynamic Board members who can support the charity through an exciting period of tran...
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The Brooking – breathing life into architecture @thebrooking.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
🚸 Imagine generations of schoolchildren passing through this grand door from Ripley Church School, crafted in 1846 with striking Gothic ironwork. Originally painted green, the door now displays its solid oak, carefully revealed by the restoration work of our Founding Collector, Charles Brooking.
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Fragments of the Apocalypse - I missed this amazing story last year www.culture.gouv.fr/regions/drac... ##culture
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Les fragments retrouvés de la tapisserie de l’Apocalypse | Ministère de la Culture
Identifiés il y a cinq ans par une galerie parisienne, ces fragments viennent tout juste d’être restaurés. Retrouvez en image l’histoire de cette découverte.
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Heritage Network @heritagenetwork.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Job alert: Director for Historic Churches Scotland, deadline Monday 9th February 2026. Anderson Knight is delighted to be partnering with our member Historic Churches Scotland to appoint a new Director at a pivotal stage in the charity’s development. For more information, go to: buff.ly/eteYlh1
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Exciting times for The Brooking and we have a dynamic, multi-talented board. We're looking for a Finance Trustee and second trustee with professional experience in one of a range of areas.
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Water high at the 800-year-old R. Thames crossing at Bablock Hythe. near Oxford.
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Great post combining Christmas jumpers with one of @thebrooking.bsky.social’s several prison cell doors!
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The Brooking – breathing life into architecture @thebrooking.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
New year, new equipment: a larger trolley custom-built to handle our collection, with no more tipping when we move hefty doors! The trolley is already earning its keep by helping our staff to move a cell door from Guildford Police Station, which dates to 1854.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 22/01/2026
Yes. He should stop! In the name of love.
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
My knowledge of the first 64,000 years of the history of art is embarrassingly sketchy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Oldest cave painting could rewrite origins of human creativity
A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say.
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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The Taliban rift at the top of the leadership in Afghanistan
The Taliban leader once warned of a split: A BBC investigation reveals how attitudes to women, the internet and religion are dividing the group at the very top.
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Extraordinary. “Thomas could also be audacious - we found a poem which he managed to get published himself in Boy's Own … but was a copy of a poem already published in Boy's Own 15 years before." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dylan Thomas 'plagiarised other poets' repeatedly as schoolboy
He became a literary legend but as a schoolboy the young Dylan Thomas has been found to have copied poems.
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
A Roman Antonine youth? No: stucco head of a Buddhist bodhisattva(?) from the Tapa Kalān site near Jalahabad, Afghanistan. Photo via the incredibly valuable Hadda Archéo Database haddaarcheodb.com/en/objet/tet...
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Sad door in Portaferry, Co. Down 📸 Google Maps
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
A Gandharan Buddha head from Afghanistan presented to JFK in 1963 jfk.artifacts.archives.gov/objects/5114...
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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The newly opened Colosseo-Fori Inperiali subway station houses a full museum's worth of finds discovered while digging under the city. Including this 4th c. CE gold glass fragment depicting the goddess Roma, which had been affixed to a wall in the ruins of an ancient military barracks. 🏺 1/ 📸 me
Gilded glass fragment with the image of the goddess Roma, personification of the city of Rome. Discovered during construction of the Porta Metronia station, in ancient barracks destroyed during construction of the Aurelian Walls. She’s based on a depiction of an Amazon, with her bared breast, triple-plumed helmet, baltea (studded quiver belt across her chest), and pilus (javelin). 

The iconographic theme is already well-known, but it is the first and only representation found so far on gold glass.

“Golden glass is already a very rare finding, but this has no comparison” according to preliminary findings, Simona Morretta, archaeologist of the special superintendency of Rome, explained to ANSA. “No golden glass with the personification of the city of Rome had ever been found before”.

Gold glass was a glass-making technique in which a thin layer of decorated gold leaf, often a portrait, was sandwiched between two layers of transparent glass. The leaf was glued to one glass discs first, then the design created by scratching away tiny areas of gold like an etching. A second glass disc was then superimposed on top of the etched gold surface and fused to create the roundel of a vessel or a medallion.
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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
It's #sketchpadvent – celebrating amazing modernist concept drawings and models. December 1: Milton Keynes from 1981
Illustration of eighties businessmen by an urban park in Central Milton Keynes
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Cataloguing the Hampi Vijayanagara archive @britishlibrary.bsky.social - this would be an interesting part-time job for the right person www.linkedin.com/posts/malini...
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Job announcement: Cataloguer, Visual Arts at The British Library. I am delighted to announce that we are recruiting for a Cataloguer of Visual Arts at the British Library, to work on an archive of… |...
Job announcement: Cataloguer, Visual Arts at The British Library. I am delighted to announce that we are recruiting for a Cataloguer of Visual Arts at the British Library, to work on an archive of mo...
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David Connolly BAJR @bajr-badger.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Training Officer Rubicon Archaeology Salary: £39,000/ €45,000 Closing Date: January 9, 2026 Location: United Kingdom / Ireland www.bajr.org/job-ad/train...
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Training Officer - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources
Salary: £39,000/ €45,000Closing Date: 09/01/26Location: United Kingdom / Ireland
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This late Roman silk fragment from Egypt, in @ (L), makes me think that the contemporary woollen tunic of Yingpan Man in the Tarim Basin is really of Roman origin (which I had rather doubted) - some remarkable similarities. collections.mfa.org/objects/6855...
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Late Roman box inlaid with ivory, from Egypt. @britishmuseum.bsky.social www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I am reposting this without the 'adult content' 🙄
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Peter Stewart @petercnstewart.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Satyr and maenad on a c. 4th century AD Roman textile, tapestry weave wool on linen, presumably from Egypt. Cleveland Museum www.clevelandart.org/art/1975.6?u...
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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
This stone head with coronet was found on the site of Merton Priory, Surrey, in 1797. The diplomat and collector Sir William Hamilton FSA presented the head on behalf of the Priory’s landowner to the Society in 1802.
The Merton Head, carved stone head with coronet with traces of gilt.
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