Marie Antoinette in a Muslin dress wikiart.org/en/louise-elis…

A sighting of #AuroraBorealis at Alwalton (near Peterborough) in 1742 is recorded in the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society Museum minutes: 'Several dusky streams of light began to move quick & waving from west to east & chang'd instantly into bright colours strong & cleare, red, crimson, yellow & blue.'

New job Fitzwilliam Museum! Join our innovative team of Practitioner Researchers (led by Dr Kate Noble). This role to scope and undertake research with 16-25 years olds on the potential of collections to support wellbeing. £36-44k, closes 26 May. fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/about-us/work-…

'If we sit here long enough.. do you think Daddy will notice us, and give us a second breakfast...?'

Still to this day.. my favourite shot I have taken of Larry.

An intriguing literary acquisition for us Bodleian Libraries suggested by the great ⁦Rachel Cooke⁩ (There is a precedent - I once curated Fanny Bullock Workman’s corsets) Shirley Conran’s legacy is not only the filthy bits, but sisterhood too theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A beautiful example of pattern matching. Notice how the lines flow across the sleeves and into the body, as well as across the pockets, making them almost disappear from view.

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“He was going to be our prime minister. It was almost like the whole country was waiting for him.”

Harriet Harman describes the moment she found out John Smith died.

@AyeshaHazarika: tinyurl.com/37jhzup7

Georgia protest right now

Kharkiv . 5 am. In between russian attacks on the city, kids are preparing for a graduation ball
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Fascinating speech from David Lammy at Progressive Britain conference on foreign policy. Great to host a chat between David & Will Marshall top DC Democrat about lessons Team Starmer can learn from Team Biden.

This cat’s thought to have been a stray for about 6 years on Kingsbrook estate #Aylesbury HP22. The local community’s been feeding him. Note: this isn’t Joe Khan's missing cat. If you own this cat 🙏 PM/ email [email protected] Thanks #FoundCats #CatsOfTwitter #CatsOfX

New evacuation orders for parts of Rafah have forced MSF to begin referring the remaining 22 patients at the Rafah Indonesian Field Hospital to other facilities, as we can no longer guarantee their safety.

Well that’s made my day! Love #WOMENSART I’ve found out about lots of women artists I’d never have heard about through her tweets

🇬🇪 World, are you still watching? Tonight might have just been the biggest gathering of Georgians marching in Tbilisi against the russian violations and law infiltrating the Georgian government! Please watch, share, stand with the brave people of Georgia!🇬🇪 #NoToRussianlaw

A really good discussion about John Smith with a great panel. If you want to listen again, it will be available for 7 days on the free Times Radio app or online. It was at 6pm on Saturday - so in the final hour of the show.

Ann Hanwell finished her sampler, which features a couple in an idealised countryside scene, on 23 December 1772. Ann's family came from Kidlington, Oxfordshire, 17 miles away from Brackley, where she attended a small school. She was born in 1763 to Thomas Hanwell and Mary Hill

Death mask, Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister, assassinated #OTD in 1812. #Londoner en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_P…

Russian Telegram channels report that a drone hit a gas storage tank at a gas station in Russian Belgorod region, causing a large fire.

A Ukrainian Rocket reportedly Struck the City of Belgorod in Western Russia tonight causing at least 8 Civilians to be Injured as well as Damage to several High-Rise Commercial Buildings; Russian Regional Officials are claiming that multiple additional Rockets were Downed by Air…