Gutted to learn that Anne of Cleves House is up for sale, and I am yet to save the £2.25 million I would need to buy it
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Landscapes and Environments of the Middle Ages Routledge Books has a cover and ITS BEAUTIFULLLL !!!! Also the reviews always make me grin, Mike Bintley and myself thought so deeply about this work on #medieval #ImaginedLandscapes

Sarah Jane Reddish completed this vibrant, wonderfully textured sampler in 1839, when she was just nine years old. Her sampler includes a large home and accompanying fields with grazing sheep. They are joined by stags, birds and their eggs, flowers, and ripening strawberries

whenever i feel even slightly sad i just look at this vanessa cooper painting of some dogs politely about to enjoy a caterpillar cake

just finished #AllMyWildMothers by Victoria Bennett 🌼🐝🐺🧙🏼‍♀️ - what a beautiful, inspiring memoir. A perfect read for me at 6 months pregnant, wondering what kind of mother I'll be & what kind of world I want to create for my baby when it arrives. Will defs reread it near my due date 🌿🐝🦋🌼

Paging William Hanson and JVS - surely this news demands a special luxury podcast episode! Hyacinth collides with AI technology 💐🤖

A reminder of why we need #nocapitulation #UCUrising

It is hard to get on with the day when you get a message saying that four of your now tiny department Birkbeck: English are going to be sacked. Sackings euphemistically referred to as 'savings'. Looks more like losses to me: lost staff, expertise, hours, and hope.
🖼️ BnF, Fr.22912

A new 📩message arrives from above: 4 of us need to resign, die or get sacked. Other departments are receiving their equivalents. So, we are at the depressing endgame that Birkbeck, University of London SMT have engineered. Awful.
SAVE BBK Psychosocial Studies SAVE Film, Media & Cultural Studies at Birkbeck #SaveBirkbeck Free Birkbeck

'you study Old English? I love Shakespeare!'

Hearty and well-deserved congratulations go to the six finalists who have been shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Award for the best nature-writing published and nominated in 2022: Leif Bersweden Lee Schofield Ben Rawlence Guy Shrubsole Malachy Tallack & Annie Proulx.

And what about this new interest of his? The Workers' Revolutionary Vanguard. Is it really suitable do you think?

With Sheridan's education and background, surely he ought to be in the Executives' Revolutionary Vanguard.

Wise words from Lance, as always.

So if they both muster knights and archers in their respective dukedoms then advance at similar speeds, the battle will take place somewhere on the northern fringe of London, maybe in car park at the Waltham Cross Homebase

My header image is now two of my favourite #linocuts that I made in 2022. Both were formed with a complete lack of direction and much noodling around, which is perhaps how I will do more things in 2023.

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A nativity scene of foreshore finds -
Victorian toys, broken ornaments, post medieval pottery shards and a broken medieval pilgrim badge.

#Mudlark ing #Mudlark #Larking