The Vale of the White Horse, Eric Ravilious, 1939. It depicts the landscape at Uffington, #Oxfordshire (when painted it was in #Berkshire ). The original artwork is in the collection of Tate.

In Britain, excited delirium is known as acute behavioural disturbance (ABD). This was used by Gwent Police to describe the experience of Mouayed Bashir when he died in police custody in 2021. ABD has been listed as a contributing factor in many of deaths
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Previous Jhalak Prize giveaways (cos Jhalak prize is ace)

Happened to find myself on the Victoria line today admiring the tiles at Blackhorse Road underground station. They were designed by Hans Unger (1915-1975) in 1969.

#design #postwarart #london #london underground #blackhorseroad #tubestations #hansunger

This has been a riot - a brilliant fantasy adventure with 'vampirs' and 'werwolves'. Huge fun, wrapped up in Piers Torday's characteristically lovely prose.

Little Water Vole was so so excited to be able to preorder their copy of The Joy Bringers from the Mouse Emporium.
(If you can’t get down there yourself I have some on my site of webs)

With my partner's blessing, I share our recent personal journey trying to access mental health help. My OH just started full time work again, after eighteen months off sick. At every point, the system was a set-back instead of help, it LENGTHENED and WORSENED his problem. 1/ ~AA

MAURICE SENDAK AND WILLIAM BLAKE

May 8th, online 7.30pm (free).

I've teamed up with Prof. Jason Whittaker for The Blake Society to do an online event about the influence of William Blake on the life and work of Maurice Sendak.

Find our more and register: blakesociety.org/product/blake-…

Still trying to get my head round the Telegraph headline that ‘14 years of Tory rule have left the Country in a Lefty mess’

Who comes up with this nonsense?

If we can’t stop this who even are we anymore?

This educational resource created by Atebol discusses the colony as 'established in 1865'. There is no critical interaction, or the terra nullius that underpins settler-colonisation. This is a good example of how settler colonisation is celebrated within contemproary Wales

On the 19th April 1866, the Welsh🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 settler-colonisers of Patagonia made contact with indigenous people, the Tehuelche people, who lived in the Patagonia regions of Chile🇨🇱 and Argentina🇦🇷.

This is Lewis Jones and some people who are Tehuelche. but what are their names?

Black-British children’s writers! Amazing opportunity alert. Apply by midnight 22nd April! ⬇️

Go on, you know you NEED these books!

Congratulations Sara - this delicious little ISLAND AT THE EDGE OF NIGHT package will be winging its way to you soon!!! 📚🧡 Please DM me details / address etc.

The parody isn’t even a parody any more
# IJustFeelSorryfortheSatirists

#NewIllustrationoftheDay . Characteristically sweet faces of children in The Show, a story about teamwork, and the third and latest in ⁦Clara Vulliamy’s charming, highly illustrated, early reader series The Dog Squad. She also draws dogs well.⁦ HarperCollins Children's Books⁩

Honestly, what possible justification is there for this? 😡😡😡

Nightmare Abbey 5 reviewed: 'Helen Grant makes my favorites again with her story Goldfish about a vindictive man who comes to regret his senseless act of revenge'
wellwortharead.blogspot.com/2024/04/nightm…

Cannot tell you how excited I am to be part of this brilliant series. These women… ❤️