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Dr Christina Faraday

@cjfaraday.bsky.social

Historian of art & ideas, Cambridge FSA FRHistS. Sometimes on the radio. 📕 The Story of Tudor Art out now views own 🥦👻🎻 https://www.christinajfaraday.com/

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Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 5d ago

A rare and fragile survival from Viking-age York! A delicate silk cap made of hand-spun, undyed silk, c. AD 875-950 Silk was an exotic material imported via a vast network of Viking trade routes. Found during excavations at Coppergate in 1980. Yorkshire Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

My photo shows a hood-shaped silk cap from Viking Age York displayed on a thin metal stand against a dark display case background at the Yorkshire Museum. It is made from a rectangle of hand-spun, undyed silk, and shaped at the back by a centre seam. The pale silk is yellowy-gold in colour with a shiny lustre. The edges have been neatened with fine hems. According to the museum, it was probably worn with ties to fasten it to the head, as it includes the remains of two groups of stitches with which to attach ties. The museum says that the silk cap was likely worn by a female Anglo-Scandinavian resident of York. Also that “Silk was incredibly rare in the Viking North because it was not made locally. Silk-weaving is a Chinese technology, but by the 10th-century, the practice had reached the Arabian Peninsula, the Byzantine Empire, and parts of North Africa and Spain. Silk used to make the cap was imported from one of these places. The fine, pale-toned material would have been recognised in the town as a highly expensive and exotic fashion item”.
Dr Christina Faraday@cjfaraday.bsky.social · 3w ago

A timeless Cambridge scene, one that Rupert Brooke would recognise: "Oh! there the chestnuts, summer through, / Beside the river make for you / A tunnel of green gloom, and sleep / Deeply above; and green and deep / The robot lawnmower glides beneath."

Lauren Working@laurenworking.bsky.social · 2mo ago

and what better example of the confluence of voyaging & pearl earrings in 1590s portraiture than this fabulous painting of Robert Dudley (the younger), currently on rare public display at the Philip Mould Gallery in London 🦪

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Vicky MacKenzie@vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Anyone else want to do a creative writing workshop with me, focusing on writing scintillating historical fiction? #CreativeWriting #HistFic #BookSky #WritingWorkshop

Vicky MacKenzie@vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My workshop on Writing Historical Fiction is approaching! 10.00-16.00 Sat 16th May (on Zoom), £150. We'll be looking at how to seamlessly incorporate research into your story, creating convincing characters and dialogue, and how to be savvy about anachronism. Spaces still available! #CreativeWriting

Dr Christina Faraday@cjfaraday.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Tudor Contemporary recommended on BBC Radio 4 Front Row! Described by @katemaltby.bsky.social: "the best time I've had in an art gallery recently ... a wonderful collection of contemporary & cutting edge works of art that take their inspiration from Tudor art" www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... at 40:17

Front Row - Review: Is it ok to film theatre curtain calls on your phone? - BBC Sounds

Reviewing new work from Francois Ozon, Amitav Ghosh and Jim Jarmusch.

bbc.co.uk