Learned from Habibi Funk that the Egyptian singer Maha has died. You should listen to her album. It's a lovely thing. habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/habibi-f…
Habibi Funk 020: Orkos, by Maha
7 track album
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Sharon Howard
@sharonhoward.bsky.social
History, data, art, food. Still lazing about. http://sharonhoward.org/ ORCID: 0000-0002-6051-6274
In honour of #InternationalOwlDay. (It may be a bit niche [or maybe not, seeing the popularity of #TheOdyssey], but it's my favourite of any memes I've made.)
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Martín Rodrigo Alharilla, historian: ‘The best-known slaveholding families in Catalonia are only the tip of the iceberg’
The expert is studying the economic benefits that the slave trade in the Spanish northeastern region generated in the 18th and 19th centuries
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"The battle is lost! Give me an account of our dead and wounded.... but for god's sake make it look PRETTY" - the king of France, probably
Today I learned that baby cranes are called "colts" because their legs are so long and they can run around like idiots shortly after hatching. This is delightful, I enjoy knowing this.
Today is #YorkshireDay so we're sharing this post by @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social about Alice Thornton and her Yorkshire connections. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 1/2 thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...
Celebrating a Yorkshire Woman on Yorkshire Day: Alice Thornton (1626-1707)
Blog article - 1 August 2023
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Includes a great article on the project to digitise London Foundling Hospital petitions scholarlyediting.org/issues/43/read… (interesting on the petitions, mothers and children, on fragmentary archives and record linkage, volunteer projects and more)
Reading in Pieces
In 1763, the Foundling Hospital — a London-based institution that oversaw the care and education of illegitimate children — radically altered its admissions policies. Where struggling mothers could once anonymously apply for the Hospital’s support, they were now required to prove their worthiness f…
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James Cummings@jamescummings.bsky.social · 5d agoIssue 43 of Scholarly Editing is out! Includes many great micro-editions, articles, essays and reviews. (Including a review by me, but you should really read the other stuff first...) scholarlyediting.org/issues/43/
Warren Clarke. Even if the BBC did chicken out of doing that particular Dalziel and Pascoe novel.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d agoIf not Matt Damon, who is you alternative Odysseus?
We need to take a moment to salute Gianni Infantino for being the first person in history to get 55 European countries to unanimously agree on anything.
Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is Landscapes for ‘British Landscapes: A Sense of Place’ at Pallant House Gallery. We have chosen Tregiffian Cliff, near Lamorna, c. 1921, by Samuel John Lamorna Birch (1869–1955), which is owned by Bristol Museums.
2/2 A fierce bad tiger. And very small! Netsuke by Matsushita Otoman, mid-19th century Japan. Less than 2 inches high. #WorldTigerDay
Pair of young kolf players, c. 1630. She's clearly going to win! Attributed to Judith Leyster, born on this day in 1609.
2/2 Woman offers man a glass of wine. Much better offer! He will take it as soon as this song is over. By Judith Leyster, who understood this side of things too. Today is her day.
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2/2 Judith Leyster, by herself in 1650. By now a successful art dealer. Painting just for her own pleasure. Because she could. Today is her day.
For #DH and #dataviz people... and if you're not at the conference, go look at the timeline anyway! It's a very clever and lovely visualisation. [disclosure: I may have had a bit to do with the underlying data.]
Alice Thornton's Books@thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · last wk.If you're at #DH2026 go see Mary Chester-Kadwell and Tiffany Ong's poster 'Human-centred Design in Digital Humanities: Rethinking Timeline Data Visualisation through Software Engineer-Designer Collaboration' re. the timeline they created for our project. thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/timeline/
Working with some geo data using short name BOM, and it has holes in it so I have things called BOMHOLES and this lame joke has kept me entertained for hours.
For a sleepy summer #Caturday. Study of a sleeping cat, Jan Miel (attr.), mid-17th c. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Joining this week's #OnlineArtExchange by @artukdotorg.bsky.social with Eckhout's "Study of Two Brazilian Tortoises" (1640). This remarkable painting was made during the Dutch colonial period in Brazil. Explore the artwork and the context in which it was created 👇 www.europeana.eu/en/item/2021...
Giving the new administration a tutorial on strategies for communicating what you're doing to the press.
Richard M. Nixon@dicknixon.bsky.social · 2w agoLarry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.
The 1605 charter of the Butchers' Company, held at @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social Wow wow wow. Look at the kingfisher! 🤩
Today is World Emoji Day! Did you know that Alice Thornton used an early form of emoji in her writing? She often used a ❤ instead of writing the word heart. In the image, see seven lines up on the right: 'Oh that our soules, my mind & ♥' Image: Book of Remembrances, 109. Photo by Derek Beattie. 📜
Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is summer 🌞 Share your pick using the hashtag! Discover summer in art 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/hello-heatwave-summer-in-art 'A Summer’s Day' byDiana M. Armfield (b.1920) © the artist / Bridgeman Images. 📷 MOMA MACHYNLLETH
Hello heatwave! Summer in art | Art UK
The season of summer is celebrated in some splendid paintings both literal and abstract, ancient and new, and in locations spanning the globe, from cityscapes to countryside, from seas to woodlands, from daytime through to the long nights.
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And now, for something completely different: Hansken the elephant, drawn by Rembrandt in 1637. For his birthday.
Great touches of Rembrandt: the so-called Jewish Bride, 1665. The way he puts his hand so gently on her breast, and she gently touches his hand. Excellent work, Rembrandt, and happy birthday.
As it's Rembrandt's day, here once again is quite possibly the most adorable drawing of a tiny child learning to walk that you will ever see. www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
On Rembrandt’s 420th birthday, we team up with the Rembrandt House Museum and Amsterdam Museum by looking at one of his most extraordinary works. 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/node/Rembrandt-van-Rijn--ba2dc062acd137ffeac364321b7b10df
