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Sue Jones

@suejonze.bsky.social

Usually lurking by the water. Knows some stuff about early modern piracy, among other things. Thames or Humber

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Pighill@pighill.bsky.social · 4w ago

Can anyone help? This was pointed out to me earlier today, up on the list of Rectors of St Helen's Church, Mareham-Le-Fen, Lincolnshire Notably - Rev. John Price 1647 who has his name appended with the description "Presbyterian Intruder" . Can anyone offer any other Churches with a similar record?

A plaque detail a list with dates, of the Rectors of St Helen's Church, Mareham-Le-Fen, Lincolnshire from 1172 to 2025A cropped image showing the names and dates of the Rectors of St Helen's Church, Mareham-Le-Fen, during the 17th Century.
Andy Marshall@fotofacade.bsky.social · 4w ago

One of my fave things in York Minster: a medieval wren stalking a spider. It reminds me that history isn't only kings and battles. Someone, centuries ago, found joy in the same things we still notice today. It's a reminder of how much we have in common over our differences.

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Christian Algar@ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are all Menocchio! 🖤 Rest in Peace, Carlo Ginzburg. His work hammered home the fact that curiosity, original thinking, independence of mind, strength of character and belief, resistance to ‘the norm’ and to power and authority has *always* been a part of human history.

Book cover of Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms. An engraving of a male figure walking across fields reading a book with a windmill in the background. This represents an ‘ordinary’ miller from Italy whose story Ginzburg traced in 16th-century archives and tells a story of a fiercely independent literate miller whose reading defied authority and norms. Back cover.
Matt Houlbrook@tricksterprince.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our new exhibition Remembering Humberside is up-and-running @hullhistorycentre.bsky.social and @northlincsmuseum.bsky.social. If you're lucky enough to be on Humberside it's well worth a visit. For everyone else, there's a nice write-up in The Hull Story. www.thehullstory.com/allarticles/...

The rise and fall of Humberside — The Hull Story

By Martin Taylor , city archivist - based on the text of the exhibition, Remembering Humberside April 1 this year was the thirtieth anniversary of the abolition of Humberside County Council. Its l...

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Jeremy Millar@jeremymillar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Piero's Ressurection is a fresco in Sansepolcro. Anthony Clarke, an artillery officer in WWII, remembered the name of the town from an essay he'd read by Aldous Huxley, and the treasures there contained: 'It stands there before us in entire and actual splendour, the greatest picture in the world.'

Piero's Resurrection from c.1460. Jesus is in the centre of the composition, portrayed in the moment of his resurrection, as suggested by the position of the leg on the parapet of his tomb, which Piero renders as a classical sarcophagus. His stern, impassive figure, depicted in an iconic and abstract fixity (and described by Aldous Huxley as "athletic"), rises over four sleeping soldiers, representing the difference between the human and the divine spheres (or the death, defeated by Christ's light). His figure in the commune's council hall "both protects the judge and purifies the judged" according to Marilyn Aronberg Lavin The landscape, immersed in the dawn light, has also a symbolic value: the contrast between the flourishing young trees on the right and the bare mature ones on the left alludes to the renovation of men through the Resurrection's light.
Michael Powell-Davies@mdpowelldavies.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited to share that my article on poetics and play in the practical mathematics of William Leybourn is out now in The Seventeenth Century. Available #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1080/0268.... #poetry #play #print #London #mathematics #earlymodern #WrittenWorlds @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Beyond utility: pleasure and play in the works of William Leybourn, writer, stationer, and mathematical practitioner

This article investigates the place of pleasure, play, and friendship in the works of William Leybourn, a printer and mathematician best known for writing practical and decidedly ‘non-literary’ tec...

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)@themerl.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A common fictional narrative shows people with nonconforming identities finding self-acceptance in towns and cities. This #LGBTQHistoryMonth, archivist Lottie Wood explores how author E. M. Barraud found the opposite, through rural work and the Women’s Land Army. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

"I am the farm worker going home at evening": gender fluidity, rural landscapes, and the Women's Land Army

Archivist Lottie Wood explores gender and landscapes in E. M. Barraud's reflections on her time in the Women's Land Army.

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Sardonicus@sardonicus.eu · 6mo ago

'The man who seeks to arouse prejudice among workingmen is not their friend. He who advises the white wage-worker to look down upon the black wage-worker is the enemy of both.' Eugene Debs

A photo of Eugene Debs in 1918 in Canton, Ohio, giving an anti-war speech.