Something like John Martyn's Sapphire springs to mind - recorded in the Bahamas with the assistance of Robert Palmer.
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Something like John Martyn's Sapphire springs to mind - recorded in the Bahamas with the assistance of Robert Palmer.
18th century portrait of Henry Wyatt, dressed in a heavy robe with a chain of office and black cap with ear flaps. He is an older man, jowls. Next to him an angry looking grey tabby cat paws at a pigeon that is stuck in the bars of a window.
I am reading the will of Sir Henry Wyatt, who leaves a cup with his arms on to Thomas Cromwell and makes him one of his executors.
Henry was imprisoned for opposing Richard III, then supported Henry Tudor's claim & became courtier under him (Henry VII).
Here he is in prison with a nice cat:
Adam Smith ΕΏays tax the rich
(Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations, vol. III, p. 236 (1776))
The tag says Beaker People. Another mystery solved!
#Stonehenge
Out in August! π cup.columbia.edu/book/body-ho... #horror #bodyhorror
A merwoman holding a comb and a mirror, riding a big fish. This is the colophon from this book: https://www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/zoom/8532285
Entering the weekend like this angry-fish riding, mirrow and comb holding, slightly smiling merwoman in 1530 on a printer's mark from the Zurich-based Augustin FrieΓ... #bookhistory
*Some of them are reconstructed (edit function would be helpful)
The Haunting of Hill House
Super excited to announce our big annual conference! π₯³
"Caring for Non-Humans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Care among Animals, the Environment, and AI"
πPrague, October 12-14
Organized by @johndorsch.bsky.social & yours truly π
Please share widely! π
cetep.eu/news/cfa-car...
Entry to Newgrange, lined with large carved stones on front. The one in the middle directly in front of the entrance is decorated with carved spirals.
And some more spiral art as seen on the stone in front of the entrance to Newgrange (SΓ an BhrΓΊ), a passage tomb from c. 3100 BCE.
#WrydWednesday
For this week's #WyrdWednesday, a repost of some spiral art at Knowth (CnΓ³bha), a complex of passage tombs from c. 3200 BC. Some of them reconstructed, but the stones still bear the original art.
Great-looking new collection from @boapublishing.bsky.social: Witchcraft and Magic in England, c. 1400β1920 π§ββοΈ
For some reason only available to institutions though, so those of us without an institution don't get to see it π
britishonlinearchives.com/collections/...
CALL FOR PAPERS
Friendly reminder that the abstract deadline for this year's York Magic and Witchcraft conference is 14th March π the theme is NATURE AND THE SUPERNATURAL, broadly defined π¦οΈππ
Please send your abstracts to magicwitchcraft2024@gmail.com !
@drdebsmoretti.bsky.social
A giant serpent coils around a stone circle and worshippers turning to stone; in the centre a beam of light shoots.down from the sky.
π¨ Les Matthews, painting for the series βChildren of the Stonesβ (1977) #StandingStoneSunday
π’ #CfP for the 22nd #Tolkien Seminar of the @germantolksoc.bsky.social in cooperation with the Environmental Education Centre in Augsburg and WTP
πEnvironment, the World around us, and the Connatural World in Tolkienβs Works
#envhum #ecocrit
www.tolkiengesellschaft.de/55214/tolkie...
π’ #CfP fΓΌr das 22. #Tolkien Seminar der @germantolksoc.bsky.social in Kooperation mit dem Umweltbildungszentrum Augsburg und WTP
πUmwelt, Um-Welt und Mit-Welt in Tolkiens Werk
ποΈ 16.-18.10.2026
πvor Ort in Augsburg oder online
ππ #fantasy #envhum #envhist
www.tolkiengesellschaft.de/55220/tolkie...
If you'd like to know more about the #earlymodern alchemy featured in #SmallProphets, have a look at this thread. Spoiler warning - please only have a look if you're acquainted with the whole premise of the series.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
You can now read my article on "'Continuall feare, and danger of violent death:' Re-Imagining the 17th Century as Early-Modernism in Folk Horror" open access:
angl.winter-verlag.de/article/ANGL...
#folkhorror #earlymodern #oa #horror
PhD students, check out this International Doctoral Workshop in Cologne, Germany, in November. Deadline: 30 April. #envhist #envhum
1825: Saw today the largest piece of Ivy I ever saw in my life mailing a tree which it nearly surpassd in size in Oxey Wood it was thicker than my thigh & its cramping embraces seemd to diminish the tree to a dwarf - it has been asserted by some that ivy is very injurious to trees & by others...
that it does no injury at all - I cannot decide against it - the large pieces were coverd all over with root-like fibres as thick as hair & they represented the limbs of animals more than the bark of a tree
The reconstructed remains of a Roman signal station; you can see the entrance to the tower amidst low walls.
The reconstructed remains of a Roman signal station, as seen from the back. It's surrounded by forest.
The reconstructed remains of a Roman signal station, as seen from within. You can see the red tiles on the floor which are partly original, partly reconstructed. In the back, you can see an observatory housed in a former church spire.
The reconstructed remains of a Roman signal station, as seen from sideways.
For #RomanSiteSaturday, here are the partly reconstructed remains of a Roman signal station near Bad Nauheim. The station was built beyond the limes in the 2nd cent. CE. It could summon a unit of Syrian archers stationed at Friedberg, if needed. The remains were partly reconstructed in 2010.πΊ
The tower was built under the rule of Hadrian, but abandoned again later since it was well beyond the limes. It was excavated in 1906. There are probably still sites nearby waiting to be examined from the Celts, Romans, medieval and early modern periods.
The reconstructed remains of a Roman signal station; you can see the entrance to the tower amidst low walls.
The reconstructed remains of a Roman signal station, as seen from the back. It's surrounded by forest.
The reconstructed remains of a Roman signal station, as seen from within. You can see the red tiles on the floor which are partly original, partly reconstructed. In the back, you can see an observatory housed in a former church spire.
The reconstructed remains of a Roman signal station, as seen from sideways.
For #RomanSiteSaturday, here are the partly reconstructed remains of a Roman signal station near Bad Nauheim. The station was built beyond the limes in the 2nd cent. CE. It could summon a unit of Syrian archers stationed at Friedberg, if needed. The remains were partly reconstructed in 2010.πΊ
They need something to distinguish it from the 2005 version after all...
Every now and again I feel obliged to repost David E. Alter Jr's brilliant 1982 pic Bilbo's Great Adventure. Like a cross between a Victorian neo-medieval tapestry and an 8-bit platform game it condenses the whole story of The Hobbit into one image. My fave #Tolkien detail...that awesome little Bard
Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.
Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. Itβs about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Hereβs a little thread of whatβs inside:
Are you ready for The Backrooms? Brush up on your analog horror homework by reading my new Film Quarterly article, available for FREE and the first ever (!) academic publication on the subgenre:
Congratulations! π₯³
Title page for The Monk of Udolpho by T. J. Horsley Curties, Esq. 1807.
I like how the Georgians had straight-to-video mockbusters
The Monk ... of Udolpho