Dr Melita Thomas

Camellias still going strong. They have been blooming since early January.

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#1000TudorPeople P is for John Piers, Archbishop of York
who preached the thanksgiving service at St Paul’s
Cathedral after the defeat of the Armada in 1588.
In his youth, he was renowned for ‘tipling in a blind
ale-house with some of his neighbours’ but become a model of sobriety. amzn.to/3X5KVBp

Snow over the Potteries, painting by Edith Le Breton ((1912-92).

#1000TudorPeople T is for William Turner, pupil & friend of Nicholas Ridley. In the early 1530s he wrote in support of
Henry VIII’s annulment suit. He produced a 2 vol herbal, The Names of Herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe, Dutche and French. He also wrote Avium Praecipuarum, amzn.to/3X5KVBp

A 3,000 year old Bronze Age mould used to cast spearheads has been discovered under a barn in southeastern Moravia, Czech Republic.

📷Marek Hensl, Czech Radio
english.radio.cz/stone-found-...

Early 7th century Mosaic of the empress Theodora, dressed in ornate, jewelled covered robes and crown. The predominant colour of the mosaic is gold or deep brown.

For International Women's Day can I tip my hat to Theodora, daughter of a bear keeper, single mother, sometime street walker and actress, also saint, who moved on to conducting strategy meetings and making foreign policy as empress of the Eastern Roman Empire.

IWD 2026: Aleighcia Scott leads new film placing Welsh women at the heart of the nation’s story Stephen Price A new bilingual short film has been released to mark International Women’s Day, exploring identity and belonging in modern Wales. ‘Adref yw hi – She is home’ is a new bilingual film whic...

A new bilingual short film has been released to mark International Women's Day, exploring identity and belonging in modern Wales

More from Rosso's wild 20s: Dead Christ w/ Angels. Intensely spiritual? Or just plain kinky? You decide. Today is Rosso's birthday.

Ledger stone to Sir Edward and Lady Margery Cary (of Stantor), St John the Baptist, Marldon, Devon.

After more than 50 years of married life they died within days of each other — he on 14th June 1645 aged 80, she on the 19th, aged 85.

#monumentsmonday

Four small figures — S. Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary, S. Anne teaching the Virgin Mary to read, S. Roch and S.Sebastian — on a second ‘cenotaph’, which is now squashed in beside the organ in St. John the Baptist, Marldon, Devon.

#SundayStonework

An incredibly intense young man, painted in 1517 by Rosso Fiorentino, the red-headed Florentine. Born on this day in 1495.

Portrait of a Lady, by Catharina van Hemessen c. 1528–after 1587. She is the earliest known female #Flemish painter whose work can be clearly verified as hers. This picture was painted c.1548/49. (The Bowes Museum)

A cartoon of Pete Kefsbreath shouts at American flag-draped coffins: “STOP TRYING TO EMBARASS THE PRESIDENT!”

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

Prudence looks like she is sitting in a car. 🐾❤️ #catboxsunday #cats #catsky

A watercolour painting of a barn owl

I feel like I have a lot of favourites, and this is one of them. My watercolour of a barn owl standing in the grass.

#watercolours #birdart 🪶

#Perseus (not Bellerophon) and #Andromeda. Christine de Pisan, L'Épître Othéa, Paris ca. 1410-1414. BL, Harley 4431, fol. 98v. #medieval #MedievalArt

#Perseus (not Bellerophon) and #Andromeda. Christine de Pisan, L'Épître Othéa, Paris ca. 1410-1414. BL, Harley 4431, fol. 98v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

Detail from the 4th century ‘Charioteer Mosaic’ featuring a victorious charioteer and quadriga (4 horse chariot). The mosaic decorated one of the rooms at Rudston Roman Villa in East Yorkshire; now part of the collections at Hull and East Riding Museum. 📸 My own #MosaicMonday

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekIForInteriors
Also #StainedGlassSunday
#CeilingsOnSunday
The fabulous Salisbury Cathedral 😍

Collage of Moon shots showing the progress of a Lunar Eclipse

Probably not gonna stay up for the Moon tonight so I'll post this instead, since I had to make a few minor changes. I'll tell you what though, staying up almost all night when you're 64, ain't the same as doing it at 24! #LunarEclipse #Totality #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography #SantaBarbara

May I present Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia: smart, athletic, successful ruler, had good taste (my patron!) & generally cool. For #internationalwomensday

Better than the gift-mouse adorning my study this morning!

Happy International Women’s Day! It’s particularly satisfying to find new information on the overlooked or the unloved, such as Jane Seymour, who is usually considered the least interesting of Henry VIII’s wives. My new book on her is out in July #internationalwomensday #janeseymour

🏛🏇 Gilt-bronze equestrian statue of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, likely cast in either c. AD 176, to celebrate a victory over Germanic tribes during the Marcomannic Wars, or in AD 180, to mark his death.

My 📷 Musei Capitolini

Daffodil flowers emerging

Here they come!!!

Tongue twisting. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 4v. #medieval #MedievalArt

Tongue twisting. Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072. BnF, Latin 8878, fol. 4v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

Nave and chancel Angel Roofs at Martham, St Mary, Norfolk #norfolk #churches #angelroofs #angels #history #heritage #architecture #light #carpentry #woodcarving #victorian #19thcentury

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region