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Software developer, accidental researcher, #AnneListerCodeBreaker, and Head of Personal Pampering for Miss A-, the black lab. Might play with cameras and old papers, if left to my own devices. https://www.packedwithpotential.org/
Super interesting! Thank you! When I started to look into the life of Anne Lister's brother, I didn't even think this school building would still be there. It was a nice surprise.
Puddle, Manchester, 2021, photo by Ruxx Naqvi.
The image depicts "A View of the Estate at Esholt Hall, Yorkshire," a landscape drawing created by artist Samuel Scott. The image depicts "A View of the Estate at Esholt Hall, Yorkshire," a landscape drawing created by artist Samuel Scott. The work is a gray wash and graphite drawing on paper, depicting a large country house in a rural landscape. Esholt Hall was built on the site of the former Esholt Priory, a Cistercian convent. The landscape includes characteristic elements of an 18th-century English countryside estate, such as a horse-drawn carriage in the foreground and a "swan pond" near the hall. Today, the hall is a Grade II* listed building and serves as part of the Yorkshire Water infrastructure, with surrounding woodlands managed by the local council some of which is open to the public. Image A View of the Estate at Esholt Hall, Yorkshire, Samuel Scott, Yale Center for British Art
🧵Esholt Priory was a Cistercian nunnery founded in the twelfth century when Simon Warde granted the estate to the nuns of Syningthwaite Priory. The gift was confirmed by his son in 1172 and again in 1185. Dedicated to St Mary and St Leonard, the priory continued until its suppression in 1540
I wish the mega rich would brag about building libraries today.
#RomComWeek
From what I learned back then, the school was built alongside the almshouses. The school building was used as such until the 20th century. I unfortunately never had a chance to visit Thornton Dale, but it seemed like a very pretty place.
Mouse got a passion for vaulting and there are some wonderful examples at #HolyTrinityBristol. Each one a pure work of art. Mouse picked three examples for you gentle readers, #BristolCathedralVaulting Number 1: The Lady Chapel (C14)
Purple crocuses in bloom at Nungate bridge in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland, photo by Julie Kornhammer (via BBC).
Pencil drawing of the ruins of a medieval abbey church.
St Mary's Abbey church, Museum Gardens, York. The remains of the central tower and the north aisle of the nave. The church was rebuilt between 1270 -94. Perhaps the stonework can be seen as a type of ghost of the craftsmen that made it.
#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing
#ArtShare
Very interesting! I had read about her briefly when I wrote an article about one of Anne Lister's brothers. Both of her brothers studied in Thornton-le-Dale.
The image shows Lady Lumley's Almshouses, located in Thornton Dale, North Yorkshire. This terrace of twelve houses was built in 1670 from local limestone. They were founded by Lady Elizabeth Lumley to provide housing for local people in need, and they continue to serve this purpose today as a registered charity. Imnage: Lady Lumley's Almshouses, Thornton-le-Dale by John Lord CC BY-SA 2.0
🧵I was thinking about writing a short post on the Lady Lumley almshouses in Thornton Dale, built around 1670. In reading about their founder, Lady Elizabeth Lumley (c.1577–1657), I realised how remarkable her life was. Born Elizabeth Cornwallis into a powerful Norfolk family,
Brownish drawing of a skeletal death with a quiver of arrows at his side, touching a bagpiper on the hat and piercing his bagpipe with a dart of death.
#TheVIctorianBookoftheDead #InternationalBagpipeDay
Death stabs the bagpiper with his dart of death.
De Kapelle der dooden, 1741
1826 Forget Me Not dedication page, an embossed floral scroll on blue paper. Inscribed to Henrietta Dawson by P. M. French.
Blank 1827 embossed Forget Me Not frame on orange paper. Artsy women appear at the top of the frame.
Embossed Fountain design on olive paper for 1828. Inscribed with the words I will never forget, in French, and signed illegibly.
Embossed frame on orange paper with a bust of maybe Socrates on top, standing women to the sides. Inscribed lightly with the name Grace Robson?
Forget Me Not?
We have a run of this annual set of gift books from 1823 to 1846 @newberrylibrary.bsky.social. Several have embossed dedication pages, most of which have been filled in by or for women! Many thanks to @drbibliomane.bsky.social for this excellent rabbit hole!
#WomensHistory #WHM
An explosion of daffodils at my #OnePlaceStudy St. John's Square, Wakefield today.
FindmyPast doubles British Newspaper Archive digitisation capacity
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Approaching the magnificent York Minster from Chapter House Street.
With @deadsleuth.com
Lots of accidents here, it seems... He accidentally poisoned people with contaminated sweets, now they found his burial place after losing it for ages.
The image shows a soldier in a red dress uniform, wearing white gloves. the blade of a sword is visible. the text reads "updated profile: samuel lister, 1793-1813"
Check out new details relating to the funeral of Sam Lister, #AnneLister’s beloved sibling whose death ultimately led to her inheriting Shibden Hall, in this revised profile by Lynn Shouls (lynnshls.bsky.social) 👇
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#history #oneplace #militaryhistory
Terracotta statuette of a dog with upright, pricked ears and a fluffy upright tail. He has an oval object - supposedly meat - in his mouth, painted red. Black pigment can still be seen on his ears and the tip of his tail, in addition to some traces of red on his coat.
Every dog owner: ‘What’s that in your mouth?? Omigod, drop it, drop it!’ 😱
This Greek (Boeotian) terracotta dog appears to have a red piece of, um, meat in its mouth. I’m sure he earned it (‘Hey, that dead guy over there wasn’t using this.’)
1st half of the 5th c. BCE. #MetMuseum 📸 me 🏺
Looking down on West Bow from Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh #scotland #photography
A historical oil painting portrait of Mary Anning (1799–1847), the pioneering British fossil hunter, paleontologist, and self-taught scientist from Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. Painted by B. J. Donne in the 19th century (posthumous or based on contemporary sketches), it depicts her standing outdoors on a rocky coastal shore under a dramatic, stormy sky with dark clouds and a glimpse of the sea and distant cliffs in the background. She wears a long, dark green cloak with a hood, a red neck scarf, and a wide-brimmed bonnet tied under her chin. In her gloved right hand she holds a geological hammer (her iconic tool), and a small wicker basket hangs from her left arm, likely for carrying fossils. A loyal black-and-white dog (possibly her famous companion Tray) lies curled at her feet on the rocks. Mary Anning stands with a calm, resolute expression, gazing slightly upward and to the side, conveying quiet determination and intelligence. The painting's muted tones and romantic style emphasize her as a lone figure in a rugged, fossil-rich landscape, symbolizing her groundbreaking contributions to early paleontology despite societal barriers as a working-class woman.
Fossil collector & self-taught paleontologist Mary Anning's discoveries revolutionized our understanding of prehistoric life.
"The greatest fossilist the world ever knew," she made her finds in the Jurassic marine fossil beds along the cliffs of Lyme Regis (UK). She died #OTD in 1847. #WomenInSTEM
Take Me To Church.
Westminster Abbey, March 2025.
A treat to die for! 😬
Ivory carving of death as a skeleton partially wrapped in a shroud, sitting on the edge of a tomb, elbow on an hourglass and hand on head. The picture of despair.
#MementoMoriMonday mood.
1547 ivory
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead
This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"But, as you well know, I have not a little of Yorkshire cavalier about me; and, tho’ I would go thro’ fire and water to serve a friend, perhaps you would often think me too [unbending] to the world in general -" #AnneLister to Maria Barlow, Dec. 2025.
(The things I read in these letters.. 😅)
The Volga Lagoon, by Fyodor Vasilyev
The Volga Lagoon, by Fyodor Vasilyev
Angled view past a stone column across the cathedral nave to the other side, with Romanesque arches, a stained glass window visible through one. The chairs in the nave are modern, made of tubular metal with pale wooden seats and backs.
Ely Cathedral's nave.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteriors 📷 #photography
if you ask me, that is money well spent. This looks gorgeous!
#cat #catphotography #photography
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