A Lucia in Wonderland with Wanderlust 🏹

KITAB The Website for the KITAB project

kitab-project.org Sharing this amazing project "Kitab : Knowledge, Information Technology, & the Arabic Book"📖📚

www.cprelondon.org.uk/wp-content/u... #Enfield #Broxbourne #Essex #Hertfordshire 💡🌳🌱🌿🪴💚💗🏡

www.cprelondon.org.uk/green-city/1... #Enfield #Broxbourne #Essex #Hertforshire 💡🌳🌱🌿🪴💚💗🏡

Ahead of our opening this week, Conspiracies is in the @financialtimes.com!

Read @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social's piece here: www.ft.com/content/13f7...

🥳🎉🎊Finally 🙌🏿🙌🙌🏻 #Enfield (Town) - #Broxbourne 🚲🚴‍♀️ Cycle lane 💚💜🫂🌳🌱p @enfieldcycling.bsky.social @londoncycling.bsky.social

The Muses and the Compilers: Allegorical Frontispieces and the Enlightenment Image of Antiquity Floris Solleveld explores how eighteenth-century scholars used frontispieces to turn the study of antiquity into a science, while still speaking in an older visual language.

New on the blog: Floris Solleveld explores allegorical frontispieces and the Enlightenment image of antiquity.

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#EarlyModern #BookHistory #PrintCulture #IntellectualHistory

Applications are open for our 23rd Summer School on British History and the History of the British Empire! This year's topic will be "City and Empire. Colonial and Postcolonial London". 🏛️

📅 21-24 July 2026
📍German Historical Institute London
⏰ Apply by 6 March 2026
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The Future of the Antique: Interpreting the Sculptural Canon This conference marks the publication of the new, expanded edition of Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny’s seminal Taste and the Antique

Explore how classical statues shaped visual culture beyond replication in this @ics.bsky.social conference 'The Future of the Antique: Interpreting the Sculptural Canon'.

10-12 December 2025 | 📍 Senate House

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#ClassicalStudies #Classics #VisualCulture

Photo: Kythera Gallery featuring library of exile by Edmund de Waal ©Hufton+Crow

Our Assetto Fellowships for Creative Practitioners-in-Residence are now open!

We’re inviting artists, designers, filmmakers, writers and other creative practitioners to spend 3 to 4 months working within the Warburg Institute.

Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/research-fel...

Latin School Plays in European Drama. A Transregional and Multilingual Account of Joseph Plays (1500–1700)* | Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes Abstract In this article I integrate school drama, mainly in Latin, with other types of drama during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I do so by exploring connections between adaptations of…

The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes has published a new article from its upcoming 2025 volume!

‘Latin School Plays in European Drama. A Transregional and Multilingual Account of Joseph Plays (1500–1700)’ by Dinah Wouters,

“A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair on a beach”, surrounded by 3 women. Black and white photograph, c. 1910/1925. Reference: Wellcome Collection, 43576ie

This month is UK Disability History Month. You can learn more about the history of disability in the UK and Ireland through the Bibliography of British and Irish History's (BBIH) free reading list, which includes more than 450 recent publications in the history of disability buff.ly/OK5HSbu

I will be in London to present the paper "Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century" at the @ihreurope1500.bsky.social on Dec 1, 17h30 (London time) register here to join us in person or online www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #slaveryarchive

Winter wardrobe inspiration from the 15th century - this is how we’ll be dressed now that the weather is getting chilly 🥶

This illustrated horoscope comes from an astrological treatise written by Joannes Angelus in 1488 (our copy of the book is a later edition printed in 1540)

Ancient Greek philosopher statue of a man in a thinking pose

To mark World Philosophy Day, why not delve into the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). Using the search term 'Philosophy', you can find over 6,000 results! buff.ly/3L7a33B

Huge news on the DLR extension to Thamesmead: the Government has given its backing.

It will mean easier travel, new jobs and tens of thousands of new homes.

🙋‍♂️ Want to help LCC deliver in making it better to cycle London?

💼 We're currently recruiting for three voluntary roles to help out our staff team - find out more, including how to apply: bit.ly/495Izs8

The SNLS is delighted to once again be participating in the Being Human Festival with ✨new walking tours✨ on multiple dates! Check out the programme to see what amazing humanities events are in store this Festival season!

The Representation of African People in Early Modern European Art & Culture Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

How did artists of the early modern period depict African people?

Join our online course (13 Nov–11 Dec) to explore how these images shaped ideas about race and ethnicity in Europe — from saints and magi to portraiture and decorative arts.

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#ArtHistory

Amém 🙌🏿🙌🏻🙌

The time has come for a new type of climate coalition The world's cities can take the lead in demonstrating how we tackle the climate crisis and deliver global, transformative change.

As the world gathers in Brazil for COP30, the stakes could not be higher. Leaders must join together and do what it takes to protect the people we serve, and the planet we share.

My op-ed with Mayor Paes of Rio de Janeiro for @NewStatesman.

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Wonder wandering xtraordinary London. Borough Market 》SouthwarkCathedral 》Queen's Walk 》crossed London Bridge 🌉 Under a deep blue sky, a tinted teal Thames. Thank you - Danke - Merci ありがとう - obrigada 🙏🏿

Selfie at Room 101

Egypt's Grand Museum opens, displaying Tutankhamun tomb in full for first time The launch of the billion-dollar site sees fresh calls for the return of antiquities held in museums overseas.

Egypt's Grand Museum opens, displaying Tutankhamun tomb in full for first time. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The artist duo Ackroyd & Harvey will be this year’s Goethe Annual Lecture speakers 🌱

Join us to discover how Joseph Beuys’ visionary project “7000 Oaks” inspired their tree-growing practice and community engagement.

📅 20 Nov | 6:30PM
🔗 Save your spot: www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ve...

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📣 Callout: Do you have a good idea💡or a story about cycling 🚲 in Haringey?

Know someone with an unusual experience? Or a real talent for cycling? Or who’s found an unusual route?

We’re collecting local stories for our next newsletter and local magazines – all ideas welcome!

Photo of This Is Oxford Street from above surrounded by buildings, event banners, pedestrians and concessions.

Pedestrians walking over street banner reading "This Is Oxford Street".

Crowds of people at This Is Oxford Street event with street event banners hanging above.

Crowds of people facing the This Is Oxford Street event main stage.

Without a constant stream of traffic, the nation’s high street came alive for one extraordinary day.

Footfall was up nearly 50% and passenger numbers at nearby Tube stations jumped by 25%. It shows the appetite for a traffic-free Oxford Street where businesses and Londoners can thrive.

Campaign from Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles
Agency: twotango.co

In times of global warming, carbon cut etc

Summer 2025 was UK’s warmest on record Summer 2025 was a record-breaker for the UK. What caused such a warm summer?

Summer 2025 was UK’s warmest on record

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