If you're interested in learning more about Richard Burbage's impact on Shakespeare, you might enjoy the piece I've just written for The Conversation @uk.theconversation.com - theconversation.com/richard-burb...
This photograph captures Sir David Attenborough seated outdoors on the rugged terrain of Skomer Island. Behind him, the ocean and coastal cliffs form a scenic backdrop under a clear sky. Sir David, dressed in a khaki jacket and light trousers, looks towards the camera with a gentle expression, exuding a sense of warmth, calm, and wisdom. Around him, puffins can be seen flying and perched on the rocky ground, illuminated in rays of golden sunlight as the sun sets behind the cliffs.
Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
Red, Blue and gold historiated initial showing King David playing his harp
David playing the harp, from our 13th century illuminated Bible #Manuscripts #Illumination
@malonesociety.bsky.social Delighted to find my copy of the impressive new edition of 'The Devil's Charter' waiting for me in the postroom today!
Just arrived in Seville with my son & and am looking forward to a day exploring the city tomorrow before heading off for a week of birdwatching in Extremadura.
View across museum gallery with packed display cases, ornate ironwork and a white ceiling.
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Side view of a terracotta vessel in the shape of a hare hanging by its raised front legs. The hare’s head is bent backward and rests along its spine, with a small circular spout emerging from the upper back. The surface is decorated with fine dotted patterns, and parts of the ear and leg are darkened, possibly with black paint. The piece appears aged and is displayed against a neutral background.
A Greek terracotta aryballos, a vessel used for holding oil, in the shape of a #hare hanging by its front paws, from Rhodes, circa 550 BC.
On display at Antikensammlung München
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George Gower. The Plimpton "sieve" portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. Oil on panel, 1579.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Very much enjoyed talking about the research of my brilliant colleagues during a visit to DMU @demontfortt.bsky.social by the AHRC's inspiring CEO @christophersmith.bsky.social
Had a great afternoon, enjoying the launch of the @dmuleicester.bsky.social new Research & Innovation Institutes and UN SDG hub, including a couple of inspiring keynote speeches from @hetanshah.bsky.social and the UN's Sherry Aldis.
Very much enjoyed getting to see Jonathan Bailey's witty and affecting Richard II @thebridgetheatre.bsky.social as well as spending some time in the sun beside the Thames & the Tower of London.
Enjoyed seeing the latest RSC production of Hamlet tonight - not everything about the performance works, but Luke Thallon’s Hamlet is easily the most refreshing and exciting one I’ve seen in ages - alternately, energetic, comic and tragically fragile.
Got to love Birmingham ❤️ - last night, while we got to enjoy some glorious Beethoven & Mahler, lots of excited young people were off to spend an evening with Sabrina Carpenter. Their outfits were much more exciting & colourful than ours!
Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
A medieval dragon for St. David’s Day - decoration from the 15th century chancel screen at Crowland Abbey in Lincolnshire. 📷 My own. #StDavidsDay #ScreenSaturday
Beautiful initial 'F'(rater) at the beginning of Jerome's letter to Paulinus.
Staatsbibliothek Bamberg Msc.Bibl.1; Alcuin-Bible; circa 834 CE-843 CE; Marmoutier near Tours; f.2r
Lovely day in London to see #ENO's joyous production of 'The Marriage of Figaro'; & squeezed in a visit to the National Portrait Gallery to see some old friends..
Stained glass artwork created in sections of glass with led borders yet with a single pictorial image of a central hare sitting amongst tall green grasses
Ann Sotheran, contemporary UK Stained Glass artist #WomensArt
Did you know…
In the seventeenth century, it was quite proper to leave your Christmas decorations up until Candlemas Eve - February 1st - according to the poet Robert Herrick, at least.
So I hope you haven’t all been too hasty in taking them down.
Photo of an Ancient Egyptian gold head ornament made of a band of hammered sheet gold, the ends of which have been tapered to a narrower width and rolled to form loops. The band is decorated with a central head of an antlered stag, flanked on either side by two gazelle heads. Between the animal heads are four 8-pointed flowers or stars. Dimensions: height of central stag 8.9 cm (3 1/2 in); length of headband 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in). Dated c. 1648-1540 BC.
Something lovely for the weekend!
Ancient Egyptian gold headband decorated with heads of gazelles and a stag between stars or flowers. Second Intermediate period, Dynasty 15, c. 1648–1540 BC.
📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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This year’s #BSA2025 in York is shaping up to be a fantastic conference for lovers of all things #shakespeare & #performance. Click to join the conversation here: www.britishshakespeare.ws/call-for-par... then we can all go hit up the snickelways in June!
Just catching up on this lovely BBC radio series from 2022 on the latest discoveries from Iron Age Britain, hosted by Prof Melanie Giles www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#FindsFriday
This Bronze Age shield was discovered in the marsh at Rhyd-y-gors, Ceredigion, #Wales. It dates from circa 1200-1000 BC. 👀💥
#Archaeology #History
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✨A female illuminators work✨:
f. 84v : 'Alanus scripsit has horas et ejus uxor illuminavit eas.’
f. 84v: 'Alan wrote these hours and his wife illuminated them.'
I have been waiting for this manuscript to be scanned in colour for a very long time, so am super excited to see it now!
Scientists now know that birds’ brains can contain elephantine powers of recollection. Some birds can store, or cache, tens or even hundreds of thousands of morsels in trees, or in or on the ground. Why don’t our memories work the same way?
A close-up of clasped hands in a museum display, both are broken off at the wrist. Made of a yellow-brown stone.
Simply beautiful: clasped hands from group statue of Akhenaton and Nefertiti.
Made of quartzite, 18th dynasty, ca. 1350 BC, from Amarna, #Egypt
On display at Neues Museum, Berlin
📸 taken by me
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A breathtaking view of the Vela Supernova Remnant, a vibrant nebula of gas filaments from a star explosion about 11,000 years ago!
(Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA / T.A. Rector, M. Zamani & D. de Martin)
A pointed stone tool made out of flint. Stained brown by iron oxide. On its left hand side it shows sharp flaking scars from knapping, on its right hand side the smooth natural edge of the flint nodule. In its centre is set a round fossil of a see urchin. The five rays of its bodyform radiating out from its centre
The echinoid fossil in this 400,000 year old handaxe from Swanscombe, Kent, had quite a journey.
Living over 65 million years ago it survived Cretaceous seas, fossilisation, Ice Age rivers, Neanderthal culture, more rivers, & quarrying to enter our scientific record.
#FlintFriday
#FossilFriday
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