Divine prospect: one of my favourite views of Wells Cathedral from the moat of the Bishop's Palace.

The Spring 2024 issue of Nouvelles Nouvelles is available online!! Read about our recent 'Pop Culture in the Deep Past' conference and more! Go to: bit.ly/4dj0r2r

While walking down by the river today, I noticed the insects now have a church.

61 Oxford Street, once the home of suffragette Lucia Foster Welch, Southampton’s first female councillor. She became the town’s first female mayor in 1927.

In 1928 she welcomed Amelia Earhart to Southampton when she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an aeroplane.

Join us on Bank Holiday Monday 6th May at 11am for the special return of our Right Royal Funeral Tour!

Tickets are £18, which includes a delicious cream tea!

Book your tickets here - coffinworks.org/event/a-right-…

Delighted to announce that the latest volume introducing the many and varied wonder categories of objects in The Burrell Collection to be published is on the European Embroideries #embroidery #textiles

Cunning Folk is out NEXT WEEK! In related news, Michael Pye's review makes me and my insatiable love of historical gossip feel very seen

#newbooks #cunningfolk #history #magic

With the risk of annoying everyone by sharing this too many times - I just want to amplify it once more because we are SO close to getting Ellie to 50% of her goal to fund the final year of her PhD! THANK YOU! My heart is full. justgiving.com/crowdfunding/e…

Today is #NationalPretzelDay !

Or maybe not. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1906, via Newspapers.com)

All set up C2E2 in artist alley at table V-02. Let the awkward conversations begin!

The best explanation I've come across for the mermaid:

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #ArborDay Elm V. Willow - an undertaker's cri de cœur.

On my way to Belfast for this fab conference WHAI! I'll be talking about when love magic goes bad. We'll come across some interesting uses of pubes, beetles and poultry. ✨❤️

Gauzy white puff sleeves feature both in this surviving #1820s dress and a slightly earlier fashion plate, drawing on Gothic fictions and Tudor aesthetics here. Self decorated hems and gathered bodices are replicated too, from image to object KSU Museum #fashionhistory

For a #ForteanFriday on #ArborDay , the tale of a legendary burial in a hollow elm and a haunted tree.
hauntedohiobooks.com/news/ghosts-ne…

Why are we so comfortable denigrating the creative output of our grandmothers? It may seem insignificant within the context of much more urgent global issues, but in a new piece for Hyperallergic, I argue that it is symptomatic of the systematic devaluation of feminized labor.

Coming soon... taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.…

One of the things I love about using gold in my work is that it is alive, constantly changing with the light. It glows like a real fire, bouncing warmth back into the room

Lucy Culliton, contemporary Australian artist, known for her paintings of landscapes and still life #WomensArt

I wonder if any of the patterns would match Anne Sykes’s dress diary? This sounds great!