My strawberries are looking so good this year :)

Gabino Iglesias Just finished THE ARSENIC EATER'S WIFE by Tonya Mitchell before she comes on Vox Vomitus on Wednesday.

(This is *NOT* one of the times where I'll be eating something featured in the book, just in case anyone was going to suggest otherwise.)

A Chill Has Fallen Over Jews in Publishing nytimes.com/2024/05/27/opi…

bbc.com/news/articles/…

Excellent interview with Dr. Francis Young and the 'real' Merlins Dan Snow's History Hit | Merlin, The Occult and British Politics on Podbean podbean.com/ea/dir-dnr3v-1…

STAR WARS was released 47 years ago today. Hollywood’s biggest movie phenomenon, and the film that launched the career of star Harrison Ford, the behind the scenes story is as spectacular as blowing up the Death Star…

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I sometimes wish I could write a rough draft in one shot like many peers, but I always edit as I go

Habited fox (perhaps a Capuchin?) from the Tale of Reynard the Fox, Allaert van Everdingen, c.1636-1675

St Winefride’s Well, the longest continuous site of Pilgrimage in the UK

Is this a real question? Jeremy Brett, by a country mile…

Born #OnThisDay 1713 John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute.
Favourite of George III, but not one of the most accomplished PMs.
#twitterstorians #HistParl

We are seeking to employ new stewards for the house.

If you would like to work at 18 Folgate St, please send an email to [email protected] requesting a full job description.

Closing date for applications is Monday 17th June

Eating at my favorite Mexican restaurant in Woodstock: Bearsville Cantina on Tinker...

Drawing of a girl, 1665, by Carlo Dolci of Florence. He was born on this day in 1616.

Japanese poster for the 1924 film 'Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache' directed by Austrian filmmaker Fritz Lang

‘The depth of research this author does is obvious but she makes it so easily absorbable with characters you either hate or love and a plot that just keeps the pages turning.’ NetGalley reviewer
#HistoricalFiction #WW2 #SecretAgent
mybook.to/SilkCode

24 May 1530: William Tyndale's Parable of Wicked Mammon banned as heretical #otd (eebo/BM)

Maria van Oosterwyck, Flowers in an Ornamental Vase, c. 1670 - 1675? (Mauritshuis, The Hague)

24 May 1494: b. Jacopi Carucci, artist, known as Pontormo #otd Pontormo died on 2 Jan 1557. St Anthony Abbot, c. 1519. The Uffizi, Florence.

Spent ages colouring in part of the John Rocque map of Georgian London. It highlights all the different fields, hedgerows, streams and marshy patches of Southwark/Lambeth, that would soon be built over. High-res version on link -> londonist.substack.com/p/the-1746-roc…