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Sunset on Friday 18th December 1908. I have cleaned-up this astounding autochrome photograph of twilight 117 years ago, taken in colour by Julien Gérardin. It is an original colour plate, not colourised.

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Blooming Wharfedale.

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🧵 Edward Burne-Jones (1833-98), Anglo-Welsh painter & PreRaphaelite. His works are amongst the most popular Victorian paintings as they capture a Romantic view of medieval England [1]

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Snow patch above the Lairig Ghru, Cairngorms. #MountainSky #Scotland #Cairngorms #Photography

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Oh go on then, five favourite black & white movies, in descending order of terror: Psycho Night of the Living Dead Clerks Manhattan Brief Encounter On a different day also Les Diaboliques, oh and Way Out West too. And La Haine. #Filmsky

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Morning all. Photograph by Inge Morath, Street corner at World's End. London, England. 1954.

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‘sculptured stone at St Peter’s Minster in Conisbrough, Yorkshire’ by John Piper

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Man Ray ~ Return to Reason, 1921 #ManRay #Surrealism #ModernArt

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Remembering marine biologist & conservationist Rachel Carson, born May 27, 1907, on a family farm near Springdale, PA, just up the Allegheny River from Pittsburgh (d. April 14, 1964). Her 1962 book Silent Spring and other writings helped advance the global environmental movement. More: alt text.

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Good article. TLDR, in my opinion? Yes. Thinking of Popper's 'The Poverty of Historicism' and how it's important we don't view current events through a prism of expectation based on the past.

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Amid all the gushing tributes to Alan Yentob and his impact on culture and the arts on the BBC it might be nice to have some explanation of why there is now no arts and culture on the BBC.

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A different, slightly unnerving view of Carreg Coetan Arthur, Newport, Pembs for #TombTuesday. 📷my own, April 2025

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#OnThisDay 1199 King John was crowned at Westminster. It was Ascension, a moveable feast. This means - uniquely - that all John's regnal years, by which his documents are dated, are different lengths. And so, even 800 years later, he continues to irritate.

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Another Sky I liked. 📷 my own, Jan 2020 #Photography #WinterPhotography #MinimalistPhotography #LandscapePhotography #Monochrome #FoggyScenes #SnowyDays #StillnessCaptured #AtmosphericShot #NatureLens

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England #photography

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'Dandelions.' (1900) Along with Jacek Malczewski, Ludwig Stasiak is credited for the rise in popularity of symbolism in late 19thC and early 20thC Poland and was on the fringes of the Young Poland Movement, it shared fundamental parallels with the British Arts and Crafts Movement

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Moray Coastal Trail, near Lossiemouth 📷14.05.25 #Photography #Nature

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Behind its Georgian facade, the Manor at Hemingford Grey dates from c. 1130, making it one of the oldest continually inhabited houses in Britain. Restored after WWII by author Lucy M Boston, it has beautiful gardens and is open to visitors in the summer. @greenknowemanor.bsky.social #MedievalMonday

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#MosaicMonday St Catherine's Almshouses, Exeter 1988

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A close family member sent me this earlier from Crete...sand and dust from the Sahara, making it look like something from Bladerunner 2049 or Total Recall.

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Wentworth Castle Gardens, Barnsley - a wonderful hidden gem.

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Find myself playing this again, it really is a stunning piece of music. From 1970.

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'In the wilds of Wharfedale.' #Photography #Nature

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Sorting through photos and found this, taken about 25 years ago in west Wales. That's me in the dinghy. We were doing our Degree finals at the time. Goodness knows what we thought we were doing. It was a way of relaxing, I guess, time off from thinking about history and philosophy...

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A recent trip to Waun Mawn in the northern Preseli Hills for #StandingStoneSunday. Controversies aside, it is a stunning location on a good day, with views to Carn Ingli and back east to Frenni Fawr and Foel Trigarn. 📸 my own, April 2025.

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Great use by #TimeTeam (in the latest live stream) of AR to see the Bromeswell Bucket in my living room! It is a 6th-century Byzantine relic, unearthed at Sutton Hoo. Once thought decorative, it actually held cremated remains, revealing its role in an Anglo-Saxon burial. #AncientBluesky #Digital

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On the left is the Bronze Age 'golden loop' found with the Amesbury Archer, Stonehenge. And on the right, a VERY similar artefact found within Boltby Scar Fort, N. Yorkshire... 🤔 - We draw a lot of lines to Stonehenge - but rarely to northern England... #archaeology #stonehenge

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"Making art outside is completely different from working inside. We've neutralized the elemental forces. It's coming as a tree, or going as a dead piece of wood. You want things neat and tidy, I want it rough." •David Nash. #SaturdayStudio

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Ceramics from Temple Newsam House in Leeds.

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Trio of towers - Deansgate Square, Manchester #tower #deansgateSquare #manchester #building #cityscape #scape #classicMono

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Heart and Soul - Joy Division, what incredible production from Martin Hannett....

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Happy when it rains, there is a tantalising hint of petrichor in the air! Here comes the H2O :)

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'Marsh landscape.' (1958) In the early 1950s, Denis Wirth Miller settled in the Essex town of Wivenhoe - he considered the ship-building and fishing town a perfect retreat for his work and began to skillfully capture the austere, beautiful Essex flatlands on canvas.

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This painting by Kurt Schwitters from around 1947, depicts the cottage outside Grasmere in the English Lake District where he is said to have slept rough for a short time. The hill in the background is known as ‘The Lion and The Lamb.'

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Why Hæslwrid? It means hazel thicket Hazel symbolises communication, creativity, peace. They are protectors and markers of sacred spaces. It’s one of the oldest plants in Europe, I love exploring the connections that humans have always had to nature. It’s the celtic tree month I was born in.

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#DarganfyddiadauDyddGwener hapus i chi gan ein tîm yn y Drenewydd! Mae'r ddau lun gyntaf a welwch yma o gloddfa’r Drenewydd yn 2022 gyda seliau teulu Pryce – potel ‘mallet’ sy’n dyddio i oddeutu 1730.

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Happy #FindsFriday from our team in Newtown! The first two images you see here are from our Newtown dig back in 2022 bearing the Pryce family seal- a transitional mallet bottle dated to around 1730.

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Deinocheirus, the “horrible hand” dinosaur, was a giant, slow-moving omnivore from the Late Cretaceous (Mongolia). With towering back spines, massive arms, and a duck-like snout, it was a bizarre mix of traits! 📷 my own from the Natural History Museum, London, 2011. 🦖 #FossilFriday #FindsFriday

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The terminal of 4th-6th century Roman or Germanic ship figurehead, found on the Schelde in Belgium. Carved from oak, the full piece is almost 1.5m tall. It featured in Kenneth Clark's epic "Civilisation" series, wrongly billed "Viking". #FindsFriday #BritishMuseum 📷 My own, 2019

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Reply with an image from your comfort movie 🎥🎬

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Morning all Photographer Don McCullin. Consett, County Durham. Kids on coal slag heap, 1970's.

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Painting by Jack Simcock 'Twilight’1975. Oil on board. Size 20x 34 cm.

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This c. 2,000 year-old Roman mosaic glass bowl shows the past was lived in glorious technicolour! V&A Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology 🏺

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