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Monday, 14 June 2021

Currently reading: Ancestors by Alice Roberts 📚

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Thursday, 25 February 2021

Micro.blog February Photoblogging Challenge Day 25: code — Not exactly code but the 3rd century BCE Brahmi script Edicts of Ashoka did need deciphering in the 19th century. British Museum, June 2015. 📷

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Wednesday, 7 October 2020

Earliest frescoes in Venice found during mosaic restoration 🔗

They also offer a rare glimpse into the artistic development of the lagoon before it was completely dominated by Venice.

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Wednesday, 29 July 2020

New Research Reveals Origin of Stonehenge Stones 🔗 — Excerpt: A new study has revealed the origins of Stonehenge’s sarsen stones, solving a mystery that has been speculated on for centuries.

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Tuesday, 4 February 2020

Walking in London - Finding poetry, politics and more - a Flickr album 📷 🔗

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Wednesday, 29 January 2020

Mary in St Pancras 🔗 — Excerpt: And then outside, to try to find Mary’s memorial. It is doubtful how much she would have recognised: some items (especially gravestones) have moved, and many (especially tombs) post-date her death, viz the Burdett-Coutts memorial sundial, the image to the left.

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Wednesday, 29 January 2020

A visit to St Pancras Old Church: Mary Wollstonecraft, Sir John Soane and Edward Carpue 🔗 — Excerpt: Although I visit the British Library from time to time I always find myself too exhausted or too worried about getting stuck with rush hour crowds to spend an hour or so at St Pancras Old Church.

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Wednesday, 29 January 2020

Mary in Somers Town 🔗 — Excerpt: A few days ago I went exploring, with Chihiro Umegaki, the Japanese historian mentioned earlier, and the Swedish performance designer Asa Norling. (Åsa had read the Scandinavian letters, and commented that Mary hadn’t much liked the Swedes.

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Saturday, 23 November 2019

Doh! How does Homer get on at the British Museum? ★★★★★ — link 🔗

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Sunday, 17 November 2019

Helen of Troy: the Greek epics are not just about war – they’re about women — link 🔗

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Friday, 15 February 2019

🔖 Stunningly preserved fresco of Narcissus discovered in Pompeii

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Monday, 19 November 2018

🔖 The fresco “Leda and the Swan” - Parco Archeologico di Pompei

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Wednesday, 14 November 2018

🔖 A gallon of 2,000-year-old wine found in tomb

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Friday, 26 October 2018

🔖 Enchanted garden of frescoes unearthed at Pompeii

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Sunday, 21 October 2018

🔖 Peterloo: The man who ordered a massacre

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Tuesday, 24 April 2018

Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece review ― Astonishing, ravishing, sublime – exhibition at the British Museum which I’d really like to try and get to see.

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Friday, 13 April 2018

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s remains rediscovered in wine cellar 📚