Category: history
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Favourite Museums
After a recent trip to Brussels I’ve been thinking of museums I’ve visited. My top five at the moment, in no particular order, are:
- Ca’ Rezzonico, the Museum of 18th century Venice
- Keats-Shelley House, Rome
- Casa Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon
- Acropolis Museum, Athens
- Magritte Museum, Brussels
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Peterloo, 2018 - ★★★★★
This is my second viewing of Peterloo and I've rated it more highly this time - 5★ instead of 4★. On first watching I found it a little long and slow, dragging slightly. This time I was far more engaged with the characters and found it a gripping slow-burn to a dramatic finale. Great filmmaking.
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Linkblog 🔗: Seaweed was common food in Europe for thousands of years, researchers find
Study discovers telltale signs on human teeth from Spain to Lithuania, spanning period from 6400 BC to 12th century AD
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Ships in Tawe Basin
Canning Tugboat
Trinity House Lightship 91 Helwick
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red — day 15 of the micro.blog september 2023 photoblogging challenge 📸
Redhouse, Merthyr Tydfil
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🔗 Pompeii fresco depicts what might be the precursor of pizza
Archaeologists have discovered a fresco in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii that may depict the ancestor of the Italian pizza.
More details from The History Blog: Still life with pizza found at Pompeii
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Morning walk through local forestry to a nearby scheduled monument, the Carn Castell y Meibion cairn.
I only learned of and found this site recently. It consists of the remains of a Bronze Age ring cairn.
There are two similar monument sites nearby which I’m also going to seek out.
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shiny — day 12 of the micro.blog march 2023 photoblogging challenge #mbmar 📸
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Linkblog 🔗: Oldest known written sentence discovered – on a head-lice comb
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Linkblog 🔗: Philologist Irene Vallejo: ‘Alexander the Great’s library was the first step towards the internet’
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Linkblog 🔗: Exposed by Caroline Vout review – the real Greek and Roman body
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Neolithic chalk drum hailed as most important prehistoric art found in 100 years 🔗
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More than 18,000 pot sherds document life in ancient Egypt 🔗
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Three ladies dancing, two couples cuddling, one piper piping in ancient feast mosaic 🔗
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A visit to King’s Quoit, the Neolithic burial chamber overlooking Manorbier beach, Pembrokeshire. September 2021. More photos in this album on Flickr 📷
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Currently reading: Ancestors by Alice Roberts 📚
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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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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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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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Walking in London - Finding poetry, politics and more - a Flickr album 📷 🔗
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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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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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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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Doh! How does Homer get on at the British Museum? ★★★★★ — link 🔗
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Helen of Troy: the Greek epics are not just about war – they’re about women — link 🔗
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🔖 Stunningly preserved fresco of Narcissus discovered in Pompeii
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🔖 The fresco “Leda and the Swan” - Parco Archeologico di Pompei
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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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Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s remains rediscovered in wine cellar 📚
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St. Fagans Museum of Welsh Life
Kennixton Farmhouse
Iron Age Roundhouses
Abernodwydd Farmhouse
Stryd Lydan Barn
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Wall tiles at the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, Athens.
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Wall tiles painted with split-leaves revolving around a rosette, c. 1560 - at the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, Athens.
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Kerameikos Cemetery Reliefs
Photo I:
A relief of the deceased girl Korallion, shown seated, holding out her hand to her husband. Grave enclosure of the Herakleotai, Street of the Tombs.
Ca. 350 B.C.
Photo II:
A relief of the deceased girl Eukoline, shown with her parents, her grandmother and her dog. Found near the Sacred Way.
Ca. 350 B.C.
Photo III:
Grave relief of Demetria and Pamphile.
The inscription beneath the pediment gives the names of the two dead sisters.
The women, remote and isolated, gaze apathetically at the spectator. They are already in another, transcendental world, far from the things of this life. The pilasters of the naiskos have been restored. It is one of the last tomb stones made before the law passed by Demetrios of Phaleron prohibiting the erection of luxurious tomb monuments.
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I was very impressed with the ancient cemetery site of Kerameikos in Athens today.
The small museum is excellent and I found the “handshake” reliefs from the cemetery particularly moving. They show the deceased, usually seated, bidding farewell to the living. -
Hobbling around the Temple of Hephaestus.
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Early morning view from Trajan’s Forum.
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Grave of John Keats in the Non-Catholic Cemetery, Rome
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The Colosseum
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Circus Maximus
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Colosseum
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Photographing the rather bleak Carlisle Castle on a rather bleak day.
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Skeleton mosaic found in Turkey - "Be cheerful and live your life"
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In Herculaneum http://t.co/xFmPtqH6vu
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Bronze herm of a homeowner, Herculaneum
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Herculaneum
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Memorial Arch, Pompeii
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Navigating Pompeii http://t.co/3dvbfpjDlp
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Stonehenge - thee days in Wiltshire/Dorset instead of two weeks in Cyprus! http://twitpic.com/61aesu
