Marina Amaral

I have this print hanging on the wall of my office. Reminds me that school is for everyone and that’s something worth fighting for.

Also, this amazing photo was colorized by the great @marinamaral.bsky.social

How I Survived the Titanic A personal and emotional account by a Titanic survivor

While I’m off traveling and soaking in the chaos beauty of new places (and collecting stories to bring back to you), now’s a good time to catch up on a past favorite. If you haven’t read my piece on the Titanic yet, it’s waiting for you right here!

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Look at this masterpiece

I colorize history for a living, but tell me a Greek statue wasn't originally all white and my brain just nopes out. I'm a total hypocrite, I know. Don't care. Keep your rainbow Zeus away from me.

I’m sorry but my brain resets to kindergarten level the second I see anything even slightly like this

Eu tb!

Good morning indeed

The monument’s easy to admire. It’s everything that’s not preserved - the forgotten, boring, human stuff - that sticks with me and brings these places to life.

Absolutely amazing.

… the woman sweating through her tunic, dragging a kid who didn’t want to be there, or the teenager bored out of his mind, trying to impress someone in the crowd.

What always hits me in places like this isn’t the scale, but actually imagining the everyday mess that once filled it. Like the guys chiseling stone for years, probably complaining the whole time, the old man hauling offerings up the hill…

I climbed the Acropolis. Brutal sun, way too many people. And at the top, the Parthenon - huge, perfectly designed to trick your eyes into seeing symmetry. I’ve seen it in books, in every documentary ever made about ancient Greece. I’ve written about it. But none of that actually prepares you.

This VE Day, I want you to remember these faces This VE Day, I want people to remember the faces of individuals like Czeslawa Kwoka.

This VE Day, I want you to remember these faces metro.co.uk/2025/05/08/t... via @MetroUK

For dog lovers, especially @marinamaral.bsky.social.

(This colourisation by @marinamaral.bsky.social in 2016 moved me a lot.) #OTD in 1943, innocent Czesława Kwoka, just 14 years old, died in Auschwitz extermination camp. #WW2 #HISTORY

Just finished reading “The Colour of Time” by Dan Jones and Marina Amaral. Fascinating worldwide walkthrough the historical context behind recolourised photos, making linkages between events as I had never read before, through daily life and drama 1850-1960. Really worth it if you can get it.

Een onvervalste Marina Amaral (Mata Hari)

Women's World Women's World [Jones, Dan, Amaral, Marina] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Women's World

The barriers were legal, social, and designed to make us doubt our own capabilities. However, the idea that we “can’t” has never been true. The real story is that we weren’t allowed. And yet, we worked, built, wrote, discovered, governed, and created.

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Women’s achievements have always been met with resistance. Every profession, every right, and every space we entered was one we had to fight for, mostly during a time when something as simple as wearing pants or opening a bank account was once considered radical.

The Multangular Tower - one of the corner-towers from the legionary fortress at York (Eboracum). The smaller stones in the lower half are Roman, the upper portion dates to the medieval period. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #York

Questions and Answers Episode 23 Our latest Questions and Answers cover the military importance of Ypres in WW1, the French Cemetery and Memorials at Notre Dame de Lorette in Northern France, weather on the landscape of the Wester…

Questions & Answers Ep 23: In our latest Old Front Line #podcast we cover the military importance of Ypres in WW1, the French Cemetery and Memorials at Notre Dame de Lorette, weather on the Western Front, and the role of Women in the British Army.

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Te contamos sus historias en dos de nuestros libros, Pioneras (bit.ly/3GHgFTi), de Marina Amaral y Dan Jones, y en Historia(s) del siglo XX (bit.ly/4h3sX94), de Rafael Caballero y Diego Delgado, preciosamente ilustrado por Andrea Cid.

I think about ancient Roman graffiti a lot.

My favorite has to be one from Pompeii that reads, 'Chie, I hope your hemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than they ever have before!'

Feb 13 1917 #OTD Famous Dutch Dancer Mata Hari was arrested at her room at the Hotel Elysée Palace on the Champs Elysées in Paris. Suspected spy codenamed Agent H-21 for Germany. She is executed on Oct 15 1917

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Found books for in-conversation Hidden in Print on #InternationalWomensDay @porticolibrary.bsky.social. These are books by women that the 19thC artist Mary Severn Newton knew or read. The books needed some tlc.Then we’ll raise a glass to women on Sat 8 March 4.30pm
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As I walked out from Henley Street one morning… (part one) Steps towards a psychogeography of Shakespeare's Stratford

The first in a two-part exploration of Shakespeare’s emotional and memorial associations with Stratford and the surrounding landscape
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I love to imagine that Chie was doing something completely random, like arguing about olive prices, totally unaware that his butt was being cursed for eternity.

I think about ancient Roman graffiti a lot.

My favorite has to be one from Pompeii that reads, 'Chie, I hope your hemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than they ever have before!'

I actually wrote about that a few days ago: marinaamaral.substack.com/p/how-art-th...

Thanks for that!