Mummy portrait depicting a woman wearing a necklace, a Medusa pendant and golden ear-pendants with pearls. Dated AD 161-192.
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria.
#InternationalWomensDay ♀️
I’m so pleased you think that. Lots of young Swedes seem not to know how important the women’s actions were 😞
Look forward to reading it! All the best with your writing 📚
Given Trump's illegal war that is devastating the Middle East and pushing up energy bills, Keir Starmer should advise the King to call off April’s state visit to the US.
A state visit should not be given to someone who repeatedly insults and damages our country.
Great piece Brian. I knew some of the story from the excellent Time and Tide Museum in Yarmouth, but you’ve added so much. Thank you.
Cartoon from Swedish newspaper Social Demokraten showing the people involved in first court hearing of women arrested on 5 May 1917. Clary Ählström is 3rd from left on bottom row, wearing a headscarf.
Cover of book in Swedish by Håkan Blomqvist called ‘Potatisrevolutionen’ (The Potato Revolution’). Cover photo shows a peaceful queue of largely women and children outside a grocery shop.
How about Clary Ählström, one of the women convicted, imprisoned and fined for ‘rioting’ in Stockholm on 5 May 1917?
Hundreds of women protested peacefully to try to get potatoes for their starving children. They were treated brutally by mounted police with sabres.
#InternationalWomensDay
The Empress Plotina was the wife of Trajan and Hadrian’s adoptive mother. She grew very fond of Hadrian and played an instrumental role in the development of Hadrian's career. When Plotina died, she was deified, and Hadrian had a basilica built in her honour at Nemausus.
#InternationalWomensDay ♀️
Statue of Hatshepsut as King with kingly regalia at her funerary temple at Deir el Bahri on west bank of the Nile at Luxor
Relief carving of Queen Cleopatra VII (on left) and her son Caesarion (on right) from rear wall of Ptolemaic Period Temple of Hathor at Dendera, Egypt.
Rulers of Ancient Egypt: Hatshepsut and Cleopatra VII
#InternationalWomensDay
📷 my own
The cover of Rebel Women between the Wars by Sarah Lonsdale featuring a pen, mountains and a spanner
The cover of Wildly Different: Five women who reclaimed Nature in a Man’s World by Sarah Lonsdale
Wishing everyone a happy International Women's Day. To celebrate I'm giving away a pair of my books which recover pioneer women's voices and engineering, exploration, journalism, politics, and conservation to a school, or library, or teacher. I'll pick a winner from replies. Please repost!
#britishmuseum #archive holds very many references to women: the earliest recorded female visitors in 1762, Angelica Kaufmann paid to paint on Derby china in the 1790s, an 1857 photo, Beatrix Potter & women employed after the law for Civil Servants changed in 1921. #internationalwomensday #women
www.wildfrontierstravel.com/en_GB/blog/n... #InternationalWomensDay
The hand embroidered banners of the UK women's suffrage movement designed and embroidered in communal workshops by skilled women artists #WomensArt
#WomensHistoryMonth
Photo from the early 1970s of a man on horseback negotiating the Birmingham inner ring road at Holloway Head
I’m searching for the original and/or rights owner of this fabulous picture of Birmingham in the early 1970s. It popped up on my Instagram feed, but I’ve been unable to track it down.
Any leads? I’m really hoping to use it in a book.
(And would much appreciate a RT please)
Hello Bluesky! I am looking for anyone who cares about/writes about/thinks about Rebecca West.
I've been on a 10 year mission to get her a blue plaque in London and am finally allowed to re-apply after it was last turned down.
I'd welcome help building a strong application.
Thank you 💙🙏
Street scene in historic quarter of Bitola with a small river channel, full of bright green plants, running alongside colourful houses on the bank.
One of the few people to write about what are still little visited places in North Macedonia like lovely Bitola. There definitely should be a Blue Plaque.
A “Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame” has appeared in Washington DC’s Farragut Square. Stickers resembling the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are printed with the convicted sex offender’s likeness below the names and titles of figures mentioned in the Epstein files.
Let's save the Mediterranean Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. The Swedish government has raised the rent by over 50%, which is outrageous! Sign the petition, please. Not culture-friendly...#AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
kampanj.skiftet.org/medelhavsmus...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
All friends of public broadcasting: Before March 10th, hurry to answer the DCMS questionaire on the future of the BBC, as it comes up for Charter renewal. Find it here:
The British Museum's Reading Room bsky.app/profile/fran... was a Very Significant place of work, inspiration and connection for many women in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database, and the extant Readers' records at the Museum were a goldmine.
Once upon a time the museum’s association yearbook used to list museums with their annual visitor figures. Is there anywhere I could see similar info in one place today?
Exterior of Lochwinnoch Church.
Can you help Lochwinnoch Community Development Trust with their project to transform Lochwinnoch Church into a Creative Community Hub?
They are out to tender for a Heritage Activity and Interpretation Consultant.
Find out more: heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk/jobs/
#HeritageJobs #Interpretation
Gorgeous! Very much looking forward to the exhibition of Mägi’s work opening in March @dulwichgallery.bsky.social in south London.
Image © Mark Somerfield
Image © Cllr Steve Hassall
Image © Cllr Steve Hassall
‘Demolition Derby’ strikes again, as the 1938 Egyptian Art Deco style Crompton House has been flattened to make way for Derby's new flood defences, despite a public backlash.
With a bit more imagination, could the locally listed building not have been retained and included in the scheme somehow?
Wonderful news!
That’s a lovely photo of Phil Harris who led the West European Branch of Printed Books when I joined in 1982. A true gentleman and scholar.
Hope your new colleagues share our enthusiasm 🤞Gunnersbury is a great place.
Oops, but it won’t be long till it’s 20 years!
Happy 20th Birthday to Art UK 🎉 🥂
Congratulations on putting 1million works of art online 🙌
Just look at those cakes 🎂 🧁 😋
Excellent! I’m grateful to Radio 3 for introducing me to her music during lockdown.
