Shephard Taylor sketched this coal plate in Gerrard Street in 1863. The same pattern is still to be seen in Belgrave Road, London SW1. #opercula No 74
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The Church candle community will love this! twitter.com/beardyhowse/st…
We might all be wanting one of these before the winter's out.
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Antique Swedish candle saver by Rescue & Restore.
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Sir David Butler, the father of psephology, or election science, died today at the age of 98.
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This is rather good news.
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Perth museum naming poll chooses 'Perth Museum'
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Poems, pearls and carpets.
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In the medieval Arabic and Persian traditions, the poet was likened to the weaver, jeweller, and goldsmith for his verse-making ability.
Like a craftsman with fabric or jewels, a poet weaves and joins various elements into a sublime harmony—an association we explore below…
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Stay wove.
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Border detail from the Brantingham Mosaic. The mosaic dates from the mid-4th century AD and was found at a large villa site at Brantingham, near Brough in East Yorkshire. The mosaic is part of the collections at Hull and East Riding Museum. #MosaicMonday
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Ximenes' demise.
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#TalDíaComoHoy de 1517 fallece Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, el cardenal #Cisneros. Un año antes, tras la muerte de #FelipeElHermoso, asume la #gobernación de los reinos de España por este poder de la reina Juana y Carlos I. Archivo de #Simancas #Historia
Monday’s delight. Time Flies. Mind your business. Furneux Pelham, Hertfordshire.
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Collecting the token at Wroxham in August 1993
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He almost got away with it.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, posing as a mummy during a trip to Cairo in 1896.
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The scaffolding’s off… revealing that Findlater’s, one of London’s most prominent derelict buildings, is BACK! The old wine merchants in once-unloved London Bridge rly arches is an essay in Doulton Carrara Ware: tonight the faience GLEAMS. Clock’s repaired & ready to go too(1/3)
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Gift-wrapped bones.
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#MementoMoriMonday This monument had a double embellishment with the skull and crossed bones. This is the left-hand example - are the bones tied with ribbon, with a bow? @chartres_Fiona
The entire monument, in St Mary's Thame, is shown below.
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You've probably been told by castle guides, a parent or teacher that castle stairs were designed turning clockwise to make fighting more difficult for attackers, but it's a myth.
iskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/mediaeval-myth
tastesofhistory.co.uk/post/dispellin
historytheinterestingbits.com/2019/10/09/gue
reddit.com/r/AskHistorian
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I'm 100% for LED lights - however, this is definitely an exception.
Only 1 change needed, run them on Bio gas, eventually, some day.
Climate change is an absolute priority but a few heritage items like these lamps and the odd steam engine are not the enemy.
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About 140 lamps have listed status. The remaining 135 lamps do not.
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Harry Worth. I don’t know why but there it is.
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Pop over to Vic tomorrow to see this. You could be there in time for dinner.
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Moltes gràcies per l’article! Thank you very much! @Telegraph @BeardyHowse
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Should it be Romany or Romani Hill?
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Learn Catalan and keep healthy at the same time.
The nimble can also use the same towel to open the door.
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The saint from whom St Leonards on Sea took its name.
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November 6 is the day the Church remembers St Leonard of Noblac. He was a hermit in deacons orders and lived in the 6th century. He was noted for his effectiveness in freeing captives hence his attribute @StargazingAleta @carolyn_ra @scowcroft_sr @BSMGP @BeardyHowse @Canonjane
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Our 'save Westminster's gas lamps' campaign returns to your screens tomorrow. Dan Cruickshank and I filmed for the BBC Politics show on BBC 1 (airing at 10am this Sunday 6th November) Poor Dan - he fought to save the gas lamps first time around, in the 1970s.
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At Honor Oak Park they have set finger traps but are sporting enough to announce them.
I was lucky enough to get away with most digits intact, but only by constant vigilance.
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A fine show of geraniums at Honor Oak Park Station.
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One door closes and ...
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Enter the Labyrinth...
BAV, Pal. lat. 291, f. 170v
Hrabanus Maurus, De rerum naturis
Southern Germany, 1425
digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/bav_pal
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As to day is the feast of St. Elizabeth, cousin of Mary, here is the Visitation as depicted at Saint Germain des Près, Paris.
#MedievalTwitter #SaintGermain #MagnifiqueFrance
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The hosepipe ban in London continues well. I wonder how many prosecutions there have been this month.
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#OnThisDay in 1949: A new double-decker train, SR Class 4DD, was introduced at London Charing Cross, aimed at alleviating the overcrowded commute.
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PHOTO OF THE DAY. One of London’s last horse-drawn Hansom cabs (1946).
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Car stowage problem.
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2/3 St Elizabeth on the left greets her cousin the Blessed Virgin on the right in continental glass at Drayton, Norfolk. Both of them are pregnant and the future seems a secret shared between them. Today's the feast of St Elizabeth.
Drayton: norfolkchurches.co.uk/drayton/drayto
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It looks like I’m juggling giant gumballs!
It’s been a while since I’ve filmed from this angle 🎥
I love the look of it so much 😍
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#taylortries #taylortriesjuggling @ Los Angeles, California
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#FrescoFriday - One of those fantastic frescoes which prompts so many questions. A woman holding a palette paints and writes on a panel, watched by a second: Casa della Imperatrice di Russia, Pompeii (VI.14.42). #Pompeii #Art
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9017)
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What's that to the right of the apple on the desk? A setsquare? A hole in the desk?
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A pot of pinks (for the Crucifixion), an hourglass and lots of bossed books in St Augustine's study.
Tarragonese school, second half of the 15th C, now in the MEV museum of medieval art, Vic, Catalonia ...
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... and out the door, that little child filling a hole in the shore with the waters of the sea
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A pot of pinks (for the Crucifixion), an hourglass and lots of bossed books in St Augustine's study.
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