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Adam B

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Editor, Early Modernist - formerly MA and half a PhD at the Shakespeare Institute, now with Reading Early Plays

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Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social · Apr 30

My online modern spelling edition of A Dialogue Between Mercury and an English Soldier (1574) by Barnabe Rich.
- containing a visit to the court of Venus, a translation of Bandello’s Lady of Chabry, and Rich’s wholesale pilfering from multiple military manuals.
mercurysdialogue.wordpress.com

Mercury and an English Soldier

A Pleasant Dialogue by Barnabe Rich from 1574

mercurysdialogue.wordpress.com

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Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social · 18h

Now I’m remembering Turkish Delight bought in the old market in Jerusalem: flavours of fruit & flower & sugar, but also the pervasive scent of the Arab spices sold alongside.

Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social · 1d

Love and Death 💔

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Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social · 2d

*Shake fist at … Queen Elizabeth* according to this episode of Sir Francis Drake (1962)

Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social · 2d

There are loads of Best Of albums around, so one of those that has plenty of songs on it and then work from there.
But also some live stuff, maybe: there’s a famous one “Olympia 1964” and I just found another one
“Jacques Brel En Publique” which seems rather good.

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Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social · 2d

1528: “For one rotten apple lytell and lytell putrifieth a whole heape.”
1639: “One rotten apple corrupts those, that lie neare it.”
1735: “The rotten Apple spoils his Companion.” (Benjamin Franklin)
- via Oxford English Dictionary

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING #antifa NEWS: "The England flags have been removed and replaced with other signs"
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

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Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social · 3d

Terence Morgan, as Drake, talks to the young actor (Duncan Burns) who has just played Katherine in Taming of the Shrew (in front of the Queen aboard the Golden Hind) in Sir Francis Drake: S2.19 Johnnie Factotum (1962)

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Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social · 4d

“And they made statues of Elon The First, and put them in the museums where the old rulers had been; and they told us that with his outstretched arm he was pointing to the stars …”

Silhouette of a large statue in a museum; a man with one arm outstretched

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Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social · 5d

“As many as 23 million chickens, a quarter of the UK's poultry production, are raised in the river's catchment area.”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit

Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 5d

The Green surge continues ... We’ve just passed 90,000 members! 💚

People everywhere are joining the movement for real change.

Want hope to be normal again? Join the Green Party today ↩️

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Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social · 6d

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Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social · 6d

Misericords of Malvern Priory:
- man eating seafood; man-eating seamonster; witch with familiar; cobblers to the gentry.

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Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social · 6d

Here too

A brown leaf on the parapet of a stone railway bridge, in the background a tree is yellow and green, overlooking the tracks

Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social · 6d

“Chatterton, 1765” by Henrietta Ward (1832-1924)
- as seen at M Shed, Bristol

Chatterton, 1765, about 1873 by Henrietta Ward (1832-1924)
The precocious poet and forger Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) is seen in an attic near St Mary Redcliffe.
His mother interrupts him as he writes 'medieval' poetry on old parchment. oil on canvas
K172. Given by Heber Mardon

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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 6d

Let’s make hope normal again.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social

youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

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Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social · 7d

- just another #MondayMorning
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 8d

GOD:
"Do not mistreat foreigners living in your country, but treat them just as you treat your own citizens. Love foreigners as you love yourselves, because you were foreigners one time in Egypt. I am the Lord your God."
--- Leviticus 19: 33-34

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Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social · 8d

The worst was in Scotland yesterday; not too bad down here. I think storm temperatures stay around the usual for the time of year (so quite cold in winter) but our winds don’t tend to reach hurricane force the way yours do.