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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 14h

This was clearly on the Pontic-Caspian steppe.

Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 14h

Dictation software blip of the day: '...the development of the spoke-wheeled carrot'.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 1d

Ah. Le debarquement de la Reine au port de Marseille, 1710, gets an adult content warning. That Rubens, eh?

Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 1d

Coming to the end of a 5 month 'Art strand on the side'. It has been a great trail through a number of books, galleries, topics and short courses. Fair bit of Venice in there.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 2d

I happened upon this to Sam Wild, last commander of British Batallion, on a council house in 1987 on a rainy evening in Longsight, Manchester when I hardly, hardly knew of International Brigades or the war in Spain.
Image via Mike Wild

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 3d

Today's words from reading: Fili, Ollamh and Gossiprid. Am following leads from the 'Further Reading' of K. W. Nicholls 'Gaelic and Gaelicised Ireland in the Middle Ages'.

Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 3d

The Papers are on the must delve one day list.

The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 3d

Francisco Ortiz, originally from Santoña, was appointed as shipmaster of the Fort de Nantes by the Spanish charterer, Francisco Sánchez de Madrid. His personal archive, comprising more than 500 documents, reveals many details about his personal life and his social relationships.

The text and metadata were produced by Alejandro Salamanca -
@desvelandooriente.com. Prize Papers Project, National Archives, ref. HCA 32/111D/4/ORT53. Images reproduced by permission of The National Archives, UK. Photographer: Maria Cardamone

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 5d

Nice array of small ferns on a north-facing wall by the (currently closed) Transporter Bridge, Middlesbrough. Asplenium spp - maidenhair spleenwort, hartstongue, wall rue and (?) black spleenwort.
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#wildflowerHour

Pen and watercolour sketches of small wall ferns (Asplenium spp) - maidenhair spllenwort, hartstongue, wall rue and (?) black spleenwort.

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English Civil War @englishcivilwar.bsky.social · 8d

The Aftermath of Edge Hill ⚔️

Today marks the anniversary of the Battle of Edge Hill in 1642, the first major clash of the Civil Wars. But with the battle proving to be a stalemate, what happened afterwards?

📷: Levitt Parkes

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 13d

More about it here: www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-colle...

Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels

www.mauritshuis.nl

Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 13d

Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels by Clara Peeters (perhaps around 1615). I love that her reflection is in the dark lid of the jug. [Quite how I got here is hard to say.]

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14d

'In his new book, Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found, Graham-Dixon puts forward a revolutionary theory about the work of an artist whose genius is rarely disputed. Right or wrong, it is a theory that will change the way people look at that famous pearl earring'.

Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring finally gets a name

Historian Andrew Graham-Dixon has a radical new theory about the life and beliefs of the Dutch master

observer.co.uk

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 20d

'... no one understands how the financial math is supposed to work. They are as baffled as I am, and they do this for a living.' futurism.com/future-socie... #AI

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Athelstan Museum @athelstanmuseum.bsky.social · 23d

On This Day, 8th October 1328, Malmesbury Abbey accommodated the boy King Edward III, together with his mother Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer, in the abbey guest house (now the Old Bell Hotel). They stayed until the 10th October.
#History #14thC #medievalSky #OTD

Isabella riding to meet her brother, Charles IV, in 1325. 15th-century illustration from Froissart's Chronicles.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 23d

Waiting near Belleek while the clouds out a lid on things.

Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 24d

And I paused after Brugmann's Law: the lengthening of Proto-Indo-European *o in open syllables in Sanskrit.

Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 24d

Am rereading and extending PIE notes this month.

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Barker Culture @barkerculture.bsky.social · 24d

Word that kept coming up today: ablaut.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.