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The Blake Society @blakesociety.bsky.social · Aug 2

You can now watch Dr Rebecca Marks' fascinating talk on Blake's lost painting of The Last Judgment at blakesociety.org/product/last...

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · Jun 25

Feeling inspired (& a little dazed) after a sublime day of global imagining at Oxford's English faculty yesterday, bringing together talks from historians of art, literature, and ideas 🌐 Thank you to all involved!

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Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly @blakequarterly.bsky.social · Jul 30

Our summer issue is out today and free to read for a week. Many thanks to the contributors for their outstanding efforts to record all things Blake.
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Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly @blakequarterly.bsky.social · May 11

A Q&A on the #BlakeBlog with translator Hans-Ulrich Möhring:
blog.blakearchive.org/2025/05/02/q...

Q&A with Hans-Ulrich Möhring

The germ of this Q&A lay in a query to the Blake Archive that came my way on the road to its destination. It had been a while since I had corresponded with Hans-Ulrich, and I took the opportuni…

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Detroit Specials Used Books @detroitspecials.bsky.social · Apr 27

Photo dump! I took these pics around the store after closing Sat. so all of this is still available 👍

We have LOTS of books on Wm Blake just now + some nice prints; 2 Blind Date packets left, & a bunch of our bargain books are still in the center display. We're here tonight til 5 - hope to see you!

Photo of a copy of Eternity's Sunrise: The Illuminated Works of William Blake side-by-side with a colorful print of Blake's 'Beatrice Addressing Dante from the Car' print from his series on The Divine Comedy.

Two Blind Date with a Book packets side-by-side. One packet's genre is Political Fantasy and the other's is Uproarious Drama.

I was really channeling my inner Lumon when I came up with these

Photograph of the interior of a used bookstore. Full bookshelves and a full CD rack are visible. The central display table has a sign which reads Bargain Books ($1.00 or less) 50% OFF

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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · Apr 30

Was William Blake, one of England’s greatest poets, actually Irish? Scholars have long maintained that WB Yeats was being fanciful when he claimed one of England’s greatest poets was in fact Irish. But Philip Hoare’s new book suggests an alternative possibility

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Was William Blake, one of England’s greatest poets, actually Irish?

Scholars have long maintained that WB Yeats was being fanciful when he claimed one of England’s greatest poets was in fact Irish. But a new look at the story suggests an alternative possibility

www.irishtimes.com

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Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly @blakequarterly.bsky.social · Apr 30

The spring issue with our annual sales review is now online
blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...
and will be free to read for a week or so.
Huge 💐 to all our contributors!
Cover image: Yale Center for British Art

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Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social · Apr 22

Absolutely enjoyed the excellent “Apocalypse” exhibition at the BNF. It showed the Book of Revelation’s enduring relevance in a wide range of objects from medieval manuscript to contemporary art.

Art by Tacita Dean, Anne Imhof, Kiki Smith, William Blake and so many more.

#Paris
#Apocalypse

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blakecottagetrust.bsky.social @blakecottagetrust.bsky.social · Apr 11

The Blake Cottage Trust is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a £243,954‬ grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to support essential conservation and‬ planning efforts for Blake’s Cottage, in Felpham, the historic Sussex home of visionary poet‬ and artist William Blake.

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Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly @blakequarterly.bsky.social · Apr 25

Our latest issue to become free to read is spring 2020
blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...,
which contains our annual sales feature, plus a review by @luisacale.bsky.social of the 2019-20 @tate.bsky.social exhibition and catalogue. I remember this one as our first issue published during lockdown.

Detail of page 34 of Night Thoughts (1797), colored copy BB, Essick collection

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Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly @blakequarterly.bsky.social · Mar 25

We are pleased to announce that the new co-editor of Blake is Tilar Mazzeo. We also extend our heartfelt thanks to all who applied for the position.
Image from the designs for Gray's Poems (Yale Center for British Art, which reopens this weekend!)

Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly @blakequarterly.bsky.social · Mar 16

These bowls were fashioned by Simon Turner
www.instagram.com/simonturners...
from a mould he made from Blake’s previous gravestone at Bunhill Fields.
"The mould is fired and then used to mould the bowls (otherwise they would read backwards) and then they are fired once, glazed and fired again."

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · Feb 27

Calling all teachers! 📚

Explore fresh ways to teach Blake, Wordsworth & Romanticism in our free online CPD on 11 March.

Join our wonderful panel – Michael Donkor, Iain Sinclair, Helen Mort & Alexander Fairbairn-Dixon – for a lively discussion on radicalism, nature and more: bit.ly/BL-CPD-Roman...

Coloured illustrated page showing William Blake's poem, 'London', from a facsimile copy of the first edition of Songs of Innocence and of Experience

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Benedicte Assogna @benassogna.bsky.social · Feb 27

Entre illustrations de Dürer, poèmes manuscrits illustrés par William Blake, enluminures de bibles, psautiers et célèbres toiles... l'exposition sur l'apocalypse de la #BNF à la bibliothèque F. Mitterrand est une belle réussite

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John Riordan @johnnyriordan.bsky.social · Feb 27

Teenage William Blake live-drawing the exhumation of Edward I in Westminster Abbey. As you do

(WIP from my Blake graphic novel)

#williamblake #comic #graphicnovel #westminsterabbey

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · Mar 3

It's out ❤️🗺️📍🌎

My book William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination surveys Blake's visionary mapping alongside forerunners, contemporaries, and followers.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly @blakequarterly.bsky.social · Mar 8

New publication from the Blake Archive: The Ghost of Abel copy C @thehuntington.bsky.social and On Homers Poetry [and] On Virgil copy A @librarycongress.bsky.social:
www.blakearchive.org/staticpage/u...

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John Higgs @johnhiggs.bsky.social · Dec 14

This graphic William Blake biography by @johnnyriordan.bsky.social is a beautiful thing, a real labour of love. More on his website www.johnriordan.co.uk, go see!

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Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly @blakequarterly.bsky.social · Feb 23

The YCBA will have a Blake exhibition from Aug. to Nov.:
britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-...
There's also Romney at the art gallery, in collaboration with the YCBA, from March to Sept.:
britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-...
Thanks to our exhibitions editor @luisacale.bsky.social for alerting me.

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Rocabatus @rocabatus.bsky.social · Feb 17

El próximo domingo voy a estar presentando mi traducción de William Blake en acá no más en el Farol de Saladillo.

Romi @romivamosviendo.bsky.social · Feb 17

Vengo a seguir tentándolos con este planazo.

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blakecottagetrust.bsky.social @blakecottagetrust.bsky.social · Feb 19

Our friends from The William Blake Fellowship are putting their best efforts to save William Blake's home in London. Check it out.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the...

The race to save William Blake’s London home and open it as a museum

A race is on to save the house where William Blake lived and wrote some of his famous works, including Jerusalem, and it has received backing from the London Assembly.

www.ianvisits.co.uk

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The Blake Society @blakesociety.bsky.social · Feb 19

Blake Soc Trustee @johnnyriordan.bsky.social had a fun afternoon yesterday wandering the charter'd streets of London with Joe of @sketchpoetry.bsky.social
Listen to the results at open.spotify.com/episode/0h7t...

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The Blake Society @blakesociety.bsky.social · Feb 18

THE URIZEN CYCLE, Wed 26 February, 7:30 PM (UK time) on zoom. Dr Annise Rogers discusses Blake's central character Urizen, and proposes 'the Urizen Cycle' as a new way of understanding his mythological system.
All are welcome. More info and free registration at blakesociety.org/product/uriz...

The Urizen Cycle - The Blake Society

Annise Rogers discusses Blake's character Urizen, and and proposes 'The Urizen Cycle' as a way of understanding his mythological system.

blakesociety.org

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London Assembly @londonassembly.bsky.social · Feb 13

MOTION AGREED: The London Assembly calls for the former home of William Blake to become a cultural and educational hub and visitor centre, boosting the local and London economy.

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Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly @blakequarterly.bsky.social · Feb 13

Our latest issue to emerge from the paywall and become free to read is vol. 53, no. 3 (winter 2019-20).
blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...
Coincidentally, "Holy Thursday" will also feature in our upcoming spring 2025 issue; maybe I can recycle the cover and no one will notice?

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