Dr Bryony Coombs
@bryonycoombs.bsky.social
Art Historian I Medieval and Early Modern, PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
Renaissance Teaching Fellow, Edinburgh Uni
Franco-Scottish cultural connections: art, architecture and material culture.
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
Renaissance Teaching Fellow, Edinburgh Uni
Franco-Scottish cultural connections: art, architecture and material culture.
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
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✨🎉Hello new BlueSky people 👋
Who am I?
New Book: Visual Arts & the Auld Alliance.
New project: Scotland on Parchment: Scraped, Limned and Bound due 2026. Inaugural book in a new EUP series Visual and Material Cultures of Scotland🎉✨ @edinburghup.bsky.social
New approaches: wp.me/peZVQm-8R
Who am I?
New Book: Visual Arts & the Auld Alliance.
New project: Scotland on Parchment: Scraped, Limned and Bound due 2026. Inaugural book in a new EUP series Visual and Material Cultures of Scotland🎉✨ @edinburghup.bsky.social
New approaches: wp.me/peZVQm-8R
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Gridogram 2025-11-25, Top Dog Tuesday
⏱️ 02:04 🎯 56% 🔎 18/195
meh - average all round for me!
⏱️ 02:04 🎯 56% 🔎 18/195
meh - average all round for me!
November 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Gridogram 2025-11-25, Top Dog Tuesday
⏱️ 02:04 🎯 56% 🔎 18/195
meh - average all round for me!
⏱️ 02:04 🎯 56% 🔎 18/195
meh - average all round for me!
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This might also interest our followers, lecture notes by a Louvain professor.
One of our newest treasures: an #earlymodern Catechismus Romanus bound with a 1613 #manuscript student notebook of Jesuit Cornelius a Lapide’s lectures at Leuven. A wonderfully personalized & used book with a doodle of a long-nosed (😉) figure by its unknown owner.
#bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜
#bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This might also interest our followers, lecture notes by a Louvain professor.
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Are you in museums or galleries? Do you do Renaissance-era research? Think about applying NOW to the Society for Renaissance Studies award to support such a research project upto £1,000. Deadline 1 December! It could get you to that crucial archive or museum! www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...
Museums & Galleries Research Award – Society for Renaissance Studies
www.rensoc.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Are you in museums or galleries? Do you do Renaissance-era research? Think about applying NOW to the Society for Renaissance Studies award to support such a research project upto £1,000. Deadline 1 December! It could get you to that crucial archive or museum! www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...
Cornelisz van Oostsanen, Triptych with Adoration of the Trinity, c. 1523, Gemaeldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel, Germany
November 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Cornelisz van Oostsanen, Triptych with Adoration of the Trinity, c. 1523, Gemaeldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel, Germany
An enquiry by a former student has sent me down an academic rabbit hole relating to the works of Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen. I simultaneously know that I do not have time for this, but know myself, so know that I cannot let it go😬 argh!
Cornelisz, Man of Sorrows c.1510 Museum Mayer van den Bergh
Cornelisz, Man of Sorrows c.1510 Museum Mayer van den Bergh
November 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
An enquiry by a former student has sent me down an academic rabbit hole relating to the works of Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen. I simultaneously know that I do not have time for this, but know myself, so know that I cannot let it go😬 argh!
Cornelisz, Man of Sorrows c.1510 Museum Mayer van den Bergh
Cornelisz, Man of Sorrows c.1510 Museum Mayer van den Bergh
I so desperately want to include a seminar on this work next time I run my French 15th C painting course... since I agree with Grössinger: this looks French. Would love to have time to look into this further...
November 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I so desperately want to include a seminar on this work next time I run my French 15th C painting course... since I agree with Grössinger: this looks French. Would love to have time to look into this further...
More here: www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
More here: www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...
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Delighted to announce that vol 30 of 'Review of Scottish Culture' is now available online. It's another super issue, ranging through Scotland and across genres, from senior scholars and emerging voices. All free to download. Now open, for new submissions!
journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc
journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Delighted to announce that vol 30 of 'Review of Scottish Culture' is now available online. It's another super issue, ranging through Scotland and across genres, from senior scholars and emerging voices. All free to download. Now open, for new submissions!
journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc
journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc
😯
Another incredible treasure from Grinnell, this time in the art collection, is this set of cuttings of the miniatures from what must have been a gorgeous book of hours! 🌟
(1985.003.001-009)
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
(1985.003.001-009)
#midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
😯
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Great placards from the rally at the parliament #StopaStaffCutsatEoE
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Great placards from the rally at the parliament #StopaStaffCutsatEoE
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The St Andrews Chronicles, one of the most important manuscript histories of Scotland, is going on public display for the first time in its 500-year history. The book will be on display at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social from 21 November to 7 December
#BookHistory
news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/500-...
#BookHistory
news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/500-...
November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The St Andrews Chronicles, one of the most important manuscript histories of Scotland, is going on public display for the first time in its 500-year history. The book will be on display at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social from 21 November to 7 December
#BookHistory
news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/500-...
#BookHistory
news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/500-...
Gorgeous:
A fun look today at @rialibrary.bsky.social’s manuscript of the week! The 15th-century Leabhar Breac / The Speckled Book (RIA MS 23 P 16) is a collection of religious, literary and historical works, including the lives St Patrick, St Brigid and Alexander the Great 📜🎉
November 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Gorgeous:
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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I'm on strike for the next three days in protest at my employer's refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies as part of their cost-cutting vision for a radically diminished university. My school makes a healthy profit, most of which goes back into central coffers, yet still we're told to save more.
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I'm on strike for the next three days in protest at my employer's refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies as part of their cost-cutting vision for a radically diminished university. My school makes a healthy profit, most of which goes back into central coffers, yet still we're told to save more.
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Thinking of undertaking a postgraduate degree in History of Art?
Have a look at some of the fantastic programmes here at Edinburgh:
Global Premodern Art (MSc)
History of Art, Theory and Display (MSc)
Modern and Contemporary Art (MSc)
Collections and Curating Practices (MScR)
Have a look at some of the fantastic programmes here at Edinburgh:
Global Premodern Art (MSc)
History of Art, Theory and Display (MSc)
Modern and Contemporary Art (MSc)
Collections and Curating Practices (MScR)
November 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Thinking of undertaking a postgraduate degree in History of Art?
Have a look at some of the fantastic programmes here at Edinburgh:
Global Premodern Art (MSc)
History of Art, Theory and Display (MSc)
Modern and Contemporary Art (MSc)
Collections and Curating Practices (MScR)
Have a look at some of the fantastic programmes here at Edinburgh:
Global Premodern Art (MSc)
History of Art, Theory and Display (MSc)
Modern and Contemporary Art (MSc)
Collections and Curating Practices (MScR)
These are all 1-year MA programmes. There are also funding opportunities: www.eca.ed.ac.uk/scholarships
Scholarships | Edinburgh College of Art
www.eca.ed.ac.uk
November 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
These are all 1-year MA programmes. There are also funding opportunities: www.eca.ed.ac.uk/scholarships
Find out more here: www.eca.ed.ac.uk/study?field_...
Finding the right programme | Edinburgh College of Art
www.eca.ed.ac.uk
November 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Find out more here: www.eca.ed.ac.uk/study?field_...
Thinking of undertaking a postgraduate degree in History of Art?
Have a look at some of the fantastic programmes here at Edinburgh:
Global Premodern Art (MSc)
History of Art, Theory and Display (MSc)
Modern and Contemporary Art (MSc)
Collections and Curating Practices (MScR)
Have a look at some of the fantastic programmes here at Edinburgh:
Global Premodern Art (MSc)
History of Art, Theory and Display (MSc)
Modern and Contemporary Art (MSc)
Collections and Curating Practices (MScR)
November 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Thinking of undertaking a postgraduate degree in History of Art?
Have a look at some of the fantastic programmes here at Edinburgh:
Global Premodern Art (MSc)
History of Art, Theory and Display (MSc)
Modern and Contemporary Art (MSc)
Collections and Curating Practices (MScR)
Have a look at some of the fantastic programmes here at Edinburgh:
Global Premodern Art (MSc)
History of Art, Theory and Display (MSc)
Modern and Contemporary Art (MSc)
Collections and Curating Practices (MScR)
Ahhh, filled with 'scrupulous archival work and a staggering range of material' making it 'a joy from beginning to end.' I'll take that 😊. Congrats to all the wonderful longlisted and shortlisted authors and especially to the winner, Eleanora!
www.walpolesociety.org.uk/post/2025-be...
www.walpolesociety.org.uk/post/2025-be...
2025 Berger Prize winner announced
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 Berger Prize is Eleonora Pistis, for her book Architecture of Knowledge: Hawksmoor and Oxford (Brepols, 2024). Dr Pistis will be awarded £5,00...
www.walpolesociety.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Ahhh, filled with 'scrupulous archival work and a staggering range of material' making it 'a joy from beginning to end.' I'll take that 😊. Congrats to all the wonderful longlisted and shortlisted authors and especially to the winner, Eleanora!
www.walpolesociety.org.uk/post/2025-be...
www.walpolesociety.org.uk/post/2025-be...
So sad, if it needs to be sold...
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
So sad, if it needs to be sold...
I love it too!
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I love it too!
👀Wow! (not the price but that they just had this and who knew?)
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Almshouse in Dorset discovers its 15th-century Flemish triptych is worth £3.5m
Artwork that hung for centuries at St John’s Almshouse in Sherborne will be sold to raise funds for social housing
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
👀Wow! (not the price but that they just had this and who knew?)
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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📢 Delighted to announce that our Visiting Research Fellowships scheme for 2026 is now open for applications. Wonderful collections, world-class library & a brilliant @uofglasgow.bsky.social team to support you. Find out more 👇
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
📢 Delighted to announce that our Visiting Research Fellowships scheme for 2026 is now open for applications. Wonderful collections, world-class library & a brilliant @uofglasgow.bsky.social team to support you. Find out more 👇