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John Kittmer @johnkittmer.bsky.social · 9h

Day 1 of 10 intense Anglo-Greek days.

A talk by David McClay of @britschoolathens.bsky.social, hosted by John & Virginia Murray in the historic home of John Murray publishing: 50 Albemarle Street.

Here, Thos. Phillips’s great painting of Byron, above the fireplace where his memoirs were burned.

John Kittmer @johnkittmer.bsky.social · 20h

Quite right. I cycled there from Cambridge in a strong headwind in 1986. Only a quarter of your hypothetical 80 miles, but I remember with pellucid clarity the gradual emergence of the great cathedral-ship at sail above the Fens—and I haven’t forgotten the headwind either!

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 1d

I think I'd cycle 80 miles in a headwind to see Ely Cathedral. No other cathedral feels so organically grown from the earth itself - it's lantern tower is one of the most verdant wonders of the medieval world. #thread

Ely Cathedral’s octagon and spires rise above the town’s tiled rooftops, their weathered stone and intricate pinnacles catching morning light beneath a pale blue Fenland sky.

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John Kittmer @johnkittmer.bsky.social · 21h

This is a good piece. A new balance is needed between private capital and public authority / regulation / planning. But these remain hyperliberal times. The economic paradigm hasn’t much shifted in 45 years. Silicon Valley + Trump + China engage in brazen imperialism. What hope for a new consensus?

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The Greek Analyst @greekanalyst.bsky.social · 22h

The future of Greece

greekanalyst.substack.com/p/the-future...

The future of Greece

Planning ahead, and the large cost of short-term choices

greekanalyst.substack.com

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anglohellenic.bsky.social @anglohellenic.bsky.social · 3d

The 2026 Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award is about to launch! We'll be back with further details very soon.

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John Kittmer @johnkittmer.bsky.social · 2d

I’m chairing an open event at @kingsartshums.bsky.social on 18 May, which will look at the new bio (and other new books on Cavafy). Will probably not write abt the bio till then (unless I do!).

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 4d

Its autumn colouring is no less sensational but somehow one does not notice it so readily because the October leafage of the forest trees—oak, beech and chestnut—still hangs so heavily green around it that it can be observed only close up or at a vista-cut of a distance. #gardening

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 5d

This week, the Society's President Lucy Noakes wrote in response to Bridget Phillipson's Labour conference speech - and its implications for history and the humanities in UK higher education bit.ly/3KBX7Fw

#Skystorians

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Stephen Joseph Theatre @thesjt.bsky.social · 9d

Our Director Emeritus #AlanAyckbourn was presented with @theabtt.bsky.social Stephen Joseph Lifetime Achievement Award, recognising his outstanding contribution to the development of UK theatre-in-the-round.

📸 Liz Sillett, ABTT CEO, Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Bob Millington, Stephen Joseph Committee Chair

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 10d

St Michael on Henry Shelmerdine's bronze Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway WWI War Memorial at Victoria Station, Manchester, unveiled on 14 February 1922.

The scene depicts Revelation 12:7, 'and there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and his angels'.

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ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ @tovimagr.bsky.social · 11d

MasterChef UK, which has been airing for over 20 years and is broadcast annually in more than 200 countries worldwide, including Greece

Argiro Barbarigou Introduces Greek Gastronomy to Millions on MasterChef UK - tovima.com

ebx.sh

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 12d

By chance, this was on my bedside table right now. R.I.P. Tony Harrison...

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John Kittmer @johnkittmer.bsky.social · 12d

Very sad news. A great poet, a great classicist. A lovely man. RIP indeed.

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John Kittmer @johnkittmer.bsky.social · 14d

The great west door at #Salisbury Cathedral. Thirteenth-century elegance, with fine Victorian statuary.

#aDoorableThursday

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Yorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social · 17d

First Frost Of The Season. 3°C at Thixendale. Sparrows.

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James Marriott @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social · 20d

My magnum opus - a unified field theory of why the post-literate society spells disaster for civilisation as we know it

jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

The dawn of the post-literate society

And the end of civilisation

jmarriott.substack.com

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John Kittmer @johnkittmer.bsky.social · 20d

The grand font in the baptistery (1879) of St #Martin-on-the-hill, #Scarborough, by G.F.Bodley. The platform is made of Derbyshire fossil limestone and encaustics by Godwin & Son.

#FontsOnFriday

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ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ @tovimagr.bsky.social · 23d

Ο Robert Redford, ένας από τους τελευταίους μεγάλους σταρ του κλασικού Χόλιγουντ και δημιουργός που καθόρισε το ανεξάρτητο σινεμά, έφυγε από τη ζωή σε ηλικία 89 ετών, αφήνοντας την 7η Τέχνη λίγο πιο φτωχή.

Robert Redford: «Έφυγε» στα 89 του ο θρύλος του Χόλιγουντ

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John Kittmer @johnkittmer.bsky.social · 23d

My first #almond crop since I had a tree in Athens. But this is a fine #Yorkshire harvest.

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Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 24d

🎭 Congratulations to Dr Lucy Jackson, whose exhibition '‘The Greeks: Radical Reinvention’ has opened at the National Theatre’s Wolfson Gallery!

👉 The exhibition tells the story of how the NT has reimagined Greek drama across six decades

📅 Open until early spring

🔗 buff.ly/dWh0FLz

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 28d

Just a reminder that the final edition of History and Heritage Yorkshire magazine is now available from payhip.com/b/RXVYk As always, the magazine is available on a pay what you can basis — with no minimum amount. Bringing Yorkshire's Past to Life for everyone.

The Next One Hundred Years of Yorkshire's History

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John Kittmer @johnkittmer.bsky.social · 29d

This is a great year for lovers of #Cavafy. After the superb new bio by Jeffreys & Jusdanis comes this important new study by the brilliant Foteini #Dimirouli of @kebleoxford.bsky.social.

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John Kittmer @johnkittmer.bsky.social · 26d

Magnificent #Salisbury. The chapter house. Yesterday.

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Choral Evensong Trust @choralevensong.org · 26d

Heartening news out of Lichfield Cathedral, where primary-school children came to sing with the choristers.

"Mrs Lamb was struck by their responses to the Magnificat and the Nunc Dimittis. The children were asked how it made them feel. One told her: 'It was like God was singing through my voice.'"

Education: Can singing evensong encourage pupils to engage in worship?

Clive Price hears about a successful church-school initiative

www.churchtimes.co.uk

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