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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 12h

An especially fancy C from TNA earlier today.

Photograph of an 18th century document. In the centre is a large, ornate letter C.

J White @kardomah.bsky.social · 11h

Very much so. There's only so much we can find by ourselves - it's always great when other people share things that we might never have discovered alone. That's what I'm here for; one post can send me off in so many directions 😀There's always more to learn, and I love social media for that!

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 21h

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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J White @kardomah.bsky.social · 20h

Whn you open an old notebook and discover that one of the grandchildren had found it and been creative - the youngest is now 12 so god knows who or when 😄

I love it though!!

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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 21h

Here are three wonderfully preserved Roman shoes that were discovered at Bar Hill Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland in the early 1900s. Shoes made for men, women and children have been found there, reminding us that frontier zones were not an exclusively military environment. #FindsFriday

Three ancient roman shoes with pierced decoration displayed on dummy feet.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 1d

The Royal Game of Ur is the world’s oldest playable boardgame!

Played by Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia about 4,500 years ago!

It is a two-player race game, the rules of which have been deciphered from a cuneiform tablet.

Game from the Royal Cemetery of Ur. 📷 British Museum

#Archaeology

British Museum photo showing a two-player board game with gaming counters known as the Royal Game of Ur. Dated c. 2,500 BC.

The game board is composed of a hollow box made of wood adorned with shell plaques. There is a drawer at one end for storing game pieces and dice. The top of the board is covered with twenty square-shaped off-white shell plaques, each bordered with dark-blue lapis lazuli. The shell squares are intricately decorated with blue inlaid patterns including dots inside circles and eye-shapes. Five squares are inlaid with flower-shaped rosettes with red limestone and blue lapis lazuli petals.

The game board is roughly rectangular in shape. Viewed from above in the photo, on the left side of the board is a block of 12 squares made up of 4 across by 3 down. On the right side of the board is a block of 6 squares made up of 2 across by 3 down. The two blocks are joined by two squares extending between the second square down on the end row of the left block and the second square down on the first row of the second block.

Dimensions H: 2.40 cm, L: 30.10 cm, W: 11 cm, (W 5.70 cm at narrowest part)

Beneath the board are 14 disc-shaped gaming counters. On the left are 7 white pieces, inlaid with 5 spots of blue lapis lazuli. On the right are 7 black pieces inlaid with five white spots.

Between the game pieces are three tetrahedron-shaped dice. L to R: Dark blue, brown, cream.

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J White @kardomah.bsky.social · 21h

Fascinating history of this masterful sculpture.

It was given a “nose job” by 18th century Italian craftsmen attempting to restore the badly damaged face and then painted over in later years.

The team was able to plot its journey from Wadi Hammamat 🏺

Manchester Ancient Egypt Society @maesegypt24.bsky.social · 1d

www.thenationalnews.com/news/uk/2025...

Egyptian goddess 'with nose job' is really ancient masterpiece worth $2 million | The National

Painstaking research and restoration authenticates bust put up for sale at UK auction

www.thenationalnews.com

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J White @kardomah.bsky.social · 22h

They must be psychic - I hadn't looked for Icicle Works at the point I posted Leaves, so who knows wtf is going on there anyway.

J White @kardomah.bsky.social · 22h

Ah, now I see why youtube tried to shove Oasis on me - between 2008 and 2009, Sharrock was the touring drummer for Oasis during their Dig Out Your Soul Tour.

Chris Sharrock - Wikipedia

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J White @kardomah.bsky.social · 22h

Every band in Liverpool wanted drummer Chris Sharrock (who had previously drummed for the Cherry Boys, and was known in local circles as Chris Cherry)

He's now worked with The La's, Beady Eye, the Icicle Works, the Wild Swans, World Party, the Lightning Seeds and Robbie Williams's backing band.

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J White @kardomah.bsky.social · 22h

That track by Leaves always reminded me of the gorgeous vocals of Ian McNabb of Icicle Works, and their track Hollow Horse was another on my favourites list that I listened to on my commute.

Glorious and joyful.

From 1985

Hollow Horse (Extended Version)

YouTube video by The Icicle Works - Topic

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J White @kardomah.bsky.social · 22h

They were an Icelandic band and the name of the band refers to Nick Drake's first album Five Leaves Left.

Leaves (Icelandic band) - Wikipedia

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J White @kardomah.bsky.social · 22h

Christ, make sure you haven't accidently left autoplay turned on or you'll only have a few seconds to dash to the screen to stop having Champagne Supernova shoved in your face. I despise Oasis and always have.

J White @kardomah.bsky.social · 23h

Q magazine frequently had a compilation CD stuck to the cover, and that's how I learned about this track in 2002, which became a favourite in my commuting days - always put a spring in my step

Woke up with it as an earworm this morning.
I've no idea why it wasn't better known

Catch, by Leaves

Leaves - Catch

YouTube video by LeavesVEVO

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social · 1d

Was too busy admiring the bricks & marvelling at the fact cars can drive over the Roman road paving beneath the Arco Felice (Bacoli) this evening to take a photo of the Roman arch but it seems forgivable all things considered.

Here’s an 1896 photo instead (fotografia.cultura.gov.it/iccd/item/MP...)

A sepia photo of the 20m high 6m wide Roman arch straddling the basalt paved via Domitiana

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J White @kardomah.bsky.social · 1d

I do love Simeon Solomon's gentle style.

We used to have a guitarist called Matt, who looked like he'd been created by Simeon Solomon.

This is a lovely painting by Solomon

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J White @kardomah.bsky.social · 1d

I've mentioned before that my Dad was a police motorcyclist in Liverpool, and this story reminds me of something he told us about in the 60s - having to comfort distressed bikers who'd picked up a hitchhiker at the entrance to the Mersey Tunnel, only to find they'd disappeared in the tunnel

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J White @kardomah.bsky.social · 1d

"For a while, artists who had been banned in other cities could still exhibit in Berlin. But during this time, the campaign against ‘undesirable’ art organized primarily by private interests but with the tacit approval of official circles swept through the country with growing force.”

The Disturbing Lessons of the 1937 ‘Degenerate Art’ Show | Artnet News

7 points to keep in mind when the specter of the 1937 "Entartete Kunst," or "Degenerate Art" show, is invoked today.

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J White @kardomah.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely!
After moving out here, I commuted into London daily (for my "sensible" job) for years, but the unreliability of public transport did my head in. I can't even look at a train now, so haven't been there for 15+ years. I miss going to lectures/exhibitions/gigs but not enough to get on a train😱

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J White @kardomah.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't spend much time in Whitechapel so don't know it well. Our local was The Queens in Primrose Hill - I was even the lunchtime cook in the early 80s (musician in need of extra income!) Because I knew the regulars they didn't care about the presentation if it tasted ok - I got away with it 😄

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J White @kardomah.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, my time there was mostly pre having kids, although I think we went there on a few wintry, Sunday afternoons with them, just for the spooky atmosphere, and bracing riverside walks!

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J White @kardomah.bsky.social · 1d

I think you introduced me to that bot by sharing one of their posts ages ago, so thank you for that!
And what a find - the artist is very much to my taste in the colours he used, and the details in the costumes & cultural scenes he captured for posterity are a revelation.

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J White @kardomah.bsky.social · 1d

Another splendid costume. Those colours together are stunning.

Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 1d

Today I return to work after my surgical interlude so what better than a trig & trim #1890s tailormade for professional inspiration. This is an eye catching skirt suit combining sharply constructed blue with some soutache trim & a playful touch of velvet. Wish me luck! #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A close up view of the bodies of a mid 1890s blue wool tailormade skirt suit. It has green braid trim and velvet collar

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J White @kardomah.bsky.social · 1d

A splendid costume

Vasily Vereshchagin @vasilyvereshchagin.bsky.social · 1d

A rich Kyrgyz hunter with a falcon https://www.wikiart.org/en/vasily-vereshchagin/a-rich-kyrgyz-hunter-with-a-falcon-1871

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J White @kardomah.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing to see this place surrounded by trees!
I've spent a few afternoons in there, in the shadow of the noose.

Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 1d

'Prospect of Whitby' (wood engraving) by John Bryce
thewappinggroupofartists.co.uk/members-pages/john-bryce.php

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