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Sophie Ploeg @sploeg.bsky.social · 14h

I'll be giving a talk at this conference in the coming week. Looking forward to it! The Ideal and the Ugly: bodies through senses, media and cultural memory” (University of Warwick) #AncientBluesky #Classics #AncientHistory #Arthistory
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“The Ideal and the Ugly: bodies through senses, media and cultural memory" (University of Warwick) - The Classical Association

Registration is now OPEN for the one-day conference “The Ideal and the Ugly: bodies through senses, media and cultural memory” happening at the University of Warwick (and online) on Friday 24th Octobe...

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Sophie Ploeg @sploeg.bsky.social · 16h

This is Who Do You Think You Are on steroids. An amazing and touching story of bravery and loss. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The History Podcast, The House at Number 48, 1. Made in Britain

A man’s quest to uncover his family’s dark past & reclaim a fortune stolen under the Nazis

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Sophie Ploeg @sploeg.bsky.social · 17h

Story even more amazing listening to the podcasts

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Sophie Ploeg @sploeg.bsky.social · 1d

No Tom Cruise here…. Just a broken window and a chain saw apparently

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 3d

This unassuming #Roman ceramic floor tile from ancient Londinium (London) sports a sketch of a pharos, a lighthouse. It's very much like the two lighthouses that flanked ancient Dover harbor, where the Roman fleet was based. Those, in turn, were based on the pharos of Alexandria. 🏺 1/

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Orangish ceramic floor tile with a sketch of a pharos (lighthouse) scratched into its surface before firing, the sketch lines appearing dark grey against the lighter ceramic. Two such lighthouses flanked the Roman harbor at Dover, the main base of the British fleet. Those lighthouses, in turn, were based on the design of the pharos of Alexandria.

1st-4th century CE (the period of Roman occupation), probably from London. British Museum.

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🏛️ Roma Aeterna 🏛️ @romaaeterna.bsky.social · 1d

Reliefs funéraires de Palmyre (calcaire blanchâtre, IIe s.). Ils appartiennent aux collections du musée de Picardie à Amiens.

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Sophie Ploeg @sploeg.bsky.social · 1d

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Louvre museum in Paris closed after robbery, French minister says - live updates

France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati said the incident happened as the museum opened this morning.

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Sophie Ploeg @sploeg.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I will listen to the podcast series too.

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Sophie Ploeg @sploeg.bsky.social · 2d

What a story …. 🫡
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How an old suitcase revealed a hidden family fortune, lost under Nazi rule

The contents of his late father's case led Antony Easton to uncover a rich and tragic history.

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 2d

The absolutely stunning 15th century frontage to the former White Hart Inn, on the market square in Newark, Nottinghamshire 🤩
More photos and link to the history/architectural development of the building in a short thread below…

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Sophie Ploeg @sploeg.bsky.social · 2d

Some thoughts on Rembrandt's lace....
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#arthistory #fashionhistory #lace #Rembrandt

Rembrandt’s Lace

Did Rembrandt Paint Oopjen’s Lace?IntroductionLace is one of the most beautiful, complex, refined, and expensive items depicted in many early seventeenth-century Dutch portraits. And yet it i…

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a video of the Bayeux Tapestry being carefully removed from its case and packed away. I had my heart in my mouth while watching. And yes, I do have nightmares about it crossing the channel! I had my heart in my mouth just watching this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7ys...

Extraction de la TAPISSERIE DE BAYEUX - 18 09 2025

YouTube video by Bayeux Museum

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Sep 20

The amazing Roman pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! 🤩

The tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain, and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire! Dated 1st-2nd century AD.

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#RomanSiteSaturday
#Archaeology

My photo shows the ruin of an eight-sided Roman brick lighthouse with four stepped levels. There is a doorway at ground level, above which, on the upper three levels, are narrow rectangular window openings. It stands 15.8 metres high and is 12.2 metres wide at the base. Roman fabric survives to a height of 12.5 m. The brickwork of the uppermost level was reconstructed for use as a church bell tower for the adjacent Anglo-Saxon church of St Mary in Castro of which a small portion can be seen in my photo on the right hand side. The Pharos is dated 1st century - early 2nd century AD and is one of a pair originally built on the headland flanking each side of the Roman port of Dubris (Dover). It now stands within the grounds of Dover Castle.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 2d

Our new volume 📖 , Writing Enslavement, is out now—physical and digital. the editors, @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social, @candidamoss.bsky.social, and @illdottore.bsky.social, put an amazing amount of work into a volume that is both slavery studies and book history. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE–300 CE

Edited by Jeremiah Coogan, Candida R. Moss, and Joseph A. Howley

Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean

Advances the interdisciplinary study of enslavement in the Roman Mediterranean, bringing together classicists and scholars of religion
Bridges the fields of book history, modern slavery studies, and ancient Mediterranean studies
Prompts readers to rethink ideas of authorship, credit, and the origins of ancient texts and ideas
Offers a collection of essays that are thematically organized around specific topics--such as gender, justice, disability, and letters-for easy adoption across a wide range of courses and disciplines

$99.00

Hardcover

Published: 01 October 2025

384 Pages

6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches

ISBN: 9780197769966

Also Available As:

E-book

Bookseller Code (06)

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Dr Hannah Platts @chattyplatty.bsky.social · 4d

So delighted to have recorded this podcast with the fabulous Emily Briffett @historyextra.bsky.social. Really great to have been talking “all you could want to know about Roman houses”. 😃

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Roman homes: everything you wanted to know

Podcast Episode · History Extra podcast · 04/10/2025 · 47m

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Sophie Ploeg @sploeg.bsky.social · 4d

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Spanish police investigate as Picasso painting vanishes on way to exhibition

Still Life with Guitar, worth €600,000, noticed missing after van arrives in Granada from Madrid

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Sophie Ploeg @sploeg.bsky.social · 8d

Plastic Soup has an app that reads ingredients lists of any product and tells you whether it has micro plastics in it. Scanning anything in my house.. very interesting results!! www.plasticsoupfoundation.org/en/

One wave towards a plastic free future - Plastic Soup Foundation

More and more scientists point out the health risks of plastic. We eat, drink and breathe plastic. Help us turn off the plastic tap.

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Vero @vero99999999.bsky.social · 10d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats

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Sophie Ploeg @sploeg.bsky.social · 11d

Not gonna even start until it’s all there…..

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 11d

Being forced to wait a week between episodes of Slow Horses should be prohibited under the Geneva Convention

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Sophie Ploeg @sploeg.bsky.social · 14d

A real life Dan Brown novel featuring a European wide web of antique book thieves. What an amazing (and concerning) story 📚🧐
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bi...

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Sophie Ploeg @sploeg.bsky.social · 17d

Promising exhibition of 18th century pastel paintings at the @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social but at £16.50 a ticket a bit expensive for what is no doubt not a huge exhibition. Hm. Will think about it.
#pastelpainting #Liotard #Bath
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Powder and Presence: Pastel Portraits in the Eighteenth Century - The Holburne Museum

This autumn, the Holburne is delighted to unveil Powder and Presence: Pastel Portraits in the Eighteenth Century, a new temporary collection display on the 2nd floor. In the 1700s, pastel rose...

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 19d

*Laughs hollowly in 2025*

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The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social · 20d

Out now! Our latest book, "Women Who Dared", is released today from Edinburgh University Press. You can purchase direct from @edinburghup.bsky.social via their website or at all good bookshops: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w...

Women Who Dared

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Sophie Ploeg @sploeg.bsky.social · 20d

hey @waterstones.bsky.social you're a book shop, why can't we just win a book?
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Prize Draws | Waterstones

Discover our full range of books, gifts, toys, stationery and audiobooks at Waterstones.com. Click & Collect within 2 hours or buy online with Free UK Delivery on Orders Over £25.

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