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tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · 18h

Next up in the 150th birthday celebrations for brilliant #Croydon born and @rcmlondon.bsky.social educated composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a weekend of activities 18 and 19 October. A new interactive exhibition opens at Croydon Museum 18 October (to 31 Jan).

www.culturecroydon.com/event/samuel...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 150 - This is Croydon

Join the celebration. Discover the history. Be part of the legacy. You’re invited to join a season of celebratory performances, artworks, music and more to mark the 150th anniversary of Samuel Colerid...

www.culturecroydon.com

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tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · 2d

Excitingly, this triptych has been the subject of a three year restoration and will be displayed at the Louvre before being returned to Les Moulins. The dates are 26 November to 4 March 2026.

Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 3d

Splendid triptych for the cathedral in Moulins, 1498, by Jean Hey. Also known (because of this work) as the Master of Moulins. Today is his day.

tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · 3d

Bon soir

Avenue des baobabs in Madagascar, with the avenue of trees set against a blue sky and sandy path. Photographed December 2024.

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tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · 4d

This is a great idea by my favourite @lampallib.bsky.social. The roles really are exciting, and not ones often suggested in careers advice. They include archivist, collections care and printed book librarians. The Lambeth Palace Library collection is astounding in quality and variety. Recommend!

Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 4d

🎓Join us for our Careers Open Day - a chance to explore exciting roles, meet the team and discover how to enter these professions.

📅What's on📅
👤Chat with staff!
📚Book a Library tour!
🕰Enjoy our collections!
🤝Meet professional bodies and learn about the wider sector!
🎶Explore our current exhibition

Picture of the reading room with yellow text over the top, reading Lambeth Palace Library Career Open Day, for ages 16-18 plus undergrads and career changers, 30th October opening times 10am-4pm, 15 Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 7JT

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tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · 10d

Happy, excited and very grateful to be a fellow of @ihr.bsky.social for 2025-26. Much has changed since I last had an academic home, in 1982, including greatly increased diversity and extensive access to electronic sources. Delighted to belong to such a welcoming and inclusive community of scholars.

Library passes for London’s Institute of Historical Research and Senate House, both part of the University of London, and a black badge with the inscription in white “IHR Making history together”.

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tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · 12d

Unique opportunity to handle objects from the V&A collections in the lunch break of today’s Sacred Ceramics; devotional images in European porcelain event. 5 super presentations and 3 more to go. Many thanks to all concerned.

Ivory models of a crucifix (by a Huguenot artist) and two of the Virgin Mary.

Colourful porcelain model possibly of the three Maries.

Overview of conference in the V&A lecture theatre.

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tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · 12d

Many thanks for a wonderful post - of particular interest to me for its reference to my beloved great uncle Courtenay Crickmer. He lived in Letchworth (Elmscott in reference to William Morris) but my mother and family lived for many years in Gidea Park.

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tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · 13d

Today is international world heart day. The 2025 theme is “don’t miss a beat”, encouraging individuals and organisations to raise awareness of how to promote heart health. The Castle at Colioure in S. France does its bit with its topiary heart, photographed last week. @bhfpolicy.bsky.social

Large yellow stone castle, part of the fort in Colioure, south France, with a door surrounded by heart-shaped topiary. Photographed 24 September 2025.

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tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · 14d

Chineke! concerts are always outstanding and exciting, but today’s concert by Junior Chineke (age 12-22) was a 1st for us. It was a great performance, including Averil Coleridge Taylor’s Sussex landscape (1939) and well up to Chineke’s high standards. Thank you Chineke! For your brilliance and hope.

Stage at the Royal Festival Hall London before the Junior Chineke! Orchestra arrived.

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tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · 19d

Otd 1953 piano manufacturers Pleyel confirmed the identity of the piano sent to composer Chopin for his winter in Menorca in 1838. His time staying in Carthusian cell no 4 was productive. George Sand was unimpressed. It snowed. He composed. We can still enjoy the results. Photographed last week.

Carthusian cell no 4 in Valdemossa Menorca with Chopin’s piano, a bust of him and music manuscript reproductions.

Letter dated 23 September 1953 from Pleyel confirming the identity of Chopin’s piano.

Overview of one of the three rooms in cell no 4 Valdemossa with view out to the walled garden with greenery and small fountain.

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tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · 20d

Really looking forward to this. Likely to be of interest to @huguenotsociety.bsky.social as well as more widely.

IHR Tudor and Stuart Seminar @tudorstuartseminar.bsky.social · 20d

The IHR Tudor and Stuart seminar has joined Bluesky! Please follow and RT!

Our programme for the year is starting NEXT WEEK on Monday 29 September with Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social speaking on 'Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper'.
Online and in-person, 5.30pm
Book here:

Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper

www.history.ac.uk

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tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · 20d

Really looking forward to this!

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tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · 21d

#GustavHolst, born otd 1874. This is my favourite photo of him, taken when he and his wife Isobel were in the USA in 1923. Daughter Isobel wrote « he was the happiest » person she knew. Photo now at his birthplace museum in Cheltenham. Lots more to see there and excellent mss scores online.

Gustav Holst wearing his usual glasses and posing with a borrowed cap and pipe.

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tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · 24d

Many happy returns for the great lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson, born in Lichfield otd 1709. This stained glass window is at his London house @drjohnsonshouse.bsky.social, a wonderful place to visit.

Stained glass window showing Samuel Johnson with the spires of Lichfield Cathedral in the background.

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tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · 25d

One of RVW’s top priorities was Isobel Holst, (she was 80 in 1956), the widow of his best friend and fellow composer Gustav Holst, who died in 1934. It is lovely that Ralph and Ursula continued to spend time with Isobel, and also that a kind letter survives from Gustav to Jessie Coleridge Taylor.

tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · 29d

Two visits 6 years apart. Today’s treat was the recently restored Crystal Palace subway (opened 1865) in south London. The photo of Cordoba Mosque/Cathedral was taken in January 2019.

Ornate red and white brick pillars at Crystal Palace, London.

Ornate red and white pillars and arches in Cordoba, Spain.

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · Sep 12

I was invited to write a post for the @ihr.bsky.social blog about #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems.
'The book tells a story about how England has been shaped over the centuries - and, between the lines, I think it tells a story about my working life here at the IHR...'
blog.history.ac.uk/2025/09/a-hi...

A History of England in 25 Poems - On History

This new book from IHR Professor Catherine Clarke explores the history of England in new ways—drawing on her work here in the Institute. It’s been quite a journey. From hours in the archive to writing...

blog.history.ac.uk

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tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · 29d

Just adding that all 10 books that Montaigne owned and are now in @theUL.bsky.social collection are now fully digitised as part of the Cambridge Digital Library.

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tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · Sep 12

Same.

tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · Sep 11

An upcheering sight in the middle of a thundery downpour on London’s Victoria Street just now - @cathamclarke.bsky.social’s new History of England in 25 poems in Waterstones window display.

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tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is the way to do an online exhibition! Fabulous images and insights from the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, superbly curated and including images from the Victoria & Albert illuminated manuscript collection. Sections on visual, physical and auditory devotion, with videos, essays and glossary.

Brightly coloured historiated initial C showing Christ in Glory from a Gradual for Siena Cathedral by Libérale da Verona c. 1467.

tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · Sep 11

So hoping the next stage of life journey goes well. I’m hugely looking forward to 1 October, which will be the first time since 1982 that I will be returning to (a different) university to study. 43 years. A dream about to come true thanks to @ihr.bsky.social

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tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · Sep 10

I’d like to know how small the Venn diagram portion is of those of us who are FRHistS and FCipd.

tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thorney Abbey door, little changed from when Jean Jembelin was minister of its French church 1685-c.1712. The church notice board of ministers confuses him with a cousin. Thanks to @lampallib.bsky.social for enabling me to write about his sermons in @huguenotsociety.bsky.social journal, just out.

The door of Thorney Abbey, near Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, where Jean Jembelin was minister of the French church 1685-c. 1712.

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tudorfp.bsky.social @tudorfp.bsky.social · Sep 8

Equally delighted and really looking forward to meeting you and sharing enthusiasm for @histparl.bsky.social.

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