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Cathy Hume @cathyhume.bsky.social · Aug 13

Oh OK, in my mind they are the same size!

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Cathy Hume @cathyhume.bsky.social · Aug 13

What's the Leprechauns diminished from?!

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Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social · Jul 29

Great new @ippr.org report from @sachahilhorst.bsky.social, making very clear the link between the decline of community spaces and the rise of the radical right. Sacha reimagines the 20th century miners' welfare fund as a model for reviving social infrastructure:
www.ippr.org/articles/pla...

Places to come together: Rebuilding local solidarities against the far right | IPPR

In late July 2024, the seaside town of Southport in Merseyside burst into the national consciousness when it suffered two different, violent events in succ

www.ippr.org

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · Jul 28

This is a tiny book of hours, use of Metz. It is bound in modern velvet, and features a miniature of the Virgin Mary nursing the baby Jesus - iconography specific to artwork made in Metz (dated between 1375 and 1399) (Ms. Codex 1566)

🔗: bit.ly/4kJdOex

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Cathy Hume @cathyhume.bsky.social · Jul 15

I kept thinking it was going to turn into something meaningful. But no.

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Patricia Lovett MBE @patricialovett.bsky.social · Jul 9

And more decorated/illuminated letters to download and print and print for free, and then colour in. Good for children in the holidays, teachers who want a bit of a quiet time (!!), and adults who want to spend some time thinking only of what colours to use!
www.patricialovett.com/mediaeval-de...

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Cathy Hume @cathyhume.bsky.social · Jul 2

Do you like: magic? women? magic women? history? romance? biblical poems with dodgy rhymes? Then please come to @imc-leeds.bsky.social session 837, magical learning in history and literature, Tues at 4.30pm, with @magicnotwitches.bsky.social, Harry Lewis and me,
chaired by @hattiesoper.bsky.social

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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · Jul 3

Hey kids! First time at the #IMC2025 @imc-leeds.bsky.social?

Here are some of Old Man Kramer's Hot Tips!

#medievalsky

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · Jul 3

A beautiful illustration from MS Ashmole 150; a Tudor pattern book. Well worth a look at on Digital Bodleian: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/385c...

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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · Jul 3

Custard is the elixir of life

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Cathy Hume @cathyhume.bsky.social · Jul 2

Do you like: magic? women? magic women? history? romance? biblical poems with dodgy rhymes? Then please come to @imc-leeds.bsky.social session 837, magical learning in history and literature, Tues at 4.30pm, with @magicnotwitches.bsky.social, Harry Lewis and me,
chaired by @hattiesoper.bsky.social

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · Jul 2

1-year temp. medieval lectureship at KCL, covering Alice Rio's teaching, closing date 20 July: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

my.corehr.com

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Cathy Hume @cathyhume.bsky.social · Jun 25

We're in Bristol 24/7! www.bristol247.com/culture/thea...

Medieval play to be performed for first time in 500 years

Audience members can expect "a unique experience combining feast and drama"

www.bristol247.com

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Cathy Hume @cathyhume.bsky.social · Jun 22

Thanks Gill! x

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Cathy Hume @cathyhume.bsky.social · Jun 20

I'm so delighted to discover that old employer the Home Office is... a leader in advising on digital accessibility?! Who knew?

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Cathy Hume @cathyhume.bsky.social · Jun 18

@bristolcms.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social

Cathy Hume @cathyhume.bsky.social · Jun 18

Satan: What did you say?
Job: er...
Satan: You haven't got your 'Life of Job' tickets? But there are only 10 DAYS UNTIL FRIDAY 27 JUNE!
Job: ... I haven't quite got round to it...
Satan: There's patience and then there's procrastination. Get on it. www.ticketsource.co.uk/winterbourne...

An actor with blonde hair and a black filigree mask and black cloak (playing Satan) looks disapprovingly at an actor (playing Job) with a beard, white shirt and furred robe.

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Cathy Hume @cathyhume.bsky.social · Jun 10

Now wondering if I can drag the entire family along with me in a minor diversion on our route through northern France this August...

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Jun 8

Today is Pentecost. This beautiful image is taken from a 15th century 'Honresfield Book of Hours', depicting the Virgin and Apostles sitting beneath a dove.

[MS5204 f. 90v]

#LambethPalaceLibrary #Manuscript #Pentecost

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Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social · Jun 6

I spent yesterday morning the NMS collections at Granton, where Helen Wyld showed us the incredible Fetternear Banner. An extraordinary survival of Scottish Pre-Reformation (c. 1520) linen embroidery - stunning to see it up close.

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Cathy Hume @cathyhume.bsky.social · Jun 5

It is glorious!

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Cathy Hume @cathyhume.bsky.social · Jun 4

@bristolcms.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @shaunaroach.bsky.social

Cathy Hume @cathyhume.bsky.social · Jun 4

The modern première of the ‘Life of Job’ is on 27th June at Winterbourne Medieval Barn. Job suffers torments: property loss, family death, physical disease and a scolding wife. Uniquely in this play, God reprimands Job for how he treats his wife! Tix/ info at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/winterbourne...

Job, bearded man in robe, gestures heavenward while his seated wife in blue dress and medieval headdress holds a baby and looks angry. Photo of workshop performance by Mark Dawson.

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Cathy Hume @cathyhume.bsky.social · Jun 1

Make her stop!

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Cathy Hume @cathyhume.bsky.social · May 30

Ooh, pretty!

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