I’m not clever enough to create a thread, but if you read the last 4 paras of this chapter from Martin Chuzzlewit, it’s extraordinary how something written in 1843 could have been written today about the current US administration. www.online-literature.com/dickens/chuz...

@britishmuseum.bsky.social Would you ever considered a discounted out-of-town membership? I live in Cumbria so can only get down 2 or 3 times a year and each trip involves an expensive train ticket…. I’d love to be able to attend some of the online events.

Just setting off from Kendal to see the Silk Roads exhibition at the BM. Expecting great things…https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/silk-roads

Can anyone help me with this lump of stone on an Orcadian beach. Are the marks man made?

I do wish museums would have ‘no photography’ days when you could enjoy an exhibition/gallery without being made to feel like you are in the way of all those who seem to have come to photograph the exhibits rather than look at them.

Why would you want Medusa in your frying pan? (1st century Roman, in BM)

Can’t wait for this…https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/world-museum/event/evening-mary-beard-return-of-gods

I thought there was something quite Art Deco about the pose of poor Persephone here.

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I’m writing this as someone whose husband has had a heart attack!