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NinaLewis
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When I still did research, it was on Reformation drama. Now I teach EngLit and try to write some, too. I like kissing stories and history, preferably in one package. Pseudonymous. Vegan. Pigoneer. Introvert. - No unsolicited DMs, please.
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December 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Fantastic map of #Anglo-Saxon #London by Matt Brown, The Londonist:
londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...
December 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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If people think they don't need to be able to think clearly in their jobs or their lives -- fine. You'll be crap at both.
December 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Just so he's here:
Statue of a naked man with a mustache, and a torque round his neck. He has a stab wound in his side (Where have I see that before?). "Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work of the late 3rd century BCE" (Wikipedia)
December 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Luxus endet, wenn Lämmer leiden! #ProtectLambs 🐑

Über 50% der weltweit verwendeten Wolle stammt immer noch von Schafen, die unter Lämmerverstümmelung leiden müssen. VIER PFOTEN hat über 100 Modemarken untersucht. Dabei kam heraus, dass #MichaelKors 0 Punkte erzielt. - Bitte kauft tierfreundlich!
November 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Theodor Fontane, poems, 1851 (Germany). See the last entry, "Lady Essex" (Fragment).
List of contents of a collection of poems by Theodor Fontane. The letters for f and s still look very similar. "Lady Effex" / Lady Essex"
October 30, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Yeah, see, it's complicated:
October 10, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Cricket stools!
Drawing of a riot in a Scottish church against the introduction of the Anglican Common Prayer Book, 1630s.
October 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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And him: "Monarch of the Glen", by Edwin Landseer, 1851
October 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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October 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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October 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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October 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Just as a reminder:
September 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Reincarnated as a 1920s school girl.
September 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Sorry. Has to be done:
detail of Lely's portrait of Oliver Cromwell, showig warts and all
September 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Viewed from the outside: Garderobe hole in the wall of #Harlech Castle, #Wales.
Garderobe hole in the wall of #Harlech Castle, #Wales. (Garderobe = old word for toilet.)
September 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Ich so: "Wer, 'er'?"
Ich habe mir so angewöhnt, von dem Ding als "die Mondin" zu denken.
Tolles Photo!!
Antike Statue der Mondgöttin Selene / Luna, mit einem Halbmond als 'Hörnchen' auf dem Kopf.
September 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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😂
August 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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To my shame I have to admit I did not know what octopush even is.
I am massively impressed!
Congratulations!!
August 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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What does that remind us of -? 🤔
Nazis destroying a Jewish home during Reichsprogromnacht, Nov. 1938, probably in Fürth, Germany
August 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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The problem with escaping was that the camp officials took it out on the remaining prisoners:
(Source: facesofauschwitz.com/gallery/2018...)
August 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Source: Faces of Auschwitz
Coloured photos of Janina Novak, who escaped from Auschwitz, was re-interned but survived the war. Heroine! Source: https://facesofauschwitz.com/gallery/2018-4-3-faces-of-auschwitz-janina-nowak/
August 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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They have Sauron's crown in there. Scared the sh!it out of me when I came upon it unawares.
Kendal parish church interior with a huge pointy sinister-looking crown hanging from thhe ceiling. (Don't know the artist, sorry, but seem to remember the installation is actually pre-Peter Jackson's LotR.)
August 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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If you see this, post a redhead.
Painting of the young Queen Elizabeth I.
July 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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March 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM