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Sharon Howard
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History, data, pictures, food. Still lazing about. http://sharonhoward.org/ ORCID: 0000-0002-6051-6274
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · Mar 3
#WomensHistoryMonth Evelyn Dunbar, A Knitting Party (1940). One of the first of Dunbar's WW2 paintings focusing on women's work. www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
A group of women sit, occupied with knitting, in a room with large bay window.
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 3h
I've laughed a lot.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 16h
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
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The Family History Society of Cheshire 🌾🌳 @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social · 14d
THIS is a fabulous website

The #Chester Consistory Court

Archive of cause papers from the oldest complete ecclesiastical courtroom in #England

Find out more about this amazing free database 👉 www.chestercausepapers.org.uk

To search 👉 www.chestercausepapers.org.uk/directory

#Cheshire
Chester Consistory Court - Cause Papers Archive
Searchable archive of cause papers from Chester Consistory Court - the oldest complete ecclesiastical courtroom in England.
www.chestercausepapers.org.uk
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 12h
Wonder if choco-leibniz dark will restore that 9th biscuit.
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acemaxx analytics @acemaxx.bsky.social · 15h
#cocoa prices have tumbled to a 20-month low, bringing to an end a dramatic 2y rally that had driven the market to record highs and squeezed #chocolate #manufacturers worldwide, chart @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/b6ce...
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 3d
It can't possibly be 30 years!! This is all rong!
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 3d
Shiiiiit, I've just realised that it's 30 years (+ a few weeks) since I went to university.
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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 3d
'Maiko' (舞妓), showing an apprentice geiko (芸子), from 'Selection of Customs of Japanese Women' (日本女俗選 Nihon jozoku sen), by Maekawa Senpan (前川千帆, 5 October, 1888 - 17 November, 1960)
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 3d
A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads!

Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.

From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio

#Archaeology
Museo Egizio Turin photo showing a small, dark-blue, core-formed, round glass jar which tapers in at the shoulders below the neck. It has yellow, white, and light blue festoon decoration trailed around the main body. There is a single yellow trail just below the neck of the jar. There is a dark-blue circular glass lid, the top of which is adorned with two dark-blue duck heads with yellow bills, a yellow trailed stripe on the top of each duck’s head, and indents for their eyes. The jar is displayed on a perspex (?) stand against a grey background. Glass jar dimensions: 7.6 cm x 9.6 cm. Core-forming is one of the earliest glassmaking techniques. Glassmakers shaped the body of the vessel around a core, wound colored trails around it. They then let the vessel cool and removed the core.
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 3d
Enjoyable read on how Darling Nikki got us parental advisory stickers and all that. (After all, how else would we know how to find the good stuff?) www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
‘I was called an enemy of the people’: how the US Senate went to war with the biggest rock stars of the 1980s
Forty years ago Prince, Madonna and Judas Priest were among stars dubbed the ‘Filthy Fifteen’ in a high-profile parents’ campaign against ‘objectionable’ music. Some of those artists, and supporters l...
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 3d
"Michael Howard spoke of the British dream—people choosing this country because of its tolerance and its opportunity. It is a land where a girl from Nigeria can move, aged 16, be accepted as British and have the great honour of representing Saffron Walden." www.kemibadenoch.org.uk/news/kemi-ba...
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 5d
Also very fond of this study in black and white floof. Bet the laundress enjoyed getting the black hairs out of that. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...
A ballerina in a pouffy white dress sitting with a black cat on her lap.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5d
Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 5d
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 5d
In memoriam...
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 5d
that would be @ahistoryinart.bsky.social 🎨
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 7d
What's your favorite Bluesky account that primarily posts about something other than current events/politics?
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 6d
Just came across this very very excellent @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social photo of Sir Viv Richards receiving an honorary degree from Exeter in 1986. Surely later also awarded 'Best Dressed Graduate'.

specialcollectionsarchive.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/630
A man in a very sharp white suite and red and blue academic gowns bows his head and touches his hat towards a man in front of him also wearing academic gowns.
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Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery @blackburnmuseum.bsky.social · 6d
Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is celebrations and unveilings for the reopening of The Harris! 🥳

We can't wait to visit and see this icon back on display. 💛

🖼 'Pauline in the Yellow Dress' c.1944 by Herbert James Gunn

🔗 artuk.org/discover/art...
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 6d
She has been putting up w9th his shit for decades. It hasn't been easy. Portrait of an elderly couple by Jan Gossaert, d. OTD 1532.
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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 7d
It's the start of #BlackHistoryMonth 🎨

This page gives you a useful starting point to begin exploring the work of Black artists on Art UK 👉 artuk.org/discover/art...

🧑‍🎨 Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b.1977) © Courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York and Corvi-Mora, London. 📷the artist.
Portrait of a women, side profile, her hair is tied up, she wears a roll neck sweater
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 7d
Idk where this leaves those of us who move slow and still manage to break stuff.
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dr lee cyborg @leeborg.bsky.social · 7d
Ive spent so much time working with tech people doing tech things on tech deadlines. In the past few years my practice has turned to analog tools (print making, zines, drawing) in my own personal protest. 1/3
A brightly colored risograph poster that says Move Slow and Fix Stuff with a sloth and the Open Source Hardware logo
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 8d
Bodleian Library MS Bodl.533 digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/3665... [probably via Twitter]
three jaunty black cats in a row, emerging from a rectangular panel in a medieval manuscript
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Anglesey History @angleseyhistory.bsky.social · 8d
Help save local Welsh placenames on new digital map.
Helpu i achub enwau lleoedd lleol Cymru ar fap digidol newydd.
datamap.gov.wales/survey/wpnc/...
Record Welsh Place Names | DataMapWales
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 9d
'The Automobile,' (1900) by Ramón Casas in which a solitary woman drives a motor car directly at the viewer is a remarkable declaration of modernity. Casas was highly influential on a generation of his contemporaries, including Joaquin Mir, Isidre Nonell, and Pablo Picasso.
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 9d
Isn't it? I went to wiktionary because I couldn't be arsed to log in to my institutional account to access OED 😂
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 9d
heh heh thought you might. ME FIRST.
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 9d
It may be another word for a fontange/fontage en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontange
Fontange - Wikipedia
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 9d
WANT. NOW.
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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 9d
Coat by Jeanne Lanvin, 1910-13. Via Palais Galliera.
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