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#OTD in 1943, Portsmouth. Ordinary Seaman Fred Lammin from Greenford Middlesex meticulously carving a miniature motor-launch. #WW2 #HISTORY
January 7, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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This island state.
The island state.
Today 5/1/26

Definitely not the 51st.

Ice Station Papay - Orkney
January 5, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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January 4, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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Natural sandstone cast of dinosaur footprint from #Bexhill beach. About 135 million years old.
January 4, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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Winter light
Cloudlit

Island.

#Papay #Orkney
January 3, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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Four views of Manchester's new towers in the spectacular polar light this afternoon
January 3, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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Japanese artist Kumi Yamashita winds a single black thread around a grid of nails on a wooden board to create intricate portraits #WomensArt
January 3, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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Chippy Tea, painting by Manchester-born Anthony Marn.
January 3, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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#OTD in 1918, Bapaume, France. Troops from the Royal Flying Corps Kite and Balloon Section rehearsing the pantomime "Cinderella". #WW1 #HISTORY
January 2, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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For New Year’s Day 2026, a hellenistic glass vase shaped like a pomegranate. 2nd century BC - 1st century AD.

A symbol of abundance and good luck for the year ahead!

📷 Phoenix Art phoenixancientart.com/work-of-art/...

#Archaeology
January 1, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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In 1923, frustrated, under appreciated and broke, David Bomberg travelled to Jerusalem and southern Jordan, having secured funding for his passage from the Palestine Foundation Fund in return for a number of works; this features a rock façade at Petra.
December 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Bread, butter, & cheese. Cherries. And a split artichoke. All from Clara Peeters, whose day is today.
December 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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As the gales blow us into 2026, time to wish everybody a fun and healthy new year.

2025 was definitely the year of the Great auk for me.

Enjoy your Hogmanay wherever you are and see you on the other side.
December 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Crescent Moon nestling beside the Italian Rennaissance toppy bit of the McEwan Hall from last week. I love that a fair few (semi) public buildings in Edinburgh were funded by brewers, this one in 1897 by dosh from William McEwan who founded the Fountain Brewery.
@edinburghuni.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Christmas Stress? Family driving you crazy?
Take a deep breath and contemplate this gorgeousness:
Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469), Madonna
December 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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‘Christmas Morning’ (1955) 🎄

by John Philip Falter
December 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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25th December 2021
On Christmas Day, crocheted characters on a nativity post box topper in Histon search for the Star of Bethlehem.
Picture from my new book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.
December 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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HUMPHREY BOGART & LAUREN BACALL with their son Stephen at their Beverly Hills on Christmas Eve in 1951🎄
December 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Carol of the Bells in #
Kyiv subway.

Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.

Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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THREAD.

My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.

I've collected his work here...
December 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955)
Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was very often boiled to oblivion.
December 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Contemporary Ukranian painter Maria Chepeleva #WomensArt
December 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Here's to longer days ..🌞🍻🥳

#StandingStoneSunday A crowded Winter #Solstice at Stonehenge in 1990, giving some rare human scale to the enormous sarsen stones & lesser - but still massive - bluestone monoliths

📷 My own
December 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Possibly the most sublime Roman fresco of a temple.
The architectural detail of the spiky-topped wooden barrier, the painted relief in the pediment, & the offerings burning on the altar; it’s a symphony of observations.
Archaeological Museum of Capri (no provenance)
#FrescoFriday
December 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM