Julian May

@TheSkinnerBros The monotony fighter strikes again. Love it!

who likes the new single?

If you haven't watched this yet. Do so URGENTLY

@IanGordonCraig @textile_cuisine @D75132283 @LilyRose_Bloom I'm missing from everywhere lately Ian. The traumas and tediums of life have been getting in the way! I hope I'll be bursting back before too long.

Paul Rumsey (English, b. 1956, Chelmsford, Essex, England) - The Birds voted for theCat, 2019, Drawings: Charcoal #politics #art #illustration

Tintype portrait of eight women displaying their hair. Photographed in 1880.

Dublin in the 1890s

Workmen in Piccadilly Circus use drills to lift a wooden street surface. Much of London’s roads were covered in wood rather than cobbles to reduce noise - a practice that continued well into the 20th Century. In 1937, the new Chelsea Bridge was covered in a wooden carriageway… #history #london

@ahistoryinart I like Blamey's work but this one in particular has a special meaning to me having worked as a model maker. I can vouch for its accuracy.

Socialist, theosophist + women's rights activist Annie Besant was born #onthisday 1847. Read @ResObscura on her book Thought-Forms (1901), an intriguing work grounded in the theory that ideas, emotions, and even events, can manifest as visible auras buff.ly/2XZdmnI #OTD

Born #onthisday in 1838, theologian and schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, who in 1884 published the remarkable Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, perhaps the first ever example of “mathematical fiction”. More on the book here: buff.ly/3arEW16 #OTD

VICTORIAN GOBLIN NOVELS ‘The Princess and the Goblin’, a fantasy novel by George MacDonald published in 1872, a key influence on Tolkien, and ‘Davy and the Goblin’ by Charles Carryl, 1885. #FolkloreSunday #31DaysOfHalloween

VICTORIAN FAIRY BOOK Mrs Craik's The Fairy Book, 1869 was a precedent to Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books. You can still find Dinah Craik's books, now very collectable, often illustrated by Warwick Globe #gothicspring

@profdwh A lesson about making assumptions!

Sold my car on Monday. The young salesman after asking about my academic field, said he enjoyed Ancient Greece too. Me: 'Any writers you particularly like?' Him: 'Heraclitus'. Me: 'Really?' Him (absolutely seriously): 'Oh yes. *My favourite pre-Socratic'* 🤯🤯🤯👏👏👏

How about this for a Christmas present? It's the cloth binding for ‘Leaves from a Christmas Bough’ (1867), a book of verses illustrated with chromolithographs victorianweb.org/victorian/art/…. Can't help just coveting the cover though!

It is said Rossetti saw his wife Lizzie Siddal’s ghost every night for 2 years after her death in 1862. Her ghostly visits surely increased after he had her body exhumed to retrieve his poems. Reports said her red hair had kept growing & now filled her coffin. #MythologyMonday

"Look at the Time," mid-19th century by Gustave-Leonard de Jonghe (1829-1893). #art #arthistory #figurativeart #painting #vintageart

Painting by Albert Anker (1831-1910

@artinsociety So evocative of the freezing cold that permeated those single glazed Crittall windows.

In 1958 British artist S R Badmin was commissioned to produce a series of 12 illustrations for the Shell Guide to Trees and Shrubs. Here's January google.com/search?sca_esv…

@DownsTrader That's interesting. Ann Thwaite also wrote a biography of Edmund and this led her to researching his father. She suggests P. H. was much more attentive and loving than in Edmund's book. Undoubtedly through a straight-jacket of religion.

@JulianMay4 I got very excited until I saw the exhibition was on in 2014… very interesting info in link 👍 husband recently read his son Edmund’s book about his father ‘Father & Son’

@DownsTrader Philip Henry Gosse: Naturalist and Aquarium Pioneer - the Horniman images.app.goo.gl/iVZw29h3J7RBf9…