Edmund Thomas

Public talks on classical architecture in the North East, starting Thursday 5th May at 6 pm #DCCR #Durhamclassics

@lucy_grig gets to the point @ #ca2025 @ucu

Harry Brook hooks to fine leg on 99... Out #engvsi

Nice tribute @englandcricket @YorkshireCCC to the true great and unbelievably brave #Syd Lawrence (1964-2025) @Gloscricket. We will miss him deeply.

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University chng.it/F9wLJpFm via @UKChange

The jaw dropping early C16th angel roof at St. Wendreda's in March, Cambridgeshire - Sir John Betjeman said it was "worth cycling forty miles into a headwind to see." It's hard to believe that this beautiful example of medieval craftsmanship is under threat #thread

@TheHatton "I, Hugo Cuningham, am leaving the city of Edinburgh for ever. Remember me or forget me at your peril!"

What is the screaming, gurning, grotesque saying here ?

@Trad_Arch_Bdays 1916

Date this facade?

@smallslicesofme @Portaspeciosa And 20 years before King's, I believe, so surely Sherborne takes the crown? That's the presbytery. But they had run out of ideas when they did the nave similarly. uksouthwest.net/dorset/sherbor…

@Portaspeciosa As a fenland resident, I am of course loyal unto death to Kings College Cambridge as the best vaulted ceilings, but Sherborne Abbey runs it very, very close.

Lift thine eyes in Sherborne Abbey.

@edithmayhall But, strictly, isn't this Boccaccio's #Iole, rather than ancient #Omphale?

Elisabetta Sirani (self-portrait left) was born in Bologna on 8 January 1638. I am mystified by the fish and lobster in her portrait of Omphale, Queen of Lydia, who subdued Heracles, forced him to wear women's clothes and do the weaving. Any Art Historians who can enlighten me?

@edithmayhall Thanks for highlighting #Sirani, one of my favs. A student 2 yrs ago did a brilliant ug Diss on her and 17th century proto-feminist literature. She features in Dialogues with Antiquity lectures this term, plus Fontana, Gentileschi & other female makers of the classical tradition.

@edithmayhall Yes, I agree with @Hosmeriana. Jawbone links to Samson, but lion not donkey to lion. What makes it look lobsterish is the gruesome blood, to show no messing with her. All and more in Karl Enenkel's new book, Theatre of Sexual Attraction, brill.com/display/title/….

Congratulations to Nebo Todorovic @buondibuondi1 on receiving the prize in classical reception @Durham_DCCR

A brilliant piece here by @ElizMarlowe, which every visitor to a museum of antiquities should read before they go.

@edithmayhall In view of the previous post, I trust you had a snorkel. Or perhaps were you waiting until #happyworldsnorkelingday was finished?

Simple joys after six months' very hard work. Jesus Green lido, Cambridge. Delirious with love of life and appreciation of my good fortune

Oh to be in Rome this Sunday the 4th for free admission to civic museums and archaeological sites! museiincomuneroma.it/it/track/click…. If you are lucky enough to be there, take advantage! Or if not, RT for those who might be.

Ben Stokes winds up to hit his opposite number for 6 to crush West Indies 3-0 in 2.5 days, and a surprising number of people seem happy to see a test series rapidly over #engwi

@edithmayhall Sadly not a hammock as we understand it: he had boards taken out of the decking and ropes tied across the gap over which bedding was laid - and this probably later myth is meant to show what a big softy he was.

On #WorldHammockDay, Plutarch, Life of Alcibiades 16: "He would have the decks of his triremes cut away that he might sleep more softly, his bedding being slung on cords rather than spread on the hard planks.” I can't find a classical pic, so here's one in the Luttrell Psalter

Watching England's new star Harry Brook complete 100 @trentbrid

@CSCA_Cambridge @SoaneMuseum NO.

Is there anything more exciting than these doors @SoaneMuseum ?