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The 14th-century Easter Sepulchre in St Patrick’s Church, Patrington, East Yorkshire, is a rare survival of late medieval devotion. Used during Holy Week, it symbolised Christ’s burial, housing a crucifix and consecrated host from Good Friday until Easter morning, when the

The Architect Who Saw the Future: Liverpool's Peter Ellis Liverpool is home to a building that changed the world, yet thousands of people walk right past it every day. In 1864, Scouse architect Peter Ellis designed Oriel Chambers on Water Street. It was so radical, with its protruding glass "oriel" windows that critics at the time called it a "vast abortion" and an "agglomeration of protruding plate glass bubbles". Bruised by the reviews but not beaten, Ellis went on to design 16 Cook Street (pictured) in 1866. It would be his second and final architectural masterpiece. Long before the skyscrapers of New York and Chicago, Ellis was using a cast-iron frame and glass curtain walls to flood offices with natural light. Check out the photo of the glazed spiral staircase. It’s cantilevered from the floor and looks like it belongs in the 21st century, not the mid-19th. Legend has it that John Wellborn Root (the father of the Chicago skyscraper) saw Ellis’s work while in Liverpool and took those revolutionary ideas back to the States. Peter Ellis was so discouraged by the architectural community's rejection of Oriel Chambers and Cook Street that he gave up architecture entirely and returned to civil engineering. He died never knowing he had designed the blueprint for the modern world. Next time you're in the city centre, take a moment to look up at 16 Cook Street. You’re looking at the birth of the skyscraper.

London is a rare word that’s barely changed in over a thousand years. In Old English it was Lunden, pronounced [ˈlʊn.dɛn], with the same vowel as “book” has today. If you went back in time to Anglo-Saxon London, someone might clock you as a traveler and say “Wilcuma to Lundene!” [ˈwilˌkʊ.mɑ toː ˈlʊn.dɛ.nɛ]

The days are long but the years are short! Being a parent, I'm really aware of how fast life goes & that one day, Austin will likely decide that he wants to go off & find his own way, which is fine, but I reckon we've got a couple more years of waving at trains together yet 😊

Norway, by Eric Ravilious, 1940. Ravilious travelled to Norway with the Royal Navy as an official war artist during the ill-fated operations there in April 1940. Original artwork in the collection of @LaingArtGallery in Newcastle.

Bertie Wooster: Tell me Jeeves, were you always like this, or did it come on suddenly? Jeeves: Sir? BW: The brain, the gray matter. Were you an outstandingly brilliant child? Jeeves: My mother thought me intelligent, sir BW: Well, cant go by that. My mother thought me intelligent

I’ve been told that every potter has a little kiln god, a tiny guardian who sits proudly on top of the kiln, watching over the precious work inside warding off cracks, explosions, and all the mysterious chaos. Well… I’ve finally joined the tradition. Meet my slightly wonky, winged little companion. Part dog, part angel, part “please don’t let this firing go horribly wrong.” Here’s hoping he brings a bit of luck (and fewer kiln disasters) Do you have a kiln god? Or is it just blind optimism and a strong cup of tea? @denbypottery @Middleport_Pot @PotteryThrow #potterythrowdown #pottery

We've all done it......

A reminder to all my friends across the UK that British Summer Time starts tonight at 1am so don’t forget to put your clocks forward an hour and get your snow shovels ready!

What I can do best (and what I love) is to show you Ukraine beyond the headlines of the war. Take a look at this fireplace. Made of authentic tiles from the late 19th-early 20th century. They were produced at a factory in Kyiv.

Still some 1940's prefab houses left in the country.I always take photos of them as I know they won't be around for much longer.

I came across this ruin on the moors. A hushed and beautiful place and somehow poignant to see the stones weep ferns and the crooked beam shouldering the weight of birdsong and cold winds.

@KingBobIIV oh yes

There's a lot to unpack here...

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Research. Respect. Respond. I could have been blind in a few days. The NHS saved me. Love them. Love every moment you have. See you in Amsterdam xxxx

@leefer3 😆

Interior with a woman at a virginal. Emanuel de Witte, 1665-1670 #DutchGoldenAge

View of Haarlem Gerrit Berckheyde, 1671