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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · 18d

Join me on Monday 20 Oct, 7pm, for an #onlinetalk all about #womensart #womenscraft in the #Cotswolds - we'll be looking at the women of the #ArtsandCrafts Movement who settled here - my last post showed some of the women, here's some of the work! Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1379199164...

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Oct 5

1 week 4 talks! #ArtsandCrafts in the #Cotswolds for the Arts Society Ross-on-Wye; A&C churches with a #Cheltenham swing for the U3A; then part 3 of my talks in Worcestershire & last but NOT least, the friendship of #WilliamMorris& #EBJ
Museum in the Park, #Stroud: www.kirstyhartsiotis.com/events

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Jun 7

It might be wet but the dancing and the stories never stop! Come down to the @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social for more this with #morrisdancing and #storytelling for #Wiltshire Day!

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Apr 8

Early morning rambles in Salisbury, #Wiltshire, and reflected glory for #TraceryTuesday in the cathedral cloister...

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Apr 7

These two tots aren't cosying up with teddies - they've got plush (they must be plushies, right? skulls to cuddle. They're slumbering away at North Cerney, #Gloucestershire for #MementoMoriMonday

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Apr 6

Love this tiny depiction of St Anne teaching the Virgin Mary to read in Rendcomb, #Gloucestershire, I presume one of the Flemish panels incorporated into the nave windows by Baillie in the 1850s #StainedGlassSunday, always loved this evidence of women's education by women.

St Anne, seated, with book on her lap, with little girl Virgin Mary tracing out words in the book with a stylus where Anne is pointing. Stained glass panel in grisaille and silver stain, surrounded by a red border.

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Apr 6

Oh, yes, how i wish that was all still there

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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · Apr 3

The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social is staging a #demonstration outside #Meta's offices at Granary Square, King's Cross today at 1.30pm to protest against their #illegal #pirating of our work.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’

Writers will gather at the Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the LibGen database to train its AI models

www.theguardian.com

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Apr 3

Thank you! Gosh! Here's a nice heraldic lion in thanks!

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Apr 3

A domestic scene at Stanton Harcourt, #Oxfordshire, for #AdoorableThursday, the watering can quietly awaits its duties as Spring gets into gear by this soft C12th door - note the marks scratched on the right - a mass dial? Or?

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Mar 22

Blockley, #Gloucestershire, on a grey day for #SteepleSaturday, with its C18th tower by Thomas or Edward Woodward of Chipping Campden - all plain classicism in the first three stages, then suddenly gothic frou frou appears on the top stage!

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Mar 20

Moody #AdoorableThursday from St Andrew, #Plymouth, #Devon, a C15th church much damaged in #WW2, but plenty of the medieval surviving...

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Mar 19

Yes - though this is all I've seen. Aidan McRae Thomson has done a flickr album of their work, though: www.flickr.com/photos/amtho...

Elsie Whitford & Nora Yoxall Stained Glass

Stained glass by the late Arts & Crafts Birmingham-trained artists Elsie Whitford & Nora Yoxall who were latterly based at Blockley, Gloucestershire.

www.flickr.com

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Mar 19

Two gorgeous #WindowsOnWednesday by Nora Yoxall and Elsie Whitford, 1974, at Blockley, #Gloucestershire, made when the artists were 82 and 77 respectively. Glorious celebration of the local scene! Don't miss them - they're in the porch.

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Mar 16

Well, #gardenescapes - managed four on today's #Stroud walk - marigold, grape hyacinth, snowflake and, apparently, scilla forbesii - as well as some bangingly pink polyanthus in the woods #wildflowerhour

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Mar 16

For #StainedGlassSunday, just one of the John Piper delights I saw in St Andrew, #Plymouth, #Devon, on Thursday - a thrill. 'Resurgam' was the motto of the church after the #WW2 bombing, and Piper made 5 windows with Patrick Reyntiens from 1958 - this is the west, a crucifixion.

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Mar 11

For #TombTuesday and #TraceryTuesday, the 1st tomb of William Canynges, d. 1474, in St Mary Redcliffe, #Bristol. The city merchant has two, this one in his mayoral robes, the other next door, with him as as a priest, as he was ordained after his wife's death.

Highly coloured 15th tomb showing William Canynges in his mayoral robes and his wife Joan beside him.

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Mar 9

For #Wildflowerhour #YellowFlowers we have coltsfoot by the canal in #Stroud, and gorse, primrose, lesser celandine on @nationaltrust Shortwood. Greater celandine in bud in town, but no flowers yet!

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Mar 9

Fabulous #Hereford #SundayStonework from the museum @HerefordMuseums building by F R Kempson, 1874, and carved by Robert and William Clarke, of course! Plenty here for heron, squirrel, bat and croc fanciers!

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Mar 8

St Matthew's, Ebley, #Stroud, for #SteepleSaturday, built by Charles Baker of Painswick, 1835-7 in austere early gothic style. You have no clue about the free gothic, slightly #ArtsandCrafts east end by Walter Planck behind it!

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Mar 7

Just setting up for my next #sellout talk @museuminthepark, #Stroud, on a fave topic - especially so close to #InternationalWomensDay2025 - women in the #ArtsandCrafts in the #Cotswolds! Such a lovely museum, team and audience with which to work!

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Mar 7

Drama in Ebley, #Stroud, for #FontsOnFriday! Finally got into St Matthew's, which I'd only seen by peering through that west door. Here's the view from the other side. Font by Walter Planck, subtly free gothic, 1895, in the 1830s tower, with window by Belham & Co., also 1895.

Victorian font set in a tower recess with an arched door with plain glass behind it and a stained glass window showing the crucifixion above it.

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Mar 6

A perfect little #AdoorableThursday from the chancel of the Lord Mayor's Chapel, #Bristol, frothingly foliate ogee, about 1500 - tho' restored? #AnytimeAngels, #Victorian (I assume) door, and a glorious floral spray announcing spring and summer to come. Swoons!

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Mar 3

*Last chance* to book tickets for tonight's #onlinetalk, Modern #stainedglass in the #Cotswolds (Mon 3 Mar, 7pm). More #Spring #lambs, this time from Crudwell, #Wiltshire, by Colin Stokes for the Millennium: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/9277643772...

stained glass ewe with lamb, surrounded by ears of wheat, conkers and bindweed.

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · Mar 2

Wonderful! Not seen one yet, am looking forward to my first.

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