g.j.hilton
@hltn.bsky.social
historian of renaissance & em scenography: the material, manufacturers & manufacturing of spectacle - machines, entries, feasts, gardens. (burgundy, you're my favorite.)
(2025) msc bweh, edinburgh medical school
whitby, n.yorks because: goth
(2025) msc bweh, edinburgh medical school
whitby, n.yorks because: goth
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+++ It's beginning to look a lot like Krampus! This coming weekend, the 5th-7th Dec 2025, you can see the annual Whitby Krampus Run, organised by those very naughty but nice folks at Decadent Drawing +++
#krampus #krampusrun #whitby #northyorkshire #yorkshire #folklore #folkhorror #whitbykrampusrun
#krampus #krampusrun #whitby #northyorkshire #yorkshire #folklore #folkhorror #whitbykrampusrun
November 30, 2025 at 6:45 AM
+++ It's beginning to look a lot like Krampus! This coming weekend, the 5th-7th Dec 2025, you can see the annual Whitby Krampus Run, organised by those very naughty but nice folks at Decadent Drawing +++
#krampus #krampusrun #whitby #northyorkshire #yorkshire #folklore #folkhorror #whitbykrampusrun
#krampus #krampusrun #whitby #northyorkshire #yorkshire #folklore #folkhorror #whitbykrampusrun
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This is powerful.
An Autobiographical Essay by Caroline Walker Bynum.
'That very summer, with unpacked boxes all around me, I wrote the article that became the title essay of Jesus as Mother and I filed papers to adopt a child as a single parent.'
www.ias.edu/sites/defaul...
An Autobiographical Essay by Caroline Walker Bynum.
'That very summer, with unpacked boxes all around me, I wrote the article that became the title essay of Jesus as Mother and I filed papers to adopt a child as a single parent.'
www.ias.edu/sites/defaul...
November 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
This is powerful.
An Autobiographical Essay by Caroline Walker Bynum.
'That very summer, with unpacked boxes all around me, I wrote the article that became the title essay of Jesus as Mother and I filed papers to adopt a child as a single parent.'
www.ias.edu/sites/defaul...
An Autobiographical Essay by Caroline Walker Bynum.
'That very summer, with unpacked boxes all around me, I wrote the article that became the title essay of Jesus as Mother and I filed papers to adopt a child as a single parent.'
www.ias.edu/sites/defaul...
An entire generation raised on Time Team breathlessly await to tomorrow's followup story in which Stuart says it's a septic tank and the real feature is a mile down the road.
Archaeologists make‘extraordinary discovery’ in Orkney - but won’t say what it is. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Extraordinary discovery' at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar Neolithic site
Archaeologists are to resume digging at the site after 3D radar technology uncovered a mystery find.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
An entire generation raised on Time Team breathlessly await to tomorrow's followup story in which Stuart says it's a septic tank and the real feature is a mile down the road.
👀 Gritti, J., (2024) "Ceremonies Performed in Public Spaces: Ephemeral Architecture and Urban Itineraries in Sforza Milan", Architectural Histories 11(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/ah....
Gritti - also of milanosforzesca.it - pretty much single handedly reclaiming Sforza Milan from undeserved neglect.
Gritti - also of milanosforzesca.it - pretty much single handedly reclaiming Sforza Milan from undeserved neglect.
November 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
👀 Gritti, J., (2024) "Ceremonies Performed in Public Spaces: Ephemeral Architecture and Urban Itineraries in Sforza Milan", Architectural Histories 11(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/ah....
Gritti - also of milanosforzesca.it - pretty much single handedly reclaiming Sforza Milan from undeserved neglect.
Gritti - also of milanosforzesca.it - pretty much single handedly reclaiming Sforza Milan from undeserved neglect.
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Met Theater Kwast richt ik me vooral op Nederlands Renaissance- en baroktheater, zoals Vondels Gijsbreght van Aemstel, die we sinds 2018 iedere nieuwjaarsweek spelen op de plek waar het in 1638 in première ging. Kester Freriks beschreef het treffend @theaterkrant www.theaterkrant.nl/recensie/gij...
Recensie Gijsbreght van Aemstel door Theater Kwast – Theaterkrant
Recensie: Theater Kwast speelt de highlights van Vondels ‘Gijsbreght van Aemstel’ met fijne praalzucht.
www.theaterkrant.nl
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Met Theater Kwast richt ik me vooral op Nederlands Renaissance- en baroktheater, zoals Vondels Gijsbreght van Aemstel, die we sinds 2018 iedere nieuwjaarsweek spelen op de plek waar het in 1638 in première ging. Kester Freriks beschreef het treffend @theaterkrant www.theaterkrant.nl/recensie/gij...
Final MSc essay of term submitted a week early. Alea iacta etc. Could have used that week to revise but needed to de-monkey my back.
In shades of undergraduate days it's a first draft written overnight in 12 hrs. Then again when you've done the reading & organised your argument why bugger about?
In shades of undergraduate days it's a first draft written overnight in 12 hrs. Then again when you've done the reading & organised your argument why bugger about?
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Final MSc essay of term submitted a week early. Alea iacta etc. Could have used that week to revise but needed to de-monkey my back.
In shades of undergraduate days it's a first draft written overnight in 12 hrs. Then again when you've done the reading & organised your argument why bugger about?
In shades of undergraduate days it's a first draft written overnight in 12 hrs. Then again when you've done the reading & organised your argument why bugger about?
What I wouldn't give for one more learned FaceTime seminar about some obscure female silversmith of the early c19th.
In the background: his FGA and NAG: Smart guy. Not bad for a lad from Rodney St. And some toy monkeys from Gibraltar: sweet guy too.
Miss you, JD ❤️
In the background: his FGA and NAG: Smart guy. Not bad for a lad from Rodney St. And some toy monkeys from Gibraltar: sweet guy too.
Miss you, JD ❤️
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
What I wouldn't give for one more learned FaceTime seminar about some obscure female silversmith of the early c19th.
In the background: his FGA and NAG: Smart guy. Not bad for a lad from Rodney St. And some toy monkeys from Gibraltar: sweet guy too.
Miss you, JD ❤️
In the background: his FGA and NAG: Smart guy. Not bad for a lad from Rodney St. And some toy monkeys from Gibraltar: sweet guy too.
Miss you, JD ❤️
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This image is part of a detailed account of King Edward VI’s procession in 1547 from the Tower of London to the Palace of Westminster on the day before his coronation. Unique to this scene is its recording of the City, especially Cheapside with its goldsmiths’ shops.
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This image is part of a detailed account of King Edward VI’s procession in 1547 from the Tower of London to the Palace of Westminster on the day before his coronation. Unique to this scene is its recording of the City, especially Cheapside with its goldsmiths’ shops.
I'm not any kind of Italianist but surely 'gl'immascherati' / 'li ma(scher)ati' ought to be translated 'masquers' (ie and not 'masks')?
Leonardo. The Literary Works of Leonardo Da Vinci: Compiled and Edited from the Original Manuscripts. Edited by Jean Paul Richter. Phaidon, 1970. Vol II § 748A
Leonardo. The Literary Works of Leonardo Da Vinci: Compiled and Edited from the Original Manuscripts. Edited by Jean Paul Richter. Phaidon, 1970. Vol II § 748A
November 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I'm not any kind of Italianist but surely 'gl'immascherati' / 'li ma(scher)ati' ought to be translated 'masquers' (ie and not 'masks')?
Leonardo. The Literary Works of Leonardo Da Vinci: Compiled and Edited from the Original Manuscripts. Edited by Jean Paul Richter. Phaidon, 1970. Vol II § 748A
Leonardo. The Literary Works of Leonardo Da Vinci: Compiled and Edited from the Original Manuscripts. Edited by Jean Paul Richter. Phaidon, 1970. Vol II § 748A
✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for apprentice Early Modern palaeographers
gjhilton.github.io
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Curse you, autocorrect, why do you not understand 'palaeography'? Make a damn fool of me go right ahead!
Sorry, folks no dinosaurs.
Sorry, folks no dinosaurs.
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Curse you, autocorrect, why do you not understand 'palaeography'? Make a damn fool of me go right ahead!
Sorry, folks no dinosaurs.
Sorry, folks no dinosaurs.
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✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeontology
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeontology
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeontology
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeontology
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
The reference is Irving Penn's portrait of Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen & his wife, Dagmar.
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 AM
The reference is Irving Penn's portrait of Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen & his wife, Dagmar.
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeontology
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeontology
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeontology
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeontology
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
"Of all the sets and all the set pieces - a Frankenstein movie I think the key piece is the lab. That's the one obligatory scene." - @realgdt.bsky.social
Set tour: m.youtube.com/watch?v=JRiL...
(Also, the set I wanted so much to design it's how I furnished the bottom floor of my house…)
Set tour: m.youtube.com/watch?v=JRiL...
(Also, the set I wanted so much to design it's
November 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
"Of all the sets and all the set pieces - a Frankenstein movie I think the key piece is the lab. That's the one obligatory scene." - @realgdt.bsky.social
Set tour: m.youtube.com/watch?v=JRiL...
(Also, the set I wanted so much to design it's how I furnished the bottom floor of my house…)
Set tour: m.youtube.com/watch?v=JRiL...
(Also, the set I wanted so much to design it's
Instagram is an absolute close stool of a website but this post from the legendary Ivan Day on the serving of early modern pies is totally essential
www.instagram.com/p/DQxpkIpDIG8/
(All images are his and are fully described in his post - read more there!)
www.instagram.com/p/DQxpkIpDIG8/
(All images are his and are fully described in his post - read more there!)
November 8, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Instagram is an absolute close stool of a website but this post from the legendary Ivan Day on the serving of early modern pies is totally essential
www.instagram.com/p/DQxpkIpDIG8/
(All images are his and are fully described in his post - read more there!)
www.instagram.com/p/DQxpkIpDIG8/
(All images are his and are fully described in his post - read more there!)
Kate Hawley on gothtuming @realgdt.bsky.social Frankenstein.
www.phantasmag.com/articles/gui...
Irresistible the way this references Vera West's costume for the 1935 Bride - those sleeves!
www.phantasmag.com/articles/gui...
Irresistible the way this references Vera West's costume for the 1935 Bride - those sleeves!
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Kate Hawley on gothtuming @realgdt.bsky.social Frankenstein.
www.phantasmag.com/articles/gui...
Irresistible the way this references Vera West's costume for the 1935 Bride - those sleeves!
www.phantasmag.com/articles/gui...
Irresistible the way this references Vera West's costume for the 1935 Bride - those sleeves!
Pair of truly gorgeous Austin Osman Spare watercolours with Bellmans next month. Would part with a kidney in a heartbeat to finance, heck both kidneys if you insist.
The £1000 estimate is the living definition of a put up 'come by me' job unfortunately.
www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
The £1000 estimate is the living definition of a put up 'come by me' job unfortunately.
www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
November 1, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Pair of truly gorgeous Austin Osman Spare watercolours with Bellmans next month. Would part with a kidney in a heartbeat to finance, heck both kidneys if you insist.
The £1000 estimate is the living definition of a put up 'come by me' job unfortunately.
www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
The £1000 estimate is the living definition of a put up 'come by me' job unfortunately.
www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
1586. George French of Kingsbridge, Devon had the model Elizabethan garden: formal knot garden, parterres, arbour... BIG SURROUNDING WALL.
(Pretty much mouthwatering) detail from a map with Forum Auctions next month.
www.forumauctions.co.uk/157131/Devon...
(Pretty much mouthwatering) detail from a map with Forum Auctions next month.
www.forumauctions.co.uk/157131/Devon...
October 31, 2025 at 4:11 AM
1586. George French of Kingsbridge, Devon had the model Elizabethan garden: formal knot garden, parterres, arbour... BIG SURROUNDING WALL.
(Pretty much mouthwatering) detail from a map with Forum Auctions next month.
www.forumauctions.co.uk/157131/Devon...
(Pretty much mouthwatering) detail from a map with Forum Auctions next month.
www.forumauctions.co.uk/157131/Devon...
As far as I can tell this hasn't been noticed until I showed my amazing mum - who's spent 2 years working with the Frank Meadow Sutcliffe archive at #Whitby Museum - George du Maurier's Whitby Vikings cartoon from Punch. The FMS picture is "c1885", the cartoon 1881 but that "circa" could be critical
October 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
As far as I can tell this hasn't been noticed until I showed my amazing mum - who's spent 2 years working with the Frank Meadow Sutcliffe archive at #Whitby Museum - George du Maurier's Whitby Vikings cartoon from Punch. The FMS picture is "c1885", the cartoon 1881 but that "circa" could be critical
Extracurricular obsession with (a) blue food (b) imaginary flavours continues to be a hurdle to e.g. sleep, reintegration into polite society etc.
This via Mr Tee www.instagram.com/mrtee_offici...
This via Mr Tee www.instagram.com/mrtee_offici...
October 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Extracurricular obsession with (a) blue food (b) imaginary flavours continues to be a hurdle to e.g. sleep, reintegration into polite society etc.
This via Mr Tee www.instagram.com/mrtee_offici...
This via Mr Tee www.instagram.com/mrtee_offici...
[Terry Thomas voice] Well hel-lo.
October 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
[Terry Thomas voice] Well hel-lo.
In which a throwaway trailing modifier phrase opens up so many more questions than it resolves...
Cressy, David. “Death and the Social Order: The Funerary Preferences of Elizabethan Gentlemen.” Continuity and Change 5, no. 1 (1990): 99–119. doi.org/10.1017/S026....
Cressy, David. “Death and the Social Order: The Funerary Preferences of Elizabethan Gentlemen.” Continuity and Change 5, no. 1 (1990): 99–119. doi.org/10.1017/S026....
October 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
In which a throwaway trailing modifier phrase opens up so many more questions than it resolves...
Cressy, David. “Death and the Social Order: The Funerary Preferences of Elizabethan Gentlemen.” Continuity and Change 5, no. 1 (1990): 99–119. doi.org/10.1017/S026....
Cressy, David. “Death and the Social Order: The Funerary Preferences of Elizabethan Gentlemen.” Continuity and Change 5, no. 1 (1990): 99–119. doi.org/10.1017/S026....
Another day, another post shamelessly fanboying Tamara Deverell, production designer of @realgdt.bsky.social's Frankenstein:
Deverell dumped some juicy reference imagery on Instagram last week - the cropping / reframing she chose lets you follow her eye at work
🧵
www.instagram.com/p/DPqPKrajUGh
Deverell dumped some juicy reference imagery on Instagram last week - the cropping / reframing she chose lets you follow her eye at work
🧵
www.instagram.com/p/DPqPKrajUGh
October 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Another day, another post shamelessly fanboying Tamara Deverell, production designer of @realgdt.bsky.social's Frankenstein:
Deverell dumped some juicy reference imagery on Instagram last week - the cropping / reframing she chose lets you follow her eye at work
🧵
www.instagram.com/p/DPqPKrajUGh
Deverell dumped some juicy reference imagery on Instagram last week - the cropping / reframing she chose lets you follow her eye at work
🧵
www.instagram.com/p/DPqPKrajUGh
Problem: You've got a webpage containing an embedded IIIF but what you want is a nice old-fashioned max resolution PNG.
Solution: github.com/gjhilton/Rip...
No warranties, no support. Most of all: people who digitise manuscripts deserve LOVE, not this sort of thing - please don't use for evil.
Solution: github.com/gjhilton/Rip...
No warranties, no support. Most of all: people who digitise manuscripts deserve LOVE, not this sort of thing - please don't use for evil.
GitHub - gjhilton/RippyFish
Contribute to gjhilton/RippyFish development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Problem: You've got a webpage containing an embedded IIIF but what you want is a nice old-fashioned max resolution PNG.
Solution: github.com/gjhilton/Rip...
No warranties, no support. Most of all: people who digitise manuscripts deserve LOVE, not this sort of thing - please don't use for evil.
Solution: github.com/gjhilton/Rip...
No warranties, no support. Most of all: people who digitise manuscripts deserve LOVE, not this sort of thing - please don't use for evil.