The Blake Society
@blakesociety.bsky.social
The Blake Society celebrates the life and work of William Blake (1757-1827) poet, artist & visionary. We hold regular meetings (online and in real locations), organise Blakean events and publish our journal, VALA.
https://blakesociety.org
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Using Blake - Christopher Bucklow - The Blake Society
Artist and writer, Christopher Bucklow, discusses Blake’s exploration of the human psyche.
blakesociety.org
Using Blake - Next Wednesday 19 November, 7:30 PM on Zoom. Looking forward immensely to welcoming artist and writer Christopher Bucklow, who will talk to us about Blake’s exploration of the human psyche.
All welcome, more info and free registration at blakesociety.org/product/usin...
All welcome, more info and free registration at blakesociety.org/product/usin...
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Happy birthday, William Blake 🌠
"For every thing that lives is Holy"
(The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)
"For every thing that lives is Holy"
(The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)
November 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Happy birthday, William Blake 🌠
"For every thing that lives is Holy"
(The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)
"For every thing that lives is Holy"
(The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)
Zoom turned out to be good for us once we found our feet. We've never quite had an event like this since though. Time for Blakety Blake to return? 😬
#WilliamBlake #BlakeOff #BlakeFriday
#WilliamBlake #BlakeOff #BlakeFriday
Almost forgot about my most successful 'collaboration' with #WilliamBlake. This was the intro to a Blake quiz on zoom in 2020, when we were trying to figure out how to keep the @blakesociety.bsky.social going during Covid.
#BlakeOff #BlakeFriday
#BlakeOff #BlakeFriday
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Zoom turned out to be good for us once we found our feet. We've never quite had an event like this since though. Time for Blakety Blake to return? 😬
#WilliamBlake #BlakeOff #BlakeFriday
#WilliamBlake #BlakeOff #BlakeFriday
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More artwork inspired by #WilliamBlake. Collaborations with my then 2-year old daughter from 2020. #BlakeOff #BlakeFriday
November 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
More artwork inspired by #WilliamBlake. Collaborations with my then 2-year old daughter from 2020. #BlakeOff #BlakeFriday
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More Blake stuff for #WilliamBlake 's birthday. From 2007-2009 I did a weekly cartoon for Time Out London called William Blake, Taxi Driver, in which Blake was reincarnated as a visionary London cabbie. The full-page one was to celebrate his 250th birthday in 2007! #Blakeoff #Blakefriday
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
More Blake stuff for #WilliamBlake 's birthday. From 2007-2009 I did a weekly cartoon for Time Out London called William Blake, Taxi Driver, in which Blake was reincarnated as a visionary London cabbie. The full-page one was to celebrate his 250th birthday in 2007! #Blakeoff #Blakefriday
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"Beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, black but shining; round it were fiery tracks on which revolv'd vast spiders, crawling after their prey, which flew, or rather swum, in the infinite deep."
Happy birthday William Blake, poet, visionary...science fiction writer.
Happy birthday William Blake, poet, visionary...science fiction writer.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
"Beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, black but shining; round it were fiery tracks on which revolv'd vast spiders, crawling after their prey, which flew, or rather swum, in the infinite deep."
Happy birthday William Blake, poet, visionary...science fiction writer.
Happy birthday William Blake, poet, visionary...science fiction writer.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO WILLIAM BLAKE
🌟Share with us your favourite images, poems - and your own work too!🌟
November 28th 1757
Here’s The Ghost of a Flea
c.1819–20, kept by Tate Britain.
#WilliamBlake #BlakeOff #Blakefriday
🌟Share with us your favourite images, poems - and your own work too!🌟
November 28th 1757
Here’s The Ghost of a Flea
c.1819–20, kept by Tate Britain.
#WilliamBlake #BlakeOff #Blakefriday
November 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO WILLIAM BLAKE
🌟Share with us your favourite images, poems - and your own work too!🌟
November 28th 1757
Here’s The Ghost of a Flea
c.1819–20, kept by Tate Britain.
#WilliamBlake #BlakeOff #Blakefriday
🌟Share with us your favourite images, poems - and your own work too!🌟
November 28th 1757
Here’s The Ghost of a Flea
c.1819–20, kept by Tate Britain.
#WilliamBlake #BlakeOff #Blakefriday
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Songs of Defiance (for William Blake)
YouTube video by K. A. Laity
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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A couple of favourite images for Blake’s birthday! ‘The Sun at His Eastern Gate’ and ‘When the Morning Stars Sang Together’, discussed in my, ‘The Book of Angels: Seen and Unseen’ (Camb. Scholars Pub., 2019, reissued in paperback 2024).
@blakesociety.bsky.social #BlakeFriday #BlakeSociety
@blakesociety.bsky.social #BlakeFriday #BlakeSociety
November 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
A couple of favourite images for Blake’s birthday! ‘The Sun at His Eastern Gate’ and ‘When the Morning Stars Sang Together’, discussed in my, ‘The Book of Angels: Seen and Unseen’ (Camb. Scholars Pub., 2019, reissued in paperback 2024).
@blakesociety.bsky.social #BlakeFriday #BlakeSociety
@blakesociety.bsky.social #BlakeFriday #BlakeSociety
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I was there at the unveiling of Lida Cardoza’s gravestone for Blake at Bunhill Fields in 2018 & took this shot:
I GIVE you the end of a golden string;
Only wind it into a ball,
It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate,
Built in Jerusalem’s wall…
@blakesociety.bsky.social #BlakeFriday #BlakeSociety
I GIVE you the end of a golden string;
Only wind it into a ball,
It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate,
Built in Jerusalem’s wall…
@blakesociety.bsky.social #BlakeFriday #BlakeSociety
November 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I was there at the unveiling of Lida Cardoza’s gravestone for Blake at Bunhill Fields in 2018 & took this shot:
I GIVE you the end of a golden string;
Only wind it into a ball,
It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate,
Built in Jerusalem’s wall…
@blakesociety.bsky.social #BlakeFriday #BlakeSociety
I GIVE you the end of a golden string;
Only wind it into a ball,
It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate,
Built in Jerusalem’s wall…
@blakesociety.bsky.social #BlakeFriday #BlakeSociety
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#OTD1757 #WilliamBlake 💖 #LestWeForget
@tomshakespeare.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk @lindseyhilsum.bsky.social @blakesociety.bsky.social
🌟To see the world in a grain of sand/And a heaven in a wild flower/Hold infinity in the palm of your hand/And eternity in an hour🌟 #AuguriesOfInnocence
@tomshakespeare.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk @lindseyhilsum.bsky.social @blakesociety.bsky.social
🌟To see the world in a grain of sand/And a heaven in a wild flower/Hold infinity in the palm of your hand/And eternity in an hour🌟 #AuguriesOfInnocence
Beatrice arriving on her chariot, with four evangelists (natch!), to have a little word with Dante. As envisioned in 1824 by William Blake, whose birthday is today.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
#OTD1757 #WilliamBlake 💖 #LestWeForget
@tomshakespeare.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk @lindseyhilsum.bsky.social @blakesociety.bsky.social
🌟To see the world in a grain of sand/And a heaven in a wild flower/Hold infinity in the palm of your hand/And eternity in an hour🌟 #AuguriesOfInnocence
@tomshakespeare.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk @lindseyhilsum.bsky.social @blakesociety.bsky.social
🌟To see the world in a grain of sand/And a heaven in a wild flower/Hold infinity in the palm of your hand/And eternity in an hour🌟 #AuguriesOfInnocence
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Practicing the fantastic idea of Mark Vernon @askwilliamblake.bsky.social , and preparing for #blakefriday !
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Practicing the fantastic idea of Mark Vernon @askwilliamblake.bsky.social , and preparing for #blakefriday !
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Don't forget #BlakeFriday this week!
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Don't forget #BlakeFriday this week!
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In an anti-consumerist spirit, I like to think of today as #BlakeFriday ... a chance to share art and symbolism rather than marketing. The only rule is to post #WilliamBlake images today. Feel free to join ... #art #blake
Here's "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with Sun", c. 1805.
Here's "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with Sun", c. 1805.
November 29, 2024 at 9:14 AM
In an anti-consumerist spirit, I like to think of today as #BlakeFriday ... a chance to share art and symbolism rather than marketing. The only rule is to post #WilliamBlake images today. Feel free to join ... #art #blake
Here's "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with Sun", c. 1805.
Here's "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with Sun", c. 1805.
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Born on this day, 28th November 1757, #BlakeFriday, #blackfriday
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Born on this day, 28th November 1757, #BlakeFriday, #blackfriday
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIAM BLAKE!
Early scenes from LOS, my WIP graphic novel about Blake.
⚡️subscribe to read and support at loshighway.substack.com ⚡️
#williamblake #blakeoff #blakesociety #blakefriday #comic #graphicnovel #nationalillustrationday
Early scenes from LOS, my WIP graphic novel about Blake.
⚡️subscribe to read and support at loshighway.substack.com ⚡️
#williamblake #blakeoff #blakesociety #blakefriday #comic #graphicnovel #nationalillustrationday
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIAM BLAKE!
Early scenes from LOS, my WIP graphic novel about Blake.
⚡️subscribe to read and support at loshighway.substack.com ⚡️
#williamblake #blakeoff #blakesociety #blakefriday #comic #graphicnovel #nationalillustrationday
Early scenes from LOS, my WIP graphic novel about Blake.
⚡️subscribe to read and support at loshighway.substack.com ⚡️
#williamblake #blakeoff #blakesociety #blakefriday #comic #graphicnovel #nationalillustrationday
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happy birthday, William Blake
November 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
happy birthday, William Blake
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✨ Born today in 1757, William Blake shaped Alasdair Gray’s vision. From Lanark to his art, Gray echoed Blake’s fusion of word and image — even reimagining Infant Joy as his Brain Baby, a symbol of life’s cycle. ✨
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
✨ Born today in 1757, William Blake shaped Alasdair Gray’s vision. From Lanark to his art, Gray echoed Blake’s fusion of word and image — even reimagining Infant Joy as his Brain Baby, a symbol of life’s cycle. ✨
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Happy Birthday to William Blake, who knows where the wild things are...
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Happy Birthday to William Blake, who knows where the wild things are...
RIP Jack Shepherd, who wrote the great play ‘In Lambeth’, an imagined conversation between Thomas Paine, Catherine and William Blake, played in the TV version by our President, Mark Rylance
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Jack Shepherd obituary
Versatile actor, director and playwright who found television fame in the detective series Wycliffe
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
RIP Jack Shepherd, who wrote the great play ‘In Lambeth’, an imagined conversation between Thomas Paine, Catherine and William Blake, played in the TV version by our President, Mark Rylance
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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New Blake bollocks up on my substack, in which I consider Blake’s weirdest and gnarliest creation, The Ghost of a Flea
open.substack.com/pub/loshighw...
open.substack.com/pub/loshighw...
Flea Circus
The Ghost a Flea is a fascinatingly weird creation, odd even by the standards of Blake’s imagination. The intense, tiny painting broods menacingly in the collection of Tate Britain.
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
New Blake bollocks up on my substack, in which I consider Blake’s weirdest and gnarliest creation, The Ghost of a Flea
open.substack.com/pub/loshighw...
open.substack.com/pub/loshighw...
There's still (just) time to register for our talk with Christopher Bucklow tonight. More info and FREE registration below👇
Using Blake - Next Wednesday 19 November, 7:30 PM on Zoom. Looking forward immensely to welcoming artist and writer Christopher Bucklow, who will talk to us about Blake’s exploration of the human psyche.
All welcome, more info and free registration at blakesociety.org/product/usin...
All welcome, more info and free registration at blakesociety.org/product/usin...
Using Blake - Christopher Bucklow - The Blake Society
Artist and writer, Christopher Bucklow, discusses Blake’s exploration of the human psyche.
blakesociety.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
There's still (just) time to register for our talk with Christopher Bucklow tonight. More info and FREE registration below👇
Using Blake - Next Wednesday 19 November, 7:30 PM on Zoom. Looking forward immensely to welcoming artist and writer Christopher Bucklow, who will talk to us about Blake’s exploration of the human psyche.
All welcome, more info and free registration at blakesociety.org/product/usin...
All welcome, more info and free registration at blakesociety.org/product/usin...
Using Blake - Christopher Bucklow - The Blake Society
Artist and writer, Christopher Bucklow, discusses Blake’s exploration of the human psyche.
blakesociety.org
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Using Blake - Next Wednesday 19 November, 7:30 PM on Zoom. Looking forward immensely to welcoming artist and writer Christopher Bucklow, who will talk to us about Blake’s exploration of the human psyche.
All welcome, more info and free registration at blakesociety.org/product/usin...
All welcome, more info and free registration at blakesociety.org/product/usin...
Nice piece on our patron, Mike Westbrook, in today's Guardian 😊 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘We got hate mail after the Proms!’ The towering visions of UK jazz legend Mike Westbrook
Having worked alongside everyone from Laurence Olivier to a French circus, the 89-year-old is still composing, learning church bells, and using AI to resurrect a lost epic
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Nice piece on our patron, Mike Westbrook, in today's Guardian 😊 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...