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Isabelle Prim
@horatioforever.bsky.social
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Music librarian. Churchcrawling, art, stained glass, Baroque music, manuscripts, ships.
Also #embroidery, mostly cross stitch and blackwork 🪡
Learning Welsh <3 Ych a fi !
Profile picture by glass artist Nancy Sutcliffe + mask by Insta honteuzaikonfu
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Isabelle Prim @horatioforever.bsky.social · Oct 20
Church crawling, a hazardous sport for badass heroes ✨✊✨
St Longinus, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1638. St Peter’s basilica, Vatican city. Photo credit : https://www.flickr.com/photos/allylic/3880254620/
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carnage4life.bsky.social
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”

People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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ragriggsauthor.bsky.social
According to his ledger stone, Robert Poyntz (1349–1439) made the steeple of Iron Acton Church in the early 15th century, although there’s no steeple today.

📷 from 2024 - early 19th century sketch of the stone on display in the church.

#SteepleSaturday
November 29, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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rogerhorton.bsky.social
The church of St Peter & St Paul Ormskirk has both a tower and a spire at the same end of the building, an arrangement unique in England apparently 😲.
#SteepleSaturday
November 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
BOOM! Now over 90,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 and get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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portaspeciosa.bsky.social
A mish mash of ages, however, the 13th Century font at Oakham is rather lovely. The cover is C19 or possibly early C20 and the base is probably C13 remodelled.
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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infonta.bsky.social
Suddenly decided to show some of my grandmother's works, the artist — Irina Evstafieva. 1970s
There was a permanent art exhibition on the walls of our rooms in my childhood — both grandmother's and great grandmother's paintings.
Surrounded with them I grew up.
Enjoy you Friday 😊

#art #painting
November 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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fraggenstein.bsky.social
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MorningLight a bird bathed in morning sunlight. The alternative is #strength birds showing their power set by @alan678.bsky.social ~ Goldfinch in early morning light at The New Forest in Spring this year 😍 🪶 🦉 #ukbirding #ukwildlife #birdphotography #EastCoastKin
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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churchmonuments.bsky.social
Also this in the totally amazing Schnutgen Museum, where I could easily have spent the whole holiday
Romanesque font with 4 heads at corners and mythological beasts. Stained glass in background.
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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malcolmstoneman.bsky.social
Siblyback Lake, Near #Liskeard #Cornwall

“Gone fishing”

#sun #cloudscape #silhouette
A fisherman wading in the water is silhouetted by the autumnal sun.
November 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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jeelyeater1.bsky.social
Had an extremely blowy walk this morning to see the first Stolperstein in Scotland - in memory of Jane Haining - in Edinburgh, at St Stephen’s, Stockbridge.
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
#Rewilding One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats'. Available now in good bookshops an online nowwww.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
A deep dark forest. A scientist leads a guest through the trees, saying: "The rewilding project has exceeded all of our expectations! Keep your eyes open for the species that have come back: Red deer, wild boar, Pine marten. Or perhaps even our proudest return: The great old one Yog-drath'll, eternal unsleeping evil of the primordial forest." (all these creatures are hidden in the image)
November 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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cathamclarke.bsky.social
I'm so thrilled and proud that #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems is a Times Book of the Year (#history). In some incredible company on this list. Thank you!
This is a marvellous idea, quite brilliantly realised. Catherine Clarke takes 25 poems, from Caedmon’s Hymn and The Battle of Maldon to Edward Thomas’s Adlestrop and Geoffrey Hill’s September Song, and uses them as windows into the English past, from politics and plagues to nature and nostalgia. Her book is a winning blend of jolly ballads and melancholy reflections, alive to the ways in which the meanings of England and Englishness are never fixed, always changing.
November 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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judyadoherty.bsky.social
Baroque splendour..but in miniature at Great Witley. The white marble font was carved by James Forsyth in 1871. #FontsonFriday
November 28, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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malcolmstoneman.bsky.social
👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 -
#Plympton #Plymouth #Devon

Camellia - 📷 Now

(#elevensestime)
White camellia
November 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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cathamclarke.bsky.social
I'm very much looking forward to this online event (in English!) hosted by the University of Silesia, Katowice, in conversation with my dear friend Rafal Boryslawski. Weds 3 December, 4pm London time / 5pm CET. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems www.facebook.com/events/88180...
Info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/881804601189365/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D
November 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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poorfrankraw.co.uk
Friday:
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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dannybate.bsky.social
Spotted on this morning's walk: 'cordwainer', a shoemaker or worker with cordwain leather. You might not guess from its appearance that 'cordwain' has Mediterranean origins – the word comes from the Spanish city of Córdoba.
A old wooden sign that reads "J. H. Storey Cordwainer" hanging on an old building in a narrow alley
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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churchmonuments.bsky.social
For #FontsonFriday this beauty in Great St Martin's, Cologne. m
Modern cover with water-related Biblical miracles and stories (Noah, Baptism of Chrit, Christ calming the Waters etc)
Ornate stone font with modern cover
November 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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malcolmstoneman.bsky.social
St Peter’s Church, Noss Mayo, near #Plymouth #Devon

Church & furnishings designed by James Piers St Aubyn.
Built by Lord Revelstoke (Barings) of the #Membland estate.

Font cover (maybe font??) by Harry Hems of Exeter. 1884

#FontsOnFriday
#HarryHems #NossMayo
Octagonal font with quatrefoils within which are a shield on each face. Carved wooden octagonal crown. Cherubs at the base rising to musical angels at the apex.
November 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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scotchurchestrust.bsky.social
Our Trust Chairperson, Prof Adam Cumming, has blogged for @churchheritage.bsky.social reflecting upon the special connections between Scotland’s remarkable religious built heritage and the lands and the people that surround each site.

Read it here 👇
churchheritage.scot/2025/11/26/h...
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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malcolmstoneman.bsky.social
“French Crabbers”
Harold Harvey (1930)

The boats were probably from the port of Douarnenez, near Brest, in Brittany, #France

@penleehousegallery.bsky.social
#Penzance #Cornwall

#NewlynSchool #HaroldHarvey

For @horatioforever.bsky.social
Fishing boats tied up together in harbour, with the buildings rising behind from the quayside.
November 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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annelouiseavery.bsky.social
🦊 Why not buy my book, Reynard the Fox, for Christmas – the perfect stocking filler! Marina Warner described it as "marvellously spirited and adroit storytelling.Reynar" To buy a signed and gift-wrapped book, order directly from me! DM to purchase or go to my Etsy shop here: etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
Reynard the Fox Reynard the Fox Reynard
November 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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poorfrankraw.co.uk
This appears to be moving at roughly the time frame of the Roman empire. It should be complete by 2033. In my defence I am emptying the workshop as a prelude to downsizing, which is taking For Ever. Don't wait up.
On the easel, Senatus Populusque Romanus. Hand carved #lettering on Welsh slate. #SPQR
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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cathamclarke.bsky.social
Come and hear me speak at the Essex Record Office in Chelmsford on 6 January at 10.40am, thanks to my friends at the ERO and VCH Essex. I'll be sharing stories from #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems - including the Battle of Maldon and some Old English read aloud...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ero-presen...
ERO Presents: Maldon, Vikings, Saxons
A History of England in 25 Poems
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My illustration agent, Heart, made a lovely book to celebrate their 30th birthday. I illustrated the year 2012 with a little comic about the Curiosity Rover. See more here: www.heartagency.com/news/what-happened-hearts-30th-anniversary
A double page spread of a landscape-format book. It contains a comic strip by Tom Gauld in which the view pans from the earth, across space, and on to Mars where The Curiosity Rover appears, small and alone, looking at a paper ticket which reads 'One Way'. A double page spread of a landscape-format book. It contains a comic strip by Tom Gauld in which the view pans from the earth, across space, and on to Mars where The Curiosity Rover appears, small and alone, looking at a paper ticket which reads 'One Way'. Title page for Tom Gauld's spread in the book 'What Happened' published by Heart Agency. A double page spread of a landscape-format book. It contains a comic strip by Tom Gauld in which the view pans from the earth, across space, and on to Mars where The Curiosity Rover appears, small and alone, looking at a paper ticket which reads 'One Way'.
November 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM