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Janet E Davis
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Artist, art historian, formerly worked in heritage (manager, digital projects, researcher), and voluntary work relating to Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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painter247.bsky.social
What year? i'm not sure...2010? or 14?
Paintings of rocks. 9 in all, in one painting.
Rough paintings of rocks - one each square.
December 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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butserancientfarm.co.uk
Could you be our next Events & Development Co-ordinator? 🔥

We are looking for someone confident, organised & driven to execute our exciting events programme. ✨

Fancy working in a small, passionate team in the beautiful South Downs? We'd love to hear from you!

www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/vacancies
December 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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charlielynch.bsky.social
I write a newspaper column about Scottish history, historians and heritage.

I’m keen to feature more Early Career Researchers. Their work might not otherwise be publicised to a wide audience. Do you know anyone who might like to be in the column?
December 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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pottedhistory.bsky.social
Testing clay from the Roman pottery production site at Highgate Wood, North London and using Munsell colour charts to record the results. Same clay, different temperatures and kiln atmosphere. 🏺#Archaeology #AncientBluesky
Bars of clay that have been fired at various temperatures and under different atmospheric conditions. Ranging in colour from red terracotta to very dark chocolate brown. Along with some Munsell soil colour charts used to record the test results.
November 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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historyclippings.bsky.social
The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries!

They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!

archive.org/details/usda...

🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
Seed catalogue from 1896. Color illustration of watermellons, corn, onions, radishes, and lettuce. Seed catalogue cover, 1909. Color illustrations of onions.
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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pressgazette.co.uk
Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising. Meta probably made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024 pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...
Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising
Meta likely made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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claireboardman.bsky.social
A rare opportunity: Professor of Cultural and Natural Heritage @durham.ac.uk. Part of the impressive Heritage 360 program: tinyurl.com/33bt5mu3
Professor of Cultural and Natural Heritage
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
tinyurl.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
janetedavis.bsky.social
Thanks very much for the repost @louisebrown.bsky.social x
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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These postcard-sized #linocut prints are £25 each. Each is an original print, hand-printed in my studio & signed & numbered. 🎄

#printmaking #OriginalPrints #YorkshireGifts #HandmadeInYorkshire #MadeInYorkshire #ShopSmall #BirdArt #WildlifeArt #LandscapeArt
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
janetedavis.bsky.social
I’ve a lot to do this week before opening our doors for Ouseburn Open Studios.
Our studio is in B.Box Studios & can be accessed from Stoddart St, Newcastle upon Tyne, via steps or ramp, or from Bermondsey St. We’re close to the Biscuit Factory.
Free entry 10am to 5pm 29th & 30th November 2025.
View of a display of paintings and prints in an artist’s studio. On the left is a vase of pink anemones on an orange scarf & above that is a painting of part of a clementine on an Art Deco plate with green pear on a pink scarf. The middle column shows 2 black & white space walker prints, a painting of a pear on a plate on a reconstructed 1950s fabric, & various stacked paintings below. The column on the right shows screenprints of the Ouseburn Railway Viaduct (top), a close up of 2 boats in Seahouses Harbour, a smaller print of more boats in Seahouses Harbour. Photo of a corner of a studio during a rehang. On the left is a screenprint of boats in Seahouses Harbour with a painting of kiwi fruit and a cut fig on an Art Deco plate against a geometric textile background. On the right is a window with a painting of the Tyne Valley near Hexham below it and an unfinished painting of the Lower Ouseburn Valley at the bottom. Paintings and studio equipment on a table and windowsill, view out of the window top left (building in the distance covered in green tarpaulin). Painting on the left on windowsill is a glass of flowers. The painting in the foreground is spring flowers in a glass vase and tiny glass jar with a patterned blue jug on a check tablecloth. The painting on the right is a view of the Tyne Valley near Prudhoe. Two Coptic stitch handmade books standing up with spines facing camera. The left hand book is covered in a Nepalese printed paper in soft blue, silver & white. The right hand book is covered in Frayed 2.0 screenprint by Janet E Davis.
November 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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bakerart.bsky.social
Another older watercolour drawing showing St Edward's Passage in Cambridge next to the Arts Theatre and David's Bookshop when it had a shop on that side of the church (now it only has one on the other side)
#watercolour #fineart #cambridge
St Edward's Passage, Cambridge, watercolour drawing from 1991
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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pigsonthewing.org.uk
Stunning ten-minute video of an even more stunning subject.
November 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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eastlondongroup.bsky.social
This is a great favourite of mine, "Smithfield Spires" by Harold Steggles from 1931 His view must have been taken Holborn Viaduct & I particularly like the way that he's incorporated his signature in to the signage on the building! #HaroldSteggles #EastLondonGroup
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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@hboomer.bsky.social Thank you very much for the repost. I really appreciate it :-)
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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@wrathofgodherself.bsky.social Thank you very much for the repost - much appreciated!
November 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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🚐☀️ I'm on a camper-van-camino through the British Isles. If places like Pershore Abbey stir something in you - if you find comfort in continuity - you might like my Genius Loci Digest. Out weekly. Subscribe for free: digest.andymarshall.co
March 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
janetedavis.bsky.social
Our studio in B.Box Studios, off Stoddart St, Newcastle upon Tyne, is 1 of many opening from 10am to 5pm on 29th & 30th November 2025.
I will have paintings, handmade prints and handmade books for sale. More of my prints will be at Northern Print, Stepney Bank.
You’re welcome to visit & chat :-)
A oainting of orange, purple and pink flowers in a blue jug on a dark red table against a pinky-red wall. White text overlaying it reads “Ouseburn Open Studios. Janet E Davis. 29th & 30th November 2025, 10am to 5pm. b.Box Studios.”
November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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linneansociety.bsky.social
Japanese star anise (Illicium anisatum) might look like the cooking spice (Illicium verum), but don't be fooled! Anisatum seed pods are highly toxic. However, its leaves can be burned as incense.

Available as a card, print or poster. buff.ly/3G5nhs2
From 'Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen', (1887-1898)
Drawing of a Japanese star anise plant with leaves and delicate, white flowers. Around it are illustrations of its organs and seed pods at different stages of development. From 'Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen' by Franz Eugen Köhler (1887-1898) (LSL ref: Q 582 KOE)
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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painter247.bsky.social
Pastel 2010. Weeds on the edge of Glentress forest . Light in front, darkness behind.
Weeds on the edge of Glentress Forest. Light in front, pitch dark inside the forest. Pastel drawing/painting
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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wrathofgodherself.bsky.social
Before this elephant arrives in a cloud of dust and wild trumpeting, let me just tell you about the tooth-whitening paste it likes to use on its ivories....aaaaaaahhhhhhh, he's asking me to apply it for him, I see.. okay, hang on, just fetching a ladder, calm down, calm down, stop flapping yer lugs
November 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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painter247.bsky.social
Hm.... going somewhere i think...
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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CH OM Henry Moore, Shipwreck I, 1973
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1116133
Presented by the Henry Moore Foundation 1982
November 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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wrathofgodherself.bsky.social
Diet-breads for those with particular nutritional needs.

See the face?
November 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
janetedavis.bsky.social
I totally agree. So many make it difficult to find out where they are, and forget the Web is international.
fionatribe.bsky.social Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · Nov 15
Dear eateries: your location, contact details, and opening hours should be on your landing page.
November 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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fotofacade.bsky.social
It's a niche thing: If you ❤️ places like St. Wystan's Repton and feel comforted by continuity, you might like my Genius Loci Digest - an architectural photographer’s camper-van-camino through the British Isles - posted weekly. Subscribe for free here: digest.andymarshall.co
Anglo-Saxon crypt beneath St Wystan’s Church, Repton, Derbyshire — carved stone columns, ribbed vaults, and soft amber light revealing ancient masonry; photographed by Andy Marshall.
October 24, 2025 at 5:55 AM