Writer for the Telegraph. Author of Soho in the Eighties and The Train in Spain.
Joined October 2013
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Bit of sheeping this morning with the wife @kelper60, got them quite well trained now 😉
#sheep #chartresfarm #falklandislands #shearing
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It would be pleasant to get some wildly enthusiastic emails from publishers and filmmakers which are NOT AI-generated phishing...
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18th October is the feast of St Luke the Evangelist who is here depicted in the initial 'Q'(uoniam) of his gospel.
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 004; The Dover Bible, Volume II.; 12th century; f.193v @ParkerLibCCCC @CorpusCambridge
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In the wake of the far-reaching loss of WW1, pictures which had an emphasis on continuity and nostalgia had enormous appeal in Britain during the inter-war years. The clarity of definition in James Walker Tucker's 'An Idle Chat,' (1936) is down to his use of egg tempera.
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Donington-on-Bain church. The most interesting feature is a brass tablet from 1638 to the "learned prudent" rector Thomas Kent, which calls him "Both Chrysosthomer and Polycarpe in one"
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2/2 Here's the whole church, by Darbyshire & Smith, 1900 with an adjacent hall and rooms, 1904 and substantial rectory. Salford's Barracks Estate may not be the most salubrious in the world, but you'd like to think this splendid building had a future.
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Visitors' book
Old books in churches are rare. This one, from 1891, is at Yaxley, Suffolk and is still in use. Edward Cobb's 1st visit was with his wife, Emma Frances. He was born in Yaxley & was 35. Thomas Wells, a hat and cap manufacturer, was 49. J. Farrow says he's a postman
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Okra is just an absurdly beautiful plant, even if it weren't delicious to eat I imagine we'd grow it for its blooms and foliage alone
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Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was wandering the streets of Indianapolis on this day in 1894.
He climbed to the top of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, gave a lecture on literary life, and had dinner with James Whitcomb Riley.
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‘I’ve never been fond of the Bridge of Sighs. I prefer the walkways over Shad Thames’. - Christopher Howse in The Tablet this week. Shad Thames nr Tower Bridge is on TP. @The_Tablet @BeardyHowse
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Telephone Exchange, Walsgrave on Sowe #Coventry
Built 1951
#WindowsOnWednesday
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'Hammersmith Bridge from Chelsea.'
Throughout his life Edward Seago was intensely interested in the transformation of the cityscape in various weathers and times of day. Here he captures a smoggy London afternoon in late autumn. This was painted around 1950.
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Surely the finest example of tracery flushwork – a speciality of East Anglia. St Miles Coslany, Norwich #WallsOnWednesday
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Magnificent angels, circa 1425, guard the west doors of St Michael Coslany, Norwich
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There's been a lot of talk (most of it negative) about universities. To understand where we are and might be going, we need to know where we've been. That's why I wrote The University: a history in stone, silk, and blood, out now from @Harvard_Press hup.harvard.edu/books/978067…
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I’ve seen a lot of great doorways…this has to be one of the best! The 12th century Prior’s Door in Ely Cathedral 🤩
There’s lots of medieval painted decoration in the cathedral & I’m sure this would once have been brightly coloured too, bringing that intricate detail to life 😀
