We are delighted to announce that ‘Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350’, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery in London, is the winner of the Apollo Exhibition of the Year award, which is supported by TM Lighting apollo-magazine.com/apollo-awards-…

Just a week to go before expressions of interest close for our proposed PhD, on the dispersal of manuscripts from the Cotton collection. Fancy co-supervising a collaborative PhD with Medieval Manuscripts? Please apply before 28 November 👍 bl.uk/stories/blogs/…

What online Catholics think CofE churches look like 👀

Polish your prose, signpost your paragraphs, and check your references, because just one week remains to submit to the Medium Ævum Essay Prize 2026🖋️ Find out more by visiting mediumaevum.org.uk/essayprize

Do come and see this while it's still on: the largest Piranesi exhibition in Oxford this century, if not beyond, with some quite unique material there.

I would like a novel about Alexander the sausage seller, please:

A flock of remarkable birds features in the stained glass at Clothall, Hertfordshire. Dating from the late-15th century, there are over 70 birds in the quarries of the east window. They are by the same hand as another set of bird quarries at Clipsham in Rutland.

Discover Christ Church Picture Gallery's new exhibition of Renaissance and Baroque drawings in chalk and charcoal. See works by Leonardo, Tintoretto, Carracci and more ✨ Feeling inspired? Try our new drawing station ✏️ 🔗 chch.ox.ac.uk/events/its-not… Christ Church Picture Gallery #ChCh500

✨ For the first time in history, see all of Jan van Eyck's portraits together. Only once, only at the National Gallery. ✨ Our 2026 exhibition, 'Van Eyck: The Portraits', brings together from across Europe all nine of the artist's known painted portraits, making up half of his

The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs in London are getting a clean-up. ✨ The careful removal of excess paint and defective mortaring work will allow for repairs to be carried out.

✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread

This Jacobean travelling library was commissioned for a gentleman to carry his own collection of miniature vellum-bound books inside a wooden case ~ contents are listed on the inside cover (1617). Possibly, the first of its kind (University of Leeds) dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…

'Uton awurpan þeostra weorc, and beon ymbscrydde mid leohtes wæpnum.' (Let us cast away the works of darkness, and be clothed with the weapons of light.) An Anglo-Saxon sermon for the First Sunday of Advent: aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/11/eos-ti…

St Etheldreda (Æthelthryth), Northumbrian queen, and Abbess of Ely died on 23rd June 679 CE: 'Imago s[an]cte Atheldrythe abb[atisse] ac perpetue virigin[is]'. BL Add 49598; Benedictional of Æthelwold ; 963-984 CE; England, S; f.90v Medieval Manuscripts

Look who stopped by to inspect our new Christmas tree – a very festive fox! 🦊✨ 📷 Laura Jostins-Dean #ChChChristmas #ChCh500

Loved exploring this at Sothebys today. Apparently ordered from Flanders by a Dorset almshouse over 500 years ago, it somehow escaped the Reformation’s iconoclasms. Will likely soar past its £2.5m-£3.5m estimate. A shame it’s being sold.

😯 ✨St John’s Court in Malmesbury: a 17th-century almshouse wrapped around a stunning 12th-century doorway from a former chapel. One of the most characterful gables in the country.

So glad Aimen Dean is back in the saddle! He and I have got a lot in store for our Dear Listeners!

#Romanesque #Adoorable 3 Marys (1 Mary is missing) & the Angel at the Tomb of Christ, Basilica of San Zeno, C11-C12, Bronze. Laid out in a typology where the Old Testament scenes prefigure specific New Testament scenes. The undulating vines make it seem dark scary

What historic site would you like to see dusted with snow? ❄️ Rievaulx Abbey, founded in 1132, was the first Cistercian outpost in the North of England.