“I’m a remarkable woman..always was, though none of you seemed to think so.”May Morris, English artist embroiderer, designer, feminist and socialist, dismayed by the lack of support for women artists. She founded the Women’s Guild of Arts, 1907 #WomensArt

I love LeftLion Magazine Nottingham magazine - great article about St Ann’s allotments this month! However sometimes I find the articles too difficult to read when the text is inverted (white on dark background) :(

I was fooled into thinking Spring was here already! Finding solace in these colourful, nature inspired tiles designed by William De Morgan.

It’s the last weekend of #KnowledgeisPower at Lakeside Arts - learning is a lifelong process but you’ve only got two days left to see the exhibition so hurry! Open 10-4 Sat & Sun in the Weston Gallery. John Holford #adulted #nottingham #museums

Tatler, London, December 4, 1940

En garde!

Bonnet, 1828-30. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Three years ago, in the night of 14 March 2020, while Oxford was preparing for the Covid lockdown, three paintings were stolen in a brutal, premeditated burglary from us: Anthony van Dyck, Horse and Rider; Annibale Carracci, Boy Drinking; Salvator Rosa, Five Men in a Landscape.

Moravia Union, Iowa, March 25, 1948

This was a joy! John Holford our interests intersect poetry/adult education!

Join our community research project! #archives #plantsandprayers #nottingham #heritage #plants #volunteering #medicine Nottingham English UoN Libraries

It's been a busy weekend for us! First filming a 17th century herbal for Countryfile in the gorgeous UoN Museum and then taking some 1970s/1980s University records over to Uni of Nottingham School of Medicine #WeAreUoN for a reunion for the class of 1982!

Just one day to go until #PlantsAndPrayers opens Kevin CB! Join us tomorrow 5pm-7pm for the launch.

Good morning from us and these charming doodles of a peacock and a peahen from the Commonplace Book of Tye and Hannah Brown (1728-1740). UoN Libraries #manuscripts #archives #marginalia

Taken in July 1865, our #PortraitOfTheDay captures a moment of garden bliss and depicts Jane Morris, an Arts and Crafts artist and a Pre-Raphaelite muse. You can see this portrait and more in the new #NationalPortraitGallery. 📸 by John Robert Parsons © NPG, London

get in the car it’s august

she is reading theory btw

"Bedroom window", 1909-11. John Singer Sargent. Private Collection.

Herby Homage: 'Isabella, or the Pot of Basil' (1818), a narrative poem by John Keats adapted from a story in Boccaccio's Decameron for this week's #TuesdayTale. Painted here by Millais (detail, 1849 Tate), Holman Hunt (1868), Waterhouse (1907) & George Henry Manton (1919) 🌿