FRIDAY KEYNOTE ANNOUNCED! On Friday 6th, we’ll be joined by Jessica Houston of BEYOND HER HORIZONS, an all-female polar expedition that navigated the Northwest Passage in 2023.

Dressed for Halloween at work today

Galadriel in The Rings Of Power:

Some of my coats and costumes out in the wild this Halloween!

Discovery’s bridge helm—before and after I restored it!

Daguerrotype portrait of an unidentified young woman. Photographed in the 1850s.

It’s so true. Happy birthday my nerdy wrecked-hairline beloved

me voting in 2016 vs. me voting in 2024

It’s his time

When it’s That Day but someone made it better by drawing your faves 😍😍

BBC News right now.

Sea Matryoshka – A whimsical set of nesting dolls featuring a sequence of sea creatures: a whale, seal, penguin, fish, calamari, sea cucumber, and plankton. Created in Semenov, Russia, for Helsinki-based studio Company.

Pesto the Penguin has started to fledge! This means his famous black fluff (baby feathers) is starting to fall out and be replaced by his adult feathers. What it also means, is that we will be graced by images like this:

two real guys I like a lot some fucked up combo of a study and a doodle sesh

Reminder that you can find me on the other platform under the same username :)

Please share this opportunity for a 2-year F/T Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History, working on our major Arts and Humanities Research Council funded research project on the Victorian Hand. Loads of lovely archives to work in 😃 hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

Getting the year wrong on a form is something that can happen when you're in the Arctic and when you're home in England. Commander James Eaton wrote he entered the Service in 1899, oops. [British Library, my pic.]

James Clark Ross, Royal Navy officer and polar explorer, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 11 December, 1828. The Royal Society Image: Royal Museums Greenwich