Woodcut of Dante's first meeting with Virgil & on the facing page Inferno Canto I, from our 1520 edition of Commedia printed in Venice.

It’s Nos Galan Mai - the evening before May Day - & one of three great spirit nights or Ysbrydnos in the Welsh folkloric calendar. No better place to be on a night like this than in the magical shadowlands of Gwydir.

Our fabulous horse chestnut in North Quad

Prince of mathematicians: Carl Friedrich Gauss, known for Normal Distribution, born #OTD 1777; advanced algebra, geometry & number theory.
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences BBAW

Francesco Primaticcio, influential Italian Mannerist architect, painter & sculptor trained under Giulio Romano, born #OTD 1504; known for complex decorative schemes at Fontainebleau, under patronage of François I, Henri II, François II.
Château de Fontainebleau

Nice to see this today Cambridge University Library - the first private library catalogue to be printed in England (1726) of the collection of the Duke of Kingston at Thoresby Hall, Notts. A very rare book. Provenance: Sir Thomas Philips, Major J. R. Abbey, A.N.L. Munby. Fantastic engravings.

Very proud of our community… and especially Danny and Maddy ⁦Ullswater Catchment Management CIC⁩ and the farmers who did loads of this

WE WON the U.K. River Restoration Award - for Catchment Scale Work youtu.be/JL0in7UqdOI?si…

Beautiful morning on the heath today

Rhyl Sands, c. 1854, oil on canvas, late work by David Cox the Elder, great English landscape artist, born #OTD 1783; preeminent watercolour painter who became proficient in oils, his work foreshadowed impressionism, influenced Monet & Pissarro.
Tate

On Tuesday the FTC issued a final rule that effectively bans noncompete clauses in US labor contracts. Given the wide-reaching impact, there has been (understandably) a lot of debate, and also some confusion. Two issues are particularly contentious.

The first is the economic

Les jardins du Palais royal qui commencent à se couvrir de fleurs.

I cycled through Old Paradise Gdns off Lambeth High St the other day. It’s a fave of mine. Tucked away, but a stone’s throw from the Thames + Houses of Parliament.

A new community growing area has been created - it looks like it will become mini-allotments.

#HappySunday

Mutiny on the Bounty: Capt. William Bligh, exceptional navigator who ‘failed in the theatre of command’, was cast adrift #OTD 1789; he then navigated a record 3,618 nautical miles in an open boat to Timor.
Royal Museums Greenwich National Library of Australia

Rome, Saint-Laurent hors les murs, siège épiscopal, 1254 (détail : plaques de porphyre et de serpentine).

“Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life.”
Mary Wollstonecraft, pioneer of women's rights, born #OTD 1759.
Tate

Paradise Sold: John Milton, blind & poor, sold Paradise Lost #OTD 1667; publisher's contract agreed four payments of £5.
British Library

Jan van Goyen, Dutch landscape painter, master of atmospheric, tonal river scenes, with low horizons & large skies; died #OTD 1656.
Amsterdam Museum

Walk to work - Friday.

Eugène Delacroix, French Romantic painter, whose brushwork & colour inspired Cézanne, Degas, Van Gogh, Whistler, born #OTD 1798
Musée du Louvre

Portrait of a woman, c.1435 by Robert Campin, early Flemish artist, usually identified as Master of Flémalle, died #OTD 1444; an innovator in oil painting, he created subtleties of light and tone in works of intense realism.
National Gallery