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The VCH is working in #London again, on a short history of Soho! And there is now a donations page, if you'd like to help keep it going (or maybe even expand...): cafdonate.cafonline.org/28318#!/Donati…

🪡 Drawing Room Talk: Jane Austen and Needlework 📖 Join Austen scholar and author of Jane Austen Embroidery, Jennie Batchelor, for an intimate evening talk held within the atmospheric Drawing Room at Jane Austen’s House. ⏰ Sunday 13 July, 6-7pm 🎟️ tinyurl.com/twdyufjd

In the Bawden Room, Finding a Home at the Fry curator @ellaravilious invited people with connections to the Fry's artists to curate cabinets as if they were their own kitchen dressers or mantle pieces. These beautiful displays recall childhoods and working lives immersed in

Study for a mural by Edward Bawden, watercolour, 1951 is our Work of the Month. This preparatory sketch entitled ‘Country Life’ for the Lion and Unicorn Pavilion at the Festival of Britain is a recent addition to our collection. In it Bawden includes depictions of familiar Essex

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Here's a link to my blog piece on finding Black voters in the 18th-century archive: ecppec.ncl.ac.uk/features/black… With thanks to ECPPEC (Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture ecppec.ncl.ac.uk)

One of the largest collections of Roman decorative plaster ever found in London has been uncovered in Southwark. ianvisits.co.uk/articles/major… ianvisits.co.uk/articles/major…

From the archives of All Things Georgian, find out more about the Portrait of 'Black Charley' of Norwich by John Dempsey' wp.me/p3JTNy-4kB #Norwich #mondayblogs

It had to happen. After loads of 5star sales just had my first complaint on #Vinted

Geraniums and Carnations, Eric Ravilious, 1938. It was painted at Wittersham, in #Kent. The original artwork is in the collection of FryArtGallery.

Dagenham’s last surviving manor house is to have its defensive moat restored after the local council secured £800,000 of funding. ianvisits.co.uk/articles/valan… ianvisits.co.uk/articles/valan…

'The Bleaching Ground.' (1882) The element of labour, which at the turn of the 20thC was an important theme of Max Liebermann’s work, takes a back seat. We can see how he is being influenced by the French Impressionists in the use of light, colours, and a dynamic composition.

#OTD The 1872 Ballot Act introduced the requirement for parliamentary elections to be held by secret ballot. It also ended the often unruly system of public nominations, and had some other unintended consequences too, as Dr Philip Salmon explains: historyofparliament.com/2025/07/18/pub…

Installation in progress…Richard Bawden, the Hadleigh Years opens next weekend on 26 July in the Gibson Room. A versatile painter, printmaker, illustrator and designer, there’s such warmth, wit and keen observational detail to enjoy in Bawden’s later works. This very special

Visiting @thejohnrylands today to look at a manuscript which contains two very early English conversion narratives - both dating to the 1630s and both written by women! VOICES OF THUNDER begins with the remarkable story of Rose Thurgood, one of these women #earlymodern

Today we were delighted to welcome our first visitors to ‘Richard Bawden, the Hadleigh Years’ an opportunity to view and buy a selection of later works from Richard’s creative life. Like the Fry Gallery, Richard started a new phase in 1985 when he and his wife Hattie bought

While I was sleeping: 2 years ago some b*****d used my name/address to insure a car, didn’t pay the premium, crashed into a 3rd party in the back streets of Boston, Lincs, at 3:20am. I’ve still not managed to get my name off this incident. It pops up whenever we need insurance

Today on the blog: a fascinating discussion by Sarah Lindenbaum of a book on marriage and choosing a wife owned by Elizabeth Cromwell, a cousin of Oliver Cromwell …dernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/eli… #HerBook #EarlyModern