When your lack of previous sheepdog experience is cruelly exposed on your first day.

Has anyone read Lucy Hughes-Hallet’s book about D'Annunzio?

James Marriott Good one. I think also we have seen the emergence of a super-charged secularism in certain intellectual classes over the last 40/50 years. This has led to a revised but often misguided view of the past, as perceived from a modern, secular isolation. Especially in art history.

'Vauxhall Bridge Station.' (1955) Christopher Chamberlain was predominantly a painter of industrial and street scenes, particularly in London. His mantra about painting was summed in a statement he made in the 1960s:

‘I have made many studies in areas where I have lived in…

The completely amazing and unique arrangement of what was once the west front of the old abbey church at Bury St. Edmunds - which had its facing stone removed after it closed in the 16th century, and then in the 18th century, houses were built into the rubble corework 😮🤩

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My main Months Past for May's History Today is on the Russian mnemonist Solomon Shereshevsky. I've been fascinated by Shereshevsky since I first read about him in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks sometime in the late 1980s. historytoday.com/archive/months…

I've been looking forward to this for a while. It sounds wonderful!

The deciphering of these scrolls promises so much thetimes.co.uk/article/vesuvi…

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Buzzing to have won this year's Hakluyt Society essay prize!
I've long been fascinated by the Northwest Passage, so this was a great excuse to pair that up with a close analysis of shipboard relationships on long-distance voyages (and concepts of mutiny!).

‘Paul Auster was an anomaly: a thoroughly warm, witty, sympathetic, laughter-loving individual, with insatiable intellectual curiosity and a gift for friendship; at the same time, he was a monumental literary presence.’

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#OTD in 1536 Anne Boleyn, Queen of England was arrested on charges of treason.

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I’m not surprised he liked Don Quixote. Cervantes was a master of the metafictional games that Auster liked to play. But it’s interesting how canonical the list is. Nothing past 1953, I think

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‘Not another WW2 book!’
Happy pub day to the excellent Saul David for #SkyWarriors out today!
Great to see so many friends there!