Sarajevo: what a fantastically interesting and evocative place.

The perfect location to record the first four episodes of our The Rest Is History series about the First World War - out later this summer ...

Pool.

Happy Friday! Ena Sharples at the piano.
Violet Carson who played her, was a talented pianist who worked with great artists such as Al Bowlly #CoronationStreet Coronation Street #fridayfun

But she'll gradually learn that if she wants to get anywhere in England, she'll have to change her accent to sound like those characters in the Hugh Grant movies.

A lovely afternoon at Lamb House, Rye, celebrating E F Benson, writer of Mapp & Lucia, pictured here with the legendary Prunella Scales, the original TV Miss Mapp.

sometimes these photos have such a modern feel that they leap out of history & the resulting jolt is more heightened than usual

My local Tory MP's 'newsletter' just arrived - no mention of the Conservatives on the front, sneakily looking more like one of those 'Take A Break'/'Inside Soap' magazines

Martha Hirsch, the woman depicted here by Austrian Expressionist Oskar Kokoschka, had married the industrialist Wilhelm Hirsch in September of 1908 and their son Richard was born the following summer. This picture was painted soon after his birth. Although Martha was...

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43 years ago my primary school put on a musical for children. It was magical. I've sung tunes from it ever since. When it sprang to mind again yesterday, I googled the composer, immediately found an email address and wrote to him just to say thank you. 1/2

Anyone perplexed as to why some feminists care alot about single-sex toilets should take a look at sections of today's birth trauma report dealing with impact of childbirth injuries.
Includes very tough descriptions of lives and careers derailed by incontinence/ prolapses

Eurovision is incredibly white

Stitch Head biscuits!

If you missed the Aurora last night and / or would like another go, then it looks like there is a good chance we’ll have another display this evening.

“Blue Tree”. Hajime Namiki. 2008.

A Street in Venice wikiart.org/en/john-singer…

Yes Dave, it's 9am, yes, I'm drinking, and yes, it's a tiara...any more questions?

Untitled artic.edu/artworks/76008/

The old churchyard on the banks of the Volga wikiart.org/en/aleksey-sav…

On this date in 1982
#NewOrder released
the single 'Temptation'
New Order Peter Hook