#DeckTheWalls – a thread. 'Tis the season for homes to look a little more glitzy than usual, so we asked #ArtHistory academic Clare Taylor to share the most decadent and ornate walls she’s come across in her research…1/7 #Decor #AcademicTwitter Bateman's NT OU Art History

Delighted to be part of The Conversation shining an icy spotlight on glass V&A & prints British Museum

PUBLISHED📚‘Aristophanes: Lysistrata’ by Prof James Robson sets #Lysistrata in its social and historical context, looking at key themes such as politics, religion and its provocative portrayal of women. By Bloomsbury Classical Studies & Archaeology 6/8 bloomsbury.com/uk/aristophane… @OU_Classics

"Her alert pose, gesture and expression also suggest listening, and that she is in conversation with an unseen audience." Insight by Clare Taylor Sr Lecturer, OU Art History. Right Honourable Betty Boothroyd, 1929 – 2023. 6/

belated thanks to Eleanor Brooke-Peat and curatorial colleagues Castle Howard for all their help with my research for #GiltLeatherRooms during my recent visit

Congratulations to Dr Bonnie Emmett who recently successfully defended her OOC-DTP funded PhD, 'Housing for Single Working Women in Inter-War London 1919-1939'. Her examiners were Clare Taylor & Elizabeth Darling. Project supervisors: Dr Susie West & Professor Elizabeth McKellar.

Very grateful for the opportunities which have got me to this point The Open University OU Arts & Social Sciences OU Art History as well as to Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and to curators and archivists across the four nations including National Trust who have enabled my research #GiltLeatherRooms

Clare Taylor, Prof of Art History & Material Cultures, Clare Taylor OU Art History joined our book event on Jan 19. “I found the attention to bodily techniques in the process of making especially interesting, and how this builds on the idea of a more ‘open-ended’ approach…

From Open University Starter Pack in 2004 to Honorary Doctorate in 2024 thank all who have been on the journey with me.... veronese1515.blogspot.com/2024/03/honora… #OUFamily #OpenUniverstity #Humanities #HumanitesMatter #StayWoke

We have been busy in the OU recording studios, making recordings for A237 'Art and its worlds before 1800'. Clare Taylor, Susie & Robert are preparing for an audio discussion, enjoying the refurbished sound studio with Simon West on sound & Kiran Kaur our producer.

Great time at the Barbican Degree Ceremony, seeing so many wonderful students graduating and Carla Benzan presenting Hon Graduand Michael I. Ohajuru DUniv, FRSA OU Arts & Social Sciences #OUFamily

Huge thanks to Dr Hannah Mawdsley and everyone at Ham for all their hard work during our filming for A237, Art and Life before 1800

Delighted to meet up with Masters of Arts in Art History graduates at the Barbican Degree Ceremony- many congratulations! OU Arts & Social Sciences #OUFamily

✨Labour of the Stitch: The Making and Remaking of Fashionable Georgian Dress✨ has been published! It’s out with Cambridge University Press and you can access it 🔥for free🔥 until 12th April! cambridge.org/core/elements/…

It's all things myth and mythmaking Hughenden later in April, but Medusa and Cyclops are already in the garden, and The Odyssey is on display in the library OU Arts & Social Sciences #A112

Thanks to all at @NTGreyfriars for their help during my visit to study the house's screens #GiltLeatherRooms

Thanks so much to Dr Alexandra Loske for organising this study visit for me #giltleatherrooms

Great to meet up with our fab team and celebrate Dr Emma Hardy's PhD: 'A Modern but Useful Art: William Morris, Jeffrey & Co and the Morris & Co Wallpapers 1864-c.1928' Open-Oxford-Cambridge DTP

Thanks to the lovely team at Great Chalfield Manor for their welcome during my visit this week #GiltLeatherRooms National Trust

Looking forward to exploring Ashmolean Museum with #A237 students OU Art History