I picked up this book at the Shakespeare’s Globe, drawn to The Cholmondeley Ladies painting on the cover. Dr Elizabeth Norton's brilliant writing and research into these women's lives fulfilled my expectations and more. Happy Read in the Bathtub Day 🛁 What are you reading at the moment?

From finding out about the St Ives Archive on Instagram to becoming a volunteer and recently a trustee, it’s been an incredibly rewarding ride so far! Follow the Archive on Instagram or Facebook for daily doses of St Ives history. Photo from St Ives Archive, taken Sept 1947.

Joan Mitchell, American abstract expressionist artist, was born #onthisday in 1925 in Illinois. She was one of her era's few female painters to gain critical and public acclaim. Her art can be admired in major museums and collections around the world.

Happy Valentine’s Day and Library Lovers' Day! Fancy a date in the library? There you'll find 4 tips to improve your #socialmedia content: 📕Judge a book by its cover 👩‍🎨Steal like an artist ⚖️Balance the books 📖Turn the page Click here to read more: buff.ly/3jqFGan

Susan B. Anthony, American social reformer and women's rights activist, was born #onthisday in 1820 in Massachusetts. She played a key part in the women's suffrage movement and was the first female citizen to be depicted on U.S. coinage appearing on the 1979 dollar coin.

Pamela Colman Smith, British illustrator, writer, and publisher, was born #onthisday in 1878 in London. She illustrated the Rider–Waite tarot card deck (still used today) and over 20 books, wrote two collections of Jamaican folklore and ran a press focused on women writers.

Happy birthday, Pamela Colman Smith! 💐 edition.cnn.com/style/article/…

#Art is to the soul what water is to the body - it sustains us on more levels than one. To make art is to be human. This #HumanSpirit Day, we ask: What does art mean to you? We can’t wait to read your answers in the comments below.

Toni Morrison, American novelist was born #onthisday in 1931 in Ohio. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel ‘Beloved’ and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was also inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

Yoko Ono, Japanese artist, singer, and peace activist, was born #onthisday in 1933 in Tokyo. She had 12 no.1 singles on the US Dance charts, was named the 11th most successful dance club artist of all time by Billboard and received the Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Human Rights Award.

Gabriele Münter, German expressionist painter was born #onthisday in 1877 in Berlin. She studied and lived with the painter Wassily Kandinsky and co-founded the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter.

Anaïs Nin, American diarist, essayist and novelist was born #onthisday in 1903 in France. With an honorary doctorate from the Philadelphia College of Art, she was elected to the United States National Institute of Arts and Letters and was the LA Times Woman of the Year in 1976.

Nina Simone, American singer, songwriter and civil rights activist was born #onthisday in 1933 in North Carolina. She is regarded as one of the most influential artists in jazz, cabaret and R&B. She recorded over 40 albums and had a hit single in the US, ‘I Loves You, Porgy’.

Tomorrow we’re publishing an article about art and the human spirit✨ and sharing what’s on our radART in the coming weeks. Want to be the first to read it? All you need to do is sign up here 👉 cbacontent.us12.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=0f…

In the era of AI-generated content, it’s easy for artists to feel a bit disheartened. Is AI art still art? What makes art ART? And what the heck is synesthesia? We answer these and other questions in our brand new blog post. Read below! cbacontent.com/why-the-human-….

As Victoria/V.E. Schwab puts it: March is a fickle month, a seam between winter and spring. To help ease the transition, we bring you many occasions to celebrate and inspire your content in March 🌸 Download, bookmark or screenshot and let our calendar guide your brainstorming this month!

Finalised a wonderful Dallowayday June 17th Hatchards with Sarah M Hall & DrMLBanting Bloomsbury walk @claramjjones speakers Nino Strachey Sian Evans Charlie Porter Wendy Hitchmough Claire Nicholson wine & more do join us virginiawoolfsociety.org.uk/membership/

🚨GIVEAWAY🚨 By the pricking of my thumbs... something special this way comes. You could win: 🎭 Two seated tickets to #Macbeth 🍰 Afternoon tea for two in the @swanglobe 🛍️ Themed mugs from shop To enter: 👉Follow us 👉 Retweet 👉 Comment 🩸 below!

"The earliest 'y’all' that I uncovered was in William Lisle’s The Faire Æthiopian, published in 1631: 'and this y’all know is true.'" (Which was published in London! Making this southerner love this city even more ❤️ yall don't even know!) atlasobscura.com/articles/yall-…

Happy Birthday Virginia Woolf #OnThisDay The first full moon of 2024 rises today - called the Wolf Moon! Perfect! (thanks to Elisa Kay Sparks for info)