The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield ‘Alarm Clock’ (1971)

Jane Faldor completed this charming sampler, featuring a variety of flora and fauna accompanying Adam and Eve, in 1829. Jane may be the Jane Faldor born in Ampthill, Bedfordshire in 1819. The quirky sense of scale of the samplers' many motifs adds to the piece's loveliness

Eliot Hodgkin, 'September', from 'The Months', 1950. Only one flower this month - a vibrant chrysanthemum, set next to a windfall apple. The tendrils of Virginia creeper are reddening, and it's the first of the mushrooms and the last of the blackberries.

Devil's Jumps on Treyford Hill. A group of five Bronze Age bell barrows. 📷 Anne Purkiss #SouthDowns #History

September garden Artist: HarryWingfield (Helping at Home, 1961)

'Hyde Park' (1931) by Sybil Andrews

Our fantastic College Librarian Emma is off on maternity leave after this week, and we have a great team still in place thanks to Sarah and Sophie. We can’t wait to welcome Emma back and meet her twins(!) in due course and wish her all the best in the meantime!

A huge thank you to the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Sir Simon Rattle for their first of two Proms last night. They performed the UK premiere of Aquifer by Thomas Adès & Bruckner's Fourth in the composer's 200th birthday year! 🎧Listen now BBC Sounds 📷Chris Christodoulou

With their gnarled braches, there's something quite Tolkienesque about yew trees. This one at Old Winchester Hill in Hampshire is part of a small yew woodland, many of which will be hundreds, if not thousands, of years old. 📷 Anne Purkiss #SouthDowns

Plum 'Belle de Septembre', lithograph from 'The Florist and Pomologist', 1863, probably by W Fitch or W Smith. This lost French plum was recorded as large and handsome, late, and excellent for preserving.

Whisperings of autumn in the New College garden this week...#newcollegeoxford #autumn #autumnvibes #nature #autumnleaves #trees

Another sign that autumn is on its way 🍂 #HeverCastle #Kent #Autumn

'October in Bedford Square' by George ER Salter (active c.1956–1959) (Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre)

Just a mid-week woodpecker hopping through your feeds...

Stanley Spencer painted his self-portrait frequently; this is the first he made in oil in the front bedroom of his family home in Cookham in Berkshire, when he was around 23 years old in 1914. It took a year of his time so we can think he was trying his hardest to portray and get

‘They created the modern art we know and love today’ - Natalia Sidlina 🎨 In this film, curator Natalia Sidlina and art historian Dorothy Price explain how the Blue Rider group wanted to explore the emotional and spiritual dimensions of art, emphasising abstraction, symbolism

Our new video on YouTube is William Byrd's Civitas Sancti Tui. This choral gem from the Renaissance is the second part of William Byrd's composition, Ne Irascaris, Domine and was first published in 1589. Watch now: bit.ly/4ebzVaP - #choir #williambyrd #newvideo

A girl named "Martha C" stitched this embroidered picture in London sometime in the 1730s. If only she had stitched her last name and the exact year! Martha had a masterful handling of textures, from the slickness of the checkerboard floor to the thick, gathered curtains

Did you know the South Downs is one of the most heavily utilised chalk aquifers in the country?⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ The famous white chalk of the South Downs act like a giant sponge, soaking up and storing water for 1.2 million people in the South East. #SouthDowns

Cardiff city centre will be transformed this winter by the spectacular Light of Winter Trail. ✨ From 14th November 2024 – 6th January 2025, you will be able to enjoy a trail of free, immersive light and sound experiences across the city! ✨