A Knock at the Door (1897) by Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema (English artist, lived 1852–1909). A moment just before receiving a visitor.

another team trip, to winterbourne this time!🌸it’s so nice to have the breathing space outside of term time to do more cultural/arty bits and bobs

Mood today: Perdita Lost in a Winter’s Tale. 🖼️ ‘Perdita’, Frederick Sandys, c.1866. #preraphaelite #art #lost #awinterstale

Kaoru Yamada

Sensitive Sketches featuring Cupid and lots of love, all by Burne-Jones, for #StudySaturday. 🖼️ ‘Cupid Delivering Psyche’, 1867, The Higgins Bedford Art Gallery & Museum. 🖼️ ‘Desiderium, The Masque of Cupid’, 1872, Tate. 🖼️ ‘The Story of Cupid and Psyche: Psyche and Pan’, Ashmolean Museum.

Nosferatu (2024)

Are you part of our Pre-Raphaelite Graduate Network? If so you’ll know our first seminar of 2025 is Monday 13th January from 7.30 - 9 pm (UK time) when there will be presentations by Laura Martínez Gimeno and Dr Tina Anderlini. …

Empty Mind by Welder Wings

I like how my local Costa decided to celebrate veganuary by expunging all vegan options from its menu🙂‍↕️

Bring back beautiful book covers

Vintage book covers

Last Look Kaoru Yamada

Celebrating the beginning of UK LGBTQ+ History Month with a palette of three Wilde colours closely associated with the Queering of Victorian identity- Green, Yellow and Purple. In this first post we begin with the Green Carnation. …

The Red Book (c. 1901) by John Lavery (Irish artist, lived 1856–1941). The sitter is Mary Auras, here engrossed in a book, an intimate moment.

Yellow tulips mean cheerfulness and hope. In the Victorian era, yellow tulips were added to bouquets to say, “there's sunshine in your smile.” ©️Joanne Porter #LegendaryWednesday

Where to go today? Along one of Cumbria's narrow footpaths into a forgotten world? P.S. For those who loved my previous tweet about smoots, these narrow cut-throughs are known in Cumbrian dialect as 'squeezy guts' (because you have to squeeze your gut to get through).

City pigeons 🕊️ inspired by my love for these birds and their unfairly bad reputation

As an ex-weaver (what a grand term when all I did was dabble!) at the Museum of Carpet, I am very excited to go and check this out

Really enjoyed helping support the International Youth and Horror conference at uni of Bham last week. I also got to sit in on some fascinating talks!