Today I've been back at my desk colouring #RomeoAndJuliet. Thanks to all my #Kickstarter supporters, especially the ones who've sent their photos to be included in the party scene. Awaiting 1 face and that'll be next on the to do list #workinprogress #shakespeare #GraphicNovel

Weekend Link Dump: Unsolved murders, ghostly catfights, haunted churches, kidnapped actors, the Blue Dogs of Chernobyl & more! strangeco.blogspot.com/2025/10/weeken…

If A Pumpkin… and other stories. More comics by kids in my Comic Art Masterclasses last week kevfcomicart.blogspot.com/2025/11/if-pum… Greenwich Centre Library Woolwich Centre Library Watersmeet Wakefield Libraries Royal Greenwich Libraries Royal Borough of Greenwich Better #LoveLibraries

My exhibition draws inspiration from "Afric-American Picture Gallery," an 1859 essay by the African American journalist William J. Wilson. In the text, Wilson imagines a museum filled with artworks and objects that represent African and Afro-Diasporic history and culture. His

Dear Friends, Please help us celebrate #ChristmasCardDay, and the brilliant Sir Henry Cole who invented them, by filling your local postboxes with Christmas cards on 9th December. More info via the link. Yours in early Christmas cheer, Dinah 🥳🎄📮🎉 …dwrittenletterappreciationsociety.org/lets-make-chri…

On this night in 1605 Guy Fawkes waits patiently in a cellar below the House of Lords. At 9 am as the King, Lords & Bishops open Parliament he plans to light a fuse to change British history forever! I loved writing about Guy and the gunpowder plotters in The Real Guy Fawkes

'The Homestead and the Forest' Cot Quilt, 1900, a collaboration between textile designer May Morris and her embroiderer mother Jane Morris #WomensArt

I always enjoy an opportunity to post this ~ Alphonse Bertillon, pioneer of the front-&-profile criminal mugshot, did some practice runs with his nephew, a notoriously hardened criminal, aged 2. His crime? 'Nibbling pears' (Silver albumen print, 1893 MoMA)

OTD - 05/11/1605 - the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot and apprehension of Guy Fawkes. 'There was unquestionably a Chuzzlewit in the Gunpowder Plot, if indeed the arch-traitor, Fawkes himself, were not a scion of this remarkable stock; as he might easily have been.' MC 1

From the archives of All Things Georgian, 'Remember, Remember the 5th of November' - wp.me/p3JTNy-2Ok

Still time register for our next online collections and archives talk ... 'The Roaming Studio: The Itinerant Photographer in Berwick-upon-Tweed' on Tuesday 11th November 2025 (1900 GMT) with Cameron Robertson. events.rps.org/en/historical-…

Coast Ice Cream Kiosk, Colwyn Road, Llandudno #shopfrontfriday

Elizabeth Barry, died #OTD in 1713. One of the most celebrated actresses of her time. Her remarkable life is portrayed in ‘ACTRESSES OF THE RESTORATION PERIOD’: Mrs Elizabeth Barry & Mrs Anne Bracegirdle. Pen & Sword Books P&S History pen-and-sword.co.uk/Actresses-of-t… amazon.co.uk/Actresses-Rest…

Timeline cleanse 🫖

Today's mystery figurine - does anyone recognise this girl, found this morning? We wonder if she might be quite old. She's made of plastic.

The British Museum’s ‘refreshment department’ menu from 1900

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I’m truly honoured to be on this list and looking forward to meeting the other authors on 2nd December. Yale UP has a 50% off sale this November, so the pbk of my book’s a snip at just under £6. A good stocking filler, & I’m v happy to sign & send! Nigel J.Hetherington 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 StAndrew'sEnglish

We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December. To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches. Find out more: