The Museo del Purgatorio (Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory) in Rome has a small collection of 'relics' from 13th c. onwards, such as this singed handprint on a devotional text, believed to be the product of trapped souls begging their earth-bound loved ones to pray harder.🖐

17 February 1958. The pressure group Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) held its first public meeting at the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster, London. Since then CND has been at the forefront of the peace movement in the UK.

And now for sleep... (p.s.not my current view but something to imagine as I close my eyes utterly exhausted) *

📣The programme for our 2025 conference is out now! 👉Read it here (scroll down to 'Conference Programme'): socialhistory.org.uk/events/confere… ✨Take a look at the amazing array of social & cultural history on show!🗃️

For all you researching and revising today, here one of my favorite artworks: Gerard Dou's Old Woman Reading of c. 1630-1635, Rijksmuseum. Her book is opened to the Gospel of Luke, and a passage on giving to the poor.

Something's rotten in the state of England

Paul Parker, recording clerk for Quakers in Britain, said: "No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory." * quaker.org.uk/news-and-event…

Please pray and spread the word about our Monastic Experience Weekends! We welcomed 5 young women in February Now we are planning the June weekend 🙏

Ozempic, brow lift, buccal fat removal, three nose jobs

Sketches of Voltaire aged 81, by Baron Dominique Vivant Denon, just 2 yrs before the great Enlightenment thinker would pass away, #onthisday in 1778. Learn about his relationship to Buddhism in Donald S. Lopez, Jr.'s essay "Voltaire and the Buddha" — publicdomainreview.org/essay/voltaire…

Help! What does the inscription say... Je suis seul reyne? #twitterstorians #nuntastic #jansenism *

From “Preservation,” by Sylvie Baumgartel. Read the full poem: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Aqb8Cb

Running throughout September, Open Doors is a month-long celebration of Welsh heritage, and many of our churches in Wales will be participating in this year’s programme. 📷 St Mary's, Tal-y-Llyn, Anglesey

'Listening to the past – sound archives at the Library of Birmingham Archives' is coming up LibraryofBirmingham on 16th Sept as part of Bham Heritage Week Places still available, details here: birminghamheritageweek.co.uk/event/listenin…

A Vanitas Still Life with a Flag, Candlestick, Musical Instruments, Books, Writing Paraphernalia, Globes and Hourglass. Edwaert Collier, 1662. (Art Institute Chicago)

I was at Barking Town Hall today to watch Zack Polanski welcome our new local councillors & witness the Green tide rise ever higher into Labour heartlands, with three defections to the Greens giving us the first opposition party block at London Borough of Barking & Dagenham since

There are these days when Sisyphus readily comes to mind. (Titian, Museo del Prado)

Ouverture au Musée du Louvre de la rétrospective exceptionnelle consacrée à Jacques-Louis David à l’occasion du bicentenaire de la mort de l’artiste. On peut notamment y admirer la version originale de La Mort de Marat, prêtée par les musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique.

British.

L'ancienne abbaye Saint-Remi de Reims, aujourd'hui musée municipal d'histoire et d'archéologie.