Isabelle Prim

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Music librarian. Churchcrawling, art, stained glass, Baroque music, manuscripts, ships. Also #embroidery, mostly cross stitch and blackwork 🪡
Learning Welsh <3 Ych a fi !
Profile picture by glass artist Nancy Sutcliffe + mask by Insta honteuzaikonfu

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🐈‍⬛🎃☠️ For sale! On my Etsy shop for Halloween - Victorian & Mid-century prints of writhing snakes, toads, stormy petrels, and iridescent beetles. Edwardian sepia postcards of long-demolished hospitals, ghostly soldiers & gas-lit streets. Prices from £5 only! etsy.com/shop/Sourisd...

Snakes and toadsA stormy petrelBeetlesAn abandoned hospital
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Every single time I posted political content with no exception I got a lot of hateful/angry comments on Instagram. Yesterday I posted about the student protests in France so I was kinda expecting some insults, and… Nothing. Just 200+ nice comments. I wonder if it could be connected to this.

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Day 11 of #31DaysOfGraves - Humorous

It's almost impossibly not to picture Shaun the Sheep and his flock rampaging through this historic graveyard, fully armed and clad in armour, if visitors fail to heed the warning sign on the gate outside the ruined Kildalton Chapel on the Island of Islay.

A green sign is fixed to a gate with the words "Marauding sheep will be our fate if you do not close this gate" printed on it.The ruined Kildalton Chapel sits in the background, under a sunny sky with trees behind, and in the foreground sits the medieval "Thief's Cross", surrounded by iron railings. The 8th century Kildalton Cross sits in the centre of the image. A large Celtic "wheel cross", with richly carved bosses and interlacing knotwork. Other, later gravestones sit behind and it is surrounded by grass and a stone wall. A medieval graveslab showing a warrior in full West Highland style armour of the 14th-15th century and a large sword in his scabbard has been fixed to the wall for safe-keeping (perhaps from marauding sheep!)
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The totally stunning ceiling in the (equally stunning room) in Bishop West’s Chantry Chapel, Ely Cathedral 😍 The detail and surviving colours are amazing! West was chaplain to Henry VII and a diplomatic envoy to Henry VIII.

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Got my precious back from mum, who was looking after it while we packed and moved and failed to unpack and then unpacked a bit and so on and so forth and where was I going with this? moving is hell

A creeper pot by @roseschmits.bsky.social on a dresser. She's a small vase with octopoid legs, one of which is stuck out in front at a very 'look at my fabulous shoes' angle. Her vase has done paintbrushes in, and behind her are a chunk of marble with 'arse' carved into it, and various bits of crockery
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In Blois for the history fest and it is absurdly joyful. Massive book fair! Enormous queues for talks! Teachers, academics, publishers, podcasters, librarians, all having a fab natter about history! Making history supporting the “mouvement social”! This is the discipline that’s not worth saving?

Picture of a hand holding a booklet about Natalie Zemon Davis in front of a castlePicture of a banner at the entrance of a university building in support of the pupils who are pulling up barricades
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October leaf palette. If you zoom in to the colours and details it will dial down stress a little and help you recover if there's any angst for you later today (research has shown this)🍁🍂🌾🌿

Leaves from 6 different trees & shrubs collected in October and arranged to create a colour shift echoing a rainbow
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The gilt arms of Augustus, Elector of Saxony (1526-86). On the ‘Elogia’ (biographical sketches) of the Italian humanist Paolo Giovio (Basel, 1556). Augustus had extensive museum collections, including the famous mechanical galleon now in the British Museum. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social SSS.33.21.

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In Canto 18 of his Inferno, Dante puts a lot of people from Bologna in Hell, and mentions their local word for 'yes': sipa. Words for 'yes' matter to Dante; he's the first on record to recognise sì, òc and oïl as alternatives in Romance – hence the lenga d'òc (Occitan) and langues d'oïl in France.

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The late 12th Century Galilee Chapel at Durham Cathedral, dominated by the shrine of St Bede. The large collection of medieval and continental glass in this chapel was set here in the 1960s. It includes glass from Ackworth Grange, Warwick Priory and several York churches.

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Opinions vary as to whether these corbels at Tewkesbury Abbey depict either Adam and Eve or the founders of the Abbey Robert Fitzhamon and his wife.
Whichever is correct, I particularly like the positioning of their arms and hands, it looks so natural.
#SundayStonework

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