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Hello Twitter Early Modernists! Here's something I wrote for the Folger. nitter.cf/FolgerLibrary/status/9…
Celebrate #WorldTheatreDay with these reconstructions of the world's most famous theater. ow.ly/LPHJ30jbDv2
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’Tis the season for a biscuit set inspired by Victorian scrapbooking. 🍪
These festive scraps come from two scrapbooks in the @Powerhouse Collection, both thought to have been compiled by children between 1880 and 1890.

ALT A collection of 18 biscuits of different sizes and shapes. In the centre is a large rectangular biscuit with rounded edges, painted with a snowy church scene. Flanking that biscuit are two large roses in shades of yellow and magenta. At the top corners of the set are two tiny teacups: one features spindly text that reads 'Think of me when far away', and the other says 'With fond love for thee'. The other biscuits in the set include: small butterflies in vivid shades of red, blue, yellow, and orange; leaves; a duck; a Basset hound; tiny figures in historical dress; a water mill scene; a decorative oval with a short verse titled 'Remember me'; and a bouquet adorned with a banner that reads 'Wishing you a Happy New Year'.
My children are dancing like absolute wild things to How To Train Dragon and laughing hysterically #familysundays #joy
Exceptional show tonight of Dear Evan Hanson at @NottmPlayhouse. The cast, the stagecraft - blown away! #DEHUKTOUR
Utterly obsessed with the new @snowpatrol album. #perfection
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Said the sun to the moon
Said the head to the heart
'We have more in common
Than sets us apart'
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✨We are thrilled to release the Call for Papers for our Michaelmas Term Programme! The theme for this series of workshops is "Constructing Identities."✨
See below for submission information/deadlines, or DM us for a plain-text version! We can't wait to read your abstracts ✨
Book recommendations please. I already have the new Barbara Erskine in my basket but would like to spend some birthday money and think about something pleasant tonight. #BookTwitter #BookRecommendation
The joys of sandy, sun-blushed children, slightly sticky with suncream. #summerholidays
You know those perfect @nationaltrust Sundays? That. #SudburyHall #Memorymaking #Perfectsunday #Family
Last evening meeting ahead of my last day at Broxtowe tomorrow. My eight years have been a wild ride and I will miss so many amazing people. Bittersweet. Photo of my wonderful Mayors - I will miss them all.
Only I could attend my PhD graduation and get talking to a lovely, elderly gentleman at the train station who ended up being an anti-Stratfordian. He proceeded to tell me how wrong I was to believe ‘the Stratford man’ wrote the plays 🫠. Anyway, graduation was wonderful!
Little things that make my Monday morning. Sunshine on the walk to work and the most glorious smelling nectarine.
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Results for Broxtowe in the 2024 UK General Election:
Juliet Campbell (Lab) - 19,561
James Collis (Lib Dem) - 3,807
Doctor John Doddy (Ind) - 1,034
Darren Henry (Con) - 11,158
Teresa Needham (Green) - 3,488
Joseph Oakley (Reform UK) - 8,402
Maqsood Syed (Workers Party) - 388
Best thing I ever planted in my front garden - raspberries and blackcurrants. The kids love a cheeky fruit snack on the way in and out the house.
Everything is gearing up for my last election at Broxtowe BC tomorrow. #caffeineandharibo
Ah, parenting. Hearing your own phrases repeated. Three year old has just warned the five year old “don’t you even think about it” and they both giggled.
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TITANIA iconic images of Vivien Leigh as Titania in #Shakespeare, A #Midsummer Night's Dream, Old Vic Theatre, 1937. She was born to play the fae! #folkloreSunday #MythologyMonday























