Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️
@minbutler.bsky.social
Assistant Curator @ Historic Royal Palaces 👑
Coffins, Palaces & Polar Explorers ❄️
“If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg” 🍒🐧 she/her 🌈 views my own ✨
Coffins, Palaces & Polar Explorers ❄️
“If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg” 🍒🐧 she/her 🌈 views my own ✨
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dont usually post art on main but we saw del toro’s frankenstein and it was the most beautiful and devastating thing I’ve ever seen @realgdt.bsky.social
Balloons, the Blitz and the Tower of London - a short piece I wrote for the HRP blog on Remembrance Day 🌺
www.hrp.org.uk/blog/barrage...
www.hrp.org.uk/blog/barrage...
November 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Balloons, the Blitz and the Tower of London - a short piece I wrote for the HRP blog on Remembrance Day 🌺
www.hrp.org.uk/blog/barrage...
www.hrp.org.uk/blog/barrage...
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It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat
“May you love this as much as we have. And may monsters inhabit your dreams and give you as much solace as they have given me. We are all creatures lost and found. For the journey is eternal, but so is the faith.”
November 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
“May you love this as much as we have. And may monsters inhabit your dreams and give you as much solace as they have given me. We are all creatures lost and found. For the journey is eternal, but so is the faith.”
dont usually post art on main but we saw del toro’s frankenstein and it was the most beautiful and devastating thing I’ve ever seen @realgdt.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
dont usually post art on main but we saw del toro’s frankenstein and it was the most beautiful and devastating thing I’ve ever seen @realgdt.bsky.social
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The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
vroom vroom 🏎️ 🏁✈️
October 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
vroom vroom 🏎️ 🏁✈️
October 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Oscar on set (honoring Wrightson)
October 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Oscar on set (honoring Wrightson)
Very cool bit of scaffolding at Hampton Court!
It depicts the palace’s iconic ‘Great Gatehouse’ as Wolsey would have known it, standing two storeys higher than the current structure today 🏰
It depicts the palace’s iconic ‘Great Gatehouse’ as Wolsey would have known it, standing two storeys higher than the current structure today 🏰
September 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Very cool bit of scaffolding at Hampton Court!
It depicts the palace’s iconic ‘Great Gatehouse’ as Wolsey would have known it, standing two storeys higher than the current structure today 🏰
It depicts the palace’s iconic ‘Great Gatehouse’ as Wolsey would have known it, standing two storeys higher than the current structure today 🏰
you know you’ve been in the TNA too long when you shut your eyes and can still see your order locker
September 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
you know you’ve been in the TNA too long when you shut your eyes and can still see your order locker
visited our oxford so had to revisit lyra’s oxford 🧭🐻❄️🌌
September 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
visited our oxford so had to revisit lyra’s oxford 🧭🐻❄️🌌
Oxford ⛈️🏛️👻📚
September 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Oxford ⛈️🏛️👻📚
The legendary Sir Peter Scott at the WWT London Wetland Centre - full disclosure, I spotted him from a distance and thought “I’d know that (inherited) forehead anywhere!”
September 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The legendary Sir Peter Scott at the WWT London Wetland Centre - full disclosure, I spotted him from a distance and thought “I’d know that (inherited) forehead anywhere!”
Stunning stuff! 🇦🇶
Check out this BBC article for a few quotes from SPRI staff alongside exciting footage of the Terra Nova shipwreck.
Terra Nova: Captain Scott’s polar ship filmed on the sea floor
The Terra Nova carried Captain Scott and his men on their doomed expedition to the South Pole.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Stunning stuff! 🇦🇶
August 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
August 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Maybe the most beautiful possible description of what an essay can do, what I feel my job is. Of course it's from Patricia Lockwood.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
August 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Maybe the most beautiful possible description of what an essay can do, what I feel my job is. Of course it's from Patricia Lockwood.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Reposted by Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️
BBC News have carefully written up Dennis' story, including interviews with his brother, David.
You can read that article here ⬇️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You can read that article here ⬇️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
British man who perished in Antarctic glacier found 65 years later
His brother tells BBC News that he had lost hope he would ever be found.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
BBC News have carefully written up Dennis' story, including interviews with his brother, David.
You can read that article here ⬇️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You can read that article here ⬇️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Minette Butler ⚰️🏰⚓️
It's August and there's only one question that matters.
Are you Beechey Body Ready?
Are you Beechey Body Ready?
August 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
It's August and there's only one question that matters.
Are you Beechey Body Ready?
Are you Beechey Body Ready?
The most scandalous man in Elizabethan England? Forgot to share this little piece I wrote about Robert Dudley last month 🗡️🏰👑🥬
www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-lon...
www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-lon...
August 1, 2025 at 7:31 AM
The most scandalous man in Elizabethan England? Forgot to share this little piece I wrote about Robert Dudley last month 🗡️🏰👑🥬
www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-lon...
www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-lon...
nice little eBay find 🇦🇶
July 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
nice little eBay find 🇦🇶
the sky was a paid actor
July 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
the sky was a paid actor
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Jane, Lady Franklin died OTD in 1875, aged 83. She was interred in the catacombs of Kensal Green Cemetery, and I'm not kidding when I say that getting down there to pay my respects in person was one of the best days of my life.
www.illuminator.blog/p/jane-catac...
www.illuminator.blog/p/jane-catac...
Vault 61: Jane Franklin in the Catacombs of Kensal Green Cemetery.
By Logan Zachary & Alison Freebairn. April 7th, 2024. { ▽ Jane Franklin, nameplate and coffin. } Jane Franklin’s final resting place ...
www.illuminator.blog
July 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Jane, Lady Franklin died OTD in 1875, aged 83. She was interred in the catacombs of Kensal Green Cemetery, and I'm not kidding when I say that getting down there to pay my respects in person was one of the best days of my life.
www.illuminator.blog/p/jane-catac...
www.illuminator.blog/p/jane-catac...
looking through caricatures on the npg and william iv is giving big golden path energy
July 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
looking through caricatures on the npg and william iv is giving big golden path energy