Gail Savage
@savagegl.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain with interests including family, law, gender.
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It’s official. @dougjones.bsky.social will run against Tommy Tuberville for Alabama governor. www.al.com/life/2025/11...
Doug Jones will enter 2026 Alabama governor’s race
Campaign paperwork is to be filed this week.
www.al.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
It’s official. @dougjones.bsky.social will run against Tommy Tuberville for Alabama governor. www.al.com/life/2025/11...
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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23 A Spanish family in their elegantly abundant garden in 1679. Plus dogs. Painted by Jan van Kessel II of Antwerp, whose day is today.
November 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
23 A Spanish family in their elegantly abundant garden in 1679. Plus dogs. Painted by Jan van Kessel II of Antwerp, whose day is today.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Democrats scored big in school board races across Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio — flipping dozens of seats.
The party's candidates pushed issues regarding test scores and bus safety over debates about which bathrooms transgender students use and banning books from school libraries.
The party's candidates pushed issues regarding test scores and bus safety over debates about which bathrooms transgender students use and banning books from school libraries.
In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards
The party recruited and invested in school board races to oust Republicans. It worked.
www.politico.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Democrats scored big in school board races across Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio — flipping dozens of seats.
The party's candidates pushed issues regarding test scores and bus safety over debates about which bathrooms transgender students use and banning books from school libraries.
The party's candidates pushed issues regarding test scores and bus safety over debates about which bathrooms transgender students use and banning books from school libraries.
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Born on this day in 1819, George Eliot. Here's my favourite bit from the greatest English novel - Eliot's concluding paean to Middlemarch's heroine, Dorothea (who, among other things worked to improve the housing of the local agricultural labourers). Here's to all the Dorotheas, past and present.
November 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Born on this day in 1819, George Eliot. Here's my favourite bit from the greatest English novel - Eliot's concluding paean to Middlemarch's heroine, Dorothea (who, among other things worked to improve the housing of the local agricultural labourers). Here's to all the Dorotheas, past and present.
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2/2 Two more beauties from the 1660s (one of them armed!) by Jan Mytens.
November 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
2/2 Two more beauties from the 1660s (one of them armed!) by Jan Mytens.
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Beautiful portrait of a girl picking grapes, painted by Jan Mytens of The Hague, whose day is today.
November 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Beautiful portrait of a girl picking grapes, painted by Jan Mytens of The Hague, whose day is today.
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Galley Common war memorial. St. Peter’s Church, Galley Common, Warwickshire. First and Second World Wars. #LestWeForget
November 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Galley Common war memorial. St. Peter’s Church, Galley Common, Warwickshire. First and Second World Wars. #LestWeForget
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Historian of Ancient Greece Claire Taylor has an important, open access article on "Women, gender and the ancient economy: towards a feminist economic history of the ancient Greek world" in JHS 🧶 I really like this as a method for recovering more invisible labor. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
![oinochoe
Object Type
oinochoe
Museum number
1873,0820.304
Description
Pottery: White-ground oinochoe.
A woman in a long sleeved, dotted chiton, a bordered himation, and sandals, with earrings, bracelets, and hair wound into a ball on the neck and fastened with a fillet, standing to right, twisting between the thumb and first finger of her right hand a thread from a hank of wool on a distaff which she holds up with her left. On…
Producer name
Attributed to: The Brygos Painter
Cultures/periods
Attic
Production date
490BC-470BC (circa)
Production place
Made in: Attica (Greece)
Europe: Greece: Attica (Greece)
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot: Locri (said to be from)
Europe: Italy: Calabria: Reggio di Calabria (province): Locri
Materials
pottery
Ware
White Ground
Dimensions
Height: 21.59 centimetres
Inscriptions
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription position: on shoulder/body of vase
Inscription language: Greek
Inscription script: Greek
Inscription content: HE ΠAIΣ KAΛΕ
Inscription transliteration: ή παΐς καλή
Inscription translation: the girl [is] beautiful
Inscription note: 'kalos' inscription, painted pre-firing
Curator's comments
BM Cat. Vases
The type of face is very similar to that of the Hera on the Brygos cup, BM Vase Ε65; the dotted dress also suit the style of this artist.
Bibliographic references
Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (D13)
Location
On display (G69/dc5)
Exhibition history
Exhibited:
2006 8 Jun-4 Sep, Los Angeles, The Getty Villa, The Colors of Clay
2015, 26 Mar-5 Jul, The British Museum, Defining Beauty: the body in ancient Greek art.
Subjects
spinner/spinning
Acquisition name
Purchased from: Alessandro Castellani
Department
Greek and Roman
Registration number
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November 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Historian of Ancient Greece Claire Taylor has an important, open access article on "Women, gender and the ancient economy: towards a feminist economic history of the ancient Greek world" in JHS 🧶 I really like this as a method for recovering more invisible labor. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Charles I in 1631. Just an ordinary super-well-dressed guy! As in this portrait by Daniel Mytens.
November 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Charles I in 1631. Just an ordinary super-well-dressed guy! As in this portrait by Daniel Mytens.
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11/22/1819 — b. Mary Ann Evans, British author, poet, essayist, journalist, and translator. Pseudonym "George Elliot," one of the most acclaimed English novelists of the Victorian era. One of few female writers during this period to experiment with realism #womenshistory #womenwriters #BookSky #BOTD
November 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
11/22/1819 — b. Mary Ann Evans, British author, poet, essayist, journalist, and translator. Pseudonym "George Elliot," one of the most acclaimed English novelists of the Victorian era. One of few female writers during this period to experiment with realism #womenshistory #womenwriters #BookSky #BOTD
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2/2 Avid traveler & all-around shopper Alethea Talbot, wife of Earl of Arundel, at their London home w/ paintings gallery. By Daniel Mytens.
November 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
2/2 Avid traveler & all-around shopper Alethea Talbot, wife of Earl of Arundel, at their London home w/ paintings gallery. By Daniel Mytens.
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Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, giving a little art history lesson in his magnificent sculpture gallery in 1618. Portrait by Daniel Mytens, whose day is today.
November 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, giving a little art history lesson in his magnificent sculpture gallery in 1618. Portrait by Daniel Mytens, whose day is today.
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James Hamilton, Earl of Arran & later Duke of Hamilton, aged 17 in 1623. Be sure to check out his A+ red hose! Painted by Daniel Mytens, whose day is today.
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
James Hamilton, Earl of Arran & later Duke of Hamilton, aged 17 in 1623. Be sure to check out his A+ red hose! Painted by Daniel Mytens, whose day is today.
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‼️ Friends, this is very important. Please share to whoever this may concern, especially if you are in the United States.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
‼️ Friends, this is very important. Please share to whoever this may concern, especially if you are in the United States.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
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A Bonus day: TWO birthdayless artists! Daniel Mytens, mostly of London, and his nephew Jan Mytens, mostly of The Hague. Here Handsome Dan's self-portrait from 1630. Historical hottie du jour!
November 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
A Bonus day: TWO birthdayless artists! Daniel Mytens, mostly of London, and his nephew Jan Mytens, mostly of The Hague. Here Handsome Dan's self-portrait from 1630. Historical hottie du jour!
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Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
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Writing an essay on murals and public art; so many pieces of work commissioned for the Festival of Britain in 1951 were destroyed when it closed. Edward Bawden's colossal 'Country Life' (47 feet by 36 feet) depicting scenes from national life is officially 'lost.'
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Writing an essay on murals and public art; so many pieces of work commissioned for the Festival of Britain in 1951 were destroyed when it closed. Edward Bawden's colossal 'Country Life' (47 feet by 36 feet) depicting scenes from national life is officially 'lost.'
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I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
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Big bold cat tormenting prissy little dogs. Painted in 1652 by Paulus Potter, whose day is today.
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Big bold cat tormenting prissy little dogs. Painted in 1652 by Paulus Potter, whose day is today.
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Monument to the glories of livestock: a young bull, and his friends, in 1647. By Paulus Potter, who was born on this day in 1625.
November 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Monument to the glories of livestock: a young bull, and his friends, in 1647. By Paulus Potter, who was born on this day in 1625.
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2/2 Sheep and cattle in a field, painted in 1648 by Paulus Potter, painter of cattle (& sometimes other animals). His day is today.
November 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
2/2 Sheep and cattle in a field, painted in 1648 by Paulus Potter, painter of cattle (& sometimes other animals). His day is today.
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Born on this day in 1625, Paulus Potter, who painted mostly animals w/ specialty in cattle. Here portrayed as a busy yet dashing artist by Bartholomeus van der Helst in 1654.
November 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Born on this day in 1625, Paulus Potter, who painted mostly animals w/ specialty in cattle. Here portrayed as a busy yet dashing artist by Bartholomeus van der Helst in 1654.
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Head of a young man, an amazing study by Michaelina Wautiers. It used to be attributed to Jacob van Oost, whose day is today, so I'm popping it up here with kudos to her!
November 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Head of a young man, an amazing study by Michaelina Wautiers. It used to be attributed to Jacob van Oost, whose day is today, so I'm popping it up here with kudos to her!