Simon Stallworthy
@simsta.bsky.social
Post. Grad. Renaissance Studies student at the Warburg Institute. In a previous life Director of Wycombe Swan, Gala Theatre Durham, Bolton Octagon & Hull Truck.
Looking forward to this tomorrow…
There's still time to sign up for our hybrid Historic Wills Transcribathon, this Thurs 24 July, 1-4pm BST:
willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com 📅🕐
Join us online or in person in Exeter & help us transcribe early modern wills 📜✍️
We'll email registered attendees with joining info in the next 2 days 💻
willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com 📅🕐
Join us online or in person in Exeter & help us transcribe early modern wills 📜✍️
We'll email registered attendees with joining info in the next 2 days 💻
July 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Looking forward to this tomorrow…
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Thank you, Bristol, for a terrific #RenSoc25 & for being amazing hosts! It was fabulous to hear such erudite papers & talk with a brilliant bunch of people. Looking forward to seeing y’all at #RenSoc27, where @warburginstitute.bsky.social will be our hosts in our DIAMOND anniversary year! #SRSlyGood
a close up of a diamond with blue spots on it
ALT: a close up of a diamond with blue spots on it
media.tenor.com
July 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Thank you, Bristol, for a terrific #RenSoc25 & for being amazing hosts! It was fabulous to hear such erudite papers & talk with a brilliant bunch of people. Looking forward to seeing y’all at #RenSoc27, where @warburginstitute.bsky.social will be our hosts in our DIAMOND anniversary year! #SRSlyGood
Also opening this week…
June 18, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Also opening this week…
Christ Church Picture Gallery's next exhibition begins tomorrow and marks the 500th anniversary of the founding of Christ Church by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in 1525.
June 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Christ Church Picture Gallery's next exhibition begins tomorrow and marks the 500th anniversary of the founding of Christ Church by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in 1525.
Today is the feast day of Saint Filippo Neri, who Walter Friedlaender identified as a vital influence on the realism of Caravaggio; “the character of Caravaggio’s later works cannot be fully understood without considering Filippo’s principles and religious activities”.
Madonna di Loreto c.1605
Madonna di Loreto c.1605
May 26, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Today is the feast day of Saint Filippo Neri, who Walter Friedlaender identified as a vital influence on the realism of Caravaggio; “the character of Caravaggio’s later works cannot be fully understood without considering Filippo’s principles and religious activities”.
Madonna di Loreto c.1605
Madonna di Loreto c.1605
Today is the feast of Saint George, and a good excuse for this wonderful Crivelli in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
April 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Today is the feast of Saint George, and a good excuse for this wonderful Crivelli in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
You try and insert one image in your essay, and it’s like you have set off a formatting explosion! Suddenly, the entire essay is triple-spaced, italic, in some strange font, and all the footnotes have vanished forever!
April 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
You try and insert one image in your essay, and it’s like you have set off a formatting explosion! Suddenly, the entire essay is triple-spaced, italic, in some strange font, and all the footnotes have vanished forever!
Resurrection of Christ, Carlo Crivelli, 1482
April 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Resurrection of Christ, Carlo Crivelli, 1482
In an excellent piece of time management I have just spent an hour finding the right Caravaggio images for my monitor displays wallpaper before I start my next essay…
April 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM
In an excellent piece of time management I have just spent an hour finding the right Caravaggio images for my monitor displays wallpaper before I start my next essay…
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The Warburg shop is open! 🎉
With lots of lovely items to buy in person when you visit the Institute.
With lots of lovely items to buy in person when you visit the Institute.
February 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The Warburg shop is open! 🎉
With lots of lovely items to buy in person when you visit the Institute.
With lots of lovely items to buy in person when you visit the Institute.
The Hoar Stone, Enstone, Oxfordshire (and my bike!).
#standingstonesunday
#standingstonesunday
December 29, 2024 at 9:05 AM
The Hoar Stone, Enstone, Oxfordshire (and my bike!).
#standingstonesunday
#standingstonesunday
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🎅 Want to try a new activity over Christmas? 🎅
Why not head over to our @zooniverse.bsky.social site and have a go at reading and correcting transcriptions of Tudor, Stuart, & Georgian wills - just like the will of Mary Partridge 📜✍️ #CitizenScience #Skystorians
www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
Why not head over to our @zooniverse.bsky.social site and have a go at reading and correcting transcriptions of Tudor, Stuart, & Georgian wills - just like the will of Mary Partridge 📜✍️ #CitizenScience #Skystorians
www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
The Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790 | Zooniverse - People-powered research
Help us transcribe wills from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and reveal how ownership of, and attitudes towards, objects changed in a period of economic transformation
www.zooniverse.org
December 16, 2024 at 7:28 AM
🎅 Want to try a new activity over Christmas? 🎅
Why not head over to our @zooniverse.bsky.social site and have a go at reading and correcting transcriptions of Tudor, Stuart, & Georgian wills - just like the will of Mary Partridge 📜✍️ #CitizenScience #Skystorians
www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
Why not head over to our @zooniverse.bsky.social site and have a go at reading and correcting transcriptions of Tudor, Stuart, & Georgian wills - just like the will of Mary Partridge 📜✍️ #CitizenScience #Skystorians
www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
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🎨 For a more practice based course, try 'Introduction to Making Medieval Manuscripts' with @saracharles.bsky.social and Steve Lawes🖌️
Date: June 9-13, 2025!
See more and book here: buff.ly/40yIysh
#Manuscripts #Medieval
Date: June 9-13, 2025!
See more and book here: buff.ly/40yIysh
#Manuscripts #Medieval
November 28, 2024 at 9:48 AM
🎨 For a more practice based course, try 'Introduction to Making Medieval Manuscripts' with @saracharles.bsky.social and Steve Lawes🖌️
Date: June 9-13, 2025!
See more and book here: buff.ly/40yIysh
#Manuscripts #Medieval
Date: June 9-13, 2025!
See more and book here: buff.ly/40yIysh
#Manuscripts #Medieval
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✍️ Are you interested in #palaeography but feeling intimidated or not sure how to begin? #medievalsky
💻@danielsawyer.bsky.social has shared some helpful tips and recommended resources on @drlauravarnam.bsky.social's excellent blog: drlauravarnam.wordpress.com/2019/10/03/top
💻@danielsawyer.bsky.social has shared some helpful tips and recommended resources on @drlauravarnam.bsky.social's excellent blog: drlauravarnam.wordpress.com/2019/10/03/top
Top Tips for Approaching Palaeography (guest post from Daniel Sawyer)
I am delighted to be hosting this guest post on Approaching Palaeography from my colleague Daniel Sawyer, the Fitzjames Research Fellow in Medieval English Literature at Merton College, Oxford. Dan…
drlauravarnam.wordpress.com
December 6, 2024 at 1:52 PM
✍️ Are you interested in #palaeography but feeling intimidated or not sure how to begin? #medievalsky
💻@danielsawyer.bsky.social has shared some helpful tips and recommended resources on @drlauravarnam.bsky.social's excellent blog: drlauravarnam.wordpress.com/2019/10/03/top
💻@danielsawyer.bsky.social has shared some helpful tips and recommended resources on @drlauravarnam.bsky.social's excellent blog: drlauravarnam.wordpress.com/2019/10/03/top
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London friends! One week from tonight! I’ll be speaking at the IHR in Senate House about a largely forgotten 13th-century prophet, what he said about the Crusades, and how it inspired this gorgeous painted altarpiece. Sign up, if you’ve got the time! www.history.ac.uk/events/alexa...
December 2, 2024 at 4:21 PM
London friends! One week from tonight! I’ll be speaking at the IHR in Senate House about a largely forgotten 13th-century prophet, what he said about the Crusades, and how it inspired this gorgeous painted altarpiece. Sign up, if you’ve got the time! www.history.ac.uk/events/alexa...
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📢 Early Seventeenth-Century Wills now on Zooniverse! 📢
We've just launched a new batch of wills dating from 1604-1608 📜
You can find these new wills under 'Checking Transcriptions - Master - Seventeenth Century' ✍️⏳
@zooniverse.bsky.social #history #earlymodern
www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
We've just launched a new batch of wills dating from 1604-1608 📜
You can find these new wills under 'Checking Transcriptions - Master - Seventeenth Century' ✍️⏳
@zooniverse.bsky.social #history #earlymodern
www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
The Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790 | Zooniverse - People-powered research
Help us transcribe wills from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and reveal how ownership of, and attitudes towards, objects changed in a period of economic transformation
www.zooniverse.org
December 2, 2024 at 9:24 AM
📢 Early Seventeenth-Century Wills now on Zooniverse! 📢
We've just launched a new batch of wills dating from 1604-1608 📜
You can find these new wills under 'Checking Transcriptions - Master - Seventeenth Century' ✍️⏳
@zooniverse.bsky.social #history #earlymodern
www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
We've just launched a new batch of wills dating from 1604-1608 📜
You can find these new wills under 'Checking Transcriptions - Master - Seventeenth Century' ✍️⏳
@zooniverse.bsky.social #history #earlymodern
www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
Looking forward to visiting this...
Secrets of the Sibyls – Sandro Botticelli, Filippino Lippi and artistic practice in Florence
The Christ Church Sibyls, two paintings each showing five sibyls (sibyl = female prophet) have intrigued scholars and visitors alike. They were created by two of the most ingenious artists of the Flor...
www.chch.ox.ac.uk
December 2, 2024 at 9:07 AM
Looking forward to visiting this...
Facebook just reminded me that ten years ago I was producing Christmas shows, and now I'm at the Warburg. Sadly it didn't caption the image "From panto to Panofsky" Chanced missed, I feel.
November 22, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Facebook just reminded me that ten years ago I was producing Christmas shows, and now I'm at the Warburg. Sadly it didn't caption the image "From panto to Panofsky" Chanced missed, I feel.
Brights lights, big city - London from the Thames shoreline
November 20, 2024 at 8:10 AM
Brights lights, big city - London from the Thames shoreline
Slightly deep, a bit crisp, fairly even….
November 19, 2024 at 7:22 AM
Slightly deep, a bit crisp, fairly even….
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There's still time to apply for a Bodleian Library Fellowship. This year for the first time one of them is in Polish Studies!
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Visiting Fellowships at the Bodleian Libraries
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
November 16, 2024 at 10:32 PM
There's still time to apply for a Bodleian Library Fellowship. This year for the first time one of them is in Polish Studies!
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Part of Carlo Crivelli’s Camerino Triptych painted in 1482, and Spiral galaxy NGC 628, located 32 million light-years away seen with the James Web space telescope. Coincidence? I don’t think so…
November 16, 2024 at 10:23 AM
Part of Carlo Crivelli’s Camerino Triptych painted in 1482, and Spiral galaxy NGC 628, located 32 million light-years away seen with the James Web space telescope. Coincidence? I don’t think so…
