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57alan.bsky.social
@57alan.bsky.social
Historian of British intelligence and espionage
Suetonius on Caligula
August 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Heavily symbolic wherever you live
August 24, 2025 at 8:14 AM
August 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Croesus on the pyre from an Attic Vase
August 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I could have been a contender
August 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
August 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Familiar
August 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
August 8, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Roman fragment
August 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Francois Tomb in Vulci, Italy, a fresco portrait of Vel Saties, an Etruscan aristocrat
August 5, 2025 at 7:16 AM
August 4, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Iron and Coal - by William Bell Scott
( with the little girl at the left ignoring Heath and safety issues / fire, hammers, hot metal etc )
July 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
July 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Strong room Corbridge
July 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Sol
July 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Corbridge lion
July 29, 2025 at 10:59 AM
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah…
July 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Rome
July 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
July 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Must have been a bit more attractive to the in crowd in the 30s
July 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Nice spot for a Roman villa Lake Garda
July 20, 2025 at 6:23 AM
July 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
July 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Or Bring me the head of Thomas More if you like
July 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Fountain at villa near Lucca
July 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM