Claire White
@chewy84.bsky.social
Book junkie. Partial to art, movies, cats, gardens, museums and Devonshire sunsets.
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Welsh artist Gwen John, Cat study, c.1904 #WomensArt
December 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Welsh artist Gwen John, Cat study, c.1904 #WomensArt
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#AshmoleanAdvent Day 20 brings Singing Pierides painted by Henry Stacy Marks on The Great Bookcase by William Burges.
Enormous, elaborate and highly decorated, the Great Bookcase was made to hold art books in the London office of William Burges (1827–1881).
Enormous, elaborate and highly decorated, the Great Bookcase was made to hold art books in the London office of William Burges (1827–1881).
December 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
#AshmoleanAdvent Day 20 brings Singing Pierides painted by Henry Stacy Marks on The Great Bookcase by William Burges.
Enormous, elaborate and highly decorated, the Great Bookcase was made to hold art books in the London office of William Burges (1827–1881).
Enormous, elaborate and highly decorated, the Great Bookcase was made to hold art books in the London office of William Burges (1827–1881).
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#AshmoleanAdvent Day 17: Embroidered cushion cover
Today’s Advent treat is this brightly-coloured cushion cover or wall hanging, bustling with dense embroidery.
In the intricate scene of intertwined flowers, figures and creatures, you can spot stags and various birds.
Today’s Advent treat is this brightly-coloured cushion cover or wall hanging, bustling with dense embroidery.
In the intricate scene of intertwined flowers, figures and creatures, you can spot stags and various birds.
December 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
#AshmoleanAdvent Day 17: Embroidered cushion cover
Today’s Advent treat is this brightly-coloured cushion cover or wall hanging, bustling with dense embroidery.
In the intricate scene of intertwined flowers, figures and creatures, you can spot stags and various birds.
Today’s Advent treat is this brightly-coloured cushion cover or wall hanging, bustling with dense embroidery.
In the intricate scene of intertwined flowers, figures and creatures, you can spot stags and various birds.
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Philip Pullman, Richard Osman, @joannechocolat.bsky.social & @katemossewriter.bsky.social are some of the authors calling for library membership to be linked to birth registration.
This is a subject very close to our hearts. Read more in @theobserveruk.bsky.social by @vanessathorpe.bsky.social
This is a subject very close to our hearts. Read more in @theobserveruk.bsky.social by @vanessathorpe.bsky.social
Library card plan to help write newborns’ first chapter | The Observer
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December 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Philip Pullman, Richard Osman, @joannechocolat.bsky.social & @katemossewriter.bsky.social are some of the authors calling for library membership to be linked to birth registration.
This is a subject very close to our hearts. Read more in @theobserveruk.bsky.social by @vanessathorpe.bsky.social
This is a subject very close to our hearts. Read more in @theobserveruk.bsky.social by @vanessathorpe.bsky.social
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my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
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1st December 2021
The Great Hall at Queens' College dates from 1448 and includes decorative features by William Morris, Ford Madox Brown and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Picture from my new book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.
The Great Hall at Queens' College dates from 1448 and includes decorative features by William Morris, Ford Madox Brown and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Picture from my new book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 AM
1st December 2021
The Great Hall at Queens' College dates from 1448 and includes decorative features by William Morris, Ford Madox Brown and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Picture from my new book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.
The Great Hall at Queens' College dates from 1448 and includes decorative features by William Morris, Ford Madox Brown and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Picture from my new book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.
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Flower Still Life, 1669 (detail) by Dutch painter Maria van Oosterwijck #womensart
November 18, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Flower Still Life, 1669 (detail) by Dutch painter Maria van Oosterwijck #womensart
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A classic Siberian #iris, one of the very first yellows, and so perfectly named - 'Butter And Sugar', from 1977. Multi-award winner, and an excellent garden plant. 🌱
November 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A classic Siberian #iris, one of the very first yellows, and so perfectly named - 'Butter And Sugar', from 1977. Multi-award winner, and an excellent garden plant. 🌱
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An embroidered folk artform known as Temari, meaning ‘hand ball’, given as special gifts in Japan #WomensArt
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
An embroidered folk artform known as Temari, meaning ‘hand ball’, given as special gifts in Japan #WomensArt
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Happy birthday to @bodleian.ox.ac.uk, which first opened its doors #otd in 1602. 423 years young today!
November 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Happy birthday to @bodleian.ox.ac.uk, which first opened its doors #otd in 1602. 423 years young today!
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Embroidery in suffrage colours of violet, white and green by UK Suffragette Janie Terrero, embroidered with the names of fellow hunger strikers imprisoned in Holloway Prison, 1912 #womensart
November 4, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Embroidery in suffrage colours of violet, white and green by UK Suffragette Janie Terrero, embroidered with the names of fellow hunger strikers imprisoned in Holloway Prison, 1912 #womensart
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News | Art Fund research proves that viewing art is good for the human body
‘Genuinely surprising’ study shows that original art benefits three different body systems all at once
Read: https://ow.ly/XKc150XjGh1
‘Genuinely surprising’ study shows that original art benefits three different body systems all at once
Read: https://ow.ly/XKc150XjGh1
October 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
News | Art Fund research proves that viewing art is good for the human body
‘Genuinely surprising’ study shows that original art benefits three different body systems all at once
Read: https://ow.ly/XKc150XjGh1
‘Genuinely surprising’ study shows that original art benefits three different body systems all at once
Read: https://ow.ly/XKc150XjGh1
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This 1841 watercolour is a painting by writer of 'Wuthering Heights' Emily Brontë. It depicts her pet merlin The bird of prey was rescued from the moors near her home and Brontë named the bird 'Nero'. The Brontë siblings all had good skills in art.
October 27, 2025 at 4:47 AM
This 1841 watercolour is a painting by writer of 'Wuthering Heights' Emily Brontë. It depicts her pet merlin The bird of prey was rescued from the moors near her home and Brontë named the bird 'Nero'. The Brontë siblings all had good skills in art.
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Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758), Scottish botanical illustrator known for the book "A Curious Herbal" 1737. Blackwell published her hand drawn, engraved and coloured work in order to raise funds to free her husband from debtors prison. #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
October 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758), Scottish botanical illustrator known for the book "A Curious Herbal" 1737. Blackwell published her hand drawn, engraved and coloured work in order to raise funds to free her husband from debtors prison. #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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Wheat sheaf, signature symbol of designer and manufacturer of stained glass Charles Eamer Kempe (1837–1907). St Mary’s Church, Wolborough, Newton Abbot, Devon.
#stainedglasssunday
#stainedglasssunday
October 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Wheat sheaf, signature symbol of designer and manufacturer of stained glass Charles Eamer Kempe (1837–1907). St Mary’s Church, Wolborough, Newton Abbot, Devon.
#stainedglasssunday
#stainedglasssunday
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26th October 2019
At the end of each tall bookcase in St John’s College Old Library there are two little doors concealing a list of the books on the shelves behind. These haven’t been updated since 1690 so someone really needs to get this sorted.
Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Time & Space'.
At the end of each tall bookcase in St John’s College Old Library there are two little doors concealing a list of the books on the shelves behind. These haven’t been updated since 1690 so someone really needs to get this sorted.
Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Time & Space'.
October 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
26th October 2019
At the end of each tall bookcase in St John’s College Old Library there are two little doors concealing a list of the books on the shelves behind. These haven’t been updated since 1690 so someone really needs to get this sorted.
Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Time & Space'.
At the end of each tall bookcase in St John’s College Old Library there are two little doors concealing a list of the books on the shelves behind. These haven’t been updated since 1690 so someone really needs to get this sorted.
Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Time & Space'.
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The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.
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While the artist originally intended to sell his flower studies to generate funds and devote his attention to other subjects, the still life paintings overshadowed his artistic output.
💐 Two Yellow Roses in a glass bud vase, 1871, by Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904). WA1937.42
💐 Two Yellow Roses in a glass bud vase, 1871, by Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904). WA1937.42
October 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
While the artist originally intended to sell his flower studies to generate funds and devote his attention to other subjects, the still life paintings overshadowed his artistic output.
💐 Two Yellow Roses in a glass bud vase, 1871, by Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904). WA1937.42
💐 Two Yellow Roses in a glass bud vase, 1871, by Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904). WA1937.42
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
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Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535) in stained glass at Harvington Hall.@Harvington
#stainedglasssunday
#tudor
#stainedglass
#stainedglasssunday
#tudor
#stainedglass
October 19, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535) in stained glass at Harvington Hall.@Harvington
#stainedglasssunday
#tudor
#stainedglass
#stainedglasssunday
#tudor
#stainedglass
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19th October 2020
The River Cam at Jesus Green appears to flow from the Alps.
Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Time & Space'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-ti... and all bookshops.
The River Cam at Jesus Green appears to flow from the Alps.
Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Time & Space'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-ti... and all bookshops.
October 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
19th October 2020
The River Cam at Jesus Green appears to flow from the Alps.
Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Time & Space'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-ti... and all bookshops.
The River Cam at Jesus Green appears to flow from the Alps.
Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Time & Space'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-ti... and all bookshops.