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Flynn Allott
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Lecturer @ SPC Oxford. Asst. Ed. @ Imago Mundi. Ferimus ea quae sunt ferenda.
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Very excited to be running this conference with Paul Norris. Delighted to have @mcculloughp.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. We can't wait to hear your ideas! Please share widely
Poster: detail from Lincoln's Inn stained glass window showing palatial buildings, with a forest covered landscape beyond. In the foreground are two men in hats and cloaks having a little chat. A dog runs towards them from the right. In the centre of the poster is a black circle containing the following text TEXT: Call for Papers on John Donne and Architecture 13th January 2026 Lincoln College, Oxford Keynote Speaker: Professor Peter McCullough Please send abstract of up to 250 words to Leah Veronese-Clucas (leah.veronese-clucas@univ.ox.ac.uk) & Paul Norris (paul.norris@bnc.ox.ac.uk) by 14th November 2025 Call for Papers John Donne’s Architecture Submission Deadline: 14th November 2025 Event Date: 13th January 2026, Lincoln College, Oxford Keynote Speaker: Professor Peter McCullough. We welcome 150–250 word abstracts for twenty-minute papers relating to any aspect of Donne and architecture from critics and historians of literature, architecture and related fields. Potential topics include (but are not limited to): The use of buildings in rhetoric or the arts of memory. Donne’s metaphorical use of architecture, as well as related disciplines such as geometry, cartography, and visual art. The buildings in which Donne lived, worked and preached (e.g. the Chapel Royal, York House, St Paul’s Cathedral, Lincoln’s Inn Chapel, St Dunstan’s in the West, etc.) and their influence on his life and work. Donne’s encounters with buildings on his travels through Europe. The relationship of literary to architectural form. Please send proposals or enquiries to Leah Veronese-Clucas (leah.veronese-clucas@univ.ox.ac.uk) and Paul Norris (paul.norris@bnc.ox.ac.uk).
September 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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A good weekend as weekends go
September 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Maybe if we /continue/ to plunge the dagger into our own viscera, perhaps with more vigour, it’ll all be ok
September 19, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Call for applications - The J.B. Harley Research Fellowships in the History of Cartography

Awards range up to £2000. The closing date for applications is 1st NOVEMBER. 
Apply here:  www.maphistory.info/harley.html

Please forward to others who might be interested.
September 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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isn't this a four non blondes lyric?
September 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Learning Greek optatives at the minute and it's mainly consisting of me grinningly mouthing oyoyoyoyoyoyoyoy or eyeyeyeyeyeyey
September 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Eclectic spines from today’s accidentally-two-days-early trip to the book sale at St Mary Magdalene, Oxford
September 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Brilliant selection of quotations here
September 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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I have norovirus in Florence; I am consoled for not seeing any of it by sipping water from a The Simpsons Movie Spanish promotional cup
August 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Author's creed
August 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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please please please no
August 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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yes, quid
August 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Several months in the finishing; many others started and finished since first opening it. To be fair: 👍👍👍👍👍
August 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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You have to say: great, great opinions being opined back on Twitter
August 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Beginning to know things…
July 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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At the Bode-Museum: 1) a stonework piece by Hans Daucher showing Dürer wrestling with Apelles; 2) evidence that Dürer had a good claim
May 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Me for the next few months: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/pro...
The Humanist habitus in Early Modern Latinate Geography Textbooks | MPIWG
www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
May 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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It’s here! Issue 76.2 of #ImagoMundi in print at last! Especially exited about the Forum on machine reading of maps—a great chance to learn the latest on the topic! #maphist
April 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Congrats to Imago Mundi Assistant Editors Tony Cui and @flynnoallott.bsky.social for organising, chairing and presenting a panel on #maphistory at #RSA2025. Just one of many #mappy panels and events happening at the conference this year.
March 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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I'll be presenting this on Thomas Fuller from the thesis at RSA in Boston this Thursday at 9am — if you'll be there, and there's space in your program, do come down!
March 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Now all confirmed — I'm v happy to be joining the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (@mpwig.bsky.social) as a Postdoctoral research fellow for the summer — any Berlin friends please shout! I'll be there May-August :)
March 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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⚔️🗡️⚔️🗡️ defended him 🗡️⚔️🗡️⚔️🗡️⚔️
February 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Happy bookplate on a book bought from an Austrian Antiquariat
February 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Bought a 2nd hand copy of Lake’s /Moderate Puritans/ online and got quite a special surprise
January 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Probably the only time that I plan to write abt something so small in significance that I can afford to just buy it
December 19, 2024 at 4:42 PM