Helen List 🌻🌿
@helenlist.bsky.social
Academic at in Manchester, at a Dept English. Environmental issues, Arts and Humanities and Crafts. A quiet page.
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calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
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Also from my collection, the great Haitian artist, Frantz Zéphirin's painting entitled *The Spirit of the Indian Facing Colonization*, depicting the Spanish ship, *Conquistador*; the mask of red death killing an indigenous woman; and the face of the African who will replace her.
October 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Also from my collection, the great Haitian artist, Frantz Zéphirin's painting entitled *The Spirit of the Indian Facing Colonization*, depicting the Spanish ship, *Conquistador*; the mask of red death killing an indigenous woman; and the face of the African who will replace her.
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Star-shaped tile with a stylized flowering plant, anonymous, c. 1250 - c. 1299
Persia
(Rijksmuseum)
Persia
(Rijksmuseum)
October 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Star-shaped tile with a stylized flowering plant, anonymous, c. 1250 - c. 1299
Persia
(Rijksmuseum)
Persia
(Rijksmuseum)
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As the days shorten. This evokes so well the quality of artificial light in the period with its ever-present shadow and darkness. Banquet at Night by Wolfgang Heimbach, 1640. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
The gathering was in the Knights’ Hall of Vienna’s Hofburg Palace.
The gathering was in the Knights’ Hall of Vienna’s Hofburg Palace.
October 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
As the days shorten. This evokes so well the quality of artificial light in the period with its ever-present shadow and darkness. Banquet at Night by Wolfgang Heimbach, 1640. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
The gathering was in the Knights’ Hall of Vienna’s Hofburg Palace.
The gathering was in the Knights’ Hall of Vienna’s Hofburg Palace.
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Say hello to literally the only protesters outside Tory conference this year
October 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Say hello to literally the only protesters outside Tory conference this year
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Nittoh Guifu: Gensen Kanda, on Japanese fish. Japan, circa 1760
September 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Nittoh Guifu: Gensen Kanda, on Japanese fish. Japan, circa 1760
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Some of my favourite plein airs from this summer
August 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Some of my favourite plein airs from this summer
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A delightful R.F. Kuang interview. Sad to see she’s no longer on here.
The Otherworldly Ambitions of R. F. Kuang
The author of “Babel” and “Yellowface” is drawn to stories of striving. Her new fantasy novel, “Katabasis,” asks if graduate school is a kind of hell.
www.newyorker.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A delightful R.F. Kuang interview. Sad to see she’s no longer on here.
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One of Gerda Taro's early photos from the Spanish Civil War. Women in Catalan communist party (PSUC) training for militia on Barcelona beach (probably Camp de la Bota, today's Forum), August 1936.
August 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
One of Gerda Taro's early photos from the Spanish Civil War. Women in Catalan communist party (PSUC) training for militia on Barcelona beach (probably Camp de la Bota, today's Forum), August 1936.
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Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
August 24, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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spotted on Facebook: “Revolution chess,” from Erik Olin Wright’s unpublished 1974 “Chess Perversions and Other Diversions.”
July 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
spotted on Facebook: “Revolution chess,” from Erik Olin Wright’s unpublished 1974 “Chess Perversions and Other Diversions.”
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A little insight into my rewrites on a novel in progress, How To Be Free.
July 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A little insight into my rewrites on a novel in progress, How To Be Free.
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M. C. Escher (1898-1972), “Puddle” (1952), woodcut in colours, on Japan paper, 32.3 x 24 cm (image).
July 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
M. C. Escher (1898-1972), “Puddle” (1952), woodcut in colours, on Japan paper, 32.3 x 24 cm (image).
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Bolton from the roof of Mere Hall, 1937, photo by Humphrey Spender.
July 5, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Bolton from the roof of Mere Hall, 1937, photo by Humphrey Spender.
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I’m very fortunate to have a collection of original Victorian and Edwardian police detective memoirs. They are my pride and joy!
May 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I’m very fortunate to have a collection of original Victorian and Edwardian police detective memoirs. They are my pride and joy!
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Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
May 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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From Nov. 25th we are being digitalised (whatever that is.)
May 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
From Nov. 25th we are being digitalised (whatever that is.)
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If M.R. James wrote safety signage
May 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
If M.R. James wrote safety signage
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Really enjoyed the #TirzahGarwood exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Lots of beautiful things to see but I particularly liked these works - the pier is #Cromer, the pattern is marbled, the ice cream man is collage and the lady watering is embroidered
May 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Really enjoyed the #TirzahGarwood exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Lots of beautiful things to see but I particularly liked these works - the pier is #Cromer, the pattern is marbled, the ice cream man is collage and the lady watering is embroidered
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Please sign and share 👇
May 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Please sign and share 👇
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Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
April 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...