Karen Brookfield
@karenbrookfield.bsky.social
London lady of leisure, culture, travel. Things Ancient 🏛️ Deutsch 🇩🇪 Nordisk 🇫🇮🇸🇪 Not forgetting 🍰📚 & First World War
Once upon a time @ British Library @National Lottery Heritage Fund
Once upon a time @ British Library @National Lottery Heritage Fund
Glorious 5th Century CE mosaics in the Great Basilica at Heraclea Lyncestis, Bitola, North Macedonia 🇲🇰 A lovely site you can walk to from the town.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
September 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Glorious 5th Century CE mosaics in the Great Basilica at Heraclea Lyncestis, Bitola, North Macedonia 🇲🇰 A lovely site you can walk to from the town.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
He might like this exhibition at the wonderful William Morris Gallery 😊
August 1, 2025 at 6:42 AM
He might like this exhibition at the wonderful William Morris Gallery 😊
Has to be Finland 🇫🇮
#FingerpostFriday
#FingerpostFriday
May 23, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Has to be Finland 🇫🇮
#FingerpostFriday
#FingerpostFriday
#MosaicMonday #ArtNouveau
Entrance mosaic at Villa Johanna in Eira, a district of Helsinki packed with glorious ‘Jugend’ buildings. The bare red brick with plastered areas and stone decorations are unusual.
Entrance mosaic at Villa Johanna in Eira, a district of Helsinki packed with glorious ‘Jugend’ buildings. The bare red brick with plastered areas and stone decorations are unusual.
May 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
#MosaicMonday #ArtNouveau
Entrance mosaic at Villa Johanna in Eira, a district of Helsinki packed with glorious ‘Jugend’ buildings. The bare red brick with plastered areas and stone decorations are unusual.
Entrance mosaic at Villa Johanna in Eira, a district of Helsinki packed with glorious ‘Jugend’ buildings. The bare red brick with plastered areas and stone decorations are unusual.
Bastu last Saturday morning in Tampere 😂 🇫🇮
May 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Bastu last Saturday morning in Tampere 😂 🇫🇮
#TilesOnTuesday Gorgeous tiled stove in Amuri Museum of Workers’ Housing in Tampere, Finland 🇫🇮. Fascinating collection of wooden houses, shops, bakery and of course a sauna.
May 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
#TilesOnTuesday Gorgeous tiled stove in Amuri Museum of Workers’ Housing in Tampere, Finland 🇫🇮. Fascinating collection of wooden houses, shops, bakery and of course a sauna.
Finnish public #libraries are justly famous- inventive architecture, extensive collections and great services. Metso in Tampere takes the form of a capercaillie seen from above. It has a mean cafe too ☕️ 🍰 🇫🇮💙
May 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Finnish public #libraries are justly famous- inventive architecture, extensive collections and great services. Metso in Tampere takes the form of a capercaillie seen from above. It has a mean cafe too ☕️ 🍰 🇫🇮💙
The greats of Finnish music on the path to the wonderful concert hall in Tampere (and a certain museum 😊) 🇫🇮
May 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The greats of Finnish music on the path to the wonderful concert hall in Tampere (and a certain museum 😊) 🇫🇮
Thanks Emily - it was a really good session. Tampere very interesting but just 4 degrees 🥶 🥶
May 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Thanks Emily - it was a really good session. Tampere very interesting but just 4 degrees 🥶 🥶
Fascinating glimpses into the life of Betty Joel, a wonderful 1930s furniture maker, designer and businesswoman at Olympia Auctions, London W14.
Thanks @ianvisits.bsky.social for the tip.
Thanks @ianvisits.bsky.social for the tip.
April 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Fascinating glimpses into the life of Betty Joel, a wonderful 1930s furniture maker, designer and businesswoman at Olympia Auctions, London W14.
Thanks @ianvisits.bsky.social for the tip.
Thanks @ianvisits.bsky.social for the tip.
Gorgeous prints of places I love from the very talented @gailmyerscough.bsky.social enlivening the smallest room in the house (hence the distortions, sorry Gail).
March 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Gorgeous prints of places I love from the very talented @gailmyerscough.bsky.social enlivening the smallest room in the house (hence the distortions, sorry Gail).
March 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Yesterday I travelled with Ibn Battuta from 14th century Tangier to Cairo, Damascus, Persia, Zanzibar, India, and beyond - courtesy of #HesperionXXI, guest musicians, narrator Assad Bouab and genius #JordiSavall.
Utterly mesmerising music and storytelling 👏 💜💙#BarbicanCentre
Utterly mesmerising music and storytelling 👏 💜💙#BarbicanCentre
March 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Yesterday I travelled with Ibn Battuta from 14th century Tangier to Cairo, Damascus, Persia, Zanzibar, India, and beyond - courtesy of #HesperionXXI, guest musicians, narrator Assad Bouab and genius #JordiSavall.
Utterly mesmerising music and storytelling 👏 💜💙#BarbicanCentre
Utterly mesmerising music and storytelling 👏 💜💙#BarbicanCentre
Rainy afternoons are good for #Archive research.
Didn't expect to find that #OTD 126 years ago a local #StroudGreen #N4 man, George Melton, enlisted in the Army under the fake identity of George Smith. Anyone know if he was likely to have been punished when he confessed in 1913?
Didn't expect to find that #OTD 126 years ago a local #StroudGreen #N4 man, George Melton, enlisted in the Army under the fake identity of George Smith. Anyone know if he was likely to have been punished when he confessed in 1913?
February 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Rainy afternoons are good for #Archive research.
Didn't expect to find that #OTD 126 years ago a local #StroudGreen #N4 man, George Melton, enlisted in the Army under the fake identity of George Smith. Anyone know if he was likely to have been punished when he confessed in 1913?
Didn't expect to find that #OTD 126 years ago a local #StroudGreen #N4 man, George Melton, enlisted in the Army under the fake identity of George Smith. Anyone know if he was likely to have been punished when he confessed in 1913?
Green peeping out at Keats House, Hampstead earlier in the week
#NationalSnowdropDay
#NationalSnowdropDay
February 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Green peeping out at Keats House, Hampstead earlier in the week
#NationalSnowdropDay
#NationalSnowdropDay
Did you see the wonderful work in the Enlightenment Gallery (the old King’s Library)? I used to work behind that door in BL days!
February 4, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Did you see the wonderful work in the Enlightenment Gallery (the old King’s Library)? I used to work behind that door in BL days!
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery
January 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery
Colourful feathered friends from Villa of the Birds in the residential quarter of Roman site Kom el-Dikka, an oasis of calm in bustling Alexandria 🇪🇬 #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky 🦋
January 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Colourful feathered friends from Villa of the Birds in the residential quarter of Roman site Kom el-Dikka, an oasis of calm in bustling Alexandria 🇪🇬 #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky 🦋
Didn’t expect to come across Lee Miller among the sculptures and the pots at the Petrie Museum today, but of course she lived in Cairo in the 1930s. Such a lot has changed at Giza.
#AncientBlueSky #WomenPhotographers
#Egyptology
#AncientBlueSky #WomenPhotographers
#Egyptology
January 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Didn’t expect to come across Lee Miller among the sculptures and the pots at the Petrie Museum today, but of course she lived in Cairo in the 1930s. Such a lot has changed at Giza.
#AncientBlueSky #WomenPhotographers
#Egyptology
#AncientBlueSky #WomenPhotographers
#Egyptology
Queen Berenike II for #MosaicMonday from the wonderful Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria 🇪🇬 #AncientBlueSky
January 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Queen Berenike II for #MosaicMonday from the wonderful Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria 🇪🇬 #AncientBlueSky
Just arrived from the other place to sky!
Looking forward to civilised conversations on culture, heritage, travel, books and 🍰. Not forgetting things Deutsch and Nordic 🇩🇪🇸🇪🇫🇮
Looking forward to civilised conversations on culture, heritage, travel, books and 🍰. Not forgetting things Deutsch and Nordic 🇩🇪🇸🇪🇫🇮
December 26, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Just arrived from the other place to sky!
Looking forward to civilised conversations on culture, heritage, travel, books and 🍰. Not forgetting things Deutsch and Nordic 🇩🇪🇸🇪🇫🇮
Looking forward to civilised conversations on culture, heritage, travel, books and 🍰. Not forgetting things Deutsch and Nordic 🇩🇪🇸🇪🇫🇮