Sharon Howard
@sharonhoward.bsky.social
History, data, pictures, food. Still lazing about.
http://sharonhoward.org/
ORCID: 0000-0002-6051-6274
http://sharonhoward.org/
ORCID: 0000-0002-6051-6274
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#WomensHistoryMonth Evelyn Dunbar, A Knitting Party (1940). One of the first of Dunbar's WW2 paintings focusing on women's work. www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
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View of the Rio São Francisco in Brazil, with Fort Maurits. Starring an A+ capibara. Painted in 1639 by visiting Dutch artist Frans Post, whose day has been today.
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
View of the Rio São Francisco in Brazil, with Fort Maurits. Starring an A+ capibara. Painted in 1639 by visiting Dutch artist Frans Post, whose day has been today.
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A jaguar, strolling jauntily along. Drawn in Brazil by Dutch artist Frans Post, who was born on this day in 1612.
November 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A jaguar, strolling jauntily along. Drawn in Brazil by Dutch artist Frans Post, who was born on this day in 1612.
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I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...
the 1970s really was another country
Just been reminded of the Crackerjack team attempting XTC’s Making Plans For Nigel, which I’m sure Andy Partridge would agree is the the definitive version
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youtu.be/n5LrRlR2Epo?...
Crackerjack team take on XTC's Making Plans For Nigel
YouTube video by Paul Putner
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November 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
the 1970s really was another country
Presumably Mahmood's actual "moral mission" is to make people like David Blunkett and Jack Straw look like fucking woke liberals.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Presumably Mahmood's actual "moral mission" is to make people like David Blunkett and Jack Straw look like fucking woke liberals.
WTAF.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 7:41 AM
WTAF.
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Hello Monday.
🖼️ Esther Inglis, Self Portrait, 1595.
🖼️ Esther Inglis, Self Portrait, 1595.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Hello Monday.
🖼️ Esther Inglis, Self Portrait, 1595.
🖼️ Esther Inglis, Self Portrait, 1595.
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Here is a cute happy dragon to brighten your day
(floor-tile, early 13th century)
(floor-tile, early 13th century)
November 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Here is a cute happy dragon to brighten your day
(floor-tile, early 13th century)
(floor-tile, early 13th century)
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2/2 Girl who does not take lessons seriously. But who is teaching who here? Drawn by Sofonisba Anguissola.
November 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
2/2 Girl who does not take lessons seriously. But who is teaching who here? Drawn by Sofonisba Anguissola.
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Clifford Rowe’s paintings reflect the spirit of realist art in Britain during the interwar years, portraying people at work and at leisure. 'The Fried Fish Shop,' (1936) draws on personal memory and social history, recalling a once cheap, filling meal for the working classes.
November 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Clifford Rowe’s paintings reflect the spirit of realist art in Britain during the interwar years, portraying people at work and at leisure. 'The Fried Fish Shop,' (1936) draws on personal memory and social history, recalling a once cheap, filling meal for the working classes.
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Two washerwomen tamping laundry in a tub. Fascinating picture by Gesina ter Borch, who was born on this day in 1633.
November 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Two washerwomen tamping laundry in a tub. Fascinating picture by Gesina ter Borch, who was born on this day in 1633.
I'm a bit chuffed with this tbh: it brings together data from 4 different sources - my/LondonLives inquests, @camunicampop.bsky.social bills of mortality, Locating London's map polygons, and a bit of population data by @timhitchcock.bsky.social . And I learned some new JS and observable plot tricks.
I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...
November 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I'm a bit chuffed with this tbh: it brings together data from 4 different sources - my/LondonLives inquests, @camunicampop.bsky.social bills of mortality, Locating London's map polygons, and a bit of population data by @timhitchcock.bsky.social . And I learned some new JS and observable plot tricks.
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*CLANGS THE INQUEST BELL*
I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...
November 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
*CLANGS THE INQUEST BELL*
look at that smug bastard
"Lying Cat", watercolour painting by Norbertine Bresslern-Roth, 1920
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
look at that smug bastard
I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...
Apple appears to have reinvented the 17th-century pocket. www.vam.ac.uk/articles/wom...
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Apple appears to have reinvented the 17th-century pocket. www.vam.ac.uk/articles/wom...
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!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7
Article doi.org/10.1017/chr....
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#dh #c19 🗃️
Article doi.org/10.1017/chr....
Blog is.gd/2IFc30
#dh #c19 🗃️
Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core
Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets - Volume 1
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November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7
Article doi.org/10.1017/chr....
Blog is.gd/2IFc30
#dh #c19 🗃️
Article doi.org/10.1017/chr....
Blog is.gd/2IFc30
#dh #c19 🗃️
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Studies of his six servants in the 1750s: masterful oil sketch by William Hogarth, who was born on this day in 1697.
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Studies of his six servants in the 1750s: masterful oil sketch by William Hogarth, who was born on this day in 1697.
Magnifique.
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Magnifique.
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Great news! This is out: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...
Opening the black box of EEBO
Abstract. Digital archives that cover extended historical periods can create a misleading impression of comprehensiveness while in truth providing access t
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November 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Great news! This is out: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...
Wrestling with geojson and Observable Plot since yesterday and finally! getting somewhere.
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Wrestling with geojson and Observable Plot since yesterday and finally! getting somewhere.
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What is your favourite bird?
These little sparrows are a detail of a two-fold painted and embroidered screen by Takeuchi Seihō.
These little sparrows are a detail of a two-fold painted and embroidered screen by Takeuchi Seihō.
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
What is your favourite bird?
These little sparrows are a detail of a two-fold painted and embroidered screen by Takeuchi Seihō.
These little sparrows are a detail of a two-fold painted and embroidered screen by Takeuchi Seihō.
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Clara the rhinoceros, put on display (to a lot of masked people) in Venice in 1751 and immortalized by Pietro Longhi, born on this day 1701.
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Clara the rhinoceros, put on display (to a lot of masked people) in Venice in 1751 and immortalized by Pietro Longhi, born on this day 1701.
Apart from all the bells and whistles on the site itself, some users may like to know that the London Lives bibliography has been Zoterified (so it's searchable etc): www.zotero.org/groups/45875...
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Apart from all the bells and whistles on the site itself, some users may like to know that the London Lives bibliography has been Zoterified (so it's searchable etc): www.zotero.org/groups/45875...