Kirsty Hartsiotis
@stroudstory.bsky.social
Writer, speaker, storyteller, folklorist and museum curator. Arts and Crafts Movement lover. William Morris fangirl. Church crawler.
Join me on Monday 20 Oct, 7pm, for an #onlinetalk all about #womensart #womenscraft in the #Cotswolds - we'll be looking at the women of the #ArtsandCrafts Movement who settled here - my last post showed some of the women, here's some of the work! Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1379199164...
October 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Join me on Monday 20 Oct, 7pm, for an #onlinetalk all about #womensart #womenscraft in the #Cotswolds - we'll be looking at the women of the #ArtsandCrafts Movement who settled here - my last post showed some of the women, here's some of the work! Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1379199164...
1 week 4 talks! #ArtsandCrafts in the #Cotswolds for the Arts Society Ross-on-Wye; A&C churches with a #Cheltenham swing for the U3A; then part 3 of my talks in Worcestershire & last but NOT least, the friendship of #WilliamMorris& #EBJ
Museum in the Park, #Stroud: www.kirstyhartsiotis.com/events
Museum in the Park, #Stroud: www.kirstyhartsiotis.com/events
October 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
1 week 4 talks! #ArtsandCrafts in the #Cotswolds for the Arts Society Ross-on-Wye; A&C churches with a #Cheltenham swing for the U3A; then part 3 of my talks in Worcestershire & last but NOT least, the friendship of #WilliamMorris& #EBJ
Museum in the Park, #Stroud: www.kirstyhartsiotis.com/events
Museum in the Park, #Stroud: www.kirstyhartsiotis.com/events
It might be wet but the dancing and the stories never stop! Come down to the @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social for more this with #morrisdancing and #storytelling for #Wiltshire Day!
June 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
It might be wet but the dancing and the stories never stop! Come down to the @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social for more this with #morrisdancing and #storytelling for #Wiltshire Day!
Early morning rambles in Salisbury, #Wiltshire, and reflected glory for #TraceryTuesday in the cathedral cloister...
April 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Early morning rambles in Salisbury, #Wiltshire, and reflected glory for #TraceryTuesday in the cathedral cloister...
These two tots aren't cosying up with teddies - they've got plush (they must be plushies, right? skulls to cuddle. They're slumbering away at North Cerney, #Gloucestershire for #MementoMoriMonday
April 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
These two tots aren't cosying up with teddies - they've got plush (they must be plushies, right? skulls to cuddle. They're slumbering away at North Cerney, #Gloucestershire for #MementoMoriMonday
Love this tiny depiction of St Anne teaching the Virgin Mary to read in Rendcomb, #Gloucestershire, I presume one of the Flemish panels incorporated into the nave windows by Baillie in the 1850s #StainedGlassSunday, always loved this evidence of women's education by women.
April 6, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Love this tiny depiction of St Anne teaching the Virgin Mary to read in Rendcomb, #Gloucestershire, I presume one of the Flemish panels incorporated into the nave windows by Baillie in the 1850s #StainedGlassSunday, always loved this evidence of women's education by women.
Reposted by Kirsty Hartsiotis
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social is staging a #demonstration outside #Meta's offices at Granary Square, King's Cross today at 1.30pm to protest against their #illegal #pirating of our work.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’
Writers will gather at the Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the LibGen database to train its AI models
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social is staging a #demonstration outside #Meta's offices at Granary Square, King's Cross today at 1.30pm to protest against their #illegal #pirating of our work.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
A domestic scene at Stanton Harcourt, #Oxfordshire, for #AdoorableThursday, the watering can quietly awaits its duties as Spring gets into gear by this soft C12th door - note the marks scratched on the right - a mass dial? Or?
April 3, 2025 at 6:46 AM
A domestic scene at Stanton Harcourt, #Oxfordshire, for #AdoorableThursday, the watering can quietly awaits its duties as Spring gets into gear by this soft C12th door - note the marks scratched on the right - a mass dial? Or?
Blockley, #Gloucestershire, on a grey day for #SteepleSaturday, with its C18th tower by Thomas or Edward Woodward of Chipping Campden - all plain classicism in the first three stages, then suddenly gothic frou frou appears on the top stage!
March 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Blockley, #Gloucestershire, on a grey day for #SteepleSaturday, with its C18th tower by Thomas or Edward Woodward of Chipping Campden - all plain classicism in the first three stages, then suddenly gothic frou frou appears on the top stage!
Moody #AdoorableThursday from St Andrew, #Plymouth, #Devon, a C15th church much damaged in #WW2, but plenty of the medieval surviving...
March 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Moody #AdoorableThursday from St Andrew, #Plymouth, #Devon, a C15th church much damaged in #WW2, but plenty of the medieval surviving...
Two gorgeous #WindowsOnWednesday by Nora Yoxall and Elsie Whitford, 1974, at Blockley, #Gloucestershire, made when the artists were 82 and 77 respectively. Glorious celebration of the local scene! Don't miss them - they're in the porch.
March 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Two gorgeous #WindowsOnWednesday by Nora Yoxall and Elsie Whitford, 1974, at Blockley, #Gloucestershire, made when the artists were 82 and 77 respectively. Glorious celebration of the local scene! Don't miss them - they're in the porch.
Well, #gardenescapes - managed four on today's #Stroud walk - marigold, grape hyacinth, snowflake and, apparently, scilla forbesii - as well as some bangingly pink polyanthus in the woods #wildflowerhour
March 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Well, #gardenescapes - managed four on today's #Stroud walk - marigold, grape hyacinth, snowflake and, apparently, scilla forbesii - as well as some bangingly pink polyanthus in the woods #wildflowerhour
For #StainedGlassSunday, just one of the John Piper delights I saw in St Andrew, #Plymouth, #Devon, on Thursday - a thrill. 'Resurgam' was the motto of the church after the #WW2 bombing, and Piper made 5 windows with Patrick Reyntiens from 1958 - this is the west, a crucifixion.
March 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
For #StainedGlassSunday, just one of the John Piper delights I saw in St Andrew, #Plymouth, #Devon, on Thursday - a thrill. 'Resurgam' was the motto of the church after the #WW2 bombing, and Piper made 5 windows with Patrick Reyntiens from 1958 - this is the west, a crucifixion.
For #TombTuesday and #TraceryTuesday, the 1st tomb of William Canynges, d. 1474, in St Mary Redcliffe, #Bristol. The city merchant has two, this one in his mayoral robes, the other next door, with him as as a priest, as he was ordained after his wife's death.
March 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
For #TombTuesday and #TraceryTuesday, the 1st tomb of William Canynges, d. 1474, in St Mary Redcliffe, #Bristol. The city merchant has two, this one in his mayoral robes, the other next door, with him as as a priest, as he was ordained after his wife's death.
For #Wildflowerhour #YellowFlowers we have coltsfoot by the canal in #Stroud, and gorse, primrose, lesser celandine on @nationaltrust Shortwood. Greater celandine in bud in town, but no flowers yet!
March 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
For #Wildflowerhour #YellowFlowers we have coltsfoot by the canal in #Stroud, and gorse, primrose, lesser celandine on @nationaltrust Shortwood. Greater celandine in bud in town, but no flowers yet!
Fabulous #Hereford #SundayStonework from the museum @HerefordMuseums building by F R Kempson, 1874, and carved by Robert and William Clarke, of course! Plenty here for heron, squirrel, bat and croc fanciers!
March 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Fabulous #Hereford #SundayStonework from the museum @HerefordMuseums building by F R Kempson, 1874, and carved by Robert and William Clarke, of course! Plenty here for heron, squirrel, bat and croc fanciers!
St Matthew's, Ebley, #Stroud, for #SteepleSaturday, built by Charles Baker of Painswick, 1835-7 in austere early gothic style. You have no clue about the free gothic, slightly #ArtsandCrafts east end by Walter Planck behind it!
March 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
St Matthew's, Ebley, #Stroud, for #SteepleSaturday, built by Charles Baker of Painswick, 1835-7 in austere early gothic style. You have no clue about the free gothic, slightly #ArtsandCrafts east end by Walter Planck behind it!
Just setting up for my next #sellout talk @museuminthepark, #Stroud, on a fave topic - especially so close to #InternationalWomensDay2025 - women in the #ArtsandCrafts in the #Cotswolds! Such a lovely museum, team and audience with which to work!
March 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Just setting up for my next #sellout talk @museuminthepark, #Stroud, on a fave topic - especially so close to #InternationalWomensDay2025 - women in the #ArtsandCrafts in the #Cotswolds! Such a lovely museum, team and audience with which to work!
Drama in Ebley, #Stroud, for #FontsOnFriday! Finally got into St Matthew's, which I'd only seen by peering through that west door. Here's the view from the other side. Font by Walter Planck, subtly free gothic, 1895, in the 1830s tower, with window by Belham & Co., also 1895.
March 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Drama in Ebley, #Stroud, for #FontsOnFriday! Finally got into St Matthew's, which I'd only seen by peering through that west door. Here's the view from the other side. Font by Walter Planck, subtly free gothic, 1895, in the 1830s tower, with window by Belham & Co., also 1895.
A perfect little #AdoorableThursday from the chancel of the Lord Mayor's Chapel, #Bristol, frothingly foliate ogee, about 1500 - tho' restored? #AnytimeAngels, #Victorian (I assume) door, and a glorious floral spray announcing spring and summer to come. Swoons!
March 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
A perfect little #AdoorableThursday from the chancel of the Lord Mayor's Chapel, #Bristol, frothingly foliate ogee, about 1500 - tho' restored? #AnytimeAngels, #Victorian (I assume) door, and a glorious floral spray announcing spring and summer to come. Swoons!
*Last chance* to book tickets for tonight's #onlinetalk, Modern #stainedglass in the #Cotswolds (Mon 3 Mar, 7pm). More #Spring #lambs, this time from Crudwell, #Wiltshire, by Colin Stokes for the Millennium: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/9277643772...
March 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
*Last chance* to book tickets for tonight's #onlinetalk, Modern #stainedglass in the #Cotswolds (Mon 3 Mar, 7pm). More #Spring #lambs, this time from Crudwell, #Wiltshire, by Colin Stokes for the Millennium: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/9277643772...
What I wish I was doing today instead of sitting at my desk! #StainedGlassSunday by Thomas Denny at Warden Hill, #Gloucestershire, part of a large series in the church, this from 1990: find out more in my #onlinetalk on #modern #Cotswolds glass Mon 3 Mar: tinyurl.com/3685fsxk
March 2, 2025 at 11:13 AM
What I wish I was doing today instead of sitting at my desk! #StainedGlassSunday by Thomas Denny at Warden Hill, #Gloucestershire, part of a large series in the church, this from 1990: find out more in my #onlinetalk on #modern #Cotswolds glass Mon 3 Mar: tinyurl.com/3685fsxk
My traditional #StDavidsDay image from a #stainedglass window by Rod Friend in Edge, #Gloucestershire with little lambs and the all-important #daffodils (and cowslips...) all for #March and the beginning of #Spring! What I require in the face of all that is awful in the world!
March 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
My traditional #StDavidsDay image from a #stainedglass window by Rod Friend in Edge, #Gloucestershire with little lambs and the all-important #daffodils (and cowslips...) all for #March and the beginning of #Spring! What I require in the face of all that is awful in the world!
Reposted by Kirsty Hartsiotis
🕯New Episode 🕯
We are very excited to share our latest episode which features none other than Professor Ronald Hutton. Hutton discusses ghosts, the modern fascination with witchcraft and much more. We hope you enjoy it!
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#Witchcraft #Shropshire #Folklore #Podcast
We are very excited to share our latest episode which features none other than Professor Ronald Hutton. Hutton discusses ghosts, the modern fascination with witchcraft and much more. We hope you enjoy it!
media.rss.com/the-shropshi...
#Witchcraft #Shropshire #Folklore #Podcast
February 28, 2025 at 7:38 AM
🕯New Episode 🕯
We are very excited to share our latest episode which features none other than Professor Ronald Hutton. Hutton discusses ghosts, the modern fascination with witchcraft and much more. We hope you enjoy it!
media.rss.com/the-shropshi...
#Witchcraft #Shropshire #Folklore #Podcast
We are very excited to share our latest episode which features none other than Professor Ronald Hutton. Hutton discusses ghosts, the modern fascination with witchcraft and much more. We hope you enjoy it!
media.rss.com/the-shropshi...
#Witchcraft #Shropshire #Folklore #Podcast
A wowser for #FontsOnFriday from Robert Potter's rebuild of All Saints, Clifton, #Bristol, framed by the stunning fibreglass windows by John Piper, 1967. Find out more about modern #stainedglass in my #onlinetalk 3 March, 7pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modern-sta...
February 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
A wowser for #FontsOnFriday from Robert Potter's rebuild of All Saints, Clifton, #Bristol, framed by the stunning fibreglass windows by John Piper, 1967. Find out more about modern #stainedglass in my #onlinetalk 3 March, 7pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modern-sta...