Researcher in Architectural History. Associate @WorcCollegeOx. Editor of @WalpoleSociety annual volume. I work on C18th buildings. More often on Instagram.
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In the autumn of 1879, John Singer Sargent travelled to Spain, where he spent time studying and copying the Old Masters. He particularly admired Goya, whose angels in the transept of the church of San Antonio de la Florida in Madrid inspired this work.
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It is early in the morning, and there are few people about in this 1919 work by William Nicholson of the Cenotaph in London. It is the original white-painted wood and plaster structure designed by Edward Lutyens, it stands out in stark relief against the Foreign Office.
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...and, although this is a reproduction, they have taken the trouble to photograph it in the 18th century Revelstoke frame it's displayed in @NationalGallery and cut it out round the ornaments, to give pleasure to everyone passing by...
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En hommage au grand chef Herbert Blomstedt, disparu le 4 novembre 2026 à l'âge de 99 ans, France Musique propose de réécouter la Symphonie n°8 de Bruckner que le chef dirigeait en 2024 à la tête de l’Orchestre de Paris. Une partition testamentaire, un voyage au cœur du monde métaphysique profond...
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It is with profound sorrow that we bid farewell to Herbert Blomstedt. Our former Gewandhauskapellmeister & Conductor Laureate passed away today, 4 November 2026, in Gothenburg, at the age of 99. We pay tribute to his remarkable life's work with the deepest gratitude & respect.
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Do join for the Friends of the Bodleian lecture I'm giving on November 3rd
"Bestsellers, Blunders and Bankruptcies: The Business of Bibles in Early Modern England" tours some of my favourite examples from my book, "Selling the Word of God" @bodleianlibs
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/even…
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You could almost believe the mason put down his chisel yesterday. Yet this Romanesque bird at St Peter’s in Rowlestone, Herefordshire, was carved nearly 900 years ago.
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Sorry to see that the Blackwell's in the Westgate Centre in Oxford has closed. It wasn't a patch on the main shop and presumably the economics weren't working for them. But the Westgate was the better for it being there and I feel it was probably a shop children liked.
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The most Manhattan thing in London. Ideal House by Raymond Hood. 1928-29. Great Marlborough St.
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Carlevarijs painted the Venetian ambassador’s arrival in London in 1707 too. A fun pair!
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Editor copies of Stuart Serenissima!
Featuring our beautiful cover image: the Earl of Manchester’s arrival in Venice, 1707/8, by Luca Carlevarijs (courtesy of the wonderful @BM_AG)
Available here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.… .
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I remember a wonderfully civilised engagement I mediated between Chris Wickham and @holland_tom about Tom’s Millennium (still one of my favourite works of his) in the early days of my editorship of @HistoryToday. If only all historical debate was marked by such generosity.
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A memory of timber, built in stone. Earls Barton’s rare Anglo-Saxon tower from around AD970 has an air of gingerbread! Unearth it in my Treasure Hoard: digest.andymarshall.co/treas…
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The Botley Road – "The last enchantments of the Middle Age", as Max Beerbohm observed.
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OUT NOW - Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible
Pictured here @EmmaCambridge beneath the Tyndale window, and with the @Newnham_College table and pink velvet chaise longue that enabled its writing
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Managed to fulfil a regional museum dream at @MaidstoneMuseum the other week, by getting a chance to see this haunting sketch by John Hoppner (1758-1810) in person. She’s currently kept in storage, but, if cleaned, would probably be one of their most popular paintings (?)
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I think that Britain has some of the best door heritage in the world - and this has to be in my top 10 - found over in King's Lynn - a real treasure and rarity. More 📸 ✨ 👉 digest.andymarshall.co/treas…
