rlcj

rlcj, 8 months ago to manchester

Whilst about other things today, I came across the curious attempt by the #Manchester Corporation to dump all its #shit (OK ‘nightsoil’) in #Nottinghamshire. This was late 1892. Equally intrigued by the counter-arguments raised. Trent-side residents raised a stink obvs (before the real stink arrived) and #Trent #anglers were vocal in their support. They won the day. Concerns about #river #pollution aren’t new. The indomitable Feargal Sharkey follows solid footsteps. STOP POLLUTING OUR #RIVERS!

rlcj, 8 months ago to random

Nice to be back #walking #rivers today even if it was a little overcast. River Teme.

rlcj, 8 months ago to animals

Got up close and personal these beauties today. Mid-#ThirteenthCentury wall #painting, Martley #Worcestershire. Exquisite stag, fox, and hare in the #Bestiary tradition. #Medieval #Animals I also recommend the #dragons and the wolf.

Running fox, red ochre on cream plaster. Great bushy tail and classic stylised trees.
Running hare, red ochre paint on cream plaster. Remains of stylised flowers.

rlcj, 8 months ago to random

I’m gutted at the news of the felling of the iconic #Sycamore at Sycamore Gap on #HadriansWall last night. Made globally famous by the scene in Costner’s #RobinHood Prince of Thieves. So it seems churlish, indeed very ‘I have my environmental history hat on’, to note that the Sycamore was introduced into #Britain in the 15-16th century, at least 300 years after the 3rd Crusade, the period in which the #Film was set. None of this detracts, of course, from the utter vandalism of last night’s act.

rlcj, 8 months ago to NativeAmerican

Prepping materials for my new #EnvHist module ‘History at World’s End?’ Planning a #seminar around the #extinction of the Passenger/Wild #Pigeon in the US at the turn of the #TwentiethCentury. What I’m particularly struck by, and what I shall certainly emphasise to my #students, is the space & respect afforded to #NativeAmerican voices in the published literature. And the explicit acknowledgement that #Indigenous practices were so much better aligned to #Nature than those of #European settlers.

rlcj, 8 months ago to animals

There’s one less #CatsOfMastodon in the world, and an infinite loss of future #Caturday posts, after last night. And that’s so sad. Fare thee well, Fitch. Bloody cars! You’ll live on.

rlcj, 9 months ago to France

La Maison Hérétié, Rue de la Daurade, Cahors, #Lot, #France. #FourteenthCentury #Medieval #FensterFreitag

rlcj, 9 months ago to music

A challenge for all #medievodon chums out there (and the rest of you too, of course). Here are some #song #lyrics. What’s the track? So rarely does the #medieval find its way into #music we must celebrate it when it does! I think the #ThirteenthCentury (the long one, of course! Duh!) is one of the most formative in the making of the #English #Landscape.

rlcj, 9 months ago to Halloween

Poppy heads and Wheat. An #English #cottage #garden in #September. #Autumn #Colours #DoubleExposure #Photography

rlcj, 9 months ago to random

Cardoons. I don’t need to say any more! #Cottage #Garden #Vegetables

rlcj, 9 months ago to architecture

For #Fensterfreitag, the magnificent west front of La Trinité, Vendôme, #LoirEtCher. Near perfect example of Flamboyant #Gothic. Completed in 1507. More window than masonry! Hence the need for flying buttresses to support the weight of this immense structure. #Medieval #Architecture

rlcj, 9 months ago to architecture

The late #FifteenthCentury timber-framed gatehouse at Lower Brockhampton Manor, #Herefordshire. #Lino #Linocut #Medieval #Vernacular #Architecture

rlcj, 9 months ago to France

La Charente à Mansle. #River #Fleuve #Rivière #France #Water #Sun

rlcj, 9 months ago to France

#Fensterfreitag Windows of Cahors #Cathedral. #Lot #France. On the route to #SantiagoDeCompostella #Pilgrimage #Medieval Amazing #Sculpture of L’Ange du Lazaret #Angel

rlcj, 9 months ago to random

Testers of one of the #tin #mining #engine houses known as The Crowns, which cling to the #cliffs at Botallack, #Cornwall. #NineteenthCentury #IndustrialArchaeology #EnvHist #Linocut #Lino #NationalTrust #Ruins

rlcj, 10 months ago to AncientHistory

My first pass on Avebury Stone Circle. In my view a more impressive monument than #Stonehenge. An artist friend thought the fleeting clouds contrasted with the permanence of the stones. I’ll take that! #Lino #Linocut #Prehistory #Prehistoric #Neolithic #Henge #Monolith #Wiltshire #Shadow #Stone

rlcj, 10 months ago to architecture

A week is a long time in #LinoCut. I think I have finally understood the rudiments. My take on Fountains Abbey, #Yorkshire. #Lino. #BlackAndWhite #Medieval #Romanesque #Architecture #Rehab #medievodons

rlcj, 10 months ago to punk

Best #Cover #Song ever! The epitome of #Girl #Power before the term was even invented! ‘I heard it through the grapevine’, The Slits. Turn it up! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IQxvo_9DEqY #Punk #GirlPower

rlcj, 10 months ago to random

#FensterFreitag Croome Park, #Worcestershire.

rlcj, 10 months ago to church

I continue to fiddle with #lino. Piece #2. My #village #church. I’m enjoying this journey. Learning lots. Still very crude offerings, I’m afraid. #Linocut #Print #Amateur #Art #BlackAndWhite

rlcj, 10 months ago to linux

In March 2023 I visited the #River Skell, #Yorkshire. This composite #photograph combines three views of the river and its #catchment: the narrow wooded valley of Spa Gill; the pebbled river base at Hell Wath just outside #Ripon; and the designed #landscape of Eavestone #lake. I hope you like it. #Winter #colour #arch #bridge

rlcj, 10 months ago to random

Exploring #DoubleExposure #photographs today and rather enjoying the effect. Here are two images of #Worcestershire in #Spring. The first superimposes #Wood anemone and #bluebells over a country #lane. The second #pear #tree ##blossom over the #River Teme.

An island in the River Teme, heavily treed, the surface of the water rippled by the wind, superimposed with the pear blossom of a nearby orchard.

rlcj, 10 months ago to random

A gnarled and gnotched grotesque for #ThickTrunkTuesday.

rlcj, 10 months ago to random

Rococo plasterwork. Croome Park Rotunda, c. 1760. I love seeing the striations of the plasterers’ tools, visible only in raking light and invisible to the naked eye. Work both exquisite and exemplary. #Rococo #Plaster #EighteenthCentury #Light

rlcj, 10 months ago to Archaeology

This rotting, rusting roundabout may not have turned for decades. But it still resonates with the shrieks of children’s once-upon-a-time hi-octane, dizzying adventures. Faster! FASTER! #TwentiethCentury #archaeology #Abandoned #Places #Playground #BlackAndWhite