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Marbling is quite a boring job, so you can forgive the painter who gets carried away…

📸 from Aphrodisias 2025 field season report.

The age-old cycle of flooding in the @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social water meadows.

Through the Round Window... Just over four months since @thebrooking.bsky.social launched on Instagram and Facebook – even as a trustee of the collection I'm learning so much from these posts! www.instagram.com/p/DUS_F7DDok...

Nurole | The Brooking - Trustees <p class="mb-2" dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Brooking is seeking to appoint two committed and dynamic Board members who can support the charity through an exciting period of tran...

We are looking for a new trustee to join the board of the Brooking Museum of Architectural Detail, @thebrooking.bsky.social. It’s an exciting time as we shape the future of the charity - find out more and apply app.nurole.com/roles/6964e1...

🚸 Imagine generations of schoolchildren passing through this grand door from Ripley Church School, crafted in 1846 with striking Gothic ironwork. Originally painted green, the door now displays its solid oak, carefully revealed by the restoration work of our Founding Collector, Charles Brooking.

Les fragments retrouvés de la tapisserie de l’Apocalypse | Ministère de la Culture Identifiés il y a cinq ans par une galerie parisienne, ces fragments viennent tout juste d’être restaurés. Retrouvez en image l’histoire de cette découverte.

Fragments of the Apocalypse - I missed this amazing story last year

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Job alert: Director for Historic Churches Scotland, deadline Monday 9th February 2026.

Anderson Knight is delighted to be partnering with our member Historic Churches Scotland to appoint a new Director at a pivotal stage in the charity’s development.

For more information, go to: buff.ly/eteYlh1

Exciting times for The Brooking and we have a dynamic, multi-talented board. We're looking for a Finance Trustee and second trustee with professional experience in one of a range of areas.

Water high at the 800-year-old R. Thames crossing at Bablock Hythe. near Oxford.

(The collection also has a sash window from the prison block in Epsom Magistrates’ Court, but I don’t think that’s from an actual cell, for obvious reasons 🪟)

Great post combining Christmas jumpers with one of @thebrooking.bsky.social’s several prison cell doors!

New year, new equipment: a larger trolley custom-built to handle our collection, with no more tipping when we move hefty doors! The trolley is already earning its keep by helping our staff to move a cell door from Guildford Police Station, which dates to 1854.

Yes. He should stop! In the name of love.

(though I have known art history colleagues who refused to supervise PhD topics outside their decade)

Oldest cave painting could rewrite origins of human creativity A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say.

My knowledge of the first 64,000 years of the history of art is embarrassingly sketchy.

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The Taliban rift at the top of the leadership in Afghanistan The Taliban leader once warned of a split: A BBC investigation reveals how attitudes to women, the internet and religion are dividing the group at the very top.

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Dylan Thomas 'plagiarised other poets' repeatedly as schoolboy He became a literary legend but as a schoolboy the young Dylan Thomas has been found to have copied poems.

Extraordinary. “Thomas could also be audacious - we found a poem which he managed to get published himself in Boy's Own … but was a copy of a poem already published in Boy's Own 15 years before."

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A Roman Antonine youth? No: stucco head of a Buddhist bodhisattva(?) from the Tapa Kalān site near Jalahabad, Afghanistan. Photo via the incredibly valuable Hadda Archéo Database haddaarcheodb.com/en/objet/tet...

Sad door in Portaferry, Co. Down
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A Gandharan Buddha head from Afghanistan presented to JFK in 1963 jfk.artifacts.archives.gov/objects/5114...

And of course if you do need to cite something you haven’t seen at all, as an unverified aid to the reader, there is the perfectly respectable “non vidi”.

Gilded glass fragment with the image of the goddess Roma, personification of the city of Rome. Discovered during construction of the Porta Metronia station, in ancient barracks destroyed during construction of the Aurelian Walls. She’s based on a depiction of an Amazon, with her bared breast, triple-plumed helmet, baltea (studded quiver belt across her chest), and pilus (javelin). The iconographic theme is already well-known, but it is the first and only representation found so far on gold glass. “Golden glass is already a very rare finding, but this has no comparison” according to preliminary findings, Simona Morretta, archaeologist of the special superintendency of Rome, explained to ANSA. “No golden glass with the personification of the city of Rome had ever been found before”. Gold glass was a glass-making technique in which a thin layer of decorated gold leaf, often a portrait, was sandwiched between two layers of transparent glass. The leaf was glued to one glass discs first, then the design created by scratching away tiny areas of gold like an etching. A second glass disc was then superimposed on top of the etched gold surface and fused to create the roundel of a vessel or a medallion.

The newly opened Colosseo-Fori Inperiali subway station houses a full museum's worth of finds discovered while digging under the city. Including this 4th c. CE gold glass fragment depicting the goddess Roma, which had been affixed to a wall in the ruins of an ancient military barracks. 🏺 1/

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Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review | Clinical Microbiology Reviews SUMMARY This narrative review and meta-analysis summarizes a broad evidence base on the benefits—and also the practicalities, disbenefits, harms and personal, sociocultural and environmental impacts—o...

💯 'Time is well overdue for international policy bodies to acknowledge the totality of evidence on the science of masks and masking and to show leadership in providing such messaging to policymakers, clinicians, and the public.' @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social et al
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Illustration of eighties businessmen by an urban park in Central Milton Keynes

It's #sketchpadvent – celebrating amazing modernist concept drawings and models. December 1: Milton Keynes from 1981

Job announcement: Cataloguer, Visual Arts at The British Library. I am delighted to announce that we are recruiting for a Cataloguer of Visual Arts at the British Library, to work on an archive of… |... Job announcement: Cataloguer, Visual Arts at The British Library. I am delighted to announce that we are recruiting for a Cataloguer of Visual Arts at the British Library, to work on an archive of mo...

Cataloguing the Hampi Vijayanagara archive @britishlibrary.bsky.social - this would be an interesting part-time job for the right person www.linkedin.com/posts/malini...

Training Officer - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources Salary: £39,000/ €45,000Closing Date: 09/01/26Location: United Kingdom / Ireland

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Could be the opposite of course, but there are enough resonances with other 'Coptic' art to make Roman source more likely.

This late Roman silk fragment from Egypt, in @ (L), makes me think that the contemporary woollen tunic of Yingpan Man in the Tarim Basin is really of Roman origin (which I had rather doubted) - some remarkable similarities.

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