A very belated fly-by post for International Women's Day. In lieu of having something more original to post, here's a rather striking artwork from the current display at the Keepers Gallery at The National Archives which highlights women in original artwork from the Second World War.


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If anyone is lucky enough to be in London on the 23rd March I can highly recommend going along to the Design Museum where fashion historian Amber Butchart is curating a series of events as part of the museum’s Women, Fashion, Power season. One of the final events is a lecture by Amber herself on Uniform, Power and the Sea. Blurb as follows:

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The Keeper's Gallery at The National Archives in Kew is currently featuring what sounds like a rather fascinating exhibition on the High Court of Admiralty Prize Papers; a large collection of ships documents, private papers and correspondence recovered from vessels seized during the 17th to 19th centuries. The exhibition focuses on papers belonging ( Read more... )

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Dammit. I've been meaning to write a wee post about this exhibition for ages now and I finally get round to it on the day it closes! Oh well, never mind, there are still some nice pictures of boats to look at ( Read more... )

This is very short notice, but just in case anyone is kicking their heels in London this weekend, The Queens House at the Royal Museums Greenwich has a series of events running today and tomorrow "exploring the extraordinary story of Lady Emma Hamilton; actress, dancer, celebrity, trend-setter and muse." It's good to see Hamilton getting some ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went through to Edinburgh to accompany esmerelda_t to a viewing of the exhibition High Spirits: The Comic Art of Thomas Rowlandson at the Queen's Gallery at the Palace of Holyrood House. The exhibition is drawn from the Royal Collections and it's really rather splendid. It's beautifully curated and there's lots of information to identify the ( Read more... )

Last week, the National Maritime Museum launched their latest major temporary exhibition Turner and the Sea. Blurb as follows:

Turner and the Sea at the National Maritime Museum is the first full-scale examination of J.M.W Turner’s lifelong fascination with the sea. Dramatic, contemplative, violent, beautiful, dangerous and sublime - the sea was ( Read more... )

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The British Library has just launched a new exhibition Georgians Revealed: Life, Style and the Making of Modern Britain, which runs until March next year.


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