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Two flint spheres deposited at a Roman shrine to a water deity, and two flint spheres juxtaposed with a book on André Breton's Arcane 17, his invocation of water nymph, Melusine. Two ‘positional acts’, vastly separated in time, yet mutually implicated thegrammarofmatter.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/m...
Intrigued by this 'prehistoric-looking' circular site - Moot Hill, Gristlewood - near Wymondham in Norfolk. Ostensibly a Norman ringwork fortification, further archaeological investigation is projected (alt text not being enabled for some reason, sorry)
www.norfarchtrust.org.uk/project/moot...
www.norfarchtrust.org.uk/project/moot...
July 19, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Intrigued by this 'prehistoric-looking' circular site - Moot Hill, Gristlewood - near Wymondham in Norfolk. Ostensibly a Norman ringwork fortification, further archaeological investigation is projected (alt text not being enabled for some reason, sorry)
www.norfarchtrust.org.uk/project/moot...
www.norfarchtrust.org.uk/project/moot...
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In Memory of the great Carlo Ginzburg (1939 – 2026), the historian who brought before the eyes of his readers, in magnificent prose, the meticulous reconstruction of fragments of distant lives, unknown and familiar.
Fragments of Distant Lives, Unknown and Familiar
Carlo Ginzburg was a formidable traveler. You might have written to him several times over the course of a few weeks, and he would have replied once from the Paris airport, another time from a hotel…
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June 30, 2026 at 5:45 PM
In Memory of the great Carlo Ginzburg (1939 – 2026), the historian who brought before the eyes of his readers, in magnificent prose, the meticulous reconstruction of fragments of distant lives, unknown and familiar.
Got up this morning, went to check the extension lead and saw this. Told someone just now and they'd just been watching the video of the solstitial 'heart of light' at a Mausoleum in Brussels (which I'd never heard of before). Had already perceived this as a kind of birthday greeting from 'afar'...
June 21, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Got up this morning, went to check the extension lead and saw this. Told someone just now and they'd just been watching the video of the solstitial 'heart of light' at a Mausoleum in Brussels (which I'd never heard of before). Had already perceived this as a kind of birthday greeting from 'afar'...
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Mona Khalil, one of Lebanon's leading conservationists has died following an Israeli attack on her home, she had dedicated her life to protecting the country's turtles www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Israeli attack kills famed turtle sanctuary ecologist in Lebanon
Mona Khalil led decades-long effort to protect nesting site for turtles near her home in south of the country
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June 20, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Mona Khalil, one of Lebanon's leading conservationists has died following an Israeli attack on her home, she had dedicated her life to protecting the country's turtles www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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In Issy's footnote each initial letter of three hexasyllabic sentences spells, in triplicate, ALP’s initials: Apis amat aram. Luna legit librum. Pulla petit pascua. Translated, it reads: ‘The bee loves the altar. The moon reads a book. The foal seeks the pasture’.
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northernearth.co.uk/the-foal-see...
'The foal seeks the pasture': A hexagonal Roman shrine in Hampshire - Northern Earth
By Simon Crook And if you flung her headdress on her from under her highlows you’d wheeze whyse Salmonson set his seel on a hexengown – James Joyce, Finnegans Wake ‘an orangefiery shipload from the p...
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March 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
In Issy's footnote each initial letter of three hexasyllabic sentences spells, in triplicate, ALP’s initials: Apis amat aram. Luna legit librum. Pulla petit pascua. Translated, it reads: ‘The bee loves the altar. The moon reads a book. The foal seeks the pasture’.
northernearth.co.uk/the-foal-see...
northernearth.co.uk/the-foal-see...
"This plan of Thomas Spence, for restoring to Society the real blessings of the social compact, by parochial partnerships in Land, truly declares, that all persons are by nature born equal..."
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Imagic Spenceana... Thomas Spence (1750–1814), an English radical renowned for his ‘Plan’, a proposal to abolish private ownership of land and replace state institutions with dece...
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June 12, 2026 at 7:53 PM
"This plan of Thomas Spence, for restoring to Society the real blessings of the social compact, by parochial partnerships in Land, truly declares, that all persons are by nature born equal..."
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Against the Grain is an audio essay exploring the friendship between Thomas Bewick and Thomas Spence who met in 18th century Newcastle. It presents both men as innovative artists; one whose legacy was protected, the other whose ideas were obliterated www.ruthewan.com/against-the-...
June 12, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Against the Grain is an audio essay exploring the friendship between Thomas Bewick and Thomas Spence who met in 18th century Newcastle. It presents both men as innovative artists; one whose legacy was protected, the other whose ideas were obliterated www.ruthewan.com/against-the-...
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I believe it is painted, with yellow ochre and charcoal pigment. Is it a kind of 'toy macehead' contemporary with the 'Neolithic' finds? An imitation of an Iron Age glass bead of the Meare type, known for opaque yellow decoration? The latter would hugely extend the timescale of lithic activity here
Not sure what to make of this stone, found in the garden a few years ago. Two yellow stripes applied to a darker pigmented area, leading to a drill hole, or completely 'natural'? A confirmed flint core and probable hammer stones have been found here too. How would 'paint' not degrade? #FindsFriday
May 24, 2026 at 10:22 PM
I believe it is painted, with yellow ochre and charcoal pigment. Is it a kind of 'toy macehead' contemporary with the 'Neolithic' finds? An imitation of an Iron Age glass bead of the Meare type, known for opaque yellow decoration? The latter would hugely extend the timescale of lithic activity here
I believe it is painted, with yellow ochre and charcoal pigment. Is it a kind of 'toy macehead' contemporary with the 'Neolithic' finds? An imitation of an Iron Age glass bead of the Meare type, known for opaque yellow decoration? The latter would hugely extend the timescale of lithic activity here
Not sure what to make of this stone, found in the garden a few years ago. Two yellow stripes applied to a darker pigmented area, leading to a drill hole, or completely 'natural'? A confirmed flint core and probable hammer stones have been found here too. How would 'paint' not degrade? #FindsFriday
May 24, 2026 at 10:22 PM
I believe it is painted, with yellow ochre and charcoal pigment. Is it a kind of 'toy macehead' contemporary with the 'Neolithic' finds? An imitation of an Iron Age glass bead of the Meare type, known for opaque yellow decoration? The latter would hugely extend the timescale of lithic activity here
Not sure what to make of this stone, found in the garden a few years ago. Two yellow stripes applied to a darker pigmented area, leading to a drill hole, or completely 'natural'? A confirmed flint core and probable hammer stones have been found here too. How would 'paint' not degrade? #FindsFriday
May 22, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Not sure what to make of this stone, found in the garden a few years ago. Two yellow stripes applied to a darker pigmented area, leading to a drill hole, or completely 'natural'? A confirmed flint core and probable hammer stones have been found here too. How would 'paint' not degrade? #FindsFriday
A piece of flint picked up last week. Later, I noticed a subtle red vein through the grey matrix, breaking the surface at one point as a band of crystals. If it's a flint core, I wonder whether the distinctive crystalline redness governed the choice to strike flakes and blades from it millennia ago?
May 18, 2026 at 9:58 AM
A piece of flint picked up last week. Later, I noticed a subtle red vein through the grey matrix, breaking the surface at one point as a band of crystals. If it's a flint core, I wonder whether the distinctive crystalline redness governed the choice to strike flakes and blades from it millennia ago?
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Two flint spheres deposited at a Roman shrine to a water deity, and two flint spheres juxtaposed with a book on André Breton's Arcane 17, his invocation of water nymph, Melusine. Two ‘positional acts’, vastly separated in time, yet mutually implicated thegrammarofmatter.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/m...
July 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Two flint spheres deposited at a Roman shrine to a water deity, and two flint spheres juxtaposed with a book on André Breton's Arcane 17, his invocation of water nymph, Melusine. Two ‘positional acts’, vastly separated in time, yet mutually implicated thegrammarofmatter.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/m...
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“... by the 1970s, movements stopped demanding things of politicians and bosses and instead turned to each other and said, “Let's take it all!” For a while, it looked like they might.”
Forthcoming August 2026 from @illwill.bsky.social
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Forthcoming August 2026 from @illwill.bsky.social
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April 25, 2026 at 8:01 PM
“... by the 1970s, movements stopped demanding things of politicians and bosses and instead turned to each other and said, “Let's take it all!” For a while, it looked like they might.”
Forthcoming August 2026 from @illwill.bsky.social
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Forthcoming August 2026 from @illwill.bsky.social
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A retrospective realisation from an old diary entry. A family visit to Beacon Hill, near Warnford, Hants, on 11 April 1976, after church, may have been a Palm Sunday observance. Probably my Catholic mum's idea, it seems to tune in with widespread traditions of gathering on hilltops on that day
April 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A retrospective realisation from an old diary entry. A family visit to Beacon Hill, near Warnford, Hants, on 11 April 1976, after church, may have been a Palm Sunday observance. Probably my Catholic mum's idea, it seems to tune in with widespread traditions of gathering on hilltops on that day
PDFs of Olive-Drab Rebels and Harass the Brass freedomarchives.org/Documents/Fi...
March 18, 2026 at 9:30 AM
PDFs of Olive-Drab Rebels and Harass the Brass freedomarchives.org/Documents/Fi...
I was prompted to write this blog post by a post on the Surrey Medieval site this morning. In the course of composing I noticed I'd first shared this image with accompanying commentary on the old 'Bird site' on 7/2/2019 - exactly seven years ago today thegrammarofmatter.wordpress.com/2026/02/07/s...
February 7, 2026 at 1:17 PM
I was prompted to write this blog post by a post on the Surrey Medieval site this morning. In the course of composing I noticed I'd first shared this image with accompanying commentary on the old 'Bird site' on 7/2/2019 - exactly seven years ago today thegrammarofmatter.wordpress.com/2026/02/07/s...
Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and John Heartfield
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Proletarian Modernism and the Politics of Emotion: On Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and John Heartfield | Modernism / Modernity Print+
The spirited defense of autonomous art by Theo van Doesburg, Hans Arp, and Kurt Schwitters and their denunciation of “proletarian” as a symptom of everything wrong with politically engaged art attest to the deep divides that haunted the culture and society of the Weimar Republic.[1] Their manifesto presented formal innovation as the conduit to aesthetic autonomy and celebrated
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February 3, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and John Heartfield
modernismmodernity.org/articles/hak...
modernismmodernity.org/articles/hak...
On Franz Wilhelm Seiwert
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churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the...
The Cross-Examination of Christianity
Rida Vaquas on Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, the working poor, and the Cross.
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February 3, 2026 at 9:27 PM
On Franz Wilhelm Seiwert
churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the...
churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the...
When I first saw this image of Littywood moated manor (Lvtiude in 1086), I thought, "Henge!" David Horovitz, in his survey of Staffordshire place-names (2003) thinks it may have developed from a prehistoric earthwork. Focus for an array of church and manor alignments, its name is 'puzzling'
January 25, 2026 at 8:40 PM
When I first saw this image of Littywood moated manor (Lvtiude in 1086), I thought, "Henge!" David Horovitz, in his survey of Staffordshire place-names (2003) thinks it may have developed from a prehistoric earthwork. Focus for an array of church and manor alignments, its name is 'puzzling'
First ring-necked parakeets I've ever heard at Southampton Common today. Didn't see any, though. Already seen in the last year at Riverside Park/Woodmill and Mayfield Park
January 25, 2026 at 4:10 PM
First ring-necked parakeets I've ever heard at Southampton Common today. Didn't see any, though. Already seen in the last year at Riverside Park/Woodmill and Mayfield Park
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Rhyme "describing" local vilages believed to be written by Shakespeare after he’d lost in a drinking contest at Bidford:
Piping Pebworth, dancing Marston,
Haunted Hillborough, and hungry Grafton,
With Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford,
Beggar’s Broom and drunken Bidford.
#FolkloreSunday
Piping Pebworth, dancing Marston,
Haunted Hillborough, and hungry Grafton,
With Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford,
Beggar’s Broom and drunken Bidford.
#FolkloreSunday
January 25, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Rhyme "describing" local vilages believed to be written by Shakespeare after he’d lost in a drinking contest at Bidford:
Piping Pebworth, dancing Marston,
Haunted Hillborough, and hungry Grafton,
With Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford,
Beggar’s Broom and drunken Bidford.
#FolkloreSunday
Piping Pebworth, dancing Marston,
Haunted Hillborough, and hungry Grafton,
With Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford,
Beggar’s Broom and drunken Bidford.
#FolkloreSunday