The AHRC-funded Illustration Archive: over a million historical book illustrations to search and tag. Twitter account managed by Prof. Julia Thomas
Cardiff University
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Check out this film of our AHRC/NEH 'Finding a Place' project. Lots of fabulous illustrations from old books:
youtube.com/watch?v=CorKvPlw…
#Illustrations @CUSpecialColls @CUEngCommPhilos
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In 1967 Barthes declared the author dead. We asked five AI models for their take. They argued, panicked, quoted the Tao Te Ching at each other, and kept saying "we." We expected a fun philosophy stunt. It got under our skin ↓
A new case of anthropodermic binding @Ken_Gibb Who was the Suffolk Red Barn murderer Willam Corder? - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0w…
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'Ghosts among the philosophers - Cambridge, home of analytic philosophy, was also a hotbed of psychical research. How did this spooky subject take root?' (the 'ectoplasm' featured is in the archive of the SPR, held at Cambridge University Library): aeon.co/essays/when-psychica…
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Randolph Caldecott was born on this day, March 22, in 1846.
In Maurice Sendak’s words, Caldecott’s balance of pictures and words heralded “the beginning of the modern picture book”.
Have you ever thought about what you see — or don’t see — in your mind’s eye when you read? Take a look at this piece I’ve just written about aphantasia and reading: tes.com/magazine/teaching-le…
Aphantasia: education’s blind spot in teaching reading tes.com/magazine/teaching-le…
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It’s finally happened. This recommendation is a career highlight. (I have a new book out, by the way!)
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Died #OTD 1875, the artist Robert William Buss, leaving unfinished his best known work: "#Dickens's Dream." Take a closer look: which of these iconic characters can you identify? victorianweb.org/art/illustr…
ALT Dickens sitting on a chair in his study, not writing but day-dreaming, with his most famous characters, as depicted by his illustrators, all around him — sketched, but not yet fully painted in.
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DARK FAIRYLAND The entrance to fairyland is said to be in forests, hills, or in mountains. It is associated with the land of the dead in mythology. Mortals who enter may disappear forever unless they are able to perform some task of value to the fae
🎨Doré, 1870 #mythologymonday
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According to @ZSLLibrary it's #WorldHippoDay, so here's Harrison Weir's wonderful chromolithograph of one, from "The Pictorial Cabinet of Marvels," 1878 victorianweb.org/art/illustr… (just hoping it's too much of a mouthful for the crocodile!)
ALT A large hippo at a watering-hole with two others in the distance behind some tropical foliage, and a crocodile rising out of the water nearby. The two seem to be eyeing each other....
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This is not a catacomb or an eccentrically-lit dungeon ~ it’s the inside of a 19th century cello (photo: Adrian Borda) messynessychic.com/2018/08/1…
A digital exhibition for those interested in AI, historical images (and cathedrals). Based on work we are doing with @lampallib
shorturl.at/vCIQt
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A woodcut peering out from a 16th century binding. It's been used as the pastedown on a 1596 Frankfurt printing of Aristotle's Physics, but we can't see enough of it to know what it's from #Printed #Fragments #Bindings
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Since 1967, this small division at the University of Virginia has investigated the possibility of reincarnation: whro.org/education-news/2024…
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Veridical Apparitions Are Not Very Rare: futureandcosmos.blogspot.com…
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Today is Childermas, the feast of the Holy Innocents, on the fourth day of Christmas. It's a fitting day for the Coventry Carol and other medieval lullaby-laments, which give voice to the grief that lies near the heart of the Christmas season aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/…
