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Born #onthisday19833 Edward Burne-Jones English #Pre-Raphaelite #painter & #designer & leading star of new #Aesthetic Movement Helped rejuvenate Britain’s #stainedglass tradition Considered art’s value was as object of impassioned beauty triggering a sensual & romantic response
If you stood here on the hill in Greenwich Park at 3.14pm on 10 August 1675, you would have seen Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed lay the foundation stone of Britain’s first state-funded scientific research institution.
Happy birthday, Royal Observatory: https://t.co/ilfUbd9qN8
The Windrush generation arrived in Britain 72 years ago. They were the vanguard of Britain’s multiculturalism. An example of the practical and cultural benefits of immigration. Yet they have been betrayed by the Tory government’s heartless deportations policy.
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🇬🇧 Bringing a modern outlook to Britain’s historical legends and celebrities - using a mixture of colour and popular cartoon like drawing styles to really being the world together ✏️🖋
#DVpit #DVart #PB #LGBTQ
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Looking back at some old commissions - the @astonmartinlagonda DBS - both in original 6 cylinder and also V8 forms. I really love these Bill Towns designer Astons, such presence, and later as the V8 Vantage - Britain’s first supercar.
#Archive30 #ACollection is the Mander & Mitchenson Collection, the result of the lifetime’s work of Raymond Mander (1911 - 1983) and Joe Mitchenson (1911 – 1992) collecting the archives and ephemera of Britain’s theatrical history. Here they are (twice!) in this brilliant...
The Big Issue alternative thriving on Britain’s streets.
The anarchist collective on the surprising success of their new publication, Dope, as a response to the rough sleeping crisis
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Sally’s correct - we’re Britain’s last surviving cloth hall. An architectural treasure. Abbeys are, well, a bit pedestrian 😉 https://t.co/pXQdQHwdVW
From 1779 to 1783 Britain’s epic defence in the “Great Siege of Gibraltar” was one of her few successes in the American War of Independence. Starvation, bombardment, tunnelling, land assault and naval power all played a role. Click https://t.co/RlvUCnmK2w #18thcentury #RoyalNavy
Henry Heiring's “Portraits Of Bedlam”, photographs of patients treated at Britain’s most notorious psychiatric hospital. Heiring took many picture of the patients in an attempt to see if their faces could show evidence of their illnesses.
#photography #Bedlam
Stroll down to Granary Square to see new drawings from The Weed by one of Britain’s best-loved illustrator’s #QuentinBlake – the latest installment in the QB papers series. https://t.co/tux9NJRD2l @QuentinBlakeHQ
We are thrilled to be launching The Treatment by Michael Nath at @tatemodernshop with brilliant host @nikeshshukla on 9th March!
"A lacerating look at Britain’s relationship with systemic racism, police violence and terrorism’ @BookRiot
Tickets here 👉 https://t.co/OMz4JIrN49
@dallascampbell 👨🚀 Along the way, learn the hidden story of Britain’s early sci-fi concepts for the first lunar space suit.
📘 Dallas recently published his first book, Ad Astra: An Illustrated Guide to Leaving the Planet.
Exhibition: Opening soon (28 Feb)
ANOTHER EYE: Women Refugee Photographers in Britain From 1933
Celebrating some of the remarkable women who escaped Nazi persecution and helped to transform Britain’s photography scene.
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Our next exhibition #AnotherEye reveals the extraordinary women who escaped Nazi persecution and helped to transform Britain’s photography scene...
28 February 👀 https://t.co/BJ1L6WiI6O
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Image: Lore Lisbeth Waller in her studio, circa 1945.
"that mad bloodhound Hoare” - Britain’s most (in)famous postwar mercenary died yesterday. Notorious for his anti-Communist exploits in post-colonial Africa. His career ended in fiasco with the "package holiday coup" against the Seychelles in 1981.
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@HinakuraRiko He do be Britain’s next top peepee boy tho
There's not much time left to see this beautiful transformation of Tate Britain's entrance! Anne Hardy transforms Tate Britain’s iconic facade into a marooned temple in an exploration of the natural rhythms of the earth, tides, and the winter solstice. ❄️