Dr John Davies
FRHistS. Independent scholar.Eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Currently researching the life of Charles Francis Greville (1749-1809).
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- Reposted by Dr John DaviesTwo mice, Joris Hoefnagel, 1594 Hoefnagel made this drawing especially for his friend Johannes Muisenhol from Frankfurt. The image refers to his surname. The extinguished candle & eaten walnut represent the transience of life.
- Reposted by Dr John DaviesAn exhibition at Uni of Nottingham Museum at Lakeside Arts brings together 40 excavated discoveries from the early medieval cemetery at Broughton Lodge in Willoughby-on-the-Wolds for the first time in over 50 years. 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- Reposted by Dr John DaviesThe UK government has agreed a deal with Donald Trump to hike NHS drugs prices. The government is refusing to say how much this will cost or how it will be paid for. Tell Wes Streeting to come clean: act.globaljustice.org.uk/tell-wes-str...
- Reposted by Dr John DaviesHeddiw ydy'r daucanmlwyddiant agor Pont y Borth, neu'r Bont Grog y Fenai, rhwng Ynys Môn ac Arfon. Cynllwynwyd ac adeiladwyd gan y peiriannydd Albanaidd Thomas Telford.
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- Reposted by Dr John DaviesThe UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
- What a jumbled bit of Carmarthen!
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- Reposted by Dr John DaviesFACT OF THE DAY. 23 January 2020. Chinese authorities locked down the entire city of Wuhan (which had 11 million inhabitants) by not allowing planes and trains to arrive and stopping city buses and underground trains. The action was taken due to the death of 17 people from the new Covid-19 virus.
- Reposted by Dr John DaviesAn opportunity to listen to a talk by the wonderful Dr Marian Gwyn Textiles as Exploitation: Clothing, Commerce & Control on the Penrhyn Jamaica Plantations 6pm, 10/2/2026 Lecture Room 3, Main Arts Building Bangor University, or join online For more information: www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/events/...
- Reposted by Dr John DaviesEconomist & sociologist Beatrice Webb was born #OTD in 1858 + One of the founders, London School of Economics + Co-authored 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰-𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 & 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 where she coined the term "collective bargaining" + First female fellow, British Academy, 1931 #WomenInSTEM
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- Reposted by Dr John Davies“They need that money to invest in businesses!” And to suppress the media.
- Reposted by Dr John DaviesA quick peek inside our stores 👀💫
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- Reposted by Dr John DaviesKarl Hubbuch ( 1891-1979), German painter- Twice Hilde II - 1929
- Reposted by Dr John DaviesDr. Sophia Jex-Blake was born #OTD in 1840 + Led the campaign to secure women access to a university education in the UK + First practicing woman doctor in Scotland + Founder, Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women, 1886 + Helped establish the London School of Medicine for Women, 1874 #WomenInSTEM
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- Reposted by Dr John Davies"Reserve Head" - Old Kingdom, 4th dynasty, reign of Khufu, approx. 2500-2584 BCE at #KunsthistorischesMuseumVienna #KHM #Leica #LeicaQ343 #MyLeicaPhoto
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- Reposted by Dr John DaviesPHOTO OF THE DAY. Trinity College, Dublin (2012) 📷 Candida Höfer
- Reposted by Dr John DaviesPERSON OF THE DAY. 21 January 1950. George Orwell (Eric Blair) died of TB (aged 46), His best known works were Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia. In 2008, The Times ranked him 2nd in “The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945” (behind Larkin).
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- Reposted by Dr John DaviesShame WM politicians don’t have the backbone for this.
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- Reposted by Dr John DaviesIn @nytopinion.nytimes.com One year ago, President Trump took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he used the presidency to enrich himself, the @nytimes editorial board writes. This is how Trump has pocketed at least $1.4 billion.
- Reposted by Dr John DaviesMaybe Greenland could invade us instead?
- Reposted by Dr John DaviesThe last surviving section of tram lines in Richmond, North Yorkshire - installed in the late 19th century by a local business, who used them to transport heavy goods between their warehouses and their shop in the marketplace! 😀
- Reposted by Dr John DaviesEdinburgh Castle and the Nor’ Loch, 1824, painting by Alexander Nasmyth (National Galleries of Scotland).
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- Reposted by Dr John DaviesThe Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
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- Reposted by Dr John DaviesEverybody knows Franz Kafka, but almost no one knows his sister Ottla. She was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz on Oct 7, 1943 after volunteering to escort a group of orphans from the Terezin ghetto so they wouldn’t be afraid.
- Reposted by Dr John DaviesAh we see your Blue Monday and raise you a Moo Blunday
- Reposted by Dr John DaviesLetters patent, being an Exemplification of an Act for exemplifying the will of Nicholas Bagenall Esq. and for making the same evidence in all courts of law and equity Dyddiad/Date: 1734 PLAS NEWYDD/VI/503
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- Reposted by Dr John DaviesPHOTO OF THE DAY. Glass Tears. 📷 Man Ray (1932).
