Archive for the ‘Social History’ Category
Sunday, November 4th, 2007
and season's greetings to the world! yes it has been a long time. where does it fly?
its been a month of beautiful colour, the smell of woodsmoke which reminds me of my childhood , halloween and bonfires and of course fireworks. Tomorrow is the 5th of November!
i've stumbled across the ...
Posted in Books and Literary Things, London, Musings, Social History | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
I've been doing some more reading - one of my thoughts was to create a section on the sidebar with resources/writings on religion I have used and perused along the way, should others want to have a look through. A lot of this recent thinking was kicked off by a ...
Posted in Crisis of Religion, Cultural History, Feminism, Hadith, Islam, Power, Religion, Religious Inquiry, Sahih Bukhari, Social History, Strange Hadith | 64 Comments »
Friday, December 15th, 2006
Right now the Painted Page exhibition at the new Folio Society Gallery @ the British Library is showing Images of medieval life in the Luttrell Psalter. You can view the original 13th Century illuminated mansuscript in the John Ritblat Gallery also at the BL.
The exhibition uses a mix of facsimile ...
Posted in British Library, Folio Society, Galleries and Exhibitions, History, Illuminated Manuscripts, John Ritblat Gallery, London, Manuscripts, Medieval, Medieval Art, Middle Ages, Social History, Technology | No Comments »