Photos taken in Sheffield cathedral: memorial book for soldiers who died in the First World War. Lovely example of foundational hand #calligraphy #edgedpen
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#rheumatology migrant from #medtwitter or to be precise #ukmedtwitter but currently mostly posting #calligraphy
Fantasy Realms: great talk on #maps in fantasy including #Tolkien.
Livestream from #britishlibrary - thank you Leeds Libraries!
During the First World War, Tolkien specialised in making maps. The Gondor-Rohan-Mordor map in #LotR is the most military style of all of the maps in the book: it has contour lines!
If you were a knight’s son, then you were expected to graduate from “squire” to “knight” by a certain maximum age: 25 in Flanders and Hainault, 30 in Catalonia.
After that, if you still hadn’t managed it, you were a “clod-hopper”.
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The word “gentilhomme” (gentleman) was increasingly used from mid 12th century onwards for men of the noble class. The first part of the word comes from “gent” (Latin gens): one’s people.
This is why the English word “gentleman” even now has faintly aristocratic overtones.
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Been reading The Glass Bead Game, Hermann Hesse (1945).
We are of course still living in the Age of the Feuilleton. Only with social media and personal devices of course it’s more frenetic and fragmented than ever before.
The narrator-from-the-future comments that you can hardly blame people of the Age of the Feuilleton for wanting to distract themselves from all the bad stuff going on in the world: they can barely think beyond tomorrow.
Amanda4 years ago today since I added Run DMC ft. Aerosmith to a video of the shadow of a millipede walking.
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Some very nice #copperplate from the York Army Museum
Nice example of copperplate text, early 19th century. Accounts ledger, Leeds City Museum
Pls boost #medmastodon
Are you:
•a Y4 or Y5 medical student at Leeds, Sheffield or HYMS
•a current FY doctor in Yorks and Humber, or
•current Specialised/Academic Foundation Programme (SFP) applicant?
Could you take part in a focus group to improve the SFP application process?
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