It’s International Podcast Day! So please allow me to tell you about my BBC #podcastpodcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...
Listen to BBC Radio 4’s You're Dead to Me podcast with Greg Jenner on Apple Podcasts.
This 18th-century écorché by Honoré Fragonard predates Body Worlds and plastination by 250 years. Fragonard never divulged his preservation methods. In 1771, he was expelled from his teaching position at the École Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort as a madman.
This week has just summed up why teaching is just the best job. Talking about the Crusader states states today, a yr11 asked me, 'is that where the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch came from?' A year 7 got my 'this is just tribute' gag (awful btw) when talking about Cartimandua.
Oh my goodness, this is a cracking interpretation (Apart from the arrow in the eye bit)
I love this student-animated Bayeux Tapestry: www.openculture.com/2024/09/beho... Seeing it translated and animated helps us read the work the way it was meant to be read.
In previous centuries, unless you were a member of the nobility, a wealthy religious order, or a merchant guild, your chances of spending any significant amount of time with a Medieval tapestry were s...
Come along - there's some fab speakers. And me! Pretending I belong there, talking about how awesome women are and how local history should be at the centre of curriculum.
