A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt
via Smithsonian Magazine
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Been a bit of week.
Anyway.
Before he was changed by war. Before he was changed by family. Before he became an undertaker. #fathersday
My outrageous peonies and equally outrageous book pile. #tbr
Witch's cat, 16th-century woodcut.
Featured in Jon Crabb's essay "Woodcuts and Witches" about the witch craze of early modern Europe, and how the mass-produced woodcut helped forge the archetype of the broom-riding crone so familiar today: https://buff.ly/32N2LMt
New t-shirt. #mementomori
Astonishing non-fiction. Miranda Kaufmann’s impressive research and narrative of the roles of 9 women in plantation slavery. These are predominantly newly recovered accounts and include the lives of those enslaved. #TheHeiresses
Lough Carra, County Mayo, Ireland. This is the jetty at Kiltoon from which the ashes of writer George Moore were taken to Castle Island to be interred after his death in 1933. #BelieveInFilm @ilfordphoto.com
Having a quiet weekend.
Polish thriller. Thirst. Read. Thinking fiction.
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The Public Domain Review
Born #onthisday in Edinburgh in 1859, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Watch a rare filmed interview with him from 1927 in which he speaks about his greatest literary creation, Sherlock Holmes, and his work in spiritualism: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sir-arthur-conan-doyle-interview-1927 #OTD
