Professor Amanda Vickery
@Amanda_Vickery
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Amanda Vickery writer, TV/radio presenter & Prof of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, U of London is author of 'Behind Closed Doors' & 'Gentleman's Daughter'
Joined June 2010
I don't understand why some men are so cross about masks. They should try wearing a bra.
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Once more for the people at the back - 18th c corsets did not pinch. They moulded to the body. If the actresses are in pain the corset does not fit.
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Staircase of La Maison de Science de Lviv, in Ukraine. It was built 1897 by the Viennese architects F.Fellner & H.Helmer.
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The lady who "didn't want to be portrayed", dated 1787, cm 208 x 144-on display from today at the Camuno Museum in Breno (Brescia)
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From Guardian, letter from Andy Stuart of Rye E Sussex: "I suggest Bristol replaces Edward Colston w a different statue every day to honour an individual whom Colston “shipped”. It would be 233 years before plinth became empty again. That is the enormity of the man’s inhumanity.".
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"Mid ocean, mid winter", 1876. Oil on canvas. John Singer Sargent.
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Diana Rigg and Anthony Hopkins pictured together in Aquinas Street near Waterloo on 19th September 1972. They were appearing in "Macbeth" just round the corner at the National Theatre. She was playing Lady Macbeth opposite Hopkins' Macbeth .
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Dolly Parton statue may replace KKK leader memorial at Tennessee Capitol:
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There’s a remarkable level of exclusion afoot for those who don’t have a smart phone, want to talk to a person, don’t understand apps. It is an insidious war on the old & the poor. Why does no one comment on it?.
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Tescos-good, occasionally busy later. Sainsburys-slight to moderate, navigation warning in aisle 7. Asda-slight to moderate, heavy crowds later. M&S & Co-Op, fair. Waitrose fair to moderate, w poor visibility in pasta aisle at first. Lidl- rough at first, slight to moderate later.
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I see you Barbie, but I raise you Elizabeth I Sindy - made by my mother.
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Félix Vallotton - "La service à café", 1887
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Why is every woman in a historical drama - avant garde, MODERN, a woman ahead of her time? Why bother with history?.
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At a breast cancer clinic full of very distressed women, some old ladies were turned away because they did not have an SMS message from an App. They didn’t even have a phone! Appalling. And agist.
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You cannot beat him for pastels. John Singer Sargent, Mrs. Carl Meyer and her Children, 1896. Oil on canvas. Tate.
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William Morris (1834-1896), design for a printed textile, ca 1886, Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
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IMHO Ripley cannot top the Minghella version for glamour, no matter how much I adore Andrew.
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Andrew Scott photographed by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue
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The ribbon and button department of a Copenhagen store in 1904. Københavns Museum
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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, The Queen at Breakfast, 1965.Oil on Canvas
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Before the internet took off, a great London thrill was going to the stations late Saturday night to pick up the Sunday papers to read in bed.
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Carole Lombard, wearing a Travis Banton bias cut silk dress.
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Angela Barrett's illustration from her picture book version of Snow White.
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Richard Burton with his father, coalminer Richard Jenkins, visiting his home village of Pontrhydyfen, Wales, 1953.
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“Umbrellas and Rain” Fall 1933 Illustration for Harpers Bazaar Magazine, New York by Charles Martin.
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Winter Landscape at Sunset, 1887.Anton Mauve (1838-1888).Netherlands
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Vanessa Bell (British, 30 May 1879 – 7 April 1961).Interior with artist’s daughter, 1935-36
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'Portrait of John Singer Sargent' by Giovanni Boldini, 1890.oil on panel.14¼" x 11 inches / 36,2cm x 28cm
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Two ladies leaving a polling station, London, May 1929
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Not clapping. Just pay the effing nurses, porters and cleaners a decent wage & provide entire NHS & care homes with PPE.
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John Singer Sargent - William Butler Yeats, 1908.
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It's all coming out now. The men admitting they fancied Margot not Barbara,.
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I know it’s not limited to NHS - just this week oldies who couldn’t download their tickets were charged a bomb, most car parks now don’t take cash, ticket offices are disappearing. If you are not tech savvy you are toast. It is so exclusionary. But around health it is despicable.
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"Woman Reading" (ca. 1889) Asta Nørregaard (1853-1933)
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Marie & P.S. Kroyer 'Double Portrait of Marie and P.S. Kroyer' 1890.She painted him, he painted her.
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The punishing of people who don’t have a smartphone or understanding of internet is appalling. Extreme in its exclusion of the poor and the old. For shame.
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“ London Underground “ Painting by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale. 1932.
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Suzy Parker wears Givenchy's "swinging lacquer-printed skirt," worn with a lace petticoat and quilted jacket. Photographed by John Rawlings, Vogue, October 15, 1953
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Mia Tarney (British Artist, born 1973).'Duchess Peony', 2007. Oil on Linen, 137.2 × 152.4 cm. Private Collection.
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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925).Miss Helen Duinham; 1892, oil, canvas, 121.5×81.3 cm. Private Collection
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Fanny Hjelm (Swedish,1858 -1944).Still life with blue anemones 1889
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Phyllis Dodd: 'Czech Pesaant.' A Girl in National Costume, in an Interior. 1932.
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I have always loved Edward Burne-Jones. Love Among the Ruins(1894)
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'The stealth of a sofa moving across the lawn'.
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OOOh that pink. John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925), Mrs. George Swinton (Elizabeth Ebsworth) 1897, Oil on canvas, 231 × 124 cm
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Gustav Klimt, "Portrait of a Woman", 1890-91.Charcoal with white heightening on buff paper, 43.8 x 32.1 cm
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A knockout in the flesh. Currently on show @Tate. The chair reappears in several other portraits. John Singer Sargent, Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh.
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Johan Laurentz Jensen (1800-1856) .Lilac (circa 1835)
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Is it Paris? Is it Vienna? NO! It's Preston. Friday 22nd December 2023. Photo: Gary Severn.
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Chilliest of all fairy tales. The Snow Queen, Edmund Dulac; 1882-1953.
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Audrey Hepburn wearing a Givenchy suit in Paris 1962
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Call me sentimental, but it never ceases to move me that on 6 June 1944 tens of thousands of young men hurled themselves on the Normandy beaches to relieve Europe from fascism.
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Oh I wish I were there. John Singer Sargent .Staircase in Capri (Study of a staircase), 1878.oil on canvas.Private collection
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I’m not a natural monarchist, but struggling through your duty two days before you die earns my awed respect.
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British ballerina Mary Drage in front of John Singer Sargent’s 1899 portrait of the Wyndham sisters.Mary Drage wears a full-length ball gown of gray clouds of rayon net; pique, gray rayon taffeta signed by Rappi. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.Norman Parkinson
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Twitter attacks are hilarious. "So called Professor". No in fact I am a Professor, with a Ph.D., a series of publicly assessed promotions, three public history prizes, numerous international awards and a fellowship of the British Academy.
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Gregory Peck, photographed by John Engstead, 1946.
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My dad died two years today. One might think these losses would lose their bite. But not tonight.
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Isn't this choice? Two incandescent national treasures:
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So much gleeful critique of Starmer, but call me old-fashioned, what's wrong with having a very clever, careful, thoughtful & hard-working person at the helm? Does the hatred of knowledge & expertise extend even to Labour? WOE.
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Margaret Tarrant, English, 1888 - 1959.Christmas Duet, 1952.ink and watercolour.16.0 x 11.1 cm. (6.3 x 4.37 in.)
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The king of pink. John Singer Sargent, 'Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess of Abernon (in Venice)' 1904, Oil,.Birmingham Museum, Alabama, USA.
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Magpie Wedding 2014.Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen (born 1963) Danish
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Ceil Chapman, gown worn by model Dovima, photographed by Irving Penn, Vogue, 1 August 1950.
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A woman turns to look at Yul Brynner on the terrace of a Cafe in Paris, 1957, Photo by Jack Garofalo. The epitome of cool.
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The chocolate girl by Liotard 1795. One of my favourite paintings.
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Victorian feminists argued against male pests compromising women’s access to space over a century ago. Why are women always told to hide. Not men to be policed.
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The first ever carpool Karaoke with George Michael is a joyous thing.
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The candle in the window is an ancient symbol of loss. The eye of the house tirelessly seeking its lost inhabitant.
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It is a relief to me that my father is already dead; Dying in a care home three years ago with me holding his hand & singing Welsh hymns. I cannot imagine the pain of children denied the chance to help their parents in their final trial.
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St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel London. The Grand Spiral Staircase, Opened in 1873, Architect George Gilbert Scott.
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Found Saltburn unpleasant. Brought back memories of being working class at uni. Am decades from that & obvs privileged now, but still recall that any time I said "no my father was a bricklayer & no we never went skiing", boys would launch into the Monty Python sketch.
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The unforgettable green dress which Keira Knightley wore in Atonement (2007)
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I have v mixed feelings about VE Day celebrations. I despise the little England myths the celebration seems to serve. Yet I want to honour my own family, AND the huge sacrifice of the generation who made the Welfare State & NHS.
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Stevan Dohanos, 'After Dinner Dishes, Saturday Evening', January 8, 1949
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Mask wearing is the way to go. Please retweet.
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'Fantasy On The Dance Floor' gown by Christian Dior for Harper's Bazaar, 1948
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YSL for Christian Dior (1958), purple velvet dress with high waisted bodice and deep décolleté. Jewelry by Vendôme, photo by Pottier.
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I've posted this before but it's still brilliant. Bedroom - 2023.Gustav Sundin born 1982.Medium - Oil on canvas.Private Collection
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