#antiquary

[scotianostra]

On the 15th of April 1641 Sir Robert Sibbald, physician and geographer was born.

His mother was Margaret Boyd, eldest daughter of Robert Boyd of Kipps, Linlithgowshire and it was to there they fled when Robert was still a bairn, escaping an outbreak of the plague in the Capital.

In his autobiography, Sibbald describes his mother as: 'a virtuous and pious matron of great sagacity and firmness of mind and very careful of my education'. She died at Kipps, leaving the estate to Robert.

Following a theological course in Edinburgh, Sibbald studied medicine in Leyden and Paris, and from Angiers he obtained his licence to practise medicine.

His first appointment was as Geographer Royal for Scotland to Charles II, and he was knighted at Holyrood Palace in 1682. In 1685 he was appointed the first Professor of Medicine (without salary) to Edinburgh University.

He established the first botanical and physic garden in the yards of Holyrood Abbey for instructing students in botany and supplying apothecaries with vegetable "materia medica."

#scotland #scottish #edinburgh #physician #geographer #antiquary

[nobeerreviews]

listen: there’s a hell

of a good universe next door; let’s go

-- e.e. cummings

(Cluj, Romania)

#next door #universe #antiquary #e e cummings #travel photography #cluj #cluj napoca #romania #books #used books #old books #bookstore

[victusinveritas]

 Chrese Evans, a 54-year old Buddhist antique shop owner from Portland, Oregon who is also Joseph Stalin's granddaughter. Of course she's a fan of Tank Girl.

From the Wikipedia entry on her father: In 1935, Peters married [Frank Lloyd] Wright's step-daughter, Svetlana Hinzenberg Wright (1917–1946), who had just turned eighteen years old. Together, Svetlana and Wes had two children:

Brandoch Peters (1941–2022), a cello prodigy who spent most of his adult life raising sheep. Daniel Peters (1944–1946), who died aged two in an automobile accident with his mother. Svetlana, who was pregnant with their third child, and their son Daniel died in an automobile accident in 1946, after which Peters raised their other son, Brandoch, though he spent most of his youth with the Wrights since Peters was travelling for work often.

Peters later briefly married Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926–2011),[10] the youngest child and only daughter of Joseph Stalin, in a union arranged by his former mother-in-law, Olgivanna Lloyd Wright. Before their marriage on April 12, 1970, Alliluyeva had defected from the Soviet Union, renounced her father's tyrannical rule and come to the United States in 1967. Before divorcing in 1973, the couple had one daughter:

Olga Peters (later known as Chrese Evans) (b. 1971).

#joseph stalin #stalin #meanwhile in oregon #portland #chrese evans #antiquary #frank lloyd wright #wikipedia #tank girl

[umi-no-onnanoko]

#antique #antiquariato #antiquary #building myself #take care #take care of myself #single lady #self improvement #self care #self love

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

M.R. James - Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary - Penguin - 1974 (cover photograph by Joe Gaffney)

#witches #ghosts #occult #vintage #chilling stories #antiquary #m.r. james #montague rhodes james #ghost stories of an antiquary #penguin book #1974 #joe gaffney #ghost stories

[alovecraft]

Whatever you celebrate, have some ghost stories.

#phone post #ghost stories #antiquary #m r James #Youtube

[biology-geology-beaches-india]

Aphorism 108. The Philosophy of Tropical Littorals and Seashores. Satyendra Sunkavally.

#celerity #time #flow of time #antique #ancient #patina #monument #past #corrosion #seashore #corrosive #antiquary #aging #tropical #beaches #philosophy #philosopher #aphorism #quote #prehistory #chirala beach #expedition #solitude #solitary #aloneness #pillar #concrete #column #exploration #naturalist

[cuephrase]

Hi so I just saw that postnof yours abt tim witnessing dick at so many of his low moments and I got all of the incidents mentioned except one, where dick asks abt the adoption if there was no bruce wayne? Like. Bruce didn't adopt him, or bruce didn't exist and there were no other relatives? I can't quite figure it out lol

hi! okay so, short version, this goes down in batman #600 and i freak out about it here.

longer version: bruce has been accused/arrested for murder, the batfam cannot prove that he didn’t do it, and pretty much only dick and alfred are like certain of his innocence. bruce decides, “hey! wouldn’t it be so brilliant of me to break-out of black gate and be batman 24/7?” so he does exactly that, much to everyone’s dismay and they all go to meet/confront him at the batcave.

lots of arguing, bruce refuses to outright say he didn’t do it and then tries to leave. dick flips out and calls him a hypocrite because when dick had been accused of murder, bruce was like, “you can’t solve this case as nightwing”, and now when it’s bruce’s murder he’s just continuing to be batman.

he hits bruce with this:

to which bruce responds:

yep. mhmm. now mind you, besides all the obviously devastating implications of that- dick has only recently been adopted by bruce, and it has been on his mind constantly during this whole murder trial.

like he says, he never thought he could be more loyal to bruce, but on top of everything, he is his father now.

but if there is no bruce wayne? well:

dick asks who adopted him if there is no bruce wayne, and he is met with silence.

i literally had to like pause and compose myself before i went to the next page when i was reading this arc because oh my god??????!!!!!!

anyways, dick does not let him leave, they get into a massive, massive fight, everything hurts, and it ends only because dick ends up accidentally smashing the display case that held jason’s robin suit. while he’s frozen in horror, bruce takes that opportunity to hop into the batmobile and dip.

it is not a great night for dick.

they do eventually solve the case and make up:

honestly, if you have a way to read comics the bruce wayne: murderer?/fugitive arc is phenomenal. highly recommend.

but yeah, long story short, this is the moment referenced in the post! tysm for asking!

#dick grayson #nightwing #bruce wayne #batman #tim drake #robin #dc comics #cue answers #antiquaries

[weirdlookindog]

Montague Rhodes James - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. (London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1926).

#montaque rhodes james #ghost stories of an antiquary #horror literature #horror art #horror books #old books

[jiubilant]

the bards' college is dedicated to the study of history and philosophy and the arts but is also an occasional patron of the natural sciences. haafing naturalist and antiquary ole wyrm taught courses on both empiricism and nordic runes there. that being said magic and science are such intertwined disciplines in tamrielic scholarship that most budding naturalists go to winterhold

#haafing naturalist and antiquary ole wyrm being a real character #bards' college #college of winterhold

[contremineur]

On reaching England, it appears that Mr. Wraxall landed at Harwich, and that he resolved at once to put himself out of the reach of some person or persons whom he never specifies, but whom he had evidently come to regard as his pursuers. Accordingly he took a vehicle—it was a closed fly—not trusting the railway, and drove across country to the village of Belchamp St. Paul. It was about nine o'clock on a moonlight August night when he neared the place. He was sitting forward, and looking out of the window at the fields and thickets—there was little else to be seen—racing past him. Suddenly he came to a cross-road. At the corner two figures were standing motionless; both were in dark cloaks; the taller one wore a hat, the shorter a hood. He had no time to see their faces, nor did they make any motion that he could discern. Yet the horse shied violently and broke into a gallop, and Mr. Wraxall sank back into his seat in something like desperation. He had seen them before.

M.R. James, from Count Magnus (in ‘Ghost Stories of an Antiquary’, Edward Arnold 1904)

image from here

#m.r. james #count magnus #ghost stories of an antiquary #horror #li

[warabola]

you ever end up so far down a fallen london research rabbit hole that you stumble upon 2010s era websites about conspiracies surrounding the 6th Earl of Carnavon being the illegitimate son of a Rothschild and the son of the last Maharajah of Lenore-

#this man is a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland #his biggest competitor in autobiographies of Lady Almina Carnavon is the current Lady Carnavon #i am fascinated i love internet rabbit holes

[kursed-curtain]

More collector oc interactions!

I saw @marminko said that Regis is tolerant of children, but what if the child sucks, I think he wouldn't like the child (reasonably so)

#collector oc #@Regis #@the antiquary #traditional art #fanart #character design #the owl house #toh ocs #toh collector oc #the owl house oc

[scotianostra]

The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland was founded in Edinburgh in 1780 by David Steuart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan, and received its royal charter from King George III on 29 March 1783.

The Society has been active ever since. One of its main activities in the first 70 or so years of its existence was collecting antiquities and ethnological material from Scotland and elsewhere, but in 1851 a deal was done with the British Government to takeover and look after the Society’s collections, which represent a considerable part of the core collections of the National Museums of Scotland.

 The Society’s library is also incorporated in that of the Museum, meaning that Fellows of the Society have privileged access, and significant collections of documents were given to the National Library of Scotland and the National Archives of Scotland.

The Society has always sought to encourage and promote research into the history and archaeology of Scotland and the Scots. It provides grants and awards for research projects and is a significant publisher in the field. It produces annually The Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, a peer reviewed journal, and monographs and books. These are mostly now available digitally, including the very successful Scottish Archaeology Internet Reports. 

Publishing activity is not totally confined to producing academic reports. The Society is proud of its books with a wider appeal, like Making For America, a book of essays published in 2013 on the subject of Transatlantic craftsmanship, Scotland and the Americas, in the 18th and 19th centuries. This originated in a conference held in the Winterthur Museum, Delaware, in 2009.

Lectures and conferences are a major part of the offering provided for Fellows of the Society. Many of these take place in Edinburgh, but the Society has a strong North-east branch based in Aberdeen, and lectures are held there, and increasingly in other venues in Scotland. There is a small group of dedicated Fellows in Australia who have an annual meeting, and there are a few hundred in North America. The Society’s Council is considering ways of promoting more activities there.

Another activity which the Society regards as of the utmost importance is advocacy, including promoting best practice, criticizing changes in heritage legislation or supporting local initiatives to preserve facilities or access to heritage monuments. Because the Society represents the whole heritage sector in Scotland, including professionals and amateurs, and because it is not dependent on Government funding or ties with other bodies, it is able to speak with an independent and respected voice.

Membership consists of Fellows, proposed and seconded by existing Fellows and approved by the Fellowship as a whole. There are about 2,900 Fellows, and the Society is keen to expand that number, and recruit younger Fellows. For more details on the Society’s activities, and how to join, check out its website at socantscot.org.

‘Antiquary’ may seem an old fashioned word, but the Society is very proud of its heritage. It feels strongly that ‘antiquary’ is the best word to represent the range of interests and expertise of its Fellows. These are not narrowly based in history or archaeology but include collecting, ethnology, heraldry, genealogy and art history. Indeed, it appears that a characteristic of most of our Fellows, many of whom have specialized knowledge and expertise in a relatively narrow subject area or period of time, is a willingness to combine that with an interest in the whole field of Scottish studies. 

#Scotland #scottish #museum #society #history #Society of Antiquaries

[allthecastlesonclouds]

11, 16 & 18 :D?

thank you so much for the ask!! (sdkhsadjf opening my inbox was amusing)

11. Link your three favorite fics right now

ooooooooooh my god that's. Hard. uh in no particular order just lookin through my ao3:

- this city never sleeps at night by chesci. it's a band au six of crows fic and. comfort beloved it's just. good vibes and fun. - honestly just the whole the only way out of this thriller (is if i am a killer, too) series by the lovely @wlwinry. it's so good. so so so good. screaming crying throwing up at the latest installment. - and Starlight by pigflight! it's a figayda tangled-ish au and it's very simple and sweet and i. think it may have been the first fic i read in this fandom?? just. very very sweet.

16. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Share one of them?

so many in my head but very few on paper. midterms season kicking my butt asdgjkfh but. when i have time. there may be a short little sig figs vigilante au :D

18. Do you title your fics before, during, or after the writing process? How do you come up with titles?

i answered this on a different ask but! i will say! i do have a habit of making my titles multiple parts (addressing two things, split with a comma or a dash or a semi colon or parentheses). it does give a certain energy but it also makes my titles Very Long so. a habit i've noticed. i have three fics that don't have this habit and 14 fics up on ao3 so. :)

#ren <3 #ask game #questionnn! #CHOOSING FICS ARE SO HARD I LOVE SO MANY. just. such an extensive list. i need to bookmark more fics i always forget to but. #i need to be able to find them again! and then i lose them in the sea of OTHER good fics #so. screaming crying throwing up. there's also i could go on and on and on (and i will) by mothwrites #and The Pilot Program's Guide to Falling in Love with your Four Best Friends by Gretccheen; though that is a locked fic so. if you have ao3 #and there's this one fic where riz gets overwhelmed on a sig figs tour and i can't FIND IT right now but. rent free in my mind #and of course pox by the lovely rratking #all better people by BoxOnTheNile #just. so many. #OH AND I CAN'T FIND IT EITHER BUT THAT ONE SIG FIGS ONE WHERE THEY'RE TOURING AND GORGUG GETS TRAPPED IN AN ANTIQUARY #^^ SO SO GOOD

[rains-of-words]

I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again.

M.R. James, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

#quotes #quote #rains of words #usermaximoff #books #m.r. james #ghost stories of an antiquary