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Elizabeth 🥰

Blue wooden bed with an arched canopy and carved front arch, floral wallpaper inside, a dresser with crockery on the left.

NB! · Books · Ethnography

Pine canopy bed from County Waterford in Claudia Kinmonth's book on Irish country furniture

A canopied bed resembling a barrel. The decoration of the bed is stylised after the interior fittings of a large, wealthy house, while the bed itself is made of rather rough planks. Illustration from Claudia Kinmonth's book on Irish country furniture.

Low-angle shot: a soldier in a helmet with a chain across his chest raises a finger before a man in a cap and a bearded elder in a hood.

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Black-and-white film still: a helmeted soldier speaking with two hooded men

NB! · Cinema

Stills from Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc

A textile doll in black with a pale face, dark hair and six white hands hangs on threads. A small gilt-framed mirror is set in its chest, and it casts a shadow on the wall.

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Suspended multi-armed textile doll with a small mirror on its chest

Screenshot of two Russian-language comments quoting Tolkien: evil cannot create anything new, only spoil what good forces made. The first has 4.2K likes.

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Two comments quoting Tolkien on the nature of evil

Elderly Queen Victoria in a black dress and hat sits in a carriage holding a white Pomeranian on her lap.

NB! · Archive · Monarchies · People · Nature

Queen Victoria and her Pomeranian Turi, whom she asked to keep beside her on her deathbed

Queen Victoria with her beloved Pomeranian Spitz, Turi. The Queen asked that Turi be at her side on her deathbed

NB! · Observations · Society · Humour

If anyone still doesn't know what true love is, I, for one, have spent 334 hours talking about how grandmothers in the USSR received no pension

NB! · Art · Observations · People

“Men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters”

“Men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters,” said Georgia O'Keeffe. Self-assurance was never something the old girl (1887-1986) was short of.

NB! · Archive · Architecture · Moscow

The Construction of Lenin's Mausoleum

NB! · Archive · In the Press · London · Monarchies · People

Princess Margaret, aged 27, the Queen's younger sister, on the cover of Tatler

The trunk of a bare tree has grown into black metal gates between two pale gateposts while snow falls.

NB! · Observations · Nature · Humour

A tree has grown into a fence and its gates, photographed in a snowfall

A tree that has grown into its own fence. Does anyone recognise themselves?