Dr Michelle Donaghy

School of Education, UoG. Interested in equity, policy, and all things early years. Reading and writing (when not working) - views always my own

[Art Guide @ArtGuide_db]

Charles Hoffbauer
In the Restaurant, 1907

[PictureThis Scotland @74frankfurt]

19-year-old trainee nurse Shirley Lawson berates Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher outside the Holiday Inn in Glasgow. (1982)

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

“We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half.”
- Emmeline Pankhurst.
UK suffragette arrested, 1914 #womensart #Tuesday

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

This song will transport you back to those wonderful years ✨

[Music over time🎻 @Peal8888]

This song is timeless. 40 years later and they sound exactly the same as on the album.

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

A little Bach accompanied by the sound of rain. For anyone who needs a beautiful, peaceful moment today. 🎻🌧️

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

September Morning Sun.

Kevin Kia

[Olga Tuleninova 🦋 @olgatuleninova]

“Dear Morning” by Sergiu Coichină

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Remembering...

• F. Scott Fitzgerald •

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Whatever book you pick up, it’s likely to make you feel better—maybe even a whole lot better. “In a secular age, I suspect that reading fiction is one of the few remaining paths to transcendence, that elusive state in which the distance between the self and the universe shrinks,” Ceridwen Dovey writes, in “Can Reading Make You Happier?,” which was published in 2015. Dive into the research behind the therapeutic effect of books: https://t.co/H94aQp3jtK

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“If you will recollect, we are now in Autumn – season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.”

P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Felicity House, UK contemporary artist who was elected a member of The Pastel Society #WomensArt

[L'Art Impressionniste @allontanarsio]

La Rêverie par Auguste Renoir

[dee nickerson @dEEN1cKers0n]

Heading for the weekend, hope you have a fine Friday 🙂

(From my photo archive)

[4️⃣00k Paris Paname 😊 @ParisAMDParis]

🎨 Takanori Oguiss (1901-86).
Bric-à-brac "Occasions".
Paris.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Mabel Frances Layng,
English painter, (1881–1937),
Girls Dressing, 1920 #womensart

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself”

Virginia Woolf

Odilia Liuzzi artwork

[Jim Beattie @JimBeattie18]

Lake Attersee (1900)
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

[helen warlow @helen_warlow]

Staying in Paris , this set on a very windy day and by artist Lara Briz. (Sounds an odd name , describing the picture …a lot of breeze) .
@helen_warlow

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

A bit of poetry from...

• Gerard Manley Hopkins •