Kate Trathen

Ragged, but triumphant.

[Beatlesfab4ever @Beatlesfab40]

OTD 15JUN1964 at 8am, while the #Beatles were still sleeping , Jimmie Nicol leaves their hotel in Melbourne, Australia, and is driven to the airport. He is given £500 and a gold watch for two weeks work as a stand-in drummer for Ringo who had been recovering from tonsillitis.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

To be in the presence of this word
is a blessing that never gets old.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"The forest ended. Glad I was
To feel the light, and hear the hum
Of bees, and smell the drying grass
And the sweet mint."

Remembering the poet Edward Thomas, who was killed in action on this day in 1917 in The Battle of Arras.

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

Blessed are the dead that the rain rains upon:
But here I pray that none whom once I loved
Is dying tonight or lying still awake
Solitary, listening to the rain,
Either in pain or thus in sympathy
Helpless among the living and the dead

Edward Thomas, born 3rd March 1878

[dave ainsworth @daveainsworth63]

Remembering the great English comedian, writer and actor Peter Cook who died on this day in 1995. He was 57. #PeterCook #BeyondTheFringe #NotOnlyButAlso #Bedazzled #TheWrongBox #DerekAndClive #MonteCarloOrBust #PiecesOfEight #OneOverTheEight #TheSecretPolicemansBall #Yellowbeard

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

The Dream of the Magi, Saint-Lazare Cathedral, Salle Capitulaire (Chapter Hall), Autun, France. Date: 1120–1130 AD.

[dave ainsworth @daveainsworth63]

Remembering the great English playwright, actor, and composer Noel Coward, who was born on this day in 1899. He died in 1973. #NoelCoward #HayFever #PresentLaughter #InWhichWeServe #ThisHappyBreed #BlitheSpirit #BriefEncounter #MadDogsAndEnglishmen #TheItalianJob

[Ravilious @Ravilious1942]

Iron Bridge at Ewenbridge, Eric Ravilious, c.1941/42. It depicts a scene near Shalford in #Essex and as a struggling artist it was one of several paintings Ravilious did in lieu of rent payments. The original artwork is in the collection of @FryArtGallery.

[katebushnews.com @katebushnews]

The original shoes from the 1948 film, The Red Shoes, are included in a new auction! Bidding ends December 5th, with estimates of between £20,000 to £40,000 listed for these. More information here:

https://t.co/zeUrnNe6ZK

[Ravilious @Ravilious1942]

Ravilious for #Remembrance - Eric Ravilious, artist and visionary of ‘Deep England’ was also an official war artist in #WW2, one who was killed on Active Service in 1942. Today on #armisticeday we remember all who died in both World Wars, including Rav.

[Richard Burton @BurtonDiaries]

#RichardBurton100 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

"When lamps are lighted in the town" (1968)
Artist: A Buchanan

[Dylan Thomas Centre @DTCSwansea]

#OnThisDay 1936 Dylan: ‘I’ve got some new poems and some new jokes and some new diseases, I’m feeling fine.’ #DylanThomas

[Dylan Thomas Centre @DTCSwansea]

#OnThisDay 1951 Dylan: ‘I renounce my Art to make money and then make no money… I write poems and hide them before I can read them; and next week I shall be thirty-seven horrors old.’ #DylanThomas

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

In 1969, George Harrison wrote in his diary ‘Left the Beatles’ followed by ‘had chips later’.

[Dylan Thomas Centre @DTCSwansea]

#OnThisDay 1937 Dylan to D. Hawkins: 'I am lost in love and poverty, and my work is shocking.' #DylanThomas

[Ravilious @Ravilious1942]

Eric Ravilious was killed #OTD in 1942 when the aircraft he was in during a search & rescue mission off Iceland failed to return. From the countryside to war, his depiction of Britain in the 30s & early years of #WW2 remain an incredible legacy, decades after his death.

[Ravilious @Ravilious1942]

Caravans, Eric Ravilious, 1934. Painted near Peggy Angus’ cottage at Furlongs, in East #Sussex. In her autobiography, Eric’s wife Tirzah describes how she restored these caravans for them to use & painted the wheels red. The original artwork is in the collection of @FryArtGallery

[Ravilious @Ravilious1942]

Wiltshire Landscape, Eric Ravilious, 1937. The original artwork is in a private collection. #Wiltshire