Katherine Harloe

@katherineharloe

Classicist, based in UK. Pessimist.

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Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe· 19d

As we mark 50 years since Ehrenberg's death, we are pleased to celebrate his life and his gifts to the ICS and the University. Special thanks to Graduate Library Trainee Amelia Andrews and Assistant Librarian Rosario Rovira Guardiola for curating this exhibition.

A museum case containing a small Greek vase, with drawing and photograph of same object. Case also contains an open catalogue with further photographs and, on the shelf below, further artefacts, drawings and catalogue lists.

view from above of a museum cabinet containing an open book with photographs of ancient vessels, Greek vase (lekythos), handwritten catalogue list with manuscript annotations, and printed exhibition labels

A typewritten outline catalogue of antiquities, with manuscript annotations, photograph and drawing.

Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe· Aug 6

Sorting out bits of @ics.bsky.social archive and thinking about what has changed (and what hasn't) since 2003.

Newspaper clipping of letter written by Charles Clarke, then UK Secretary of State for Education, to The Telegraph newspaper concerning the need for universities to justify their receipt of state funding on the basis of their 'wider social and economic role'.

Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe· Mar 29

It's Mother's Day tomorrow in the UK (because ours coincides with Mothering Sunday). So here's a picture of me with my mother and my much-missed grandmother, Pearl, happy spending time together in St Lucia around 1994.

Three women of African-Caribbean heritage and of different generations, holding hands and smiling in the sunlight at the side of a road. Mountains, palm tree and other dense tropical foliage in background. Plaque behind them reads 'West Coast Road Improvement Project. Anse La Raye to Canaries Section.'

Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe· Feb 14

I always look out for the flowering of this little hellebore as one of the first signs in our garden that spring is on its way. This year, slugs and snails have clearly been at it. But it's still here. ☺️

Small pink hellebore with slug-eaten leaves and petals flowering in garden bed with dry leaves, fern and wooden fence.

Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe· Nov 25

My workplace has got its Christmas decs up scandalously early.

Marble interior of main entrance hall of University of London Senate House in Bloomsbury, central London, UK. Double-height open entrance hall and mezzanine level. Grand central staircase with red carpet, floral displays flanking bottom of staircase and a decorated and illuminated Christmas tree at top. Christmas baubles and foliage around upper balcony. The space is lit by wall and ceiling lamps and natural light from upper floor windows, but the space is empty of people.

Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe· Nov 23

Also paging @chrisbrooke.bsky.social with crucial evidence that Gustav Klimt was a cat person.

Black-and-white photograph portrait of Gustav Klimt wearing his painter's smock and holding a cat. Both Klimt and cat looking directly at camera. From a wall panel in the Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria.

Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe· Nov 23

Thank you, Vienna, for a wonderful couple of days. Loved your classicizing modernism.

Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe· Nov 16

Here is Lauren's journal entry for 6 November 2024

Page of paperback novel containing text from The Parable of the Sower.

Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe· Nov 16

A propos of absolutely nothing I decided to read this this weekend. Octavia Butler was a genius.

Cover of paperback edition of Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe· Nov 8

Autumnal Trinity College Dublin. Not a bad view to wake up to.

External scene of Trinity College Dublin. University buildings, large tree in late autumn state, students queueing.

Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe· Sep 20

By popular demand, @ics.bsky.social is here! Though it has not posted anything yet. (This photo courtesy of Jeff Tatum)

Senate House, London, in evening sunshine.

Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe· Sep 8

My bluest photo this week was the sky over Bloomsbury on Monday morning.

British Museum under a cloudless blue sky

Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe· Sep 7

Now he's just trolling me.

Black cat perched on clean, folded laundry on garden table. Plants in background.

Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe· Sep 7

Serves me right for not bringing in all the washing.

Black cat dozing contentedly on freshly folded laundry on garden table. Pink dahlias and green lawn in background.

Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe· Aug 25

For the next week or so we are also feeding Loki and Binx across the road. This morning they were expecting us.

Two kittens, one ginger and one ginger and white, looking out of downstairs window of terraced house.

Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe· Aug 22

At least it's our cat hassling me this morning.

Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe· Aug 21

What am I going to do about my neighbour's cat? Not content with generally sabotaging my work, he's now trying to mate with my Liddell & Scott.

Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe· Aug 20

Shadow guards his patch. Kazimir refuses to give up hope.

Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe· Aug 19

I seem to have more pictures of our neighbour's cat at the moment than I do of ours. Perhaps because he's being the more outrageous.

Katherine Harloe@katherineharloe· Aug 15

@aathornton.bsky.social and I are off to Cambridge for a research trip tomorrow - Friday. Thought we had messed up and wouldn't be able to access the archives we need. But we are ok! If any Cam people would like to meet up (outside UL opening hours), drop me a line. Or seek us out in Manuscripts.