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Historian. Academic. Lover of archives, dead friars, old buildings and anything before 1700. Tweeting in personal capacity.

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3 Aug 1553: Mary I makes a triumphant entry into (BM)

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2019-08-03

There's something quite lovely about the nun painted here by Gesina Ter Borch in 1657 (Rijksmuseum)

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2019-04-02

25 Mar 1516: A vision of the Blessed Virgin ends 4 months of fits, obscenities & blasphemies on the part of Jane [aka Anne] Wentworth Maid of Subsequently she held healing sessions at the popular shrine of Our Lady Of Grace (BM)

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2019-03-25

Four Continents, Philips Galle, c1585-1590 (Rijksmuseum) holds a sceptre, a thurible, balm/balsam and - well, a severed head. 2 fully dressed, 1 suitably draped & 1 buck naked. Here's slides for a whole lecture on 16thC European worldviews!

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2019-02-05

Some 17th century depictions of the month of (Rijksmuseum)

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2019-01-05

Dances of the dead, after Holbein, from the wonderful Gesina Ter Borch c. 1687 (Rijksmuseum)

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2018-12-04

'Broiling fish over a fire', in what is now North Carolina, 1585-1593 (BM) by John White, watercolour over graphite

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2018-11-21

6 Nov 1612: d. Henry Frederick Setwart Prince of - making Charles (I) heir to thrones of & His death unleashed huge scenes of public grief

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2018-11-06

Princess Elizabeth,1596–1662, later Queen of # Bohemia c. 1606 by Robert Peake the Elder (Met Museum). I love the open book in her right hand - and you can even read a little of it...

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2018-10-05

4 Sept 1666: The Royal Exchange burns in the (BM)

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2018-09-04