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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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24 Feb 1668: Samuel Pepys sees Thomas Kyd's the Spanish Tragedy at the Nursery Theatre (BM)

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18 Feb 1455: d. Bl. Fra Angelico - who was declared patron of Catholic artists in 1984.

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Mother and child at a toy stall.

A scene familiar to pretty much everybody.

(From Jacob Cats' "Spiegel vanden Ouden ende Nieuwe Tijd", first edition published in The Hague: 1632. British Museum)

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The young drinker, Hendrick Goltzius, c. 1590 - 1610 (Rijksmuseum) He's trying to get two drinks down his neck at once.

This is not an unknown desire.

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15 Feb 1628: After a clash with vessels Kenelm Digby lands at There he buys the freedom of 40-50 men in order to recrew his ships (NPG/British Museum)

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Lily, c. 1475

Attributed to Andrea del Verrochio

(Royal Collection Trust, HM EII)

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13 Feb 1574: under pressure from the Master, Adam Squire, Robert Persons future & exile leader resigns his fellowship at Balliol (BM)

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Looking back just over a century later on Jane Grey's execution 12 Feb 1554, here's Jan Lukyn c. 1664-1714 as part of a series on the executions of noble historical figures.

(British Museum)

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12 Feb 1424: Joan Beaufort m. James I King of at St Mary Overie Church in

She was regent of Scotland 1437-39.

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Portraits of 17-year old and then 19-year old conjoined twin brothers Giovanni Battista and Lazzaro Colloredo.

In 1635 in Cologne by Wenclesaus Hollar, with description in German.
In 1637 when they visited London, with anti-Catholic verses in Latin.

(British Museum)

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