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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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Interior of a church by Anthonie van Borssom, c. 1644-1677
A man and a woman speak with a Capuchin friar, while two other Capuchins walk in the background.

(British Museum)

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5 Nov 1688 William III lands with fleet at Brixham & about 15,000 troops

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Flowering Prickly Pear Cactus, Herman Saftleven, 1683

(Rijksmuseum)

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2 Nov 1605:Thomas Percy Gunpowder plotter is at large in tracking Prince Charles' movements - with the aim of kidnapping him (BM)

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31 Oct 1606: The ambassador writes of 12 y.o. Prince Henry Frederick: 'none of his pleasures savour the least of a child' He, the ambassador said, loved horses, two hours study a day, exercise, shooting arrows and the pike (Dulwich Picture Gallery)

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Suitably dark tones for from Cornelis Saftleven’s 1650 witches

(Art Institute Chicago)

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Johannes Vermeer,
Woman writing a letter with her maid, 1670.

(National Gallery of Ireland)

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21 Oct 1660: James Nayler, colourful & controversial early leader, buried King's Ripton, Hunts (BM)

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John the Baptist preaches, Bernardo Strozzi, c. 1644

(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

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Reading the News at the Weavers' Cottage

Adriaen van Ostade, 1673.

(Met Museum)

These depictions of reading as a communal exercise are so useful for thinking with.

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