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FREE Author Talk
The Women of the Shadow Court.
Join me as we read the secret messages, forged letters and hidden diaries of the women of the Civil War.
Tues 8th Sept
11am PT / 2pm ET / 7pm UK

Registration: https://t.co/Q6zkKf2mj2

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2020-09-03

FREE Author Talk
The Women of the Shadow Court.
Join me as we read the secret messages, forged letters and hidden diaries of the women of the Civil War.
Tues 8th Sept
11am PT / 2pm ET / 7pm UK

Registration: https://t.co/Q6zkKf2mj2

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2020-09-03

18 August 1654 a committee chaired by John Disbrowe was appointed to prepare the Western Design, an attack by the Protectorate on Spanish colonial territories in the Caribbean. The strategy was misconceived and poorly planned, ending in failure.

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2020-08-18

Thomas Alcock was a friend and admirer of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, and the feeling was mutual.



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2020-08-14

Rembrandt's brilliant standard of Dress depiction- Ruff,Diamonds,Pearls,Gold Embroidery 17thC Queen-DRESS SECTION-of 6th of 6 previously lost historic 15thC-17thC Royal Monarch Masterpieces,rediscovered by our advanced research-A very important restitution to Rembrandt's oeuvre🧑‍🎨

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2020-08-14

13 August 1659 part of Booth's Uprising, a Royalist insurrection against the republic, took place when Viscount Mordaunt declared for the King at Barnstead Down in Surrey. He only raised 80 men, who melted away as soon as government troops appeared.

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2020-08-13

Re: Self-portraits the"Portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci" LEFT is not a"Self-portrait"but a"Later 17thC Glorified Image"which has a"Portrait of a 17thC Lady"on its Subsurface-Leonardo Da Vinci's"Actual Self-portraits"are RIGHT Signed & Dated 1502 FLorence aged 50-1482 Milan Age 30🧑‍🎨

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2020-08-12

📅#OTD in 1643, House of Commons votes against an inquiry over losses in the west by 51 to 30.
It had been proposed by Lord General Essex after the defeats of his subordinate & rival, William Waller, at Roundway Down, Lansdown & the loss of Bristol.

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2020-08-03

The Virgin Mary learns to read, 17thC French (BM Pp,5.121)

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2020-08-03

31 July 1645 Bath in Somerset was captured in a surprise attack by Parliamentarian forces led by Colonel John Okey. Okey was a commissioner at Charles I's trial in 1649, and executed as a Regicide in 1662. Image in our collection.

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2020-07-31

Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert: 'Triumph of Love and Beauty', 1630.
Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid.

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2020-07-27

History (& crafting King Charles I in armour sculpture) is all about detective work.
Learned what a 'Lance rest' is.
Curious looking appendage spied in one of his portraits. Can rest now and happily sculpt it 🙌

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2020-07-06

5 July 1643 was the Battle of Lansdown in Somerset. Parliamentary forces under Sir William Waller were narrowly defeated by the Royalist western army; the Cornish Cavalier Sir Bevil Grenville was killed in the fighting.

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2020-07-05

Love, Betrayal and War at the Stuart Court.
Cavalier or Roundhead? Pick your side.




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2020-07-02

30 June 1644 compounding his defeat at Cropredy Bridge the previous day, Sir William Waller and his officers were almost killed when the floor of the room in which they met collapsed and they all fell into a cellar...

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2020-06-30

30 June 1643 was the Battle of Adwalton Moor in Yorkshire, where Royalist forces under the Earl of Newcastle defeated Ferdinando, Lord Fairfax. As a result all of Yorkshire was left under Royalist control except for Hull & Bradford.

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2020-06-30

24 June 1643 John Hampden died of his wounds sustained days before at the Battle of Chalgrove Field. His loss was a severe blow to the Parliamentarian cause, as he was a moderating force between the various factions in Parliament.

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2020-06-24

Remembering Jane Sharp, 17thC midwife & author of The Midwives Book, in English rather than Latin.
Female-centred, her book saved lives & was open about sex: "the clitoris being nervous & of pure feeling, when rubbed & stirred causeth lustful feelings"

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2020-06-18