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"Memory, Monuments, and Melancholic Genius in Margaret Cavendish's /Bell in Campo/,"
by Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker https://t.co/vbMXYEEANi

Attached pictures: two portraits of Margaret Cavendish.

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2022-08-23

22 August 1620 Oliver Cromwell married Elizabeth Bourchier, daughter of a London fur dealer, at St Giles Church, Cripplegate. They had a devoted relationship & a family of 9 children (8 surviving infancy). Portraits in our collection.

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2022-08-22

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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2022-08-18

17 August 1658, after a bout of ill health exacerbated by the shock of his daughter Elizabeth’s death, Oliver Cromwell's health improved enough to go riding in Hampton Court Park where he met George Fox, who said that he looked “like a dead man".

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2022-08-17

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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2022-08-13

Venture into the dark alleys and rich mansions of 17th Century London -- a compelling tale of sisters and how childhood stories formed their characters.

https://t.co/w7B2iF03jR

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2022-08-06

The Virgin Mary learns to read, 17thC French

(BM Pp,5.121)

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2022-08-03

Gerrit and Cornelis Schellinger as children c. 1675-85 by the exquisitely talented Gesina Ter Borch (Rijksmuseum)

She is one of my favourite artists of the 17thC - transports you right there.

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2022-07-26

4. Those with acuity of vision may also have noted the tiny "Dog Study" within the previous Section from an exquisite rediscovered masterpiece by one of the finest of 17thC "Still Life" Artists of the genre, revered throughout the epoch. Signed & Dated 1654. Tempera on Panel👨‍🎨

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2022-07-21

With its low horizon, simple composition and focus on clouds, the sea and the beach, this work of Trouville in Normandy by Eugène Boudin is reminiscent of the pictures by the 17thC Dutch realist landscape artists he admired at the beginning of his career, especially van Ruysdael.

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2022-07-14

9 July 1643 the Earl of Essex wrote to Parliament complaining his army was inadequate; as such he proposed that peace negotiations with the King should be resumed. The letter backfired, being seen as evidence of Essex's unreliability.

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2022-07-09

7 July 54 BC: Julius Caesar lands in (A 17thC view of him, BM)

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2022-07-08

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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2022-07-05

Also check out the size of these things compared to relatively modern bullets, one on the left id 17thC full bore musket, right is a US 30-06 from WW2. Shot is bigger but muzzle velocity c. 475m per sec, 30-06 muzzle velocity c. 807 m per sec

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2022-07-01

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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2022-06-30

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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2022-06-30

A cure for freckles forming in hot sun:

"Steep a piece of copper in the juice of a lemon till it be dissolved.

Anoint freckles with feather morning and evening.

Wash off with white wine."

Art: Simon Vouet: 'The Muses Urania and Calliope'

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2022-06-17

11 June 1646, John Lilburne, having been summoned before the House of Lords for criticising the Earl of Manchester, refused to accept their authority. As a result he was imprisoned in gaol. Image of Lilburne from our collection.

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2022-06-11

Sir Kenelm Digby’s 17thc remedy for rapier wounds: a mix of earthworms, pigs' brains, iron oxide & mummified corpses. Digby claimed this “Powder of Sympathy” would heal the wound by sympathetic magic if applied to the blade that caused the damage
🎨NC Wyeth

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2022-05-20

Charles II Mother "Queen Henrietta Maria of England in Exile in Amsterdam" Circa 1642 by Rembrandt van Rijn-Signed. Another of Seven rediscovered Royal Portraits of historic 16thC Renaissance-17thC Carolean Monarchs👨‍🎨

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2022-05-12