Got to be both a “lady” and a pikeman this weekend with Lord Grey's Regiment at Scampston Hall this weekend. Wonderful weekend as always. #reenactment #17thcentury #englishcivilwar The Sealed Knot

Englands Directions for Members Elections
Thomason Tracts, 1660
[I'm starting to look at early modern election songs...]
#earlymodern #17thCentury #generalelection

I’ve just found a letter written by Thomas Fairfax which is suffused with glitter!!
I don’t want to sound all revisionist about puritans’ love of ‘festivities’ but…

(Genuinely haven’t added any effects to the pic)
#17thCentury

The Feathers Hotel, Ludlow for #windowsonwednesday

A Jacobean gem. Refronted in 1619 - it’s been operating as an Inn since 1670. Still open for business.

“That prodigy of timber-framed houses” - Pevsner
#shropshire #heritage #17thCentury

Mid #17thcentury trade token for the The King's Head and Royal Oak, in Petty France, Westminster. #OakAppleDay #RoyalOakDay

From the Layton Collection at the Museum of London. collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/

#OnThisDay 29 May 1660 King Charles II entered London on his 30th birthday, on his way to be restored to the throne. (BL) #17thCentury #OTD

Lovely #MaryBeale #portrait of her husband Charles just made €37,000 hammer in #lisbon just now. Mis catalogued as #17thcentury #flemish . A great buy for someone...not me...booo! #oldmasters #sleeper #art news #fineart #britishart #femaleartist #fineart #art

Fascinating images on #17thCentury #Kongo #Angola made available and accessible by Cécile Fromont

As someone who spends much of their working life in the #17thCentury , it’s great to see Jason Statham adapting 1600s pike drill in the new movie #Meg2 , with a posture presumably called ‘charge for shark’…. 😉🦈

FERDINAND. O, I 'll tell thee;
The wolf shall find her grave, and scrape it up,
Not to devour the corpse, but to discover
The horrid murder.
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi.
This #17thcentury #drama has several references to lycanthropy #FaustianFriday

I'd like to thank everyone here who's remembered me in 2023 no matter how quiet I've been. Happy New Year to you all, you're the best!

Here's Pepys starting something new on 1 Jan (1660).

#17thCentury

Hybrid ਮਲੇਛ: sikhs worshiped Rama and Krishna and Maa Chandi. idols was there in Hari Mandir, removes in 1905. Makalif divided sikhs-hindus. khalistanis should xposed.

*Meanwhile Mobad/Mohsin Fani in 1645

#Sikhs #17thCentury #MohsinFani #SikhHistory

In Whitwell, England, on Saturday, I came upon this fabulous #17thCentury tomb.

Hear ye! 'Tis time for #StuartSaturday ! I just found out that April is #NationalGuitarMonth ! So let's share some Stuart-era guitars! Guitar, attributed to Matteo Sellas, German (active Italy), ca. 1630–50. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. #17thCentury

#वाघ_नख वापिस लाया जायेगा!
#WaghNakh #17thCentury

Hear ye! 'Tis time for #StuartSaturday ! OTD 4 May, 1626, Dutchman Peter Minuit arrived on the island of Manhattan, which was already inhabited by the Algonquin people. In 1665, the British took over and it became New York.
Our theme is #17thCentury New York.
Image: '1626 letter

Tillotson and Tenison, two #Archbishops of #Canterbury in succession:
John Tillotson (1630 – 1694), in office from 1691 to 1694.
Thomas Tenison (1636 – 1715) - from 1694 until his death.
Lambeth Palace Library, MS 555. #heraldry #manuscript #17thCentury #mitre

Happy St George's Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿! I'll be posting #17thCentury depictions of this saint throughout the day. First up, we have this super dynamic work by Peter Paul Rubens: 'St George Fighting the Dragon', 1606-10.
Museo del Prado, Madrid.

A study of Port Royal: 'the nuns’ ... defense of freedom of conscience is linked to their defense of women’s right to exercise religious authority ...'
🎨 Philippe de Champaigne #TempleThursday #nuntastic #17thcentury undpress.nd.edu/9780268022969/…

#Hebrew printing gradually declined in Venice during the #17thcentury , but it didn’t stop. The Vendramini family founded their new 'Stamparia Vendramina' #printingpress in 1631 CE. They printed this short prayer book, 'Seder Maʿamadot', in 1686 for Jews around the #Mediterranean .