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Shakespeare's England » Monarchy

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Everyday Life In Seventeenth Century England. October 30, 2013 – 7:29 pm. Anne Boleyn’s bedroom. Anne Boleyn’s bedroom. Anne Boleyn’s Book of Hours. Anne Boleyn’s bedroom window. The Six Wives of Henry VIII Placemat and Coaster set in the Gift Shoppe. Tudor Christmas Baubles in the Gift Shoppe. Original content here is published under these license terms:. 8216;The trumpets sound: stand close, the queen is coming’. August 28, 2013 – 12:26 pm. From the First Folio (1623). At the close of. Henry announces ...

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The Early Modern Commons. A Covent Garden Gilflurt's Guide to Life. Dispatches from the long 18th century. The Spirits of Auchenleck. The Dead London Chronicles. The Fairy, the Child and the Red Worm. More details ». Visit blog ». A Thousand Times Worse Than Death. A Thanatography of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. Essex Timeline presented at SAA Digital Salon. Cecelia Weingart ’19 named Mellon Digital Humanities Research Partner. Hannah and Ben present at Moravian College Conference. Sandra Gulland'...

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The Early Modern Commons. Abraham Adcock, musician and organ builder. Official Book Release Waves To Light. Cover reveal for Alan, Fay and Demona. Mr Hook’s Night: fireworks at Marybone Gardens 177. More details ». Visit blog ». Early Modern England, through ballads then and now. Imagining early modern working women, or, economic history’s image problem. Hailstones as bigg as Eggs’: freak storms on 18th May, 1680. Upcoming Conference Living English Broadside Ballads, 1550-1750: Song, Art,. All posts and ...

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Towards the finish line (Update and some recent work) | Ruth's Adventures In Research

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Ruth's Adventures In Research. Towards the finish line (Update and some recent work). Asymp; 6 Comments. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, and I’ve also been a bit quieter on Twitter. Project in an article for History Workshop Online. 8211; also fulfilling a longstanding ambition to write for History Workshop. A new journal for artwork, creative and feature writing. My article. Features in an issue on feminism. Alongside features on the Guerrilla Girls and Brixton artist Wendy Sullivan. Please do con...

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Shakespeare's England » A very large and faire Paire

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Everyday Life In Seventeenth Century England. We will have a paire of sausages. A very large and faire Paire. A rather curious account of a mermaid spotted off the coast of Wales in 1603. Taken from. A most strange and true report of a monsterous fish, who appeared in the forme of a woman, from her waste upwards. Original content here is published under these license terms:. August 24, 2014. This entry was posted in Curiosities. We will have a paire of sausages. A very large and faire Paire.

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Shakespeare's England » Early Modern Waterboarding

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Everyday Life In Seventeenth Century England. Jack Pudding & A Dumpling. Licentious Wantons ». I’ve had several requests for a blog post on early modern torture, and what follows is a gruesome snippet from an account of the torture of several Englishmen in the Netherlands, published in 1653. It doesn’t make for pleasant reading, so those of a nervous disposition please look away. After what appears to be several days of this treatment John Clerk finally confessed to a crime he had not committed. After th...

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Shakespeare's England » Murder

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Everyday Life In Seventeenth Century England. 8216;Thou’rt poisoned with that book’. January 27, 2013 – 12:09 pm. John Webster, in his play. The Duchess of Malfi. Has the Cardinal kill Julia with a poisoned bible, and it’s fascinating to speculate that rather than coming from his imagination, Webster had instead either seen or heard of an object similar to the one above. I originally found the image here. And the auction house details are here. Original content here is published under these license terms:.

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Shakespeare's England » We will have a paire of sausages

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Everyday Life In Seventeenth Century England. A very large and faire Paire ». We will have a paire of sausages. I haven’t blogged in a while due to lack of time, but today I found myself reading the wonderful John Florio’s. 1578), an Anglo Italian dictionary and phrasebook. It’s one of my favourite Elizabethan texts since it reveals much about how people interacted with each other in the course of daily life. Regular readers of the blog will already have read my earlier posts from. 8216;So me thinkes too...

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Shakespeare's England » Underworld

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Everyday Life In Seventeenth Century England. All ayre and fire. January 18, 2011 – 2:25 pm. This portrait, believed to be of Marlowe, was discovered in 1953 at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The life of the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. The Second Part of the Bloody Conquests of Mighty Tamburlaine. The Massacre of Paris. The Jew of Malta. His next play, regarded by many as his last,. The Massacre at Paris. Another late work is Marlowe’s narrative poem. Honour of the Garter. You may rea...