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Nicola Harris Author @nicolaharrisauthor.bsky.social · 4h

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Nicola Harris Author @nicolaharrisauthor.bsky.social · 6h

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Nicola Harris Author @nicolaharrisauthor.bsky.social · 6h

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@muirnara.bsky.social @birdiesbindings.bsky.social
@tonyriches.bsky.social @glawrence.bsky.social @authorstephenson.bsky.social @bishoppriest81.bsky.social @terrytyler.bsky.social @muirnara.bsky.social

#EngageAndGrow #FollowFriday #ThankYou #socialmediafam #ShoutoutSaturday

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Brigitte Webster @tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social · 6h

In #Tudor England eating fresh #grapes was believed to 'trouble the belly and fill the stomack with winde'. Ripe grapes had a reputation of making the body fat, something vineyard owners apparently showed clearly. Some regiments advised to consume grapes after a meal, others challenged this take.

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Nicola Harris Author @nicolaharrisauthor.bsky.social · 6h

Women were sidelined, ignored and unheard in English history too. I think this is why Henry VIII’s wives are so intriguing to many women today. Most women’s lives were unrecorded unless they married the King or were Royal. We don’t have many birth dates for the six unless they were Royal at birth.

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IMPEACH DAMMIT @lee-gfyarnnerd.bsky.social · 23h

The magic of felting. Knitted wool + hot water + cold water + hot water + cold water + hot water + cold water + lots of rubbing and squeezing and agitation = Tudor caps🧶

Brown and red knitted hats, knitted on big needles, looking rather like shapeless bags

Brown and red hats after felting. Bith are circular. The brown hat is brim side up, the red hat is brim side down. Individual stitches are barely visible as the wool fibers have tangled and matted together, shrinking and thickening the knitted fabric.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 20h

A reminder there could always be a hidden Saxon church inside your house

Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 1d

✨Deerhurst, Gloucestershire. A kitchen in the nave and a bedroom in the chancel hid within plain sight an Anglo-Saxon chapel built by Earl Odda (a relation to Edward the Confessor). Re-discovered in 1865, it is the most complete surviving Saxon church in England. #thread

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Susan Abernethy @susanabernethy2.bsky.social · 14h

Article: Marie of Guise - Henry VIII's Would-Be Queen

thetudors.substack.com/p/marie-of-g...

Marie of Guise

Henry VIII's would-be Queen

thetudors.substack.com

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Past-Times Living History @past-times-lh.bsky.social · 7h

#OTD 24 Oct 1537

#JaneSeymour died aged 28 having suffered a protracted delivery of that much desired male heir 12 days earlier, #EdwardVI

Buried at Windsor Castle where #HenryVIII was, in 1547, interred with her

Check out herstory:
youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#Tudor
#History

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Nicola Harris Author @nicolaharrisauthor.bsky.social · 14h

I used to work with children, in a role I loved deeply. Then my genetic condition flared up and writing became my lifeline. My heart is still with children. Please bid to win a signed novel & to support Children in Need. Thank you: www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...

#BBCChildrenInNeed

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G. Lawrence 📚💙📚💙📚 @glawrence.bsky.social · 1d

#NewPrice!

January 1536
The King is dead... but who will live long now?

A fateful accident on the jousting field leaves Henry VIII dead and his country trembling on the edge of chaos...

All the King's Bastards £1.99 #Free #KU!
#Histfic #SpeculativeFic #Tudor #Booksky 📚💙📚💙
amzn.eu/d/5wpjqZU

All the King's Bastards: A Succession of Chaos

All the King's Bastards: A Succession of Chaos eBook : Lawrence, G. , Design, Warren: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Jennifer C. Wilson @inkjunkie1984.bsky.social · 1d

I'm listening to an episode of Not Just The Tudors, and can't believe I missed this piece of news (the focus of the episode)...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An absolutely stunning piece, and an amazing find.

#Shakespeare #history #art

Portrait of Shakespeare's possible lover found in collection

A miniature painting of Shakespeare's patron and rumoured lover Henry Wriothesley has been found.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Teoni Maughan Passereau @teonipassereau.bsky.social · 15d

I was invited to co-organise this upcoming conference being held later this month at the University of Exeter. With two days of exciting talks and panels, plus a walking historical tour of Exeter and a group dinner, I'd highly recommend coming along if you can!

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Callan Davies @callanjd.bsky.social · 1d

Impossible to tire of Southampton’s Tudor House

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Melita Thomas @melitat.bsky.social · 1d

#1000TudorPeople H is for Anne Hastings who m. the earl of Shrewsbury's son c. 1481. According to his testimony in 1529, in relation to the m. of Katherine of Aragon & Arthur, he was 15 when Anne reached the legal age for consummation (12) & had no problem undertaking his duty. amzn.to/3X5KVBp

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Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social · 1d

Katherine Willoughby, is the daughter of Maria Salinas, Spanish companion to Queen Catherine of Aragon. Katherine knows all King Henry VIII’s wives, but will she risk everything for her faith?

mybook.to/Katherine

#Tudors #HistoricalFiction #KindleUnlimited

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The Tudor Age @tudorage1973.bsky.social · 1d

#ThrowbackThursday
Painted and gilt wooden trenchers
.c.1600
England
Decorated with mottos, fruits, flowers.

www.instagram.com/p/DQIn6btAvZ...

#Trencher #PaintedTrencher #WoodenTrencher #Mottos #Fruits #Flowers #QueenElizabethI #Tudors #History

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 1d

A periodic reminder that the ORIGINAL STAR CHAMBER CEILING from Westminster Palace is now in a hotel outside Liverpool. www.leasowecastle.com/dine

Website description for the original Star Chamber ceiling

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Nicola Harris Author @nicolaharrisauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Ouch 😩 Be careful out there !

a panda bear from kung fu panda is smiling and saying ouch ...

ALT: a panda bear from kung fu panda is smiling and saying ouch ...

media.tenor.com

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Nicola Harris Author @nicolaharrisauthor.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not allowed to use a cheese grater never mind a guillotine! (I have dyspraxia)

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Henry VII @bosworthtudor.bsky.social · Sep 17

So while most of you are aware that Game of Thrones is based on the Wars of the Roses (which was won by me, H7, your favorite King), you probably didn't know that we had white walkers too. Some people call them Scots, but I tend to think of them as mystical magical northern people with a bad temper.

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