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Dr Bea Stitches @drelvey.bsky.social · 23h

Weekend. Not Weekenx. Not sure what a Weekenx is.

Dr Bea Stitches @drelvey.bsky.social · 23h

In my studio with two of four of Thomas Cromwell’s queens: new work ready for next year’s @wolfhall.bsky.social Weekenx by the Tower.

Katherine of Aragon and Anna of Cleves. Just finished Katherine 20 minutes ago.

Two quilted representations of women in sixteenth century dress. Cream calico with the outlines stitched in and painted faces.

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Dr Bea Stitches @drelvey.bsky.social · 2d

It does survive but it’s in a private collection. I managed to see it about 6 years ago when I was still researching British Silents and it’s pretty good.

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Dr Bea Stitches @drelvey.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you. I was just doing the stitching - the inking takes ages! I had a pile all ready for sewing 🧵 🪡

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Kristen Haas Curtis @hellomizk.bsky.social · 2d

Productive time sketching at “Making Space” with @guildmedmak.bsky.social !

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Dr Bea Stitches @drelvey.bsky.social · 2d

A very cheering Zoom session with @guildmedmak.bsky.social at which I managed to complete three more #LettersToCromwell from 1529.

I now need to log them on the Great Big Spreadsheet.

Three sets of small pieces of calico, inked and stitched, representing individual letters sent to Thomas Cromwell. Each is addressed to him in formal terms.

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Dr Bea Stitches @drelvey.bsky.social · 5d

For Trafalgar Day.

Nelson at Osborne, stitched while researching Maurice Elvey’s magnificent 1918 biographical film, which included scenes taken at Osborne. Elvey’s Nelson is still the only feature film to have been shot on board HMS Victory.

Stitched Nelson, 1400 one inch squares handsewn.

A large - 6ft - stitched portrait of Lord Nelson in a greenhouse, surrounded by flowers and foliage.

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Dr Bea Stitches @drelvey.bsky.social · 8d

Why am I suddenly hit by an overwhelming desire to stitch the Civitas Londinum (c1561)? It would take years and I’m busy.

Brain: So, what about the bit round the Austin Friars then? Go onnnnnn…
Me: No. Busy.
Brain: You were pointing at it. Why were you pointing at it?

Step. Away. From. The. Map.

A white woman wearing glasses points at at illuminated display of a 16th century representation of London. She is pointing at the Austin Friars and smiling.

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Nathen Amin ✒️📚 @nathenamin.bsky.social · 10d

Don't just buy the newest books. All your favourite authors have excellent back catalogues of works they spent years on. Make sure you pick up those as well (and even better, they tend to be cheaper paperbacks by this point). Older history has value too.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 12d

Today's the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.

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Dr Bea Stitches @drelvey.bsky.social · 12d

I needed to see transcripts of 1960’s interviews and broadcasts with filmmaker Maurice Elvey for my PhD thesis. There’s no way these would have formed part of a programme of releases or anniversaries; Mr Elvey and his views on the film industry, opera, and Chekhov have never been mainstream.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12d

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

observer.co.uk

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Dr Bea Stitches @drelvey.bsky.social · 13d

A couple of fabric notes in the handwriting style of Thomas Cromwell - Yellow Satin and Russet Velvet.

Doomsday Ink, Calico, silk and cotton thread, silk wadding, wood frame.

A pale grey frame showing two small quilted pieces - in 16th century script they read “yelow saten” and “russett velvet”. The script is black ink on cream fabric.

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Dr Bea Stitches @drelvey.bsky.social · 13d

Happy birthday David.

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Annie Taylor @whitstabletail.bsky.social · 14d

Thankyou everyone who visited yesterday. Had a fabulous day of conversations connections and emotions.
Getting ready to open again today Sunday 12th October, 11 to 5.
House 35 on the #Whitstable Trail #eastkentartistsopenhouses

#art #textileart

ekoh.org.uk/whitstable/

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Dr Bea Stitches @drelvey.bsky.social · 14d

Good.

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Dr Bea Stitches @drelvey.bsky.social · 15d

Got my Covid jab on Saturday; I’m lucky enough to be able to pay for one. I can do without getting it badly again if at all possible.

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Dr Bea Stitches @drelvey.bsky.social · 16d

I think the archive went to Boston Spa. I’m so looking forward to having a look through to see what I missed!

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Dr Bea Stitches @drelvey.bsky.social · 16d

This is so exciting. I wasn’t allowed to read Jackie so secretly coming across stray copies discarded by others was terribly thrilling and transgressive when I was growing up. Now I can have a good read without being in trouble.

Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 16d

The British Newspaper Archive now includes Jackie and I was delighted to note problem pages in prominent position blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2025/10/06/j...

Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

We welcome iconic best-selling teen magazine Jackie to The Archive. Browse every single edition of the weekly magazine for girls, from 1964 through to 1993.

blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 17d

Tony Harrison’s Eumenides, the final play of The Oresteia trilogy by Aeschylus, 1981, at the National Theatre, London, UK.
#drama #theater #poetry
Photograph: Donald Cooper/Alamy