Marlou van Gendt
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Marlou van Gendt
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#Tudor #Historian, specialising in #AnneBoleyn Serving up that piping hot Anne Boleyn ☕️ tea ☕️ #Medieval #Manuscripts and #palaeography but mostly #cats https://linktr.ee/marlouvangendt
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Interested in the rest of my video on Queen #AnneBoleyn? Come have a look on Instagram I’m @MarlouvanGendt. #Boleyn #Tudor #Tudors #History #HenryVIII
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Here's three minutes of us talking about human skin.
When you’re on holiday but the archives send you that one letter you’ve been searching for since December 2024 … bonjour, Signeur Claude Bouton. #archives #manuscript #history #document #palaeography #tudor #tudors #anneboleyn #burgundy #book #books #booktok
I have questions, but I doubt they’ll be answered. #cat #cats #holiday #mischief
Interested in the rest of my video on Queen #AnneBoleyn? Come have a look on Instagram I’m @MarlouvanGendt. #Boleyn #Tudor #Tudors #History #HenryVIII
Never happened to me *cough* Anne Boleyn, wait Margaret of Savoye, what are you doing here?
You know that moment when you look at a cat and think, “my word, what a graceful creature, what perfection.” And then you look over and see the other one and it’s just full derp, no holds barred, mid-licky? This was that moment today. #MaineCoon and #cat #cats
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One of my favourite aspects of writing a biography of Elizabeth Boleyn was gathering evidence for her time in Katherine of Aragon's household. Elizabeth's long and fascinating court service during Henry VIII's early reign was one of the inspirations for me to write this book in the first place (a 🧵)
Admittedly Miu’s favourite game has always been to catch flies, it’s come in very handy! Lilith on the other hand just snoozes the day away and has caught maybe two insects in her life. One I suspect because it flew into her open mouth while yawning …
Happy #Friday! Mr Miu the #MaineCoon has decided that today his War on Flies starts in earnest and has proclaimed himself the Lord of the Flies after catching three of them in a single hour. #cats #cat
#ThrowbackThursday to when I held the poor Chief Yeoman Warden of the Tower of London prisoner in Anne Boleyn’s prison cell to tell him all about what Anne got up to in her spare time. Poor man. #Boleyn #Tudor #Tudors #history #London #TowerOfLondon #yeoman #historian
“Dear heart, how like ye this?” - Sir Thomas Wyatt.

Manuscript text: “Marchionesse of Penbrok”

#palaeography #manuscript #history #Tudor #Tudors #Boleyn #AnneBoleyn
Am I about to disagree with the identification of a hand (TH2) in the Devonshire Manuscript?

Sure am. And I’ve got evidence to back it up too. Hold on to your britches, this is gonna be a bumpy ride folks.

#history #manuscripts #palaeography #text #manuscript #handwriting #boleyn #tudors #tudor
Want to know the solution to this riddle, possibly written by #AnneBoleyn, in the Devonshire #manuscript? Stay tuned for more on Anne #Boleyn and her time at the court of Margaret of Savoy. 🧐 #BLMSAdd17942 #Burgundy #history #herstory #Tudor #Tudors #palaeography
Oh hai Henry. When your signature is super subtle so you gotta write it extra large. #Tudor #Tudors #HenryVIII #England #History #manuscript #palaeography #folio
When you get the goods from the Archives Départmentales du Nord Lille and you get stacks and stacks of letter reproductions that all point to #AnneBoleyn and what she was up to in #Flanders in 1513. #Tudor #Tudors #Boleyn #history #herstory #archives #archival #manuscript #manuscripts #paleography
Very true! For now I’ve got a captive audience in the three cat babies, they can’t escape my Anne Boleyn waffling 😈
Can confirm that my pick-up line is literally just “hey hey hey, *nudge* wanna know why Anne Boleyn got beheaded? Eh? Eh? Go on, you know you wanna know.”
When you find such good gossip on #AnneBoleyn that you’ve got to hide under a napkin just to dish it. #history #herstory #writing #Tudor #Tudors #Boleyn #Flanders #EarlyModern #Renaissance #Reformation
Here’s the official version of that, it’s called Child’s Pose and can really help with lower back pain. Always move very gently and cautiously when you do try it. Hope you feel better soon

www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-life...
Child's pose
Relax with this yoga pose and stretch your back and hips.
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Eep better not try that one with a pinched nerve, unless you’re very familiar with that particular pose. Most folks don’t keep their lower back attached to the floor when doing that and then you can really injure yourself (as a wonky spine person)
Mwahahaha last time I let his food bowl run on low (not even empty) he immediately made his displeasure known by chomping my foot. Message received, Miu.