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Michael Pearce

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History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, and recipe books Blog, remember them? https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · May 17

Madame, my dewe humble service being remembred, I wrytte to your Majestie lattelie, ane letter to recreate your Majestie in your melancolie and saturnialle humour, (Letter book and journal of William Bruce, 1609)

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 4h

Making, marketing, and reproducing Tudor art, always something new to learn

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 23h

a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).

the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.

A close-up image of a handwritten note in a sixteenth-century book. The note reads: 'Spenser repor / teth otherwise / [o]f this Knight / [D]ialogue of Ire- / [la]nd / [p]. 76.

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Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social · 1d

In case anyone is in Edinburgh and free a week on Thursday:
www.ifecosse.org.uk/events-agend...

‘Engraved on Man’s Skin’: The Auld Alliance, Much More than a Military Alliance - Institut français · Écosse

‘For this bond was not written on parchment but engraved on the living flesh of man’s skin, not in ink but with their mixed blood.’ When the French poet and diplomat, Alain Chartier, arrived in Scotla...

www.ifecosse.org.uk

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 1d

June 1560, Mary of Guise 'was very weak; she had eaten nothing for the last seven or eight days but had taken drinks constantly; her mind began to wander.' Extracts from the household book

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Royal Studies @royalstudies.bsky.social · 2d

Our next Digital Seminar Series seminar is on October 20 (changed date from the 21st) at 6pm UK time.

Join Julia Hamilton’s talk on ‘All that’s Rich’: The Intended Meanings of Luxury Goods in Stuart Interiors.

Register before October 19 via the link:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dss-octobe...

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 3d

judging by the reference to math, it seems to refer to the onset of quantum mechanics with probabilistic solutions to differential equations, as if we might call 19th-century scientists early modern.

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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 3d

The National Trust for Scotland has a new Curator position open! Deadline: 26 October 2025 and more info👇 www.asva.co.uk/jobs/curator...
cc @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

Curator

www.asva.co.uk

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 3d

Mentioned as von Witt and de Witt about five times in 'Stummer Advocat auf das Jahr' (1755). books.google.co.uk/books?id=7jV...

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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social · 4d

On this day in 1677 Cornelius Vermuyden died in London, a Dutch-born engineer who had been tasked with draining the watery fens and levels of eastern England.

As I wrote last year, Vermuyden’s fenland exploits provide a cautionary tale for those wading into unfamiliar landscapes.

A cautionary tale from an unfamiliar landscape

Cornelius Vermuyden and the draining of the Fens

northseanexus.substack.com

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Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · 7d

📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙

☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...

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jAy Ph.D. @jayrotoole.bsky.social · 5d

Two months until the release of the hardback edition of my academic book, Exploring Early Modern Sexualities. The Desires of King James VI & I (11th Dec).

Available for pre-order now!

#EarlyModern #Historian #QueerLit #EnglishLit #Royals

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5d

it's only racial profiling if it comes from the racial profiling region of france. otherwise it's sparkling reasonable suspicion.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 13d

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

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Newcastle Uni Special Collections & Archives @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social · 8d

Explore curated insights across our unique and distinctive collections — from a 17th century recipe book to a WWI surgical logbook.

Discover our new Digital Showcase and uncover the stories behind the collections: digitalshowcase.ncl.ac.uk #DigitalShowcase

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 6d

James VI, wearing the same doublet as in his Edinburgh Castle portrait, but with different buttons

Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 6d

Two versions, a print collectors dream!

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 6d

James VI of Scotland, engraved/published by Jean Rabel, details: art.rmngp.fr/fr/library/a...

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Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social · 6d

I recently recorded a podcast with Emily Briffett for the BBC History Extra Life of the Week on Margaret Tudor's life and correspondence (www.historyextra.com/membership/m...)

You can access the podcast via the usual podcast platforms, and via Spotify here: open.spotify.com/episode/235B...

Margaret Tudor: life of the week

Helen Newsome-Chandler charts the life of the medieval queen and mother through her letters and correspondence

www.historyextra.com

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 6d

A Chinese Shunzhi period dish (1644-1661) with inscription 'a leaf predicts the arrival of autumn, (but) the new spring will be full of fragrance and colour' (picture Feng-Chung Ma ceramics), and a contemporary Persian fritware copy

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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 7d

Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.

scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...

SHS Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

scottishhistorysociety.com

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 6d

Merry England

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 6d

'Le grant Anne' was probably Anne Scot, there was a 'petite Anne', and yet another Anne who may have married Mary, Queen of Scots' sommelier Louis Vincent

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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 7d

We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too

Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!

Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com

The Scottish History Society

scottishhistorysociety.com

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 7d

Mary of Guise had a lady in waiting called Big Anne (La Grant Anne), according to the master of the wardrobe in 1553

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · 7d

The Museum of the Order of St John is hosting a launch event for my book on 22 October. I'll be talking about the paintings of Mattia Preti, dress, textiles and life in Malta in the seventeenth century.
🗃️🪡 #earlymodern
📷 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-matti...

Two men and a woman playing music and a game of draughts seated around a table in a dark interior. They are wearing brightly coloured, striped clothing.

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