Michael Pearce
@michaelpearce.bsky.social
History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, and recipe books
Blog, remember them? https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
Blog, remember them? https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
I don't suppose you felt much of an obligation to compete this questionnaire
November 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I don't suppose you felt much of an obligation to compete this questionnaire
A succinct identification of George Douglas as the little monkey from Louis Wiesener (1867), p. 492: archive.org/details/revu...
Revue des questions historiques : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
134 v. in 119 : 25 cm
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November 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
A succinct identification of George Douglas as the little monkey from Louis Wiesener (1867), p. 492: archive.org/details/revu...
maybe m[ac]rana[ld] or similar
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
maybe m[ac]rana[ld] or similar
Thoroughly recommend NRS GD172/2052, inventory of a silk weaver from Antwerp established in Perth (Nicolas Herman c.1640), porcelain on the dresser, an east Indian picture, porcelain on the dresser, the sea picture called a masterpiece, with contents of silk weaving workshop
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Thoroughly recommend NRS GD172/2052, inventory of a silk weaver from Antwerp established in Perth (Nicolas Herman c.1640), porcelain on the dresser, an east Indian picture, porcelain on the dresser, the sea picture called a masterpiece, with contents of silk weaving workshop
It is also available via JSTOR, which may be as convenient: www.jstor.org/stable/10.33...
Early Modern Women’s Life-Writing and English Law on JSTOR
Despite the plethora of early modern life-writing (diaries, (auto)biographies, memoirs), it remains difficult to reconstruct a picture of everyday female experi...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
It is also available via JSTOR, which may be as convenient: www.jstor.org/stable/10.33...
Would be a good project for someone!
November 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Would be a good project for someone!
'Bowes Correspondence', p. 174, 25 March 1581, Harley MS 6999. The laird of Whittingeham says his brother devised a letter sent to the Pope, which brought to Elizabeth discovered the practices of Lennox.
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
'Bowes Correspondence', p. 174, 25 March 1581, Harley MS 6999. The laird of Whittingeham says his brother devised a letter sent to the Pope, which brought to Elizabeth discovered the practices of Lennox.