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katharineedgar.bsky.social
Historical fiction writer, recreational Tudor and mistress of many obsolete crafts. History, textiles, costume, more history
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jeez read the room charlie brooker we don’t need another season of black mirror right now can’t you try doing like a ‘rose tinted mirror’

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Really looking forward to this #conference in July @antiquaries.bsky.social Greensleeves: Text and #Textiles in #EarlyModern English Culture www.sal.org.uk/event/greens... #earlymodernsky #materialculture #earlymusic #greensleevesproject #historicaldress #tudor #tudorsky @ninyamikhaila.bsky.social

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

A Special Guest Post by Katharine Edgar: Kentwell Hall, Where Time Travel Dreams Come True: tonyriches.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-sp... @katharineedgar.bsky.social @kentwellhall.bsky.social #Tudors #Travel

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Lenten Stuff - a seasonal #Tudor #ballad by William Elderton. From MS Ashmole 48. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVg7... #earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernsky #lent #fasting #nettles #leeks #fish #jackalent #herrings #tudors #16thCentury #popularsong #satire #foodhistory #historyoffood

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I have never wished I still taught Collections Management before, but….

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve always loved the headlines in my local paper but this one from a few years ago even beat ‘man drove tractor at love rival.’ www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/1519931...

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

I just got in from a run and my 15 year old son said to me, ‘You know, if I saw you running I’d think how amazing it is that an old person can run.’ 🤨

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

Ok I think I have nailed it and I think it’s going to do the job I want (brief thread follows)

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

I’m going to try to learn Elizabethan double twisted chain stitch now, please pray for me. #blackwork #embroidery #historicembroidery #costume #needlework #crafts

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

#flowersonfriday Come and see our daffodils, we’ve got lots. Also nice cake. #suffolk #daysout #teashop #gardens #mothersday #motheringsunday #flowers #daffodils #springbulbs #eastanglia

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

#marchmeetthemaker Day 10: Where? 1) You will find a selection of notebooks on Etsy (link in bio) 2) and also at local #Suffolk (UK) #craft fayres, these are my next two. 3) or you can see me binding as a Tudor at @kentwellhall.bsky.social . #bookbinding #booksky #journal #makingmonday

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Practice makes perfect! In preparation for #Kentwell1536 one of our #Tudors has been working on his ‘English secretarie’ hand from Augustino de Siena’s 1560 book. Goal is to be as neat as Cranmer (or Cranmer’s clerk.) #medievalmonday #mondaymotivation #earlymodern #16thc #penmanship #palaeography

submitted 41 days ago • 4 comments

Counted blackwork from Johann Schönsperger the Younger, Ein new getruckt model Büchli, 1529. For @kentwellhall.bsky.social 1536 re-creation this year. Deveres 36 silk on 46 count linen. I love bringing old patterns to life! #embroidery #blackwork #needlework #crafts #history #crafts #counted

submitted 43 days ago • 4 comments

Me: This video I am in has gone viral! 40k views! Teenage son 1: Mum, no-one says gone viral any more. You say ‘it broke out.’ Teenage son 2: That’s nothing, I got 700k for a video of me playing a computer game. 🤷‍♀️

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Little 77 living his best life in the spring sunshine. Open this weekend! www.kentwell.co.uk #lambs #daffodils #flowersonfriday #spring #suffolk #farm #gardens #sheep

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Lots of comments on this now & I don’t know what’s worse, the ones who misunderstand biphasic sleep & think we did it wrong because we didn’t get up in the middle of the pitch black freezing night to do a few hours work, or the ones who are convinced we are eating potatoes. They are TURNIPS!!!

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

This Sunday Eleanor and I are doing a William McGonagall memorial walk for the 200th anniversary of his birth. All ticket money will go to LGBT Youth www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/william-mc...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Long but lovely video of @bkhistorical.bsky.social 1461 total immersion event at the Weald and Downland Museum. #medieval #medievalsky #15thc #livinghistory #historysky #history #reenactment m.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMS...

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

This lamb may be our cutest yet and the #daffodils are out! Open this weekend www.kentwell.co.uk #lambs #daysout #suffolk #eastanglia #heritage #gardens #farm #rarebreed

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments