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melanievtaylor.bsky.social
Freelance art historian, author, animal lover. Lives in the 16th century! Fascinated by visual evidence of trade with Far East prior to 1522 & other stuff that is hidden in plain sight. website www.melanievtaylor.co.uk
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A guest post by Cathie Dunn on Poppa of Bayeux, wife 'more danico' - in the Danish fashion - of the Viking leader Rollo "the Walker". davidpilling.blogspot.com/2025/03/gues...

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Look who’s turned up this morning! 🥳 Thank you SO much to the contributing authors, my co-editor Michael Questier and the wonderful team @routledgehistory.bsky.social Use code 25AFLY1 for 20% off: www.routledge.com/James-VI-and... #earlymodern #KingJames400

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At Kentwell we don’t just play #earlymusic, sometimes we make the #instruments too. Last year during our #re-creation a small group of our #Tudors made a #trumpet. In the woods. Using #earlymodern style materials, tools and techniques as far as possible. And it sounded great! #musicalMonday

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One of my favourite French heroes.

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Henry VIII plans to use his sister's marriage to build a powerful alliance. Will she risk his anger by marrying for love? mybook.to/MaryTudor #Tudors #HistoricalFiction #audiobook

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i firmly believe one of the main messages we should be telling our students about this whole thing is that generative ‘AI’ by definition will *never* have an original idea, and if you use it, neither will *you*

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Fortune and Fate: The Complete Justice Belstrang Mysteries, by John Pilkington "A spellbinding journey through the stinking slums and glittering palaces of Jacobean England." Steven Veerapen www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0913FNNZ2 @johnpilkingtonpt.bsky.social #HistoricalFiction #Booksky 💙📚

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It's the final week of our #MedievalWomen exhibition and we've been working on restoring our Medieval and Renaissance Women digitisation project online. The first manuscripts are now available! blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...

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Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

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Is this the real face of Henry VII? Westminster Abbey is hoping to finally find out. The effigy head of the founder of the Tudor dynasty is one of the finest examples of its kind to have survived to the present day: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02... @telegraphnews.bsky.social #Tudors

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🎭17 February 1673. The death of Molière, who dies at Paris having taken ill on stage - ironically, while performing his play, Le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid). He had been suffering from tuberculosis for some years.

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Ever wanted to know more about the genetic impact of the Roman Empire in Britain? Come to our lunchtime lecture on 4 March and you can hear all about this from Dr Marina da Silva. www.sal.org.uk/event/geneti...

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Lady Jane Grey was executed on this day in 1554. This image, known as the Streatham Portrait, has been posited as a likeness of Jane from the late sixteenth century - but recent research suggests that it is actually a copy of a 1544 portrait of Katherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII

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Here's Conor Byrne's article about Lady Katharine Grey will give you a flavour of his recent biography of the woman whose descendants could/should (depending on your mindset) have inherited the English throne on the death of Elizabeth I. melanievtaylor.co.uk/2023/11/15/g...

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The Tudors never cease to fascinate, so I thought I'd post my article about how we know what the royal family looked like and how they used portraiture. The Holbein exhibition at the Queen's Gallery opens on 10th November 2023. I have my ticket booked! melanievtaylor.co.uk/2021/07/02/h...

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Friday 13th Oct: 2 p.m. Letherhead Institute, Leatherhead, Surrey, I will be talking about why there are so few women are recognised as artists (tkts £7.50). Among those featured will be Levina Teerlinc (1520-1576) 1st woman apptd as an official artist to any European court. Hope to see you there.

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A fabulous read, and a convincing expose of just who was behind the Mask.

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