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#Writer of #17thCentury #HistoricalFiction & other things. #LordsLegacy () an #EnglishCivilWar #HistFic series pub @SharpeBooks
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Gideon Lennox didn't want to go to war.
He certainly didn't want to fight for a king whose cause he didn't uphold.
But he's riding to battle in the king's army…
'fast-paced page-turner'
99p for a few more days!
#17thCentury
#HistoricalFiction
#adventure
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A legitimate head of state executed after a show trial by a military junta of religious fanatics who'd turned parliament into a puppet by purging the majority who disagreed...
Am I the only one who feels irony whenever this event is hailed as the founding moment of our democracy?
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Had a similar experience once in a minibus full of people all in 17th-century clothing right behind a car that broke down in London traffic.
The expression on the driver's face when a bunch of cavaliers jumped out from the minibus and pushed the car to safety was truly priceless.
So you're sailing off the French coast and you lose your rudder. You radio in a distress call and it's acknowledged. Someone is coming! You breathe a sigh of relief...
....and then watch in amazement as the East Indiaman Götheborg appears on the horizon
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Prince Maurice is always overshadowed by his older and more flamboyant brother, Rupert - and was even in his own lifetime.
But he was a good general in his own right, as shown in the way he outmanoeuvred and then defeated Waller at Ripple Field.
Happy Birthday to Prince Maurice of the Palatinate, born on 6 January 1621 (O.S.) in Küstrin Castle.
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Is probably just me but he has a definite 'Blackadder' quality about his appearance...
#OTD
in 1423, one of the most shrewd kings in 15th c. Europe was born: Louis XI of France, aka the ´Spider King´
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It had a terrible toll.
The exact figure is unknown but estimates say 4.5%—7% total pop.
Women died too.
Often killed by men, like the camp followers massacred by Parliament's troops after Naesby.
And for what?
Parliament betrayed into a dictatorship and the return of the king…
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I am stunned my story made the longlist of the HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition.
Thank you.
It is Dorothy Dunnett's Centenary and entering this was my way to mark that—a tribute to one of the finest writers ever and my great inspiration.
Congrats and good luck to all!
The 2023 HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition longlist 1:
A Pact Fulfilled: Eleanor Swift-Hook
And an Axe: Hilary Orme
Annie's Sacred Pilgrimage: Sue du Feu
Ayla the Apothecary: Chris Cottom
Black Christ: Judith Wilson
#HWADDSS23
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I think he must have really loved that cat to have it painted with him.
But then afterwards, he might have come to hate it as it totally steals the show!
10 Nov 1624: d. Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of
#Southampton
#otd
Here seen with his early modern
#cat
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Died
#OnThisDay
2 July 1644 at Marston Moor having escaped and followed his master into battle
Boye - the beloved dog of Prince Rupert.
No certain pictures of him exist - indeed some even assert he was a she.
But he was described by contemporaries as a hunting dog and a poodle.
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The slight hitch with capital punishment...
3 Mar 1541:
#French
ambassador Marillac reports that Henry VIIII was openly regretting the execution of Thomas Cromwell calling him the ‘most faithful servant he ever had' (NPG)
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Start each day with a bang using this piece of 17th-century cutting-edge technology!
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Yes, he refused the crown—but he accepted a title associated with regency: Lord Protector—and it became hereditary.
It had the powers of a monarchy—including dispersing awkward parliaments and a veto of their bills, plus military rule.
Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck…
#OnThisDay
1 December 1653, Oliver Cromwell refused to consider the offer of the crown. This wouldn't be the last time it would be offered to/refused by him, although with rather more prayer and prevarication next time... Portrait in our collection.
#17thCentury
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For any who would make out Charles II was possessed by the desire for revenge, it is worth noting that he took violent revenge on none of Cromwell's children—including Henry, who had fought against his father. Richard lived to the grand age of 85.
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If you could serve in the Civil War with one soldier, who would it be? Mine would be this guy.
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Unfortunately, it ended with many today holding the notion that Charles I was solely responsible for the civil wars. The very fact he was tried and found guilty meant he had to be so!
The term 'kangaroo court' didn't exist in the 17th century, but that is precisely what this was.
6 Jan 1649:
#parliament
at Westminster establishes a high court of justice to try Charles I
#otd
(NT)
We all know now how this one will end....
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This wasn't what Charles said about democracy—what he actually said was:
The good of Democracy is Liberty, and the Courage and Industrie which Libertie begets.
…the ills of Democracy are Tumults, Violence and Licentiousnesse.
(His Majesties Answer to the 19 Propositions 1642)
King Charles shares his opinions on “democracy”. (Cromwell, 1970)
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When Henrietta was born her mother had to leave her and flee England, hotly pursued by the Parliamentarian navy.
Parliament wanted her raised with the other royal children they held in London. Her brave guardian—Lady Dalkeith—smuggled her out of England to her mother in France!
There are many portraits of Henrietta Stewart, the future Duchess of Orleans; she was a recognized beauty and at one time had a great influence on the cultural flourishing at the court of King Louis XIV. Portrait by Sir Peter Lely - Henrietta was then eight or eleven years old.
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#OTD
14 June 1645—Battle of Naseby
There's a fine monument to the men but none for the 100-400 women of the Farndon Field Massacre.
Cornered as they tried to flee, brutally murdered—others their faces cut—by the 'godly' Parliamentarians who then gleefully celebrated it in print.
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This is really cool!
Anyone writing - or reading - a book set in the first half of the 17th century in London would really find this helps with visualising the city in all its complex glory and working out where specific buildings and places are!
Came across this familiar but amazing ‘annotated’ view of London from Southwark c.1630. Look at all those churches - and the display of heads on The Great Stone Gate of Old London Bridge. Dutch School.
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A king who managed to keep England at peace even when war was raging all around, and tried to stop those wars—and has been despised for it ever since.
That he tried made him a greater king than all the warmonger monarchs we glamorise, IMO.
#OTD
in 1625 King James VI of Scotland & I of England died at Theobalds House, aged 58. He was buried at Westminster Abbey. He was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots & Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. He married Anne of Denmark in 1589 & they had 7 children, of which 3 reached adulthood.
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Interestingly, we are often told about the intransigence of Charles I - but seldom about that of Parliament.
Charles was willing to negotiate and tried to do so, but Parliament was stubborn and refused to compromise on its desire to attack the king's family and friends.
10 Mar 1629: Charles I dissolves
#Parliament
#otd
starts his personal rule in England, until 1640 and the outcomes we know...
#HistParl
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Oh...oh...oh...Gottahavethisnomatterhowmuchitcosts!
**runs to Amazon**
Nooooooooo!
£90!! You have got to be having a giraffe!
Who the heck can afford that much for a single book?
**sobs into cup of comfort cocoa**
Thrilled to receive my author copy of this beautiful new volume on English civil war writing from
@BritishAcademy_
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Is a 'private crown' one you wear at home when chilling out, with your feet up?
Crown of Rudolf II [d.
#otd
20 Jan 1612] later crown of the Austrian Empire
Made in Prague in 1602 as a private crown for Rudolf II. The goldsmith Jan Vermeyen of Antwerp was appointed to the imperial residence in Prague for this task.
(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
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The creativity of medieval scribes in making a feature of a mistake is wonderful to see.
Another method for fixing an error in a medieval manuscript - This scribe employed the figure of a man using a rope to pull along the accidentally omitted portion of the text - 1st half of the 15th century, British Library, Arundel 38, f. 65r
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I always feel sorry for Princess Elizabeth in this picture.
Her three older siblings got to stand there and look very regal, with an impressively big dog whereas she had to hold onto a wriggling toddler and put up with a lapdog pulling at her skirts!
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The day to recall Oliver Cromwell was virulently anti-democracy, even though many today think he was a founding father of it.
Cromwell established a 'unitary parliamentary republic under a hereditary military dictatorship'.
A modern day example of such could be, say, North Korea.
Today is
#LevellersDay
.
In May 1649, 340 soldiers of the new model army were locked inside Burford church.
A plaque cemmorates those men who were executed, and each year Levellers Day remembers those three men who paid the ultimate price.
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Something seldom lauded about James I is the commitment he had to peace.
Struck to commemorate the peace with Spain, which was established in 1604. This is the only medal on which James VI & I is styled King of England and Scotland. "peace, plenty, and pure religion". (British Museum)
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In 1633 two ordinary women decided an issue of high policy.
A patent was issued for soap made from English-only resources to avoid reliance on imported potash and fish oil.
After much decrying of the new soap 2 laundresses were employed to blind test both.
And their verdict was…
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Between 1642-44
#CharlesI
had a £3 gold coin struck—the Triple Unite. The highest-value hammered coin ever.
He is shown holding a sword and an olive branch—symbolising he wanted peace but was ready for war.
(National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History)
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It is debatable to what degree this was necessary statecraft and what personal vengeance.
He was actually very generous for the time in the general pardon he issued.
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One has to wonder how he managed to produce this amazingly detailed panorama having never even visited London...
Old London Bridge, detail from ‘Visscher’s London’. 17th century (pre-1666 and Great Fire). Nicolaes Jansz Visscher.
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The Spanish Netherlands would quickly develop the fragata (frigate) a sleek, low sailing ship which also had the advantage of oars.
These ships were devastating to Dutch (and English) merchant and fishing vessels in the first half of the 17th century in the same northern seas.
In 1602 Dutch and English ships intercepted 6 Spanish galleys off the Flemish Coast.
The result was disastrous for the Spanish as two of their galleys were rammed and sunk and over 2000 men died.
The battle showed that using galleys was not a good idea in these northern waters.
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I am forever confused why the word 'democracy' is linked with the Parliamentarian victory in the civil wars.
It did nothing to change who got to vote. Nothing to further the cause of democracy— they suppressed calls for it in their own ranks and imposed a military dictatorship.
NEW PODCAST - Rediscovering the stories of the wounded: The Battle of
#Naseby
destroyed the field army of King Charles I and in two hours changed the history not only of
#CivilWar
Britain, but every modern democracy
@cwpetitions
@BNaseby1645
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Recommended reading indeed for anyone who wants to understand the non-mythologised background to the civil wars that erupted at the end of it.
Highly accessible to the general reader, packed with fascinating detail and moments of wonderful humour!
The Personal Rule of Charles I by Kevin Sharpe.
A phenomenal book.
It courts envy in those without tenacity to write something so comprehensive themselves.
#CharlesI
#KingCharles
#Book
#Books
#History
#Study
#17thcentury
#Reading
#Education
#academia
#Oxford
#London
#England
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An example of kind of cruel punishment by Charles I's ecclesiastical Court of High Commission—accused of being akin to the Spanish Inquisition:
In 1640, convicted of importing Amsterdam Bibles to discharge a debt, William Jackson was ordered to take them back and sell them there!
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Dee's knowledge of the use of geometry to aid navigation was second to none. He was a pioneer in the art of taking latitude readings at sea and in the science of interpreting them...
18 Feb 1583: John Dee, Francis Walsingham & Sir Edward Dyer meet to discuss Captain John Davis' plan to resume the search for the North West passage
#otd
(Wellcome/NPG)
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Newsflash: Proof found that Smarties were being manufactured in the 14th century!
A
#panther
spotted & enflamed was one of the heraldic badges of king Henry VI; here used as the sinister supporter in his achievement.
By Bevill Skelton, Esq., 1684 (BL, Add MS 71511)
#LancasterHouse
#Plantagenet
#14thCentury
#manuscripts
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Arriving for a wedding that would change the course of British and European history in ways none at the time could have imagined...
The Arrival of the Elector Palatine at Flushing on 29 April, 1613 ⚓️
Adam Willaerts (1577–1664)
National Maritime Museum,
@RMGreenwich
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Am I the only one who wonders why he and Cromwell wanted to be buried in a building where so many were interred with whom they had such profound religious and political disagreements - and with pretty much identical pomp?
Why didn't they establish new tradition in a new location?
6 Feb 1652: the body of Henry Ireton, general, who d. near
#Limerick
26 Nov 1651 lavishly buried
#otd
in the Henry VII chapel
#Westminster
(NPG)
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I am no fan of the gentleman - however, I am a big fan of historical accuracy.
In 1647 Oliver Cromwell didn't have the power to personally ban anything. It was Parliament.
However, he probably agreed with the ban on religious grounds and certainly never revoked it when he could.
The plum pudding was banned in England by Oliver Cromwell in 1647, along with all other Christmas festivities, as being wicked & pagan when it was flamed. The rest of Christmas was reinstated in 1660 by Charles II, but the pudding wasn’t revived until 1714.
#LegendaryWednesday
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Those boots - just look at those boots!
#OTD
in 1818, King Charles XIII of Sweden and Norway died in Stockholm. He was the last monarch of the House of Holstein-Gottorp. He was succeeded by his adopted son, French Marshal
Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte (Charles XIV John)
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This was a religious war. Both sides firmly believed God was with them. Had they not done so, they would not have fought.
Royalists believed the king was ordained by God to rule, and Parliamentarians that Biblical precedent allowed the destruction of kings who were tyrants.
We tend to think of the Parliamentarians as the religious fanatics in 1642, but an important point from this fine book is that it was the royalists who argued that God had ordained particular forms of government. To Prynne, for example, regimes were 'mere human institutions'.
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What if Prince Henry Stuart hadn't died but had lived to be king?
What is your biggest 'what if?' in history?
Mine would be what if Prince Arthur Tudor hadn't died but had lived to be king?
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#OTD
14 June 1645
One of the most shameful acts of the First
#EnglishCivilWar
Over 100 Royalist women and girls fleeing after the battle of Naseby massacred by Parliamentarian soldiers. Many more were brutally disfigured.
Parliamentarian pamphleteers in London praised the deed.
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Those "highly significant bouts of pure fiction" mean there is no way for a viewer to know what is fiction and what is not.
Hist. fic. authors include author notes to tell a reader where they have strayed from the historical record—why can't dramas do so as part of the credits?
How accurate is Mary & George, the TV drama based on the life of George, Duke of Buckingham? Mark Turnbull (
@1642Author
) reviews the series and finds "highly significant bouts of pure fiction".
Read Mark's review at
What do you think?
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I love that Dutch 'Golden Age' artists gave as much attention to the ordinary work and leisure of women as to that of men.
I recently learned the Dutch Republic had a form of marriage which women could choose that allowed them to keep control of their own property and affairs.
Scenes from the lives of 17th century women from the Rijksmuseum: rowing, walking, in a garden, holding up a puppet
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Born
#OTD
in Prague, Prince Rupert of Bohemia, third son and fourth child of King Frederick and Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia.
His parents lost their royal title within a year. Rupert went on to gain his greatest fame in England's
#17thCentury
civil wars.
But wasn't he a cute kid?
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In classical myth, roses were associated with the god of silence, Harpocrates (a god who was really a misunderstanding of Egyptian Horus-as-a-child figures which show Horus with a finger to his mouth in a gesture that meant 'child' in hieroglyphics) and hence secrecy.
The
#rose
as symbol of secrecy.
Some physic gardens have a rose carved over the entrance to preserve the secrets of the herbalist's art.
Carved roses adorn certain rooms to remind people that secrets revealed therein should be kept secret.
aka sub rosa = “under the rose”
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He did it so well...
Just a shame they got Boye so very, very wrong😬
A
#Baroquetastic
Birthday to Timothy Dalton, who has been in several films set in the Stuart period, including Cromwell, in which he played Prince Rupert.
#KeepItStuart
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I can't recall a single portrait of Buckingham with a short 2020s hairdo like that in Mary & George, but maybe my memory fails me?
And no beard?
Every pic I ever saw of him—long hair and beard!
It's funny how you can date many historical dramas by the modern-day look of the lead!
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No one can deny Cromwell had an impact but why do we lionise this man?
He threw out elected parliaments that disagreed with him, ruthlessly suppressed those advocating real democracy and was a religious fanatic convinced of his divine mission.
Today we'd decry such a man.
So why?
Oliver Cromwell was born
#otd
25th April 1599 - 425 years ago.
The Cromwell Association was founded im 1937 to educate about his life and legacy as a politician, soldier, and statesman.
Miniature portrait held at the National Portrait Gallery.
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Tragic that this beautiful house with such historical significance is being left to decay...
“We mean here to die.”
Holbeche (Holbeache) House, Kingswinford, then Staffordshire - now on the Buildings At Risk Register.
Place of the last stand of Robert Catesby & the Gunpowder Plotters. House of “the forbidden Mass.”
#SaveHolbecheHouse
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I was shocked by this! I know liberties are taken in such things, but seriously? The five were John Pym, John Hampden, Denzil Holles, William Strode, and Sir Arthur Hesilrige. Cromwell was pretty much a nobody at this stage...
#OnThisDay
in the year 1642,
#CharlesI
attempted to arrest 5 MP's who demanded he gave up his right to dissolve parliament. He entered the
#HouseofCommons
looking for the men who'd fled in advance. To this day the opening of Parliament re-enacts this scene.
#OTD
@WesternH3ritge
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Such a cute pup! Do dogs like this still exist today?
Died (alas!) on this day in 1572, François Clouet, portraitist of the renaissance French court. Here, the wonderful Marguerite of Navarre with her lovely pup in 1544.
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A bit of a flashy dresser, Buckingham (like many of his time and ours) used clothing to flaunt his extreme wealth.
On one occasion in France, he apparently attached the pearls deliberately loosely so they would fall off and whoever wanted could pick them up to show off his wealth
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. 1625. Michiel Jansz van Miereveld. Villiers’ relationship with James I is the subject of the new Sky tv series
#MaryandGeorge
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One of the most fascinating yet misunderstood figures of the 16th century,
If we didn't have his original diaries, revealing his spiritual beliefs and practices he would likely be primarily hailed as a man at the cutting edge of maths, navigation, optics and science for his era
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Portrait of King Charles I showing the large pearl earring he wore from age 15 until his execution.
Why?
Male ear piercing wasn't common at the time.
I did wonder if it was because the Duke of Buckingham wore one. But at 15 Charles hated him—though perhaps he admired the style.
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When you wind up pretty much back where you started despite having caused the war that had the most destructive loss of life in the British Isles, there really is not a lot else to do...
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"Superb...I am trying to drag the
#series
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#books
are really that good."
"My plan was to read one book a month, but I found I couldn't wait to find out what happened next"
“…some of the best
#historicalnovels
I’ve read, superb👌🏻”
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Clearly the name Tom Baker is associated with wild hair and extravagant neckwear... 😉
Thomas Baker by Gianlorenzo Berninic. 1638.
Baker delivered Van Dyck's triple portrait of Charles I to Bernini so that he could carve a bust of the king. While there Baker commissioned this portrait of himself.
Bernini died
#otd
28 Nov 1680
(V&A Museum, London)
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Perhaps the greatest Royalist victory.
Prince Maurice and 300 men raced 60 miles overnight from Devizes to Oxford and left Oxford a day later to ride back with 1,500 of Wilmot's men, fight and win the battle on their return.
⚔️
#OTD
1643 - Battle of Roundway Down
1800 royalists defeat c.5000 parliamentarians
Rich Atkyns attacks armour-clad Arthur Haselrigg with pistol & sword though 'Twas but a flea-biting to him'.
King Charles: [Haselrigg] 'might have endured a siege of seven years' in his iron shell
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This little ruff? Why it's just something I threw on this morning...
Portrait of a Lady, done after 1640 Johannes Cornelisz. Verspronck (d. 30 June 1662)
(The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford)
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A great introduction to the man behind that stunning poetry...
❤️Hear ye! John Donne is the subject of this week's The Seventeenth Century Lady podcast, out now! ❤️
'John Donne' by Unknown English artist
oil on panel, circa 1595. National Portrait Gallery, London.
#KeepItStuart
#Tudor
#Stuart
#history
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Mary I broke the ultimate glass ceiling, was a capable and effective ruler, established many of the forms by which a female monarch would operate - which Elizabeth followed.
But her reputation was a victim of the religious chasm of the era.
There have been quite a few Mary I
#otd
lately. Every time I tweet her I am struck by the persistent power of Elizabethan propaganda. Comments range from suggesting she wasn’t quite a “real” queen to inaccurate body counts to pure bile. Am fascinated.
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Named Henry, not James - thus revealing the hopes of inheritance his father had for him...
#OTD
19 Feb 1594
Henry Frederick Stuart,
#PrinceofWales
was born
Eldest son of
#JamesVIandI
&
#AnneofDenmark
,
he was intelligent, accomplished & popular but never realised his full potential, he died aged 18, the King that never was!
His younger brother succeeded as
#CharlesI
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And you think it's difficult continually replacing clothes for your teenage boys - imagine how it must have been keeping one sorted with fitting armour...
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Some good stuff here but it is sadly promoting popular myths.
It opens with 'seemingly irrevocable differences between the king and his people'.
Parliament was an elite group of wealthy landowners on a religious mission - not 'the people'.
And Parliament declared war on the king
LISTEN: 1642 - The year when the
#EnglishCivilWar
began.
1642 was a tempestuous year with the unsuccessful attempt by the King to arrest 5 Members of Parliament.
@SocialHistoryOx
takes us on a journey through these times.
@BloomsburyBooks
@OxfordConted
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And we can all agree Rupert is so much more handsome than his brother, can't we?
Portraits of the Princes Palatine, Charles-Louis I, elector (1617-1680) & of his brother Robert (1619-1682)
Antony van Dyck, 1637 (Musée du Louvre)
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At his restoration, her nephew, Charles II, told her to wait for an invitation.
None came.
So in May 1661 she arrived without one having not been home for 49 years - and was royally snubbed.
She reportedly died sitting in a chair, having moments before stated she was in no pain.
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#historicalnovels
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“An incredible journey”
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#reading
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"…such great storytelling it’s been impossible to put down!"
"Why only six?"
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A drawing by Prince Rupert I've not seen before!
But is a mortar on a small boat really that good an idea?
A mortar mounted on a boat. Drawn by Prince Rupert of the Rhine, probably after 1660. (British Museum)
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For
#StGeorgesDay
, the Order of the Garter 'George' worn by Charles I as depicted in an equestrian portrait by van Dyck.
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Peg Hughes had been performing on stage since 1660 when she was 30 and played Desdemona.
In an age when being in one's 30s was considered well past it for a woman, she enchanted Prince Rupert and he stayed with her for the rest of his life.
She lived to be 89.
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A reminder that for all Parliament claimed the king was planning to bring foreign troops of a different religion to fight against Englishmen on English soil - it was Parliament itself that actually did so!
Saturday 6th July 2024, 10:30am
Battle of Marston Moor 1644 -Battlefield Walk
Join Louise Whittaker and Chris Rock to hear the story of the 1644 battle that was fought between the Royalists and the Allied forces of Parliament and the Scottish Covenanters.
See Events in our bio
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This is absolutely fascinating reading for anyone interested in medieval or early modern naval warfare.
The tragic tale of how highly skilled professionals were replaced by unskilled slave labour...
Contrary to modern myths fueled by movies like Ben-Hur, galley slaves were not common in antiquity.
It was only in the 16th century that galley slaves became widely used in the Mediterranean by all major powers.
A thread on galley slaves and what led to this development. 🧵
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In the 17th century—where I live a lot—New Year's Day was for gifts.
To say thanks for enduring my ramblings this last year, I've a few Kindle codes to gift.
Is a gift not a giveaway, so if you follow me and would like to try my books, just say you'd like one—DM or reply here.
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17th century high-tech winter transport!
Depictions of early 17th century Dutch iceboats!
These were used to carry cargo on frozen canals by attaching a plank and runners to a traditional sailboat.
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He is always shown with a smile.
I wonder if that was his natural expression or if he was generally a happy person?
#OTD
in 1553, Henry IV, the first Bourbon King of France was born in Béarn. Huguenot King of Navarre before becoming Catholic King of France. He reportedly said, "Paris is well worth a mass."
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A man of his times.
Alchemist, theologian, an expert in Biblical prophecy and fascinated by the dimensions of the Temple of Solomon.
Also known for discovering gravity...
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Which goes to show that although he had been raised to hate his mother, he didn't. He cared for her enough to make such a sacrifice to try and save her life...
Panicking over his mother’s looming execution, James VI made a wildcard marriage proposal to Elizabeth (aged 53 to his 20).
This would’ve made Mary Stuart mother-in-law to the older cousin who’d just tried her for treason.
Reader, she didn’t marry him.
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This has to be one of my favourite portraits of King Charles.
His rather haunting expression seems at odds with the martial equipment...
King Charles I portrait by Anthony Van Dyck on display in the Baron’s Hall of
Arundel Castle
West Sussex
Image
@ArundelCArchive
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@17thCenturyLady
@jdmccafferty
@cheapsellotape
@restorationcake
@RestorationHat
@MargaretPorter
@SueCooperBridge
A truly glamorous look for
#StuartSaturday
!
Here is Princess Elizabeth in 1613 as the newlywed Electress Palatine, looking absolutely stunning and glam!
#KeepItStuart
(NPG, London)
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Such a good book for understanding Charles I as a human being rather than as another head on a coin - or the block...
Charles I's Private Life, by Mark Turnbull: "This is the story of the spare who became the heir: what shaped him - and what became of him. Mark Turnbull helps us understand Charles the king as Charles the man" - Leanda de Lisle
@1642author
#History
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For all his good points, unlike his younger brother Prince Henry was not really into the arts, performing or otherwise, so a military display was probably the best way to engage him in such...
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For
#InternationalCatDay
here is my favourite
#17thCentury
Cat!
Portrait of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (1573-1603)
Probably painted April - June 1603
Attributed to John de Critz (1551–1642)
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This is where good historical fiction can walk territory forbidden to academic history.
It allows the reader to experience an era vicariously with a depth of involvement that academic accounts can't permit.
It offers a 'heart' to bring feeling to the 'head' of academic study.
'Narrative has another function, for which academic training provides no preparation: the recovery of the atmospheric pressure of events, which, to be understood, has to be not merely thought about but felt.'
Eloquent quotation from Blair Worden there.
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The nation was ecstatic that Prince Charles returned without a Catholic bride. Bonfires were lit in the streets of London and celebrations of joy abounded...
In 1623, Prince Charles returned from Spain, having failed to secure his Spanish Match.
James was overjoyed to have “Baby Charles” and his “wife and child” Buckingham back. But they’d come ready to try to pressure their old man into declaring war…
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We need to take action.
This is not just a bridge it is a battlefield and a part of history.
Has anyone established a 'Save Powick Bridge' campaign to help focus, organise and coordinate efforts?
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Both these are fabulous books!
I cannot recommend them highly enough for anyone with an interest in the early modern period.
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The final step in removing all representation from the people.
First, any MPs with royalist leanings were exclude, then all those who opposed the Cromwell/Ireton faction were purged.
When even those wouldn't do what they were told, they were replaced by men picked to agree.
#OnThisDay
4 July 1653 Oliver Cromwell delivered a two-hour inaugural speech at the first meeting of the Nominated Assembly, known to many as the Barebones Parliament. One of those occasions where ‘Old Noll’ really did go on a bit... 😉
#17thCentury
#OTD
#Parliament
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Something I think was utterly unforgivable...
Nonsuch had several unique features including that odd-looking tower.
What a terrible, terrible shame it has been lost to us in such a way.
Beautiful Nonsuch Palace, given by Charles II to Barbara Villiers as a parting gift, shortly before she had it torn down to pay her debts.
#Ravenous
for money?
Andrea Zuvich (
@17thCenturyLady
), her biographer, says so. Find out more at
@penswordbooks
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The thing is we only have King Henry's word for it that she was not attractive - and then just not attractive to him!
Why do historians take the word of such a man over the art of Hans Holbein who had a professional reputation to uphold?
Anne of Cleves looked deceptively attractive in this portrait in 1539. At least, it fooled Henry VIII into agreeing to marry her. Not for long! By Hans Holbein, whose day is today.
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There are vanishingly few films in English about the 30 Years War. If you ignore the 'of its time' issues, The Last Valley captures something of the tragic brutality, IMO.
I'd recommend the book over the film though, if you can get a copy. It'll break all but the hardest heart...
A film review today; featuring a shouty Brian Blessed, suave Omar Sharif, and the comedy German accent of Michael Caine. The Last Valley (1971)
#30YW
#pikeandshotte
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Schooling at a primary level in the Dutch Republic at this time was largely free to both girls and boys paid for by each state as it saw fit. Even so often poor children could not afford to go every day it was open as they often had to work to help support their family.
School room, Jan Martsen, 1624-1638 (British Museum, 1895,0915.1206) Interesting to see both boys and girls in one room, with master and mistress in their respective high desks.
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Ironically Cromwell apparently expressed doubts over selling an asset that bestowed such dignity and prestige on the state.
I'm also curious if it went to all maimed soldiers regardless, or was it a case of 'our glorious heroes—their vile thugs'?
#OnThisDay
1649 the Council of State orders the sale of "the Crown Jewels, Hangings and other Goods of the late King [Charles I]"
The first £3,000 from the sale is reserved to pay for the welfare of "sick and maimed soldiers".
#CrownJewels
#17thCentury
#royal
#History
#otd
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I'd spoil my ballot.
I would not wish to live in a nation ruled by either.
Neither offered anything approaching the kind of freedoms we take for granted today.
And neither would have allowed me to vote anyway...
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That dowry was a huge amount of money for a man often typified as a simple country gentleman!
John Claypole was said to be a mild man, a Presbyterian rather than an Independent like Cromwell, who made him Lord Claypole.
He lost his title at the Restoration but was pardoned.
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