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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Lovely! Learning addition by adding 106 books in 'the Latine tongue' and 136 books in 'the Greek tongue' #skystorians #bookhistory #Greekbooks

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Such a lovely weekend, playing #tudor #music in the Painted Hall at Greenwich as part of their #tudortakeover. #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #tudors #henryviii #anneboleyn

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Christian Algar @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Tremendous woodcut from a 1560s London, anonymously printed, reformist tract by William Turner (STC 24356) TRUTH chastised by SUBTLETY while held captive in stocks with a rope about its neck in the grip of TYRANNY

Black ink printed engraving on aged browning paper of a figure ‘Truth’ chained in stocks and chastised by a cleric dubbed ‘SVTLETI’ and held by a rope around his neck but another cloaked figure dubbed ‘TIRANI’

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Dr Katharine Edgar @katharineedgar.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Ugh. Go to @jorvikviking.bsky.social instead, they have real people who know loads. Or one of the re-enactments - @kentwellhall.bsky.social had Vikings last weekend - where you will get a much richer multisensory experience and there will be people doing real things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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AI Viking character unveiled in Orkney museum - BBC News

It is part of a permanent exhibition to celebrate the role of the Vikings in the area's history.

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Felix Reuben Elliott Gilbert @felixregilbert.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Some of the more extravagant hands in Augustino De Siena’s writing book. Taken from my beautiful handbound facsimile by Merrion Press. The original copy was in the British Library at the time of printing and was published in 1568. #earlymodern #historicalhandwriting #printinghistory #calligraphy

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Felix Reuben Elliott Gilbert @felixregilbert.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

My writing a few months ago. Augustino De Siena’s writing book is a beautiful piece of handwriting history

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Ross 💙🎲 MoreGamesPlease @moregamesplease.com · 11/05/2025

Found a dope game table today. It's 500 years old so hopefully they'll sell it to me on the cheap.

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd @quaritch1847.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This illegally issued cedola, or receipt of a betting slip, for the papal #conclave of 21-24 April 1585, was undersigned by the Medici ambassador to Rome (👀), who wagered 100 gold scudi on the victory of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. (+ a blank version for all your #papalelection betting needs ...)

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Prayer books in the Middle Ages & early modern period were used by people over generations. Personal objects, they are commonly the site where ppl left notes about important events, as here, in a late 15th- or early 16thC hand which wrote in the November calendar page , "My Moder departed to God."

The bottom half of a calendar page. The main text is written in an early 15th-century formal book hand. In a more casual script are inserted the words I wrote in my post. The manuscript is Cambridge UL MS Ee 1.14

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The Wisdom Pedlars, Antiquarian Book Auctions @wisdompedlars.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Beautiful woodcut decorative devices, in some of our early modern books for auction this week. #rarebooks #books #antiquarian #woodcuts #earlymodern #woodcutwednesday #booktwitter #printhistory #bookhistory #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...

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Kentwell Hall @kentwellhall.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

May Day coming up! There will be a mummers’ play, May Queen, and dancing round a maypole. So much fun! Also lovely food & cake in our tearoom. And house, gardens, crafts. Mayday festivities 3-5th May, www.kentwell.co.uk #mayday #maypole #mayqueen #spring #folklore #daysout #bankholiday

Photo of a reenactor dressed as St George fighting a pantomime horse style dragon with a big green head

3 little girls in white crowned with garlands sitting on a wagon under a flowery arch

A long line of people in Tudor and modern clothes dancing round a decorated tree

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