Macro photograph of a Lavender Scallop (Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi)
Our Lavender Scallop has started blooming!
#bloomscroll #flowers #photography #art #macro
Me when I'm talking to someone I don't like, thinking that I'm hiding it well.
Enjoy!
Puzzle Binding!
Tricky! These are almost as rare as hen's teeth, and we just...
Had One???
And, it includes HOW Many Books? (Five from Germany c. 1601 and a blank one at last count...) #Vexierbuch #DosADos @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case C 823 .966)
For Alexander Glover in the @irishdailymail
‘the Elizabethan art of espionage was a sticky business’. In his joyous review of our #Spycraft @YaleBooks
he notes that the Gunpowder Plotters may have used MARMALADE 🍋🍊as their invisible ink! pressreader.com/ireland/iris...
🤣😭 Dit is geniaal. Kijk, daarom houd ik dus van de 17de eeuw.
Margaret Cavendish has the best stage directions:
The Convent of Pleasure, 1668.
Act II. Scene I.
Enter Monsieur Take-Pleasure, and his Man Dick.
painting of Cardinal Richelieu in his nice red cardinal robes looking away from all the very serious business of state to look at a mother cat and her kittens who have taken over the study and are all over the map on the floor
Did I use the excuse that students read Richelieu's Political Testament to have him and his kittens on a slide? Maybe.
Did I also take the opportunity to tell them to watch The Musketeers? Is the Pope Catholic?
This is *exactly* how I like to get my history, and I didn't even know it until this account took over our timelines and hearts.
*How did I end up here?*
Ik mag dit jaar de Annie Romein-Verschoorlezing verzorgen.
Wees welkom!
🎉 🥳 It is 400 years since Alice Wandesford (later Thornton) was born! To celebrate we are resharing this anniversary post by @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social featuring archival documents and books from the 9 decades of her life. #EarlyModern 📜 🗃️ thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...
The Clarendon Building with large windows lit up reflected on a calm puddle of water
The wet weather produces some beautiful photos!
Thank you to estherjohnsonphotography on Instagram for this wonderful shot of the Clarendon Building. 📸
Rubbing shoulders with Greenblatt ...
Also on this image is, en passant, an early version of a thinking hat with a cat. Commonly known as 'thinking chat'.
#thinkinghat
Moment of energetic entertainment from #SuperbOwl courtesy, of course, of Hieronymus Bosch. Go owls!
Sshh 🤫 ... I might be following a coded paper trail; there's nothing more delightful on a Sunday morning! My sojourn in the world of Elizabethan espionage made me want to repost this review of my latest book #Spycraft co-written with @elegantfowl.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/insi...
paw prints of a medieval cat preserved in 12th-century floor tiles
at St. Peter's Church
in Wormleighton, England.
source- Architecture Hub #photography
#caturday
Love having the botanical gardens on my doorstep #Hortus @unileiden.bsky.social
Closing soon ...
Closing soon ...
#BirdoftheDay #Reflections @robcrank68.bsky.social
Just a reminder ... tomorrow at 5.30 pm, Holly Fletcher (@drhollyfletcher.bsky.social) will be speaking on 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World, 1500-1750: Matter in Multispecies Medicine' ✨ Sign up at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... (In-person, IHR Wolfson Room NB02, all are welcome!)
Closing soon ...
Closing soon ...
Thank you for letting me know - it's always great to hear that people are enjoying your books!
Zondag a.s. Gluren bij de Buren, huisconcerten op 61 adressen in @leidencity.bsky.social, waaronder dat van ons... Je bent van harte welkom. Het hele aanbod op www.glurenbijdeburen.nl
Uncovering the untold story of ink-balls - giant flying ink- balls
A colorized image from 1588 showing dancing people, a musican, and a few very big dabbers.
Just giant dabbers flying around while people are dancing. I am unsure what they are celebrating, but giant ink-balls were used in #earlymodern printing offices in the last step before printing. Such dabbers consist of pieces of leather filled with wool or hair and a wooden handle. #bookhistory
