Caitlin Dwelly/Cheney/Tiulenev

Cool photo!
Marie in traditional Zeeland clothing on the motorcycle, c. 1938.

No, I'm not a time traveller.

BIG ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS! 💫

A new section of Hadrian’s Wall has been discovered! The furthest west bit found yet - and it is glorious! 🤩

Reported by the great WC21. Link to his full video here: youtu.be/VfVvl3A_sO4?...

#archaeology #history #Roman

Im afraid this song will never stop being relevant

We had a king fighting for more voting rights? 👑
In the 1660s, Charles II ordered Massachusetts to let all landowning men vote—not just church members. The irony? Back in England, Charles II dissolved Parliament for years before his death.
#ColonialAmerica #Puritans #AmericanHistory

This would be the #puritans second taste of rebellion against the crown. The American Revolution stood on generations of angry men and women. #history

The grandchildren of those who supported the English Civil War (bye-bye King, hello Cromwell), surrounded the Governor Sir Edmund Andros, James II’s hated governor of the Dominion of New England. He tried to flee in women's clothing, but was caught. The colonists restored their old governments...

Massachusetts Bay ran as an almost independent Puritan republic from 1629 to 1684 — until the King annulled its charter, making their entire government was illegal on paper. They folded into the Dominion of New England, sparking one of the earliest “mini-revolutions” in American history. #history 🧵

https://themodernworld.com/ Look at the objects around you: furniture, cars, doors, bins, staircases, railings, doorbells, doorhandles, windows. Do you like how they look, or not? Modern design… How Did The World Get So Ugly?

The public deserves ordinary beauty…

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Gosh, how does Europe function at all with all those old buildings? Why is it uniquely difficult in the US to maintain anything nice?

YouTube video by Sesame Street Sesame Street: Happy Furry Monsters Song with R.E.M

More men like this in the world please…

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Visited some ancient family graves in Milford, Massachusetts this weekend. #puritans

I just listened to a job interview being conducted in a coffee shop

And right-wing influencers are also paid. Some even from Russia. Let’s fight a fair fight eh?

King Charles II

King Charles II pushed for more voting rights in the 1660s. He ordered Massachusetts to expand the vote beyond church members to all landholding men. The Puritans resisted, clinging to religious purity tests for decades. Their stubbornness helped cost them their charter in 1684. #history #puritans

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

'as a rich and fascinating overview and introduction to British folklore this book is really essential reading for anyone interested in the subject. I know I’ll be returning to my copy again and again' - a lovely review of #Folklore on @shinynewbooks.bsky.social shinynewbooks.co.uk/folklore-a-j...

My husband sent me a picture of a pregnant Governor Wentworth of New Hampshire.

Source: De Normandie, James. “John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians.” The Harvard Theological Review 5, no. 3 (1912): 349–70. www.jstor.org/stable/1507287.

... or ministry especially, and in particular in their long haire, which last, first took hand and broke out at Colledg, so far as we under-stand and remember, and now it is got into the pulpit to the greatgreife and offense of many godly hearts in the country."

It seems to have started as a trend for the college boys and spread. We can tell from his portrait that he would come to embrace a nice bob. Eliot writes: "They are brought up in such pride as doth no wayes become such as are brought up for the holy service of the Lorde, either in the magistracy...

Did the second generation of Puritans rebel against their parents like the hippies? Well, according to their elder, Minister John Eliot, the young men were growing their hair too long! The longer locks we think of puritan men sporting were actually a little rebellious for the time. 🧵

The Dutch didn’t allow the colony to last very long, but they had their own little moment!

Today, the oldest house in New Jersey was built by these Swedes. Kristina, Del. is the only town that retained its original Swedish name, but you will find Swedesboro and Swedesburg nearby. Read Pehr Kalm's "Travels in North America: English Version of 1770" if you're interested in their descents.

Shout out to New Sweden (1638-1655). A little bit of Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey was once ruled by Queen Christina. These American Swedes would revolt against the English in 1669, we know how this ends. Their legacy is the introduction of the log cabin to America. #history #colonial

With a strongly worded letter?

Timeline cleanse. My father, a liberal farmer on the 1800s family farm, is making elderberry wine. Cheers!

#alovestory his shirt 💀

Dining at a #MarkTwain haunt in #PortsmouthNH in a building designed by a distant relative for my birthday.

A wild time for my special interest to be puritans #witchtrials