Post by @fionamccall · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Were the 1640s and 1650s a dystopia? · When Mike Freedman emailed me in December asking me if I would be interested in recording a podcast for his 1984 Today! podcast on all things…

See my thoughts on recording a Podcast at Christmas for the 1984Today! podcast series on the theme of England's puritan dystopia.

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Jane Austen's World: Women's Lives in Regency England This day event in Oxford will look at middle class women’s lives in Jane Austen’s England: the books they read, the things they consumed, their domestic accomplishments and their involvement with the ...

We've got a great line up of speakers for our Oxford Lifelong Learning day school on 28 February, Jane Austen's World: Women's Lives in Regency England talking about women's hobbies, consumption, reading & relationship to the the law. Come and join us!

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Merry Christmas & happy holidays, friends! 🎄🥂

This is why, in a workshop I've introduced as part of an effort to help students to better understand what it is they're reading, I start with a talk about how academic publications come to be and what they *physically* are, and how this reflects and drives scholarly processes.

Really useful article

Post by @fionamccall · 10 images 💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 2 · Hardwick Hall - more glass than wall · I lasted visited Hardwick Hall several decades ago, when I was stunned by the bright light on the interiors from Hardwick's famous glass wind…

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Post by @fionamccall · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Consistory Court furnishings, dating from 1634, in Derby Cathedral.

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Post by @fionamccall 💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 1 · The Macneil of Barra has eaten, and now the princes of the earth may dine - apparently the custom at Kisimul Castle on the Isle of Barra was to announce this via a herald's proclam…

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Post by @fionamccall 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · Jesus and no quarter! The battle cry of the Covenanters at the Battle of Tippermuir, 1 September 1644, a Sunday, according to Ian Crofton, A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fabl…

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Post by @fionamccall 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · Infar cake - a Scottish wedding cake broken over the head of the bride as she enters here new home, deriving from an ancient Roman custom of confarratio, where the eating of a cons…

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Blimey, some of these are stunning. Worth a look for anyone who enjoys such beautiful intersections between astronomy, history, and art

Post by @fionamccall · 5 images 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Forgetting Blue Dick · Richard Culmer (1597-1662) was one of the most notorious of the interregnum puritans, mainly because of his enthusiasm as commissioner responsible for destro…

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Post by @fionamccall · 4 images 💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 2 · Mereworth Church, Kent · A spectacular baroque church from 1746.

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Post by @fionamccall · 3 images 💬 0  🔁 2  ❤️ 1 · King Charles the Martyr Church, Tunbridge Wells · A seventeenth-century church in the Wren style, as frequented by Princess Victoria.

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Post by @fionamccall · 4 images 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 2 · Sandwich Guildhall - A rare example of a 17th century court-room · The panelling in the court-room in the Sandwich Guildhall is early Jacobean. The jury box, shown below, folds up…

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OTD in 1623, the Fatal Vespers tragedy occurred: a building hosting a secret Catholic service in Blackfriars collapsed, killing around 100. The aftermath saw vicious anti-Catholic violence, but, as I explored, it also reveals much about tolerance & Catholicism in London. doi.org/10.1017/bch....

Post by @fionamccall · 9 images 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Chagall at Tudeley · A few years ago I visited the Chagall church at Mainz; All Saints at Tudeley in Kent is just as amazing, particular the moving East window memorial dedicated t…

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🤣🤣🤣No need to decide now

Post by @fionamccall · 8 images 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Margate Shell Grotto - the spooky place no-one has heard of · From the outside, Margate Shell Grotto appears like a cheap seaside attraction in an obscure suburban side-street down…

Margate shell grotto - the spooky place that ought to be better known

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Post by @fionamccall · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Jacobean Bling, Ightham Mote, Kent, with wallpaper imported from China.

Jacobean bling, Ightham Mote.

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Post by @fionamccall · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 1 · Medieval angel, Burrell Collection

English Medieval angel, Burrell Collection
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Post by @fionamccall · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · Weepers, 15th century, Burrell Collection

Weepers, Burrell Collection
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Post by @fionamccall · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 1 · Medieval stained glass from Rouen, France, Burrell Collection

Medieval stained glass from Rouen, Burrell Collection
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Post by @fionamccall · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 1 · Not a Rembrandt, but pretty good anyway · Probably bought as a Rembrandt, because it was signed by him, but the signature is thought to be Rembrandt's sign of approval of the work…

Not a Rembrandt but pretty good anyway
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Post by @fionamccall · 10 images 💬 0  🔁 3  ❤️ 2 · The amateur architect who drove Pevsner apopleptic · On a walking tour of Elizabeth Gaskell's Knutsford, my fancy was taken by the architectural constructions of Richard Harding Wa…

The amateur architect who drove Pevsner apopleptic
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Post by @fionamccall · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Statue of Martha, 15-16th century, Burrell Collection

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Post by @fionamccall · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 2 · When the copy is better than the original · The Massacre of the Innocents by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, painted in the 1560s, is said to be a political comment on atrocities commit…

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Post by @fionamccall 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · ... I thanked God once more that I was in Britain. The sun rarely shines in these islands, but when it does the effect is so wonderful it is as if it were smiling down on a new-cr…

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Post by @fionamccall · 5 images 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Castle Frome - the most beautiful font in the world · Hereford is famous for its Romanesque sculpture, the best-known example being the carvings at Kilpeck. Castle Frome has this…

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Coping with Climate Crisis: From the Ancient World to 20th-Century Britain Explore how people and societies, from the ancient world to the 20th century, have understood and coped with crises caused by climatic events or climate change, using evidence from archaeology and eco...

Coping with Climate Crisis: From the Ancient World to 20th-Century Britain. This Oxford University day school discusses historical climate crises from ancient Mesopotamia, the 17thc, 1790s, & Canvey Island in 1953. 31st May. Come and join us!
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