Michael Pearce

Épitaphier du vieux Paris : Raunié, Émile, 1854-1911 ed : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive v. 35 cm

'Seghiso' became a usual French spelling of his name, dying in 1571 at 84 he could almost have been an interesting character in La Reine Margot: Epitaphs of Old Paris

Catherine de Medici's butler (premier maître d'hôtel) was from Modena and had worked for her brother Duke Alexander, but was he J-B Seghiro, Seghizo, or Seghiso?

CFP: Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500–1750

Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 18th–19th June 2026. Deadline: 28 February 2026

Dumfries and Galloway Council proposes closing four museums - Museums Association Sixteenth-century Castle of St John in Stranraer is among the sites at risk of closure

News | Dumfries and Galloway Council proposes closing four museums

Sixteenth-century Castle of St John in Stranraer is among the sites at risk of closure

Yes. I remember Atherstone —
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the mail van washed up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.

A shot of part of an online image of a parish register with text handwritten in the 1650's. Publication has been spelt: bublycation.

I'd like to bublycise this spelling just seen on @findmypast.bsky.social . 😁

Triptyque de deuil de Catherine de Médicis, Ecouen E.Cl.1566

Three oval enamel plaques; the crucifixion; resurrection; Mary Magdalen and the gardener.

Probably had these little oval plaques for more than ten years before figuring out today what they are meant to be. Triptyque de deuil de Catherine de Médicis, Ecouen

Pregnant Women’s Sexuality in Early Modern England This book provides the first history of pregnant women’s sexuality in England from the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries.

It is exciting to announce that my first book has just been published with Palgrave!

Pregnant Women’s Sexuality explores ideas and practices about pregnant women’s sex in early modern England and European medicine ✨

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#history #histofsex

George Crawford, an English painter in Scotland George Crawford was hired in London by the Earl of Moray in 1646 to paint at Moray House in Edinburgh’s Canongate and at Donibristle House in Fife. The Earl also hired English plasterers and …

George Crawford, a London painter-stainer in Scotland in the 1640s and 1650s, new on the blog: vanishedcomforts.org/2025/12/03/g...

National Records of Scotland E32/7 f.176v., 30 days 'ante adventum Regine'

We're now welcoming abstracts for our 2026 conference, on the theme of 'Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern North'! The deadline is 15 January.

Barbour: Item in gagnis Johannis [Murray] barbour in guarderoba, Remanens extra domicilli Dmni Regisapud Sanct Andrea per triginta dies ante ad [] Regine

James V makes plans to meet Mary of Guise in St Andrews and brings along his barber John Murray for peak self-fashioning, household books)

A sweet wine of Spanish origin (so I understand). Possibly popular in 1490

New issue of @parergon.bsky.social edited by @mattfirth.bsky.social, Dr Cassandra Schilling and me!

Some fine old names here, like Isabel Williamson etc

Pints of bastard and claret recorded in some fragments of a household book, Latin/English (possibly Scots), eBay www.ebay.co.uk/itm/28697571...

Souvenirs of service: Mementoes from the First and Second World Wars | National Museums Scotland We all collect souvenirs throughout our lives connected to different people, places and events. Whether this is items from our childhood, holidays and trav

New Discover page I wrote looking at momentoes of the First and Second World Wars to accompany our current exhibition "Maps: Memories from the Second World War" at the National War Museum, Edinburgh www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...

The Royal Engineers Museum, Kent, said staff were "devastated" by the destruction of the sketches from World War Two. The collection included technical drawings and plans, some related to the design and construction of the D-Day Mulberry harbours. #archives #museum 🗃️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage The first major work to explore and analyse the popular 'extra-theatrical' performances in late medieval and Renaissance England. This wider heterogeneous categ…

Excited to share my newest publication, "From Britain to Fairyland: Prince Henry's Investiture and the Fictionalizing Power of the Stuart Court Masques"!

Included in this fantastic Arden Shakespeare collection on extra-theatrical #earlymodern performance 👀

www.bloomsbury.com/us/early-mod...

Historians doing place-based and spatial research often want to make use of archaeological work, but it can often feel difficult to find what you want, and difficult to interpret when you do find it. This course is designed to help historians get a foothold in the world of archaeology!

4 panel comic Panel 1: Red Guy looking way way too happy yells “Hey Guys! Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?” Blue Guy next to him calmly says “Shhh” Panel 2: Blue Guy tenderly puts his arms around Red Guy and says “You don’t have to do this” Panel 3: Blue Guy still holds Red Guy tightly and repeats “You don’t have to do this every year”. Red Guy begins to break. Panel 4: Red Guy dissolves into Blue Guy’s embrace, sobbing. He finally feels the weight of Christmas Discourse lifting from his shoulders. He is finally free.

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

Conference Proverbs & Popular Wisdom in Early Modern Literature and Culture An international and interdisciplinary conference July 1-3, 2026 University of Hull This conference explores the prevalence, fun…

CFP: Proverbs and Popular Wisdom in Early Modern Literature and Culture, 1-3 July, Hull
@proverbialculture.bsky.social
earlymodernproverbs.co.uk/events/confe...

La Résurrection de Lazare, avec un donateur Picardie ou Bourgogne, seconde partie du XVe siècle La Résurrection de Lazare, avec un donateur Huile sur panneau de chêne, trois p...

And some 15th-century French pictures make a more direct appeal to the sense of smell: www.artcurial.com/en/sales/394...

Yes, the Victorian rediscovery and reinstallation sounds as if it may be an interesting story

The Raising of Lazarus: A French Primitive in Sherborne Published in Journal of the British Archaeological Association: Third Series (Vol. 42, No. 1, 1979)

A 2020 article by Christa Grossinger: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Now at the Folger, with picture, X.d.30 (9): digitalcollections.folger.edu/bib193308-24...

Seems an incredible bargain at 4K in 1970, incredible

Joachim Bassewitz, a diplomat working for Anna of Denmark's grandfather, who claimed letters of James VI were like the counsel of Homer's Nestor

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim...

Thrilled to see this beautiful volume now in print, and honoured to have contributed a chapter—where I explore the theatricality of some of Isaac Oliver’s miniatures.
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The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489–1541) Volume 70 | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

It's Margaret Tudor's birthday today! 🎉🎂👸 If you would like to learn more about Margaret and her incredible archive of surviving correspondence, check out my recent @royalhistsoc.org Camden edition of her holograph letters!

www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...