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Michael Pearce

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History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, and recipe books Blog, remember them? https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · May 17

Madame, my dewe humble service being remembred, I wrytte to your Majestie lattelie, ane letter to recreate your Majestie in your melancolie and saturnialle humour, (Letter book and journal of William Bruce, 1609)

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Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · 2d

📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙

☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...

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jAy Ph.D. @jayrotoole.bsky.social · 10h

Two months until the release of the hardback edition of my academic book, Exploring Early Modern Sexualities. The Desires of King James VI & I (11th Dec).

Available for pre-order now!

#EarlyModern #Historian #QueerLit #EnglishLit #Royals

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

it's only racial profiling if it comes from the racial profiling region of france. otherwise it's sparkling reasonable suspicion.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 8d

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

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Newcastle Uni Special Collections & Archives @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social · 3d

Explore curated insights across our unique and distinctive collections — from a 17th century recipe book to a WWI surgical logbook.

Discover our new Digital Showcase and uncover the stories behind the collections: digitalshowcase.ncl.ac.uk #DigitalShowcase

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 1d

James VI, wearing the same doublet as in his Edinburgh Castle portrait, but with different buttons

Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 1d

Two versions, a print collectors dream!

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 1d

James VI of Scotland, engraved/published by Jean Rabel, details: art.rmngp.fr/fr/library/a...

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Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social · 1d

I recently recorded a podcast with Emily Briffett for the BBC History Extra Life of the Week on Margaret Tudor's life and correspondence (www.historyextra.com/membership/m...)

You can access the podcast via the usual podcast platforms, and via Spotify here: open.spotify.com/episode/235B...

Margaret Tudor: life of the week

Helen Newsome-Chandler charts the life of the medieval queen and mother through her letters and correspondence

www.historyextra.com

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 1d

A Chinese Shunzhi period dish (1644-1661) with inscription 'a leaf predicts the arrival of autumn, (but) the new spring will be full of fragrance and colour' (picture Feng-Chung Ma ceramics), and a contemporary Persian fritware copy

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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 2d

Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.

scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...

SHS Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

scottishhistorysociety.com

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 1d

Merry England

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 1d

'Le grant Anne' was probably Anne Scot, there was a 'petite Anne', and yet another Anne who may have married Mary, Queen of Scots' sommelier Louis Vincent

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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 2d

We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too

Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!

Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com

The Scottish History Society

scottishhistorysociety.com

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 2d

Mary of Guise had a lady in waiting called Big Anne (La Grant Anne), according to the master of the wardrobe in 1553

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · 2d

The Museum of the Order of St John is hosting a launch event for my book on 22 October. I'll be talking about the paintings of Mattia Preti, dress, textiles and life in Malta in the seventeenth century.
🗃️🪡 #earlymodern
📷 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-matti...

Two men and a woman playing music and a game of draughts seated around a table in a dark interior. They are wearing brightly coloured, striped clothing.

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 2d

Seems to be just Jonet Liddell's testimony, 25 Nov. 1564 and 27 October 1565, printed in Alma Calderwood's SRS Buik of the Canagait, pp. 11-12, 28 says some of the elders would have a chat with Mons Bellock.

Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like there is a concealed staircase accessing the main en-suite bathroom, certainly a plus.

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Annika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social · 3d

Wonderful opportunity for scholars, activists, and artists engaging with early Black presences in Europe🗃️

H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 3d

CFP: Black Presence and Influence in Europe Before the Atlantic Slavery

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157868

Lüneburg, 21.01.2026-22.01.2026, Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) in Culture and Society, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.10.2025

www.hsozkult.de

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 3d

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

www.unilu.ch

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 3d

By some coincidence, that was also the name of the battle in Arran's household account, Ankiram or Lillieyeart, NRS E31/13 f.238.

Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 4d

'applicuit', a new word to me, when your ship comes in

Household books of James V: Sunday 16 June 1538, 'Hodie illustrissima Maria domina nostra Regina applicuit portum Sanct Andrie in cena', today the illustrious lady Mary our Queen disembarked at St Andrews for dinner

Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 4d

I reckon the enamel plaque with the sons of Antoinette of Bourbon, Duchess of Guise, helping her chariot wheel over some heretics and unbelievers is one of the best things in the Frick

The Triumph of the Eucharist and the Catholic Faith, Léonard Limousin, Frick 1916.4.22

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting that these 17th-century revival chairs were upholstered with very fashionable modern fabrics

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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 6d

Some context for this letter story, in the weeks after the battle of Haddon Rig, 1542: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

Battle of Haddon Rig - Wikipedia

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