Michael Pearce
@michaelpearce.bsky.social
History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, and recipe books.
Pinned
Whitekirk and the Great Michael
One Latin household books survives from the reign of James IV, (National Records of Scotland, E32/1). It covers dates from 1511 to 1512, giving daily expenses of food for the households of James IV…
vanishedcomforts.org
Margaret Tudor's 1511 pilgrimage to Whitekirk, somewhat revised, vanishedcomforts.org/2026/01/21/w...
Samson des Granges, goldsmith to Anna of Denmark and father of the painter David des Granges, and a goldsmith colleague Elias Le Tellier, husband of the queen's silkwoman Esther, engaged in a feud on the Canongate and got evicted in 1600. Winfred Coutts, 'Business of the College of Justice', p. 70.
January 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Samson des Granges, goldsmith to Anna of Denmark and father of the painter David des Granges, and a goldsmith colleague Elias Le Tellier, husband of the queen's silkwoman Esther, engaged in a feud on the Canongate and got evicted in 1600. Winfred Coutts, 'Business of the College of Justice', p. 70.
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Feel free to mute me if you get tired of seeing me talking about my book over the next few months but BEFORE YOU DO, I just wanted to point out that the fantastic Francis Spufford has very kindly said that it 'gives us extraordinary, privileged access to the inner worlds of a generation' 🥂🥂🥂
January 27, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Feel free to mute me if you get tired of seeing me talking about my book over the next few months but BEFORE YOU DO, I just wanted to point out that the fantastic Francis Spufford has very kindly said that it 'gives us extraordinary, privileged access to the inner worlds of a generation' 🥂🥂🥂
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It's real! 🥲😱🥰
January 27, 2026 at 11:30 AM
It's real! 🥲😱🥰
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Niche #earlymodern and #cake question. Does the term “fancy” mean a cake to you? (Mr Kipling’s French Fancies eg)? This meaning not recorded in OED. Ta.
January 27, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Niche #earlymodern and #cake question. Does the term “fancy” mean a cake to you? (Mr Kipling’s French Fancies eg)? This meaning not recorded in OED. Ta.
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CFP: Conference, 'Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750', University of Oxford, 18-19 June 2026
Deadline: 28 February 2026
Paper proposals are invited for this conference on the overlooked role of early modern women as writers of history. See clioreframed.hcommons.org.
Deadline: 28 February 2026
Paper proposals are invited for this conference on the overlooked role of early modern women as writers of history. See clioreframed.hcommons.org.
January 26, 2026 at 11:01 AM
CFP: Conference, 'Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750', University of Oxford, 18-19 June 2026
Deadline: 28 February 2026
Paper proposals are invited for this conference on the overlooked role of early modern women as writers of history. See clioreframed.hcommons.org.
Deadline: 28 February 2026
Paper proposals are invited for this conference on the overlooked role of early modern women as writers of history. See clioreframed.hcommons.org.
Locked into the pantry at Apethorpe with sack and claret: vanishedcomforts.org/2026/01/25/l...
Locked in the pantry at Apethorpe
Mary Mildmay Fane, Countess of Westmorland, wrote to her daughter Grace Fane, Countess of Home, at Dunglass Castle in Scotland, with court news, medical advice, and occasional cheerful recollection…
vanishedcomforts.org
January 25, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Locked into the pantry at Apethorpe with sack and claret: vanishedcomforts.org/2026/01/25/l...
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We are dealing with a Western Christian supremacist movement willing to see millions die in the name of racial purity. This is William Wolfe. A year ago he was invited with fourteen other faith leaders to the WH. Today he is praising ICE for killing peaceful observers. This is Christian fascism.
January 24, 2026 at 7:16 PM
We are dealing with a Western Christian supremacist movement willing to see millions die in the name of racial purity. This is William Wolfe. A year ago he was invited with fourteen other faith leaders to the WH. Today he is praising ICE for killing peaceful observers. This is Christian fascism.
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Law courts on tour! In times of plague, the central law courts could move from Westminster Hall. This lovely 16th Cent plan of Hertford Castle shows where the Courts of Requests, Wards, Common Pleas, King's Bench, and Exchequer were based when there. TNA MPF 1/161
January 24, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Law courts on tour! In times of plague, the central law courts could move from Westminster Hall. This lovely 16th Cent plan of Hertford Castle shows where the Courts of Requests, Wards, Common Pleas, King's Bench, and Exchequer were based when there. TNA MPF 1/161
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@victorianhand.bsky.social is running a series of workshops exploring our hands as agents of making & mending in collaboration with the Quilters' Guild & @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social. You can sign up for the QG workshops here with dates for the RCS to follow:
www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-work-...
www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-work-...
The Work of Mending
The Work of Mending is a series of research-led, hands-on workshops exploring what hands do and what they mean across histories of making, repairing and caring.
www.eventbrite.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:14 PM
@victorianhand.bsky.social is running a series of workshops exploring our hands as agents of making & mending in collaboration with the Quilters' Guild & @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social. You can sign up for the QG workshops here with dates for the RCS to follow:
www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-work-...
www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-work-...
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Margaret Tudor's 1511 pilgrimage to Whitekirk, somewhat revised, vanishedcomforts.org/2026/01/21/w...
Whitekirk and the Great Michael
One Latin household books survives from the reign of James IV, (National Records of Scotland, E32/1). It covers dates from 1511 to 1512, giving daily expenses of food for the households of James IV…
vanishedcomforts.org
January 23, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Margaret Tudor's 1511 pilgrimage to Whitekirk, somewhat revised, vanishedcomforts.org/2026/01/21/w...
The Countess of Moray's Jumbles: a spoonfull of seck, a spoonfull of creame, and mak past of it, and mold it of leters and knottes, and so baik it
January 23, 2026 at 11:13 AM
The Countess of Moray's Jumbles: a spoonfull of seck, a spoonfull of creame, and mak past of it, and mold it of leters and knottes, and so baik it
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So lovely to see my friend Louise Durning talking about the little known wall paintings in @lincoln.ox.ac.uk . Do take a look.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPay...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPay...
Hidden Spaces: The Painted Rooms
YouTube video by Lincoln College, Oxford University
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January 22, 2026 at 8:35 PM
So lovely to see my friend Louise Durning talking about the little known wall paintings in @lincoln.ox.ac.uk . Do take a look.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPay...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPay...
Surprised to find that disputed bills from Elizabeth Brydges' embroiderer in 1590s were printed in The Academy (5 February 1876), p. 125: archive.org/details/sim_...
January 22, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Surprised to find that disputed bills from Elizabeth Brydges' embroiderer in 1590s were printed in The Academy (5 February 1876), p. 125: archive.org/details/sim_...
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🚨Call for Papers🚨
We are thrilled to issue a call for papers for our annual conference on 28th March 2026
We'd love to hear about the amazing sources you are using and can't wait to spend the day talking all things Scottish History 💙
Submit a proposal:
scottishhistorysociety.com/call-for-pap...
We are thrilled to issue a call for papers for our annual conference on 28th March 2026
We'd love to hear about the amazing sources you are using and can't wait to spend the day talking all things Scottish History 💙
Submit a proposal:
scottishhistorysociety.com/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers: ‘The Sources of Scottish History’, SHS Conference 2026
scottishhistorysociety.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:48 PM
🚨Call for Papers🚨
We are thrilled to issue a call for papers for our annual conference on 28th March 2026
We'd love to hear about the amazing sources you are using and can't wait to spend the day talking all things Scottish History 💙
Submit a proposal:
scottishhistorysociety.com/call-for-pap...
We are thrilled to issue a call for papers for our annual conference on 28th March 2026
We'd love to hear about the amazing sources you are using and can't wait to spend the day talking all things Scottish History 💙
Submit a proposal:
scottishhistorysociety.com/call-for-pap...
Tudor hats with Mark Milliner: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Mi...
Mark Milliner - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 22, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Tudor hats with Mark Milliner: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Mi...
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So excited to share my first article! With huge thanks to @aidannorrie.bsky.social and @kitfrench1348.bsky.social
New research article: 'Strangers in the Marketplace: False Work and Foreigners in Late Medieval London', by @bethanyldonovan.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 21, 2026 at 1:36 PM
So excited to share my first article! With huge thanks to @aidannorrie.bsky.social and @kitfrench1348.bsky.social
Whitekirk and the Great Michael: Ship building and pilgrimage in East Lothian: vanishedcomforts.org/2026/01/21/w...
Whitekirk and the Great Michael
One Latin household books survives from the reign of James IV, (National Records of Scotland, E32/1). It covers dates from 1511 to 1512, giving daily expenses of food for the households of James IV…
vanishedcomforts.org
January 21, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Whitekirk and the Great Michael: Ship building and pilgrimage in East Lothian: vanishedcomforts.org/2026/01/21/w...
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In 1694, the Dowager Marquise of Deynse, Marie-Alberte de Gand, founded a lace-making school at the Grand Beguinage of Mechelen. She outlined that the teacher of the school should choose "the most capable and virtuous girls" for admission.
January 21, 2026 at 11:24 AM
In 1694, the Dowager Marquise of Deynse, Marie-Alberte de Gand, founded a lace-making school at the Grand Beguinage of Mechelen. She outlined that the teacher of the school should choose "the most capable and virtuous girls" for admission.
When James, 3rd Earl of Home, died in London (February 1633) his mother shipped the body to Dunbar for burial at Dunglass, and sent four men and blacksmith to Dunglass Castle in April to lock up the best furniture in a chamber.
January 20, 2026 at 11:18 PM
When James, 3rd Earl of Home, died in London (February 1633) his mother shipped the body to Dunbar for burial at Dunglass, and sent four men and blacksmith to Dunglass Castle in April to lock up the best furniture in a chamber.
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The BBC made an excellent documentary, 'Who lives in Scotland?'. I was one of the experts interviewed.
It was re-run at the weekend, so it will be available on iPlayer for a month. If you're interested in how our population is changing, you'll enjoy it!
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001dlbm
It was re-run at the weekend, so it will be available on iPlayer for a month. If you're interested in how our population is changing, you'll enjoy it!
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001dlbm
Who Lives in Scotland? - Series 1: 1. On the Move
Martin Geissler explores the profound impact on Scotland of the movement of people, both within the nation and of its new arrivals.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 8:44 PM
The BBC made an excellent documentary, 'Who lives in Scotland?'. I was one of the experts interviewed.
It was re-run at the weekend, so it will be available on iPlayer for a month. If you're interested in how our population is changing, you'll enjoy it!
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001dlbm
It was re-run at the weekend, so it will be available on iPlayer for a month. If you're interested in how our population is changing, you'll enjoy it!
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001dlbm
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Excited that this iconic listed building in the centre of Newcastle will be renovated to create affordable housing after standing derelict for twenty years: www.twbpt.org.uk/building/kee...
Keelmen’s Hospital. eighteenth century almshouse
Buildings Keelmen’s Hospital was built in 1701, not as a hospital in the modern sense but as an almshouse. Almshouses provided food and shelter for the town’s poor. Keelmen’s Hospital was set up…
www.twbpt.org.uk
January 20, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Excited that this iconic listed building in the centre of Newcastle will be renovated to create affordable housing after standing derelict for twenty years: www.twbpt.org.uk/building/kee...