margaret beaufort fan
@tudorhistetc.bsky.social
B.A. in history. Snoopy enjoyer. medieval & early modern. writer.
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Pinned
Anne Boleyn: The Birth Debate
1501? 1507? Neither?
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✨Reposting✨ so I can pin what I think is some of my best work to date.
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A rather worried looking ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 13th century, British Library, Sloane MS 278, f. 48v
December 7, 2025 at 5:33 AM
A rather worried looking ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 13th century, British Library, Sloane MS 278, f. 48v
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Textile Fragment, 19th century
Class: Textiles-Woven
Medium: Silk and metal wrapped thread; satin weave, brocaded (kincob)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/445878
Class: Textiles-Woven
Medium: Silk and metal wrapped thread; satin weave, brocaded (kincob)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/445878
December 7, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Textile Fragment, 19th century
Class: Textiles-Woven
Medium: Silk and metal wrapped thread; satin weave, brocaded (kincob)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/445878
Class: Textiles-Woven
Medium: Silk and metal wrapped thread; satin weave, brocaded (kincob)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/445878
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He watered his plants.
December 7, 2025 at 5:37 AM
He watered his plants.
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Tove Jansson's (1957) illustration from her book 'Moominland Midwinter'. Moomintroll, unlike his family who hibernate, decides to stay up through the harsh winter. It is a tale of endurance, acceptance and learning to live with the discomfort of uncertainty #WomensArt
December 7, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Tove Jansson's (1957) illustration from her book 'Moominland Midwinter'. Moomintroll, unlike his family who hibernate, decides to stay up through the harsh winter. It is a tale of endurance, acceptance and learning to live with the discomfort of uncertainty #WomensArt
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#OTD
7th December 1545
Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, gave birth to her second child, a boy named Henry
www.instagram.com/p/DR8mGZ6gEN...
#HenryStuart #LordDarnley #MargaretDouglas #MatthewStewart #EarlofLennox #MaryQueenofScots #Stewarts #Stuarts #Scotland #History
7th December 1545
Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, gave birth to her second child, a boy named Henry
www.instagram.com/p/DR8mGZ6gEN...
#HenryStuart #LordDarnley #MargaretDouglas #MatthewStewart #EarlofLennox #MaryQueenofScots #Stewarts #Stuarts #Scotland #History
December 7, 2025 at 6:04 AM
#OTD
7th December 1545
Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, gave birth to her second child, a boy named Henry
www.instagram.com/p/DR8mGZ6gEN...
#HenryStuart #LordDarnley #MargaretDouglas #MatthewStewart #EarlofLennox #MaryQueenofScots #Stewarts #Stuarts #Scotland #History
7th December 1545
Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, gave birth to her second child, a boy named Henry
www.instagram.com/p/DR8mGZ6gEN...
#HenryStuart #LordDarnley #MargaretDouglas #MatthewStewart #EarlofLennox #MaryQueenofScots #Stewarts #Stuarts #Scotland #History
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rejoicing throughout the land now that the cat grass has been refreshed and passed quality control
December 7, 2025 at 6:09 AM
rejoicing throughout the land now that the cat grass has been refreshed and passed quality control
Saint Nicholas was born traditionally on March 15th, 270 in Patara, Lycia et Pamphylia, Roman Empire (Modern Turkey). 1/5
December 7, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Saint Nicholas was born traditionally on March 15th, 270 in Patara, Lycia et Pamphylia, Roman Empire (Modern Turkey). 1/5
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#FindsFriday A mystery stone head on display at Castell Henllys Iron Age fort in Pembrokeshire, found locally in north Pembrokeshire
Not a typical 'Celtic' head but nonetheless possesses many features which could suggest an Iron Age date 🧐🤔
📷 My own, last week
Not a typical 'Celtic' head but nonetheless possesses many features which could suggest an Iron Age date 🧐🤔
📷 My own, last week
December 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
#FindsFriday A mystery stone head on display at Castell Henllys Iron Age fort in Pembrokeshire, found locally in north Pembrokeshire
Not a typical 'Celtic' head but nonetheless possesses many features which could suggest an Iron Age date 🧐🤔
📷 My own, last week
Not a typical 'Celtic' head but nonetheless possesses many features which could suggest an Iron Age date 🧐🤔
📷 My own, last week
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One of my most favourite glass vessels: A marvellous Roman vessel in the form of a pig, made of blue glass. It was used to hold ointment or perfume.
Found in a burial in Cologne. Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD
📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln
🏺 #archaeology
Found in a burial in Cologne. Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD
📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln
🏺 #archaeology
December 5, 2025 at 9:10 AM
One of my most favourite glass vessels: A marvellous Roman vessel in the form of a pig, made of blue glass. It was used to hold ointment or perfume.
Found in a burial in Cologne. Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD
📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln
🏺 #archaeology
Found in a burial in Cologne. Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD
📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln
🏺 #archaeology
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In honor of Saint Nicholas Eve, here's a 1911 postcard from Vienna (now at the Met: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...)
It has a Krampus on it and everything.
It has a Krampus on it and everything.
December 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
In honor of Saint Nicholas Eve, here's a 1911 postcard from Vienna (now at the Met: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...)
It has a Krampus on it and everything.
It has a Krampus on it and everything.
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no seriously we are a sewer utility, it's all combined when it gets to us.
December 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
no seriously we are a sewer utility, it's all combined when it gets to us.
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anyone have recommendations for ~nautical fiction~ (or poetry) that's set now-ish (let's say after ~1990, but especially 21st-century) by writers who have some personal experience with maritime work?
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
anyone have recommendations for ~nautical fiction~ (or poetry) that's set now-ish (let's say after ~1990, but especially 21st-century) by writers who have some personal experience with maritime work?
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once you made it to adulthood, you were more likely than not to survive to 60 or even 70 years old, unless you could and did bear children, and the more you did that the greater the risk it'd kill you
note that "more likely than not" doesn't mean "the likelihood is high", it just means the chances
note that "more likely than not" doesn't mean "the likelihood is high", it just means the chances
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
once you made it to adulthood, you were more likely than not to survive to 60 or even 70 years old, unless you could and did bear children, and the more you did that the greater the risk it'd kill you
note that "more likely than not" doesn't mean "the likelihood is high", it just means the chances
note that "more likely than not" doesn't mean "the likelihood is high", it just means the chances
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increase in life expectancy means!
it's so dramatic because the overwhelming majority of children survive childhood now! and people are far less likely to die giving birth!
back in the days before modern medicine and baby formula, the average child had a fifty-fifty chance of reaching adulthood
it's so dramatic because the overwhelming majority of children survive childhood now! and people are far less likely to die giving birth!
back in the days before modern medicine and baby formula, the average child had a fifty-fifty chance of reaching adulthood
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
increase in life expectancy means!
it's so dramatic because the overwhelming majority of children survive childhood now! and people are far less likely to die giving birth!
back in the days before modern medicine and baby formula, the average child had a fifty-fifty chance of reaching adulthood
it's so dramatic because the overwhelming majority of children survive childhood now! and people are far less likely to die giving birth!
back in the days before modern medicine and baby formula, the average child had a fifty-fifty chance of reaching adulthood
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whenever I hear people say things like "the average person in history didn't make it to 20 years old" or, even worse, assume that because life expectancy at birth was 25 meant that people dropped dead when they turned 26 or that 40 was ancient, it makes me want to scream
that's *not* what the huge…
that's *not* what the huge…
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
whenever I hear people say things like "the average person in history didn't make it to 20 years old" or, even worse, assume that because life expectancy at birth was 25 meant that people dropped dead when they turned 26 or that 40 was ancient, it makes me want to scream
that's *not* what the huge…
that's *not* what the huge…
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dealt with by either boiling it or mixing it with alcohol; the reason most accounts of beverages are beer, wine, vinegar, tisanes, tea, etc., are because those were the ones people decided were worth recording, but, as Max Miller covered in a video, people did drink plenty of plain water
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
dealt with by either boiling it or mixing it with alcohol; the reason most accounts of beverages are beer, wine, vinegar, tisanes, tea, etc., are because those were the ones people decided were worth recording, but, as Max Miller covered in a video, people did drink plenty of plain water
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of things like cholera and dysentery were way *way* higher in certain parts of the world because of extremely poor understanding of sanitation
or, for example, the practice of drinking wine out of lead cups
and, no, the drinking water was not typically riddled with impurities that could only be…
or, for example, the practice of drinking wine out of lead cups
and, no, the drinking water was not typically riddled with impurities that could only be…
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
of things like cholera and dysentery were way *way* higher in certain parts of the world because of extremely poor understanding of sanitation
or, for example, the practice of drinking wine out of lead cups
and, no, the drinking water was not typically riddled with impurities that could only be…
or, for example, the practice of drinking wine out of lead cups
and, no, the drinking water was not typically riddled with impurities that could only be…
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Makes me nuts. Also, instant tell you are bad at things like percents and averages and you probably shouldn't be making any big financial decisions like a variable rate mortgage.
whenever I hear people say things like "the average person in history didn't make it to 20 years old" or, even worse, assume that because life expectancy at birth was 25 meant that people dropped dead when they turned 26 or that 40 was ancient, it makes me want to scream
that's *not* what the huge…
that's *not* what the huge…
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Makes me nuts. Also, instant tell you are bad at things like percents and averages and you probably shouldn't be making any big financial decisions like a variable rate mortgage.
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Next week is the last week of classes here. As I say every semester, I try and end many of my history seminars with a quote from James Baldwin that answers the question of: why take humanities courses? (Time Magazine, May 24, 1963).
December 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Next week is the last week of classes here. As I say every semester, I try and end many of my history seminars with a quote from James Baldwin that answers the question of: why take humanities courses? (Time Magazine, May 24, 1963).
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crouching Mia hidden Finn
December 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
crouching Mia hidden Finn
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Wild times at the inn. How much do you have to drink to manage that trick on the 3-legged stool? From Joachim Beuckelaer, whose day has been today.
December 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Wild times at the inn. How much do you have to drink to manage that trick on the 3-legged stool? From Joachim Beuckelaer, whose day has been today.