Andrea Zuvich

I am honoured to share my article for @artukdotorg , 'The Monmouth Rebellion explained: a tragic episode in Stuart Britain', is now up! The Duke of Monmouth is quite dear to me (as some of you know!) as he was the subject of my first historical fiction novella, His Last Mistress,…

Dirk (Theodorus) Helmbreker, Studies of a Man Smoking and a Man Drinking about 1650–1660 (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)

This print is part of a 52-card deck depicting women as countries around the world. The series was made on behalf of Cardinal Mazarin. The illustrations are by Stefano Della Bella. The card game was created for the young Louis XIV. Here’s New France. (Musée du Louvre)

Friday 25 July 1662 At the office all the morning, reading Mr. Holland’s discourse of the Navy, lent me by Mr. Turner … This morning Sir W. Batten came in to the office and desired to speak with me; he began by telling me that he observed a strangeness between him and me of…

24 juillet 1701 Antoine de Lamothe-Cadillac fonde le fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, en l'honneur du comte de Pontchartrain, ministre de la Marine de Louis XIV. Il fonde également la paroisse Sainte-Anne sur la rive du nord de la rivière Détroit. La ville de Détroit était née.

Mary Wilson's Sampler , 1695, American (Indianapolis Museum of Art)

This 17th-century embroidered picture depicts female personifications of the seasons. The four figures in the corners are made three dimensional with raised work embroidery. The women stand in a landscape full of flowers, insects, and animals

📅#OTD 1643. With Prince Rupert besieging Bristol, King Charles urges him to 'hasten your business as much as may bee & remember to restraine plundering'.

Look at these women gondoliers go - so fast that their hair streams out behind them. Detail from Giacomo Franco, Habiti d’huomeni et donne venetiane, 1610. Folger Shakespeare Library. folger.edu/blogs/shakespe…

It's definitely my kind of music!

'Scholars interested in monasticism, precursors of the Enlightenment, and early modern British and Irish history should not miss the essays included in this collection'. Review in @16cjournal of the first volume in the series #history #twitterstorians #nuntastic

A king was executed, the monarchy abolished, and proportionally more lives lost than in any other conflict on British soil, yet the English Civil War is barely taught in schools. @educationgovuk why are we ignoring one of the most pivotal chapters in our history?

Jings & crivens! Yet more bonus Wednesday #ECWtravelogue content for the Staffordshire entry #BritishCivilWars #Wars3Kingdoms #EnglishCivilWar keepyourpowderdry.co.uk/2019/10/houses…

Bonus Wednesday #ECWtravelogue content for the Shropshire entry #BritishCivilWars #Wars3Kingdoms #EnglishCivilWar keepyourpowderdry.co.uk/2019/10/houses…

Well this has seriously made my day!

#HistoryBits📜 #Stuart blood runs through many veins from the #17thCentury & beyond. Lady Barbara Mostyn (Mrs Edward Mostyn) (1729-1801) was the great-granddaughter of #Charles II & #BarbaraDuchessofCleveland. I can see a little similarity to Babs eyes, but no resemblance to Chas

The summer holidays are here and we have a weekly programme of FREE family activities every Wednesday in August, with a different theme and activity every week! Find out more at: cromwellmuseum.org/events/filter?…

Did you know that we can offer high-quality scans of our and your own documents? Our Cambridgeshire Archives’ FSB Scanning Bureau specialises in the digitisation of historical documents, artefacts and photographs, 35mm slides, glass plate negatives and volumes.

Our 1628 edition of the works of Livy belonged to playwright Ben Jonson (1572-1637), who wrote his motto Tanquam exploratur ('like an explorer') in the top right corner #TitlePageTuesday #Readers

My favourite portrait at ⁦@AlthorpHouse⁩ - Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Capturing something of Sarah’s beauty and energy in this extremely modern composition - that’s more than 300 years old.

Wednesday 23 July 1662 This morning angry a little in the morning, and my house being so much out of order makes me a little pettish. I went to the office, and there dispatched business by myself, and so again in the afternoon; being a little vexed that my brother Tom, by his…