Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜
@SueCooperBridge
A passion for history. Often in the 17th century, sometimes in the 18th, rarely in the 21st. Writing for pleasure. 📚
A #Scandalous #17thCentury #Crime of #Bigamy! A true story: Two Countesses of Banbury! One married in an alehouse🍻in Covent Garden, the other at a church💒in Verona. Which bride would you judge to be the rightful spouse? 👰👰 amazon.co.uk/Elizabeth-Pric…
26-year-old Ozzy Osbourne in 1974. He passed away today at the age of 76 after helping raise $190 million for charity. It was the highest grossing charity concert ever, and I love that it was a metal show that did it.
And it’s off! A Puffling experiencing the power of flight for the first time as it fledges off the Isle of May
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
Exciting news from the Georgian Group about Vanbrugh300 next year! georgiangroup.org.uk/2025/07/21/van…
Hawksmoor would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those pesky Neo-Palladians! Link below.👇
It’s World Sjögren’s Day, a focus for raising awareness about this rare autoimmune disease that happens when your immune system damages the glands that produce and control moisture in your body. World Sjögren’s Day is also a time for celebrating the achievements of those who are…
Learn about Barbara Villiers, one of history's 'most sexually attractive women' at my upcoming talk at The Commandery in Worcester on Thursday, 31st July 2025. Tickets are £7, £5 for BoWS members and £3 for students. For more information: worcesternews.co.uk/news/25318305.… Hope to see you…
📅#OTD 1645, royalist Bridgwater surrenders to Sir Thomas Fairfax, who takes 1000 prisoners & 36 pieces of ordnance. Months later, Parliament reward each soldier who stormed the town with ten shillings, shoes & stockings.
#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
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.
18th century globes - one terrestrial; the other celestial - in the Picture Gallery at @AlthorpHouse
The late brood of blackbird chicks have grown like weeds. They will fledge next week, all being well. 🤞 [email protected]
Naturalist and author DJ Watkins-Pitchford (1905-1990) aka 'BB' wrote many books and thousands of illustrated articles that inspired me to work with nature and to draw and paint wildlife. Born a few villages from Althorp 'BB' taught art at Rugby school. [email protected]
It appears the season might be way ahead of itself this year, probably due to the prolonged warm spell. Conkers already fairly advanced and the acorns are now forming nicely.🥰
I will not rest until I have this dragon fascinator on my head. Anna Maria von Liechtenstein by J de Monte c 1600
See this Instagram photo by @moonlightcocoa instagram.com/p/DLh687TvXfP/…
Frances Cromwell, daughter of a certain #OliverCromwell If some people had got their way, she'd also have become wife to #CharlesII in the mid-1650s. Picture it. Ollie & Charlie working together as father-in-law & son-in-law in London. Would it have worked? #history #whatif