History Harbor
@history_harbor
Tudors & Stuarts, London merchant families, New Amsterdam, pirates & privateers AND Old Hollywood! Focusing on costume and set design. 🇺🇸🇬🇧🏴☠️
I'm launching my (mostly, at least at the moment) Stuart-era Substack tomorrow, most of the action takes place in England and colonial America, most certainly including New Amsterdam.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them
Looking forward to this! 😍
To coincide with the release of his new book 'Witches: A King's Obsession', historian Steven Veerapen @stevenveerapen is coming to Provan Hall for a talk and book signing on 13 September. Tickets are now on sale eventbrite.com/e/steven-veera…
Hey wait a minute isn't that supposed to be impossible?
If anyone knows anything about this, please do get in touch with @DrOwenEmmerson 👇
A heartfelt appeal to any fellow @ChalkeFestival attendees on Sun 29th June: I lost a large plain silver ring (Birmingham 2000, size Z). It’s dented and worn, not worth much, but means a great deal to me. Please do contact me if found. Thanks so much! #ChalkeHistoryFestival
Beautiful 💙
A beautiful day here in sunny Glastonbury today. Photo taken this morning in a field at the base of the Tor. Weather is looking fabulous for the festival next week 🤞😎
Hear ye! As part of the @StuartHistFest, I would like to announce that over at the fabulous @scripthavenltd (located just a 2-minute walk from our Old Palace venue), 🎶 Stuart Songbirds 🎶 (my mother-daughter singing duo, in full Stuart attire), will be providing some free…
🎨 Holbein captured #AnneBoleyn with chalk and shaped Tudor history with pigment. ✨ My new online course HOLBEIN is now open! 🖼 6 parts | 11–17 Aug | 2-month access | Live Q&A 🔗 Sign up via the link in my bio to explore the art that defined an era. #Holbein #TudorArt
"Tomorrow's Sky Today" Midway Geyser Basin at sunrise, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming USA
🐴Rupert's Released Today⚓️ With fresh insights, new evidence, and incorporating up to date studies, Rupert has sallied forth into bookshops! And cover endorsed by the brilliant @misswalsingham "fresh and balanced ... gives us new readings of much of his life" Professor Nadine…
Saturday 14 June 1662 Up by four o’clock in the morning and upon business at my office. Then we sat down to business, and about 11 o’clock, having a room got ready for us, we all went out to the Tower-hill; and there, over against the scaffold, made on purpose this day, saw Sir…
The Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of #Russia was born #OTD in 1899 (old style dating); she was the third daughter of Nicholas & Alexandra and is frequently considered - if one cares to rank such a thing - as being the most beautiful. Maria, like her siblings, was slaughtered by…
Duccio, Martini & the Lorenzettis gave us a new visual language of feeling. These works remind us that emotion is both universal & utterly shaped by its time. The past wasn't static but radiant, collaborative, sensorial. See it before it closes 22 June. nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/si…
I’m so excited to bring you a new 2-day online event exploring the life of Elizabeth Woodville! Enjoy talks by Susan Higginbotham, @sarahgristwood, @LaceyBonarHull, @PrincessBurton, Dr Kavita Mudan Finn & @DrOwenEmmerson. Learn more & reserve your place! eventbrite.com.au/e/a-weekend-wi…
I'm going for a 1690s look today. See you in less than an hour for #StuartSaturdayLive! #KeepItStuart
Turner made this pencil and watercolour sketch of the 1517 Christ Church Gate in Canterbury in 1792. The empty niche is where a statue of Christ stood, until the iconoclasts under Edwin Sandys used it for target practice and then hauled the remains down in 1642-3🧵#StuartSaturday
Hear ye! 'Tis time for #StuartSaturday! Today, please share some... 👑 STUART GLAMOUR 💋 Here, the always-glamorous Barbara Villiers is in the portrait of her that has obsessed me for years, by John Michael Wright, c.1670. NPG. I love it so much, I knew it had to be the cover…
Perhaps the most handsome beast in the Park at @AlthorpHouse at the moment. Just magnificent….
Large chital buck standing his ground this evening @AlthorpHouse I think it will be prudent for me to walk around him, he's certainly not moving! [email protected] #Axisdeer #Spencerestates
Halley's comet in 1066–from the Bayeux Tapestry. Normandy, France. #History