lrylandepton.bsky.social
Historian & contributing editor for VCH @wiltshistory.bsky.social & @vchgloucester.bsky.social. Fellow @ihr.bsky.social. Ed. at @hobnobpress.bsky.social & Crime, Histories & Societies. VF @openuniversity.bsky.social https://www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/
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@lrylandepton.bsky.socialThe 1600s pioneer who challenged earth's origins by Sophie Parker www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Books by John Aubrey at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #literature #history
Show PostIn this self-portrait by Pieter Van Laer (known as Il Bamboccio), ca. 1635–37, the artist portrays himself performing a magic ritual and, to his own horror, having summoned up some kind of demon. The sheet music has his signature and the words “il diavolo non burla” (“the devil doesn’t jest”)
Show PostBeen to Ashmolean Oxford a few times but never the roof top cafe before. Gorgeous day
Show PostPicks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been Lives in a dream Waits at the window Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door Who is it for? [Eleanor's ancestor, Elena Rigby, widow, appears in London record 1520, Letter Book N fol. 173r]
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