Dr Katharine Edgar
@katharineedgar.bsky.social
Historical fiction writer, recreational Tudor and mistress of many obsolete crafts.
History, textiles, costume, more history
History, textiles, costume, more history
The full length video of our amazing extreme #reenactment experience organised by the incredible @bkhistorical.bsky.social.
I was so lucky to be part of this.
#medieval #15thc #livinghistory #history #historysky #wealdanddownland #museum
youtu.be/rP9vG6W5EPA
I was so lucky to be part of this.
#medieval #15thc #livinghistory #history #historysky #wealdanddownland #museum
youtu.be/rP9vG6W5EPA
How we lived 9 days and nights as a 15th Century English Household | Weald & Downland Living Museum
YouTube video by HistoryClipz
youtu.be
May 20, 2025 at 7:51 AM
The full length video of our amazing extreme #reenactment experience organised by the incredible @bkhistorical.bsky.social.
I was so lucky to be part of this.
#medieval #15thc #livinghistory #history #historysky #wealdanddownland #museum
youtu.be/rP9vG6W5EPA
I was so lucky to be part of this.
#medieval #15thc #livinghistory #history #historysky #wealdanddownland #museum
youtu.be/rP9vG6W5EPA
Reposted by Dr Katharine Edgar
Love the magical way the light falls in our Red Dining Room.
#windowsonwednesday #diamondpanes #photography #shadows
#windowsonwednesday #diamondpanes #photography #shadows
May 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Love the magical way the light falls in our Red Dining Room.
#windowsonwednesday #diamondpanes #photography #shadows
#windowsonwednesday #diamondpanes #photography #shadows
Ugh.
Go to @jorvikviking.bsky.social instead, they have real people who know loads. Or one of the re-enactments - @kentwellhall.bsky.social had Vikings last weekend - where you will get a much richer multisensory experience and there will be people doing real things.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Go to @jorvikviking.bsky.social instead, they have real people who know loads. Or one of the re-enactments - @kentwellhall.bsky.social had Vikings last weekend - where you will get a much richer multisensory experience and there will be people doing real things.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
AI Viking character unveiled in Orkney museum - BBC News
It is part of a permanent exhibition to celebrate the role of the Vikings in the area's history.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Ugh.
Go to @jorvikviking.bsky.social instead, they have real people who know loads. Or one of the re-enactments - @kentwellhall.bsky.social had Vikings last weekend - where you will get a much richer multisensory experience and there will be people doing real things.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Go to @jorvikviking.bsky.social instead, they have real people who know loads. Or one of the re-enactments - @kentwellhall.bsky.social had Vikings last weekend - where you will get a much richer multisensory experience and there will be people doing real things.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Dr Katharine Edgar
So nice to hear we have had an impact.
‘The 37-year-old first got a taste for the trade aged nine, when he met a thatcher at a Tudor re-enactment at Kentwell Hall in Long Melford - a thatcher who is his colleague today.’
#thatching #historicbuildings #heritagecrafts
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
‘The 37-year-old first got a taste for the trade aged nine, when he met a thatcher at a Tudor re-enactment at Kentwell Hall in Long Melford - a thatcher who is his colleague today.’
#thatching #historicbuildings #heritagecrafts
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Safeguard thatching or Suffolk areas risk losing character'
It is estimated there are about 25,000 buildings with thatched roofs that are listed.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
So nice to hear we have had an impact.
‘The 37-year-old first got a taste for the trade aged nine, when he met a thatcher at a Tudor re-enactment at Kentwell Hall in Long Melford - a thatcher who is his colleague today.’
#thatching #historicbuildings #heritagecrafts
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
‘The 37-year-old first got a taste for the trade aged nine, when he met a thatcher at a Tudor re-enactment at Kentwell Hall in Long Melford - a thatcher who is his colleague today.’
#thatching #historicbuildings #heritagecrafts
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Dr Katharine Edgar
jeez read the room charlie brooker we don’t need another season of black mirror right now
can’t you try doing like a ‘rose tinted mirror’
can’t you try doing like a ‘rose tinted mirror’
April 9, 2025 at 4:43 AM
jeez read the room charlie brooker we don’t need another season of black mirror right now
can’t you try doing like a ‘rose tinted mirror’
can’t you try doing like a ‘rose tinted mirror’
Reposted by Dr Katharine Edgar
Really looking forward to this #conference in July @antiquaries.bsky.social
Greensleeves: Text and #Textiles in #EarlyModern English Culture
www.sal.org.uk/event/greens...
#earlymodernsky #materialculture #earlymusic #greensleevesproject #historicaldress #tudor #tudorsky
@ninyamikhaila.bsky.social
Greensleeves: Text and #Textiles in #EarlyModern English Culture
www.sal.org.uk/event/greens...
#earlymodernsky #materialculture #earlymusic #greensleevesproject #historicaldress #tudor #tudorsky
@ninyamikhaila.bsky.social
Greensleeves: Text and Textiles in Early Modern English Culture - Society of Antiquaries of London
This interdisciplinary conference takes the iconic sixteenth century ballad Greensleeves as a focal point through which to explore the interconnections of texts, textiles and material culture in early...
www.sal.org.uk
April 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Really looking forward to this #conference in July @antiquaries.bsky.social
Greensleeves: Text and #Textiles in #EarlyModern English Culture
www.sal.org.uk/event/greens...
#earlymodernsky #materialculture #earlymusic #greensleevesproject #historicaldress #tudor #tudorsky
@ninyamikhaila.bsky.social
Greensleeves: Text and #Textiles in #EarlyModern English Culture
www.sal.org.uk/event/greens...
#earlymodernsky #materialculture #earlymusic #greensleevesproject #historicaldress #tudor #tudorsky
@ninyamikhaila.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr Katharine Edgar
A Special Guest Post by Katharine Edgar: Kentwell Hall, Where Time Travel Dreams Come True: tonyriches.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-sp... @katharineedgar.bsky.social @kentwellhall.bsky.social #Tudors #Travel
A Special Guest Post by Katharine Edgar: Kentwell Hall, Where Time Travel Dreams Come True.
All photo credits Kentwell Hall and Mike Hill. Deep in a woodland in Suffolk, a sixteenth century glass kiln blazes. Around the kiln long-sk...
tonyriches.blogspot.com
April 5, 2025 at 6:08 AM
A Special Guest Post by Katharine Edgar: Kentwell Hall, Where Time Travel Dreams Come True: tonyriches.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-sp... @katharineedgar.bsky.social @kentwellhall.bsky.social #Tudors #Travel
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Lenten Stuff - a seasonal #Tudor #ballad by William Elderton.
From MS Ashmole 48.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVg7...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernsky #lent #fasting #nettles #leeks #fish #jackalent #herrings #tudors #16thCentury #popularsong #satire #foodhistory #historyoffood
From MS Ashmole 48.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVg7...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernsky #lent #fasting #nettles #leeks #fish #jackalent #herrings #tudors #16thCentury #popularsong #satire #foodhistory #historyoffood
William Elderton: Lenten Stuff - a Tudor ballad for Lent to the tune of the Cramp
YouTube video by Passamezzo
www.youtube.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Lenten Stuff - a seasonal #Tudor #ballad by William Elderton.
From MS Ashmole 48.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVg7...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernsky #lent #fasting #nettles #leeks #fish #jackalent #herrings #tudors #16thCentury #popularsong #satire #foodhistory #historyoffood
From MS Ashmole 48.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVg7...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernsky #lent #fasting #nettles #leeks #fish #jackalent #herrings #tudors #16thCentury #popularsong #satire #foodhistory #historyoffood
I have never wished I still taught Collections Management before, but….
April 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I have never wished I still taught Collections Management before, but….
I’ve always loved the headlines in my local paper but this one from a few years ago even beat ‘man drove tractor at love rival.’
www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/1519931...
www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/1519931...
North Yorkshire villagers dismembered corpses to prevent zombies
MEDIEVAL villagers in Ryedale mutilated and burnt bodies to stop them rising from the dead, according to new research.
www.gazetteherald.co.uk
April 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I’ve always loved the headlines in my local paper but this one from a few years ago even beat ‘man drove tractor at love rival.’
www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/1519931...
www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/1519931...
I just got in from a run and my 15 year old son said to me,
‘You know, if I saw you running I’d think how amazing it is that an old person can run.’
🤨
‘You know, if I saw you running I’d think how amazing it is that an old person can run.’
🤨
March 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I just got in from a run and my 15 year old son said to me,
‘You know, if I saw you running I’d think how amazing it is that an old person can run.’
🤨
‘You know, if I saw you running I’d think how amazing it is that an old person can run.’
🤨
Ok I think I have nailed it and I think it’s going to do the job I want (brief thread follows)
I’m going to try to learn Elizabethan double twisted chain stitch now, please pray for me.
#blackwork #embroidery #historicembroidery #costume #needlework #crafts
#blackwork #embroidery #historicembroidery #costume #needlework #crafts
March 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Ok I think I have nailed it and I think it’s going to do the job I want (brief thread follows)
I’m going to try to learn Elizabethan double twisted chain stitch now, please pray for me.
#blackwork #embroidery #historicembroidery #costume #needlework #crafts
#blackwork #embroidery #historicembroidery #costume #needlework #crafts
March 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I’m going to try to learn Elizabethan double twisted chain stitch now, please pray for me.
#blackwork #embroidery #historicembroidery #costume #needlework #crafts
#blackwork #embroidery #historicembroidery #costume #needlework #crafts
Reposted by Dr Katharine Edgar
#flowersonfriday
Come and see our daffodils, we’ve got lots.
Also nice cake.
#suffolk #daysout #teashop #gardens #mothersday #motheringsunday #flowers #daffodils #springbulbs #eastanglia
Come and see our daffodils, we’ve got lots.
Also nice cake.
#suffolk #daysout #teashop #gardens #mothersday #motheringsunday #flowers #daffodils #springbulbs #eastanglia
March 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
#flowersonfriday
Come and see our daffodils, we’ve got lots.
Also nice cake.
#suffolk #daysout #teashop #gardens #mothersday #motheringsunday #flowers #daffodils #springbulbs #eastanglia
Come and see our daffodils, we’ve got lots.
Also nice cake.
#suffolk #daysout #teashop #gardens #mothersday #motheringsunday #flowers #daffodils #springbulbs #eastanglia
Reposted by Dr Katharine Edgar
#marchmeetthemaker Day 10: Where?
1) You will find a selection of notebooks on Etsy (link in bio)
2) and also at local #Suffolk (UK) #craft fayres, these are my next two.
3) or you can see me binding as a Tudor at @kentwellhall.bsky.social .
#bookbinding #booksky #journal #makingmonday
1) You will find a selection of notebooks on Etsy (link in bio)
2) and also at local #Suffolk (UK) #craft fayres, these are my next two.
3) or you can see me binding as a Tudor at @kentwellhall.bsky.social .
#bookbinding #booksky #journal #makingmonday
March 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
#marchmeetthemaker Day 10: Where?
1) You will find a selection of notebooks on Etsy (link in bio)
2) and also at local #Suffolk (UK) #craft fayres, these are my next two.
3) or you can see me binding as a Tudor at @kentwellhall.bsky.social .
#bookbinding #booksky #journal #makingmonday
1) You will find a selection of notebooks on Etsy (link in bio)
2) and also at local #Suffolk (UK) #craft fayres, these are my next two.
3) or you can see me binding as a Tudor at @kentwellhall.bsky.social .
#bookbinding #booksky #journal #makingmonday
Reposted by Dr Katharine Edgar
Practice makes perfect!
In preparation for #Kentwell1536 one of our #Tudors has been working on his ‘English secretarie’ hand from Augustino de Siena’s 1560 book.
Goal is to be as neat as Cranmer (or Cranmer’s clerk.)
#medievalmonday #mondaymotivation #earlymodern #16thc #penmanship #palaeography
In preparation for #Kentwell1536 one of our #Tudors has been working on his ‘English secretarie’ hand from Augustino de Siena’s 1560 book.
Goal is to be as neat as Cranmer (or Cranmer’s clerk.)
#medievalmonday #mondaymotivation #earlymodern #16thc #penmanship #palaeography
March 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Practice makes perfect!
In preparation for #Kentwell1536 one of our #Tudors has been working on his ‘English secretarie’ hand from Augustino de Siena’s 1560 book.
Goal is to be as neat as Cranmer (or Cranmer’s clerk.)
#medievalmonday #mondaymotivation #earlymodern #16thc #penmanship #palaeography
In preparation for #Kentwell1536 one of our #Tudors has been working on his ‘English secretarie’ hand from Augustino de Siena’s 1560 book.
Goal is to be as neat as Cranmer (or Cranmer’s clerk.)
#medievalmonday #mondaymotivation #earlymodern #16thc #penmanship #palaeography
Counted blackwork from Johann Schönsperger the Younger, Ein new getruckt model Büchli, 1529.
For @kentwellhall.bsky.social 1536 re-creation this year.
Deveres 36 silk on 46 count linen.
I love bringing old patterns to life!
#embroidery #blackwork #needlework #crafts #history #crafts #counted
For @kentwellhall.bsky.social 1536 re-creation this year.
Deveres 36 silk on 46 count linen.
I love bringing old patterns to life!
#embroidery #blackwork #needlework #crafts #history #crafts #counted
March 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Counted blackwork from Johann Schönsperger the Younger, Ein new getruckt model Büchli, 1529.
For @kentwellhall.bsky.social 1536 re-creation this year.
Deveres 36 silk on 46 count linen.
I love bringing old patterns to life!
#embroidery #blackwork #needlework #crafts #history #crafts #counted
For @kentwellhall.bsky.social 1536 re-creation this year.
Deveres 36 silk on 46 count linen.
I love bringing old patterns to life!
#embroidery #blackwork #needlework #crafts #history #crafts #counted
Me: This video I am in has gone viral! 40k views!
Teenage son 1: Mum, no-one says gone viral any more. You say ‘it broke out.’
Teenage son 2: That’s nothing, I got 700k for a video of me playing a computer game.
🤷♀️
Teenage son 1: Mum, no-one says gone viral any more. You say ‘it broke out.’
Teenage son 2: That’s nothing, I got 700k for a video of me playing a computer game.
🤷♀️
The video made of us in action at The Weald and Downland Living Museum (end Jan) for our Candlemas 1461 experience is going viral on YouTube.
youtu.be/GGMSTGuOotg?...
Hope you enjoy!
Please do leave comments.
youtu.be/GGMSTGuOotg?...
Hope you enjoy!
Please do leave comments.
March 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Me: This video I am in has gone viral! 40k views!
Teenage son 1: Mum, no-one says gone viral any more. You say ‘it broke out.’
Teenage son 2: That’s nothing, I got 700k for a video of me playing a computer game.
🤷♀️
Teenage son 1: Mum, no-one says gone viral any more. You say ‘it broke out.’
Teenage son 2: That’s nothing, I got 700k for a video of me playing a computer game.
🤷♀️
Reposted by Dr Katharine Edgar
Little 77 living his best life in the spring sunshine.
Open this weekend!
www.kentwell.co.uk
#lambs #daffodils #flowersonfriday #spring #suffolk #farm #gardens #sheep
Open this weekend!
www.kentwell.co.uk
#lambs #daffodils #flowersonfriday #spring #suffolk #farm #gardens #sheep
March 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Little 77 living his best life in the spring sunshine.
Open this weekend!
www.kentwell.co.uk
#lambs #daffodils #flowersonfriday #spring #suffolk #farm #gardens #sheep
Open this weekend!
www.kentwell.co.uk
#lambs #daffodils #flowersonfriday #spring #suffolk #farm #gardens #sheep
Lots of comments on this now & I don’t know what’s worse, the ones who misunderstand biphasic sleep & think we did it wrong because we didn’t get up in the middle of the pitch black freezing night to do a few hours work, or the ones who are convinced we are eating potatoes. They are TURNIPS!!!
Long but lovely video of @bkhistorical.bsky.social 1461 total immersion event at the Weald and Downland Museum.
#medieval #medievalsky #15thc #livinghistory #historysky #history #reenactment
m.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMS...
#medieval #medievalsky #15thc #livinghistory #historysky #history #reenactment
m.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMS...
Living for a Week in 1461 | Living History
YouTube video by Weald & Downland Living Museum
m.youtube.com
March 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Lots of comments on this now & I don’t know what’s worse, the ones who misunderstand biphasic sleep & think we did it wrong because we didn’t get up in the middle of the pitch black freezing night to do a few hours work, or the ones who are convinced we are eating potatoes. They are TURNIPS!!!
Reposted by Dr Katharine Edgar
This Sunday Eleanor and I are doing a William McGonagall memorial walk for the 200th anniversary of his birth.
All ticket money will go to LGBT Youth
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/william-mc...
All ticket money will go to LGBT Youth
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/william-mc...
William McGonagall Memorial Walk
Join us to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Scotland’s worst poet, the legendary William McGonagall. With live readings.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 15, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This Sunday Eleanor and I are doing a William McGonagall memorial walk for the 200th anniversary of his birth.
All ticket money will go to LGBT Youth
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/william-mc...
All ticket money will go to LGBT Youth
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/william-mc...
Reposted by Dr Katharine Edgar
Long but lovely video of @bkhistorical.bsky.social 1461 total immersion event at the Weald and Downland Museum.
#medieval #medievalsky #15thc #livinghistory #historysky #history #reenactment
m.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMS...
#medieval #medievalsky #15thc #livinghistory #historysky #history #reenactment
m.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMS...
Living for a Week in 1461 | Living History
YouTube video by Weald & Downland Living Museum
m.youtube.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Long but lovely video of @bkhistorical.bsky.social 1461 total immersion event at the Weald and Downland Museum.
#medieval #medievalsky #15thc #livinghistory #historysky #history #reenactment
m.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMS...
#medieval #medievalsky #15thc #livinghistory #historysky #history #reenactment
m.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMS...
Reposted by Dr Katharine Edgar
This lamb may be our cutest yet and the #daffodils are out!
Open this weekend www.kentwell.co.uk
#lambs #daysout #suffolk #eastanglia #heritage #gardens #farm #rarebreed
Open this weekend www.kentwell.co.uk
#lambs #daysout #suffolk #eastanglia #heritage #gardens #farm #rarebreed
March 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
This lamb may be our cutest yet and the #daffodils are out!
Open this weekend www.kentwell.co.uk
#lambs #daysout #suffolk #eastanglia #heritage #gardens #farm #rarebreed
Open this weekend www.kentwell.co.uk
#lambs #daysout #suffolk #eastanglia #heritage #gardens #farm #rarebreed
Long but lovely video of @bkhistorical.bsky.social 1461 total immersion event at the Weald and Downland Museum.
#medieval #medievalsky #15thc #livinghistory #historysky #history #reenactment
m.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMS...
#medieval #medievalsky #15thc #livinghistory #historysky #history #reenactment
m.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMS...
Living for a Week in 1461 | Living History
YouTube video by Weald & Downland Living Museum
m.youtube.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Long but lovely video of @bkhistorical.bsky.social 1461 total immersion event at the Weald and Downland Museum.
#medieval #medievalsky #15thc #livinghistory #historysky #history #reenactment
m.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMS...
#medieval #medievalsky #15thc #livinghistory #historysky #history #reenactment
m.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMS...
Reposted by Dr Katharine Edgar
