Eleanor
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History lover and avid book reader! 📜⚔️
Took a wonderful walk around #DuncombePark today and was met with the beautiful sight of #HelmsleyCastle at the end! 🏰
May 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Took a wonderful walk around #DuncombePark today and was met with the beautiful sight of #HelmsleyCastle at the end! 🏰
A few photos from a lovely evening walk around #BoltonCastle in #Wensleydale a couple of weeks ago! 🌅🏰
May 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A few photos from a lovely evening walk around #BoltonCastle in #Wensleydale a couple of weeks ago! 🌅🏰
Received a much sunnier welcome at #MiddlehamCastle in #Wensleydale on Saturday than a couple of days prior! Absolutely glorious! ☀️🏰
April 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Received a much sunnier welcome at #MiddlehamCastle in #Wensleydale on Saturday than a couple of days prior! Absolutely glorious! ☀️🏰
Spent the most glorious hours at #BoltonCastle and #AysgarthFalls today! (And devoured a delicious piece of rocky road from the Bolton Castle cafe!) 🌸☀️
April 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Spent the most glorious hours at #BoltonCastle and #AysgarthFalls today! (And devoured a delicious piece of rocky road from the Bolton Castle cafe!) 🌸☀️
Photos from the beautiful #MiddlehamCastle in #Wensleydale on this very cloudy day! 🏰⚔️ (I then promptly raided the gift shop as usual! Resistance is futile!)
April 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Photos from the beautiful #MiddlehamCastle in #Wensleydale on this very cloudy day! 🏰⚔️ (I then promptly raided the gift shop as usual! Resistance is futile!)
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[They stab Caesar.]
March 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
[They stab Caesar.]
More photos from the wonderful #MedievalWomen exhibition at the #BritishLibrary !! Such a powerful and moving experience! There were many teary-eyed moments! 🥹
February 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
More photos from the wonderful #MedievalWomen exhibition at the #BritishLibrary !! Such a powerful and moving experience! There were many teary-eyed moments! 🥹
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Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.
February 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.
Wow! Just wow! What an amazing and beautiful experience! #MedievalWomen
February 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Wow! Just wow! What an amazing and beautiful experience! #MedievalWomen
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Today I am looking at precious stones & their properties: in one of my Scottish manuscripts, but also drawing in one of my favourite illuminations in Latini's Le livre du Trésor. Each stone is paired with a personification of virtue & set in a Rouen street scene [Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 160]
February 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Today I am looking at precious stones & their properties: in one of my Scottish manuscripts, but also drawing in one of my favourite illuminations in Latini's Le livre du Trésor. Each stone is paired with a personification of virtue & set in a Rouen street scene [Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 160]
Finally off to London tomorrow to see the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Medieval Women exhibition!! I can’t wait!! ⚔️📜
February 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Finally off to London tomorrow to see the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Medieval Women exhibition!! I can’t wait!! ⚔️📜
Finally managed to book tickets to the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Medieval Women exhibition! I can’t wait! ⚔️📜
January 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Finally managed to book tickets to the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Medieval Women exhibition! I can’t wait! ⚔️📜
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#OTD, 29 January 1536, Katherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII, was buried in Peterborough Abbey (now Cathedral). Katherine died at Kimbolton Castle, her final residence following banishment from court in 1531.
January 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
#OTD, 29 January 1536, Katherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII, was buried in Peterborough Abbey (now Cathedral). Katherine died at Kimbolton Castle, her final residence following banishment from court in 1531.
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Zeus still pulling that shit
January 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Zeus still pulling that shit
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Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
And all the devils are here.
January 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
And all the devils are here.
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Inside you are two She-Wolfs.
One is the Queen of England.
The other is just the regular kind of she-wolf.
One is the Queen of England.
The other is just the regular kind of she-wolf.
From 1am GMT, hear @goingmedieval.bsky.social chat sex, betrayal and murder, and the life of Isabella the She-Wolf
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#history #womenshistory #queerhistory #lgbtqhistory #shewolf
Don't forget to subscribe!
#history #womenshistory #queerhistory #lgbtqhistory #shewolf
January 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Inside you are two She-Wolfs.
One is the Queen of England.
The other is just the regular kind of she-wolf.
One is the Queen of England.
The other is just the regular kind of she-wolf.
The beautiful #CastleHoward last October! ☀️🎃 One of my favourite places! (And nearby #SheriffHutton Castle is certainly worth a look at, the walk around it is lovely!) #Yorkshire #History
January 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The beautiful #CastleHoward last October! ☀️🎃 One of my favourite places! (And nearby #SheriffHutton Castle is certainly worth a look at, the walk around it is lovely!) #Yorkshire #History
Sunny (and cloudy) memories from #HelmsleyCastle last May! 🌤️
January 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Sunny (and cloudy) memories from #HelmsleyCastle last May! 🌤️
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Eleanor of Provence married King Henry III of England on this day in 1236 in Canterbury #medieval #womenshistory
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Eleanor of Provence, Queen of England
Eleanor of Provence Due to Eleanor’s fundamentally European mentality, and the political influence of her Savoyard relations at the English court, she would be a dominating political force in the s…
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January 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Eleanor of Provence married King Henry III of England on this day in 1236 in Canterbury #medieval #womenshistory
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Decorated Period windows punched through the Norman walls of the Great Tower #ChepstowCastle. The large 2-light window with upper roundel suggests a very high status room, perhaps a chamber located behind a Great Hall . Upper stage may have been rebuilt as the rubble fill differs
January 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Decorated Period windows punched through the Norman walls of the Great Tower #ChepstowCastle. The large 2-light window with upper roundel suggests a very high status room, perhaps a chamber located behind a Great Hall . Upper stage may have been rebuilt as the rubble fill differs
Starting off 2025 with a wonderful bit of #JaneAusten !! 💚
January 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Starting off 2025 with a wonderful bit of #JaneAusten !! 💚
Happy New Year everyone! Here’s to a 2025 filled with history and joy! 🎉🍷
January 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Happy New Year everyone! Here’s to a 2025 filled with history and joy! 🎉🍷
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564 years ago today, Cecily Neville experienced unthinkable tragedy when her husband, son, & brother were killed at Wakefield
The story is well known: their heads were put on Micklegate Bar, her husband wearing a paper crown
What is often ignored, tho, is the impact on Cecily🧵
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The story is well known: their heads were put on Micklegate Bar, her husband wearing a paper crown
What is often ignored, tho, is the impact on Cecily🧵
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December 30, 2024 at 8:16 PM
564 years ago today, Cecily Neville experienced unthinkable tragedy when her husband, son, & brother were killed at Wakefield
The story is well known: their heads were put on Micklegate Bar, her husband wearing a paper crown
What is often ignored, tho, is the impact on Cecily🧵
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The story is well known: their heads were put on Micklegate Bar, her husband wearing a paper crown
What is often ignored, tho, is the impact on Cecily🧵
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#OTD 1460 - see King Edward IV’s official Act of Attainder in Rot. Parl. V (1461) a list of Lancastrians who ‘at Wakefield on Tuesday the xxx day of December last past, with great despite and cruel violence, horrible and unmanly tyranny, murdered the said noble prince Duke of York’
December 30, 2024 at 2:54 PM
#OTD 1460 - see King Edward IV’s official Act of Attainder in Rot. Parl. V (1461) a list of Lancastrians who ‘at Wakefield on Tuesday the xxx day of December last past, with great despite and cruel violence, horrible and unmanly tyranny, murdered the said noble prince Duke of York’