Jessie Childs
@jessiechilds.bsky.social
Writer. Historian. Books:
The Siege of Loyalty House
God’s Traitors
Henry VIII’s Last Victim
Reviews for the Times and LRB
jessiechilds.co.uk
IG @jessiechildshistorian
The Siege of Loyalty House
God’s Traitors
Henry VIII’s Last Victim
Reviews for the Times and LRB
jessiechilds.co.uk
IG @jessiechildshistorian
WHO’S THE BEST HENRY VIII?
V funchat with @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social @alexvont.bsky.social & @drjoannepaul.bsky.social
Watch on History Hit TV or listen here👇
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V funchat with @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social @alexvont.bsky.social & @drjoannepaul.bsky.social
Watch on History Hit TV or listen here👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
October 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
WHO’S THE BEST HENRY VIII?
V funchat with @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social @alexvont.bsky.social & @drjoannepaul.bsky.social
Watch on History Hit TV or listen here👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
V funchat with @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social @alexvont.bsky.social & @drjoannepaul.bsky.social
Watch on History Hit TV or listen here👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
May 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Loving the spring blossom, but looking forward to
The Blood in Winter!
Congrats @jonathanhealey.bsky.social - looks like another corker
The Blood in Winter!
Congrats @jonathanhealey.bsky.social - looks like another corker
March 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Loving the spring blossom, but looking forward to
The Blood in Winter!
Congrats @jonathanhealey.bsky.social - looks like another corker
The Blood in Winter!
Congrats @jonathanhealey.bsky.social - looks like another corker
I love this - a detail from Alison Watt's extraordinary triptych of paintings based on Oliver Cromwell's death mask.
Oil on canvas.
Incredibly lifelike, even in death.
It's part of Watt's wonderful new exhibition, From Light, which opens at Pitzhanger Manor today.
Oil on canvas.
Incredibly lifelike, even in death.
It's part of Watt's wonderful new exhibition, From Light, which opens at Pitzhanger Manor today.
March 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I love this - a detail from Alison Watt's extraordinary triptych of paintings based on Oliver Cromwell's death mask.
Oil on canvas.
Incredibly lifelike, even in death.
It's part of Watt's wonderful new exhibition, From Light, which opens at Pitzhanger Manor today.
Oil on canvas.
Incredibly lifelike, even in death.
It's part of Watt's wonderful new exhibition, From Light, which opens at Pitzhanger Manor today.
No lovelier place of a winter’s evening than John Sandoe Books 🧡
Pic taken last night at the launch of Edward Wilson-Lee’s wonderful new book, The Grammar of Angels.
Pic taken last night at the launch of Edward Wilson-Lee’s wonderful new book, The Grammar of Angels.
February 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
No lovelier place of a winter’s evening than John Sandoe Books 🧡
Pic taken last night at the launch of Edward Wilson-Lee’s wonderful new book, The Grammar of Angels.
Pic taken last night at the launch of Edward Wilson-Lee’s wonderful new book, The Grammar of Angels.
This is an extraordinary and original book by a brilliant writer and thinker - the perfect tonic to an AI world!
Out next week
Out next week
January 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
This is an extraordinary and original book by a brilliant writer and thinker - the perfect tonic to an AI world!
Out next week
Out next week
Here’s a book to look out for in the new year: Helen Rappaport’s biography of Queen Victoria’s aunt Julie - the teenage bride who stunned Europe by bolting from the Romanov court. It’s beautifully written, incredibly moving & illuminates the entire age.
Have fun tonight, however you ring it in!
Have fun tonight, however you ring it in!
December 31, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Here’s a book to look out for in the new year: Helen Rappaport’s biography of Queen Victoria’s aunt Julie - the teenage bride who stunned Europe by bolting from the Romanov court. It’s beautifully written, incredibly moving & illuminates the entire age.
Have fun tonight, however you ring it in!
Have fun tonight, however you ring it in!
A Russian bearer bond of the South-Eastern Railway Company (1914). Rather beautiful and I love the way it was sent to me. Amazed these stamps are still legal tender!
December 7, 2024 at 12:10 PM
A Russian bearer bond of the South-Eastern Railway Company (1914). Rather beautiful and I love the way it was sent to me. Amazed these stamps are still legal tender!
Well, this is what he says in ‘Pioneers! O Pioneers!’ (1944; his account of touring America in 1943), but he would say that, wouldn’t he?!
December 1, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Well, this is what he says in ‘Pioneers! O Pioneers!’ (1944; his account of touring America in 1943), but he would say that, wouldn’t he?!
Early sketches of bugs by Robert Hooke, including (right) 'a kind of teek found creeping upon paper..April 11 1661’.
(British Library Add MS 47495)
(British Library Add MS 47495)
November 27, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Early sketches of bugs by Robert Hooke, including (right) 'a kind of teek found creeping upon paper..April 11 1661’.
(British Library Add MS 47495)
(British Library Add MS 47495)
When we say we like to get our hands dirty in the archives, we really do mean it!
November 19, 2024 at 10:27 AM
When we say we like to get our hands dirty in the archives, we really do mean it!
Cannabis in 17th-century England grew freely in cornfields & roadsides. Good for earache, jaundice & ‘causeth hens to lay eggs more plentifully.’
November 18, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Cannabis in 17th-century England grew freely in cornfields & roadsides. Good for earache, jaundice & ‘causeth hens to lay eggs more plentifully.’
Morning!
Here’s an ostrich drawn by 17th-century polymath Sir Thomas Browne - sent to his son in a letter in 1682.
Now in the @britishlibrary.bsky.social
(BL Sloane MS 1847, f. 146г)
Here’s an ostrich drawn by 17th-century polymath Sir Thomas Browne - sent to his son in a letter in 1682.
Now in the @britishlibrary.bsky.social
(BL Sloane MS 1847, f. 146г)
November 14, 2024 at 7:31 AM
Morning!
Here’s an ostrich drawn by 17th-century polymath Sir Thomas Browne - sent to his son in a letter in 1682.
Now in the @britishlibrary.bsky.social
(BL Sloane MS 1847, f. 146г)
Here’s an ostrich drawn by 17th-century polymath Sir Thomas Browne - sent to his son in a letter in 1682.
Now in the @britishlibrary.bsky.social
(BL Sloane MS 1847, f. 146г)
Hello! New here. This is me - 16th & 17th century history books - though the next one will be completely different…
Lovely to see old friends & new 👋🏼
Lovely to see old friends & new 👋🏼
November 13, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Hello! New here. This is me - 16th & 17th century history books - though the next one will be completely different…
Lovely to see old friends & new 👋🏼
Lovely to see old friends & new 👋🏼