What can I say ma wicked women are associated with bad weather (or climate change is just making flights more and more bumpy)

Americaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

The author photo.

Reader, I used to know a thing or two about the North Berwick witchtrials.

I can’t bring myself to watch it 🫣

The kick my nan would get out of this 😅 I love them.

Michael, you are as always amazing. I managed to get through all the Holyrood Palace accounts today 36/33 so will add this to my to do list for the coming weeks 😌

(I’m in Edinburgh after Restoration-court gossip and global goods in Scottish properties)

Me tooo! The little India Gowns/Banyans/Japonse Rok's are so pretty.

its deserved? Tattoo history is fascinating. I think I’m going to buy my Nan a copy. We got our first tattoos together at thirty and seventy-seven. 😅

I didn't realise how hot they are on content warnings. I was flagged as a smut peddler for sharing an image of a seventeenth-century wooden appendage, which was shared in the spirit of education (and a pinch of childishness).

Vivat the Charity Shops of Cambridge.

It's older, but there are also references to the creation of houses crafted to wait out an English winter that would never come in the edited collection 'Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World', which I'm sure you've already read.

There is! I remember being so entertained by the idea of dopey English settlers sweating their arses off in the Caribbean. I used it in an essay on how the English, against everything, tried to cling to their Englishness.

What a 🐔 move.

I was talking to my partner about this last night. We both were in comps in deprived bits of south london at the height of the knife crime ‘crisis’ (his family directly impacted) us all running around like tooled up early modern mad maxes is not a solution.

It’s maddening.