Michael Pearce
@michaelpearce.bsky.social
History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, and recipe books
Blog, remember them? https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
Blog, remember them? https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
It is also available via JSTOR, which may be as convenient: www.jstor.org/stable/10.33...
Early Modern Women’s Life-Writing and English Law on JSTOR
Despite the plethora of early modern life-writing (diaries, (auto)biographies, memoirs), it remains difficult to reconstruct a picture of everyday female experi...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
It is also available via JSTOR, which may be as convenient: www.jstor.org/stable/10.33...
Would be a good project for someone!
November 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Would be a good project for someone!
'Bowes Correspondence', p. 174, 25 March 1581, Harley MS 6999. The laird of Whittingeham says his brother devised a letter sent to the Pope, which brought to Elizabeth discovered the practices of Lennox.
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
'Bowes Correspondence', p. 174, 25 March 1581, Harley MS 6999. The laird of Whittingeham says his brother devised a letter sent to the Pope, which brought to Elizabeth discovered the practices of Lennox.
Includes cat in photo 10
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Includes cat in photo 10
managing international logistics in an evolving legislative framework, surely
November 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
managing international logistics in an evolving legislative framework, surely
Mary, Countess of Home, was buried there in 1644, 'my will is to have the tomb made with our pictures to the waist in white marble ... I mean my lord, my dear son Home and myself, And I would be laid betwixt them ... Mr Stone the stonecutter that dwells in Longacre shewed me a toombe he had made'
November 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Mary, Countess of Home, was buried there in 1644, 'my will is to have the tomb made with our pictures to the waist in white marble ... I mean my lord, my dear son Home and myself, And I would be laid betwixt them ... Mr Stone the stonecutter that dwells in Longacre shewed me a toombe he had made'
Perhaps he is thinking of vikings turning up in the villages
November 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Perhaps he is thinking of vikings turning up in the villages