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When the work goes on view today at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, it will be the first time the Artemisia Gentileschi painting has been exhibited publicly since the 17th century. artnews.com/art-news/news/…

#KindleMonthlyDeal #99p The Mercenary's Blade, By Eleanor Swift-Hook "Brutal, dark, and brilliant." amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BKLWYZLR/ The World Turned Upside Down #historicalfiction #englishcivilwar #17thcentury

Today I'm doing a talk at the 25th Anniversary of the Wimborne Mikita. The subject is the Militia & the #ScienceofArms during the #MonmouthRebellion of 1685. Haven't put my Purple on for years. One King! #FightingforLiberty1685

The sculptor Grinling Gibbons gave John Evelyn a wooden carving of his own head. Evelyn hung it above his door, in the manner of a signpost, so that people would know where he lived!

17th-century swivel locket ring commemorating the marriage of King Charles I & Henrietta Maria of France in 1625, part of Jonest Collection of Rings & to be on display in October ... 💍forbes.com/sites/anthonyd…

9 September 1668 Up, and to the office, and thence to the Duke of Richmond’s lodgings . … I did hope to see his lady, the beautiful Mrs. Stuart, but she, I hear, is in the country. His business was about his yacht, and he seems a mighty good-natured man, and did presently write

The making of Oliver Cromwell “Give me a child until he is 7 & I will show you the man” - Aristotle How far is this true of Cromwell, who rose to become one of the most revered figures in British history? Prof John Morrill & Prof Andrew Hopper discuss. worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/the-ma…

9 Sept 1689: d. Jane Lane, Lady Fisher #otd whose servant Charles II pretended to be after escaping the Battle of #Worcester (NPG)

'Nobody did it!' In line with this term's theme of Embodied/Unbodied, here is a literally unbodied character - a 17th century Delft 'Nobody', eternally blamed for household cracks, spills and mishaps. Our deadline for papers on the 17th is running up - check our pinned post!

The audio track for our recent #StuartSaturdayLive Show with Professor Adrian Tinniswood is available now on my podcast, The Seventeenth Century Lady: open.spotify.com/episode/2ap2eV… #KeepItStuart

Incredible view at Lincoln castle. Parliament captured it from Royalists with a larger force after 4 day siege May 1644. Then began a wild rampage pillaging upper city, smashing monuments, stained glass in Cathedral, turning into billet/stable #Lincoln #Englishcivilwar #History

Attributed to Jean Nocret - Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche, Queen of France (1638-1683), wife of Louis XIV.

Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials will be out in paperback this month ✨✨✨ 📚 This boxful got delivered to my neighbour who was expecting a box of coffee and opened it - wow, was he surprised!

10 September 1665 Anon comes Mr. Andrews, though it be a very ill day, and so after dinner we to musique and sang till about 4 or 5 o’clock, it blowing very hard, and now and then raining, and wind and tide being against us … Mr. Coventry, telling me the most happy news of my

📅#OTD 1645. Prince Rupert surrenders #Bristol to Sir Thomas Fairfax, whose forces had stormed the city. Royalist Secretary of State, George Digby, considers the loss divinely ordained, as it led to them 'being ridd of P Rup’.

#OnThisDay 10 September 1651 Parliament offered a £1,000 reward (approx £103,000 in today's value) for the capture of Charles II, now on the run after his defeat at the Battle of #Worcester. #17thCentury #OTD

10 Sept. 1645 #OTD Alice Thornton’s sister, Lady Danby, died at her house in Thorpe, about a month after the delivery of her 16th child. She was buried at night in St Mary’s, Masham ‘by reason of the Parliament soldiers and Scots who would not let a sermon be preached’ (Bk1). 1/2

📅 #OnThisDay 10 Sept 1669: Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, dies. 🕊️ Was she truly a Catholic fanatic who sparked a civil war? Leanda de Lisle joins us to set the record straight. 🎙️ 🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/20e299 #history #OTD #onthisdate #podcast

#twitterstorians Bit of a rogue one from me today, but does anyone have any secondary or primary reading recommendations on Fairs or “fairing” in 17th century provincial England?

#OTD – 10 September 1643 – King Charles I published a letter of thanks to the people of Cornwall. No other county was recognised in this way – only #Cornwall #CornishHistory #Truro #Falmouth #StIves #Fowey #Padstow #Bodmin #Lanhydrock #Stratton #StColumb #Boconnoc #Kea #Lelant