The month of August as Christ sharing the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares. From a #17thCentury calendar which depicts each month as a crucial scene from the life of Christ. Source: Paul van Somer the Younger (Holland, 1674) Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco.

1 Aug 1645: John Lilburne, #leveller, imprisoned #otd pending trial by court (BM)

#OnThisDay 4 August 1645 Parliamentarian troops commanded by Oliver Cromwell encountered a large force of Clubmen at Hambledon Hill in Dorset. The excellent Clubmen1645 takes up the story in a series of short films... 😀 #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD

The month of November as Christ sharing the Parable of the Sower, from a #17thCentury calendar which depicts each month as a crucial scene from the life of Christ. Source: Paul van Somer the Younger (Holland, 1674) Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco.

Saving his impressive library, Elias Ashmole moved it from the Temple to South Lambeth during the #GreatFire of London. Ironically, when he moved it back, it was destroyed by the Temple fire #OTD 26 January 1678, his manuscripts were spared (being then at his house in Lambeth).

The month of March depicted as the resurrected Christ appearing to his disciples whilst fishing. From a #17thCentury calendar which shows each month as a crucial scene from the life of Christ. Source: Paul van Somer the Younger (Holland, 1674) Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco.

This arrived and John Flavel is in it! Thank you so much to Rachel Adcock David Parry Niall Allsopp for being encouraging and sympathetic editors. Yes, John Flavel did write verse 😃 Also congratulations to Annie J Stephenson (what a great conference).

Great to see this in print and in the wild. Thank you to Rachel Adcock and David Parry for their helpful editing and generous guidance in the publication process. What a fantastic journal!

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Final paper of the conference 😱 John Bunyan: Intimately Local to Outrageous Global and Back Again, by Janet Wootton, Writing Religious Conflict and Community in Exeter University of Exeter International John Bunyan Society

Can anyone recommend some good secondary sources on early modern Quakers in southwest England (esp. Exeter)? This would be much appreciated! Dr Rosalind Johnson International John Bunyan Society Madeleine Pennington L Sangha, not here, find me @lsangha.bsky.social Stefano Villani Woodbrooke Writing Religious Conflict and Community in Exeter @effjayem

Keele University 🐿️'s Latin and Palaeography Summer School is taking bookings! Take introductory or advanced classes, reading #medieval documents in #Latin or #AngloNorman French. More info at: keele.ac.uk/study/cpdandle… Booking closes 19 July!

The deadline for the Roger F. Pooley Early Career Essay Prize is coming up soon on Friday 28 June. Details here: johnbunyansociety.org/2024/03/05/202…

The month of August as Christ sharing the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares. From a #17thCentury calendar which depicts each month as a crucial scene from the life of Christ. Source: Paul van Somer the Younger (Holland, 1674) Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco.

Discoveries and Improvements, 1660-1740, 8th biennial conference of the Daniel Defoe Society; Keele Univ., U.K., 3-5 July 2025. Abstracts by 31 Jan 2025. Cfp: defoesociety.org/conference/

The month of November as Christ sharing the Parable of the Sower, from a #17thCentury calendar which depicts each month as a crucial scene from the life of Christ. Source: Paul van Somer the Younger (Holland, 1674) Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco.

Saving his impressive library, Elias Ashmole moved it from the Temple to South Lambeth during the #GreatFire of London. Ironically, when he moved it back, it was destroyed by the Temple fire #OTD 26 January 1678, his manuscripts were spared (being then at his house in Lambeth).

The month of August as Christ teaching the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares. From a #17thCentury calendar which depicts each month as a crucial scene from the life of Christ. Source: Paul van Somer the Younger (Holland, 1674) Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco.