Religious reforms & rebellions in C J Sansom's Shardlake books

Explaining the joke about Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' in C J Sansom's Dissolution.

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My next #Book to #Read Dissolution by C J Sansom #BookTwitter #Reading

Have a guess why these oak beams in the ceiling of this London pub I’m in right now, are black and burnt? Yes, that’s right: they were burnt in The Great Fire of London in 1666. How incredible is that? Blows my mind.

Given to John III Sobieski, King of Poland, by the Pope and Vatican for defeating the Muslims in the Battle of Vienna.

You don't hate Henry VIII enough

These eerie faces are part of the mysterious medieval wall carvings found inside Royston Cave in Hertfordshire, England.

En agosto de 1943, una bomba aliada reventó un convento en Milán. El edificio quedó reducido a escombros, pero ocurrió un milagro, porque una pared seguía en pie. En ella estaba una de las mayores obras maestras de la historia: La Última Cena de Da Vinci. Tira del hilo 🧵👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Feb 21, 1608: Elizabeth Hall, granddaughter of William #Shakespeare, is baptized at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. #OTD bit.ly/37H6ldL

Fishlake, St Cuthbert, South Yorkshire The 12thC south doorway, with four orders of sculpture, is one of Yorkshire’s finest examples of a Romanesque door. #dooroftheday #Yorkshire #church #churchcrawling

'If you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall arise in the darkness … and you shall be like a watered garden' Isaiah 58: 10-11

February 21, 1173: Pope Alexander III canonized Thomas Becket, the murdered Archbishop of Canterbury.

Bust of Lorenzo de' Medici, Florentine 15th or 16th Century, probably after a model by Andrea del Verrocchio and Orsino Benintendi. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flor…

After 800 years, the mortal remains of St. Francis of Assisi are now open to the public in Italy.

#OTD 22nd February 1511 Henry, Duke of Cornwall, son of King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, died. He was just fifty-two days old. instagram.com/p/DVC3e0aoNob/… #HenryDukeofCornwall #KatherineofAragon #KingHenryVIII #Tudors #History

When Charles I had his head chopped off on January 30 in 1649 he requested he be given an extra vest before going outside to the execution scaffold, he wanted to make sure that he didn't shiver from the cold (people may mistake it as fear) - this is the vest he supposedly wore.

🧵Paper Hall is a Grade II listed building and perhaps the oldest extant domestic building in Bradford city centre. Built in 1643 by William Rookes, it endured the upheavals of the English Civil War and later played a small but significant role in the town’s industrial growth. In

The heart-quickening sight of an old friend. #SilburyHill - the largest prehistoric mound in Europe. A Neolithic monument I once spent a year inside. It is a mass of ancient matter, and quicksilver - substantial, heavy, brilliant, yet can’t be pinned down. #Neolithic

The 12th-century crypt chapel at St Olave's Church, Hart Street, London. To the south of the altar you can just see a rather unusual feature: a well! 📸2026