1 Sept 1529: Eustache Chapuys arrives in #London as Imperial ambassador #otd Without his letters we’d know far less, & we’d have less #Tudor court gossip

On this day in 1532 Anne Boleyn was made marchioness of Pembroke in her own right. This is a thread about the ladies-in-waiting who escorted her from her lodgings at Windsor Castle to the King's Presence Chamber. 👇👇👇

It seems that so many wonderful people are leaving this world, and now Jimmy Buffett is one of them. I’ve known Jimmy for some time and found him to be one of the kindest and most generous people.  I remember once on holiday when I had forgotten to bring my guitar and was

Congratulations to people who don’t get obsessed easily. I can’t relate but I’m sure it’s lovely. Unfortunately, I only know how to let things consume my entire soul.

It was 11 years ago today that Jo Appleby and I started excavating skeleton 1 at the Greyfriars site in Leicester. 1/10🧵

Anna girl you’re in danger

Death of Katherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII, at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire, otd in 1548. Katherine, who married her fourth husband, Thomas Seymour the previous year, died of puerperal fever, six days after giving birth to her daughter, Mary.

I tipped a candle toward myself to blow it out; the wax spilled and the flame flared 😅 tis mostly a third degree burn

Elizabeth I was born on this day in 1533. If you want to know more about her life before she became queen, read my book about her relationship with her half sister Mary I. I loved writing it.

I saw this in person yesterday at the Beatrix Potter exhibit! It’s in Nashville for one more week!

Illuminated weekly planner notepads, up in ye olde webbe mercantile ✨🐉

Lot of talk about how often men think about the Roman Empire, but no one ever asks how often women think of Boudicca’s righteous fury and the sacking of Colchester

girl what do u mean september ends in two days..girl the swift and unrelenting passage of time caught me off guard again....

cast is announced. tom hardy is james bond. cillian murphy is the villain. nobody else. but wait, there’s no bond girl? false. it’s also cillian.

Cardi B talking about her love for FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt

All i am saying is that , if this Paris - bedbug situation was in Africa, we would be talking about it differently. Travel bans would be issued by now.

googled “oldest animal on earth” expecting a fun tortoise and instead found out about Ming the Clam, a 507 year old mollusc who died in 2006 after being cracked open by Icelandic researchers. broken. absolutely distraught