Anne Burras

I am one of the first two women to arrive at Jamestown (in 1608), and I survived the starving time and the first Anglo-Powhatan war (1620s). she/her

[Anne Burras @AnneBurras]

(Sept 1608) the "second supply" arrives on the Mary & Margaret with 70 settlers, including 2 women: Mrs. Thomas Forrest & her maid, Anne Burras (me). #JamestownSettlement #herstory #History #womenshistory

[Titania @TitaniasRealm]

Bees make the best tea

📷 India Rose Crawford

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born."
~ Mary Oliver

[Paul Couchman - Regency Cook @TheRegencyCook]

I felt I needed to share my recent autumn harvest. Two types of squashes. How would you be cooking these?

[Anne Burras @AnneBurras]

@SpiritedSparr0w There's no timeline to grief. No one should tell someone else to "move on," but especially not after a ridiculously short amount of time.
They're really saying that they're uncomfortable with your grief & don't know what to do, but they're doing it selfishly.

[Paul Couchman - Regency Cook @TheRegencyCook]

I do feel that saffron buns with salted butter are essential on a trip to Cornwall.

Don’t you?

[JYF Museums @jyfmuseums]

Celebrate #NationalWatermelonDay with a sweet treat and a slice of history. Experts disagree on where the wild ancestral watermelon first grew, but evidence reveals humans cultivated the plant more than 4,000 years ago in Egypt, spreading to the rest of Africa and India.

[JYF Museums @jyfmuseums]

August 1619: two English privateer ships, the White Lion and the Treasurer, landed at Point Comfort carrying West Central African people seized from a Portuguese slave ship. According to John Rolfe, the English colonists bought, “20. and odd Negroes."

[JYF Museums @jyfmuseums]

Peaches don't look aggressive with their fuzzy exteriors. However, after Spanish colonists introduced them to Florida in the mid-1500s, the fruit spread rapidly northward.

[Anne Burras @AnneBurras]

@ElliottBlackwe3 Roses.

[Anne Burras @AnneBurras]

Women in my time had few rights & no voice or vote. Modern women need to appreciate how many generations of women have lived & died trying to get respect & freedom for themselves & their daughters. You don't have to agree with everything to support each other. #WomenVoters

[JYF Museums @jyfmuseums]

Yesterday was #NationalMacAndCheeseDay! “But, Jamestown” you say “surely they didn’t have mac and cheese at Jamestown in 1607?” Maybe we can’t prove that they did, but we do know it was possible. Let’s take a look at a later 14th-century dish called "Macrows."

[Anne Burras @AnneBurras]

@arealmofwonder B

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

Isn't it marvelous to know that such creations of delicate beauty exist?

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

Habited fox (perhaps a Capuchin?) from the Tale of Reynard the Fox, Allaert van Everdingen, c.1636-1675

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

Britain's Oldest Bed (1570s CE) :

A sturdy oak four-poster, has endured the trials and tribulations of a longstanding kingdom since the Elizabethan period.

It stands as the sole surviving piece of furniture from Salford's Ordsall Hall. Originally crafted for Sir John Radclyffe and Lady Anne Asshawe in 1570s CE, the bed mysteriously disappeared around 1650 CE, during a change of ownership at the Hall.

For nearly three centuries, its whereabouts remained unknown until it resurfaced in the home of a resident in Whalley Range, Manchester. The circumstances of how it came into his possession remain a mystery, but the bed was eventually sold off in pieces to cover his death duties. In a stroke of fortune, Dr. Chris Douglas, a collector of medieval and Tudor furniture, painstakingly restored the bed to its former glory in 1968.

#archaeohistories

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is an example of peepshow or tunnel book, a kind of virtual reality of the time capable of giving the illusion of depth and perspective. A XIX century souvenir of the Valley of the Rhine or Rhine Gorge

[📹 David Minkin]

[Lara T is not on X @MuseumLara]

If you're near #JamestownSettlement museum, come see the costume special exhibitions Fashioned in History & Ruth E Carter: Afrofuturism & Costume Design. So much about these clothes you can't see in a movie glimpse!
#Costume #History #Clothes #WearableArt #Afrofuturism

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

Jacket, possibly French made, c. 1660-80
Floral, green damask figured white, pink details, linen lining. (V&A Museum, London)

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The lyfe cycle of a blackberry