Charlotte Gunvor (Lottie) Thorkildsen

Medieval and Early Modern Historian👩🏼‍💻Library & Archives 👩🏼‍🎓MA In Medieval and Early Modern Studies,👩🏼‍🎓MA in Heritage Management with HRP🏰

[Ennius @red_loeb]

6th January is the feast of the Epiphany. From the Collect for the Mass of the Epiphany:

"Deus qui hodierna die unigenitum tuum gentibus stella duce revelasti....."

BL Yates Thompson 2; 'The Ottobeuren Collectar'; 12th century; Germany, S. (Ottobeuren); f.62v
@BLMedieval

[Musée de Cluny @museecluny]

Joyeux Noël de la part de l’équipe du musée ! 🎄
Êtes-vous prêts pour le dîner du réveillon ? Les personnages de cette tapisserie comptent bien se régaler. 🍷

[Ennius @red_loeb]

As we approach the Winter Solstice, here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century.

BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r @BLMedieval

[Dr Ella Hawkins @EllaMcHawk]

’Tis the season for a biscuit set inspired by Victorian scrapbooking. 🍪

These festive scraps come from two scrapbooks in the @Powerhouse Collection, both thought to have been compiled by children between 1880 and 1890.

[Dr Bryony Coombs @BryonyCoombs]

Some of the treasures on display this evening for the CMRS gathering @CRC_EdUni - the exquisite 11th C Celtic Psalter with its extraordinary illuminations in vivid green, red, purple and gold & the 16th C Aberdeen Breviary ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Historic England @HistoricEngland]

Spot the difference 🔎

17 Fleet Street is a unique Jacobean survivor of the Great Fire of London in 1666.

In the 20th century, its original timber-framed frontage was discovered, and its windows were reconstructed to appear in their original form.

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

you and me if we were a bunny and a dog

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

Hard not to smile back at actress/opera singer Louise Jacquet, as she looks up at us engagingly from reading an admiring letter, in this exceptional pastel portrait by Jean-Étienne Liotard (c 1750). Check out the fine detailing on her clothes, too

[Ennius @red_loeb]

A manicule taking time to feed its pet dog in the margin.
#InternationalDogDay
BnF MS Latin 14267; Petrus Lombardus , in epistolis s. Pauli ; 12th century; Abbaye de Saint-Victor de Paris; f.6r
@GallicaBnF

[The Eras Tour @tswifterastour]

🚨| Taylor Swift performs "London Boy" from "Lover” as the first surprise song for Day 5 of ‘The Eras Tour’ in London, United Kingdom!
#TSTheErasTour #LondonTSTheErasTour

"I've never played this on The Eras Tour before"

[Not Just the Tudors @NotJustTudors]

Venetian orphan Anna Maria della Pietà was Antonio Vivaldi's star violin protegé. Her forgotten life has now been compellingly brought to life in The Instrumentalist by @HConstable. She joins @sixteenthCgirl to tell Anna Maria's story: https://t.co/YobjebsIMd @BloomsburyBooks

[Historic Royal Palaces @HRP_palaces]

🎨 The height of conservation 🎨 For the first time in 20 years our conservators have had the chance to get up close to the magnificent wall paintings and wood carvings in Hampton Court Palace's Chapel Royal.

[NHM Library and Archives @NHM_Library]

This chameleon by Sarah Stone (1760-1844) in our #SpecialCollections seems to be performing a great balancing act! 🦎

The #NaturalHistoryMuseum Library and Archives team are wishing the artistic gymnastics women of #TeamGB all the best at qualifiers today at #Paris2024.

[NHM Library and Archives @NHM_Library]

It’s #Gold for the #TeamGB Eventing Team! Big congratulations to Laura Collett, Tom McEwan and Rosalind Canter! 🥇

And, of course, to the horses: London 52, JL Dublin and Lordships Graffalo. They looked just as magnificent as the horse in this print by W. Hollar (1607-1677). 🐎

[The Mary Rose @MaryRoseMuseum]

#OnThisDay. 19th July 1545, The Mary Rose sank during the Battle of the Solent, just a few miles from the coast of Portsmouth.

Of her 500 crew, only around 30-40 were saved. The Mary Rose Museum is dedicated to those who lost their lives that day.

🖼️ Geoff Hunt PPRSMA

[British Online Archives (BOA) @boapublishing]

Happy Publication Day to @DebHarkness !

We thought we might share some fun snippets from our various scoping trips that relate to her books about witches to celebrate.

First up: Agnes Sampson's confession to the crime of witchcraft in 1590
seen at @UkNatArchives