Dr Rosalind Johnson

Early modern religious, social, cultural history. VCH Wiltshire. Now mostly at the other place, @historyrosalind.bsky.social.

[Dr Rosalind Johnson @HistoryRosalind]

TV presenter Dr Jonathan Foyle ('Climbing Great Buildings', 'Henry VIII: Patron or Plunderer?') will be speaking at Salisbury Museum on 6 November! On 'Henry III: Palaces, Politics and Piety'. More info and booking details here:
https://t.co/sMqdCXehHR

[Dr Rosalind Johnson @HistoryRosalind]

My Presidential address to the Friends Historical Society, 'A faithful testimony? Quakers and tithe payments in the mid-18th century', Sat 27 Sept, in the Library at Friends House, London. And on Zoom. Pls contact the Society by 22 Sept. Details: https://t.co/zPcbKf57ks #Quakers

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@greenwoodgift Did you let him in? But then, how could you not?!

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@cadwwales Many thanks!

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Now mostly posting at @historyrosalind.bsky.social, but just popping back on here to say that I am honoured to be able to announce that I have been appointed President of the Friends Historical Society for the year 2025. #Quakers. https://t.co/zYhMe909us

[EHS @EcclesHistSoc]

🚨 We're accepting proposals for our Summer Conference on 'Creeds, Councils and Canons', Edinburgh 15-17 July 2025.

Deadline: 15 April

[Dr Rosalind Johnson @HistoryRosalind]

As an #EarlyModern historian, I find the post-Dissolution afterlife of monastic buildings fascinating. The room behind the low wall in the centre of the photo was the main kitchen at Tintern Abbey, repurposed in the #17thcentury as a cottage. Photo 19.12.24. @cadwwales #abbeys

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Tintern Abbey, still awe-inspiring in spite of the scaffolding. In the care of @cadwwales. Photo taken 19 December 2024. #abbeys

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@greenwoodgift Happy New Year to you all, human and feline!

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#otd 29 Dec. 1170, Thomas Becket murdered at Canterbury. There's a legend that as a young priest he served at Winterbourne (Wilts.) & said mass at nearby Clarendon Palace . No evidence for this, tho' as Archbishop he visited Clarendon in 1164. More at: https://t.co/DSh7TzoUEg

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'Fake sleep preacher' Dr Richard Heydock (or Haydock) and 'false leper' Sir Walter Raleigh cross paths in Salisbury (Wiltshire), 1603.

[Dr Louise Ryland-Epton @LRylandEpton]

Ever wondered 🤔 what a fake sleep preacher & a false leper may have in common? 😔 Then
#JohnAubrey
is here to help 🥳 All is revealed in my latest blog. 😁https://t.co/DiwtHwSrCh

[Dr Rosalind Johnson @HistoryRosalind]

A very happy Christmas to you all! Nativity scene/Christmas post box topper, on post box in Waitrose store, Churchill Way West, Salisbury, Wiltshire. Photo taken by me, 20 December 2024. @LibraryFolklore

[Dr Rosalind Johnson @HistoryRosalind]

So pleased to see my Landford & Whiteparish texts on the VCH website. Many thanks to my @WiltsHistory colleagues @john_hobnob, @LRylandEpton & @mpforrest1967 for their advice & encouragement, to many local historians for the same, and to all @VCH_London.

[Victoria County History @VCH_London]

New *Draft* text for the 21st volume from @WiltsHistory on SE Wiltshire. The text is by @HistoryRosalind & describes Landford and Whiteparish.

We've made this text available for correction, clarification and to support others': feedback welcome!
https://t.co/bWklSVRrOg

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I'll be keeping this account live for the time being, but I've joined the mass migration to the 'other place' and will be posting there from now on. Find me as Dr Rosalind Johnson, @historyrosalind.bsky.social.

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#OTD 20 November 1625, the artist Paulus Potter was baptised in Enkhuizen. He is commemorated there by this statue. (Photo by me, May 2023)

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@greenwoodgift Clever animals, cats. And now he has a cosy home for the winter, and all seasons thereafter. He looks very content!

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Too tempting, just too tempting...

[Boydell & Brewer @boydellbrewer]

📢 Starting Monday, save on 1000's of hardbacks! For more info > https://t.co/QvF6yvsE0s #BlackFriday

[Dr Rosalind Johnson @HistoryRosalind]

@IsabellaRosner My favourite name for a dissenter (not, though, a Quaker) has to be Benjamin Bunny, fined 5s in 1673 for being at an illegal conventicle in Andover, Hampshire.

[Dr Rosalind Johnson @HistoryRosalind]

@HeritageWSHC Thank you for the congratulations! But the work of WSHC staff fetching items and answering queries was, and will continue to be, much appreciated. Many thanks to you all.