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September 7, 2015
It’s a girl! Gloriana is born
Originally posted on tudors & other histories:
On the 7th of September 1533, Queen Anne Boleyn gave birth to a daughter she named Elizabeth, at Greenwich, the Palace of Placentia. Anne had gone to her confinement a month earlier, confident that she was going to give birth to a son. An astrologer had made this prediction and no one had any reasons to doubt it. However, Anne would suffer many pains before her labor began.
Months prior to Elizabeth’s birth, Anne had been jealousand complain...
An Interview with Rambler
Originally posted on crafty theatre:
If the 17th Earl of Oxford was the creative force of the works of Shakespeare, how is it that no one let the cat out of the bag? Ok, he was an aristocrat and writing was beneath him – he couldn’t disparage his own reputation. But he didn’t live in isolation and certainly having his works publicly performed invited commentary. Where is it?
Bought Wit is Best, or Tom Long’s Journey to London to buy Wit, is only the surface of commentary on the Earl, his rel...
Katherine Harley
Originally posted on 
Katherine Harley sits at the desk
Katherine Mary Harley nee French, sister of Sir John French, (leader of the British army at the outbreak of World War 1,) and Charlotte Despard, was born on May 3rd 1855, less than three months after the death of her father. Her childhood was blighted by her mother’s ill health and by the age of ten she was an orphan. Katherine was sent to boarding school and then travelled to India to stay with her sister Maggie. There she met and m...
Old Round Church: A curiosity in heart of the Green Mountains
Originally posted on The Cotton Boll Conspiracy:
The Old Round Church of Richmond, Vt., is unusual for a number of reasons:
It is the believed to be lone surviving 16-sided wooden meetinghouse in the United States; When it was originally constructed more than two centuries ago it was home to five different Protestant denominations, all of which would meet every Sunday, each sharing the two-story wood frame structure; It was built at a cost of $3,000; when renovations to the structure were...September 4, 2015
Clara Wieck Schumann
Originally posted on Badass Ladies of History:
Young Clara Wieck
Clara Wieck Schumann was a renowned pianist and composer who lived from 1819—1896. She was the wife of Robert Schumann.
She was born in Leipzig, Germany, as Clara Wieck. Her father, Friedrich Wieck, was a piano teacher, music critic, and voice teacher. He also owned a piano store. Clara’s mother, Marianne Wieck née Tromlitz, was a very famous singer in Leipzig who gave many solo performances and recitals at the well-known Gew...
Poor Little Marjorie Bruce
Originally posted on History... the interesting bits!:
Tomb of Marjorie Bruce, Paisley Abbey
I’ve always had a soft spot for little Marjorie Bruce. Dead before her 20th birthday, her short life was filled with tragedy and adversity from the moment of her birth. I could find no pictures of her, just ones of her tomb; which just about sums it up for poor Marjorie.
Marjorie was born at a time of great upheaval for Scotland; Edward I was claiming overlordship of the country, and the right to c...
Tired of the Killing of Men: An Irish Family’s Story of Assisted Emigration, Missing Children & Letters Under Fire
Originally posted on Irish in the American Civil War:
The nature of the Widow’s and Dependent’s Pension Files means that the stories they tell are most usually ones of sorrow. The experiences they relate generally pertain specifically to the Civil War, but on occasions the information within them can be combined with a range of other sources to provide a much wider picture of one family’s 19th century emigrant experience. The file relating to the Carr family is a remarkable case in point, ch...
Hammer of the Witches
Originally posted on History Witch:
Welcome to WITCH Season on History Witch! I keep starting earlier and earlier every year.
The Malleus Maleficarum, also known the Hammer of the Witches is a handbook for hunting witches. It was written in 1487 by Heinrich Kramer. Heinrich clearly had a very small… uh, sorry, Heinrich was a Germanchurchman and inquisitor. He joined the Dominican Order very young and was considered to be enthusiastic andeloquent (whatever).
This ridiculous publication state...
September 3, 2015
The Tragedies of Mary Shelley
Originally posted on A R T LR K:
On the 30th of August 1797, English novelist Mary (Wollstonecraft) Shelley was born in London. She was the wife and muse of Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley, daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and of philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, she was most famous for her Gothic novel Frankenstein (1818).Much of Mary Godwin’spersonal life was fraught with...
