The full length video of our amazing extreme #reenactment experience organised by the incredible @bkhistorical.bsky.social. I was so lucky to be part of this. #medieval #15thc #livinghistory #history #historysky #wealdanddownland #museum youtu.be/rP9vG6W5EPA

Love the magical way the light falls in our Red Dining Room. #windowsonwednesday #diamondpanes #photography #shadows

Ugh. Go to @jorvikviking.bsky.social instead, they have real people who know loads. Or one of the re-enactments - @kentwellhall.bsky.social had Vikings last weekend - where you will get a much richer multisensory experience and there will be people doing real things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So nice to hear we have had an impact. ‘The 37-year-old first got a taste for the trade aged nine, when he met a thatcher at a Tudor re-enactment at Kentwell Hall in Long Melford - a thatcher who is his colleague today.’ #thatching #historicbuildings #heritagecrafts www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

jeez read the room charlie brooker we don’t need another season of black mirror right now can’t you try doing like a ‘rose tinted mirror’

Really looking forward to this #conference in July @antiquaries.bsky.social Greensleeves: Text and #Textiles in #EarlyModern English Culture www.sal.org.uk/event/greens... #earlymodernsky #materialculture #earlymusic #greensleevesproject #historicaldress #tudor #tudorsky @ninyamikhaila.bsky.social

A Special Guest Post by Katharine Edgar: Kentwell Hall, Where Time Travel Dreams Come True: tonyriches.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-sp... @katharineedgar.bsky.social @kentwellhall.bsky.social #Tudors #Travel

Lenten Stuff - a seasonal #Tudor #ballad by William Elderton. From MS Ashmole 48. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVg7... #earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernsky #lent #fasting #nettles #leeks #fish #jackalent #herrings #tudors #16thCentury #popularsong #satire #foodhistory #historyoffood

I have never wished I still taught Collections Management before, but….

I’ve always loved the headlines in my local paper but this one from a few years ago even beat ‘man drove tractor at love rival.’ www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/1519931...

I just got in from a run and my 15 year old son said to me, ‘You know, if I saw you running I’d think how amazing it is that an old person can run.’ 🤨

Ok I think I have nailed it and I think it’s going to do the job I want (brief thread follows)

I’m going to try to learn Elizabethan double twisted chain stitch now, please pray for me. #blackwork #embroidery #historicembroidery #costume #needlework #crafts

#flowersonfriday Come and see our daffodils, we’ve got lots. Also nice cake. #suffolk #daysout #teashop #gardens #mothersday #motheringsunday #flowers #daffodils #springbulbs #eastanglia

#marchmeetthemaker Day 10: Where? 1) You will find a selection of notebooks on Etsy (link in bio) 2) and also at local #Suffolk (UK) #craft fayres, these are my next two. 3) or you can see me binding as a Tudor at @kentwellhall.bsky.social . #bookbinding #booksky #journal #makingmonday

Practice makes perfect! In preparation for #Kentwell1536 one of our #Tudors has been working on his ‘English secretarie’ hand from Augustino de Siena’s 1560 book. Goal is to be as neat as Cranmer (or Cranmer’s clerk.) #medievalmonday #mondaymotivation #earlymodern #16thc #penmanship #palaeography

Counted blackwork from Johann Schönsperger the Younger, Ein new getruckt model Büchli, 1529. For @kentwellhall.bsky.social 1536 re-creation this year. Deveres 36 silk on 46 count linen. I love bringing old patterns to life! #embroidery #blackwork #needlework #crafts #history #crafts #counted

Me: This video I am in has gone viral! 40k views! Teenage son 1: Mum, no-one says gone viral any more. You say ‘it broke out.’ Teenage son 2: That’s nothing, I got 700k for a video of me playing a computer game. 🤷‍♀️

Little 77 living his best life in the spring sunshine. Open this weekend! www.kentwell.co.uk #lambs #daffodils #flowersonfriday #spring #suffolk #farm #gardens #sheep

Lots of comments on this now & I don’t know what’s worse, the ones who misunderstand biphasic sleep & think we did it wrong because we didn’t get up in the middle of the pitch black freezing night to do a few hours work, or the ones who are convinced we are eating potatoes. They are TURNIPS!!!

This Sunday Eleanor and I are doing a William McGonagall memorial walk for the 200th anniversary of his birth. All ticket money will go to LGBT Youth www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/william-mc...

Long but lovely video of @bkhistorical.bsky.social 1461 total immersion event at the Weald and Downland Museum. #medieval #medievalsky #15thc #livinghistory #historysky #history #reenactment m.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMS...

This lamb may be our cutest yet and the #daffodils are out! Open this weekend www.kentwell.co.uk #lambs #daysout #suffolk #eastanglia #heritage #gardens #farm #rarebreed

Long but lovely video of @bkhistorical.bsky.social 1461 total immersion event at the Weald and Downland Museum. #medieval #medievalsky #15thc #livinghistory #historysky #history #reenactment m.youtube.com/watch?v=GGMS...

If any UK based spinners want a Great Wheel, the amazing Jack Greene is taking commissions. He made my #spinningwheel, it’s incredible craftsmanship and excellent value. #wool #textiles #spinning #greatwheel #walkingwheel #textilecrafts #medieval #tudor #reenactment #livinghistory

My new book ( out next year) about Scotland and the wars of the Roses will feature some incredible women. Mary of Gueldres and Margaret of Anjou. I am very excited to be researching them.

Glad to see the Wrest Park Lady Jane Grey portrait in the news. But ‘a new discovery’? I exhibited the picture and made the case for it in 2007, with David Starkey. We even had the dendrochronology done back then. 🤓

#Tudor sweetmeats made by the amazing Ivan Day for the #greensleevesproject www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq3i... #earlymusic #earlymodern #greensleeves #historyoffood #gingerbread #marchpane #sugarplate #tudors #16thCentury

The costume change is what interests me most here, the idea that the pinner (what they have called ‘white scarf’) and white headgear relate to her being a Protestant martyr.

When my daughter was a baby I found some pink and white striped cotton and thought ‘How lovely! I will buy some and one day she can go to #WorldBookDay as Milly Molly Mandy!’ Then when she was old enough she was like, ‘No way. I’m going as The Illustrated Mum.’ Lots of temporary tattoos. Was fab.

Probably the best photo I have ever seen of the Kentwell Hall #TowerofBabelTree. ❤️

So pleased to see @bkhistorical.bsky.social has joined Bluesky. He organised the #extremereenactment I posted about earlier, though he did not do it dressed as a knight. Do follow him for more #history #events & photos. #medievalsky #medieval #historysky

The pancake bell! #yorkshirehistory

Accidental Renaissance painting in The Guardian this morning.

The #Hull & East Yorkshire Museum was a revelation, it has the most astonishing archaeology collections.

This blew my mind. Somehow the fact they were doing it outdoors, in the woods, made it even more astonishing. #historysky #craftsky #crafts #metalwork #metalworkmonday

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

These North #Yorkshire #sheep would like to send empathy and solidarity to all our non-Trump voting American friends. #yorkshiremoors #sheepsunday

This is wonderful, an absolute goldmine of food-related material culture.

www.epoch-magazine.com/post/what-ar... A new article for @epoch-history.bsky.social. One about mosh-pits, historical reenacting, generative AI, and Elon Musk. One that I really enjoyed writing and only took semi-seriously. A laid back, (hopefully) insightful, entertaining 8 minute read. Enjoy!

Yes please

In 1626, a Cambridge fishwife sliced open a cod, only to find a gelatinous, half-dissolved manuscript inside. It was published the next year under the name "Vox Piscis or, the Bookfish." At this point, why not get your news from inside a dead fish? #earlymodern #bookfish archive.org/details/bim_...

Here’s another #lamb picture for anyone that needs it. Our lovely flock are #Norfolkhorn, a #rarebreed that is one of the ancestors of the #Suffolk #sheep breed.

I Stand With Ukraine against this despicable bully

Everyone else is doing pictures of #iron already worked for #ironworkthursday so here is some in progress. The ‘dink! dink! dink!’ sound in the distance as the #blacksmith hammers away is one of the most evocative parts of our #earlymodern soundscape. #forge #metalwork #crafts #ancienttechnology

So true! It’s why it’s so nice learning a new historical skill (eg brewing) right from the start because I can afford a whole pile of books. Whereas when you get really niche it needs to be a very specific date and place and the books are £250 if there are even any copies available.

Living Medieval has published a short article about our 1461 total immersion reenactment. There’s going to be a more detailed report in the next issue. #medievalsky #history #livinghistory www.livingmedieval.com/features/med...