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Still life with candle 🕯️

For #international #pie #day I give you a #Tudor recipe venison pie! For full recipe see #EatingWithTheTudors page 165

Today is #NationalPieDay , to celebrate we have a 18thc recipe for Chicken pie from the Bulwer collection. Could this be the earliest reference to 'pulled chicken'? #recipes #NorfolkHistory

January 1st 2026 fell on a Thursday. Here is your Tudor prognosis for what to expect.

Very excited to share this (Spot my name …) @ceu-press.bsky.social

"This meticulously researched and much-needed study explores the shift from deer- to fox-hunting from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century and its effects on the landscape of #Northamptonshire." Amanda Richardson, Landscape History www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book...

All quiet in the kitchen garden

Imposter in red

#Hamnet on a Monday morning at Cinema City Norwich, the only cinema complex I know of that is housed within a Tudor building. Double emotional charge. Tissues highly recommended.

In #2016 I was only half the woman I am today. Already I had displayed a deep interest in early furniture & the Tudors but it was only the beginning of a life enriched by history, study & research. 2016 was the year I started to work on MY dream. I’ve come a long way since then. Proud of myself.

Living in a 500 year old building we are still working out what some features, or what’s left, represent. This construction forms part of the kitchen which was added to the existing hall in around 1600. I wonder if anyone has seen similar features somewhere else?

Now, these are something special! 🤩 Mid-13th century wall paintings at St. Agatha’s Church, Easby, Richmond, North Yorkshire. A photo thread…

The #Tudors took solace from taming the forces of nature. Works for me too.

Can anyone shed some light on the age of this cute wallpaper design? Perhaps 1970s or 80s? Who produced this pattern? I found this remnant under some floorboards and I am keen to 'match' it with a potential former resident. #househistory #wallpaper #cats

New book arrival ❤️ #foodhistory #materialculture #medieval #Valencia @luisalmenarfdez.bsky.social

There be Dragons! We love these adorable 14thC dragons in the Marham Abbey Cartulary #marginalia #DragonAppreciationDay #AppreciateADragonDay #NorfolkHistory

Headboard to a bed, circa 1600. The crest is formally described as ‘Issuant from a crest coronet, dexter arm vambraced, the hand brandishing a sword’ and might relate to a branch of the Wallace family.

It’s been a kind of heated sort of day… We truly are experiencing a highly charged world, ready to explode. Saying goodbye to this chap tomorrow. He’s obviously not happy about it

Walking up that (Tudor) mount in winter proofs it is a popular viewing point, enjoyed by wildlife and the humans who inhabit the space.

Have you ever wondered what it looks like under the floor boards of a heritage home? Not that exciting actually except for that jungle of cables and tons of building debris. But there is some architectural clue. Can you see it?

If you prefer supporting independent bookshops (and this upstart author 😊) rather than helping to finance some ballroom you will never get to dance in, then can I please urge you to buy my book through @bookshop.org. or @bookshop.org

My absolute favourite visitor seems to be enjoying my patch just as much as I do.

Red alert

Feeling extra proud when my little lockdown project emerges on the bookshelf of a well known Austrian food historian 😊

(‘My’ 😉) Sir Edward Chamberlyn was entrusted to assist Sir Edmund Bedingfeld with the captivity of #katherineofaragon from March 1534 until her death on January 7th 1536. The photo shows one of the two surviving windows that formed part of #KimboltonCastle as Katherine knew it.

Grew up with Hohlhippen and Manner are best. Never realised just how traditional they are.

The only kind of war sound I am content with.

I have recently received a digital document when #AI suggested that it could help me summarise its content: a handwritten 10 pages long manuscript from C16/. I was intrigued and accepted. AI took about 5 mins to think about it. Apparently there was nothing to summarise 😂

Commotion in the #orchard. Welcome to my #SafeHaven #Egyptiangeese and #Hare

Only in the midst of winter am I up before the sun ☀️

It was #quails night this #TwelfthNight

Freezing evening glow

Two years before this map was drawn by John Lane in 1580, a tenant farmer, John Lyster, complained that the #rabbits of Methwold Warren ‘doo borough and brede’ on the arable lands adjoining to the warren. 1/3

Thoroughly enjoyed our chat about Tudor Christmas and New Year’s feasting traditions with @unholytudor.bsky.social

First #snow of 2026 ❄️🌨️

In 1622 Jeffrey Cremer, the owner of East Field foldcourse in Snettisham was accused of digging up a 16-acre covert of mature #furze (also known as #gorse). This extremely prickly shrub had two uses: providing shelter for grazing sheep and it was also a vital source of fuel for local residents.

Yes please.

Country life bliss, nature’s euphonious bedtime sounds

First bloom spotted in the garden in 2026 goes to #rose, #gorse, #periwinkle, #thrift and winter #aconite. All but the last one were a common sight in #Tudor England. The winter aconite arrived here at the end of Elizabeth’s reign and was first recorded in 1597.

Saying goodbye to what was probably one of my most remarkable years, full of extreme heights & stressful lows. Welcoming a new year with predictable & unexpected new challenges but #2025 has prepared me well: Nothing is impossible. Wishing everyone peace, strength & joy for #2026

a festive miracle!

30 Dec 1619: A royal proclamation bans #tobacco growing in #England #otd (British Museum)

🇬🇧English #Winter #Country #House #Comfort in German is: 🇩🇪Englische #Winterlandhausgemütlichkeit. What is it in your language?

Marzipan sweetmeats for the funeral of Henri II, master household's roll for 9 August 1559. Bit gloomy I know, but I was pleased to identify L'appo[ticai]re in this

Meet Carole Taylor, our 72-year-old English Literature and Creative Writing student, who's proving it's never too late to pursue your passions. From prison education to policy reform, Carole's journey is truly inspiring. Learn more about Carole's journey to university: https://bit.ly/4pLY8uw

As the custodians of an ancient building most of our income is spent on maintenance and repair and so Christmas presents are small tokens of love. This year I received this T-shirt which wholeheartedly celebrates my places of happiness. I added the original Latin in the small insert.

#Library time: Renaissance Italian walnut chair