Early Modern Whale
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
“Once Nurse, sev’n year the worse” – the married life of 'The Cotswold Muse'
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To t he Co t swolds t his las t weekend t o see my sis t er and her family, and so my pos t ing will be on Clemen t Barksdale (160...
Thursday, April 03, 2008
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"How long shall God and his Sain t s reigne? How long shall t he damned burn in Hell? For ever. How long is t ha t ? Imagine an ...
Friday, March 28, 2008
Mount Etna moralised, 1670
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My illustrations are from Heneage Finch, Earl of Winchilsea’s A true and exact relation of the late prodigious earthquake & eruption of...
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Sunday, March 23, 2008
'Comus' in the West Country, 1642
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These are fairly full excerpts from the little pamphlet, A blazing starre seen in the west at Totneis in Devonshire , on the fouret...
Friday, March 21, 2008
How could a parrot NOT love the Baroness of Grosbeke?
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My parrot, Barney, alongside the parrot from Jan Steen’s ‘The Effects of Intemperance’ (who is being given a sip of wine: a beaker full of ...
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