Tag: Early modern Records and researchProphet, prisoner and pretend prelate: Lady Eleanor Davies (1590–1652)Thursday 23 March 2023In 1636, a woman was was committed to Bethlem Hospital for her 'insufferable profanations'...Records and researchDockyard incendiarist: the tale of ‘John the Painter’Wednesday 15 March 2023246 years ago this month, James Aitken was publicly executed at Portsmouth for heinous...Records and researchLady Lisle: Reluctant rebel?Tuesday 6 December 2022Among The National Archives’ vast collections can be found the rather overlooked and somewhat...Records and researchThe 17th century ghost and the fresh nightcapFriday 29 October 2021We’re used to finding stories of spooks (of the spying variety) in the archives,...Records and researchRichmond Park and the Georgian access controversyWednesday 23 June 2021Two hundred and sixty years ago, in the mid-summer of 1761, Richmond Park acquired...Records and researchLove dividedThursday 7 May 2020Today, as we write this blog, people across the world have been separated, in...Records and research‘Last term my rolls were painted very ill’: An early modern poem hidden among the records of the King’s BenchMonday 13 April 2020Hidden away in the King’s Bench plea roll for Trinity term 1627, however, is...Records and research‘Not of so merry cheer’: Falling sickness in the early modern periodThursday 12 December 2019Contemporary definitions, diagnoses and cures for the neurological condition commonly known as falling sickness...Archives and archivistsfoinsí Ghaeilge (Irish sources) at The National ArchivesMonday 20 May 2019It is a thoroughly unremarkable occurrence to see a letter in The National Archives...Archives and archivistsThe poignant last will and testament of Nicholas HilliardTuesday 30 April 2019Nicholas Hilliard – goldsmith, portrait painter, royal servant – was buried in St Martin-in-the-Fields,...Records and researchJoin us to discuss seven centuries of Irish historyWednesday 13 February 2019Thursday 21 to Saturday 23 March 2019 Dominus Hibernie/Rex Hiberniae: pre-modern Ireland, 1200-1801 Tickets...Records and researchA snowball fight in ConstantinopleWednesday 19 December 2018It looks as though, yet again, there is no prospect of a white Christmas... 1 2 3 4 »
