How about this beauty from ⁦National Trust⁩ Packwood House #AdoorableThursday … I’m now deliberately taking 🚪 photos when I’m out and about 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Featuring Historical Heroes
Nicola Cornick on Nell Gywn
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Read The Other Gwyn Girl
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Time for the great reveal! Here it is in all of its glory, a 1630s-40s picture made in a professional embroidery workshop in England. The object features a variety of motifs, combining figural, natural, and architectural imagery to create a glittering, highly textured composition

It’s a spectacular morning here at Gwydir. Clear blue skies and a light frost. The air is scalpel sharp.

Grimes Graves, England's largest known Neolithic flint mine, will re-open Saturday 27th! 🎉⛏️

The new entrance enables visitors to descend into the oldest humanmade underground space in England. While, above ground, a new exhibition tells the story of people 4,500 years ago 🕰️

What fabulous pictures!

I don't think I've come across a place that captures so evocatively the memory of the past within the fabric, as the sea of steps at Wells Cathedral.

Lists of summer reading books are already being published!
And it's only cold and gloomy April.
But if historical writing is what you love, get inspired by our round-up of books published in 2024: many are out, more are to look forward to.
Have a browse at historiamag.com/historical-boo…

I’m very excited to hear that Larry Lamb debut novel is on the way!

A bookmark that’s been in place since the seventeenth century.

Carving detail from the gothic revival church in Brightwalton, Berkshire, which incorporates some of the original 13th century church fabric.

The Old Wellington Inn and Sinclair’s Oyster Room in Manchester were once a house, built around the mid-16th century.

This photograph was taken in 1971 when the building was underpinned and raised to fit the new street level. It was later moved as Shambles Square was developed.

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To celebrate #WhenHistoryMeetsMystery (Dublin, May 1) I’m giving away a signed set of the panel’s latest novels! We’d LOVE you to come along. Tickets are free, secure them here shorturl.at/chFGX

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Aspects of History Issue 21. OUT NOW.
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Featuring Alec Marsh, author of the Drabble & Harris books Nicola Cornick
Sarah Gristwood John R McKay Michael Smith

Inside History Magazine
Historia – the HWA
Versus History

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If you missed my Insta Live yesterday with Nicola Cornick, it's on my grid
@ neetschapman or you can view via link below.

We talked about Nicola's latest enchanting timeslip, The Other Gwyn Girl amongst other writerly and bookish things

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Can the Gunpowder Plotters be stopped?

Bess Throckmorton is used to cunning plots but she is shocked to hear talk of a violent new plot to murder the king. Unbeknown to their menfolk, the wives of the plotters work together to try to stop impending disaster.

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Tomorrow's online talk will look at the archaeology of staircases. They are not just a way to access different floors in a house but tell us lots about social history and attitudes of the times they were used.

More info and bookings here:
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Jane Austen museum appeals to public for help deciphering brother’s memoir theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Thank you so much Anita Chapman for the Insta Live chatting about books, writing, history and so much more!

On the @Wordwenches8 blog today Nicola Cornick looks into the mad history of food crazes, stretching from Roman figs to the cronut! Do you have a favourite item of fashionable food? wordwenches.com/historical-foo…