ANNALS of SCOTTISH PRINTING 1507-17thC LTD ED Signed 1890 DICKSON & EDMOND

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The Maiden: Edinburgh's First Lady of Executions - The Old Edinburgh Club The story of the Maiden, a guillotine-like device introduced to Edinburgh in the 16th century as a form of public punishment.

On this day in history. The Maiden: The first recorded execution by a guillotine-like device occurred on April 3, 1565, and it remained in use until 1710. #scottishhistory #localhistory #themaiden #scottishexecutions #16thcentury #edinburghhistory

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ARC Sign-up form: A Strange and Terrible Wonder by Nichole Louise Release date: August 18, 2026 Genre: Historical Fiction, Speculative Locations: London; Caribbean; Roanoke Colony Date: 1587 Eleanor Dare, daughter of Roanoke’s Governor John White, has no choice but ...

#ARC sign up form for A Strange and Terrible Wonder, a novel of the Lost Colony of #Roanoke, due out Aug. 18 2026
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Portrait of a young man, charcoal drawing, 1521 by Albrecht Dürer #albrechtdürer #germany #16thcentury #art #charcoaldrawing #gay

HISTORY ENGLISH REFORMATION 1594 POLLINI Italian RIVOLVZION D'INGHILTERRA Rare

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Maltese Bransle: A #sixteenthcentury #dance from Arbeau's #Orchesography, 1589
Image: Turkish men and women in Codice de Trajes, c1547
National Library of Spain

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#earlymusic #earlymodern #earlydance #renaissance #16thCentury #16thC #earlymusicensemble #earlymodernsky

New edition of Ferrara bible shows how persecuted Jews kept faith alive in Spanish Exiled Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had fled to Italy translated Hebrew bible into their common language

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

New edition of the Ferrara bible sheds light on research into Jews who fled Spain and lived in #16thCentury Italy

#ThrowbackThursday
Baldassare Castiglione
Raphael
1514-1515

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#BaldassareCastiglione #Portrait #ArtHistory #Raphael #Mantua #16thCentury #Italy #History

#OTD
24th February 1582
Pope Gregory XIII commissioned a new style of calendar which was named The Gregorian Calendar in his honour.

#GregoryXIII #PopeGregoryXIII #GregorianCalendar #16thCentury #Italy #History

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New Stock!
I've just added 3 new historical pamphlets to my #etsy shop.

Exercise of the Small Arms & Great Guns (1765)
The Order of Swannes (1550)
A Myrrour for Man (1552)

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#bookbinding #history #tudor #18thcentury #16thcentury #reenactment #livinghistory

THEODORE BEZA 1569 POEMATUM Latin GEORGE BUCHANAN Poetry ESTIENNE

Provenance: 'Henricus Wentworth'
& The Earl of Macclesfield's Library

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Charming little faint sketch to the margin of 1530, post incunable edition of Bude's Lexicon Graeco Latinum.

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#jacopobassano #art #painting #16thcentury #meninart

Our researcher Pablo Cañón García defends his #PhD thesis on how merchants operated in the polycentric imperial order of the Iberian Atlantic during the Union of the Crowns of Portugal and Castile (late #16thcentury - mid #17thcentury) 👉 www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

🎓📚 #TradeHistory #ImperialHistory

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LEXICON GRAECO LATINUM 1530 BUDE Language ERASMUS Greek POST INCUNABLE Woodcut

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THEODORE BEZA 1569 POEMATUM Latin GEORGE BUCHANAN Poetry ESTIENNE Rare

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Today's #marginalmusicians are #muses, playing music in honour of Albrecht V of Bavaria.
Detail from #CiprianodelRore's motet Mirabar solito in an #illuminated #choirbook, c1559
Munich, BSB Mus. Ms. B I

#earlymusic #earlymodern #16thCentury #renaissance #manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday #lute

"Eating with the Tudors" is an extensive collection of authentic Tudor recipes that tell the story of a dramatically changing world in sixteenth-century England!

💻️: https://tinyurl.com/3yvkck5a

#tudorera #tudorrecipes #16thcentury

Wrapping the presentation #Bacci #histsci #histplants #16thcentury #rsa26 @renaissancesociety.bsky.social #rsaSanFran26 #wine #vino #plantstudies #envhist #conenvhist

Розп’яття християн у Нагасакі. — Сусіди. Post by Сусіди.

Розп’яття християн у Нагасакі.
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#історіяЯпонії #Нагасакі1597 #релігійніпереслідування #християнськімученики #XVIстоліття
#JapaneseHistory #Nagasaki1597 #ReligiousPersecution #ChristianMartyrs #16thCentury

In this week’s Miscellanies: the coffee poets of #16thcentury Islam

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In this week’s newsletter: the coffee poets of #16thcentury Islam

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Adapted from David Kandel and Heinrich Petri woodcut print, illustrations to the Latin edition of Sebastian Münster “Cosmographia”,
Basle 1552-1550, Switzerland/Germany. British Museum 1850,1014.979

#historian #archivist #earlyprintedbooks #love #romance #16thcentury

Embroidered shirts and nightgowns with custom designs — made bold, made big.
Yes, we do proper large sizes too.
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#plussize #plussizefashion #plussizecosplay #LARP #Landsknecht #16thCentury #HistoricalCostume #Warhammer #SCA #RenaissanceFairs #HistoricalReenactment #RenaissanceLARP

We've combined 3 settings of a popular #16thCentury melody in this recording

Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Richard de Winter: #tenor
Robin Jeffrey: #lute
Lynda Sayce: lute

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#earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymusicensemble #galliard #lagamba #divisions #trattadodeglosas

Embroidered shirts and nightgowns with custom designs — made bold, made big.
Yes, we do proper large sizes too.
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#plussize #plussizefashion #plussizecosplay #LARP #Landsknecht #16thCentury #HistoricalCostume #Warhammer #SCA #RenaissanceFairs #HistoricalReenactment #RenaissanceLARP