Ooooh I'm sticking around for the swinging! Anyone care to join me? #theremaybetroubleahead #totp

Portrait of Charles I, circle of Peter Lely, c. 1660

Proclamation from March 1629 dissolving Parliament in the name of the King. From UK National Archives.

#OnThisDay 10 March 1629 King Charles I dissolved the English Parliament and ruled alone until 1640 in the Eleven Year’s Personal Rule/Tyranny* (*Delete according to viewpoint...)
Painting in our collection; proclamation UK National Archives. #ThereMayBeTroubleAhead #17thCentury #OTD

“Ridcully felt there was indeed room at the top, and he was occupying all of it.”
Terry Pratchett; The Last Continent 
#Discworld #PowerGames #WhosTheDaddy #PresidentElectTrump #PresidentElectMusk #ThereMayBeTroubleAhead 🇺🇸

She'll never notice
#glasto #Glastonbury #theremaybetroubleahead

“‘My late husband always said that the only way to make money out of poor people is by keeping them poor.’”
Terry Pratchett; Making Money
#Discworld #ThereMayBeTroubleAhead #BusFareCapHit #WorkingPeople #FirstLabourBudgetIncoming

Beautiful long smooth lenticular cloud. Sunset pink with a grey cumulus in the foreground.

A lenticular cloud! Behind that grey one. #Swansea
#theremaybetroubleahead

#OnThisDay 7 November 1647 whilst the army's leaders and soldier's representatives were debating at Putney, King Charles I's attendants Sir John Berkeley, John Ashburnham & Will Legge made plans for his escape from Hampton Court... #ThereMayBeTroubleAhead #17thCentury #OTD (RCT)