Yes, yes it is.
This sketch might actually be my favourite thing at the moment.
“Skills.”
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…Might have to get one of these.
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As dawn broke bright and clear on the first day of September 1666, no one dreamed they were waking to the last sunrise the old city would ever see. No one dreamed that over the next six days God would blot out the heavens, or that hell would break loose as fear and flame turned the streets of London into Armageddon. ~ from the book
One of the best, most gripping books I’ve read (or anything I’ve read) on the Great Fire of 1666. I started reading it only yesterday and I’m just 50 pages to the end. I love Restoration history anyway, and I adore Charles II. This book makes you feel like you are right there with the whole city during the fire. Tinniswood litters his narrative with eye-witness accounts - including the celebrated Samuel Pepys. Pepys! I love him too. It’s like Tinniswood is actually chasing the fire, from street to street. It actually makes you nervous.
Thought this might be of interest :)
King Charles II and Louise de Kéroualle
By Henri Gascar
This is the only ‘double portrait’ of Charles and one of his mistresses to survive (Louise is shown in the background with her attendants). It reflects as bold a statement as would have been acceptable of Louise’s enduring relationship with the King, commissioned, as presumably it was, by Louise herself.
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King Charles II, London 29th May 1660
The Original Celebrity Gossip Magazine -
The years after the Civil War and the Restoration of Charles II marked the end of the medieval and the beginning of the modern age.
Historian Dr Lucy Worsley looks through writer Samuel Pepys’ scrapbook from the period which contains portraits of Charles II’s mistresses - including the royalist Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, and the French spy Louise de Keroualle.
Dr Worsley explains that the scrapbook is an early example of a ‘gossip’ magazine and that popular print culture is not a modern day phenomenon but actually began in the 1660s.
Find out more in Harlots, Housewives & Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls on Tuesday 22 May at 21:00 BST on BBC Four.
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Charles II on Flickr.
before it’s the end of Charlies birthday have a photo of me cosplaying the sexy beast himself.
Via Flickr:
Images and Dreams
College Assignment.
Self Portrait as Charles IITHIS
IS
EPIC
*applauds*
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