Hamlet : Dublin vs Belfast
Oh. Such fun to be had :o) Ken is a Belfast Boy. Andrew is a Dublin boy. If you GET my vibe, you’ll get it. If not…!
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MY Turning Point
If there is just ONE SINGLE thing that can turn me from a Baconian to an Oxfordian it is THIS… GB 14th March 2019 : Cathars/Starfort/Oxford And Inspector Morse. And Lewis. And AW. AND KEN BRAN x I’ve said before that the authorship of the Shakespeare plays was not important to me. Who ever wrote […]
Read MoreGabriel Báthory
OMGA! Ref : last post about photo shop…if you watch the video, around the 10 minute mark you get the Gabriel Báthory/Bethlen MurderMayhem story. As soon as I saw the name Battor on the image, my SpideySenses peaked. Yup. Gabriel was a member of the Ecsed Báthory family and thereby related to Báthory Erzsébet aka […]
Read MoreThe Case of the 17th Century PhotoShoppery Craze
This one blew my slippers off! I’ll not share the whole video but I took this screenshot to make a point. The picture on the right is the Prince Palatine, Frederick, husband of Elizabeth Stuart (The Winter Queen of Bohemia) and depicts a campaign in Bratislava. The picture on the left is a libellous fabrication […]
Read MoreAll My Chickens Are Roosting : Penelope Rich
GB 19th October 2018 : Did Mary Sidney Write Shakespeare’s Plays? Even I had no idea about What an Absolutely Tangled Web I’d Woven! I’m absolutely loving this man and his knowledge because (although he has no idea) he HAS brought so many of my lines of research together. As stated in the old post […]
Read MoreA new Perspective on Ancient Statues
I haven’t got time to go into detail today but some salient facts… Josiah Wedgwood was a huge fan of white Chinese porcelain and some bright spark decided to add powdered flint to the clay. This made pottery beautifully white and durable. I’ve just watched something about Stucco Doro, an extremely hard-wearing whitework stucco that […]
Read MoreThe Divinity of Man
I’m overdosing on my new obsession – Alexander Waugh. Oooh. What an education :o) Side Note : He talks a lot about the Chi Rho. In one video he says it 3 times in a row and I heard Cairo. As in Egypt. As in pyramids. Just saying!
Read MoreFORGET Sir Francis Bacon!
I was always more of a Baconian than an Oxfordian but I’m a little better educated now. Dr. John Dee is a thousand times more fascinating than Bacon. And one of Dee’s most famous pupils was Edward de Vere. OK. Balancing, one-legged on a high fence here about THE AUTHORSHIP QUESTION but… …Dee is a […]
Read MoreΔάφνη : Daphne
How’s this for a run around Greek Mythology? Y’all know the story of love-sick Apollo’s pursuit of Daphne? And her prayer to her father to be saved from this pesky pest? And that her father turned her into a laurel tree? I’m back with Ovid and his Metamorphoses here. Mmmn. Girl turned into static, unspeaking […]
Read MoreTell The Truth & Shame The Devil
This is a line from Shakespeare’s Henry IV. We did Henry IV Part 1 AND Part 2 as part of my English Literature Exams. I didn’t quite appreciate this at the time but now I do. Henry IV, father of Henry V – antagonist of the Dauphin of France. Who was rescued by Jehanne d’Arc. […]
Read MoreThe Pregnancy Portrait of Elizabeth I
Oooh. I’m being given fascinating videos today :o) This one is a STUNNER for me. I got to know Somerset House quite well. By 1625, it was given over to Marie de Rohan as temporary accommodation when she escorted Henriette Marie to her new husband, Charles I Stuart, in England. By then the building had […]
Read MoreSwine, Bras & 15th Century Clothes
I built my shop around my innate love of textiles. 15 years ago it was not so difficult to buy clothes from the 30’s, 20’s, Edwardian, Victorian eras. I’d examine them closely…many handmade…and admire the delicacy of the stitches, the way they were constructed. So – no surprise – I found the video below to […]
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