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michwatsonoz

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Working professionally in records, working for fun in archives. It's all about the local.

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passamezzo , to histodon group
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I’ve been given the Janet Arnold Award by the Society of Antiquaries to recreate clothing described in the Tudor song, Greensleeves.
Really excited to be working on this project with a team of superb costume historians.
Among other things, there will be a video to come in the future, and a book about Greensleeves & early modern clothing in music and song, but in the meantime, here is our recording of the words and music…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pej-PqWDJ4U&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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michwatsonoz ,
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@passamezzo @earlymusic @earlymodern @histodons @histodon As someone whose made the odx one or two Elizabethan dresses, I will definitely be following this project.

CoinOfNote , to histodons group
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We haven't yet had anyone guess this week's , it must be a tricky one! It's a worn, but nicely decorative piece, but from where?

Let us know! And don't forget to subscribe to the Coin of Note Newsletter, as it's due out this week with the answer: https://coinofnote.com/newsletter

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michwatsonoz ,
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@CoinOfNote @numismatics @histodons Going by the heraldry, Castile?

wragge , to random
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Just because it seems like the traditional thing to do when testing things out, I created a collection of cat photos extracted from digitised periodicals in .
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/60imdoyf4ss2b6vh01q1w/h?rlkey=zuwbjaqnmr7qvkuinovdu5ot0&dl=0

If you want to see them in context, just add https://nla.gov.au/ to the nla.obj-[some number] identifier in the file name, eg: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-370067610

michwatsonoz ,
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@wragge @CatsOfYore You may find this helpful. Lots of cat pics extracted from periodicals.

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