historian of renaissance scenography: the material, manufacturers & manufacturing of magnificence & spectacle - pageants, intermezzi, machines, festivals, feasts, gardens.
2025-7 pivot: msc bweh ems
2026-? sidequest: field systems & landscape archaeology
g.j.hilton
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If we’re ever locked in life & death hot pursuit and you feel my breath at your very heels like a Fury on the brink of catching up with you, fling this at me. Based on the library catalogue’s performance earlier, you’ll gain at least a morning’s head start while I uh explore new research priorities
Hello, #birdsky. Something like 200 or so of these guys just descended on my back garden. What am I looking at? They’re beautiful - a kind of soft mole grey with a black beak and legs.
*The resident woodpigeons are not chuffed.
After five straight weeks on field systems, field systems & more field systems, at the first opportunity: well and truly back on my bullshit.
Abeb♥️♥️ks. How can this megalith of a book have been £2.82 incl. next-day cross-channel shipping?
Dramatic upturn in prospects for today as I discover that the 1972 Eileen Atkins / James MacTaggart Malfi is on Youtube in full.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFbD...
Has there ever been a title/author one-two punch to beat English Field Names: a Dictionary, by… John Field?
Also: it should 100% be shelved under ‘folk horror’.
Along with the 1974 Mirren / Cox Changeling!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR8f...
Bloody hell, this channel:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8sE...
Daniel, Samuel, Tethys festival, or, The Queenes wake. John Budge, London, 1610. www.proquest.com/books/order-....
Three things I enjoy
1) North Yorkshire
2) NYCRO (wish you were on bluesky)
3) Field systems
So this was pretty much a banker
nycroblog.com/fields/
Next Explore how fields and their boundaries have shaped North Yorkshire’s countryside from the medieval period to the present day, and discover the hidden history of the landscape through hi…
5 June 1610: the masque Tethys' Festival celebrates Henry as Prince of Wales, as noted on wikipedia's front page today: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethys%...
