@lrylandepton
Historian & contributing editor for VCH @wiltshistory.bsky.social & @vchgloucester.bsky.social. Fellow @ihr.bsky.social. Ed. at @hobnobpress.bsky.social & Crime, Histories & Societies. VF @openuniversity.bsky.social https://www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/
It is 400 years THIS WEEK since the birth of John Aubrey 🎂
I am celebrating by attending @chippenhammuseum.bsky.social for a book & festival (which highlights his 🤩 work)!!
www.wiltshirehistory.org/news/john-au...
In this blog on Aubrey's Natural History I explore his network of knowledge — from the saltpetre men to the Royal Society; from the Moroccan Ambassador and his cure for gout to Mistress Hatchman and her metheglin. From sympathetic magic to indoor beehives. www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/john-au...
In this blog on Aubrey's Natural History I explore his network of knowledge — from the saltpetre men to the Royal Society; from the Moroccan Ambassador and his cure for gout to Mistress Hatchman and her metheglin. From sympathetic magic to indoor beehives. www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/john-au...
Born weak. Shipwrecked. Cursed by a witch. John Aubrey antiquary, naturalist, biographer, folklorist, visionary was born 400 years ago this month. Find out more and how we are celebrating 👇@chippenhammuseum.bsky.social @wiltshistory.bsky.social
www.wiltshirehistory.org/news/john-au...
Born weak. Shipwrecked. Cursed by a witch. John Aubrey antiquary, naturalist, biographer, folklorist, visionary was born 400 years ago this month. Find out more and how we are celebrating 👇@chippenhammuseum.bsky.social @wiltshistory.bsky.social
www.wiltshirehistory.org/news/john-au...
Congrats Dr Sophie. You have been on an incredible journey & deserve all the success in the world. Hope to meet up soon xx
Delighted to receive a glowing review in The Local Historian of my 2 @vch-home.bsky.social #PartnershipPublications Kington SM and Langley Burrell — 'attractive and readable books, which set a high standard for similar volumes in the future.'😍 See Hobnob Press www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/lang...
#ComingSoon, our latest #PartnershipPublication with @hobnobpress.bsky.social.
We’re launching this in two weeks time on 12 March, and Chippenham, Our History will for a prelude to the #BigRedBook out later this year.
#Skystorians
An interesting blog about a charismatic man who clearly loved an adventure.
While the Civil War brought chaos across England, a mile or two from Chippenham it created space for an extraordinary same-sex relationship. Happy LGBTQ History Month🏳️🌈
www.wiltshirehistory.org/news/love-li...
Proud to be part of the team to publish Aubrey's Villa on John Aubrey's 400th birthday! This stunning book reproduces his Easton Piercy estate drawings from MS Aubrey 17—among the first pure landscape depictions in British art history. A fitting tribute to the antiquarian and natural philosopher.
What did John Aubrey know about urinary stones? More than you might expect & probably more than was good for sufferers.
www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/john-au...
Roast an eel. Catch the dripping. Put it in the patient's ear. Deafness cured — a woman who couldn't hear a drum beat 'heard perfectly.' But the pain was, according to #JohnAubrey, 'as if one's head would tear in pieces'. So, not nice. More 17thC medicine from Aubrey's Natural History out in June! 🐟
Roast an eel. Catch the dripping. Put it in the patient's ear. Deafness cured — a woman who couldn't hear a drum beat 'heard perfectly.' But the pain was, according to #JohnAubrey, 'as if one's head would tear in pieces'. So, not nice. More 17thC medicine from Aubrey's Natural History out in June! 🐟
At @gladlib.bsky.social writing and having far to much fun.
What did John Aubrey know about urinary stones? More than you might expect & probably more than was good for sufferers.
www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/john-au...
Wondering when Aubrey's birthday is?? It is 12 March!
Proud to be part of the team to publish Aubrey's Villa on John Aubrey's 400th birthday! This stunning book reproduces his Easton Piercy estate drawings from MS Aubrey 17—among the first pure landscape depictions in British art history. A fitting tribute to the antiquarian and natural philosopher.
Some more pictures of @hobnobpress.bsky.social stunning @vch-home.bsky.social #PartnershipPublication on Chippenham in association with Chippenham Town Council. Written by John Chandler and with a tiny bit of editorial input by me 🙂
From healing the sick to revealing hidden iron deposits: what John Aubrey learned by reading water. Another blog from my transcription of Aubrey's Natural History manuscript, published in June for his 400th anniversary.
www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/john-au...
From healing the sick to revealing hidden iron deposits: what John Aubrey learned by reading water. Another blog from my transcription of Aubrey's Natural History manuscript, published in June for his 400th anniversary.
www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/john-au...
We're so pleased to be able to support the publication of the high quality research that goes into our #BigRedBooks in other forms for a range of audiences with the engagement of the communities whose histories they describe.
Huge thanks to all involved, especially @hobnobpress.bsky.social! 🗃️
Delighted to see this @vch-home.bsky.social partnership publication on Chippenham is to be launched next month. The third partnership book developed from @wiltshistory.bsky.social research on the town and the surrounding area, created in collaboration with local communities.
A c17 cure for 'flabby leggs' anyone? 'Hancocks-well at Luckington is so extremely cold that in summer one cannot long endure one hand in it. It does much good to the eies. It cures the itch and scabbe, and heales in young people legges and thighs..It cured one that I knew that had flabby legges'🦵
John Aubrey noted that beer in Wells, Somerset, made strangers constipated, ‘and an ancient gentlewoman that I knew was cured of a long and tedious loosenes which the Dr could not cure, comeing thither accidentally.’ Good to know if I ever pass through the town. 🍺
I never met my grandfather, Herbert Ryland, and am not a family historian, but stories of Herbert’s chequered life have been a part of the family story for as long as I can remember and are just too good not to retell.
www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/herbert...
Today is #Candlemas so here is a little Wiltshire folklore from #JohnAubrey. ‘In south Wiltshire the constant observation is that if droppes doe hang upon the hedges on Candlemas day, it will be a good pease-yeare. It is generally agreed on to be matter of fact.’
Are dragons real? 🐉 Or more precisely that type of dragon called a wyvern? In his c17 Natural History #JohnAubrey looked into the subject and it’s the topic of my next blog in the run up to the publication of this work (in full for the 1st time) in June 😁
www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/john-au...
Are dragons real? 🐉 Or more precisely that type of dragon called a wyvern? In his c17 Natural History #JohnAubrey looked into the subject and it’s the topic of my next blog in the run up to the publication of this work (in full for the 1st time) in June 😁
www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/john-au...
What did it mean in 1685 for a species to be ‘lost’? John Aubrey’s Dinton shells challenged theological certainties 170 years before Darwin. In my 2nd blog in the run to the publication of Aubrey’s Natural History I consider extinction before Darwin.
www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/john-au...