18TH CENTURY LIVING HISTORY, HISTORICAL TREKKING, AND PERIOD WILDERNESS LIVING.
A LIVING HISTORY BLOG.
18TH CENTURY LIVING HISTORY IN AUSTRALIA.
Friday 29 June 2018
Thursday 28 June 2018
Casanova’s Europe Art, Pleasure, and Power in the 18th Century.
The Charlatan (1756), Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo Courtesy
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Casanova’s Europe
Art, Pleasure, and Power in the 18th Century
Art, Pleasure, and Power in the 18th Century
July 8, 2018 – October 8, 2018
Ann and Graham Gund Gallery (Gallery LG31)
Ann and Graham Gund Gallery (Gallery LG31)
Australia
Boston, MA, USA
These 18th-Century Paintings of Interracial Mexican Families Are Based on a Lie.
Miguel Cabrera, De español y negra, mulata (From male Spaniard and
Black Female, Mulata), c. 1763. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
Labels:
18th century,
art,
clothing styles,
living history,
men,
mixed race,
paintings,
women
Australia
Mexico
Wednesday 27 June 2018
Frontier Art By David Wright. Beneath The Silent Canopy.
Labels:
18th century,
David Wright,
frontier art,
paintings,
prints
Australia
North America
Sunday 24 June 2018
Friday 22 June 2018
Learn the ropes in the ancient art of smuggling!
Coastal Exploration's converted whelker, Salford, off Norfolk.
Picture: Peter Naylor.
Labels:
18th century,
experimental archaeology,
living history,
Norfolk,
seamen,
smugglers,
smuggling,
UK
Australia
Norfolk, UK
Potlotek women create Model 18th century Mi’kmaq dress
A young Mi’kmaq woman, left, will stroll the streets of the national
historic site attired in traditional dress. The dress was made by a group of
women from Potlotek First Nation.
Wednesday 20 June 2018
To the stocks! Hanna's Town plans annual frontier court
Step back in time and visit the Revolutionary War-era village of
Hanna's Town which served as the first English Court west of the Allegheny
Mountains at the frontier court re-enactment June 23-24. Experience the
excitement of the people as they gathered, between 1773-1786, to witness the
trials of those who were accused, convicted and punished.
http://triblive.com/lifestyles/history/13757328-74/to-the-stocks-hannas-town-plans-annual-frontier-court
Labels:
18th century,
Allegheny Mountains,
colonial,
events,
Hanna's Town,
Historical,
living history,
reenactment,
settlement,
shows,
Westmoreland County
Australia
Westmoreland County, PA, USA
Friday 15 June 2018
Diver recovers rare sandglass timer from 18th century warship Invincible sunk of Isle of Wight
Georgian warship Invincible sank after smashing into a sandbank
shortly after leaving Portsmouth in February 1758.
Not the one found, but an example of an 18th century sand hour glass.
Wednesday 13 June 2018
Fire Lighting Quotes.
Lov na race; čakališče na jezeru pri jami Lisišče (1759)
by Franz Anton von Steinberg which depicts waterfowl
hunting.
"There happened to be an iron pot and an ax on
board--- they cut off a piece of the boat rope, and picked it to oakum, and
putting it in the pan of a gun, with some powder, catched it on fire, which
with some thin pieces cut from the mast, they kindled in the pot, and then cut
up their mast, seats, &c. for fuel, and making a tent of their sail, wrapt
themselves as well as they could;"
From
The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1765, 3 men trapped in the ice in their boat during a
waterfowl hunt and likely to freeze to death:
Tuesday 12 June 2018
The Surprising Practice of Binding Old Books With Scraps of Even Older Books.
The wood on this 1480 edition of the Vulgate bears the traces of a
manuscript wrapped around it.
Labels:
15th century,
18th century,
book covers,
book making,
books,
Historical,
living history,
writing
Australia
United Kingdom
Monday 11 June 2018
The Most Valuable Treasure Ship found off the coast of Cornwall England. The President Merchant Ship-East India Company.
Isaac Sailmaker - Two Views of an East Indiaman of the Time of King
William III.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6497046/britains-richest-shipwreck-worth-8million-today-is-found-off-cornwall/
Labels:
17th century,
Anchor,
archaeology,
cannon,
diamonds,
East India Company,
living history,
Merchant ship,
pearls,
pirates,
President,
seamen,
ship wreck,
Tall ships
Australia
Cornwall, UK
Saturday 9 June 2018
Very rare 17th century English doll turns heads to sell for £9500 at North Yorkshire auction.
17th Century Dolls.
Labels:
17th century dolls,
antiques,
clothing styles,
England,
English,
Historical,
living history,
UK,
Yorkshire
Australia
North Yorkshire, UK
Living history re-enactors at Maine Wildlife Park.
Maine Wildlife Park volunteer Miriam Bisbee throws the hatchet with
Dave Bryant of Maine living history group The Ancient Ones.
How freed African slaves in London in the 1700s helped abolish slave trade.
Slave ships in London --- Royal Museums Greenwich.
Labels:
18th century,
Africans in London society,
Historical,
living history,
slave ships,
slavery,
Tall ships
Australia
London, UK
Friday 8 June 2018
Aylwen Gardiner-Garden: Its cold outside, let's spin some wool...
Aylwen Gardiner-Garden: Its cold outside, let's spin some wool...: I’m spinning some black merino fleece I washed at Christmas. Not as soft and nice as the Polwarth I spun recently but I don’t want to leave ...
Aylwen Gardiner-Garden: Woad in Canberra
Aylwen Gardiner-Garden: Woad in Canberra: I planted some woad (Isatis tinctoria) in my garden in early March. It is still thriving, larger but staying low over the winter. I've ...
Aylwen Gardiner-Garden: Inkle Loom & More.
Aylwen Gardiner-Garden: Inkle Loom: I received an Ashford Inkle Loom today that has been in storage for some time and needs a little bit of TLC. I'm sanding it back with a...
Portraying 18th-Century Black Men in Colonial Williamsburg.
Jeremy Morris, 30, an actor-interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg.
Labels:
actors,
African American,
Africans,
colonial,
living history,
New World,
reenactment,
settlement,
Williamsburg
Australia
Williamsburg, VA, USA
Thursday 7 June 2018
Wednesday 6 June 2018
What self-help looked like in the 17th century! ‘Gentlewoman’s companion’ from 1673 offered women advice on handling everything from ‘lewd’ men to ‘windiness’
Labels:
17th century,
18th century,
article,
Auction,
Australia,
cooking,
Daily Mail,
literature,
living history,
manners,
MARTHA CLIFF,
self help book,
women,
writing
Australia
Australia
Tuesday 5 June 2018
Sunday 3 June 2018
Saturday 2 June 2018
Area Students Explore Living History
Labels:
18th century,
colonial,
education,
living history,
New World,
North America,
Ohio,
settlement,
students,
woodland Indians
Australia
Ohio, USA
Friday 1 June 2018
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