Seventeenth Century

  • What is a Cabinet of Curiosity?

    What is a Cabinet of Curiosity?

    One of my favourite things that I spotted in the second half of the third season of Bridgerton was the presence of cabinets of curiosity in Penelope and Colin’s sitting room. It seems the perfect set addition for our intrepid and intellectually engaged couple (I tried to find a still of the set, but couldn’t!): read more

  • Mini-Post | Salem, Massachusetts

    Mini-Post | Salem, Massachusetts

    Salem is a coastal city that, before European colonisation, was lived in for thousands of years by American Indians and was part of a peninsula known as Naumkeag. Due to war, contact with settlers and a smallpox epidemic, many Naumkeag people passed away in the early seventeenth century. English settlers arrived and founded Salem in read more

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