Historian of science and medicine. Editor for The Casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier (1596-1634), now Unlocking Digital Texts, but still Napiering. And taking photos. Views my own.
It's reminding me a bit of Wicken Fen, near here (though the reeds aren't quite that rich a colour in this shot), and I'm realising I haven't been for a long while.
Thank you! Yes, mobile, and stitches gone. Happy to be out and about again. 🙂
I went for a short walk down by the river Ouse today, for the first time in a while. 📷 #mobilephotography #blackandwhite
From this weekend: trees, clouds, and a shade of blue I think I last saw on a 70s postcard. 📷 #photography
I’d forgotten! I’ll have to see if I can dig that up. Deathbed sounds v interesting. We touch a little on death, inc. Napier vs two other practitioners when sharing dying patients.
I love the image. I’m doing an edited volume chapter with Lauren about bedside manner etc. in the casebooks, and the small detail of his having had a fight with the Earl of Kent’s chaplain had entirely passed me by…
9 April 1621: the Earl of Kent sends a caroche (a posh carriage) for Napier to visit him. Arriving the next day, Napier reports, ‘I had some scufling w[i]th his chaplin’.
9 April 1621: the Earl of Kent sends his caroche (a posh carriage) for Napier to visit him. Arriving the next day, Napier reports, ‘I had some scuffling with his chaplin’.
Somehow it sneaks under my radar a little, then each year the flowers come out and I’m wowed by them all over again.
See, I didn’t even think of that. 🧐 I think I haven’t any of those.
Yep, I’m having to break out a tourist snap of the statue of someone whose name began with J…
Looks convincing to me. I definitely got the ‘L’ and the two ‘r’s.
Also I for illegible. How modern historians deal with writing like this I’ll never know.
For a little while now I’ve been enjoying seeing these eye-catching pink cyclamen among the violets in our garden. 📷 #photography
Much obliged. (Tips hat.) may see later if I can dig up an iris, so to speak.
I’ll see if I can get hold of a copy. Thanks for the recommendation.
Interesting. I remember the singles but don’t know the album. I should listen to it - I love Different Class.
Blink and you missed it, but for five minutes just now the cloud actually cleared. It’s gone grey again since, of course.
Thank you! That’s very kind. I’ve only known about these bees for a couple of autumns and I really rather like them.
3 Feb 1607: Napier falls out with his curate, again. ‘I chid Mr Shaxston for [tha]t he called for a colestaffe to kill my dog.’
That’s very kind! I wasn’t sure I had the confidence to post it, but my partner persuaded me.
After many attempts over a long time, I have finally - finally- managed to get a photo of the moon that somewhat resembles what I could see in the sky.