Thanks to Dr. Erica Canela, for joining Sean to discuss the 1995 odd fish film: Restoration (1995), set during the time of Charles II, the plague and the great fire of London.
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@reviewityourself.bsky.socialThanks to Dr. Erica Canela, for joining Sean to discuss the 1995 odd fish film: Restoration (1995), set during the time of Charles II, the plague and the great fire of London.
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialDYK 17thC English rakes, including kings #CharlesII, #JamesI & #JamesII, bragged about #SameSex partners & the women in their lives? Charles said God wouldn’t punish him for “a little pleasure taken out of the way”. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
@paulinepark.bsky.social#CharlesII hid in a giant oak tree in Boscobel #OnThisDay in 1651 following the Royalist army's defeat by Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army at the Battle of Worcester in the #EnglishCivilWar on Sept. 3; a fugitive, he would spend 9 years in exile until the Restoration
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_...
@restorationhat.bsky.social#otd 1651
#CharlesII nearly fell out of a tree.🌳
He was hiding to avoid almost certain execution, yet he'd just removed his armour in battle & said he wanted to die.
What do we know of his #mentalhealth? My book explains a bit.📘
@nicolaharrisauthor.bsky.socialMiles Corbet was the Member of Parliament for Yarmouth and was the last signatory to the death warrant of the King. He was executed for regicide when Charles I’s son, charles II came to the throne.
#Englishcivilwar #charlesI #charlesII #historicalfiction #books