Another seasonal song:
The Country People's Felicity: a #17thCentury #broadsideballad about #haymaking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9zGjovPBOg&ab_channel=Passamezzo
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A description of daily life during the #month of #July in #earlymodern England
From Nicholas #Breton's Fantastickes, 1626.
Read by Peter Kenny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm2SoVTc7_s&ab_channel=Passamezzo

Image from the #trevelyonmiscellany ( #Folger MS V.b.232), c1608

#histodon #histodons #socialhistory #history #historical #summer #season #seasonal #laboursofthemonths

A description of the #month of #May in #earlymodern England.
From Nicholas Breton's Fantastickes, 1626.

Read by Peter Kenny

Image from the Trevelyon Miscellany (Folger MS V.b.232), c1608

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZYJPfZlPk0&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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#maypole
#blossom
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#calendarcustoms
#seasonal
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#trevelyonmiscellany
#maytime
#sparrowhawk
#peascod
#dailylife
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#17thCentury
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#folklore
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A description of the #month of #April in #earlymodern England.
From Fantasticks, Nicholas Breton, 1626.

Read by Peter Kenny

Image from the #Trevelyon #Miscellany (Folger MS V.b.232), c1608

#17thCentury
#laboursofthemonths
#seventeenthcentury
#commonplacebook
#commonplacebooks
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#history
#socialhistory
#morrisdance
#morrisdancers
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#plumblossom
#porpoise
#nightingale
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBWPcooYTZM&ab_channel=Passamezzo

A description of the month of #March in #earlymodern Britain.
From Nicholas Breton's Fantastickes, 1626.
Image from the Trevelyon Miscellany (Folger MS V.b.232), c1608

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zUXIkbYJyg&ab_channel=Passamezzo

@earlymodern @histodon @histodons #histodon #histodons #socialhistory #TrevelyonMiscellany #commonplacebook #history #17thCentury #17thcenturyhistory #SeventeenthCentury #LaboursoftheMonths #NicholasBreton

A #miniature, probably taken from a #bookofhours, showing the Feast of #Candlemas (2 February), with villagers taking candles to the #church to be blessed.
Simon Bening, c1550

#otd #onthisday #onthisdayinhistory #16thCentury #sixteenthcentury #Tudor #Tudors #calendarcustoms #Candlemass #EndofChristmas #endofchristmasseason #history #socialhistory #laboursofthemonths #SimonBening #illuminatedmanuscript #February #histodon #histodons #historythroughart #earlymodern @histodons

A description of the #month of #February in #earlymodern Britain.
From Nicholas Breton's Fantastickes, 1626.
Read by Peter Kenny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybu74vcsKM4&ab_channel=Passamezzo

#17thCentury #history #folklore #histodon #histodons #seventeenthCentury #SocialHistory #seasonal #months @histodons @histodon #LaboursoftheMonths

The #month of #November.
From Nicholas Breton's Fantastickes, 1626.
Read by Peter Kenny

Image from the Trevelyon Miscellany, 1608

#earlymodern #earlymodernseasons #earlymodernliterature #recordingartist #17thcentury #seventeenthcentury #nicholasbreton #seasons #laboursofthemonths #seasonal #months
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BD9ONrqO_M&ab_channel=Passamezzo