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'The Witch:' A Slow Burn to Nowhere (Blu-ray)

Edit The Examiner 16 May 2016
The film takes place in 1630s New England, where we find a family being banished from their colony due to differences in religious beliefs ... “The Witch” does an excellent job in establishing its 1630s New England setting through vivid production design and an unsettling, ominous atmosphere, but when it comes to the film’s storyline, it’s never quite ......

In Search of the Irish Dreamtime: Archaeology and Early Irish Literature by JP Mallory review

Edit The Irish Times 07 May 2016
JP Mallory describes this book as a companion to his The Origins of the Irish, from 2013, in which he sketched the emergence in the early medieval period of a people who were recognisably Irish ... In the 1630s, the Four Masters, for example, listed major events from about 2958 BC (the Flood) and annual entries were provided from the year 1934 BC to 1616 AD ... But You Did Not Come Back ... The Berlin Diary of Roger Casement By Angus Mitchell....

A Stain in the Blood: The Remarkable Voyage of Sir Kenelm Digby by Joe Moshenska – review

Edit The Guardian 01 May 2016
A history of the Jacobean era is made vivid through the life of one of its forgotten adventurers ... Digby, who loved to cook, was close to Charles, and mixed up with the scientists, adventurers, writers and artists of the age in a way that was still, vanishingly, possible in the 1630s ... Related. 1606. William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear review – an explosive mix ... Sir Kenelm Digby’s story is more than usually compelling ... (Moshenska ... ....

Shakespeare's birthday: Where can you get close to the Bard?

Edit BBC News 22 Apr 2016
In the 400 years since his death much about William Shakespeare remains a mystery. Can we track down the places he worked, lived and visited?. William Shakespeare. The Bard. One of the most famous people ever. But little is known about him for sure ... Stratford upon Avon. Birthplace. The story ... The evidence ... The large Tudor building, which the King's Men would have known, was pulled down in the 1630s to be replaced by an even grander complex ... ....

Dutch Flowers

Edit Huffington Post 08 Apr 2016
Springtime brings two blossom-filled celebrations of Dutch flower painting. In The Hague, the Mauritshuis is displaying its €6.5 million March acquisition. Roelant Savery's Vase of Flowers in a Stone Niche, one of a handful of the artist's surviving flower pieces ... Roelant Savery, Vase of Flowers in a Stone Niche, 1615, Mauritshuis, The Hague ... The genre continued to blossom in the 1630s as Holland was seized by "tulip mania." ... ....

National Gallery presents spring exhibition Dutch Flowers paintings

Edit China Daily 07 Apr 2016
The National Gallery today opens an exhibition exploring the evolution of Dutch flower painting over the two centuries on 6 April to 29 August 2016 ... Approximately half the works on display will come from the Gallery's permanent collection, and the rest from private collections ... By the 1630s, speculative prices for the most coveted bulbs and flowering plants had reached spectacular heights - the so-called 'Tulipmania' ... ....

Saving an Old Forest in Borneo

Edit Huffington Post 29 Mar 2016
"It takes a village to raise a child". Going through the photos and reports of a flood with water levels never seen before in Tongka village, Borneo, this African proverb came to mind. There is no way a remote community in Borneo should be burdened with saving forests where trees hundreds of years old stand threatened by chainsaws and bulldozers ... Village history shows the area was settled in the early 1630s by six families ... ....

The hard history of easy money

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 28 Mar 2016
Don't Play. Replay. Replay Video Icon. Player help icon. We tend to think of the current era of central bank intervention as unprecedented ... If you... He points out that the famed tulip mania of the 1630s occurred at a time when Dutch interest rates – and here Chancellor admits the data is not great – "appear to have fallen very sharply from about 8 per cent at the beginning of the century to 3 per cent by the middle" ... ....

Robert Eggers’ The Witch

Edit CounterPunch 25 Mar 2016
If you plan on heading to the movies to check out , you better hurry ... Set in the 1630s and chronicling a Puritan family living in exile, the film is a dismal, dark, stark and disturbing reminder of the original Christian sin that gave way to the rape of the American land, Christian-sanctified genocide, the oppression of women, and the repression of sexuality that has never left the dark core of American socio-politics ... None ... He can’t ... ....

South Berwick River Landing Named New Historic Register District (Town of South Berwick, ME)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Mar 2016
(Source. Town of South Berwick, ME). A South Berwick sea captain captured by pirates. Hundreds of mill workers weaving cotton into textiles. Arson attacks and battles over liquor laws ... Long before English traders arrived in the 1630s, the falls were a seasonal fishing ground for Wabanakis, who called the place Quamphegan (quamp meaning scoop or dip and hegan meaning net or tool-thus 'dip net,' referring to their fishing place) ... (noodl....

My Easter Response to the Noxious Nonsense of the Republican Primaries (The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Mar 2016
(Source. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs). This post is part of The Exchange ... Although, for many Christians, Easter is a time of profound religious significance ... And Mr. Mahler, of Jewish parentage, surely nailed it ... This year, as in several years past, we will sing a choral piece that dates at least to the Middle Ages, but whose 'modern' version was composed as recently as the 1630s by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri ... But why?....

Speaker Spotlight: Sandra Hewlett (Historical Society of Pennsylvania)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Mar 2016
(Source. Historical Society of Pennsylvania). This year's Family History Days brings together professional genealogists and family historians from around the world to help beginner & seasoned researchers alike find their story. In the weeks leading up to Family History Days on March 18 & 19, we'll be spotlighting several of the event's featured speakers ... Three-quarters of her ancestry are New Englanders, most arriving there in the 1630s....

Chatsworth House tapestries untouched for 200 years date back to 1630s

Edit The Daily Mail 14 Mar 2016
Experts made the breathtaking discovery of the missing sections to two rare tapestries (left and top right) at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire during restoration ... ....
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