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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

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#OUT #NOW ! #NEW #PUBLICATION of #Celebrated #18thCentury #London #Actress 🎭 In a London tavern in 1699 a star was discovered, she became the highest paid actress of her day! ANNE OLDFIELD (1683-1730) Her Life, Admirers, Friends, Lovers and Sons.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

3 years

We met 55 years ago today and still having fun!💘🥂

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

5 months

After a brief encounter at Butlin's Holiday Camp in July 1965, we accidentally met again in our home city of Leicester on 3rd December the same year. Fifty-eight years later that original attraction is still weaving its magic.🪄 #Chance #Meeting 💕 #1960s #Mods 🛵 #Memorable #Times

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

2 years

😃So thrilled to announce I’m to be published by @penswordbooks #History #17thCentury

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@SueCooperBridge

4 years

Proof that we have been married for 51 years today.🍾 #WeddingAnniversary #soulmates

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

6 years

ELIZABETH MONTAGU (née Wilmot), COUNTESS OF SANDWICH (1674-1757). The daughter of the infamous JOHN WILMOT, 2nd EARL OF ROCHESTER. A true Jacobite, in 1729 she abandoned England for France. ebook 99p or FREE #KU … … #NonFiction #BiographicalAccounts

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

7 years

HISTORICAL FACTION. From cradle to grave and beyond. The intriguing story of JOHN WILMOT, 2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

2 years

Thrilled to announce cover reveal. 'ACTRESSES OF THE RESTORATION PERIOD' To be published January 2023 @penswordbooks 'Paints a vivid picture of theatre, literature and women's experiences during the seventeenth century.' #Actresses #17thCentury #Theatre 🎭

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

7 years

If you love a good historical book, with an outlandish, yet fabulous character, then this is the book for you. Whispering Stories Book Blog.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

1 year

Just finished reading 'The Spencer Family'. It's thanks to @cspencer1508 the current custodian and others of his forebears that glorious Althorp still, thankfully, stands proud in its beautiful setting. It could so easily have been a very different story.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

6 years

Whether it’s #HistoricalFiction or #NonFiction that floats your boat, 3 works that may appeal. 📚 The infamous LORD ROCHESTER, The less than infamous THOMAS ALCOCK and the famous actress ANNE BRACEGIRDLE

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

1 year

So thrilled! So proud! 😃 #17thCentury #London #theatre Thank you @penswordbooks @PSHistory

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

10 months

Just arrived 'Charles II's Illegitimate Children - Royal Bastards' by the excellent author @SarahBWatkins Looking forward to reading all about his many offspring. No wonder he was called 'The Merry Monarch'! @penswordbooks @PSHistory

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

4 months

What a long tradition. First performed in Covent Garden, London in 1662.

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4 months

A photograph of Children watching a Punch and Judy show in a London street. Exact year unknown

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

3 years

Although not exotic, the fragrance from the common Hawthorn on a warm day in May is dreamy. #SpringBlossom 🌳

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

4 years

When you find your ancestor was an #18thCentury London #actor 🎭you just have to write his story. #NonFiction eBook Paperback

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

3 years

In September 1675, a great fire 🔥swept through the town of #Northampton , destroying 700 of its 850 buildings & leaving 700 homeless. Miraculously only 11 died. Its citizens raised £25,000 for its rebuilding, with #KingCharlesII donating 1000 tons of timber from Salcey Forest.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

4 years

#twitterstorians #18thCentury #Actor #LondonTheatre #DruryLane #CoventGarden An ancestor to be proud of. Roger Bridgwater was such a personal pleasure to research and write. eBook Paperback

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

3 years

Having a general browse, found myself in the 18th century for a change. Came upon an extract in the diary of the 1st Earl of Egmont on the wonderful Internet Archive. The year 1744, the journey from London to Buxton Wells. You had to be a patient traveller in those days! 😩

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

3 years

Just stumbled across this interesting print of @AlthorpHouse in The History of England by Lord Macaulay. 1914. The drawing is from the Travels of Cosimo III of Tuscany. @cspencer1508

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

2 years

@cspencer1508 We have lived with Her Majesty for so long, the world will certainly be a very different place without her lovely smile.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

1 year

#17thCentury #London #Playhouse 🎭ACTRESSES OF THE RESTORATION PERIOD🎭 'Paints a vivid picture of theatre, literature and women's experiences during the seventeenth century'. @penswordbooks @PSHistory

Actresses of the Restoration Period

The Restoration represents an exhilarating period of English history. With Charles II, the ‘Merry Monarch’ restored to the throne, the country saw artistic and literary…

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

2 years

A close-up of my opal and diamond engagement ring, which we designed ourselves. I couldn't decide what gemstone to have, so chose one of many colours. It was made by a jeweller, a relative, 55 years ago. Still looks as lovely now as the day I first wore it, Christmas Day 1967.💍

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

1 year

Did anyone watch the Detectorists Christmas special last night on @BBCTwo ? Brilliant as ever!

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

4 months

#TempusFugit It's a year to the day that my book 'ACTRESSES OF THE RESTORATION PERIOD' was published @penswordbooks Thanks to everyone who has read it for showing such an interest in my work, it's more than appreciated & makes the whole process of research & writing worthwhile.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

4 years

Just finished reading @cspencer1508 's ‘The White Ship’. Charles Spencer’s prodigious in-depth research is so evident resulting in an engrossing read. Having published superb books steeped in the 17th century, this versatile author has now conquered the 12th. Highly recommended.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

7 months

I wonder how many people who visit the wonderful Cotswold town of Burford know that a pupil who attended the ancient Burford Grammar School, founded in 1571, was the famous #17thCentury libertine and poet John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

3 years

IT'S ARRIVED! As promised NEW #NonFiction PUBLICATION! SIR ANDREW BALFOUR, M.D. (1630-1694) Governor & Companion to John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester ‘The Grand Tour’ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 Enjoy your journey #17thCenturyStyle

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

3 years

NEW PUBLICATION! MRS ELIZABETH BARRY (1658-1713). MUSINGS ON A RESTORATION ACTRESS. Book six in a series of #HistoricalStudies 📖 #TheFamousMrsBarry 🎭 #17th18thCentury #Research 📜 #WritingForPleasure 🖋️ Paperback to follow shortly.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

8 months

Sunshine in a vase.🌻 #Summer in #England

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

5 years

Partly read on holiday and finished today @cspencer1508 ’s ‘Prince Rupert – The Last Cavalier’. A superbly researched and written work from such an accomplished author. #17thCentury #PrinceRupert #ATrueWarrior Looking forward to the next publication.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

6 years

Old London Bridge...sigh! If only it was there today. It would have been so special to walk along it and view all the missmash of buildings. It is believed that some people lived their whole lives upon the bridge!

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

5 years

“The late Earl of Rochester, her father, had more wit than any man in England. She has more wit than her father, as much generosity as wit, and is every other way as amiable as she is liberal and ingenious.” 📖 … …

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

2 years

Now ready for pre-order, out 30 January 2023. ACTRESSES OF THE RESTORATION PERIOD Mrs Elizabeth Barry and Mrs Anne Bracegirdle. 'Paints a vivid picture of theatre, literature and women's experiences during the seventeenth century'. @penswordbooks

Actresses of the Restoration Period: Mrs Elizabeth Barry and Mrs Anne Bracegirdle

The Restoration represents an exhilarating period of English history. With Charles II, the ‘Merry Monarch’ restored to the throne, the country saw artistic and literary talent flourish. Charles was...

www.amazon.co.uk

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

2 years

Great to meet up with the brilliant @LeandadeLisle for her excellent talk this afternoon, 'Henrietta Maria - The Queen behind the Black Legend', in Leicester's wonderful Guildhall. What an appetizer for her forthcoming book 'Henrietta Maria - Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen'.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

7 years

Plaque commemorating three Levellers executed by Oliver Cromwell in Burford churchyard, Oxfordshire.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

5 years

Our first visit to @AlthorpHouse and what a fabulous place it is too, such a lovely relaxed atmosphere within and without, and such a pleasure to meet @cspencer1508 one of my favourite authors.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

9 months

May I, & no doubt many #StuartsSaturday enthusiasts, give a big THANK YOU to @17thCenturyLady for all her wonderful historical subjects that we all participate in & learn so much from each individual's contribution. It cannot be easy to think of something new each week. Bravo!

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

6 years

ELIZABETH MONTAGU, COUNTESS OF SANDWICH (1674-1757). Lord Rochester’s Jacobite daughter who abandoned England for France. NEW RELEASE, OUT NOW #Amazon ebook 99p or FREE #KU Third in series of #NonFiction #Biographical #HistoricalAccounts #KeepItStuart

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

1 year

My beloved parents who were married on Christmas Day 1941🔔🔔💒 Ration book food was the order of the day, however kind neighbours did club together to produce a wedding cake. #ChristmasDayWedding

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

4 years

It’s arrived! Looking forward to reading @cspencer1508 's ‘The White Ship’ ⛵️ An unexpected nautical disaster heralding a catastrophic aftermath.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

4 years

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, famous for his libertinism and scandalous verse, did also write some very amusing letters.📜 Here is one to his wife, in reply to her sending him three pictures of herself by a most inept👨‍🎨

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

1 year

@cspencer1508 Just ordered book, looking forward to reading. Will be a great companion to Spencer 1508.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

5 years

Although immersed in the #17thCentury , my work has now entered the #18thCentury . I am researching & writing about my ancestor Roger Bridgwater, a London actor, born 1694, who ‘trod the boards’ from 1723-1753. Many household names on that ‘Dramatis Personae’.🎭A lot of work ahead!

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

3 years

NEW #nonfiction #HistoricalStudy MRS ELIZABETH BARRY (1658-1713). MUSINGS ON A RESTORATION ACTRESS. From doyenne of the #LondonStage 🎭to lessee of Newbury mills, the incomparable Mrs. Barry. #Research 📜 #WritingForPleasure 🖋️ #ebook #paperback

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

6 months

@17thCenturyLady @jdmccafferty @cheapsellotape @restorationcake @RestorationHat @MargaretPorter #StuartSaturday ! #KeepItStuart The Master of flamboyance! Louis XIV as Apollo in the Ballet Royal de la Nuit (1653), by Henri (de) Gissey (ca 1621-1673).

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

8 months

Just arrived 'Charles I's Private Life' by @1642Author Looking forward to reading about the life of this intriguing yet lamentable monarch of the #17thCentury @penswordbooks @PSHistory

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

3 years

Wow! What a surprising response! 😃There are so many kind people out there. Thank you all so much ❤️,have a good weekend and #keepsafe

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@SueCooperBridge

3 years

We met 55 years ago today and still having fun!💘🥂

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

5 years

Met & married in the ‘Swinging Sixties’. 💑 It’s our 50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY this year, and this is our special present to each other. We built, painted and bedecked ‘Beachy Shed’. 'For Fun’s Sake'! #MyLoveWillFollowYou #WeddingAnniverary #Celebration #ForeverYoungAtHeart 💖

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

1 year

Happy #WorldBookDay2023 📚 @penswordbooks @PSHistory 🎭ACTRESSES OF THE RESTORATION PERIOD🎭

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

2 years

When I begin a new book I always look at the plates first. Having viewed the first plate, I knew I was about to read something very special. Having now finished the book my original thought was spot on. @LeandadeLisle 's Henrietta Maria is a superb work!

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

1 year

Proof that Sir Anthony van Dyck became a #17thCentury phenomenon.🖌️🎨 Self-portrait at the age of 15! Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

3 years

First time I have read of this devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Port Royal, Jamaica in June 1692, initially killing 2,000 people, with a further 3,000 dying of injuries and disease. #17thCentury #Disasters 🌎

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

2 years

When you discover your ancestor was an #18thCentury #London #Actor who performed alongside Colley Cibber, Anne Oldfield & David Garrick, to name but a few, you just have to write his story.🎭

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

3 years

@thehistoryguy @History_Chap I've seen this before and it fascinates me. If the man having his shoes polished is more than 38 years old, then we are looking at an 18th century man, usually depicted in paintings.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

4 years

@17thCenturyLady @cheapsellotape @jdmccafferty @MuseumCromwell @PartyLike1660 @LloydLlewJ @1642Author @ColemanDennehy @ElizStJohn @Jo_History #StuartsSaturday ! #KeepItStuart 1666 The Great Fire of London. And yes, I nearly burnt my fingers! 😀

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

2 years

The Phoenix Queen 🫅 will be arriving by 10.00pm tonight. Just ordered 'Henrietta Maria' by the excellent author @LeandadeLisle Very much looking forward to reading it.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

2 years

Done my good deed for the day. Found a very wet cold bumble bee in a puddle. Brought it indoors, gently dried it off, put it in a warm place, offered it some sugared water & left it to recover. Half an hour later, wings opened & was buzzing to go. Said goodbye as it flew away.🐝

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

2 years

@17thCenturyLady #StuartsSaturday ! 1st Duke of Marlborough & family, by John Closterman (1660-1711) According to Walpole, Closterman supposedly had so many disputes with Sarah Churchill that her husband remarked, "It has given me more trouble to reconcile my wife and you than to fight a battle".

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

2 years

Visiting Dennis Severs' House is one of those rare occasions that remains so vividly in your memory. "You either see it or you don't." I did.

Dennis Severs' House

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Sean Wilcox, Invigilator In the 70s, my father took me to see Christopher Plummer as Wellington and Rod Steiger as Napoleon in ‘Waterloo.’ It was a gateway for me and the past came to life. Then, in 2002 I sought out Dennis Severs’ House and realised I had to become part of it.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

4 years

#LordRochester #HisBirthday 1st April 1647.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

2 years

Our Horse Chestnut looking splendid right now. Planted 31 years ago in memory of lovely 'Ripple On' our chestnut gelding who lies close by.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

3 years

@17thCenturyLady @jdmccafferty @cheapsellotape @JMNumismatist @stuartsonline @stuartparties @IHR_TudorStuart @RestorationTwt @clairejowitt @RestorationHat #StuartsSaturday 🪙 The beautiful Frances Teresa Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (1647-1702), 'La Belle Stuart', served as the model for an idealised, female Britannia. She continued to appear on some of the copper coinage until decimalization of the currency in 1971.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

5 years

Just finished reading @cspencer1508 's excellent book ‘Killers of the King’. An in-depth research of the regicides’ fugitive lives after the Restoration. Highly Recommended.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

2 years

Our lovely home-bred boy is 24 today! Happy Birthday Dinkytown Zimmy! 🎂🍎🥕 #Pony #Birthday

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

10 months

@17thCenturyLady @Historylecturer @ElizStJohn @cheapsellotape @MuseumCromwell @RestorationHat @reynoldsauthor #StuartsSaturday #KeepItStuart Still mesmerizes today, the work of the one and only Grinling Gibbons.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

10 months

Amazing to think that the pulpit in St Martin-in-the-Fields church was carved by my ancestor Thomas Bridgewater in 1724 and is still in use today. Thomas was baptized in the old church in 1694, little did he know then of the lasting legacy he would one day leave.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

3 years

What a sad day it is. My heart goes out to Her Majesty The Queen.

The Royal Family

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3 years

It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle.

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@SueCooperBridge

6 years

Wonderful talk and book signing yesterday evening by the superb author @LeandadeLisle at @BradgatePark on her excellent book ‘White King’. The splendidly attired @KingCharlesR1 was in attendance and introduced Leanda to the audience. Such a memorable event.🍷🍷 #CharlesI

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@SueCooperBridge

3 years

#FondlyRemembered My dear father William Charles Bridgewater (Bill) (1915-1968), would have been 106 today. A master bricklayer, born during W.W.I. and in active service during the second.

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@SueCooperBridge

4 years

This handsome man was Bill Bridgewater who would have been a 105 today. Born in 1915, served in World War II and a bricklayer by trade. Fond memories of my dear father.💖

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@SueCooperBridge

6 years

My ancestor Benjamin Bridgwater Citizen & Dyer of London died in 1675. Extract from Common Serjeant’s Roll of his household goods & their worth in every room at the premises. The signature of the Common Serjeant was none other than ‘Hanging Judge Jeffreys’! L.M.A. City of London.

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@SueCooperBridge

6 months

My current WIP on the famous actress Anne Oldfield holds a special affinity for me as she acted many times alongside my ancestor, London actor Roger Bridgwater. As he knew her very well, I felt compelled to delve into her life and become familiarized with this remarkable woman.

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@SueCooperBridge

5 years

@17thCenturyLady @cheapsellotape @jakeishistory @RoyalStuartSoc @MuseumCromwell @EnglishCivilWar @jdmccafferty @JMNumismatist @kristianjmartin Holding Samuel Pepys diary in the Pepys library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, on my 50th Birthday. The passing years have never diminished that thrill!

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4 years

@17thCenturyLady @jdmccafferty @elegantfowl @cheapsellotape @MuseumCromwell @Teszelszky @tomb1649 @whitegoldsword @DrLindaPorter1 #StuartsSaturday A bit different to how I usually do things, but just browsing found this from 2016. Unbelievable how it survived for so long under the sea near Texel Island!

Dutch Divers Found a 17th-Century Dress Buried Under the Sea

The 400-year-old gown was remarkably well-preserved

www.smithsonianmag.com

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@SueCooperBridge

3 years

It was great to meet up again, we had a wonderful time @AlthorpHouse with @KingCharlesIRTN 👑 @thekingsdresser @AdeyA56764579 and @SteveCaple4

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@SueCooperBridge

8 months

It's been said there's a book in everyone. My only novel was penned many years ago. The book now feels way out in the cold, but to its credit it did inspire me towards my continuing passion for writing historical #nonfiction . Bravo 'Ink'! 💡😃🖊️📚

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

2 years

#FondMemories of my dear mum Margaret, born in 1921 and who would have been 101 today, and no doubt would have still been smiling.💖

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@SueCooperBridge

6 years

Found in our garden last night a young, injured, confused and hungry hedgehog. Spent the night with us, had a good meal, and this morning have taken it to the wonderful @WarksWildlife where it will be lovingly cared for until it is ready to go back in the wild.

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@SueCooperBridge

2 years

#HappyValentinesDay #17thCentury style.

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@SueCooperBridge

2 years

From riches to poverty, two very contrasting images of George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham. #17thCentury #Stuart

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@SueCooperBridge

6 years

Born in a warming pan or not...Prince James Francis Edward Stuart the ‘Old Pretender’, is the father of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the 'Young Pretender' 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'. #StuartSaturday #FathersDayWeekend #17thC

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

3 years

Profound words still relevant today by Defoe in ‘A Journal of the Plague Year’ 1722.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

2 years

@17thCenturyLady @jdmccafferty @Gamer_1745 @cheapsellotape @LiamPeterTemple @MargaretPorter @MuseumCromwell @ElizStJohn #StuartsSaturday ! #KeepItStuart Five Children of King Charles I with a large dog. © National Portrait Gallery, London.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

7 months

Thirty-three years on...remembering 'Ripple On', a true gentleman, impeccably bred. Bought as a two year old, what fun with had together. Thank you 'Rips'. ❤️Trying to look cool in the heat of 1976!🌞 #treasured #memories 🐴

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@SueCooperBridge

1 year

@17thCenturyLady @MuseumCromwell @jdmccafferty @emswifthook @LiamRuairc @cheapsellotape @CryssaBazos @ElizStJohn @JulesHumphrys #StuartsSaturday ! #KeepItStuart Shot at the command of Oliver Cromwell at St John the Baptist Church, Burford.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

1 year

#London #SwingingSixties 👢👢Feeling nostalgic. Bought these French leather boots in Oxford Street in 1967! Still got them but never wear them now. They were £12.10s. Saved for months for buy them...Aren't they fabulous, even though half a century old!😀

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

10 months

So sad he died in exile in 1658, after his gallant support of the Royalist cause. However, his body was eventually brought back to England after the Restoration where he lies in the family vault in Spelsbury church.

Liam ÓMhaoldomhnaigh

@cheapsellotape

10 months

The Battle of Roundway Down occurred near Devizes, Wiltshire, on 13 July, 1643. A Royalist cavalry force under Viscount Wilmot (later Earl of Rochester) defeated a parliamentarian force under Sir William Waller. George Perfect Harding's pencil sketch of Wilmot: @NPGLondon

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

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@17thCenturyLady @BeltonHouseNT @cheapsellotape @ElizStJohn @MuseumCromwell @reynoldsauthor @RestorationHat @RoyalStuartSoc @Historylecturer #StuartsSaturday ! #KeepItStuart Lodge Park in Sherborne Park Estate. A beautiful structure of England's only surviving 17th century purpose built deer course Grandstand. National Trust. I was very lucky to hold a book signing there a few years ago.📖

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

1 year

@17thCenturyLady #StuartsSaturday ! #KeepItStuart A merry company in a tavern (1640s?). Abraham II van den Hecke (c. 1635-1655). Budapest museum of fine arts.

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

1 year

#17thCentury #London #playhouse 🎭 #Coronation Shortly after the Restoration of King Charles II👑a significant innovation took place, for the first time women were allowed to act in a professional capacity on the stage. @penswordbooks @PSHistory

Actresses of the Restoration Period

The Restoration represents an exhilarating period of English history. With Charles II, the ‘Merry Monarch’ restored to the throne, the country saw artistic and literary…

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk

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@SueCooperBridge

2 years

@17thCenturyLady @jdmccafferty @cheapsellotape @ARebelHand @swiftstory @MargaretPorter @PastFashion @EdnaMacLoy @StuartOrme @mishjholman @stuartparties #StuartsSaturday ! #KeepItStuart Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-77) Winter. 1643

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

4 years

Our dear Harle is 25 today! We bought her as a foal and have enjoyed her company everyday since. She is such a sweetie. Happy Birthday Harle! 🎂🐎

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

7 years

A tragic time all round at St John the Baptist Chruch, Burford, Oxfordshire. @Levellers1649

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@SueCooperBridge

3 years

Happy Birthday Pepys!🎂Toyhorse Almost Blue, known to his friends as Pepys, is 29 years old today, 83 in human years! Since arriving as a foal he has been the most constant friend anyone could wish for. Enjoy your special birthday treats.🍎🍏🥕 @RedwingsHS

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

4 years

For me, one of the joys of reading a #nonfiction book is in the author’s painstaking research, & that is proven in @17thCenturyLady 's latest publication #SexAndSexualityInStuartBritain 💋Thank you for an excellent work encompassing many intriguing aspects of the subject⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

2 years

Record breaking heatwaves this year, but the 1976 drought year was a memorable one too.🌞 Me 🫠 and Ripple On 🐴trying to look cool at a local horse show. Just look at that parched ground!

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

4 months

Hopes and dreams for all. #NewBeginnings2024 The promise of springtime.☀️

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

7 months

A lovely moon tonight. My photo doesn't do it justice, but I tried.🌕📷

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Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜

@SueCooperBridge

2 years

Just ordered the paperback of @ElizStJohn 's latest novel 'The Godmother's Secret'. Will save this specially for cosy winter evenings by the log burner. Having read all her books, I just know I will thoroughly enjoy the journey.

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