by history we are made

This blog primarily focuses on women in history and period dramas.

[valyrianpoem]

Merve Boluğur as NURBANU SULTAN [2/?] Muhteşem Yüzyıl (Magnificent Century, 2011)

[jeannepompadour]

Three types of bracelets or armbands from Tillya Tepe, an archaeological site in the northern Afghanistan; Bactrian civilization, dated to around the 1st century BC-1st century AD

[anastasiasultana]

NUR FETTAHOĞLU AS MAHIDEVRAN SULTAN

bitterness and resentment only hurt one person

[wardrobeoftime]

The Tudors + Costumes

Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford's white/creme night gown in Season 04, Episode 03.

// requested by @maxsherm

[aneurins-barnard]

ANEURIN BARNARD as RICHARD III and REBECCA FERGUSON as ELIZABETH WOODVILLE THE WHITE QUEEN // Episode 9 The Princes in the Tower

[didoofcarthage]

C’est Moi Qui Suis Ulysse (Odyssée) by François-Louis Schmied, created to illustrate an edition of Homer’s Odyssey

French, c. 1925

watercolor and pencil on paper

private collection x

[didoofcarthage]

Detail from Athéna by François-Louis Schmied, with Laurent Monnier and the Baudin enamel workshop 

French, c. 1931

enameled and gilt metal, comprising thirteen panels

private collection x

[weepingwidar]

Georg Wilson (British, 1998) - Strange Pastoral (2025)

[threesonsofyorks]

NATALIE DORMER and JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS as Queen Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII The Tudors - Season two, episode four.

[timotay-chalamet]

I thought your legs were a weakness, that you wouldn’t survive. And I was wrong. Your legs have given you a strength, a strength that even your brothers don’t have. You are like a deaf man who’s eyesight is sharper than anyone else’s. You are special, not in spite of your legs but because of them.

[aura-eden]

Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1482-1485, details

[memories-of-ancients]

Gilded silver cup, Anatolia, 2300-2000 BC

from The MET

[7pleiades7]

Perseus and Andromeda (1891) by Sir Frederic Leighton (British, 1830 – 1896), oil on canvas, 2,350 mm (92.51 in) x 1,292 mm (50.86 in), Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

[thethreesunsofyork]

"He, at the same time being a very successful man of the cloth, was also the great politician of his age, really. He was like a chess player, except - it's a very critical game of chess, where if you make the wrong move, it's death, if you make the right move, it's glory. But he served, above all, the king. He loved the king, and the king loved him. But finally, as happened very often in the reign of Henry VIII, things started to go awry." — Sam Neill on Cardinal Thomas Wolsey

The Tudors Sam Neill as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey Season one (2007) | In loving memory of our favorite Cardinal.

[wardrobeoftime]

Reused Costumes

Jane Seymour in The Tudors - Season 02

Kat Ashley in The Tudors - Season 03

[didanagy]

CATE BLANCHETT as QUEEN ELIZABETH I

ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE (2007)

dir. shekhar kapur

[cookbookbutch]

F. Murray Abraham as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus (1984), dir. Miloš Forman