#Warwick Castle

[thranduilofsmirkwood]

Warwick Castle is selling their trebuchet, but the T&C's are a bit of a buzz kill.

#Trebuchet #Warwick Castle #Besiege and wage war

[medievalistsnet]

#medieval #england #castles #warwickshire #warwick castle

[auburnandamberangel]

//Library Warwick Castle - Trinity Gate Louis' paradise vibes for sure ✨️

#warwick castle #library #historic interiors

[iko66]

Warwick Castle, England, europe

#Warwick Castle #England #europe #travel

[1five1two]

'Warwick Castle, England'. Jasper Francis Cropsey. 1857.

#art #landscape art #vintage art #warwick castle

[the-shepherd-of-fire]

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Warwick, England

#Warwick castle #warwick #Warwickshire #sunset #pretty #nature #stone #medieval #castle #history #flags #archery #green #grey #gray #red #orange #blue #trees #mine

[katiajewelbox]

Here's Gaddes' portrait! The loyal and resourceful Gaddes is Allen Schezar's right hand man in the anime Vision of Escaflowne. He leads the crew of the airship "the Crusade".This portrait features official animation art from the anime and a photo of the walls of Warwick Castle with my own original composition made in Picmix.

#gaddes #soldier #knight #medieval #warwick castle #swords #walls #castle #escaflowne #vision of escaflowne #tenkuu no escaflowne #sword and sorcery #fantasy anime #90s anime #90s anime aesthetic #male characters #dark hair #ruggedly handsome #armor #white shirt #knightcore #warrior #military #green #secondary characters #anime #anime characters #picmix #gif #gif art

[vox-anglosphere]

Warwick Castle has a commanding location on the River Avon

#Warwick Castle #River Avon #mediaeval fortress #scenery #English castles #Warwickshire #UK history #English Heritage

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

I’ve collected some rather interesting castle imagery, including several floating in the air.

#castle #warwick castle #vintage illustration #illustration

[cleonard-ricsummerinenglandblog]

Warwick Castle - A wonderland of medieval merriment on the outside, and a monument of empire on the inside

I think for many, the UK is synonymous with colonization and imperialism. Britain conquered ¼ of the planet, and dominated global politics during the 19th century. To this day, English/British culture is seen as standard in various nations across the planet (the three piece suit, the English language, handshakes as greetings). The ascendance of the United States, a former British settler colony has certainly aided in the continued influence of “British culture” over the world. 

But empires and Great Britain have a history stretching back to Antiquity. When the vast Roman Empire invaded and subjected the Britons, forming the province of Britannia. And again when the Norse came, and settling the Danelaw or making England part of their empires (most notably the “North Sea Empire” under Cnut the Great), then the Normans and their conquest of the Kingdom, and subsequent French kings of England, and the so-called Angevin Empire. England’s conquests of Wales and Ireland, and finally the formation of the UK out of the personal union between England and Scotland. It’s been a long list of empires that rule in England, or Britain. And that history, especially the later parts of it, are not fun things to talk about, and can ignite harsh feelings in people…

When we visited Warwick Castle, it was easy to forget all the horrors. The place if lively, beautiful, and filled with things to to, from the hedge maze, climbing the towers (three cheers for Dr. Holl for finally getting to the top of the main tower after years of attempts), seeing the beautiful peacocks, visiting the food stalls, and little merchandise and toy shops, the joust event, the archery range (which had the hottest, most adorable man running it (Christopher if you see this, marry me :3c jk, unless…)) There’s just a lot to do and see and have fun with.

But as they day went on, I decided to go inside the main house. And there, I saw a different part of the castle. The outside is so fun, it’s like a theme park. The inside is more like a museum, and walking through its two halves, I was struck by a thought. I saw the gold portraits, and the fine silks and tapestries, and the dresses, and suits of armor, and the wax models lounging on sofas and I had a thought.

One of the models was a young Winston Churchill, whose tenure as PM saw a devastating famine in Bengal that killed millions.

What power, what wealth, these people must have had, to live here. How many have died because of them? How many lives have the owners of this castle throughout the centuries sent to their deaths? And for what?

The Wars of the Roses is a dramatic part of history, and the writings of William Shakespeare have helped turn it into such a story. But that story centers upon the feuding kings and dukes. And the things they fight about are just accepted as the way of things. England and her people were ruined, slaughtered by people squabbling over the question of who gets to own them. All of that happened right after the Hundred Years War, which saw England’s French kings fight for their supposed right to own France, because one Kingdom wasn’t enough for their greedy hearts. All these combatants were themselves descended from William of Normandy, who conquered England, toppled its native institutions, relegated English to a peasant language, and when people got agitated, who committed genocide to consolidate his rule. All because he thought he had a right to England and its people, as though they were an object to be owned. 

Warwick Castle got its start with Æthelflæd of Mercia, as an Anglo-Saxon burh to defend against viking attacks, when England was still a fledgling nation, but the Normans came and made it a fortress, to ‘defend’ their rule. Just like the Kingdom of England would later do in Wales, and Ireland, just like the United Kingdom would do in America and India… follow the fortresses if you wanna follow the tide of Empire. 

The way I see it, the Norman conquest turned England into an engine of empire, greased with the blood of the English people, and those it conquered alongside them. And that engine became the United Kingdom, and made an empire that spanned the globe. But the only real beneficiaries have been the same ones who caused the Wars of the Roses, the Hundred Years War, the Harrying of the North… the same kind of people that drafted Americans into the Vietnam War, who pushed Native Americans into pitiful reservations that they’ve starved of resources, who enslaved Africans for the profit of the cotton and tobacco trades. The rich and powerful and wealthy. Those who rule us. How cruel of a world it is, that we are ruled by people who see us as disposable because in their warped little heads, we are. 

Fun fact about England's medieval standard, it's a quartering of France and England's CoAs, and France, in quadrants 1 and 4, was given the place of higher importance, because England's kings considered themselves French, and that France was more important.

#eat the rich my dearies #and don't think for one second that those of us in republics are free #americans are as disposable to their government and the english are to theirs #also i'm not trying to make the anglo-saxons look like saints #its just that we don't know as much about their way of rulership and it was far less developed than what would come centuries later #and given that they were on the defensive a lot their capacity for evil is less than post norman england's imo #warwick castle #england #uk #british empire

[books-movies-anime-shows-games]

Day 3 - Warwick Castle, part 3 😁 The Kingmaker arrives at Warwick! Since this is one of my favorite mangas and the War of the Roses is one of my favorite historical periods, I couldn't miss the chance to bring Warwick with me and "show him around" ❤️

#my stuff #warwick castle #requiem of the rose king #rotrk #baraou no souretsu

[teanicolae]

i had thought that i was just a girl who wanted to plant lemon trees but my hot blood scorched the vine trailing on the windowsill. Keśava, you are pulling me to you by my teeth and i follow happily. i followed you into the seven seas and i followed you into the circle of mountains i have been calling you with folded hands and now i will dance to you with my mouth open and with flowers woven into my skin tissue. monsoon one, did you know that the crevices of my heart can hold you whole? did you know that the fire in my belly can swallow the three worlds? i know you did, Hari. i know you did.

“lemon tree flare” from my collection “odes to the monsoon one”. 📸: exploring the warm tones of warwickshire beauty 💛

#poem #poetry #devotional poetry #bhakti poetry #bhakti #poet #poetess #literature #krishna #hari #keshava #krishna love #hari om #warwickshire #warwick castle #landscape #warwick #kanhaiya

[auburnandamberangel]

//Warwick Castle - decorative ironwork. Castle aesthetics

#warwick castle #historic interiors #interior design #doors

[iko66]

Warwick Castle, England, europe

#Warwick Castle #England #europe #travel #flowers #autumn #winter #spring #summer

[hooliganists]

Winter Delights at Warwick Castle

Winter Delights at Warwick Castle

This holiday season was accompanied by a slew of train strikes in three consecutive countries that we were traveling through. We were able to dodge these with a Matrix-like series of pivots until it caught up to us at last in Birmingham, England. Luckily, this was the best possible point that this could have happened to us- we were staying with a friend who not only had a car, but a…

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#birmingham #castle #England #ice skating #Travel Blog #travel blogger #united kingdom #visit birmingham #visit the midlands #warwick #warwick castle #winter market #winter travel

[shakespearenews]

Her Majesty also takes a seat in the royal box for the Midsummer Horse Show, a retelling of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream which takes place in the riverside arena (you may have seen knights jousting in the arena during a previous visit).

This is not a full Shakespeare play. Far from it. It’s a fast-paced horse riding stunt show that provides ‘wow’ moments for the audience as four daring riders gallop at speed, sometimes on the horses but more often hanging off them, clinging on with just an arm or a leg.

At one point a rider clings on underneath a galloping horse for a full circle of the arena, a stunt which is said to be a UK first.

The riders from The Knights of Middle England and their incredibly skilled stunts are entwined with Puck’s search for a purple flower which Oberon wants to present to Titania.

#arts and entertainment #shakespeare #william shakespeare #horse #horses #hippodramas #hippodrama #midsummer #a midsummer night's dream #shakespeare and adaptation #warwick castle #Midsummer Horse Show