The Silk & The Sea

Remnants... of the silk and the sea

The Silk & The Sea, is a reimagining of the fate of a seventeenth-century shipwreck know as the Palmwood Wreck. I wanted to discover the people who owned its treasures, the trade routes that connected them, and the stories behind the objects that survived when so much else was lost.

Remnants... of the Silk & the Sea is a monthly journal drawn from that world of research and discovery. It will explore the real people behind the book through archival fragments, object histories and serialised fiction set in the same era, along with occasional dispatches from my life on Texel.

Sometimes you get it wrong

When I started researching Anne Lambe, I knew very little about her beyond the sermon preached at her funeral1. Her father was recorded as Thomas Lambe, Esq., and the sermon tells us that Anne was from Suffolk. I wanted to find a connection between Anne Lambe and Lady Wentworth, her patron or companion. Anne was twenty-four when she married Thomas Glover, which made her relatively old to be still unmarried. She was a gentlewoman living with Lady Cecily Wentworth, which sugges

Jan Sayer

4 days ago

Portraits of the Glover and the Bendysh couples

The Problem of Names

Why two Thomases and two Annes are not an accident, but a reflection of seventeenth-century England.

Jan Sayer

Sep 14