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Find both books here in our catalogue:
Bristol:
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1887649514London:
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1904029493(bonus pic of one of our famous Göttingen campus ducks @subugoe !)
#BlueHumanities #EnglishHistory #EconomicHistory #PostcolonialStudies #LondonHistory #MaterialCulture #History #Archaeology
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Already binged the new #Bridgerton episodes & can't get enough of the British upper class?
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#OnThisDay, 1 Oct 1553, Mary Tudor is crowned Queen of England: the first queen of England to get as far as a coronation and to rule in her own name.
During her reign, 280 religious dissenters were burned at the stake by her order, earning her the nickname ‘bloody Mary’ by her Protestant opponents.
We’ve written about her predecessor and why Mary may have signed her death warrant: https://carvehername.org.uk/lady-jane-grey-history-a-tudor-succession/
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EnglishHistory #Tudors #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 1 Oct 1553, Mary Tudor is crowned Queen of England: the first queen of England to get as far as a coronation and to rule in her own name.
During her reign, 280 religious dissenters were burned at the stake by her order, earning her the nickname ‘bloody Mary’ by her Protestant opponents.
We’ve written about her predecessor and why Mary may have signed her death warrant: https://carvehername.org.uk/lady-jane-grey-history-a-tudor-succession/
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EnglishHistory #Tudors #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 1 Oct 1553, Mary Tudor is crowned Queen of England: the first queen of England to get as far as a coronation and to rule in her own name.
During her reign, 280 religious dissenters were burned at the stake by her order, earning her the nickname ‘bloody Mary’ by her Protestant opponents.
We’ve written about her predecessor and why Mary may have signed her death warrant: https://carvehername.org.uk/lady-jane-grey-history-a-tudor-succession/
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EnglishHistory #Tudors #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 1 Oct 1553, Mary Tudor is crowned Queen of England: the first queen of England to get as far as a coronation and to rule in her own name.
During her reign, 280 religious dissenters were burned at the stake by her order, earning her the nickname ‘bloody Mary’ by her Protestant opponents.
We’ve written about her predecessor and why Mary may have signed her death warrant: https://carvehername.org.uk/lady-jane-grey-history-a-tudor-succession/
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EnglishHistory #Tudors #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 1 Oct 1553, Mary Tudor is crowned Queen of England: the first queen of England to get as far as a coronation and to rule in her own name.
During her reign, 280 religious dissenters were burned at the stake by her order, earning her the nickname ‘bloody Mary’ by her Protestant opponents.
We’ve written about her predecessor and why Mary may have signed her death warrant: https://carvehername.org.uk/lady-jane-grey-history-a-tudor-succession/
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EnglishHistory #Tudors #Histodons
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#HorribleHistories #UKTV #Education #Schooling #Kids #UK #TV #History #Rap #EnglishHistory #CharlesTheSecond #Music #Funny #Comedy #Song #BBC
Teaching kids history UK style. I guarantee you’ll learn more about Charles the Second in the next few minutes than you ever learned at school.
I just love this stuff, and it’s so brilliantly written I’m not surprised the show got an award.
Matthew Baynton at his peak!
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Now off to #London - this large volume, edited by John Schofield & Stephen Freeth, presents archaeological findings from London's waterfront, 1666-1800, making #history & #MaterialCulture come alive in many pictures of maps, houses & objects found
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Fancy a dip? 🌊 Today's books share the refreshing topic of ports in #EnglishHistory
Richard Stone's 2024 monograph on #Bristol & the birth of the Atlantic #economy 1500-1700 analyses #EarlyModern trade in Britain, based on the Bristol Port Books
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Robin Hood - what were the historical roots of his legends, and how can their success in the later #MiddleAges be explained? This collection, edited by Stephen H. Rigby, presents 16 essays that examine the myth with various angles & sources
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I visit the ruins of 12th century Haughmond Abbey in Shropshire, England. I look around and talk a little bit about the place.
#history #shropshire #england #english #englishhistory #video #getoutside #getoutdoors #abbey #ghosts #haunted #albion #youtube #explore
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I visit the ruined remains of 12th Century Lilleshall Abbey in Shropshire. I walk around and talk a little about the history and the ghostly Black Monks of this fascinating haunted historic religious site.
#history #shropshire
#england #english #englishhistory
#video #getoutside #getoutdoors
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I took a trip to Deerhust a few weeks ago, visiting the Anglo-Saxon site of St Marys Church and Oddas Chapel.
While there I improvised some filming. It's taken a little while, and I wish I'd had my equipment, but the video of that visit is now live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEVJ7VMahZw
#history #anglosaxon
#england #english #englishhistory
#video #getoutside #getoutdoors
#saxon #darkages #earlymedieval
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The #CfP #CallforPapers for a #conference by DACH Victorianists on Victorian Jewish Life (in England) has been extended till July 14
more info: https://dachvictorianists.blogspot.com/p/victorian-jewish-life-heidelberg.html
#VictorianCulture #EnglishHistory #JewishHistory #JewishCulture
maybe interesting for @JuedStudien
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The #CfP #CallforPapers for a #conference by DACH Victorianists on Victorian Jewish Life (in England) has been extended till July 14
more info: https://dachvictorianists.blogspot.com/p/victorian-jewish-life-heidelberg.html
#VictorianCulture #EnglishHistory #JewishHistory #JewishCulture
maybe interesting for @JuedStudien
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The #CfP #CallforPapers for a #conference by DACH Victorianists on Victorian Jewish Life (in England) has been extended till July 14
more info: https://dachvictorianists.blogspot.com/p/victorian-jewish-life-heidelberg.html
#VictorianCulture #EnglishHistory #JewishHistory #JewishCulture
maybe interesting for @JuedStudien
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New week, new book alert! 🚨
This mighty tome on #EnglishHistory by Susan Doran traces the dynastic change from #QueenElizabeth to #KingJames - from #Tudor to #Stuart in #RenaissanceEngland - on over 600 page, citing sources from #Literature to #MaterialCulture -
Jeffrey Hudson the Court Dwarf of the English Queen Henrietta Maria of France
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Hudson
#HackerNews #JeffreyHudson #CourtDwarf #EnglishHistory #HenriettaMaria #RoyalHistory #UnusualFigures
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In this video, I visit a spooky abandoned graveyard just outside Bewdley in England.
Once a place of Christian worship, Dowles Graveyard is now reputedly a site of devil worship and holds two women with disturbing stories. One of demonic possession, the other known as "The Bewdley Witch".
#history #englishhistory #video #england #getoudoors #getoutside #explore #youtube #witch #bewdley #graveyard #devilworship #spooky #abandoned
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Today I went #hiking along the #Ridgeway 😀 I managed to go 13 miles, though it was a really hard slog at the end!
I went past Wayland's Smithy, #Uffington Castle, and a LOT of hedgerows ... here's a little thread of photos I took:1) Wayland's Smithy
#ukhiking #countryside #TheRidgeway #Exercise #EnglishHeritage #EnglishHistory -
Archaeologists Unearth Early Medieval Sword Engraved With Mysterious Runes in a Cemetery in England
#archaeology #history #ancienthistory #medieval #medievalhistory #englishhistory #england #burialrites #burialsite #tomb
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King Alfred’s Peace-Making Strategies with the Vikings https://www.medievalists.net/2025/02/king-alfreds-peace-making-strategies-with-the-vikings/ #Vikings #EarlyMedieval #EnglishHistory
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John was married twice, and both his wives were called Isabella. Ten things you might not know about King John:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/10/19-october-king-john.html
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Hidden in Shropshire is a priory whose origin is unclear, and is reputedly haunted. Join me as I explore White Ladies Priory and talk about the site, and a little about its ghosts.
#history #englishhistory #video #shropshire #england #ghost #ghosts #haunted #getoudoors #getoutside #explore
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CW: Last six howlers from Gail Simmons book Between the Chalk and the Sea, to the bitter end.
1. Geology. Simmons could've spent a couple of minutes checking and discovered that there are several well-known "soft" stones such as soapstone, slate, serpentine, etc but she chose not to: "Like its limestone cousins - marble included - it is the only rock that can be scored with a butterknife". No.
2. History. Simmons prides herself on her travel journalism from the "Middle East", meanwhile back in England the self-described "medievalist" says: "The pond [where a broken axehead was found] was quite close to the present church, so this fitted with the theory that Christian sites appropriated pagan ones to smooth the transition between religious belief systems." Erm, like in Jerusalem? Smooooooth! Or genocidal. One of those. Also, not true that Christian sites appropriated Pagan places except occasionally in urban areas where space was limited.
3. History. Simmons mourns the loss that the Cluniac monastery in Lewes that she claims was "the heart and soul of the town" before the dissolution of the monasteries when in 1537 the 24 monks, who offered the town their thoughts and prayers, were supported by over 22,000 acres of land in Sussex (and more elsewhere so about 1,000 acres per monk). The land had been partially cleared of local peasants, who were replaced by sheep, and was run by unpaid servants known as lay brothers. I suppose unpaid servant was a step up for a starving landless unmarried male peasant, but I wonder where the women went....
4. Gibberish. As I mentioned before, this was clearly not read by an editor and is relentless nonsense, e.g.: "It had been a dry winter so far. In wet weather, travellers followed the ridgeway on the top, avoiding the boggy bottom of the valley. So that's what I would do also." Wet is dry and dry is wet, apparently.
5. History. Simmons describes the Christian crusades as: "the series of religious wars involving Christians and Muslims between 1096 and 1291. One of the Christians' avowed aims was to protect pilgrims travelling to the Holy Land" and one of their aims was large scale genocidal land-theft. Also Louis IX of France figure-headed crusades against the Holy Roman Empire, the Balts, and Tunis, amongst others, even within Simmons' chosen period which conveniently excludes the most embarrassing genocidal xtian on xtian crusades that occurred later.
6. Dis/Ablism. And lastly, on page 323 of 324, we discover illness and disability don't exist in Simmons world, even during a pandemic: "We humans are made to walk, and if we continue walking we'll stay fit and agile into old age, as the many white haired people I met climbing the hills between Southampton and Canterbury proved." Selection bias much?
Don't read this book, obv. /end thread and onwards to more edifying and entertaining reading
#books #reading #history #EnglishHistory #geology #Christianity #ChristianHistory #Catholicism #ablism #disablism
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From the editing floor...
It is said that Fair Rosamund, Rosamund Clifford (who was mistress of King Henry II) was born or educated at Cannington Priory, Somerset.
Source:
cannington dot org.ukImage: Wikipedia
#somerset #cannington #womenInHistory #history #histodon #henryii #englishHistory
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"Curious about how the Normans changed history? Enroll in our Norman Conquest course now! Use the coupon code 'BlackFriday' to save 25% https://medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/norman-conquest #HistoryBuff #medievalwarfare #englishhistory #normanconquest
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Stephen Morillo's seminal article on the Battle of Hastings https://www.medievalists.net/2024/10/hastings-unusual-battle/ #BattleofHastings #NormanConquest #EnglishHistory
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History 1 (longplay) for the ZX81
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6T9vciNars
#History1 #ZX81 #Educational #Edutainment #Quiz #Trivia #England #GreatBritain #History #EnglishHistory #BritishHistory #Monarchy #BritishMonarchy #EnglishMonarchy #FuntoLearnSeries #FuntoLearn #Longplay #ICL #WHSmith #SinclairResearch
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Revolutions - "The War on Christmas"
What the Puritans attempted to do about the holiday in the 1640s.
"Don’t mess with the holidays, unless you want a riot on your hands."
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This week's upcoming video takes a wee sidestep into #EnglishHistory kinda.
Or maybe it's more like the #waroftheroses come to #scotland
Either way, it's coming this Wednesday on my YouTube channel, Galloway Retold.
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Chain Linked to Prince Edward V Found in 16th-Century Will https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/chain-linked-to-prince-edward-v-found-in-16th-century-will/ #EnglishHistory #PrincesintheTower
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Yesterday I was listening to the podcast #NotJustTheTudors. There were two historians debating the possible survival of the #PrincesInTheTower. I was so disappointed with how unconvincing the one challenging the accepted history was. I could refute most of his arguments without any expertise.
E.g. he felt it was convincing how elaborate the accounts of these supposed princes were. Yeah, when people lie they tend to invent a lot of details.
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#OnThisDay, 10 July 1553, Lady Jane Grey is proclaimed Queen of England. She is usurped 9 days later by her cousin Mary Tudor, and is beheaded in 1554.
We’ve written about Lady Jane Grey’s succession on our blog: https://carvehername.org.uk/lady-jane-grey-history-a-tudor-succession/
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Tudors #EnglishHistory #RegnantWomen #Histodons
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Stepping into #PippingfordPark during the #MedievalFestival feels like the modern world just stopped existing. I spent the day wandering between #falconry displays and the #archery range, surrounded by people who take their #history seriously. The #jousting is intense, but the real charm is the #medieval tavern where stories flow as fast as the ale. A perfect way to spend a bank holiday weekend in #EastSussex.
#EnglishHistory #livinghistory #summerfestivals
https://europa.tips/en/englands-medieval-festival-pippingford-park-east-sussex
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The second set of pics from my Deerhurst visit.
This is St Mary's church, which has it's origins in the 8th century. The church has grown and changed over the centuries, but to stand in such an ancient building was incredible. The third image shows the Deerhurst Angel, and the last shows the Deerhurst Dragon (one of a pair).
#history #anglosaxon #england #english #englishhistory #photo #photography #getoutside #getoutdoors
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#OnThisDay, 7 Apr 1141, Matilda is legally recognised as ruler of England in her own right. Her coronation never happens.
She was appointed heir by her father Henry I, then usurped by her cousin Stephen after Henry’s death. The civil war between the cousins is known as the Anarchy and lasted from 1138 to 1153.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory
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Book Review: The History of Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Title: The History of Henry IV, Part 1
Publication Info: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2020. [Originated circa 1597]
Summary/Review:Of the Shakespearean English histories I’ve read so far, this one is the least stand alone. It definitely feels like it’s setting up Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V. King Henry IV has a couple of problems: first, he falls out with Henry Percy – a.k.a. Hotspur – who allies with Welsh and Scottish rebels against the king. Meanwhile, his son Prince Hal is leading a licentious life with his rowdy friend Sir John Falstaff. I’ve known from reading about Shakespeare that Falstaff was an incredibly popular character, cowardly yet quick-witted, but I found him kind of irritating. Hopefully, I’ll find him more entertaining in upcoming plays. The various storylines come together with Prince Hal regaining the king’s affections by fighting the rebels at the Battle of Shrewsbury.
Rating: ***
I’m reading every Shakespeare play, one per month, in chronological order. Here’s my progress thus far:
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Titus Andronicus
- Richard III
- The Comedy of Errors
- Love’s Labours’ Lost
- Richard II
- Romeo and Juliet
- A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream
- The Life and Death of King John
- The Merchant of Venice
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#OnThisDay, 12 Mar 1994, the first 32 women are ordained as priests in the Church of England. Angela Berners-Wilson was the very first.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #EnglishHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 15 Jan 1559, Elizabeth Tudor is crowned as Queen Elizabeth of England. She reigned alone until her death in 1603.
Her foreign policy included privateering, colonising Virginia and approving the start of the East India Company.
#RegnantWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EnglishHistory #Histodons
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Nov 16: Feast of Margaret of Scotland (†1093). English noble who married Máel Coluim III, king of Alba. Church reformer and friend to the poor who founded a free ferry across the Firth of Forth for pilgrims heading to Cennrígmonaid (St Andrews). Her pocket gospel-book survives.
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The first set of pictures from my most recent visit to an Anglo-Saxon site in Deerhurst.
Odda's Chapel was built in 1056 by the Anglo-Saxon Earl Odda to pray for the soul of his brother Aelfric.
It was incorporated into a farmhouse and altered during the medieval period. Then rediscovered in 1885.
#history #england #english #englishhistory #anglosaxon #photo #photography
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Today a dear friend and I went to Repton in the Trent Valley, and visited St Wystans Church.
Repton dates from the Anglo-Saxons. St Wystans church has a fine crypt with Anglo-Saxon stonework.
#photos #photo #history #photography #historic #anglosaxon #england #englishhistory #english #albion
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I can't decide whether this Xitter post is Redwood trying to be funny or Redwood promulgating in all seriousness the "Norman yoke" myth.
#UKPolitics #JohnRedwood #BayeuxTapestry #NormanYoke #History #EnglishHistory #BritishHistory #Europhobia #Brexit
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Looking for a sign (to read a new book)? Here it is! Vivian Cook's analysis of the "Language of the English Street Sign" covers an impressive array of research on how & what signs in English urban settings communicate, incl. their historical backgrounds
