Historian, Emeritus Professor, Waratahs, Blue Jays, Winchester Cathedral
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Many @wincathredral visitors ask why is there a statue of Joan of Arc in the retrochoir. The answer is that a Surrey rector campaigned for the statue in the early 1920s. The story is in latest edition of Record Extra at wincathrecord.org, online archive of @WinCathFriends
ALT "Joan of Arc, sick, Interrogated in Prison by Cardinal Beaufort of Winchester" (Paul Delaroche, 1824). This incident didn't happen but has shaped French attitudes towards Cardinal Beaufort ever since.
Off the back of the UK government's Be Ready campaign this new website, Household Readiness, has been launched. It's full of good advice. @haynesdeborah
householdreadiness.co.uk
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📢CALL FOR PAPERS📢
If you are studying any aspect of history in the South of England and would like to publish your work, get in touch! We'll soon be looking at papers submitted for our 49th volume.
Guidance for contributors can be found on our website.
southernhistorysociety.org.u…
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There are some fantastic plaques out there. Two favourites (unless you know better?)
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The Southern History Society is now on Bluesky and Facebook!
On all our channels: contents lists, calls for papers, news and more about our 47 volumes of Southern History, the peer-reviewed journal of the history of southern England.
🦋 southernhistsoc.bsky.social
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New exhibition opening soon at @MuseumCromwell in association @FortressStudy - do check it out!
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LISTEN
Norwich’s ‘Great Blow’ of 1648
In this follow-up programme to the the feature podcast worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/…, Professor Hopper discusses the impact on Norwich of the enormous explosion in 1648, known to contemporaries as the ‘Great Blow’.
worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/…
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Everyday informing in revolutionary England
Informing and informers were pervasive in successive governments’ attempts to maintain the security and stability of the English Republic between 1649 and 1660.
Waseem Ahmed discusses the topic.
worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/…
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The Prince Harry case failed the basic test of the newsroom. My analysis of an historic court case -
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Hampshire link to man who saved Canada from becoming American ift.tt/vnOupst
Sir George Prevost - Hampshire link to man who saved #Canada 🇨🇦 from becoming American
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Our next online lecture is this Wednesday at 7.30pm, when Simon Marsh of the Battlefields Trust will be discussing the role of artillery during the Civil Wars of the 1640s. How effective were cannon in reality? More details at: cromwellmuseum.org/whats-on/…
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The Kingmaker Sir Anthony de Blair has come out against Lord Protector Keir Starmer. Makerfield is currently under siege by the Earl of Manchester, whose march on London appears inevitable now.
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Everyone should read this article. Almost brings you to tears.
Staffordians are amazing people who have been utterly betrayed by a political system that forgot what it was for and who it was supposed to serve.— their Reform UK vote is a cry of despair
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Zack Polanski falsely claimed to be British Red Cross spokesman thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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This exchange between @AphraBrandreth and Olly Robbins is crucial: Starmer wanted Mandelson as US ambassador, so the Foreign Office acted on his orders and waived it through. The buck therefore firmly rests with the Starmer for making the appointment pre vetting.
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Hi @DailyMail your “journalist” Perkin Amalaraj has taken this story from a report in the Kathmandu Post. The language is slightly different as it’s been re-written as a summary, but the details aren’t. You’ve ripped off the investigative work of a modest newspaper in Nepal and turned it into a real eye-grabbing story for you. You have mentioned the original story in one line and not even linked to the original report.
How do you want to fix this?
Everest poisoning scandal: Guides 'secretly lace climbers' food to trigger costly helicopter rescues' as part of £15million insurance scam trib.al/DK6tZ25
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Just 4 days until my lecture and Q&A with @PStiffell for @TudorsDynasty! 🎉
Join us this Sunday at 2pm UK time (10am Eastern) for our 30-minute lectures and Q&A afterwards, all about Mary I and the precedent she set for Elizabeth I 👑
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