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@dbcrouch.bsky.social
Medieval social history. VCH Editor East Yorkshire. Academician. Cardiffian exile. Hwntw Falch. Cymro yn Sir Efrog.
David Bruce Crouch, is a British historian and academic. From 2000 until his retirement in 2018, he was Professor of Medieval History at the University of Hull.
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Liz even makes a good stab at identifying the author as Eustace de Boulogne, chancellor of Count William (IV) of Warenne. Can't be 100% certain, but it convinces me.
Oddly, what pisses me off are people who spell Llandaff as Llandaf for the sake of 'accuracy', even when they pronounce it with the double-F, and not as 'Llandav'
I'd agree with the striking observation that populism does not fit the description of a coherent ideology, that its roots are in resentment, in which case sociology has more to offer: it looks like a classic instance of a habitus collapsing under hysteresis: new norms provoking hostile reaction
The Guardian did not disappoint with its report of the Plaid Cyrmu (sic) victory in Caerphilly. In one thing constant ever Grauniad
12th century popes and Western kings wouldnβt expect ever to meet, which is why legates developed into such important figures and were expected to dress up in papal robes on their missions. Diplomatic cosplay. I donβt think French kings consorted with popes much either. Eugenius III in 1146 maybe.
I wonder that if Reform make inroads in he Welsh Senedd elections, they'll espouse a policy of sending the English back to Jutland and Saxony and reclaim Lloegr from the Saesneg. The Welsh of the 12th century thought it was a vote winner, so run it up the flagpole now Ms Lam has made lunacy normal
It does give Oberon a convincing context for sure ... though I can't visualise him getting down on the cymbals
I darenβt look at the price OUP will put on it
Wow. Memories of Grand Avenue.
It is entirely beautiful in real life, the Schatzkammer catalogueβs analysis favours it to have been a Cheapside goldsmithβs of the latter years of Edward IIIβs reign
Good use for that grand old building, civic Cardiff at its greatest. The first floor reference room was a place a working class teenager from Ely could explore the world of books and chart his way across intellectual horizons under its coffered ceiling via something as mundane as a card catalogue.
Called βscrattingβ in the East Riding and much bemoaned in Victorian school log books for taking kids out of class
The most amusing thing (of many) in their NYT dialogue was that each was clearly convinced in their sectarian way that the other was damned for all eternity, but were too polite to say it out loud
The screen in the adjacent Romanesque church has a secular origin and may be another type of fragment of the manor
And in the week when G-A-Y closed its doors. The old Soho club culture is dying its own natural death, without silly performative evangelicals claiming credit.
I do hope it closes off that historiographical cul de sac for good and all. It proved only that French historians could be brainwashed as easily as the British by grand narratives, in our case by Oxbridge constitutionalist history, still twitching
The recent VCH volume suggests from extant remains that the Gothic collegiate church was preceded by a major cruciform Romanesque church with stone vaults, the one presided over by the famous historian Roger of Howden as minster head, or βpersonaβ between c.1169 and 1202
My German is crap, but "Gefallt aus" was a phrase I was glad I understood on my last visit
I remember the damp black dust it deposited on the fields of Mountain Ash comp down the valley
F**k Calvinism
Might be makeshift staithes, set in banks of tidal rivers to deflect the ebb rip from undermining the sea bank. A medieval strategy in Yorkshire
Already sold out. They need a bigger venue dammit
Fantastic. My town. I will be there.
Ah Senate House. Home of the Institute of Historical Research. Best history library in the UK.
I would point to certain publishers, amongst whom grew the belief that professionally trained historians were Dry-as-dusts incapable of writing accessibly. This became apparent in the 1990s when unqualified writers began to publish titles on very serious topics sources for which they could not read.
Roberts does seem to be one of those scientists who believes the humanities are easy subjects and anyone can do them. without any formal training. History as much as theology suffers from these berks.
On Thursday, the remarkable north porch door of Kilnwick Percy church. The dilapidated church was reconstructed in an elaborate neo-Romanesque style in 1864β5 to designs by J.B. & W. Atkinson for Arthur Duncombe, and this door was shifted from the south side to the new north porch facing the Hall.
If you were a boy educated in the 1950s the comics you read were full of heroic Tommies mowing down Nazis and winning VCs. My first German words were inevitably βAchtungβ and βHandes hochβ. No wonder so many men in their sixties were Brexit fodder
Another dismally dumb low quality HE Exec
And a nod to Scarborough whose 12th century town walls closed off its promontory. Its rebuilt gate on Westborough survived till as late as Victoriaβs reign and gave its name to Bar Street