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Merry Christmas & happy holidays, friends! 🎄🥂
December 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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This is why, in a workshop I've introduced as part of an effort to help students to better understand what it is they're reading, I start with a talk about how academic publications come to be and what they *physically* are, and how this reflects and drives scholarly processes.
Flowchart labeled 'Talking about history: where and how', that breaks down primary and secondary sources, peer-reviewed and non-peer reviewed publications, and different formats: edited/translated sources, books, edited books and chapters, journal articles, reference works, trade books, blog and social media posts, and book reviews.
December 1, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Really useful article
November 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 2 · Hardwick Hall - more glass than wall · I lasted visited Hardwick Hall several decades ago, when I was stunned by the bright light on the interiors from Hardwick's famous glass wind…
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November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Consistory Court furnishings, dating from 1634, in Derby Cathedral.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 1 · The Macneil of Barra has eaten, and now the princes of the earth may dine - apparently the custom at Kisimul Castle on the Isle of Barra was to announce this via a herald's proclam…
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November 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · Jesus and no quarter! The battle cry of the Covenanters at the Battle of Tippermuir, 1 September 1644, a Sunday, according to Ian Crofton, A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fabl…
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November 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · Infar cake - a Scottish wedding cake broken over the head of the bride as she enters here new home, deriving from an ancient Roman custom of confarratio, where the eating of a cons…
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November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Blimey, some of these are stunning. Worth a look for anyone who enjoys such beautiful intersections between astronomy, history, and art
From the link shared in the quoted post: Illustration from a 1587 treatise on comets and meteors, created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France) and known as the Kometenbuch. It's a beautifully colourful piece of early modern art showing a comet or meteor in the sky over a scene of trees, mountains, and a rowing boat on an estuary
October 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Forgetting Blue Dick · Richard Culmer (1597-1662) was one of the most notorious of the interregnum puritans, mainly because of his enthusiasm as commissioner responsible for destro…
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October 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 2 · Mereworth Church, Kent · A spectacular baroque church from 1746.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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💬 0  🔁 2  ❤️ 1 · King Charles the Martyr Church, Tunbridge Wells · A seventeenth-century church in the Wren style, as frequented by Princess Victoria.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 2 · Sandwich Guildhall - A rare example of a 17th century court-room · The panelling in the court-room in the Sandwich Guildhall is early Jacobean. The jury box, shown below, folds up…
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October 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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OTD in 1623, the Fatal Vespers tragedy occurred: a building hosting a secret Catholic service in Blackfriars collapsed, killing around 100. The aftermath saw vicious anti-Catholic violence, but, as I explored, it also reveals much about tolerance & Catholicism in London. doi.org/10.1017/bch....
October 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Chagall at Tudeley · A few years ago I visited the Chagall church at Mainz; All Saints at Tudeley in Kent is just as amazing, particular the moving East window memorial dedicated t…
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September 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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🤣🤣🤣No need to decide now
September 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Margate shell grotto - the spooky place that ought to be better known

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Margate Shell Grotto - the spooky place no-one has heard of · From the outside, Margate Shell Grotto appears like a cheap seaside attraction in an obscure suburban side-street down…
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September 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Jacobean bling, Ightham Mote.

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Jacobean Bling, Ightham Mote, Kent, with wallpaper imported from China.
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September 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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English Medieval angel, Burrell Collection
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💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 1 · Medieval angel, Burrell Collection
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July 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Weepers, Burrell Collection
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · Weepers, 15th century, Burrell Collection
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July 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Medieval stained glass from Rouen, Burrell Collection
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💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 1 · Medieval stained glass from Rouen, France, Burrell Collection
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July 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Not a Rembrandt but pretty good anyway
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💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 1 · Not a Rembrandt, but pretty good anyway · Probably bought as a Rembrandt, because it was signed by him, but the signature is thought to be Rembrandt's sign of approval of the work…
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July 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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The amateur architect who drove Pevsner apopleptic
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💬 0  🔁 3  ❤️ 2 · The amateur architect who drove Pevsner apopleptic · On a walking tour of Elizabeth Gaskell's Knutsford, my fancy was taken by the architectural constructions of Richard Harding Wa…
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July 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Statue of Martha, 15-16th century, Burrell Collection
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July 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 2 · When the copy is better than the original · The Massacre of the Innocents by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, painted in the 1560s, is said to be a political comment on atrocities commit…
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July 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM