Euan Roger
@euanroger.bsky.social
Principal Medieval Records Specialist at The National Archives (UK), Medieval/Tudor historian & archaeology fun as well as #ChaucerLifeRecords. All views my own
Incredible discovery on the TNA Web Archive... there is an archived version of the 'Love Chips' campaign from 2009, featuring a song (and clipped up ringtone) from Keith Chegwin all about chips... and the download still works! #obsessed #chips
webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/200908...
webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/200908...
February 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Incredible discovery on the TNA Web Archive... there is an archived version of the 'Love Chips' campaign from 2009, featuring a song (and clipped up ringtone) from Keith Chegwin all about chips... and the download still works! #obsessed #chips
webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/200908...
webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/200908...
'What words? He then fell down and went to sleep' #relatablecontent
January 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
'What words? He then fell down and went to sleep' #relatablecontent
St Paul looking fierce in this marginalia from the 1277 Essex forest eyre... (E 32/12)
January 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
St Paul looking fierce in this marginalia from the 1277 Essex forest eyre... (E 32/12)
Happy New Year from Malaysia... 2025 is the year of the [academic] book so maybe justifies the mad fire letters, but here's hoping it's a good one...
December 31, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Happy New Year from Malaysia... 2025 is the year of the [academic] book so maybe justifies the mad fire letters, but here's hoping it's a good one...
How does one activate the eels??
December 23, 2024 at 11:05 AM
How does one activate the eels??
Submitted two articles this afternoon and out of office on for the next 4 weeks... i deserve this...
(ps ignore the hectic background, a lot of packing/unpacking going on currently)
(ps ignore the hectic background, a lot of packing/unpacking going on currently)
December 13, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Submitted two articles this afternoon and out of office on for the next 4 weeks... i deserve this...
(ps ignore the hectic background, a lot of packing/unpacking going on currently)
(ps ignore the hectic background, a lot of packing/unpacking going on currently)
Define mischance...
December 11, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Define mischance...
At least you didn't automatically make this horrific face on camera...
December 5, 2024 at 6:40 PM
At least you didn't automatically make this horrific face on camera...
Trawling through some PRO correspondence from almost a century ago, and apparently literally nothing has changed...
December 3, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Trawling through some PRO correspondence from almost a century ago, and apparently literally nothing has changed...
First evening talk I've been involved in ages last Thurs, but so much fun to invite Dan Jones to TNA to chat all things Henry V, with a killer doc display to boot... some highlights in Dan's substack here danjones.substack.com
December 1, 2024 at 7:17 PM
First evening talk I've been involved in ages last Thurs, but so much fun to invite Dan Jones to TNA to chat all things Henry V, with a killer doc display to boot... some highlights in Dan's substack here danjones.substack.com
Lovely little sketch plan of #Chertsey I came across today, part of the 1650 parliamentary survey of former Crown lands. The viewpoint appears to be roughly that taken from Thorpe Park... 🤣 (E 317/Surrey/10)
November 30, 2023 at 5:59 PM
Lovely little sketch plan of #Chertsey I came across today, part of the 1650 parliamentary survey of former Crown lands. The viewpoint appears to be roughly that taken from Thorpe Park... 🤣 (E 317/Surrey/10)
Living his best life among the leaves... (sadly for him his regular swimming in the pond was banned because it was too cold)
November 25, 2023 at 5:30 PM
Living his best life among the leaves... (sadly for him his regular swimming in the pond was banned because it was too cold)
Like Henry VIII's commissioners, Shadow and I undertook our own mini Valor Ecclesiasticus survey of the lands of Chertsey Abbey this afternoon, from the Abbey site, down Monk's Lane, and finding remnants of the medieval almonry in the surviving landscape...
November 23, 2023 at 8:28 PM
Like Henry VIII's commissioners, Shadow and I undertook our own mini Valor Ecclesiasticus survey of the lands of Chertsey Abbey this afternoon, from the Abbey site, down Monk's Lane, and finding remnants of the medieval almonry in the surviving landscape...
This is perhaps my new favourite literary line of all time (from Zadie Smith's excellent new book "The Fraud")...
October 30, 2023 at 7:14 PM
This is perhaps my new favourite literary line of all time (from Zadie Smith's excellent new book "The Fraud")...
History with Shadow...
October 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM
History with Shadow...
I probably should have checked my own writing on May Day too 🙈
October 16, 2023 at 2:02 PM
I probably should have checked my own writing on May Day too 🙈
First time doing the long drive to Cornwall and already Shadow's found some ruins...
October 11, 2023 at 5:39 PM
First time doing the long drive to Cornwall and already Shadow's found some ruins...
A Tudor sea surgeon called Davy Jones... you can't make this stuff up!!!
October 5, 2023 at 7:37 PM
A Tudor sea surgeon called Davy Jones... you can't make this stuff up!!!
Great to take a look at one of The National Archives' treasures today, Henry VIII's own heavily illuminated transcript of the Valor Ecclesiasticus, his survey of the Church on the eve of the Reformation...
October 3, 2023 at 7:59 PM
Great to take a look at one of The National Archives' treasures today, Henry VIII's own heavily illuminated transcript of the Valor Ecclesiasticus, his survey of the Church on the eve of the Reformation...
Autumn definitely here...
October 1, 2023 at 5:04 PM
Autumn definitely here...
Birthday walk, pint and crossword in the sun...
September 25, 2023 at 1:21 PM
Birthday walk, pint and crossword in the sun...