Dr Stuart B Jennings, FRHisS
@stuartbj.bsky.social
Early Modern Historian, Academic advisor to National Civil War Centre, FRHistS. Author of four books
Methodist Minister (retd) Alzheimers Advocate & Hon Vice President of Alzheimer’s Society, UK
https://stuartbjennings.wixsite.com/stuart-b-jennings
Methodist Minister (retd) Alzheimers Advocate & Hon Vice President of Alzheimer’s Society, UK
https://stuartbjennings.wixsite.com/stuart-b-jennings
Seem to be on a bit of a roll at the moment. With other academic colleagues and friends, I’ve contributed a couple on commentaries in the book published this week
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Seem to be on a bit of a roll at the moment. With other academic colleagues and friends, I’ve contributed a couple on commentaries in the book published this week
Just signed a contract with my publisher for my fifth book which the working title is 'Colonel Nathaniel Fiennes (1608-1669):
Soldier, Politician and aide to Lord Protector Cromwell.' Looking to be published at the end of 2026
Soldier, Politician and aide to Lord Protector Cromwell.' Looking to be published at the end of 2026
October 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Just signed a contract with my publisher for my fifth book which the working title is 'Colonel Nathaniel Fiennes (1608-1669):
Soldier, Politician and aide to Lord Protector Cromwell.' Looking to be published at the end of 2026
Soldier, Politician and aide to Lord Protector Cromwell.' Looking to be published at the end of 2026
A day to remember those who struggle to recall
September 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
A day to remember those who struggle to recall
Best evidence of Charles at Oxford is the minting of a £3 gold coin in the city (highest value of gold coin ever minted in England). It is known as the Triple Unite
September 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Best evidence of Charles at Oxford is the minting of a £3 gold coin in the city (highest value of gold coin ever minted in England). It is known as the Triple Unite
#Westminster Abbey
Having had the humbling experience of walking the #battlefields of #Flanders and the #Somme I had one more place to visit. Often come to London but today I made time for this
Having had the humbling experience of walking the #battlefields of #Flanders and the #Somme I had one more place to visit. Often come to London but today I made time for this
September 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
#Westminster Abbey
Having had the humbling experience of walking the #battlefields of #Flanders and the #Somme I had one more place to visit. Often come to London but today I made time for this
Having had the humbling experience of walking the #battlefields of #Flanders and the #Somme I had one more place to visit. Often come to London but today I made time for this
Edgehill
Hard to imagine 1000 dead soldiers on these fields in 1642
Hard to imagine 1000 dead soldiers on these fields in 1642
August 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Edgehill
Hard to imagine 1000 dead soldiers on these fields in 1642
Hard to imagine 1000 dead soldiers on these fields in 1642
Autumn talk
August 5, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Autumn talk
Now that’s what you would call an excellent pair of #incontinence #pants. Even have additional ties for each leg 😂😂😂😂
#History
#History
August 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Now that’s what you would call an excellent pair of #incontinence #pants. Even have additional ties for each leg 😂😂😂😂
#History
#History
July 31, 2025 at 10:57 AM
A terrible fate awaits future #archaeologists 😜
June 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
A terrible fate awaits future #archaeologists 😜
Another Conference paper delivered and at my old alma mater.
May 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Another Conference paper delivered and at my old alma mater.
#VE day party 1945 on Latimer Street #Leicester
My father is the young boy in the dark shirt - second on the left on the front row 🇬🇧🇬🇧
My father is the young boy in the dark shirt - second on the left on the front row 🇬🇧🇬🇧
May 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
#VE day party 1945 on Latimer Street #Leicester
My father is the young boy in the dark shirt - second on the left on the front row 🇬🇧🇬🇧
My father is the young boy in the dark shirt - second on the left on the front row 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Ashby de la Zouch Castle
‘I told you to make a breach in the back wall of the Keep, not blow the bloody thing to pieces’
With due respects to Michael Caine
‘I told you to make a breach in the back wall of the Keep, not blow the bloody thing to pieces’
With due respects to Michael Caine
May 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Ashby de la Zouch Castle
‘I told you to make a breach in the back wall of the Keep, not blow the bloody thing to pieces’
With due respects to Michael Caine
‘I told you to make a breach in the back wall of the Keep, not blow the bloody thing to pieces’
With due respects to Michael Caine
Middleton Hall, Warwickshire
April 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Middleton Hall, Warwickshire
Charlecote House, Warwickshire.
Have the walk through the avenue of trees all to myself. After spending the morning wrestling with the seventeenth century Parliamentary archives, it’s nice to be brought back to the present. 👍🏻
Have the walk through the avenue of trees all to myself. After spending the morning wrestling with the seventeenth century Parliamentary archives, it’s nice to be brought back to the present. 👍🏻
April 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Charlecote House, Warwickshire.
Have the walk through the avenue of trees all to myself. After spending the morning wrestling with the seventeenth century Parliamentary archives, it’s nice to be brought back to the present. 👍🏻
Have the walk through the avenue of trees all to myself. After spending the morning wrestling with the seventeenth century Parliamentary archives, it’s nice to be brought back to the present. 👍🏻
A day at #Broughton Castle, the ancient moated ancestral home of the #Fiennes family
April 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
A day at #Broughton Castle, the ancient moated ancestral home of the #Fiennes family
British Association of Numismatic Societies Congress of 2025, University of Nottingham
April 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
British Association of Numismatic Societies Congress of 2025, University of Nottingham
A busy weekend ahead at a National Conference in Nottingham
April 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
A busy weekend ahead at a National Conference in Nottingham
Delivering a lecture this weekend at a conference being held at my old alma mater (Nottingham university). Campus has changed considerably since my day. Speaking at the annual conference of British coin collectors about civil war siege pieces. Hope they realise I’m a historian, not a Numismatist.
April 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Delivering a lecture this weekend at a conference being held at my old alma mater (Nottingham university). Campus has changed considerably since my day. Speaking at the annual conference of British coin collectors about civil war siege pieces. Hope they realise I’m a historian, not a Numismatist.
A selection of Balls: nature wasn’t kind to the trebuchet family 😜😂😂
Missiles fired during the #siege of #Kenilworth castle, 1266
Missiles fired during the #siege of #Kenilworth castle, 1266
March 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
A selection of Balls: nature wasn’t kind to the trebuchet family 😜😂😂
Missiles fired during the #siege of #Kenilworth castle, 1266
Missiles fired during the #siege of #Kenilworth castle, 1266