I wasn’t going to post this, on the grounds that it was a little niche. But then I thought: “Actually, it’s quite a big one, and it’s got an effigy of Anne Boleyn in it…”
#Carshalton
The Government ten days ago released a new strategic vision for archives which makes a strong and convincing case for their central importance.
Using it as a yardstick shows just how far short of best practice the BBC Written Archives Centre falls.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/new-strategi...
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
I learned this the hard way.
FFS. Outdated within 24 hours of publication. What are the chances, etc
9 Mar 1540: A commission investigating the Pale of #Calais reports on 13 'heretics' there #otd - 5 were protégées of Thomas Cromwell. This was very bad news for him.
I am reading the will of Sir Henry Wyatt, who leaves a cup with his arms on to Thomas Cromwell and makes him one of his executors.
Henry was imprisoned for opposing Richard III, then supported Henry Tudor's claim & became courtier under him (Henry VII).
Here he is in prison with a nice cat:
On The Thread of her Tale, I wrote about three things that make the truth shimmer out of focus: a drowned village, a house with my family name; a purple coat.
Learned a new word today: sloppergänger.
If a.i. uses your words and arguments, and talks for you, you have created a virtual #sloppergänger echoing you.
Four strong women for #InternationalWomensDay. More than wives and bodies. Political advisors. Religious reformers. Diplomatic negotiators. International players. Women in their own right.
(Also remembering Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr; but I can only stitch the queens Cromwell knew.)