Was just reading about a public religious conference between soldiers in the New Model Army and clergymen at the University of Oxford, held in 1646, and... I'm not sure Proquest has quite nailed this one.
Feels like one of these three religious opinions is a bit different to the others:
Press cutting Lancashire Telegraph, 20 April 2008: Shepherd's pie recipe rumpus. Subhead: Petrol bomb threat in tomato topping row. By ANDREW BELLARD A dispute over the contents of a shepherd's pie proved to be a recipe for brotherly disharmony. Blackburn magistrates heard that John Garvin thought that the pie his brother Michael made should have been topped with tomatoes but Michael disagreed. The upshot was that John, who was hit over the head with a shovel, reacted by threatening to petrol bomb his brother's flat. And he ended up spending a night in custody to allow tempers to cool. John Garvin, 47, of Montague Street, admitted a breach of the peace and was bound over in £100 to keep the peace for 12 months. Catherine Allan, prosecuting, said the brothers lived in separate flats next to each other. On the day of the culinary dispute they had been drinking together since 7am. "The argument started because there were no tomatoes on the shepherds pie that Michael made for tea and John thought this was wrong," said Miss Allan. John called his brother an offensive name and then said he was going to petrol bomb his flat. "Michael was concerned by this threat because on a previous occasion John had started a fire in his own flat," said Miss Allan. Liz Parker, defending, said her client did not accept making a remark about petrol bombing his brother's flat. "He does say that his brother hit him over the head with a shovel and it is very clear there was a lot of trouble over nothing," she added. (The article has a pullout quote which says “It is very clear there was a lot of trouble over nothing” - LIZ PARKER in large letters) District Judge Peter Ward, who imposed the bind over, asked in court: "You can make shepherd's pie without tomatoes can't you?" But 'legal' opinion at Blackburn magistrates, where the issue became quite a talking point, was divided. A female defence solicitor said it should be made with lamb and topped with sliced tomatoes and that a pie made with b…
And lo, it came to pass that the 18th anniversary of the greatest local news story ever told came upon us, and we were sore amazed
That's the first time we've beaten them at Old Trafford in the league in my lifetime (and the only time except a certain FA Cup game and a certain Jermaine Beckford goal).
Yes please!
I now feel better about the time someone complained to my boss about me doing an online meeting (during lockdown) from my bed.
If you want a chuckle, check out this rant from a hotelier whose chalet I stayed in over the Easter hols. It had dodgy electrics, leaking plumbing and, er, no fire alarms. I wasn't pleased and reviewed it here on Google.
www.google.com.jm/travel/hotel...
Poignant 1643 graffiti, for @jonathanhealey.bsky.social
Thomas Fairfax on 3 June 1645, promising that his army would never treat women as cruelly as the royalists had done at Leicester. A grim irony given what would happen a few days later at Naseby.
Letter from Prince Rupert ordering the razing of Chilton House, then, the next day: ‘You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!’
A similar letter 300 years later.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imber
Fascinating letter from Charles I in 1644, ordering the church and village of Boarstall to be pulled down for military reasons.
Exterior of St Laurence
Shadowed interior of St Laurence
Finished our holiday with a visit to Bradford-on-Avon after a recommendation from @jonathanhealey.bsky.social - pretty town, and I thought you might be interested in St Laurence, one of the best preserved examples of a Saxon church! www.nationalchurchestrust.org/church/st-la...
Can I shock you? I actually like VAR.
[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this
Been skiing for three days, which is enough to learn that this is a lie.
Making a point of telling everyone I'm going on holiday not annual leave because, yes, I'm a grumpy old fart.
Thank you!
I am thrilled to be invited to this year’s Special Interest Event at Christ Church College, @ox.ac.uk: Britain Turned Upside Down, Civil War & Republic, 1640-1660!
We started off yesterday with a wonderful paper by @jonathanhealey.bsky.social!
Loved this from the Bodleian John le Carre exhibition. Alec Guinness writing to the author, worrying about playing George Smiley because ‘although thick-set I am not really rotund and double-chinned’.
Just stubbed my toe really badly while listening to Bruckner. A lesson there for us all.
Yes of course!
Amazing, thanks! Sort of dimly remembered that to be the case but good to have it confirmed by people who know what they are talking about.
Early modernists! Anyone seen the word 'gossip' applied to a man before? Got a will here that appoints 'my good and loving gossip Mr Henry Ireton' (yes, that Henry Ireton) as overseer. Dates to 1648.
‘The ground of the war was not the difference in what supreme magistracy was, but whether it was in the King alone’.
Fascinating statement by Henry Ireton about what he thought the English Civil War was about.
Hadn't known this before, but when the monarchy was restored in 1660, King Charles II had a guy called Tench executed because he was the carpenter who built the scaffold on which Charles I was killed.
One of the earliest reports on the Putney Debates was that the council of the army had met, and their proceedings were 'to appoint a committee to agree upon something, and bring it in', which is so wonderfully vague it could be a record of an academic governance meeting.
Just got this letter from the local estate agent, who’ve played an absolute blinder there…
"History has lied to you".
No it hasn't, and it's really sad that a university is using this framing.
Historians debate evidence - often, as here, quite fragmentary. They question received ideas, test new theories, correct mistakes.
That's the joy of history. But it doesn't mean others "lied". /