Bet the “Welsh Not” is on their list.

This “Reform leader Dan Thomas told BBC Wales there were "some museums that take a very niche view on our past that may talk about slavery, without the whole picture of the fact that the British empire was the first to abolish slavery, and that other countries have done it for, you know, millennia".

Y calon o Deheubarth

Just love the definite article in The Grand Avenue, which did not make the street signs. Us locals just called it Grand Av.

Here’s a thing. Few donors ‘signed’ deeds of gift till the late Middle Ages. They ‘sealed’ them. Always had to call out my students on that. It grated.

Presented by a parishioner in the 1840s, but where did he get it from? See VCH East Riding X pt 2 #HowdenMinster

The tartuffes are so dumb they don’t read what the Books of Kings have to say about what the God they claim to honour did to unrighteousness rulers of Judah and Israel.

He wouldn’t recognise it. In his day the house of Gwynedd took a banner of four counter charged lions rampant, ironically to allude to their kinship to the Angevin royal family of England. The red dragon standard was associated with England since before the Conquest

What does Humberside mean to us? Well, without it, we would have no project in Yorkshire's East Riding.

Bear with us.

Simply, the prospect of the East Riding being amalgamated into a trans-Humber local authority was reckoned a bit much... #Skystorians 1/3

Recoronation (Stephen 1143, Richard 1194) was used to signify loss of status due to imprisonment and loss of agency. But it did not recreate royal status, so yes first coronation was definitive. It created royalty even if it was rushed and a klittle shambolic.

Henry III at Gloucester? Okay he was later recrowned, but first coronation is definitive.

Fucke being an unusual variant of Fouke, Fulk, I assume 😆

Unless, of course, it's a very ambitious sandcastle

And where did he 'learn' this?

Walking the Beck and Beverley Pastures kept me sane during the pandemic

Yorkshire has a few such overcooked Romanesque restorations. St Helen Kilnwick Percy (1864) by the Atkinsons is just as sumptuous.

Boats on the lower end of rivers used the tides for propulsion, Miya. They still did on the Humber into the 20th century

King Harold's Fleet - Another Major Problem A quick update about Harold Godwineson allegedly sailing his army to the Battle of Hastings. To recap: Professor Tom Licence of the Univer...

A further problem with the suggestion that King Harold sailed his army to Hastings: www.marcmorris.org.uk/2026/03/king...

A pulpit I have preached from as a curate of that wonderful parish. The lower panels were boarded over in 1864 at the order of the anti-Ritualist Archbishop Thomson when he consecrated the new church. Did not stop Henning Parr the first vicar lighting candles and commissioning liturgical vestments

The local detail is in his tract ‘De Viis’ a maritime portolan he wrote in 1192

And why sail to Tadcaster? Selby was a more commodious and busy port. Tadcaster was a road hub with a bridge. In other words, a point where an army might assemble not a fleet

Sailing from London to Tadcaster was possible, but the Ouse basin and the sandbanks of the Humber was a slow and perilous passage and not for larger seagoing vessels. Sailing back to London was also possible. Roger of Howden did it, though he was bored out of his mind

We know from Roger of Howden that a journey from the middle Ouse to the Humber estuary was carried out in river boats of shallow draught and done in stages, upriver on flood tides, downriver on ebb, taking several days. Travellers transhipped to bigger vessels for the North Sea passage.

Good riposte Marc. One of the things one learns as a young historian (usually by bitter experience) is not to get carried away by our own brilliance and dance after intellectual will o’ the whips. My own doubts chez Licence is maritime.

And the source is unnamed Trump minions. An evidence free gambit to make the Brits wish they’d signed up for Epic Disaster

A lot of his best work is on Union Street. Is that where the building photographed is? Sorry to say I don't recognise its location.

Would this be the work of the Victorian Pocklington builder and developer, Thomas Grant, son of a brickmaker and responsible for much of the town's excellent polychrome work?

What Grimshaw didn’t know was that the property was adjacent to the site of Scarborough’s plague cemetery, the Charnel of St Mary Magdalene, with its cloister and chantry, whose skeletal remains occasionally surface as the cliff erodes

Wow. I’m a grateful alumnus of both of them in the 50s and 60s

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago

www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...