🌍 Protecting people should be the first duty of any Government. At present, the UK is deeply unprepared for the increasing threat of floods, droughts, wildfires and food shortages.
The cross-party CNCC will continue to urge the Government to deliver, before it's too late.
👉 thecncc.org
It's the last day of women's history month, so I am sharing my other recent Margaret Beaufort podcast, this time with @historylauren.bsky.social for Historic Royal Palaces.
Apparently there were half a million of us here - for love, for hope, for unity.
I wouldn't want to try to rank all the medieval women outrageously maligned by later generations, but I'm afraid Lady Margaret Beaufort, would rank pretty high. So it was wonderful to have the chance to explore her impressive story with Katherine Lewis and @davidgrummitt.bsky.social for In Our Time.
💧 A new water law is coming. Ministers know this law is a once-in-a-generation chance to clean up our rivers, lakes and seas but Government proposals don’t match the scale of the water crisis—yet.
We need a Water Reform Bill to:
👉 Stop the pollution
👉 Fix the water system
👉 And restore nature
@yorkisthistory.bsky.social will have a stall in the Parkinson Court for #IMC2026 🎊
It's great to have them this July, and we cannot wait to see what Yorkist history themed works will be on display for us to see 👍
yorkisthistorytrust.org
#MedievalSky #SkyStorians
And if you're interested in applying for a grant yourself, please take a look at our website for more information: yorkisthistorytrust.org/grants/ #MedievalSky #Skystorians #medieval #research #grants #maps #Ludlow #Shropshire
In the latest Trust #blog, read how a YHT research grant awarded to Rachael Harkes (@latemedievalist.bsky.social) helped produce detailed maps of recruitment to a #medieval guild and shape her fascinating research questions: tinyurl.com/cs5unwtm 🌍 @bristolcms.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social
This is fascinating. And if anyone's interested in another challenge to the traditional battle narrative - I'll be talking about the fate of Harold's body at the Canterbury Medieval Weekend in May: history-weekends.org/programme/ki...
What better opportunity than #WorldBookDay to announce the publication of our latest volume!? 🎉📖 Claire Martin's 'The Post-Mortem Accounts of Sir Thomas Charlton, d. 1465', is an important edition of a fascinating collection of #medieval documents. More info: yorkisthistorytrust.org/2026/03/05/n...
Programme for today’s conference.
Our online schools conference is today! The speakers are ready and the schools will be in place by start time at 9:00.
Gilt bronze effigy of Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, recumbent with hands raised in prayer, in Westminster Abbey.
It was lovely to chat all things Lady Margaret Beaufort with @historylauren.bsky.social and @charlesxhistory.bsky.social for Historic Royal Palaces' latest podcast - www.hrp.org.uk/listen-to-th... - out today.
For the first time Margaret Beaufort is featuring in this years online conference. So #teachers & #students, do sign up! It’s a fantastic resource.
#HistParl's Dr Hannes Kleineke was a recent guest on the History Hit podcast Gone Medieval!
Dr Kleineke discussed the Parliament of February 1426, which saw some members take up bats and clubs to defend themselves against the threat of violence...
Listen to the episode here:
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.
Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.
Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
Teaching the Wars of the Roses to 6th Formers? Our online schools conference is coming up quickly. Book now! Historians such as Prof John Watts, @jllaynesmith.bsky.social & @seanc1509.bsky.social will talk on Late Medieval Kingship, Margaret of Anjou, etc. www.warsoftheroses.com/schools-onli...
Nearly 566 years ago, this gentle field saw one of the most decisive military encounters of the Wars of the Roses - the (4th) Battle of Northampton. I was privileged to receive a guided tour from Graham Evans, chair of the Northamptonshire Battlefield Society last week, in suitably rainy weather.
Nice piece by @racheldelman.bsky.social on women and falconry. Obviously Cecily duchess of York's choice of the falcon on her seal was in tribute to her husband (and his grandfather), so pretty traditional there, but I do love this particular image of her from the Wigmore Chronicle.
Nearly at the deadline for registering for the schools online wars of the roses conference - not to be missed if this is on your A Level syllabus!
Who is this?
115k and counting.
How many days until we hear the usual rejection from parliament ?
By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - Petitions petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
#UKDefections
#NoJumpingShip
This. ⏬
Of course, it would be better if govts were perfect (and had better judgement from the off), but I'd still rather a govt that was prepared to u-turn if it seems necessary, than arrogantly carry on, no matter what.
Next week, book talk with #TimLenton on #planetary #TippingPoints +his new book Positive Tipping Points: How to Fix the Climate Crisis - if you're in the Exeter, Dartmoor, Plymouth, Torquay areas.
talk: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/bov...
book: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/posi...
@jamesgdyke.info
I'm very much looking forward to the opportunity to dispel some of the myths around Harold Godwinson's 'mistress', Edith Swanneck, at Canterbury on 2 May as part of the Medieval Canterbury Weekend. history-weekends.org/programme/ki...
The Christmas cards of the magi at Sant Apollinare Nuovo tend to omit the line of 22 virgin saints following the Magi to Christ - the closest are Pelagia and Euphemia, both victims of Diocletian's persecution (apparently there were five churches dedicated to Euphemia in Ravenna).
In case you missed it - there's a preliminary report of the intriguing findings by scholars creating an interactive digital transcription and translation of the fabulous Edward IV Roll: riiiresearch.blogspot.com/2025/12/impo...
Poster with a list of the speakers and subjects for the Richard III Society's online conference for schools and colleges teaching a 15th C history A Level module. AQA/OCR/Edexcel
3 March 2026 - our Online Schools Conference. Register Now! So many good speakers with analysis of key documents for the Wars of the Roses. @teachmedwomen.bsky.social @htenuk.bsky.social @kriiicentre.bsky.social @danlyndon.bsky.social @1972shp.bsky.social @histassoc.bsky.social #HistoryEducation
