What a massive weapon.

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Nope.

Join me this summer for a tour of Edward I's magnificent castles in Wales. www.traveleditions.co.uk/tour/great-c...

Post-Conquest kings were styled 'x, son of y'. This became a problem after 1327 when a third consecutive Edward became king, so people began to distinguish them as first, second and third.

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.

Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

With Bayeux Tapestry mania mounting, I thought it worth pointing out that my book about the Norman Conquest begins with a description of the famous embroidery and explains why it's uniquely important. You can read it for free here: shorturl.at/vjjay

Edward I Follow Edward I’s dramatic reign as conqueror and crusader, from his wars in Wales and Scotland to the lasting legacy of his monumental castles.

In two weeks' time I'll be talking about Edward I at the Canterbury Medieval Weekend. history-weekends.org/programme/ed...

We have a winner! Congratulations Gavin @schofig.bsky.social . Message me with your address and I'll post you the prize.

Once in a blue moon I discover something worthy of an academic paper - in this case, a redating of the seizure of Rochester Castle by the Magna Carta rebels in 1215.

Tomorrow's reading will be from the Book of Armaments.

'Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy."'

This is a complete fabrication. The linked study does not find this nor does it purport to find this nor does it even attempt to find anything like this nor does it involve collecting or analyzing any data whatsoever about children in households that used voice commands.

"When we started dating it was like Romeo and Juliet", said Francois, "but it ended in tragedy."

If one of my party's recent prime ministers had redecorated the Number 10 flat in a way that ended up involving TWO separate inquiries and a Wikipedia page, I would simply not have put out a press release confirming that the current prime minister had spent less than the allowance he was given.

The £100,000 fix for Britain's big money problem Farage’s mega donors have exposed the fatal flaw in Starmer's Elections Bill. Capping all political donations would be simple, popular - and transformative.

‘Ben Delo shows how easily Labour’s curbs on foreign money can be circumvented.

Starmer needs to put the integrity of British democracy first and use his Elections Bill as what it is: a once-in-a-generation opportunity to take big money out of politics’

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Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

I don't think so.

On 9 July I'll be giving a talk about the Norman Conquest in Bury St Edmunds. www.moyseshall.org/whats-on/det...

I guess I need to extend my already long list of comparisons between Trump and King John to include 'has a fight with the pope'.

It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈

Lost seal of Edward the Confessor found after being missing for 40 years An 11th-century Anglo-Saxon seal belonging to Edward the Confessor has been rediscovered more than 40 years after being declared lost. The wax impression of the ‘Saint-Denis seal’ disappeared without ...

Exciting times for the study 11thC England: the 'lost' seal of Edward the Confessor has been rediscovered in the Archives nationales de France! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky

I think you could confidently predict that the US would be a papal vassal state by the end of the month.

I guess I need to extend my already long list of comparisons between Trump and King John to include 'has a fight with the pope'.

Turns out getting JD Vance to campaign for you is a powerful voter repellent.

Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power Long-serving prime minister beaten by opposition after early results showed clear lead

Donald, JD, Vladimir, Nigel - your boy took a hell of a beating! www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

It is absolutely incredible that HMRC thought (and still thinks) that it is acceptable to tell every sole trader in the country that they have to file digitally, but that HMRC isn't providing any means to do, that you probably need to get some software from somewhere, and that it sucks to be you.

The key event in eleventh-century Hungarian history was the return of Edward the Exile to England in 1057, which cannot be understood without reading my book on the Norman Conquest...

The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇