If you love history and can get to London this weekend, come and join us! There are a tiny number of in-person tickets remaining. ⬇️⬇️

With The Firearm Revolution out next week, I'm delighted to announce that you can hear me talk about it in person *and live-streamed* at the @royalarmouries.bsky.social on Wednesday 29 April. Book here for your ticket / online link. 2pm UK, 3pm CET, 9am EST.

The cover and a spread of History Today. The cover story is Servants on the Grand Tour. An early modern engraving shows a man, standing next to some ruins and gesturing up at a statue.

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Ok... Ok.. if I must.

hope you enjoy! 🏵️

So pleased you enjoyed!

I didn't think I could be more impressed with his communication skills, but he's just given a history lesson and lesson international solidarity (and continued to sound genuine and colloquial throughout) on the occasion of what I mostly know as some rivers being turned green and lots of alcohol...

Ebook 99p. Offer ends today. www.amazon.co.uk/Anglo-Saxons...

We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

"Kuwornu shares the diverse African presence in Renaissance Europe that he found: princes, ambassadors, saints, artists, scholars, and knights—all revealed through art from the period"
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

British History Podcast: Thomas More was a complex man in complicated times. Interview with | Dr Joanne Paul at Harvington History Festival shows.acast.com/british-hist... @drjoannepaul.bsky.social #Tudors #History #Podcast

Enough politics. It is publication day for the paperback edition for The Far Edges of the Known World; it's a book that has been described in reviews as both strikingly and refreshingly original.

So if you fancy reading about the ancient world from a different perspective - give it a read!

Excellent work, team.

Thank you! Very kind.

The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England. A TIMES Book of the Year 2022 A New History of Tudor England. A TIMES Book of the Year 2022

I have a book you might enjoy.... 😉uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-house-of-dud...

oh god. It's going to be a day in which we are forced to tap the 'the world didn't start in 1900' sign every five minutes, isn't it?

Anyway, stop firing your premodernists, stop making them feel irrelevant, stop making them do just the introduction sessions of 'the real' history.

Ok, but she's Lady Jane DUDLEY 😅

Arthur Plantagenet, Viscount Lisle? (a stretch perhaps, but a heck of a story...)

So I don't know if he counts as a 'senior royal' (probably not), but...

Arthur Plantagenet, Viscount Lisle (bastard son of Edward IV) was arrested, held AND released, and only died because he was so excited about about being released that he had a heart attack two days later...

Counts?

so far I’ve come up with 1 (one) senior royal being arrested or detained who hasn’t died about it (Elizabeth I)

The Duke of Clarence was executed on the 18 February 👀

Lots of chat about the *last* English royal to be arrested, but who was the first? The Anglo-Saxons typically bumped off their rivals, so I'll start the bidding with Odo, bishop of Bayeux, arrested and imprisoned by his half-brother, William the Conqueror, in 1082.

First senior member of the royal family to be arrested since Charles I...

I reckon the last time the son of a sovereign was taken into custody in Britain was the Duke of Monmouth in 1685.

every British historian rn frantically trying to find examples of British royals being arrested that don’t end with their execution

To be clear: references to past modes of execution are not endorsements

Not to mention Charles I himself...

Emphasis on *modern*.

A certain brother of a king drowned in a vat of Malmsey wine* comes to mind.

(*so went the rumour)

The Strangers' Case | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

On "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" @colbertlateshow.bsky.social, Sir Ian McKellen shared a monologue that some believe Shakespeare may have written. The speech, known as "The Strangers’ Case," comes from an Elizabethan play, "Sir Thomas More." We explore: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

Contributor: What 'America' meant before 1776, and who 'Americans' are today The label is often wielded now to exclude brown people, but these two continents have been a melting pot since long before the U.S. was founded.

New byline in @latimes.com on what a late medieval/Renaissance map has to do with politics today.

🗃 #maps #cartography #histsci #medieval #renaissance #earlymodern

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