Siguiendo la última moda en Twitter, subo mi árbol de costados con las comunidades de las que provienen mis antepasados hasta la generación de mis bisabuelos. Si subimos otra generación llegaríamos al reino de Valencia también, aunque tengo documentados ascendientes de toda España excepto de Ceuta.

Were taking place after the 1520s. This book is going to recentre the conversation; I have no doubt.

Resistance. The result is that both hispanista and decolonial approaches end up giving all agency to Spaniards - as civilizing heroes and genocidal monsters, respectively - ignoring the many ways in which Indigenous peoples interacted with the events and political processes that

One I’ll be definitely using in my teaching. It encompasses what I have always seen as the deficiency in several historiographical approaches to acknowledge any level of agency to Indigenous peoples in the 16C and when this agency is acknowledged its only possible outlet is

Thoroughly enjoying “The Radical Spanish Empire” by
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Adrian Masters. The historiography of the Spanish monarchy is vast and complex and this is a fruitful addition. Their assessment of different meta narratives applied to its history in the intro is superb and

How did investigations into spontaneous human combustion influence alcohol medicine? An examination of the medical and literary discussions that brought the two together Background and Aims The presence of sections or chapters on spontaneous human combustion in more than half of the key texts in English on the action of alcohol on the body and mind in the first half.....

Wondering if my piece with psychiatrist Iain Smith on how ideas about spontaneous human combustion influenced alcohol medicine might be of interest to people thinking about this - we mix science, medicine, history, & literature and needed all of them to build a fuller picture
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You didn’t even need to write the word! 😂

Don Diego Sarmiento de Acuna. conde de Gondomar, portrayed as 'Machiavell' in an English pamphlet

Is his incessant not responsible for all of the world's ills? 🤣

😂😂 his favourite pastime!

4 Mar 1554: As Mary I reconciles with #Rome steps begin #otd to deprive all married bishops in #England of their sees (British Museum)

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Memorial to Dr Robert Ferrar, bishop of St David’s, burnt at the stake in the market square of Carmarthen in 1555, during the reign of Philip and Mary.

Dan I must join at some point for one of your talks. Do you regularly do them at Arnos Vale? It would be great to catch up and I do love cemeteries (and have never been to AV yet in 16 years in Bristol - shocking!).

Is not a viable stand-in for liberalism, in my view, hence why I read it differently.

Fair enough, I should have used ‘shouldn’t’ rather than ‘can’t’. Being able to do something doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s the best approach to understanding historical processes. I just don’t see the comparison, because the C-R wasn’t only (or primarily) about reacting and Protestantism

I actually make the opposite reading here, in that a) we can't reduce the conflicts of the Reformations to a battle between goodies and baddies following Anglocentric Protestant narratives and b) we can't look at the Marian persecution (or any EM persecution) with modern lenses.

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There have been 59 royal arrests in UK history – Charles I was not the last before Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Often it was family members calling for arrest over fears of succession.

'Most arrested royals were accused of treason and conspiracy, but these charges were often compounded with accusations of heresy and witchcraft.'

Dr @gvb1554.bsky.social (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) reflects on the history of royal arrests for The Conversation

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A great article and a must for anyone with an interest in Marian England, early modern persecution, the English Reformation and refreshing, less Anglo-centric historiographical perspectives.

There have been 59 royal arrests in UK history – Charles I was not the last before Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Often it was family members calling for arrest over fears of succession.

Often it was family members calling for arrest over fears of succession.

Sophia Dorothea of Celle was arrested and divorced accused of adultery in 1694. When George became king in 1714 she remained imprisoned and died in custody in 1726.

3 of Charles's children were held too and one of them, Elizabeth, died in custody in 1650. In 1685 James II arrested and executed his nephew, Monmouth, after he rebelled against him. James was himself held briefly by William and Mary, & the latter arrested Mary's uncle twice. Finally George I's wife

There have been 59 royal arrests in UK history – Charles I was not the last before Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Often it was family members calling for arrest over fears of succession.

Link broken, for some reason. Here it is: theconversation.com/there-have-b...

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Fair enough, but he was a royal, and he was arrested!

I've written a short piece for @uk.theconversation.com on royal prisoners in the past. Andrew's arrest might be unusual in modern times, but it's certainly not unprecedented! I've identified 58 previous royals so far (surely there are more) theconversation.com/there-have-b...

Last time the sibling of a monarch was arrested was 1554, when Princess Elizabeth was taken to the Tower for conspiring against her sister, Mary I. She was the moved & released after King Philip interceded in 1555. Last brother of the monarch was George, Duke of Clarence, executed by Edward IV 1478.

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And I'm probably missing a few anyway, and we shouldn't forget more distant relatives and other people related to the royal family by marriage. Feel free to add names that I might have forgotten in comments!

I see the point you're making and I agree to a certain extent in the differences, but think this is looking at it from a very modern perpective. A) it remains true that the arrest of a royal relative is not unprecedented and B) most of these people were also arrested under *their* rule of law.

While we're on historical parallels, I'm thinking today of Tudor lord Walter Hungerford, whose wife's complaints of domestic abuse were ignored until his patron Thomas Cromwell got in trouble. Only then did people start paying attention. He went to the block in 1540 alongside Cromwell.