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In a couple of months' time I'll be giving a talk about the Norman Conquest at Moyse's Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds. www.moyseshall.org/whats-on/det...

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

👀 TheyWorkForYou tracks MPs' voting records and found that Nigel Farage has missed 77 votes in Parliament in a row. He last voted against draft regulations for the Employment Rights Act 2025 on the 18th of March. https://votes.theyworkforyou.com/person/26352/votes/2026

#OnThisDay 1076 Waltheof, earl of Northumbria, was beheaded on the orders of William the Conqueror – the last earl to be executed in England until 1306. Here's a post I wrote about this watershed moment years ago, when Game of Thrones was trendy. ow.ly/y27pP

A handful of tech barons now control the algorithms that shape what millions of people see every day. They can decide: • what trends • what gets buried • which voices are amplified • which political movements gain momentum That is extraordinary political power without democratic accountability.

King John was crowned in Westminster Abbey #OnThisDay 1199. "He was a very bad man," said a contemporary, "more cruel than all others. He lusted after beautiful women and... shamed the high men of the land, for which reason he was greatly hated. Whenever he could he told lies rather than the truth."

This is what the bulldozed White House looks like today, a UFC arena being built directly in front of it, total classless chaos. Literally makes me sick to my stomach.

There will be a memorial service for Prof. Stephen Baxter @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social on Saturday 13 June, 2.30pm in St Peter's College chapel. www.spc.ox.ac.uk/events/memor...

"Most surprisingly, the Norman Conquest of 1066 appears to have been largely an elite process." Scientists once again riding to the rescue of historians, who had previously assumed 1066 was a largely peasant-driven enterprise. theconversation.com/beyond-anglo...

King John was crowned in Westminster Abbey #OnThisDay 1199. "He was a very bad man," said a contemporary, "more cruel than all others. He lusted after beautiful women and... shamed the high men of the land, for which reason he was greatly hated. Whenever he could he told lies rather than the truth."

#OnThisDay 1199 King John was crowned at Westminster. It was Ascension, a moveable feast. This means - uniquely - that all John's regnal years, by which his documents are dated, are different lengths. And so, even 800 years later, he continues to irritate.

"Most surprisingly, the Norman Conquest of 1066 appears to have been largely an elite process." Scientists once again riding to the rescue of historians, who had previously assumed 1066 was a largely peasant-driven enterprise. theconversation.com/beyond-anglo...

Harold Completes Mostly Successful Battle.

NEW The Harborne Receipts: Follow the Money Billionaire Christopher Harborne gave millions to Nigel Farage & Boris Johnson & their parties. Then the pro-crypto announcements began. We mapped a timeline of Harborne's £30m political donations and crypto-friendly announcements by Farage & Johnson 1/

🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

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

Delighted to say I’m coming to York on Saturday for the Eboracum Roman History Festival I’m doing 2 events, one in the morning and one for kids in the afternoon Tickets £7.50 www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

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

How the Bayeux Tapestry was displayed in the early nineteenth century.

How the Bayeux Tapestry was displayed in the early nineteenth century.

How fortriutous!

If this isn't "designed to stir up hatred" against Jews, what is? Why are the Met not arresting them?

In memoriam Prof Sir Rees Davies (d. 16 May 2005).

🔴 Keir Starmer promised to crackdown on "Slapps" - abusive libel cases to silence journalists and critics Then Labour quietly dropped it We can reveal why: a three-year lobbying blitz by libel lawyers who've acted for Russian oligarchs, Epstein + more democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-lawyer...

William Marshal died #OnThisDay 1219. "The greatest knight that ever lived" (according to the biography commissioned by his sons).

William Marshal died #OnThisDay 1219. "The greatest knight that ever lived" (according to the biography commissioned by his sons).

If Starmer is challenged for the leadership & chooses to fight, something wholly new will happen. For the first time, the question of whether a prime minister is removed from power will be decided, not by MPs, not by voters at an election,but by party members. This is democratically indefensible.🧵

"Hi Author", FFS. Of all the incessant, irksome AI-written emails I've received from catfishing grifters, this has to be the laziest yet.

Nigel Farage’s partner, a former waitress not known to have any private money, bought a £1 million house for cash shortly after he secretly received £5 million from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire - the same house that he claimed, months previously, that he was about to pay for himself.

In a couple of months' time I'll be giving a talk about the Norman Conquest at Moyse's Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds. www.moyseshall.org/whats-on/det...

Labour's processes for changing leader are hopelessly, catastrophically unsuited to government. More than half of all prime ministers since 1945 have taken over between general elections. This is not an unusual procedure. So it really matters when parties screw this system up... 🧵

Legends and Lectures welcomes the wonderful Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social to talk about the Anglo-Saxons, Normans, and everything in between! youtu.be/WWLXenWo3ug?... #history #podcast

It seems unfair that David Attenborough should get a parasite named after him when today is just as much about Nigel Farage. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

This can't, or shouldn't, be even remotely good enough, and surely wouldn't be accepted as such for any other party leader. Amongst many, many other things, it can't have been both 'unconditional' *and* 'to pay for my security'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In which I learn that Edward the Confessor 'is often remembered as the last Anglo-Saxon king before the Norman Conquest'. By people who really hate Harold Godwinson, presumably. scitechdaily.com/missing-medi...

In which I learn that Edward the Confessor 'is often remembered as the last Anglo-Saxon king before the Norman Conquest'. By people who really hate Harold Godwinson, presumably. scitechdaily.com/missing-medi...

In a post promoting the British Army and their actions, Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, actually used footage of Bloody Sunday. There are no words.

Deal ends today!

🔴 NEW: Reform UK's £4m crypto donor Ben Delo has dismissed his US conviction as a "non-crime" But we got the court docs - and found a different story US federal prosecutors said he "thumbed his nose at the law" and had led a "criminal enterprise" democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reforms-4m...

But the King’s trip was a huge success.

Deal ends today!

Freelance work is coming in for the summer with people's research fund pots needing using up; so do contact me via www.joanneedge.co.uk sooner rather than later for your archive/transcription/editing needs! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern

The State Department has finalized a plan to put a picture of Donald Trump in passports. A portrait of an actual president has never been featured in a passport before, let alone a living one in office. This is dictator stuff.

Officially released TODAY!!!

Who would be addressing the MOD in a parallel UK situation? Roger Daltrey? Morrissey? Right Said Fred?

A real photo of Kid Rock addressing service members at the Pentagon today. Nice summation of where things stand in the United States.

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