Approaching the second Anniversary of Carol’s death but her fight against Alzheimer’s continues from the grave 💙

This weekend the final draft of my Fiennes #manuscript and images file have been transferred to my commissions editor. 📖 Big sigh of relief

Newark Siege coins. As coins became scarce during the third siege of Newark(1645-1646) silver plate was cut into weighed lozenge shapes worth 2s.6d; 1s.; 9d. and 6d.

Seem to be on a bit of a roll at the moment. With other academic colleagues and friends, I’ve contributed a couple on commentaries in the book published this week

Just signed a contract with my publisher for my fifth book which the working title is 'Colonel Nathaniel Fiennes (1608-1669): Soldier, Politician and aide to Lord Protector Cromwell.' Looking to be published at the end of 2026

A day to remember those who struggle to recall

#Westminster Abbey Having had the humbling experience of walking the #battlefields of #Flanders and the #Somme I had one more place to visit. Often come to London but today I made time for this

World #Alzheimer’s Month

#Historian colleagues How likely is it in 1669 when an inventory lists in a store room there was ‘a case of pistols and headpiece’ that the headpeece is a helmet, given the late individual was an officer who fought for Parliament? I find it hard to believe it’s a wig

Edgehill Hard to imagine 1000 dead soldiers on these fields in 1642

Autumn talk

@alicehunt.bsky.social just to say congratulations on your book Republic. A brilliant and addictive read, under-pinned by much research. I’m well into researching and writing a biography of Nathaniel Fiennes and your book has opening many new avenues for my research 👌

Now that’s what you would call an excellent pair of #incontinence #pants. Even have additional ties for each leg 😂😂😂😂 #History

Warwick Castle The #War of the #Roses If only it had been settled with a joust

End of life care initiative for people in the late stages of #Alzheimers. Proud to be supporting this collaboration www.lbc.co.uk/news/health/...

A terrible fate awaits future #archaeologists 😜

This #DementiaActionWeek, I'm joining @alzheimerssoc in raising awareness of common dementia symptoms. We all need to #KnowTheSigns of dementia so that we can seek an early and accurate diagnosis if we need it. For more info, visit: alzheimers.org.uk/checklist

Another Conference paper delivered and at my old alma mater.

#VE day party 1945 on Latimer Street #Leicester My father is the young boy in the dark shirt - second on the left on the front row 🇬🇧🇬🇧

My latest blog as a former carer for the #Alzheimers Society

Ashby de la Zouch Castle ‘I told you to make a breach in the back wall of the Keep, not blow the bloody thing to pieces’ With due respects to Michael Caine

Middleton Hall, Warwickshire

Charlecote House, Warwickshire. Have the walk through the avenue of trees all to myself. After spending the morning wrestling with the seventeenth century Parliamentary archives, it’s nice to be brought back to the present. 👍🏻

A day at #Broughton Castle, the ancient moated ancestral home of the #Fiennes family

Miniature of Oliver #Cromwell At Compton Varney

British Association of Numismatic Societies Congress of 2025, University of Nottingham

A busy weekend ahead at a National Conference in Nottingham

Delivering a lecture this weekend at a conference being held at my old alma mater (Nottingham university). Campus has changed considerably since my day. Speaking at the annual conference of British coin collectors about civil war siege pieces. Hope they realise I’m a historian, not a Numismatist.

A day teaching staff at #Newark Civil War Centre about the surviving seventeenth century documents that survive for Newark #civilwar #Stuarts #royalist

A selection of Balls: nature wasn’t kind to the trebuchet family 😜😂😂 Missiles fired during the #siege of #Kenilworth castle, 1266

Are we great again yet?

Question for #historians… Why do we have an Edward V on our list of monarchs (though he was never crowned) but not Jane I (who also was never crowned) ? All answers consider 🤔😉

A beautiful spring like day to explore #Tewksbury abbey and town

My blog on Typhus in Early Modern warfare

Saturday walk around the Charlecote estate

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Beauchamp Chapel St Mary’s Church, Warwick

#Cirencester ParishChurch. South porch entrance with fan #vaulting, tomb Effigies and Anne #Boleyn cup

Standing proud with #Canada 🇨🇦

Knocked myself out on the ceiling dusting the top of the wardrobe 😂😂😂😂

Over 500,000 British and Commonwealth troops died fighting around Ypres during World War I. Casualties varied by battle, with the First Battle of Ypres being particularly bloody🥲

Compton Verney Exhibit from ‘Reflective Self’; collection of Portrait miniatures 1540-1850 Portrait miniature of Oliver #Cromwell #EnglishCivilWar

Bosworth Battlefield (1485) A sombre mood on a miserable day standing by a field where around 1300 men were killed by cutting,slicing and stabbing

Mission Impossible - #squirrel version

Blog on ‘Puritanism to Nonconformity to Nonconformity’ in seventeenth century Nottinghamshire’. Summary of my PHD Thesis www.nottsheritagegateway.org.uk/themes/nonco...