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TSCL Interview with Charles Spencer 11 Nov

Fortnightly Book, October 25 25 Oct

New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession Launch 17 Nov

A Forceful, Original, Simple Reason 27 Oct

Wooed Onward by the Vision of the True 28 Oct

Ebenezer Storer, at Your Service 25 Oct

Rodrigo, “Influence of Meteorological Conditions on the Yellow Fever Epidemic,”... 17 Nov

A Fashionabe Mama 18 Nov

Terra Foundation Research Travel Grants 13 Nov

CT7D: Pazar 25 Oct

Slavery Advertisements Published October 30, 177 30 Oct

Thankfulness and Marriage Proposals in Jane Austen’s Novels 23 Nov

Cracking the code 9 Nov

Greenwich Hearth Tax: Dock and Tavern Row 27 Oct

Descendants of an Alchemist

 Ecce Homo by Titian, circa 1570-1576Antonio Neri was the son of a royal physician and the grandson of a well respected barber-surgeon. At the turn...

Conciatore • 4 Nov 2020

Parsnip Cakes to Fry

The stereotype of British cookery as nothing more than meat and potatoes post-dates the manuscript recipe books that I’ve been cooking from over...

Cooking in the Archives • 21 Nov 2020

The Aborted Virginia Campaign and Its Aftermath, May to August 1781

Lt. General Earl Cornwallis, the British general officer commanding in the south, arrived at Petersburg in the morning of May 20, 1781, having marched......

Journal of the American Revolution • 23 Nov 2020

Experiencing Political Texts 2: Fiction and the Future

Earlier this year the well-known Greek economist and member of the Greek Parliament Yanis Varoufakis published a book entitled Another Now: Dispatches...

Rachel Hammersley's Blog • 1 Nov 2020

Colloque en ligne : « Penser autrement les lettres et les arts : la voie/x de la...

  Colloque en ligne : « Penser autrement les lettres et les arts : la voie/x de la scolastique (1500-1700) » (16-20 novembre...

Le blog de l'APAHAU • 14 Nov 2020

Battle of Sheriffmuir 1715

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Wars of Louis Quatorze • 13 Nov 2020

Interview With Guatemalan Writer David Unger

I have followed the work on David Unger for nearly two decades. His new book is out in early November. Called Sleeping with the Light I will review it...

A Trumpet of Sedition • 29 Oct 2020

Review: The Mayflower in Britain: How an icon was made in London, Graham Taylor-...

By Steve CushionMost accounts of the Mayflower voyage of 1620 concentrate on the history of the Pilgrims in North America, which is hardly surprising as...

A Trumpet of Sedition • 12 Nov 2020

Picture of the Week #625

Rochester Cathedral. Photo May 2015

TudorHistory.org Blog • 8 Nov 2020

Sexual Assault and Hope for the Future in Titian’s Rape of Europe.

This is the text of a lecture I gave for a conference to consider the Titian: Love, Desire and Death exhibition at the National Gallery, London. If you’d...

Jill Burke's Blog • 6 Nov 2020

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